Now at the CAW
Alpha Resource Center of Santa Barbara Presents:
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
Saturday, October 3, 2026
Curtain: 3:00 PM
Community Arts Workshop (CAW), 631 Garden St.
Alpha Resource Center’s Catapult Theater Project is excited to present its 2026 performance of The Sorcerer’s Apprentice!
Come support our talented performers and enjoy an afternoon of theater, creativity, and community!
Admission is FREE!
Donations are welcome.
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Alpha Resource Center of Santa Barbara empowers individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities throughout Santa Barbara County by supporting families,
creating opportunities, and fostering belonging.
The Santa Barbara Arts Collaborative Presents:
City Council Candidates Forum on the Arts
Wednesday, October 7, 5:15 – 8:00PM.
Doors open at 5:00PM
Community Arts Workshop, 631 Garden Street
The Santa Barbara Arts Collaborative is pleased to revive its tradition of hosting a candidates forum on the arts. Open to all City Council candidates in Districts 4, 5, and 6, as well as mayoral candidates, this forum will focus on how they plan to support and sustain the arts in Santa Barbara.
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5:00pm: Gates Open
5:15pm: Audience seated – SBAC welcome and intros
5:30pm: District 4 Candidate Forum
6:00pm Break
6:10pm District 5 Candidate Forum
6:40pm Break
6:50pm District 6 Candidate Forum
7:20pm Break
7:30pm Mayoral Candidate Forum
8:00pm Adjourn
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​The Santa Barbara Arts Collaborative (SBAC) is a nonprofit committed to sustaining and growing all forms of the arts in Santa Barbara. Through long-term programs like the Community Arts Workshop, the Funk Zone Maps, Pianos on State, and in many smaller projects and collaborations, the SBAC works to sustain and grow the unique cultural ecology of our community. For many years, the SBAC has had a tradition of hosting a City of Santa Barbara Candidates’ Forum on the Arts during election years.
The SBAC does not issue endorsements of candidates.
Rebecca Zendejas Presents:
The Recycled Show: ReFabrication
Opening Reception: Friday Oct. 9, 5-8pm.
Gallery Hours: Friday Oct. 9 & 15 10am-5pm, Saturday Oct. 17 11a-3p
Or by appointment: 805-324-7443
"The Recycled Show: ReFabrication" is the continuation of the vision that Jami Joelle Nielsen was developing before her untimely death. Considering our relationship to fabric, clothing, fashion & adornment and its impact on the environment, over a dozen local artists have contributed artwork created with 75-80% up-cycled fabric and materials typically destined for the landfill.
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Participating artists ​include: Georganne Alex, Andrew Baker,​ Mary Becker, Barbara Booth, Donna Gallant, Laurie Gross-Schaefer, Deeta Katz, Kathy Leader, Karen Lee, Becca Licha, Judy Nilsen, Heidi Parker, Mary Price, Matt Rodriguez, Meiya Sidney and Claire Wentzel.​
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This exhibit will also feature a few pieces by Jami Joelle Nielsen, whose own practice as a recycled-object artist prompted her to ​create the inaugural "Recycled Show: A No Waste Exhibit" in 2024 at the CAW, which was formerly a recycling center. The concept for that show began taking shape in 2014, when Jami organized and curated the "No Waste Earth" exhibit at Art From Scrap.
Images from 2025 & 2024 Recycled Shows at the CAW.
The Santa Barbara Arts Collaborative Presents:
Upcycle Couture
A Reuse Runway Event
Friday, October 16th, 7 - 10pm
At the Community Arts Workshop
Join us on October 16, at the Community Arts Workshop, for our first ever fashion show fundraiser. In memory of our former Outreach Committee member, Jami Joelle Nielsen, the Arts Collaborative is hosting its first ever fashion show fundraiser to support emerging designers, and raise money for our programming. The event will also collaborate with environmental organizations to educate about the environmental effects of fast-fashion.
Guests will enjoy refreshments, music, and a fabulous show of hand-crafted designs from local designers followed by awards to honor artisanship and innovation to the design teams. All clothing will be for sale!
We hope you’ll gather with us to celebrate what’s possible when artists are tasked with creative solutions for a more sustainable future.
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For more information visit: sbartscollaborative.org/upcycle-couture
The Santa Barbara Arts Collaborative Presents:
Artist Studio Survey
Tell us about your art and the space you need to create it.
The Arts Collaborative is venturing beyond the walls of the Community Arts Workshop to study the possibility of affordable artist studios in Santa Barbara.
With the rise in costs for both housing and commercial space, artists are being priced out of historic areas like the Funk Zone and struggling to find replacements.
The SBAC has rallied a small group of community leaders to study the need, the possibilities, and the methods for facilitating more affordable studio space for artists. Our group wants to hear from artists themselves to understand the realistic needs of our artistic community for creative work space.
Participating in this survey directly supports our ability to make this effort a reality.
We so appreciate your time.
Use the CAW
The CAW collaborates to empower and provide affordable space for art projects of all kinds. Have an idea? Use the CAW.
The Santa Barbara Arts Collaborative works to maintain the CAW as a "blank canvas" for as wide a diversity of arts uses and users as possible, providing space and collaborating with project initiators to make their ideas a success for the benefit of the broader community, and supporting and cultivating collaborations between artists and arts organizations, community groups, the business community, non-profit organizations and the entire community.
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Find out more about how you can use the CAW here:
The SBAC facilitates the use of the CAW by artists, nonprofits, and community groups of all types; fostering exploration, conversation, collaboration, and connection to further its mission to sustain and grow all forms of the arts in Santa Barbara. The views, thoughts, and opinions expressed are the users’ own, and do not necessarily represent those of the Santa Barbara Arts Collaborative. The SBAC welcomes all in the work to sustain and grow the unique cultural ecology of our community.