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Hey! You! If you would like to host an event, workshop, show, party, or extravaganza of sorts,
feel free to email sbinfoshop@gmail.com . We are more than willing to provide a time and space
for you, however... it is ultimately up to YOU to make it happen (flyer, invite people, contact us, etc)

Want to join us?

What We Provide

• A BOOK AND ZINE LIBRARY

• 

  FREE INTERNET COMPUTERS
• MEETING SPACE FOR GROUPS
• FREE WORKSHOPS AND CLASSES
• ART, POETRY AND CRAFT SPACE
• A TOOL LIBRARY
• A COMMUNITY GARDEN
• FREE BOX (TO GIVE, SHARE, AND TAKE CLOTHES, FOOD, ETC)
• COMMUNITY CALENDAR

Santa Barbara Infocomun es un espacio comunitario construido alrededor de ideas alternativas, autosostenimiento, información, la cultura 'hazlo tu mismo' y eventos para crear un cambio social positivo.

Aprende mucho mas sobre Infocomunes en Wikipedia

Como funciona el Infocomun

Santa Barbara Infocomun es organizado por un grupo colectivo de SB Infocomun , el cual consiste de gente de diferentes nacionalidades, edades e ideologias, quienes comparten el mismo deseo de construir la comunidad del futuro y soportar movimientos sociales. Nosotros donamos nuestro tiempo y recursos para crear y soportar este espacio, el cual creemos va a cambiar el errado sistema en el que vivimos.

Food Not Bombs
We serve on Wednesdays (1pm) and Saturdays (4pm) at the Santa Barbara Public Library.

Really Really Free Market
Every last Sunday of the month in Alice Keck Park Memorial Gardens, 11am to sunset. Bring all you stuff and give it away. Practice giving and recieving freely.

Critical Mass
Every last Friday of the month, 6pm, meet other riders at the Gazebo in Alameda Park.  The ride begins when it seems like the group is as big as it will get, and then takes the streets through Santa Barbara.

Eventos en Santa Barbara

Cosas increibles ocurren regularmente en Santa Barbara incluyendo:

Comida no Bombas 

Nosotros servimos los dias miércoles (1pm) y sábados (4pm) en la libreria pública de Santa Barbara.

El mercado realmente realmente Gratis 

El último domingo de cada mes, en el parque Alice Keck Memorial Gardens, de las 11am hasta el atardecer. Trae todas las cosas que tengas para regalar. Practica dar y recibir gratis.

La masa crítica

El último viernes de cada mes, 6pm, reúnete con los otros ciclistas en Gazebo que se encuentra en el parque Alameda.

sbinfoshop opening

SB Really, Really Free Market

Free Guitar Lessons!

Making Banners!

Workshop on homebrewing!

How to make wine.

Bicycle workshop.

Media & Journalism

Shape Of Voice
Shape of Voice is a youth newspaper that brings out the voice of todays youth. We fight for social justice, whether it be discrimination, poverty, or the legal system, you do have a voice!

If you have an interest in learning photography, journalism, social activism, web design, drawing, graphic design or newspaper production come get involved. We also need music reviews, art, comics, and political articles.

Santa Barbara Indymedia
Be the media! Post and read local news to promote the betterment of society.

Santa Barbara Action Groups

SB Anti-War
Anti-war organizing in the community. This group seeks to uproot the military industrial complex from our community.

Music and Arts

Muddy Waters Cafe
locally owned coffee house, cafe and live music venue. we enjoy tattoos, long walks on the beach, and being awesome. we do not enjoy having to say "venti" or "grande" when we are ordering our coffee. we think saying "veti" and "grande" is stupid. your freedom from oppressive marketing schemes and public embarrassment for the sake of caffeine begins at 508 e haley.

805 Shows
This is a listing for ALL AGES shows for Ventura County, Santa Barbara County, and San Luis Obispo County

KCSB Radio
As a non-commercial, educational FM station broadcasting for the public interest, KCSB enters into no commercial contracts which allow access to the airwaves and it strives to provide programming substantially different from that carried by commercial broadcast media. It is also designed to be educational for both programmers and listeners.

Splinter Cake

La Casa de la Raza Music Venue
601 E. Montecito St.
PO Box 4104
Santa Barbara CA 93140
805-965-8581

More Infoshops

Catalyst Infoshop: Prescott, Arizona

Iron Rail Infoshop: New Orleans, Louisiana

Bound Together Books: San Francisco, California

The Long Haul Infoshop: Berkeley, California

Free Mind Media Infospace: Santa Rosa, California

And many, many, many, many more!!

Food, Farms, Permaculture

Isla Vista Food Co-op
We're a member owned natural foods store that is open to the public. We have a great selection of organic produce grown locally here in the Santa Barbara area.

Fairview Gardens
Based on one of the oldest organic farms in California, the Center for Urban Agriculture at Fairview Gardens is an internationally respected model for small-scale urban food production, agricultural preservation, and farm-based education.

Strong Hearts Bakery Myspace

Strong Hearts Baking Company is an all vegan business - providing 100% cruelty free baked goods made by vegans. We put only the finest ingredients into our products, using certified organic and fair trade ingredients whenever possible. At Strong Hearts we hope that our cupcakes, cookies, doughnuts, and other vegan desserts will not only satisfy your sweet tooth but that they will reflect our deepest respect and reverence for humans, animals, and the earth that we share.

Now Available at:

I.V. Drip
905 Embarcadero del Norte
Isla Vista, CA 93117
(805) 968-4550

Isla Vista Food Co-op
6575 Seville Rd.
Isla Vista, CA 93117
(805) 963-1401

I Want To Ride My Bicycle!

Bicicentro
Bici Centro is a low to no cost bike program where community members learn to work on bikes in a multi-lingual, comfortable and fun setting. We help participants of all ages learn to rebuild good, used bikes and we maintain an inventory of used bike parts taken from otherwise broken bicycles.

This is a Drupal site for SBInfoshop.org. Infoshop.org itself uses Drupal. The site maintainers are working on converting all older static HTML over to Drupal.

What is Drupal you may ask? Drupal is a content management system. In other words, a system for managing a site's content in an easy-to-use way that many people can collaborate on without needing web development skills. With the Drupal CMS, anyone of us can add and edit content like pages, news stories and events at any time from any computer in the world without having to hassle a web geek. Drupal can do a lot more than just that too. Think of everyone being able to work on the web site as the tip of the empowerment iceberg.

Incidentally, I searched for "drupal infoshop theme" on Google and result #3, #5 and #6 were to EmpowerThyself.com!

Once this site is fully operational and gets consensus approval, we can switch sbinfoshop.org over to point here.

Welcome to the infoshop.

We've posted a gallery of pictures from the grand opening.

The SB Infoshop has rented a house - 421 Alisos Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. Stop by between 9 and 5 any day of the week and say "hi." We're planning a grand opening party, so stay tuned.

If you'd like to donate books, computers, art supplies, a refridgerator, tools, or other community goodies contact us.