Santa Barbara County Office of Arts & Culture

Another free webinar offered next week for all California arts and culture nonprofits! CalNonprofits Webinar: Employee Retention Tax Credit (ERTC) Friday, June 18, 2021 11:00 am - 12:00 pm... FREE! The Employee Retention Tax Credit (ERTC) is a relief program for employers from the federal government. Originally, employers could not apply for both the PPP (Paycheck Protection Program) and the ERTC, so most nonprofits chose PPP. But now, receiving a PPP loan does NOT affect your ability to qualify for the ERTC. If your nonprofit experienced a reduction in quarterly gross receipts or had to modify operations due to various COVID-related regulations, you may be eligible for up to $33,000 per employee. That quickly adds up! And as a result of nonprofit advocacy, this is a payroll tax credit, which nonprofits and for-profits both pay so it’s a victory for nonprofits to have the benefit structured this way.

Hello, arts and culture nonprofit leaders! The Center for Nonprofit Leadership at California Lutheran University will be hosting a two-part professional development workshop next week. Description below; you can register at the link in our bio. Cash Projections 101: Planning for Crisis Tuesday, June 15 and Thursday, June 17, 2021 9:00 am - 12:00 pm each day... Members: Free Non-members: $55 Will your organization have enough cash to cover payroll next month? With the past year’s trying financial reality, nonprofits have had to be agile and adaptive in our financial responsibilities. In this two part series, we will learn how to develop a cash projection spreadsheet that can be updated regularly to look for landmines and dedicate a safe learning space to discuss and strategize simulated common crisis scenarios in nonprofits. Financial statements are important for board members and leadership to analyze the organization’s historical performance, but cash management is critical for day-to-day financial management, and if we’ve learned anything this yearit’s that even if the future may seem unclear, we always have our day-to-day experience to help inform our path forward. Learning about cash projections is also a wonderful method to get familiar and comfortable with financials because cash projections tend to be a more intuitive way of looking at financial information. Session I Objectives (Tuesday, June 15th): Discover 3 methods of projecting future cash flows: mind dump, budget conversion, and hybrid. Analyze common differences between an accrual-based budget and a cash projection. Identify strategies for handling shortfalls. Session II Objectives (Thursday, June 17th): Practice analyzing and identifying strategies for different Nonprofit cashflow crisis scenarios. Develop a community for processing and analyzing our financial responsibilities as nonprofit leaders.

Call for creatives/ talent submissions for Santa Maria Pride- virtual for all this June

Corazon del Pueblo is growing their team! Nominations for Board Members are now open. "We're so excited for Spring! As our organization grows, we are seeking to fill up to three open spots on our Board of Directors. Please consider nominating yourself or someone you know who is passionate about the arts, anti-racism, and our community in the Santa Maria Valley. Submit your nomination online at https://tinyurl.com/CDPBoard ¡Estamos muy emocionados por la primavera! A medida que nuestra organización crece, nos complace anunciar que están abiertas las nominaciones para un puesto en nuestra Junta Directiva. Considere la posibilidad de nominarse a sí mismo oa alguien que conozca apasionado por las artes, el antirracismo y nuestra comunidad en el Valle de Santa María. Envíe su nominación en línea a https://tinyurl.com/CDPBoard"

Season 12 of the Mission Poetry Series wraps up with a virtual reading featuring 3 extraordinary poets. Some of Us Could Sing: Three Poets features award-winning authors Joshua Escobar, Felicia Zamora, and Teri Ellen Cross Davis. The title of the event is a phrase taken from the poem American Sunrise, by Native American author and musician, Joy Harjo, the 23rd and current Poet Laureate of the United States. The reading will be held via Zoom and registration is linked below.... The event is free and open to the public. Featured Readers: JOSHUA ESCOBAR grew up in the Inland Empire in southern California. He is the author of the chapbooks, Caljforkya Voltage and xxox fm. His experimental debut collection Bareback Nightfall (Noemi Press, 2020), explores a queer dystopia through the eyes of a deejay. He has received fellowships from Shandaken: Storm King and CantoMundo. He co-founded the zine, Orange Mercury, and currently co-edits the student magazine Open Fruit. He is the incoming Director of Creative Writing at Santa Barbara City College. FELICIA ZAMORA is the author of six books of poetry including, I Always Carry My Bones, winner of the 2020 Iowa Poetry Prize (2021); Body of Render, winner of the Benjamin Saltman Award; and Of Form & Gather, winner of the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize. She has received fellowships and residencies from CantoMundo, Ragdale Foundation, PLAYA, and Moth Magazine. Her poems appear in American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Georgia Review, Guernica, Missouri Review’s Poem-of-the-Week, Orion, The Nation, and others. She is an assistant professor of poetry at the University of Cincinnati and associate poetry editor for Colorado Review. TERI ELLEN CROSS DAVIS is the author of a more perfect Union, (Mad Creek Books, 2021) , the 2019 winner of the Journal/Charles B. Wheeler Poetry Prize, and Haint, winner of the 2017 Ohioana Book Award for Poetry. She was awarded the Poetry Society of America’s Robert H. Winner Memorial Prize in 2020. She is a Cave Canem fellow and the Poetry Coordinator for the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington D.C. The Mission Poetry Series is generously supported by partnerships with Letras Latinas, the literary program of the Institute for Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame, The Santa Barbara Poetry Fund, and The Santa Barbara Public Library.

