Now at the CAW
Lit Moon Theatre Company Presents:
Lit Moon World Theatre Festival 2025
A Midwinter Theatrical Wonderland/World Classics in New Contexts
January 22-25, Various Times
Lit Moon Theatre Company is a Santa Barbara-bred and based collective of theatre artists. Lit Moon burst on the Santa Barbara scene in 1992 with its inaugural production of Alice in Wonderland, and since then has been recognized as Santa Barbara’s most innovative theatrical organization. The company is a Hothouse of cultural and theatrical experimentation.
The Lit Moon World Theatre Festival, not presented in Santa Barbara in some time, include performers from across the United States and the world, and productions of King Lear, A Real Elephant, Prospero's Black Box, and Uncle Vanya. More information at litmoontheatre.com.
Current Production Schedule:
King Lear, by William Shakespeare, Lit Moon World, Santa Barbara
John Blondell, Director
Lear as Dream Vision.
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Wednesday, January 22, 2025, 7:30 p.m.
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Thursday, January 23, 2025, 7:30 p.m.
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Friday, January 24, 2025, 9:00 p.m.
A Real Elephant, by Alexander Kuprin, Microscope Toy Theatre, Long Beach
Yulya Dukhovny, Performer and Director
A little girl loses her passion for life. Will her father provide what she longs for?
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Friday, January 24, 2025, 7 p.m.
Prospero’s Black Box, Proboscis Theatre Company, Chicago
Jeff Mills, Performer; James Donlon, Director
Google’s Geoffrey Hinton and The Tempest’s Prospero wrestle with AI and Virtual Reality.
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Saturday, January 25, 2025, 2:00 p.m.
Uncle Vanya, Santa Barbara by Anton Chekhov, Lit Moon World
John Blondell, Director
In Chekhov, the heart aches and dreams fade, but there’s vodka.
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Saturday, January 25, 2025, 7 p.m.
The Santa Barbara Permaculture Network Presents:
The 17th Annual Seed Swap
A Celebration to Bring Seeds & People Together
Sunday, January 26th, 11am-4pm
Rain or Shine | Free Admission
From the organizer:
Come share seeds and knowledge with other backyard gardeners, plant lovers, beekeepers, farmers and more. Be a part of the seed saving movement! Special speakers, exhibitors, children activities, free seeds & live music.
Sunday, January 26th, 11am-4pm
Rain or Shine | Free Admission
Local Food Hero Award honoring Mesa Harmony Garden takes place at 1:30 pm.
More information at sbpermaculture.org, and on Facebook. With questions call 805-962-2571.
Joe Rohde Presents:
Inner Light
A Fundraiser for the Santa Barbara Arts Collaborative
Opening Reception Sat. Jan. 18, 5-8pm
Other Gallery Hours: Fridays Jan 24, 31, and Feb 7, 10a-6pm, and by appointment.
Local artist and former Disney Imagineer Joe Rohde generously presents a series of paintings this January as a fundraiser for the Arts Collaborative.
Artist Statement:
For some years I have collected dried out old leaves, mostly sycamores, holding them up to the sun to illuminate them, and then painting from life or from photographs, the imagery revealed by the light. These twelve oil paintings on wood panels are the latest in that series, which dates back across decades.
I’m inspired by the hidden life and beauty residing in something so common and so negligible that we literally crush them beneath our feet as we walk. To me, these are sort of spiritual paintings, hinting at a life within objects that we consider to be completely dead and useless.
They’re also a kind of landscape painting, because I choose the leaves based on their unusually complex topography, which allows the light to fall not only upon them, but through them. They are, like California itself, dry, but beautiful.
And lastly, they remind us that beauty and wonder exist not in the world, but in how we look at the world. We can bring fascination and joy to anything we choose, provided we hold it up to the light and look.
Bio:
JOE ROHDE recently retired from a 40 year career with Walt Disney Imagineering. During that time he was a pivotal figure in the development of a series of projects that dealt with natural history, culture, and the environment and was named a Disney Legend in 2024. Joe’s work includes Disney’s Animal Kingdom; Aulani: A Disney Resort and Spa in Hawaii; Villages Nature, an eco-resort adjacent to Disneyland Paris, as and many other projects. He was instrumental in the creation of the Disney Conservation Fund, which has raised over $130 million for missions worldwide. Currently Joe consults for select projects through his company, Joe Rohde Creative, LLC, with clients as diverse as Jane Goodall, Virgin Galactic, and Disney. Joe regularly lectures on design, art history, and conservation and has spoken at TED, NASA, SIGGRAPH, the Getty Center, and many other venues.
Joe is a member of the Explorer’s Club and has traveled extensively in some of the most remote regions of the world, often creating art along the way. His paintings, some of which are displayed at the Club headquarters in NYC, are created under challenging field conditions, and constitute a record of settings, cultures, and events few may ever see. His Instagram @joerohde documents these journeys for his 118,000 followers as well as exploring art, nature and the creative process.
