Ongoing…
Marcia Burtt Gallery, “Bright and Beautiful” – An exhibit through July 18 featuring the works of Patricia Doyle, Marilee Krause and Marcia Burtt whose images capture the turn-of-the-season on the Central Coast from fields and flowers alive with color, to the evening sun on coastal waters, to sunflowers from a farmer’s market. Hours: Weekdays 1 to 5 p.m., weekends 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., closed Tuesday and Wednesday, 517 Laguna St. Got questions? Call 962-5588 or check out www.artlacuna.com
Borders Books, Music & Café, OPEN MIC Night –The Seattle’s Best Cafe in the Goleta Borders is the place to be every Thursday evening if you’re a singer, poet, storyteller, comedian or someone who just needs to perform or vocalize whatever! It’s a very simple process. Just sign up for this event at Customer Service and you will be lined up on a first-come-first-served basis. The event runs from 6 through 8 p.m. with 6-minute intervals between presentations; 7000 Camino Real Marketplace, Goleta. Got questions? Call 968-1370 or check online at www.borders.com
Circle Bar B Dinner Theatre, The Girl in the Freudian Slip, final performances through July 11. See Arts & Entertainment.
Thursday 1
Hospice of Santa Barbara, Leigh Block Room, Galina…a retrospective – An annual art exhibit opening today, in conjunction with an Open House Reception, featuring the artwork of the late Galina Sakharoff-Mashek, hosted by her daughter Marianna Mashek and grandsons Misha and Benjamin Feldman. Born in Russia, Sakaroff-Mashek fled to Yugoslavia during the 1918 revolution, was sent to a refugee camp in Austria during the World War II Nazi occupation of Yugoslavia, and escaped and eventually settled in the U.S. where she was a local art instructor and language teacher. The exhibit runs through September 30 and reflects her journey from Russia to Yugoslavia as well as her life in Santa Barbara; 5 to 7 p.m., 2050 Alameda Padre Serra, Suite 100. For more information call 563-8820 or go online at www.hospiceofsantabarbara.org
Concerts in the Park 2010, Chase Palm Park, Café R & B.
See Arts & Entertainment.
Sunday 4
Independence Day 4th of July Celebrations Sparkle and the City of Santa Barbara Fireworks Display, West Beach, 9 p.m. Call 568-0020 or check www.sparklesb.com
Goleta Fireworks Festival, Girsh Park, Camino Real Marketplace, 4 p.m. $6 adults, $4 kids ages 3 – 12. www.goletafireworks.org
Stow House Old-Fashioned 4th of July, featuring turn-of-the-century traditions; 304 N. Los Carneros Road., $6 adults and kids free. Call 964-4407 or check www.goletahistory.org
Solvang Independence Day Parade & BBQ, Santa Ines Mission, 1760 Mission Drive. beginning at 11 a.m. and ending with a post-parade BBQ at Solvang Park; and Solvang Independence Day Fireworks at Santa Ines Mission at 9 p.m. Call 686-9376 or check online at www.solvangusa.com
Fillmore & Western Railway 4th of July Festival, Central Park in downtown Fillmore highlighted by the family-friendly Sespe Creek Car Show & Festival featuring more than 250 pre-1974 classic cars, an annual Horseshoe Tournament, ongoing one-hour train rides including a Firecracker BBQ Train, live music and all-day “House Arrests.” Call 800-773-8724, 524-2546 or check online at www.fwry.com
Old Mission Alternative Site Art Show, a sixth annual 4th of July event featuring the artwork of 43 local artists showcased in the gardens of 2227 Garden St. around the corner from the Old Mission, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m., free admission.
Call 886-9416.
Santa Ynez Valley Chorale and Blue Grass Band, a free “Fourth of July Jamboree” at 2 p.m. at Veteran’s Memorial Building on Mission Drive, Solvang.
Call 350-4241 or check www.syvchorale.org
Wednesday 7
Santa Barbara City College Theatre Group, Time of My Life, Interim Theatre.
See Arts & Entertainment.
Santa Barbara National Horse Show – Featuring riders from across the western United States, this world-class 91st annual event at Earl Warren Showgrounds opens today and showcases multi-breeds through July 10, and hunters and jumpers Wednesday, July 14 through Saturday, July 18. The first week’s categories include the American Saddlebred, Friesian, Paso Fino and Welsh horses and ponies; and along with the second- week showcase of hunters and jumpers, the Hap Hansen Jumper Classic is the spotlight attraction on Saturday evening, July 17 at 6:30 p.m. in the Dome Arena. Also featured will be classes for children, amateurs and professionals. For a schedule of dates and times of attractions, call 687-0766 or check online at www.earlwarren.com
Monsters! Classic Horror Films from Universal Pictures, see Events.
Thursday 8
Concerts in the Park 2010, Chase Palm Park, Blame Sally.
See Arts & Entertainment.
