GOINGS ON SANTA BARBARA : Staged in Lowercase : In his one-man show “intimacies,” actor Michael Kearns portrays six roles with a single common thread.

Actor Michael Kearns will bring his one-man show “intimacies” to UC Santa Barbara’s Main Theatre Saturday in conjunction with Sexual Awareness Week.

Using just a red scarf and a chair as props, Kearns portrays six characters, with nothing in common except that they have AIDS.

The characters presented are drawn from Kearns’ original version of the show and his follow-up, “more intimacies.”

Kearns has himself tested positive for HIV, the immunodeficiency virus that causes AIDS.

Kearns will portray Paul, a deaf and physically abused boy prevented from learning sign language as a child; Father Anthony, a priest who has sex with boys in his parish and does not use condoms, he says, because the Church frowns upon it; Fernando, a flamenco dancer; Mike, a rugged heterosexual; Big Red, a prostitute with two children; and Patrick, a successful accountant.

Show times are 7 and 9 p.m. Seating is unreserved. General admission is $10. Call 893-3535.

Speaking of one-man shows, Emmy Award-winning actor William Windom will visit the Lobero Theatre Saturday for his show “Thurber,” about the cartoonist/writer James Thurber.

Windom has been performing one-man shows as Thurber since 1972. The Lobero is located at 33 E. Canon Perdido St. Show time is 8 p.m. Tickets are $17 and $19. Call 963-0761.

Some heavy-duty pack-rats, otherwise known as collectors, have loaned their miscellany to Santa Barbara’s Contemporary Arts Forum for an exhibit titled “Collections,” which opens Saturday.

More than 100 submissions came into the museum, but only a select group will be displayed.

Curator/artist Dan Connally has his favorites.

“There’s a man from Lompoc with a collection of unscratched lottery tickets,” he said. “He has a Scratcher for every (game) since its inception. For all he knows he’s got a million-dollar winner in there.”

Connally also is a big fan of a man who collected misspellings of his last name.

There are collections of cake top decorations (1,000 of them), automobile license plates (a guy has 1959 plates from all 48 states, all the territories and even the Canadian provinces), and toilet paper from around the world.

“This will be a very subtle parody of exhibitions of what you would see in art museums,” said Connally, “so-and-so’s collection of Chinese porcelain, so-and-so’s collection of contemporary art.”

He said it is intended to point out “how many more interesting things are going on on a shoestring.”

Connally said he can’t be sure exactly how many collections will be exhibited until the entire show is set up, but he does know that he won’t have a collection of his own on display. “I’m not a collector. I guess I do not have that gene or that chromosome,” he said. “And I suppose that’s good.”

The show will run through March 7. CAF is located at 653 Paseo Nuevo (on the second floor of the Paseo Nuevo Shopping Center). It is open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. For more information call 966-5373.

The Community Arts Music Assn. of Santa Barbara will present its third concert of the season when the Minnesota Orchestra performs at the Arlington Theatre Saturday.

Violinist Nigel Kennedy, England’s best-selling classical musician, will be featured in the “Berg Concerto for Violin and Orchestra.” The program will also include Schubert’s “Symphony in B Minor” and Beethoven’s “Symphony No. 6.” The performance will begin at 8 p.m. Tickets are $18, $24, $36 and $48. Call 966-4324.

Last week UC Santa Barbara presented a two-part program that looked at the contributions of black choreographers and dancers. Continuing with its theme of “The Black Tradition in American Modern Dance,” the university will play host to the Dayton Contemporary Dance Company on Wednesday at Campbell Hall.

The program will include Donald McKayle’s “Rainbow ‘Round My Shoulder,” Tally Beatty’s “Come and Get the Beauty of It Hot,” Eleo Pomare’s “Missa Luba,” and Ulysses Dove’s “Vespers.” The show will start at 8 p.m. General admission is $10, $14 and $16. Call 893-3535.