May 08 Wednesday
Flex your knowledge, enjoy handcrafted cocktails, local beer and wines and delicious food each Wednesday evening during Trivia Night. Teams of up to 6 allowed. Win prizes and the title of Trivia Champion! Doors open at 4 pm, kitchen opens at 5 pm and trivia game starts at 7 pm.
The Cuesta Wind Ensemble performs a concert featuring music of Tichelli, Brahms, and more in the beautiful CPAC. Join us for our closing concert of the season, conducted by Jennifer Martin.
May 09 Thursday
SLO Retired Active Men (SLO RAM) is a group or retirees that get together just for fun, fellowship, and to enjoy participation in our variety of weekly/monthly programs and activities. Weekly coffee meetings ($10) are every Thursday at 8:30 am at the Madonna Inn. We also have monthly luncheons, day trips & outings, walking groups, book clubs, golf groups, poker groups, and wine tastings.For more info, please go to our website: retiredactivemen.org.
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.
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.
On May 9-12, 2024, in the picturesque hamlet of Parkfield, CA, the Bluegrass Music Society of the Central Coast (BMSCC) proudly presents the 24th Annual Parkfield Bluegrass Festival. Parkfield, known as the "Earthquake Capital of the World,” springs to life every Mother’s Day Weekend with toe-tapping Bluegrass, Old-Time, and Traditional music. Bluegrass music fans take over this small country village once a year for four days of concerts, workshops, children’s activities, camping and around-the-clock music jams! Live bands play all day on a cozy stage and at night fans enjoy late night sets in the Parkfield Cafe. Attendees are welcome to come for the weekend with their RVs or tents. Single day admissions are also available and the Festival is a great day-trip outing from almost anywhere in Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo or Monterey Counties.
It’s National Chip Your Pet Month and Woods is offering four free microchip clinics, thanks in part to 24PetWatch! These appointment-based clinics will be held on Thursdays, May 9 and 23 at Woods SLO and on Fridays, May 10 and 24 at Woods North County. Read more and make an appointment at https://woodshumanesociety.org/adoptions/microchip/.
Shakesperience is a series of multiple intimate and site-specific Shakespearean scenes, with interactions taking place in or around different vehicles. This interactive experience has pairs of audience members moving from location to location to experience the best of Shakespeare. Audience members will be ushered around the Cuesta College campus to experience a drama, thriller, farce, or comedy—performed inches away from their seats. Five minutes later, a new story begins unfolding....This is a unique and limited engagement with 16 seats available per performance for 4 days only:May 9 at 7:00 pm and 9:00 pmMay 10 at 7:00 pm and 9:00 pmMay 11 at 1:30, 3:30, 7:00 and 9:00 pmMay 12 at 1:30 pm and 3:30 pm.
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.
“It starts…the episode starts with Bart getting letters saying: ‘I’m going kill you Bart.’” A group of strangers come together and reconstruct a storyline of an episode from "The Simpsons," entirely from memory. Over 75 years, this simple act evolves into new traditions of storytelling and performance that attempt to preserve the things we remember. From myth, to ritual, to religion, Mr. Burns explores the communal impulse to make sense during the most senseless of times and showcase our essential and primal human instincts to survive. Thursday, Friday, Saturday from 8 to 10 pm.Sunday 2 to 4 pm.