Community Calendar

SLO-based company Stilspoke will be hosting a gravel cycling event in New Cuyama, California on the weekend of May 20th-22nd. The event will be hosted by professional cyclist Christopher Blevins, and is intended to highlight the beauty and hospitality of the hidden gem that is the Cuyama Valley. This is a great event for anyone interested in Californian history, cycling, good food, and building community.

Gaetano Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor. Music Academy alumna soprano Nadine Sierra takes on one of the repertory’s most formidable and storied roles, the haunted heroine of Lucia di Lammermoor, in an electrifying new staging by in-demand Australian theater and film director Simon Stone, conducted by Riccardo Frizza.

A fundraising celebration of creativity and inspiration featuring food, wine, art, film, comedy, music and more . . . open to all.
Join us. Whether you want to inspire or be inspired, you’ll find something to celebrate at our Summer Open. Explore the arts. Take in a short class for inspired learning. Be wowed by local filmmakers. Enjoy the beauty of our artists. Enjoy a plate of paella. Have a glass of wine. Take a chance in our raffle. Listen to music. Choose your own path as you support the local art center. For more info, go to https://cambriaarts.org/summer-open/

Brett Dean with Libretto by Matthew Jocelyn Hamlet. When Australian composer Brett Dean’s Hamlet had its world premiere at the Glyndebourne Festival in 2017, The Guardian declared, “New opera doesn’t often get to sound this good … Shakespeare offers a gauntlet to composers that shouldn’t always be picked up, but Dean’s Hamlet rises to the challenge.”