Comedy Greats to Star at Benefit Performance : Harvey Korman, Don Adams and Don Knotts will be among those on stage at the Arlington Theatre in Santa Barbara.

Harvey Korman, Don Adams, Don Knotts, Tom Poston, Shelley Berman, Bill Dana, Ronnie Schell and other comedy greats will present a benefit show Saturday at Santa Barbara’s Arlington Theatre.

The group will be joined by the Donn Trenner Quartet, and television producers Sam Denoff (“The Dick Van Dyke Show”) and Howard Storm (“Mork and Mindy”).

The show will benefit the Holiday Project, a national nonprofit organization that sends volunteers to hospitals, nursing homes and other institutions. The laughs will begin at 8 p.m. General admission is $20 and $15. Call (800) 800-4408. The Arlington is at 1317 State St.

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Exhibit opening No. 1: Jazz-themed etchings and monoprints by Susan Dysinger and bronze sculptures by Paul Wegner will be on display in the “All Their Jazz” exhibit at the Steve Stein Gallery in Montecito, beginning Saturday and running through May 15. Artists’ receptions will be held from 5 to 9 p.m. Saturday and noon to 5 p.m. Sunday. The gallery is at 1155 Coast Village Road. Regular hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sundays. Call 565-2032.

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Exhibit opening No. 2: Santa Barbara’s Museum of Art will present “Things on the Table: American Still-Life Painting,” which looks at the still-life genre from the 18th through 20th centuries. The exhibit, opening Saturday and running through Aug. 6, consists of artwork from the museum’s permanent collection. The museum is at 1130 State St. Hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Thursdays and noon to 5 p.m. Sundays. Admission is $3 (adults), $2.50 (senior citizens), $1.50 (children age 6 to 16), and free for children under 6. Call 963-4364.

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Poets Joy Harjo and Gary Soto get top billing for the third annual Santa Barbara Poetry Festival, “Voices Behind the Mask,” to be held Friday through May 8 at various locations.

Harjo, a member of the Muscogee tribe and author of “She Had Some Horses” and “In Mad Love and War,” will read at 8 p.m. Friday at Westmont College’s Porter Hall, 955 La Paz Road. Admission is free.

Soto, who wrote “Who Will Know Us?” and “Neighborhood Odes,” will give his free presentation May 7 at La Casa de la Raza, 106 Montecito St., beginning at 8 p.m. Soto will also read at La Casa de la Raza’s Cinco de Mayo festivities May 8. Barbecue dinner at 7 p.m. will be followed by the reading, music and dancing at 8 p.m. Admission is $3.

For a list of all Poetry Festival events and locations, call 568-3923.

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Folk singer Tish Hinojosa will combine American and Latin American musical styles Tuesday in a concert at UC Santa Barbara’s Campbell Hall. Hinojosa’s repertoire covers American country-Western music, love ballads, Latin American protest songs, classic Spanish ballads and certain Mexican styles of music. Show time is 8 p.m. General admission is $16, $14 and $10. Call 893-3535.

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Finally, a reminder. The Santa Barbara Civic Light Opera production of “Evita,” the story of Eva Peron, wife of former Argentine dictator Juan Peron, officially opens Friday at the Granada Theatre. The show will run through May 22. Evening shows are 8 p.m. Wednesdays through Saturdays and 7 p.m. Sundays. Matinees are at 2 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays, with an additional 3 p.m. show May 10. General admission ranges from $18 to $29.50. Children’s tickets, for Sunday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings, and Saturday matinees, range from $9 to $13.75. Discounts of $2 are available for students and senior citizens. Call 966-2324 or (800) 366-6064. The theater is at 1216 State St.