Community Calendar

Join us this April for a meaningful evening of connection, healing, and belonging. April holds a powerful dual meaning. As Second Chance Awareness Month, it honors the courage it takes to rebuild life after incarceration. It is also Victim Impact Awareness Month, a time to center those harmed by crime and support meaningful paths toward healing, accountability, and restoration.

At Kid C.A.T., we believe these are not competing truths, but connected ones. Harm does not happen in isolation and neither does healing. When we attend to the needs of everyone impacted—those harmed and those responsible—we create opportunities for accountability that is honest, healing that is lasting, and communities that are safer for all of us.

Together, we’ll honor the courage of those rebuilding their lives and remember that every person deserves a place to belong. Don’t miss an evening of inspiration, great food, and meaningful conversation—let’s come together to support a cause that truly matters.

Join us for an unforgettable night supporting music education at the world-class Riata Ranch, featuring live music from DOM and Brass Mash.

The Master Chorale invites audiences of all ages to experience the wonder, nostalgia, and soaring power of Disney’s most beloved songs in its upcoming concert, Dare to Dream! beloved Disney songs that ignite imagination and inspire every dreamer.

This high-energy, family-friendly celebration of music will be performed at 7:30 pm Saturday, April 11, and 3 pm Sunday, April 12. Children of all ages are encouraged to dress as their favorite Disney character. Dole whip and cookies will be available for purchase.

The two seldom-performed one-act operas show how love can be found in the strangest of ways: John Blow's baroque tragedy “Venus and Adonis” is the story of ill-fated lovers from Greek mythology; and Jacques Offenbach's comic operetta “In the Market for Love” is a farcical story that takes place at a farmers market.

Nearly 50 Cal Poly students are participating in the production, both onstage and behind the scenes. In addition to the opera singers, the program will feature choreography by Theatre and Dance Department students. The performances will be fully staged and costumed with a chamber orchestra, and sung in English with supertitles.

This collaborative exhibition celebrates the intersection of art and environmental stewardship, highlighting the efforts of the Oak Group, the UCSB Cheadle Center for Biodiversity & Ecological Restoration, and Coal Oil Point Reserve to conserve the Devereux Slough.

Art in Service of the Land invites viewers to explore how art documents, interprets, and amplifies the ongoing work of conservation, revealing the beauty and complexity of the North Campus Open Space (NCOS) and inspiring engagement with our local environment.

This exhibition was curated and cosponsored by the Oak Group and the Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration, in collaboration with UCSB Library staff.

Exhibition runs from March 16 to June 26.

Have a musical instrument collecting dust in your closest? Let us help! Infinite Music will put it in the hands of a young musician in need or fundraise through our retail sales program. We welcome all instruments and PA/sound equipment. (Sorry, no acoustic pianos at this time.)

Free pickup or drop off (KCBX weekdays from 9 am to 4 pm or Infinite Music, Morro Bay).

Call us at 805-225-1899 for more information or email: jim@infinitemusic.org.

Enjoy free admission at CalNAM for California Poppy Day 2026, held annually in celebration of our state flower and other California native plants. Purchase native plants for your home garden, meet adoptable bunnies & guinea pigs from BUNS, create your own papercraft flower crown, marvel at CA Poppy vintage items & collectibles, and grab your free 2026 collectible sticker while supplies last.

For more information, contact Assistant Director Rachel Metz at rachel@calnatureartmuseum.org.

Passage Through, New York–based artist Peter Krashes’ first solo exhibition on the West Coast, uses paintings of old and new construction, atmospheric details of public meetings, and ordinary yet meaningful aspects of community work to focus on daily experience in an ever-changing world.

For nearly two decades, Krashes was deeply engaged as a community activist, and this lived experience shapes the work throughout the exhibition. Passage Through turns our attention to interstitial spaces and events—what is found in between, at the edges of our awareness, in the overlooked, and in the margins of our vision.

Exhibits runs through June.
 

The nine diverse works of American art in this exhibition span from 1915 to 2020, representing a remarkable slice of American art history. This selection weaves together ideas of identity, childhood, and environment. Through diverse mediums, styles, and cultural contexts, these works offer insights into the personal, cultural, and artistic conversations that shape our world. This project is made possible through our remarkable partnership with Art Bridges, whose mission is to bring art out of storage and into communities across America.

Together, these works explore social issues that feel especially relevant today in the American political landscape—ideas of home, belonging, community, and time. Each artwork tells its own story, but together they create a larger history and experience. This exhibition does more than reflect the world: it helps us understand it and imagine the future we want to create.

Exhibition runs through May.

Out of Bounds! is an open juried international exhibition offered by the Pastel Society of the West Coast of works in pastel (and other mediums) going beyond the traditional use of the pastel medium. Breaking the 80% rule for traditional pastel exhibits, this competition is one that requires the entries to be approximately 30-50% pastel to be combined with one or more other mediums creating two-dimensional works of art. If you relish experimental art and love art that moves outside of the usual boundaries of traditional pastel competitions, this show is for you.

Exhibition runs from April 2nd to May 11th.