Jan 09 Friday
Siji Krishnan’s paintings invite viewers into a world where memory, myth, and daily life intertwine. Working primarily on delicate rice paper, she builds up translucent layers of watercolor and oil to reveal figures, landscapes, and hidden details. Her images often feel dreamlike—ponds shimmering with light, grasses bending in the rain, or figures dissolving into their surroundings—suggesting the ways that identity, home, and belonging are shaped by both what we see and what lies beneath the surface.
The exhibition The Secret Place brings together recent works from Krishnan’s Los Angeles debut, alongside five new large paintings created in her studio in Kerala, India. In these new works, Krishnan replaces her more figurative elements with water, plants, and sky. The natural world of her home—backwaters, monsoon rains, and village ponds—becomes a central motif, a site of both refuge and transformation. Themes of fertility and motherhood, community, and renewal flow through her practice, informed by her experiences of raising a child and the shifting boundaries between self and environment.
Krishnan’s art asks us to look slowly and closely. Small details emerge—an animal, a flower petal, a shadow of a figure—like secrets discovered over time. Both intimate and expansive, her paintings transcend cultural and geographic boundaries, embodying the Upanishadic (ancient Indian sacred philosophical texts) philosophy vasudhaiva kutumbakam: “the world is one family.”
Exhibition runs from October 11 to February 22.
Jan 11 Sunday
These interactive, welcoming workshops use the tools of improvisational theater—like play, spontaneity, and "yes, and"—to build real-life skills for communication, confidence, and connection. No acting or comedy experience is needed. Through guided games and group activities, participants explore how improv principles can help them listen more fully, respond more flexibly, and thrive in daily life, even when things don’t go as planned.
Whether you're looking to speak up more, connect with others, or simply have fun in a judgment-free space, these workshops offer something for everyone.
1st and 3rd Sundays of the month, 9/21-12/7.
Jan 16 Friday
Jan 23 Friday
Jan 30 Friday
Feb 06 Friday
Feb 13 Friday
Feb 20 Friday
Feb 27 Friday
Oct 07 Wednesday
Blues Asylum, one of the San Luis Obispo County's premier blues bands, will host the Blues Agenda Blues Jam every 1st, 3rd (and if there is a 5th Wednesday) of each month. This jam is open to all players, singers and dancers as long as it is Blues!This is an ongoing jam every month. All you talented musicians come on out we'd love to have you get up on stage with us and show off your mojo.