La Patronal. Courtesy photo.
SANTA BARBARA — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present: “Studio Sunday with La Patronal,” Sunday, March 10, 1130 State St., Santa Barbara.
1:30 – 2 pm — La Patronal
La Patronal, a unique brass band from Lima, Peru, performs music rooted in the tradition of fiestas populares, or town fairs, common in rural villages across Latin America. The band honors these gatherings, which celebrate tradition through fireworks, dancing, and religious images. La Patronal members are direct descendants of rural musicians from Peru, and use this knowledge of folk culture in combination with their formal music studies to preserve their heritage. Their high spirited performances encourage audience participation and dancing with contagious percussion and vibrant brass and winds. They will begin in a lively procession from the Museum Store on State Street to Anapamu Street, around to the library plaza, and into the Museum where they will perform outside the Family Resource Center during SBMA’s Free Studio Sunday art activity.
Co-presented by Santa Barbara Museum of Art and ¡Viva el Arte de Santa Bárbara!
Free
Courtesy photo.
1:30 – 4:30 pm — Studio Sunday
Visitors of all ages are welcome to participate in this hands-on workshop with SBMA Teaching Artists in the Museum’s Family Resource Center. Each month explore a different medium, including clay, metal, ink, wood, photography, and paper, and gain inspiration from works of art in the Museum’s permanent collection or special exhibitions. In March, sculpt a kneeling figure in air-dry clay, inspired by the approximately 500-year-old, Pre-Columbian Kneeling Figure in the newly opened exhibition Out of Storage and into the Light: Sculptures That Tell Stories.
Family Resource Center
Free