Editing Santa Barbara, California (section)

===Events===
The annual Fiesta (originally called "Old Spanish Days") is celebrated every year in August. The Fiesta is hosted by the [[Native Daughters of the Golden West]] and the [[Native Sons of the Golden West]] in a joint committee called the Fiesta Board. Fiesta was originally started as a tourist attraction, like the [[Rose Bowl Game|Rose Bowl]], to draw business into the town in the 1920s.<ref>Patricia Ann Hardwick. (2010). The Old Spanish Days Fiesta in Santa Barbara, California: Cultural Hybridity, Colonial Mythologies and the Romanticization of a Latino Heritage. ''Humanities Diliman,'' ''7''(2), 60–94.</ref><ref>Ty Smith, "'A delightful deception: The politics of public memory and the re-creation of Spanish Santa Barbara, 1920–1987." Doctoral dissertation, [[University of California, Santa Barbara]] 2014.</ref> Flower Girls and Las Señoritas march and participate in both Fiesta Pequeña (the kickoff of Fiesta) and the various parades. Flower Girls is for girls under 13. They throw roses and other flowers into the crowds. Las Señoritas are their older escorts. Many Señoritas join the Native Daughters at the age of 16.

The annual Santa Barbara French Festival takes place on [[Bastille Day]] weekend in July and is the largest French Festival in the western United States.<ref>{{cite web|last=Delsol|first=Christine|date=July 5, 2012|title=Santa Barbara French Festival, July 13–14|url=https://www.sfgate.com/travel/article/Santa-Barbara-French-Festival-July-13-14-3686262.php|access-date=February 20, 2021|website=SFGATE|language=en-US}}</ref>

New Noise Music Conference and Festival, established in 2009, is a four-day event with the main party in the Funk Zone, a small art and wine tasting section of the city near the beach, and other small bands to local venues around the city. New Noise brings in over 75 bands and 50 speakers to the festival each year.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newnoisesb.org/?page_id=55|title=New Noise Music Festival|date=2017|access-date=August 8, 2017}}</ref>

For over 40 years, the Santa Barbara Arts and Crafts Show has been held on Cabrillo Boulevard, east of [[Stearns Wharf]] and along the beach, attracting thousands of people to see artwork made by artists and crafts people that live in Santa Barbara county. By the rules of the show, all the works displayed must have been made by the artists and craftspeople themselves, who sell their own goods. The show started in the early 1960s, and now has over 200 booths on Sundays. The show is also held on some Saturdays that are national holidays, but not during inclement weather.

The [[Santa Barbara International Film Festival]], another local non-profit, draws over 50,000 attendees during what is usually Santa Barbara's slow season in late January. SBIFF hosts a wide variety of celebrities, premieres, panels and movies from around the world and runs for 10 days.

The annual [[Santa Barbara Summer Solstice Parade|Summer Solstice Parade]] draws up to 100,000 people.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.solsticeparade.com/history.htm |title=History – Santa Barbara Summer Solstice Celebration |publisher=Solsticeparade.com |access-date=May 20, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090514052829/http://solsticeparade.com/history.htm |archive-date=May 14, 2009 }}</ref> It is a colorful themed parade put on by local residents, and follows a route along Santa Barbara Street (formerly State Street) for approximately one mile, ending at [[Alameda Park]]. Its main rule is that no written messages or banners with words are allowed. Floats and costumes vary from the whimsical to the outrageous; parties and street events take place throughout the weekend of the parade, the first weekend after the solstice.