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Camerata Pacifica Features Gilles Vonsattel 4/10
3+ week, 1+ day ago (329+ words) Add independent.com on Google Add the SB Independent as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Camerata Pacifica Principal Pianist Gilles Vonsattel takes centerstage, once again, ... Camerata Pacifica Features Gilles Vonsattel 4/10 Fri, Apr 10 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM…...
Spring Exhibition: Pinhole Noir by Lindsay Skutch
2+ week, 2+ day ago (225+ words) Sat, Mar 28 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM 229 E Victoria St Architecture Foundation of S.B. Exhibition Dates: March 28 " May 30, 2026 Opening Reception: Saturday, March 28, 2 " 4 p.m. Artist Talk: Saturday, April 25, 2 " 3 p.m. Location: AFSB Art Gallery, 229 East Victoria Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 An opening reception will be held at the…...
Me, My Mayan Parrot, and a Red-Tailed Hawk
9+ mon, 2+ week ago (445+ words) Friendships Are Not Just for Humans Driving back to California in December, we hit freezing weather. Suc Tuc crawled in my mummy bag with me when I camped at night and slept next to my head. I'd put a piece…...
George Orwell’s Classic Allegory Hits the Stage with ‘Animal Farm’
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (344+ words) George Orwell's Classic Allegory Hits the Stage with "Animal Farm'The Santa Barbara Independent The UCSB theater department's Animal Farm (Tatty Hennessy adapted it from George Orwell's 1945 novella) was submitted for production by student actor Gabriella Roberts, who was "deeply impacted…...
Making, Not Taking, Pictures
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (225+ words) Making" means to produce something by construction or elaboration. We welcome someone announcing they are making dinner. It implies that we will all benefit, that we will all enjoy the outcome. Context is everything. At the end of the performance,…...
Artist Baret Boisson’s Brush with Film and Fame
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (655+ words) Baret Boisson " the artist behind the stunningly thought-provoking painting designed for the 2026 Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF) poster " may be a new name to some festivalgoers, but this is definitely not her first brush with Hollywood fame." Elizabeth Taylor…...
Santa Barbara Through the Eyes of 12 Artists
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (280+ words) New Exhibit at Santa Barbara Maritime Museum Goes "Where the Mountains Meet the Sea" Capturing some of the stunning outdoor elements that make Santa Barbara so unique, 12 predominately Santa Barbara'based artists have their work on view at a new benefit…...
Gardens of Visual Sensation, Night and Day
2+ mon, 6+ day ago (558+ words) Gardens of Visual Sensation, Night and Day'The Santa Barbara Independent Last fall's four-artist exhibition Which Paradise? was show number two for Seimandi & Leprieur Gallery, the impressive new-kid-in-town art space in town (see review here). As a kind of welcoming introductory…...
Art and “Om”
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (385+ words) Artists Clara Berta and Chenhung Chen in "Held In Motion" At Rubenstein Chan Contemporary Art Gallery in Carpinteria Art is explored as a form of meditation in Rubenstein Chan"s upcoming contemporary art exhibit, Held in Motion. Featuring renowned artists…...
PORTRAITS. By Stephanie Baker, 1990-Present on View at the Community Arts Workshop
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (94+ words) PORTRAITS. By Stephanie Baker, 1990-Present on View at the Community Arts Workshop'The Santa Barbara Independent Selected from thousands of portraits taken since 1990, Baker has curated a "community slide show, of sorts, that will fill the walls of the gallery, thanks…...