Latinx Arts Project Carpinteria is excited to invite you to a mixer celebrating the rich history and contributions on behalf of the Hispanic and Latino communities. Happy Hispanic Heritage Month!

Join us at Delgado’s Restaurant, 4401 Carpinteria Ave. at 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm.

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¡Salud!

Santa Barbara’s Frequency Wine Co. will host a Downtown Santa Barbara First Thursday Art Walk on their historic “Presidio Patio” at 804 Anacapa Street (next door to Santa Barbara’s Main Post Office). The 5-8 pm outdoor and indoor evening of celebration to benefit the Latinx Arts Project/Carpinteria and introduce LAP’s inaugural board members to the arts community at large.

The board will also announce a “call for mural design submissions” from artists in Santa Barbara and Ventura counties. A $2500 cash honorarium prize will be awarded in the future for the winning mural design.

Patrons can buy wines by the glass, including the newly released, highly anticipated 2021 GSM, or share a bottle with friends, relax to live music and enjoy tasty bites while supporting LAP/Carpinteria with 10% of all sales being donated to the non-profit.

The Latinx Arts Project/Carpinteria was founded this year to create murals in Carpinteria that honor and celebrate Hispanic contributions to the community. Their first mural will also incorporate a darker side of local history – the segregation of Aliso School for “Mexicans Only” which ended in 1947.

The group’s 15-minute documentary, by Santa Barbara filmmaker Brent Winebrenner, that exposes this issue – “Voces de Old Town Carpinteria” will be shown outdoors as well after sunset.

Frequency Wines was born in the belief that “positive energy can be created, bottled, and shared throughout the world to be sown and harvested for a vast influence”.

An artists and muralists panel, a screening of “Voces de Old Town Carpinteria” and announcement of call for entries and prize money for Ventura and Santa Barbara county artists for Carpinteria mural project.      

The Latinx Arts Project/Carpinteria – Proyecto de Artes Latinx/Carpinteria will hold a special public event, including a showing on the ‘big screen” of the 15-minute documentary by Brent Winebrenner, a panel discussion on muralism, and open call for entries from artists living and/or working in Santa Barbara and Ventura counties.

Panelists: Artists Adriana Arriaga, Ralph D’Oliveira, Ruth Ellen Hoag, Lisa Kelly and Ryan P. Cruz, moderator 

The grassroots organization will share its plans for creating “Past, Present, Future” murals, celebrating Latinx culture and history in Carpinteria.