Special Events and Tours
Upcoming Events
Free Open Houses
Most months on the first Saturday, from 9:30am – 12:00 noon.
Join us at SBMAL to meet our Executive Director, Jack Clark Robinson, OFM with the occasional special guest, and to see several artifacts, books, and artwork from our collection.
Free to attend | Free parking on site | Look for the SBMAL sign on the front portico, to the left.
Upcoming Dates: February 1st, March 1st, April 5th
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An Educating Conversation
Monthly from January - October on the last Friday, from 6-8pm.
Join a select group of those interested in an informative conversation with different monthly experts who will first share from a vast store of knowledge, then engage with those present in a lively give & take. Conducted on the last Friday of the month, January-October 2025
Location: Santa Bárbara Mission Archive-Library, 2201 Laguna Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93105
Free parking on site | Look for the SBMAL sign on the front portico, to the left.
Cost: $50 per event | RSVP Required | Limited to 25 attendees | Light Refreshments
January 31st, 2025 | Larry Gosselin, OFM and Mel Herrera (Mescalero Apache Elder): Apache & Franciscan Spirituality
Father Larry has served as a missionary in several cross-cultural situations, including among Mescalero Apache Indians. He always sought to learn from the people, as well as to share his rich appropriation of Franciscan spirituality. In this conversation with Melvin Herrera, the two of them will explore how we can share spiritualities to unite us in a deeply divided world.
February 28th, 2025 | Mario Garcia, Ph.D. and Ellen McCracken, Ph.D., Professors Emeritus, UCSB: Franciscans from Outside
Retired UCSB professors and authors of important biographies of Virgil Cordano, OFM (to many "Father Santa Barbara") and Angelico Chavez, OFM (for many the "Father" of New Mexico history) will share how they got to know them and what they learned from them.
March 28th, 2025 | Ernestine Ygnacio-De Soto (Barbareño Chumash elder), James Yee, Dr. Amy Foss: Learning from Elders
How do you seek out and preserve traditions, wisdom, and knowledge across generations when so much of what you seek to preserve has never been written down? Join elders and scholars of the Chumash to address this question.