Events
Laser Spectacular Presents: Shine On - LIVE
Presented by Laser Spectacular
Step into a world where music meets visual artistry, and the iconic sounds of Pink Floyd come alive in a breathtaking display of light and sound.
Combining world-class musicianship with an electrifying stage presence and the cutting-edge production of the famous Pink Floyd Laser Spectacular, Shine On gives the audience the most unique musical and visual tribute to Pink Floyd ever! Shine On's members have performed with international recording artists, including Asia, Chicago, Styx, Def Leppard, The Eagles, The Alan Parsons Project, Foreigner, Journey, and Led Zeppelin!
More info at https://laserspectacular.com/shine-on
Ticket prices include a $7 Granada Facility Fee.
An additional Granada web service fee of $3 per ticket will be applied at seat selection.
¡Viva La Fiesta! Solo Exhibition with Pedro De La Cruz at Art & Soul
Celebrate the vibrant spirit of Santa Barbara this summer with ¡Viva La Fiesta!, a timely and sensory-rich exhibition honoring cultural pride, familial ties, and community connection. Featuring the dynamic works of Mexican-American artist Pedro De La Cruz, ¡Viva La Fiesta! opens Saturday, July 26, 2025 from 5–8pm with live mariachi, flamenco dancing, and an opportunity to meet the artist—just in time for Santa Barbara’s cherished Fiesta celebrations.
Summer 2025 Film Series: Best in Show (2000)
Enjoy Friday nights under the stars with the Summer Film Series! The 2025 theme is Dog Days of Summer and will take place weekly from July 11- August 29, excluding August 1.
Screenings take place on Friday evenings in July and August in the iconic courthouse Sunken Garden at 8:30 p.m. The series is made possible by a collaboration between the Santa Barbara County Office of Arts & Culture, Arts & Lectures, and Santa Barbara County Parks as well as many generous sponsors.
This is a free all-ages event
Nate Birkey Quintet
Doors: 6:30 PM
Show: 7:30 PM
All Ages
$15 advance tickets for dinner reservation and show
$18 cash at the door available day of show
Tickets and more info available at sohosb.com
Mozart's Don Giovanni
Presented by Music Academy of the West
2025 Summer Music Festival | Music Academy Lehrer Vocal Institute
Christian Reif, conductor / Mo Zhou, director
Set in the 1930s Golden Age of Hollywood film, this all-new opera production explores the power dynamic of the sexes through innovative direction by Mo Zhou, conducted by Christian Reif, and starring Music Academy Lehrer Vocal Institute fellows.
Ticket prices include a $7 Granada Facility Fee.
An additional Granada web service fee of $3 per ticket will be applied at seat selection.
Summer 2025 Film series: The Sandlot (1993)
Enjoy Friday nights under the stars with the Summer Film Series! The 2025 theme is Dog Days of Summer and will take place weekly from July 11- August 29, excluding August 1.
Screenings take place on Friday evenings in July and August in the iconic courthouse Sunken Garden at 8:30 p.m. The series is made possible by a collaboration between the Santa Barbara County Office of Arts & Culture, Arts & Lectures, and Santa Barbara County Parks as well as many generous sponsors.
This is a free all-ages event
Mozart's Don Giovanni
Presented by Music Academy of the West
2025 Summer Music Festival | Music Academy Lehrer Vocal Institute
Christian Reif, conductor / Mo Zhou, director
Set in the 1930s Golden Age of Hollywood film, this all-new opera production explores the power dynamic of the sexes through innovative direction by Mo Zhou, conducted by Christian Reif, and starring Music Academy Lehrer Vocal Institute fellows.
Ticket prices include a $7 Granada Facility Fee.
An additional Granada web service fee of $3 per ticket will be applied at seat selection.
"Good Kurds, Bad Kurds: No Friends But the Mountains"
“Searing…delves deeply into the history and politics of Kurdistan.” –The New York Times
A war of national liberation or a war against terrorism? Film-maker and acclaimed freelance journalist Kevin McKiernan poses this question at the outset of this stirring, provocative award-winning film shot in part by legendary cinematographer Haskell Wexler. It's all in how you define "good" and "bad”. Good Kurds, Bad Kurds (2001; 80 minutes) brings a sharp clarity to a complex history, while providing disturbing insight into immigration practices and U.S. foreign policy.
