Community Calendar

The Santa Barbara Maritime Museum will host an artist walkthrough of Aquean, followed by book signings with artists David Ellis and Larry Vigon. This evocative multimedia exhibition explores time, tides, and transformation through paintings, photographs, video, and mixed media that examine the sea as both subject and metaphor. Highlights include Ellis’s Lobospheres: The Lost Souls of Point Lobos, a 20-year photographic exploration of wave-carved forms, and Vigon’s Flotsam & Jetsam, an immersive body of paintings, prints, found objects, linocuts, video, and dimensional collages. Visit sbmm.org for details.

A two-hour poetry reading, featuring diverse writers of conscience share the impact of past or present civil liberty challenges on their lives and families. There will be an open mic session for attendees to perform their works. The event will conclude with a writing workshop and closing open mic.

Presenters:
—Adela Najarro, poet from Santa Cruz; author of five poetry collections
—Aideed Medina, Poet Laureate, Fresno
—Kimi Sugioka, Poet Laureate, Alameda
—Joseph Jason Santiago LaCour, spoken word poet, hip-hop artist
—Shizue Seigel, poet, writer, and visual artist

Join Professor Stevie Ruiz of CSU Northridge as he discusses his new book, "Stewards of the Land." In this compelling history of the environmental movement, Stevie Ruiz traces how the racialized labor and environmental knowledge of Asian migrants and Chicana/o communities built the material foundations of modern environmentalism.