Community Calendar

SLO Ranch’s Second Annual Blueberry Festival returns May 23 and 24 from 10 am to 6 pm with a full weekend of family-friendly festivities. Enjoy u-pick blueberries, live music, line dancing, a pie-eating contest, pony rides, face painting, and blueberry-themed specials from local merchants.

Step into lavender season with a relaxed, one-hour walk through the fields, led by farmer Milton Hambly. Learn how lavender is grown, harvested, and distilled, meet the animals, and harvest your own bouquet along the way.

Includes:
—One-hour guided walk with the farmer
—Insight into lavender varieties and growing practices
—Hand-harvested lavender bouquet
—Time in the fields and picnic areas

Reservations required; space is limited

Local artisans will be gathered in Cambria together to show off their amazing creations inspired by the sea. Featuring sea glass jewelry, jade, abalone, moonstone, driftwood art, painters, and pottery.

It’s HIGH NOON in Santa Barbara for Braver Angels Kick off 2026! Get inspired with John Wood, Jr., National Ambassador. Meet the leadership of the Central Coast. He will deliver an important message from the Braver Angels leadership about our renewed vision and mission.

A panel about finding “Common Ground” for Immigration—a Braver Angels hallmark teaching—will also be demonstrated.

Cambria Center for the Arts is proud to present "Still," a jury-awarded exhibit. This exhibit allowed artists to submit any piece of art, in any medium with the theme and word “Still” in the title. Central Coast’s watercolor artist and teacher, Jan French, judged the exhibit with cash prizes awarded.

April 29 to June 28. Open 12 to 4 pm, Tuesdays to Sundays.

Author-historian Shizue Seigel and former WWII incarceree Margaret Cooper share stories and images of the Japanese American struggle for equality, land, and freedom.

Join the Satellite Coast Research Project (UC Santa Barbara) for a community drawing workshop. Participants will explore their experiences of Lompoc, the Vandenberg Air/Space Force Base, and rocket launches through a series of guided drawing exercises. Together, we will experiment with different ways to communicate experiences and concerns through drawing techniques. All supplies provided and no artistic experience necessary! Light refreshments will be provided. This workshop is designed for adults 18+.

Join us at Atascadero Library for a screening and discussion of the documentary film To Climb a Gold Mountain with the film's Emmy Award winning director Alex Azmi. This film tells the stories of four women of Asian descent who lived in America from the 1850s to the present day. The women came from different backgrounds and lived dramatically different lives. Some of the women featured in the film, such as Anna May Wong, have reached success and fame. Still others, like Sing Ye, who lived in the 1800s and fought for freedom, are all but forgotten.

Each woman’s story represents a distinct theme of struggle and triumph, and ushers in the succeeding story leading up to the present time. Through these stories, the film tracks the progression, evolution and legacy of the immigrants in America as they integrate into the fabric of America.

Author-historian Shizue Seigel and former WWII incarceree Margaret Nakamura Cooper share stories and images of the Japanese American struggle for equality, land, and freedom.

SLO Library Community Room.

Join us at Nipomo Library for a screening of the documentary film To Climb a Gold Mountain. This film tells the stories of four women of Asian descent who lived in America from the 1850s to the present day. The women came from different backgrounds and lived dramatically different lives. Some of the women featured in the film, such as Anna May Wong, have reached success and fame. Still others, like Sing Ye, who lived in the 1800s and fought for freedom, are all but forgotten.

Each woman’s story represents a distinct theme of struggle and triumph, and ushers in the succeeding story leading up to the present time. Through these stories, the film tracks the progression, evolution and legacy of the immigrants in America as they integrate into the fabric of America.