This screening is inspired by the current exhibition Vian Sora: Outerworlds and the Iraqi born artist’s recollection of watching this film at home with her brother as a young girl. Introduced by and Q and A following the screening with Director Kevin McKiernan.
Summer 2025 Film series: 101 Dalmatians (1961)
Enjoy Friday nights under the stars with the Summer Film Series! The 2025 theme is Dog Days of Summer and will take place weekly from July 11- August 29, excluding August 1.
Screenings take place on Friday evenings in July and August in the iconic courthouse Sunken Garden at 8:30 p.m. The series is made possible by a collaboration between the Santa Barbara County Office of Arts & Culture, Arts & Lectures, and Santa Barbara County Parks as well as many generous sponsors.
This is a free all-ages event
Academy Festival Orchestra: Pictures at an Exhibition
Presented by Music Academy of the West
2025 Summer Music Festival
Academy Festival Orchestra
Anthony Parnther conductor
VALERIE COLEMAN Seven O'Clock Shout
ERNEST CHAUSSON Poème, Op. 25 with Mosher Guest Artist Randall Goosby violin
MODEST MUSSORGSKY ARR. Ravel Pictures at an Exhibition
Ticket prices include a $7 Granada Facility Fee.
An additional Granada web service fee of $3 per ticket will be applied at seat selection.
THE GREAT QUAKE: A Centennial Commemoration
Join us for a free, family-friendly street exhibition commemorating the 100th anniversary of the 1925 Santa Barbara earthquake. Enjoy live entertainment, educational exhibits, interactive displays, hands-on workshops, and themed surprises.
SBMA: In Conversation with Artist Vian Sora
Vian Sora and James Glisson, SBMA Chief Curator, will have a conversation about her artwork and her turn in 2017 to the abstract painting for which she has become so well known. She grew up in Baghdad, Iraq in a family of art dealers and auctioneers at the center of the Iraqi artworld but then lived through two American invasions and the Insurgency. While her paintings are ultimately life affirming and even joyous with buoyant colors, they also contain fragments of these difficult experiences as well as her adjustment to life in the United States where she has lived since 2006.
Vian Sora is the subject of an upcoming solo exhibition Vian Sora: Outerworlds, co-organized by SBMA, Asia Society Texas and Speed Art Museum. Sora has gained an international following with her abstract paintings with recent solo shows at David Nolan Gallery, New York, and Luis de Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles, and her work is held by many museums including SBMA, Baltimore Museum of Art, Speed Museum, Ministry of Culture Contemporary Collection, Baghdad, Iraq; and Dar El Cid Museum, Kuwait City, Kuwait.
JAWS @50!
Presented by Music Academy of the West
2025 Summer Music Festival
Celebrate the 50th anniversary of one of the greatest motion pictures of all time, JAWS, with the full power of the Academy Festival Orchestra, conducted by Ben Palmer.
Directed by Academy Award®-winner Steven Spielberg, JAWS set the standard for edge-of-your-seat suspense, quickly becoming a cultural phenomenon and forever changing the movie industry.
Ticket prices include a $7 Granada Facility Fee.
An additional Granada web service fee of $3 per ticket will be applied at seat selection.
Songwriter Showcase with the Mac Talley Trip, Claude Hopper, and the Dennis and Laura Show
Songwriter Showcase with the Mac Talley Trip, Claude Hopper, and the Dennis and Laura Show
June 17th 2025, 7:30 pm
Doors: 6:30 PM
Show: 7:30 PM
All Ages
Margo Cilker with Jeremy Ferrara
Margo Cilker’s sophomore album, Valley of Heart’s Delight, refers to a place she can’t return: California’s Santa Clara Valley, as it was known before the orchards were paved over and became more famous for Silicon than apricots. In this 11-song follow-up to 2021’s critically acclaimed Pohorylle, family and nature intertwine as guiding motifs, at once precious and endangered, beautiful and exhausting. Cilker and Pohorylle producer Sera Cahoone brought most of that record’s highly-acclaimed crew (studio players for The Decemberists, Band Of Horses, and Beirut) back to the studio with additional contributions from acclaimed Northwest traditionalist Caleb Klauder. Valley of Heart’s Delight, Cilker’s second record on Portland, Oregon label Fluff & Gravy Records, has already racked up an impressive list of accolades and year-end picks and has paved the way for 2024’s extensive touring and festival appearances.
