GOINGS ON / SANTA BARBARA : Lobero’s Oil : A musical opens for previews with members of the original and New York casts.

The first season of the Lobero Theatre-Pasadena Playhouse collaboration will conclude with the musical “Oil City Symphony,” which opens for previews tonight through Sunday afternoon.

The regular run will begin Sunday evening and end Feb. 14.

“Oil City Symphony” is about the wild young singers and musicians of Oil City High School.

The cast includes Mike Craver and Mark Hardwick (two of the show’s creators and members of the original cast) and Klea Blackhurst and Emily Mikesell (members of the New York company).

Show times are 8 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays, 5 and 9 p.m. Saturdays, and 2 and 7 p.m. Sundays. Tickets are $27.50 for the previews and $31.50 for the regular shows. Call the Lobero Box Office at 963-0761.

*

Actress Schyleen Qualls will bring her one-woman show, “The Last Word,” to UC Santa Barbara’s Main Theatre Saturday night.

The work is a dramatization, with dance, of African-American literature by writers such as Maya Angelou, June Jordan and Langston Hughes.

And talk about critically acclaimed.

For her presentation, Qualls received Harvard University’s Medallion Award for “outstanding contributions to American performing arts and to race and intercultural relations.” Past winners of that award include Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Javier Perez de Cuellar and Elie Wiesel.

“The Last Word” will begin at 8 p.m. General admission is $7. Call 893-3535.

*

As he did last year, Ojai’s John Hannah will deliver Robert Burns’ (1759-1796) “Address to a Haggis,” when the Scottish Society of Santa Barbara honors the poet’s birthday Saturday at Santa Barbara’s Red Lion Resort.

Hannah, one of the few Burns experts in the nation, will recite the famous (or infamous) “Address,” which extols the virtues of the delicacy.

A haggis, for those who don’t know or who need to be reminded, consists of the organs of a sheep stuffed into the animal’s stomach bag.

As if that weren’t enough, the menu for the evening will include haggis, along with mashed neeps, Scotch whiskey and Aberdeen Angus prime rib.

Entertainment will include a Pipe Band presentation, crooning by Ronnie Mulligan, an exhibition by the Highland Dancers, and a recitation, by Hannah, of the Burns poem “Tam O’Shanter.”

Scottish Country Dancing will follow the formal agenda.

Tickets, which must be ordered in advance, are $42. Seating is limited, so call as soon as possible, at 967-6764. The Red Lion is located at 633 E. Cabrillo Blvd.

*

The Carpinteria Valley Museum will kick off its flea market season with an expected full house Saturday on the museum grounds.

About 75 vendors--from Ventura, Los Angeles, and Santa Barbara counties--will hawk jewelry, plants, collectibles and antiques.

The flea market will run from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Flea markets will be held the last Saturday of each month through May and again from July through October.

The museum is located at 956 Maple Ave. in Carpinteria. For more information call 684-3112.

*

Santa Barbara’s Museum of Natural History travel film series will continue Sunday with a presentation of “Norway: Land of the Midnight Sun.”

The trip from Oslo to Hammerfest will include visits to fiords, glaciers, remains of Viking ships, the town of Bergen (for folk dancing), and the Arctic Circle.

The Museum is located at 2559 Puesta del Sol Road. Show time is 3 p.m. General admission is $4. For more information call 682-4711.

*

UCSB’s Opera Theatre will open a six-show run of Giuseppe Verdi’s tragic love story “La Traviata” beginning Friday night in the Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall.

The show, with stage direction by Michael Ingham and musical direction by Camilla Kolchinsky, will run through Sunday and again Feb. 5 through Feb. 7. Show time Fridays and Saturdays is 8 p.m. Sundays performances will begin at 2 p.m. Tickets are $13 (orchestra seats) and $10 (general). Call 893-3535.

*

Speaking of love, Santa Barbara’s Contemporary Arts Forum is looking for a few heartbroken artists.

The gallery has put out a call for “any artist who has ever been a jilted lover, lonelyheart, or secret admirer,” to submit a valentine illustrating the rougher side of love. (This could be therapeutic.)

Deadline for entries is Feb. 6. Submissions will be exhibited in a show called “Valentines For Love Gone Awry,” Feb. 13 to March 27. For more information call 966-5373.

*

Folk dances and music of Mexico will be the theme for the evening, Wednesday night, when the Ballet Folklorico “Quetzalli” de Veracruz and the music ensemble Tlen-Huicani perform at UCSB’s Campbell Hall. There will be a second show Feb. 4.

The combination of modern and traditional dances will include pre-Columbian ritual dances from Jalisco and Nayarit; lively fiesta dances from Huasteca; and the Totonacapan dance known as “The Ceremony of the New Fire,” which honors the sun god.

Wednesday’s performance will begin at 8 p.m. The Feb. 4 show will start at 6:30 p.m. General admission is $14, $12, and $10. Call 893-3535.