Pearl Chase Society presents: Birth of Beauty – The Santa Barbara Renaissance
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Film/Movie
Lecture/Talk/Discussion/Panel/Q&A
Alhecama Theatre
Contact Details:
Phone: (805) 961-3938
Email: pcs@pearlchasesociety.org
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**Events may have been canceled or postponed. Please contact the venue to confirm the event.
Date & Time
Fri, Oct 27 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Address (map)
215a East Canon Perdido St.
Venue (website)
Alhecama Theatre
THE PEARL CHASE SOCIETY CONTINUES ITS
KELLAM DE FOREST SPEAKER SERIES
October 27th Film Presentation:
BIRTH OF BEAUTY: THE SANTA BARBARA RENAISSANCE
SANTA BARBARA, CA -The Pearl Chase Society’s Kellam de Forest
Speaker Series continues with a different type of event for your enjoyment.
On Friday, October 27th 6 p.m – 8:00 p.m. at the Alhecama Theatre, 215a East Canon Perdido St, we offer the first general public screening of a film about local historic homes, Birth of Beauty: The Santa Barbara Renaissance,
To reserve a seat, please respond to this email or call 805-961-3938. We invite a $5 donation.
The 2020 pandemic disrupted many lives and also the Society’s plans for its popular annual Historic Homes Tour. Instead, we commissioned filmmaker Jim Cutsinger (Meadowgate Media Productions) to create a visual tour offering in-depth features not possible in a typical walking tour.
Using historic photos and drawings, the film gives viewers important background on the area we now call Plaza Rubio and Mission Historical Park. Extraordinary events and prescient residents combined to transform it. Featured are three impressive women (a visionary, an architect, and a financier), an earthquake, the Old Mission, and Pearl Chase.
Narrators include a prominent local architect and historian, plus members of the Pearl Chase Society Board of Directors. As the story approaches the present day, we learn more about two of the seven post-earthquake homes built on the block and tour them with their homeowner as our guide.
The film tells the story, from the earliest times of El Pueblo de Santa Barbara through the development of Mission Historical Park, to give viewers a full story unknown to many, even within our community. It is a story of one of America’s earliest efforts in urban planning and offers the history of a Santa Barbara location visited, photographed, and enjoyed by thousands of sightseers and picnickers each year. Now you can know the story to share with them.
We invite you to a very special showing of this film, an important addition to the story of Santa Barbara.
ABOUT THE PEARL CHASE SOCIETY
We are an all-volunteer, not-for-profit conservancy dedicated to preserving Santa Barbara’s historic architecture, landscapes and cultural heritage. Established in 1998, the Pearl Chase Society continues to advance and enlarge upon the founding vision of Pearl Chase. It engages in charitable and educational activities to promote and preserve Santa Barbara’s historic sites of rare value and continuing community interest. For more information, please visit pearlchasesociety.org.