SBMA: Studio Sunday
Visitors of all ages are invited to participate in this hands-on informal workshop with SBMA Teaching Artists. Each month explore a different medium—clay, metal, ink, wood, photography, paper—inspired by works of art in the Museum’s collection or special exhibitions.
This is a free event
Justice (Opening Night)
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PREMIERE
JUSTICE explores the first women on the U.S. Supreme Court – Sandra Day O’Connor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Sonia Sotomayor – at the height of their power. Following the fraught confirmation process of Justice Sotomayor, we uncover the true sisterhood of these three iconic Americans as they inspire, challenge, and usher in the next generation of changemakers and trailblazers in American jurisprudence, while fighting private battles of their own. They confront and comfort each other about equal justice under the law, legal strategy, civic responsibility, as well as husbands, motherhood, kids, dreams, and sorrows, all while setting a new course for our country and the world.
Runtime
90 minutes with no intermission.
Age Recommendations
Rating: G
Brad Williams: The Growth Spurt Tour
Saturday, June 7, 2025 | 7:00 PM
Tickets: $64.50*/ $54.50*/ $39.50*/ $29.50*
*Ticket prices are subject to change without notice.
(Prices include Facility Fee)
$3 web service fee per ticket will be added at checkout.
Presented by Emporium Presents
Pound for pound, Brad Williams is the funniest comedian in the country right now and has become one of the most in-demand comedians working today. Williams started doing stand-up comedy as a teenager and has been touring successfully ever since, routinely selling out prestigious venues all over the country and world.
Ticket prices include a $7 Granada Facility Fee.
An additional Granada web service fee of $3 per ticket will be applied at seat selection.
Pedro Fernández: Ave Fenix Tour
Performance at the Arlington Theater by Latin Grammy Award winner and distinguished Mexican musician Pedro Fernandez.
June First Thursday
1st Thursday is an evening of art and culture in downtown Santa Barbara. On the first Thursday of each month, participating galleries and venues offer free access to visual and performing arts in a fun and social environment. Venues feature attractions such as art openings, live music, artists' receptions, lectures, wine tastings, and hands-on activities. We hope you will join us to enjoy our beautiful downtown and all that it has to offer!
1st Thursday is for locals and visitors alike. It provides an opportunity for residents to indulge in local culture, mingle with neighbors and participate in the arts community. The program also offers visitors the chance to experience, in one evening, the diversity of Downtown's visual and performing arts scene, is aimed at developing a lively atmosphere downtown as well as showcasing the cultural variety that Santa Barbara has to offer.
This is a free event, see here for more information
NYSA Jazz Quintet with Monkfish
NYSA Jazz is a quintet of UCSB Jazz alumni playing traditional and jazz fusion songs with a youthful twist, featuring lead vocalist Atalia Zahrndt!
This is a dinner show - please purchase your tickets with the group you would like to be seated with!
Gil Shaham
Presented by The Santa Barbara Symphony.
“Resplendent,” raves the Los Angeles Times of violinist Gil Shaham. “The performance of a lifetime.” Gil Shaham joins The Symphony and Nir Kabaretti for two programs. On Saturday, Tchaikovsky’s virtuosic Violin Concerto. Then on Sunday, Gil and wife Adele Anthony share the stage for Double Violin Concertos of Bach and a recent concerto of Avner Dorman (heard in its West Coast premiere!) This Gil Shaham weekend caps the 2024/25 season.
2025 Santa Barbara County Economic Summit
The annual Santa Barbara County Economic Summit features presentations by a panel of experts on the state of the economy and policy in Santa Barbara and California.
Los Angeles Philharmonic
The Los Angeles Philharmonic, under the baton of their esteemed Conductor Laureate Esa-Pekka Salonen, returns for an evening of profound musical exploration with celebrated pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard.
The Addams Family: A Musical Comedy
comical feast that embraces the wackiness in every family, THE ADDAMS FAMILY is the magnificently macabre hit musical featuring everyone’s favorite creepy, kooky characters.