Saturday 10
Song Tree Concert Series, Sligo Rags – It’s an encore performance with this popular local concert series for the award-wining folk band, Sligo Rags. With fiddle, acoustic guitar, electric bass and percussion, the ensemble showcases Celtic Folk - with a decidedly bluegrass attitude - while also fusing elements of country, gypsy jazz and swing into a signature sound that’s taking the local and not-so-local Celtic music scene by storm. “This band can light up an atmosphere as dim as the Guinness stout you just ordered at the bar,” says the San Diego Troubadou. “Sligo Rags really knows their Celtic Music”; 7:30 p.m., Live Oak Unitarian Congregation, 820 N. Fairview Ave., Goleta. Tickets at $15 General Admission are available in advance by mail (check www.SongTree.org for information), at Folk Mote Music and Jensen’s Guitar and Music, and at the door if not sold out. Got questions? Call 680-9266 or 403-2639.
Santa Barbara Maritime Museum, Kardboard Kayak Race, see Events.
Wednesday 14
Santa Barbara Family YMCA, 125-Year Anniversary of Camping – A volunteer in Orange Lake, N.Y., started the first continuously used YMCA camp in 1985, and, throughout the years, the YMCA has grown into what is today one of the nations’ largest providers of camping programs with more than 335 resident camps and nearly 2,000 day camps serving more than 800,000 kids and adults annually. The Santa Barbara YMCA is celebrating this 125-year milestone today with an anniversary event that features carnival activities, BBQ, and a Rock-a-thon fundraising section. It’s a free event and open to all ages and families; 3 to 7 p.m., YMCA, 36 Hitchcock Way. For further information call 687-7727 or check online at www.ciymca.org
Santa Barbara Zoo, Zoovies, see Events.
Thursday 15
Santa Barbara Macintosh User Group (SBMUG) – A monthly meeting of Macintosh aficionados beginning at 6 p.m. with a Q&A session to ask member experts all those questions about Macs or “iAnything” followed by the main program at 7 p.m. As always, there’ll be wireless Internet access, refreshment, raffles for members, and you’re even welcome to bring you PC and Linux friends. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, Farrand Hall, 2559 Puesta del Sol. Questions? Call 967-2866 or check online at www.sbmug.org
Concerts in the Park 2010 Chase Palm Park, Captain Cardiac and the Coronaries. See Arts & Entertainment.
Friday 16
Santa Barbara Birth Center Benefit, at the Lobero featuring Toad the Wet Sprocket. See Events.
Saturday 17
French Festival – Bastille Day weekend in France means it’s annual French Festival time 6,000 miles away in Santa Barbara at Oak Park both today and tomorrow, Sunday, July 18 from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. both days. From crepes to quiche, dozens of chefs will be kicking it up a notch and the nonstop entertainment on three stages includes everything from the Cancan, Edith Piaf and the Femmes Fatales Drag Review to a Poodle Parade, kids activities and the chance to win a trip to France. Free admission. Need questions answered? Call 897-7274 or check www.frenchfestival.com
Pirate Days at Ventura Harbor, today and tomorrow, Sunday, July 18. See Events.
Wednesday 21
Dijo Productions and Virtual Theatre Company, Frost/Nixon – Favorite local actor Ed Giron returns to Center Stage Theater as Richard Nixon, along with Justin Stark as David Frost, in playwright Peter Morgan’s Tony Award-winning play, Frost/Nixon, opening Friday, July 23. The play chronicles the factual interviews between TV talk show host Frost and the disgraced Nixon, who had resigned from the U.S. presidency. Directed by Jim Sirianni, this fictionalization of true events is considered one of the most powerful plays of the decade in which Nixon reveals more than anyone imagined, including a tacit admission of guilt in the Watergate scandal. Opens in previews Wednesday and Thursday, July 21 and 22 at 8 p.m., opening night is Friday, July 23 at 8 p.m. and performances run Thursday – Sunday through August 8. For tickets and more information call Center Stage Theater Box Office at 963-0408 or purchase online at www.centerstagetheater.org
Thursday 22
Concerts in the Park 2010, Chase Palm Park, Hapa. See Arts & Entertainment.
Saturday 24
Oxnard Salsa Festival, see Events.
South Coast Railroad Museum, Goleta Railroad Days – Two fun-filled days of non-stop railroad happenings for train aficionados of all ages, today and tomorrow, Sunday, July 25, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. both days. The attractions include everything from miniature train rides, to pumping your own handcar, to model train exhibits and railroad films in the Gandy Dance Theater, a children’s story time, and a lot of family-friendly fun and food, and much more. Admission is $2, with an extra charge for rides, and there’s a 34-inch minimum height to ride the miniature trains, and handcar riders must be at least 48 inches tall. Got questions? Call 964-3540 or check online at www.goletarailroaddays.org for event updates and schedule of activities.
Thursday 29
Concerts in the Park 2010, Chase Palm Park, Cow Bop. See Arts & Entertainment.
Friday 30
Santa Barbara Blues Society, Janiva Magness, in Concert – Considered one of the premier blues singers of the decade, Magness was originally drawn to the Motown sound of her native Detroit, but, after hearing the likes of Otis Rush and Little Milton, she embraced the blues. Following extensive touring, she settled in Los Angeles and collaborated with top Southern California blues musicians and in 2006, 2007 and 2009 was named Contemporary Blues Artist of the Year by the Blues Foundation. Doors open at 7:30 p.m., music starts at 8:30 p.m., Warren Hall, Earl Warren Showgrounds. Tickets available at the door. Got questions? Call 722-8155 or check online at www.SBBlues.org
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