An Ohlone & Friar in Conversation: Junipero Serra
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S.B. Mission Archive-Library (SBMAL)
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Date & Time
Tue, Oct 20 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Address (map)
2201 LAGUNA STREET
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S.B. Mission Archive-Library (SBMAL)
October 20, 2026 | Featuring: Andy Galvan & Joe Schwab, OFM – “An Ohlone and Friar in Conversation: “What About Junipero Serra?”
🗣Join us as an Ohlone Indian and Franciscan Friar converse about Junípero Serra’s California history.
📍 Location: Santa Bárbara Mission Archive-Library, 2201 Laguna Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93105
💲 Cost: $30 public ($25 members) admission fee to support the work of the Archive-Library
ℹ️ Logistics: RSVP Required | Light Refreshments | Doors at 5:30pm
About the series: Join a select group of those interested in an informative conversation with experts who will first share from a vast store of knowledge, then engage with those present in a lively give & take.
About our speakers:
Fr. Joe Schwab was born in Cincinnati in 1956, later moving to Phoenix and graduating from Arizona State University, Magna Cum Laude as a member of the Golden Key National Honor Society and Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society. He completed his Master’s Degree in Theology in Berkeley with a thesis on an education program in the slums of Guatemala City. He served in various roles in the Franciscan Order as Guardian and Vicar, secretary to the Provincial and numerous terms as Provincial Councilor, for 24 years as Executive Director of the Franciscan Renewal Center in Phoenix, AZ and now as President of Old Mission Santa Barbara, Inc. while directing spirituality and educational programs in Assisi and Rome, Italy. He finds California mission and Franciscan history to be particularly fascinating. He is now a member of the Archive Library board.
Andy Galvan is a descendant of the Ohlone Indians who have lived in the San Francisco Bay area of California for thousands of years. One ancestor, Chief Tarino, was present when Mission San Jose began, and his father laid the cornerstone of the restored Mission San Jose in 1962. Since 2004, Andy has served as Curator of Old Mission Dolores in San Francisco, where some of his ancestors were baptized and are buried. He was President of the Board of the California Mission Studies Association prior to its merger into the California Missions Foundation, of which he was a founding member. In April 2026, Andy was a co-recipient of the Missions Foundation’s Knox Mellon Lifetime Achievement Award. He is President Emeritus of the Ohlone Indian Tribe.
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