Inside Santa Barbara’s Summer Solstice
See the Magic Underway at the Community Arts Workshop to Prep for June 25 Parade
By Ingrid Bostrom | June 23, 2022
Cover this year’s preparations for the Summer Solstice parade? Of course!
Ever eager to delve into the Santa Barbara scene, I set off to the Solstice workshop, wandering up Garden Street toward a brick building. Outside, a colorful mural proclaimed: “Summer Solstice Workshop 2022.”
I’m a Solstice newbie, so only then did I realize that this wasn’t attending just one of many workshops leading up to the June 25 parade. This collection of structures at the corner of Garden and Ortega streets, known as the Community Arts Workshop, is the artistic headquarters for all things Solstice. I soon learned that the parade’s workshop model dates back to 1978 — the parade itself started four years earlier — and has been hosted at this location since 2009.
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