May 19 Sunday
Join us for the Great American Melodrama with our Third Annual Spring Fest: An AANHPI Heritage Month Celebration! Join us for a local makers market, food vendors, free prize drawings, face painting and more. We'll have a special AANHPI maker section to highlight their creative contributions to our communities, performances, and make & take crafts. The incredible Great American Melodrama is hosting us, and we cannot wait for this party. During the event, they're offering exclusive, small group, behind the scene tours for a nominal donation. Reserve your spot at bgcslo.org/springfest. Space is limited.
This May exhibit by Lori Slater features a selection from the last 20 years of 12 representational watercolors and acrylics. The subject matter includes some figures in natural and imaginative environments, with the seaside a recurring theme.
Join us at the Santa Ynez Marriott in Buellton for the Wilderness Spirit Brunch as we honor the Community Environmental Council and the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians. Indulge in a delicious brunch spread featuring a variety of mouth-watering dishes, bottomless mimosas, and bloody mary’s. Enjoy a day of celebration and giving back with live and silent auctions, live artist demonstrations, a wine pull, and more! Your support for this event will directly benefit the museums ability to provide unique exhibitions, programs, free school tours, and free admission for children.For more information, email info@calnatureartmuseum.org or visit our website https://www.calnatureartmuseum.org/news/2024-wilderness-spirit-brunch
Embark on a journey where the worlds of poetry and visual arts intertwine at our latest exhibition, "Poetic Prints." In collaboration with the Central Coast Printmakers and local poets, this exhibition explores creativity across mediums. The exhibition can be seen on Sundays to Thursdays from 12 to 4 pm and Fridays to Saturdays from 12 to 9 pm.
Get ready to relive the best parts of your childhood at the Boozy Book Fair, presented by Monarch Books and Humdinger Brewing SLO Taproom. Join us for a nostalgic fusion of books, funky erasers, scented stickers, a pizza trolley and some of the finest brews from Humdinger Brewing SLO, while enjoying your favorite 80’s and 90’s songs from back in the day.
A blistering satire that slices through the “story” of Thanksgiving. In this play by Larissa Fasthorse, good intentions collide with absurd assumptions in this wickedly funny satire, as a troupe of well-meaning, but hilariously misguided teaching artists scramble to create a school pageant that can somehow celebrate both Turkey Day and Native American Heritage Month.
The Los Osos Valley Garden Club is hosting a presentation on "Lawn Alternatives and Landscape Design." Learn what to plant to replace your lawn--and why you should. (It's about more than just water use!). Master Gardener and landscape architect, Olwyn Kingery, will explain the basics of landscape design and how to imagine a new garden space. The presentation will follow a member talk on "Plant Propagation" presented by Don Shealy and Wendy McKeown.
Hear the poetry that inspired the art featured in our Poetic Prints exhibition. Join us for a free Poetry Reading featuring local poets. After the reading, the Printmakers featured in the exhibition will be discussing their processes.
May 20 Monday