The Community Arts Workshop Santa Barbara 631 Garden Street • Santa Barbara • CA 93101

Yes. The Community Arts Workshop is an industrial-chic arts complex of about 15,000 square feet, with two buildings, four spaces and a bistro-lit Courtyard between them. Celebrations flow from the Courtyard into the Assembly Room, the largest space, with whitewashed brick walls, a peaked ceiling, skylights and rough-hewn rafters, plus a basic theatrical lighting system. The Shed is another open space for overflow, lounging or dancing.

The Community Arts Workshop has a wide variety of equipment on hand, including audience seating, folding tables, a modular stage system, and a theatrical lighting and curtain system in the Assembly Room. The Shed and gallery spaces have positionable track lighting. Because the space is designed as a blank canvas, you'll bring in the decor and rentals that match your vision.

Yes. The Community Arts Workshop is BYO for both catering and alcohol, which makes it a DIY dream. You're free to choose the caterer, bar service and other vendors that fit your style and budget.

The Community Arts Workshop is available year-round, daily, from 6am to midnight. Amplified music is allowed both indoors and outdoors, with some restrictions, so confirm the details for your layout with the team.

The Community Arts Workshop has only a few on-site spaces, which generally aren't available for public events. Street parking nearby usually has good availability, especially on weekends, and much of the street parking on the mountain side of Garden Street has no time limit. Several nearby public lots are free on weeknights and weekends.

The Community Arts Workshop is a nonprofit arts space with the motto "Workspace for the Inspired," so your rental fee supports the local arts community. It's an industrial blank canvas just off State Street, close to the beach and Santa Barbara's Funk Zone, with its wineries, galleries, boutiques and restaurants.