Details: Join us for a weekend of free winter-inspired arts and crafts activities using natural materials found around the Garden. Come each day for a different art or craft activity hosted by our Backcountry rangers. Mud Painting: Saturday, December 17th Come exercise your creativity using nature’s free art supplies! We invite you to join us in…
Details: The Garden’s Tucker Lichenologist & Curator of the Lichenarium, Rikke Resse Naesborg, will be giving a talk about her exciting work with tiny critters on giant tress. Coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) supports rich communities of epiphytes growing high in their crowns, including a diversity of lichens, bryophytes, and vascular plants. California Native Plant Societies…
Creators of new gallery exhibition, Interlopings: Colors in the Warp and Weft of Ecological Entanglements Details: Helén Svensson and Lisa Jevbratt use non-native plants that grow on Santa Cruz to dye yarn and wool from Santa Cruz Island Sheep (a breed endemic to, but now removed from the island). The plants they use have a…
Details: This tour examines how California plants contribute to our well-being everyday and the Garden’s conservation mission:Research to understand biodiversity and how the collective health of habitats is achieved; How those habitats contribute to the economic, social, recreational, and healthy well-being of our human population; And, how the Garden provides these resources to research scientists,…
Details: Join local composer Cody Westheimer as he gives an informal talk on his commission for the Santa Barbara Symphony. “Wisdom of the Water, Earth, Sky” premieres November 19th and 20th at the Granada. Cody will discuss how his connection with nature shaped the work. And how his collaboration with his friends Ernestine and Marianne…
Details: Visitors are welcome to step inside the gates of the Tea Garden and observe while Sensei teaches her students the art of Chanoyu, Japanese Tea Ceremony. This is an opportunity for visitors to observe a private lesson. As the focus is on teacher and student, please enjoy silently. Practice will take place approximately from 9:30…
Details: Visitors are welcome to step inside the gates of the Tea Garden and observe while Sensei teaches her students the art of Chanoyu, Japanese Tea Ceremony. This is an opportunity for visitors to observe a private lesson. As the focus is on teacher and student, please enjoy silently. Practice will take place approximately from 9:30…
Details: Visitors are welcome to step inside the gates of the Tea Garden and observe while Sensei (an instructor) teaches her students the art of Chanoyu, Japanese Tea Ceremony. This is an opportunity for visitors to observe a private lesson. As the focus is on teacher and student, please enjoy silently. Practice will take place approximately…
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