SANTA BARBARA — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present:
Thursday, September 6
1st Thursday at SBMA
5 – 5:45 pm
Youth Opera Performance
The Santa Barbara Youth Opera performs selections from the Benjamin Britten collection of old English songs “Ceremony of Carols,” as part of a special seasonal celebration of Pop-Up Opera. The Youth Opera provides young singers with tuition-free instruction and performance opportunities in a fun, rewarding, and artistically challenging environment and unparalleled exposure to the workings of a professional opera company. Seating is informal and limited.
Museum galleries
Free
5:30 – 7:30 pm
Family 1st Thursday
Bring the whole family and enjoy 1st Thursday together in SBMA’s Family Resource Center. Museum Teaching Artists assist families in creating special exhibition-based art projects. In December, paint nature-inspired details with gold paint on black boxes, inspired by the ornately decorated lacquer pieces in Paths of Gold.
Family Resource Center
Free
6:30 – 7 pm
Quire of Voyces
The Santa Barbara Quire of Voyces returns to SBMA to perform a short program of choral music. The group was founded in 1993 to rediscover the sacred a capella choral music of the Renaissance and the modern age.
Free
Location:
Santa Barbara Museum of Art
1130 State Street, Santa Barbara