Eric Saint Georges Presents:
Figure Drawing Workshop
Saturday February 1, 2025, 9am-12:30pm
Cost: $60
From the organizer:
The goal of this short workshop is to give an introduction to tools and methods one can use to improve the liveliness and expression of quick gestural drawings of the human form.
Focusing on short poses (mostly 30 seconds to 2 minutes), students will practice techniques and exercises to develop hand-eye coordination and learn strategies for gesture drawings (such as in which order to start and develop the drawing) and improve their ability to draw quick and expressive drawings.
This workshop is appropriate for all levels including beginners. Demos and hands-on critiques are an important part of the instruction.
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To Register (or for any questions), email Eric Saint Georges at ericsgc@hawaii.edu or text 408 455 3033.
The Art Process with Kathy Leader Presents:
Gelli Plate Printing with Botanicals
From the organizer:
Learn the beautiful art of gelli plate printing using nature as our subject matter. We have the opportunity to create a collage using the papers made. This workshop is suitable for anyone who has or has not used the gelli plate before. Materials list is sent to you after signup.
Cost: $75
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The idea behind "The Art Process Studio" is to nurture a love of art making as a healing form of creative expression. We provide engaging mixed media & painting art classes, workshops and retreats for ALL levels from beginners to those with more experience; for individuals or teams.
An Art Class on Printing with Plants and Collage
February 8, 10am-1pm
The Santa Barbara Arts Collaborative and Patrick Melroy of MISC Workshop Present:
Area Meeting
Tues, February 11, 6pm at the Community Arts Workshop
$10
Area Meeting returns monthly to the CAW in 2025. Curated by Patrick Melroy, the event will serve as a rally point for the creatives in our community. An excuse for us to be in the same place, a place which will inspire the right kind of imaginative friction. The first part of the evening will showcase a presenting artist and will set the tone for the night, lighting the question furnace in the minds of the attendees. After a social break fueled by snacks, invited artists will present work in a supportive crit-style environment.
Area Meeting is for anyone who has ever read a wall placard at a gallery and found themselves with more questions than answers. Area Meeting is for the artist who needs to hear from other artists about the struggle, about the broken tools, the constant haunting of a studio space by specters of doubt and conflict as they battle to be heard through their work.
The first Area Meeting presents Alex Lucas, Professor of Print and Publication in the Department of Art at UCSB, giving a place-in-time snapshot of his practice. Alex will show images of work and discuss the intricacies, struggles, and successes of his practice.
For more information contact Adrienne De Guevara at adrienne@artscollaborative.org.
To reserve your ticket, click the button below. Ticket proceeds go toward artist honorariums and snacks.
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Alex Lukas was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and raised in nearby Cambridge. He is currently Associate an Associate Professor of Print and Publication in the Department of Art at the University of California Santa Barbara. With a wide range of influences, Lukas’ practice is focused on the intersections of place and human activity, narrative, and history. His fieldwork, research, and production reframe the incidental and the monumental through intricate publication series, sculptures, drawings, prints, audio collages, and experimental curatorial platforms. Read More.
Patrick Melroy is a professional artist who works out of his studio MISC Workshop on Gutierrez St in downtown Santa Barbara. He holds a Master of Fine Arts from UCSB as well as a BFA from the Pacific Northwest College of Art. Melroy makes art which most often exists as interactive sculpture and site-specific interactions. Read More.
Santa Barbara Printmakers Present:
Introduction to Japanese Woodcut Printing
Saturday, February 22, 2025
From the organizer:
In this one-day workshop, you will be learning the mokuhanga (Japanese Woodblock Printing) process and completing a beautiful handmade print.
The workshop fee for instruction is $80 for members and $100 for nonmembers. The supply kit for the workshop is $65
Instructor Sara Woodburn has studied mokuhanga (meaning wood + print) with Hiroki Morinoe of Hawaii, and April Vollmer of New York (author of Japanese Woodblock Print). Her work has been featured at Sullivan Goss Gallery, California Nature Art Museum, Elverhoj Museum, Marcia Burtt Gallery and the Architectural Foundation of Santa Barbara.
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The Santa Barbara Printmakers (SBP) is a group of artists dedicated to creating and presenting prints that are made using hand and press printing techniques: etching, dry point, monotype, monoprint, woodblock, collagraph, linocut, clay, lithography, stencil, serigraphy, transfer, and digital programming.
The Santa Barbara Arts Collaborative Presents:
The Community Arts Residency
Application Deadline March 30, 2025, 5pm
More information at sbcaw.org/residency
The Santa Barbara Arts Collaborative is delighted to announce a new artist-in-residence program, based at the Community Arts Workshop (CAW), for art work that builds community, fosters genuine conversation, reckons with social disconnection, and/or feeds local democracy and relationships between disparate people and groups. All artistic genres and disciplines will be considered.
Projects will be awarded grants of between $5,000 and $15,000, receive one month or more of workshop space at the Community Arts Workshop, and the dedicated time of SBAC staff to facilitate community collaborations. The SBAC will fund 1-3 residency projects to take place in 2025-26.
The application deadline is March 30, 2025, 5pm.
For more information please visit sbcaw.org/residency.
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