Tag archives: Chumash
Healing Justice SB Co-executive Directors Simone Akila Ruskamp and Leticia Forney Resch invite the Black community and supporters to their annual event titled, “2026 Black Student Alliance Leadership Adventure Day,” Saturday, July 18, from 11 am to 5 pm, at SB City College Campus. The event is a collaboration with Healing Justice SB and the […]
Hello Loves! On Friday, May 15, I had the pleasure of meeting realism painter and documentary artist Christopher Leith Evans, whose works are on display at the Santa Ynez Chumash Museum and Cultural Center. The event celebrated the 1st Anniversary of the Santa Ynez Chumash Museum and Cultural Center, and the exhibit, Between the Three […]
The Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians has announced two major charitable contributions: $25,000 to the Central Coast Marine Corps Reserves Toys for Tots campaign and $135,000 raised through its annual Charity Golf Tournament for Angels Foster Care, CALM, and the Mental Wellness Center. This marks the tribe’s 22nd year supporting Toys for Tots, totaling […]
The Ysidro Jazz Society in partnership with Monkey 47 Gin transported guests back to the roaring ’20s with Sip & Swing on October 2 – an elegant evening of live jazz, craft cocktails, and vintage flair. Inside the chic Prohibition-style speakeasy, the Al Vafa Jazz Trio filled the room with lively swing tunes while Monkey […]
News from the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians marks two milestone anniversaries. This year is their 60th Annual Intertribal Powwow and the 20th Annual Charity Golf Classic that benefits local nonprofits. Celebrating 60 Years The annual intertribal powwow is open to the public and takes place Saturday, October 4, 10 am – 10pm, and […]
In an all-hands-on deck request, Sarah Aguilar, director for the Santa Barbara County Animal Welfare Services, is asking community members to temporarily or permanently adopt one of 50 dogs that are being displaced while the SB and Lompoc shelters undergo repairs and upgrades. The SB shelter received a grant from the ASPCA in partnership with […]
Frank Meeink, a former neo-Nazi skinhead recruiter turned Jewish educator, will share his extraordinary story in “Hate to Hope,” a public talk on Thursday, August 14, at 6 pm at the Louise Lowry Davis Center in Santa Barbara. Raised in South Philadelphia, Meeink was drawn into violent white supremacy as a teen before prison friendships, […]
The Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians’ (SYBCI) Chumash Museum and Cultural Center is now open to the public! Twenty years in the making, it is “A Legacy of Culture, Innovation, and Resilience.” I attended the official grand opening held on May 15, where I met with the SYBCI Museum Board Chairwoman and Tribal Member […]
The long-awaited Santa Ynez Chumash Museum and Cultural Center is a project that dates to 2005. That inaugural impulse two decades ago was itself based on ideas that had begun germinating some thirty years before. All those decades of thinking and planning were seen as actually coming to long-awaited fruition when construction began in 2018. […]
Carpinteria goes green again this weekend courtesy of The California Avocado Festival, the free fest dedicated to the locally grown fruit that also serves as a massive musical extravaganza. The Avo Fest is also fully back to its pre-pandemic glory, stretching for three days and several city blocks, encompassing four stages of music including the […]
The Environmental Defense Center held its annual event titled, Green & Blue: A Coastal Celebration, on Sunday, June 9, in the lush green gardens at Rancho La Patera & Stow House in Goleta. The 500 attendees of supporters, friends, families, fans, and politicians from the tri-county region and beyond came together to celebrate the organization’s […]
Celtic Woman returns to the Chumash Casino on their “20th Anniversary Tour,” marking the milestone since the ensemble rose to fame after their 2005 PBS concert special that was initially intended as a one-time-only event. But the response propelled their album to the top of Billboard’s World Music chart and a second album a year […]
Administered by the National Park Service, the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) was updated effective January 12, 2024. The act was first established in 1990. The NAGPRA requires all Federal agencies and all museums, institutions, universities, colleges, state agencies, and local agencies that receive Federal funds, to identify all Native American human […]
Italian pianist Alessio Bax, a frequent visitor to our Eden by the Beach, who performed with the Santa Barbara Symphony at the Granada playing Schumann’s “Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54,” gave a private concert 48 hours earlier for VIP supporters in the second of its Concert Aperitif series at the historic APS aerie […]
The threat of imminent development of the western parcel of the San Marcos Foothills Preserve 18 months ago not only triggered an astonishingly speedy and successful campaign to purchase the land as a nature preserve in perpetuity, it also synchronistically spawned a sensational new piece of music from a Santa Barbara native: Cody Westheimer’s Wisdom […]
On Thursday morning (March 10, 2022) the reservoir on upper Hot Springs Road was empty so no water was going to the estates below. This was because the main pipe had been disconnected for days on end, and the hot springs water that normally flowed into the reservoir poured onto Hot Springs Trail. Will the […]
It’s interesting that one person getting water from the Montecito Creek Water Company, Mr. Jon Emanuel, and not the company itself, responded to my letter advocating return of the Montecito hot springs by the ruins (Cliff Spring and Barn Springs) to the people. He claims I said things that are “factually incorrect,” yet he characterizes […]
Unfortunately, pipes are taking the water from hot springs in Montecito. The pipes are maintained by the Montecito Creek Water Company, a private company that has water rights in Hot Springs Canyon. The pools of hot water that the Chumash used to enjoy are no more. The hot water is taken from above the east […]
The United Boys & Girls Club of Santa Barbara County, the North County Rape Crisis and Child Protection Center, and the Technology in Schools Program each received $40,000 as part of the 2021 Chumash Charity Golf Classic at Alisal River Course in Solvang. The tournament returned after a one-year hiatus, with proceeds aiding funding for […]
Above the riparian corridor of Arroyo Hondo, a bleak Daliesque landscape reveals the aftermath of October’s Alisal Fire. Chaparral that hadn’t burned in too many years fed the wind-driven fire into the canyon from the east. Despite the grazing program of sheep and cattle on the hills flanking both sides of the lower canyon, the […]