So grateful for our Poets Laureate, past and present, and local Gunpowder Press! Also a poem from Emma Trelles, recently inducted Santa Barbara Poet Laureate. Special thanks to editor @laure-anne bosselaar and publishers David Starkey and Chryss Yost.

Untold: Westmont Graduate Exhibition 2021 features works by 13 students featuring a range of themes and mediums. Our curator, Julia Rutherford Daly, was honored to serve as Guest Critic for this year's Senior Seminar class. The exhibition is now on view at the Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art by appointment. To learn more about the artists and work on view, and to schedule a viewing appointment, go to https://www.westmont.edu/museum/untold. @westmont_art Left: "The Undoing" by Sharon Ko; Right: "Prints from the Cairo Sketchbooks" by Evelyn Theon.

Have you checked out the Santa Barbara Art District yet? The Art District is a walking neighborhood surrounding the Santa Barbara Museum of Art at the corner of State Street and Anapamu Street. Go to https://www.santabarbaraartdistrict.com to check out the galleries in the area!

Santa Maria is working hard to bring public art to all corners of the city. The Utility Box Art Project allows local artists to paint utility boxes across the city with themes relevant to Santa Maria. Listen to the full story from Bethany Thornton here: http://ow.ly/aUx250EpG01

We are thrilled to announce that Emma Trelles has been selected to serve as the next Poet Laureate for the City of Santa Barbara. Trelles commences her two-year term today, Tuesday, April 13, 2021, as the recipient of the city’s Poetry Month Proclamation. Trelles is the daughter of Cuban immigrants and the author of Tropicalia, published by University of Notre Dame Press, which won the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize, the first book prize to be awarded to a Latinx poet living ...and writing in the U.S. Her work has been published widely and anthologized in publications such as Best American Poetry and Best of the Net. Trelles has presented her poems across the country and received fellowships from CantoMundo and the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs. She is currently writing her third collection of poems, Courage and the Clock. Trelles teaches composition and creative writing at Santa Barbara City College. Since 2014, she's curated the Mission Poetry Series, featuring Latinx and diverse poets from Santa Barbara, throughout California, and as far away as El Salvador. Throughout my work curating, teaching, and writing poetry, I’ve also been committed to how my role as a poet can bring people together, said Trelles. The Poet Laureate program was established in 2005 by the City of Santa Barbara. The honorary position actively participates in ceremonial, educational and cultural activities in the community. As the official Home of the Poet Laureate, the Santa Barbara Public Library is a major partner in the program. Trelles succeeds Laure-Anne Bosselaar, who has served as the city’s Laureate since 2019. Check out Trelles in action reading her work at the Jackson Wheeler Reading Series at the Carnegie Art Museum in Oxnard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdTH7q1k79g

Santa Barbara I Madonnari Festival heading to a driveway near you! Follow their page to learn how to participate in this fabulous program that funds arts education in public schools.

The Small Business Administration recently announced that the long-awaited Shuttered Venue Operators Grant (SVOG) PORTAL will officially open on Thursday, April 8, 2021. For those interested that haven’t registered, please register immediately for the SBA’s national webinar on SVOG that will take place on Tues., March 30, 2021 @ 11:30am. In connection with the program, SBA Administrator Isabella Guzman stated: Help is here for venue operators hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic...The SBA knows these venues are critical to America's economy and understands how hard they've been impacted, as they were among the first to shutter. This vital economic aid will provide a much-needed lifeline for live venues, museums, movie theaters and many more.