GOINGS ON / SANTA BARBARA : Kid Art : Building designers seek to broaden children’s awareness of architecture by having them sketch landmarks.

For the past four years, Santa Barbara architects and designers have been working with local children on a Kids Draw Architecture project. The goal is to increase the children’s awareness of the architecture-environment relationship by having them sketch some of the city’s landmark buildings.

Some of the drawings from the 1992 program are on display at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art’s Ridley-Tree Education Center through March 31. This year’s sketchings will be displayed April 15 through May 14.

Ridley-Tree is at 1600 Santa Barbara St. The exhibit can be viewed Monday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. For information, call 962-1661.

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UC Santa Barbara will present “Let the Butterflies Continue/Que Sigan las Mariposas,” a reading of Spanish and English poetry, tonight at the MultiCultural Center.

The presenters are Sojourner K. Rolle and Armando Vallejo. Rolle, a founding member of the Santa Barbara Poetry Festival, teaches creative writing in the California Artist-in-Corrections program. Vallejo has been a teacher of Chicano and Mexican literature and is the director of Santa Barbara’s La Casa de la Raza. The reading will begin at 7 p.m. Admission is free.

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OK, so you like Dixieland Jazz. But will you drive all the way to Pismo Beach for it?

Friday through Sunday, Pismo will play host to the 14th annual Mardi Gras Dixieland Jazz Festival. There will be 13 bands playing in five downtown venues on each of the three days.

Bands include Conrad Janis and the Beverly Hills Unlisted Jazz Band, Custer’s Last Band, the High Sierra Jazz Band, the River City Stomperz, the Abalone Stompers, and Igor’s Jazz Cowboys.

The $40 admission allows access to all performances but tickets are limited. Call 773-4382 or (800) 443-7778 in advance for ticket and other information.

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If Pismo Beach is too far to travel, try Solvang on Saturday. There will be storytelling, storytelling and more storytelling at the Royal Scandinavian Inn ballroom.

Some of the area’s top yarn spinners--including Ojai’s own Jim Cogan (“Quijote the Storyteller”)--will give presentations throughout the day.

The morning program, from 9:30 a.m. to noon, will include Michael Katz, Angela Lloyd, Sybil Desta and Cogan. The afternoon program, from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m., will feature Geri Keams, C. J. Jones, and Nadja Forest with some of her Access Theatre students. There will also be outdoor square dancing and cowboy poetry readings from 3:45 to 5 p.m. The day will conclude with a Storytelling Showcase, featuring many of the day’s storytellers.

Admission is $20 (adults) and $10 (children) for the whole festival, $10 (adults) and $5 (children) for the showcase, and $6 (adults) and $4 (children) for each of the other three programs. Call 688-9533 for tickets and information. The Royal Scandinavian Inn is at 400 Alisal Road.

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Dr. Laura Schlessinger, the on-air psychotherapist at radio station KFI, will discuss “The Secret of Complete and Permanent Happiness” on Monday at the Lobero Theatre. Her appearance is part of the Santa Barbara City College “Mind and Supermind” Continuing Education series. Free admission is on a first-come, first-served basis. For information, call 687-0812. The Lobero is at 33 E. Canon Perdido St.

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With the inclement weather of late, it’s nice to know that one can observe an abundance of birds, flowers and trees while under a dry roof.

The Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History is displaying artwork featuring those three subjects in a show titled “A Sampler: Natural History Art from Four Centuries.” Those four centuries span the European Renaissance, California’s Victorian period and Santa Barbara in the 1920s. The earliest pieces in the show were originally published in Nuremberg in 1613. The exhibit will continue through April 11. The museum is at 2559 Puesta del Sol Road. For information, call 682-4711.