Chalk one up for street art
If you forgot to plan something for Memorial Day weekend, hit the streets of Santa Barbara today and Monday for the 21st I Madonnari Italian Street Painting Festival. You won’t be able to doodle, but from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. each day you can wander around the Santa Barbara Mission at Laguna and Los Olivos streets to watch masterpieces in chalk emerge on 200 squares of asphalt. Admission is free; (805) 964-4710, www.imadonnarifestival.com.
There’s another street painting festival in San Rafael, Calif., from June 9 to 10, (415) 457-4878; www.youthinarts.org/pages/italian. And there’s one in San Luis Obispo from Sept. 15 to 16, (805) 781-2777; www.sanluisobispocounty.com.
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