The opening of La Cumbre Center for Creative Arts in Santa Barbara will be unlike any other. In addition to great paintings and sculpture, a number of other arts will be well integrated into the evening. Kym Cochran and John Smith, well known for the projection/performance art installation in the State Street/101 underpass this past summer as part of “Experiment Weekend,” will perform a whole new projection event. The buildings and trees of the courtyard by the galleries will be lit with images and atmospheres and moving themes creating an evening ambience to boost the creative spirit.There will be a large interactive canvas, sponsored by Squire Foundation, that allows visitors to add to the creation, all while being live fed through Go Pro.In another echo of summer, Pali Szilassy will bring the large inflated ball that always appears at the end of the Solstice Parade, including aerial dancers inside, to another part of the courtyard. Only seen it from a distance in the parade? Now get a chance to see it all happening up close.Lively gypsy jazz will echo through the Plaza during the time the popular music group Souriez plays. Dance if the feeling moves you!And, if watching dance is more of interest, there will be a performance of Argentine and Latin dance by the Yulia Maluta Dance Group in one of the spaces adjacent to the galleries.Want to see some wild and imaginative painting of the human form? Zami Marx will in one of the galleries doing a live fine art painting on a living human form.Completing the evening will be a poetry reading by well known poet and song writer Nicola Gordon. La Cumbre Center for Creative Arts’ Grand Opening will be one you won’t want to leave!
