Community Calendar

This exhibition showcases historic Broadway posters from collector Richard C. Norton, a comprehensive selection of musical theater posters 1972 to the present ranging from the famous to the obscure, from the celebrated to the damned. These posters offer insight into the evolution of American musical theater, graphic design, marketing, image branding and audience engagement. Far more than advertisements, they reflect the artistic, social and commercial contexts of their time—revealing how productions were first introduced, how stars were celebrated, and how visual trends paralleled theatrical innovation.

Exhibition runs from October 6 to December 5.

Get ready for the cutest, coziest, and cuddliest hour in your week! Pet Tales welcomes young children and their grownups for a pet-themed story time with our adoptable cats. Curl up with your little one in our ‘Cat Room’ and enjoy read aloud stories, bubbles, and (most importantly) our cats!

Board administration—from agendas and minutes to bylaws and board packets—can eat up hours that could be better spent advancing your mission and driving impact. This webinar will show you how AI can cut through those inefficiencies and make board support faster, easier, and more effective.

Designed for anyone involved in board support, including board officers and directors, executive directors and CEOs and administrative or operations staff, this class will provide the practical tools, templates, and strategies to immediately enhance board efficiency and reclaim valuable time. No prior AI experience is required.

This class is online; link will be sent with registration acknowledgement.

Bookworms, assemble! Woods is welcoming animal lovers ages 7 to 17 to join us in reading to our furry friends. Shelter life can be stressful, and reading is proven to relax and comfort companion animals. Book Buddies will be held at our Atascadero location on Tuesdays from 3:30 to 4:30 pm and at our San Luis Obispo location on Wednesdays from 3:30 to 4:30 pm.

This exhibition showcases historic Broadway posters from collector Richard C. Norton, a comprehensive selection of musical theater posters 1972 to the present ranging from the famous to the obscure, from the celebrated to the damned. These posters offer insight into the evolution of American musical theater, graphic design, marketing, image branding and audience engagement. Far more than advertisements, they reflect the artistic, social and commercial contexts of their time—revealing how productions were first introduced, how stars were celebrated, and how visual trends paralleled theatrical innovation.

Exhibition runs from October 6 to December 5.

From Paso Robles to Solvang, the Central Coast will be swinging this fall with the return of Jazz Jubilee Central Coast 2025! For 12 incredible days (October 15th through the 26th), the Basin Street Regulars are orchestrating a celebration that brings world-class jazz to some of the most beautiful venues across our coast.

See the full show line-up, performance times and updates:
https://www.pismojazz.com/2025-schedule-jazzfest/

Here are the TOP 4 shows you will NOT want to miss.
10/24: The Idiomatiques
10/25: Midiri Brothers & Black Market Trust
10/26: Black Market Trust & Midiri Brothers
10/26: After Glow Party

Bookworms, assemble! Woods is welcoming animal lovers ages 7 to 17 to join us in reading to our furry friends. Shelter life can be stressful, and reading is proven to relax and comfort companion animals. Book Buddies will be held at our San Luis Obispo location on Wednesdays from 3:30 to 4:30 pm.

Join Scholastic graphic novelist Kane Lynch for a weekly workshop in comic creation! Over six weeks, we'll design original characters, develop a story, and learn the professional tools to turn our concepts into finished comics.
Appropriate for ages 8 to 15 years old.

6 weeks, September 17th to October 22nd. Wednesdays, from 4 to 5 pm

UC Santa Barbara Library invites you to the opening event for Unyielding Voices: Global Resistance and the Black Radical Tradition, an exhibition documenting the life’s work of Cedric J. Robinson and Elizabeth Peters Robinson, whose seminal scholarship and activism had wide-ranging influence at UCSB, in academia, and across many public arenas.

The event features a reception followed by a moderated conversation between Elizabeth Robinson, Charlie Hale, SAGE Sara Miller McCune Dean of Social Sciences, and Lidia Uziel, Associate University Librarian for Research Resources and Scholarly Communication, engaging the exhibition’s central themes—universities as sites not only for preserving freedom of expression but also for promoting social justice and the betterment of societies.

Advance registration is recommended as space is limited.

The exhibition will be displayed from October 15 to June 12, 2026, Monday to Friday, from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm.

This exhibition showcases historic Broadway posters from collector Richard C. Norton, a comprehensive selection of musical theater posters 1972 to the present ranging from the famous to the obscure, from the celebrated to the damned. These posters offer insight into the evolution of American musical theater, graphic design, marketing, image branding and audience engagement. Far more than advertisements, they reflect the artistic, social and commercial contexts of their time—revealing how productions were first introduced, how stars were celebrated, and how visual trends paralleled theatrical innovation.

Exhibition runs from October 6 to December 5.