Summer Solstice Parade
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At high Noon, on the Saturday following the longest day of the year, brilliant illusions and imagery of fantastic faces emerge from Cota Street to travel through the heart of downtown Santa Barbara, transforming the business district into a vibrant splash of color, music and dance. Parade participants masquerade, glitter, glide, whirl and rustle their people-powered floats up State Street filling hearts of all ages with gaiety and delight, and inspire the crowd to celebrate life, art, and the beginning of summer.

I Madonnari
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Santa Barbara's original street painting festival, in the tradition of the 16th century Italian "Madonna painters". The festival, started here in 1987 as a fundraiser for the Children's Creative Project, features hundreds artists working throughout each three-day Memorial Day weekends to complete their works of art.