May 29 Thursday
Unleash your creativity in our Junk Journaling Workshop, where reclaimed and recycled materials become art! Bring your own journal, and we’ll provide a treasure trove of upcycled papers, fabric scraps, vintage ephemera, and more. This open-style workshop lets you craft freely, explore new techniques, and connect with fellow journal enthusiasts. We’ll introduce inspiring junk journaling styles, from layered collages to pocket-filled pages, but the rest is up to your imagination! Whether you're a seasoned journaler or just starting, this is your time to create, relax, and repurpose with purpose.
All materials provided—just bring a journal!
Join us on a beautifully paired wine and chocolate experience. This guided tour walks you through the chocolate making process, from bean to bar! Taste the cacao every step of the way and finish with a chocolate and beverage tasting that excitingly pairs three truffles with three sustainably-made, small production wines, selected and poured by our local wine partner, WINECULT.
May 30 Friday
Attendees will enjoy a welcome drink while we give a brief introduction to our bean-to-bar, dark chocolate making process. Ingredients for decorating will abound and inspire, and you'll learn a few tidbits about how we invent flavor combinations for new delicious, sweet products at our chocolate factory. We will fill chocolate bar molds with luscious 75% dark chocolate, and you will get to decorate chocolate bars with local ingredients, like flowers, salt and fruit. While bars are setting up, we will lead a 20-30 minute chocolate tasting experience while you sip on perfectly paired wines to enhance the flavors. We are happy to provide a non-alcoholic tasting experience for anyone in the group who might require that. Your custom chocolate bars will go home with you in beautiful, resealable Twenty-Four Blackbirds pouches. Don't miss out on this delicious experience!
May 31 Saturday
Let your imagination take the lead at Crafternoons, every Wednesday from 2:30 pm to 4:30 pm and Saturday from 11:30 am to 1:00 pm, in the EE Makerspace above Art From Scrap.Join us for our May Crafternoons: Tinker Lab, where creativity meets sustainability! This month, we're working on creative machines that jump, fly, and walk with reclaimed materials. Perfect for all ages and skill levels, these eco-friendly projects encourage kids to craft purposefully while having a blast.Craft for the Earth Projects include:Jack & Jill Jumpers – Craft classic pull-string jumping jack toys using reclaimed paper and brads—watch their arms and legs spring to life with a tug!Marionettes – Create your own characterful puppets using upcycled materials, string, and imagination—then bring them to life with a tug of a string!Upcycled Aviators – Build playful airplanes from repurposed bits and bobs, and let your creativity take flight!Come craft and create with us! Sign up now!Cost: $8.00 per person. Crafternoons are for kids ages 5 and up. Please note that our workshop is upstairs and utilizes hot glue guns. Adults must remain in the EE Makerspace with their child.We have something for everyone at the EE Makerspace, so bring the kiddos—Crafternoons are just for them!
Join us in celebration of Donna Lynn Caskey’s third album, Tiny Victories. Her first studio release in over eight years, the album highlights Donna Lynn’s deft, clawhammer-style 5-string banjo playing, pure folk vocals, and skillful songwriting. Sometimes factual, sometimes fictional, always true, her writing moves audiences to laughter and tears- sometimes within the span of one song! You’ll go home singing catchy melodies and choruses you’ll be glad to have stuck in your head since messages of hope, encouragement, and healing prevail. Donna Lynn will share all songs from the new album as well as some favorite selections from her past two releases. Please reserve your seat today.
Donna Lynn’s previous two albums of original material, Nameless Heart (2014) and The Love Still Shows (2017), received glowing reviews and widespread airplay on folk radio. She’ll have her entire catalogue available for sale including new album Tiny Victories at the show. Please sign up for e-mail updates at her website www.donnalynncaskey.com, listen on your favorite music platform, and follow her on Instagram @dlcbanjogal and facebook.com/dlcbanjogal to learn more.Tickets are $20 online at NambaArts.com or $25 at the door.
Jun 05 Thursday
This event is for someone with a high interest in single-origin dark chocolate, where it comes from, how it's processed and the technicalities behind making shiny, lusciously smooth chocolate from what starts as a small, bitter bean. You’ll get to taste chocolate at every stage, from bean to bar (including sampling through all our single origin dark chocolate bars), as well as other products we make, like caramel and chocolate-covered espresso beans. We’ll describe the stages of roasting, sorting, refining and tempering. You’ll come away having tasted a lot of chocolate and having learned more about our specialty!
Jun 06 Friday
Jun 08 Sunday
Join the California Nature Art Museum and Artist Mona Lewis for an earth pigments & natural paints workshop on Sunday, June 8th, 2025, from 1:00PM-3:00 PM. During this workshop, participants will get an introduction to making and using earth pigments, which are colors collected from the local natural landscape with beauty, sustainability, and fun in mind! You will learn how to identify rocks suitable for paint, best practices for collecting respectfully, and how to turn stones into pigments. Participants will also make their own paints using a mortar and pestle, then use their pigments to paint an image of their choice.About the Instructor:Mona Lewis is an artist and arts educator in Los Angeles and Ventura counties, specializing in revitalizing the lost art of using plant dyes and earth pigments and teaching students how to use them in their work. She has been a Waldorf educator since 1998, and is co-director of the Waldorf Practical Arts Teacher Training program.The class fee for this workshop is $65 for CalNAM Members and $80 for CalNAM Non-Members, all supplies included.Questions? Contact (805) 686-8315 or email Rachel Metz at rachel@calnatureartmuseum.org.
Jun 10 Tuesday
SEASONAL PROGRAM: JUNE 10TH ‘25 - JULY 29TH ‘25Join the California Nature Art Museum and Yoga Instructor Lori Shirran for a gentle, restorative, and nature-inspired yoga class on the following days:Tuesday, June 10th at 9AMTuesday, June 17th at 9AMTuesday, June 24th at 9AMTuesday, July 1st at 9AMTuesday, July 8th at 9AMTuesday, July 15th at 9AMTuesday, July 22nd at 9AMTuesday, July 29th at 9AMNature heals, and so does yoga! In this nature-inspired yoga class, we unite gentle expressions of yoga postures with calm breathing, while weaving in mindful reflection on the awe and wonder of nature. This is a class suited for beginners and all levels of ability.This program series will be offered weekly on Tuesdays at 9AM for a limited time, June 10th 2025 - July 29th 2025. Dependent on whether or not there is sufficient interest and attendance, the Museum may continue to offer this program weekly thereafter.About the Instructor:
Lori Shirran lives and teaches yoga on the beautiful California Central Coast, bringing 20+ yrs of yoga teaching experience to her classes. She finds deep inspiration for life through yoga, hiking in nature, mindfulness practices, world travel and spending valuable time with loved ones.
The class fee for this workshop is $10 per participant, and attendees must bring their own yoga mat and water bottle. Advance registration is required, 15 attendees max. Questions? Contact (805) 686-8315 or email Rachel Metz at rachel@calnatureartmuseum.org.
