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Join the Center for Global Engagement and the United Students of the World club in a celebration of cultural diversity at the World Fair. Events will include international talent shows, cultural tables and global cuisine. For more information, visit https://bit.ly/3AQWTDQ.

The event is free and open to the public. Sponsored by the Center for Global Engagement. For more information, call 805-493-3750 or email global@CalLutheran.edu.

World AIDS Day events are free and open to the public. Indoor masking is required and will help us protect the health of featured speakers and attendees.

AIDS Memorial Quilt Viewing, 2-7:30 p.m.
American folk art and quilting have significant history in the AIDS pandemic, beginning in the 1980s with the iconic presentation on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., and continuing today as panels are painstakingly created by hand to memorialize those who have died of AIDS-related complications. These serve to increase awareness of the disease and bring solace to survivors, and are deeply moving for visitors to experience. A display of quilts sponsored by Quilt Project Gold Coast in collaboration with the NAMES Project Foundation will be on view in the Gilbert Sports and Fitness Center Lobby beginning at 2 p.m.

World AIDS Day ’22 Panel Presentation and Candlelight Vigil, 5:15-7:30 p.m.
Organized in collaboration with the HIV/AIDS Coalition of Ventura County, including Ventura County Public Health and Planned Parenthood of California Central Coast, this presentation is part of the county’s annual observance of World AIDS Day. We invite everyone to consider HIV/AIDS not only as a global-health issue but also as a social-justice issue that impacts local communities. Adina Nack, PhD, medical sociologist and professor at Cal Lutheran, will start by sharing global, national and local updates on the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Then, Neil and Keith Coffman-Grey from Quilt Project Gold Coast will describe the history and continued significance of the AIDS Memorial Quilt. In addition, we’ll hear about personal experiences of living with HIV/AIDS. The event will conclude with Colleen Windham-Hughes, MDiv, PhD, and students leading a nondenominational Candlelight Vigil.

Events are sponsored by Cal Lutheran’s Public Health Program and Sarah W. Heath Center for Equality and Justice.

For more information, contact the Sarah W. Heath Center for Equality and Justice at cej@CalLutheran.edu or 805-493-3694.

Student performers in the jazz ensemble will play standards and modern classics.

Admission is free. Donations will be accepted. For information, call the Music Department at 805-493-3306 or visit CalLutheran.edu/music.

The Cal Lutheran Mariachi Ensemble will perform classic songs from the mariachi repertoire.

Admission is free. Donations will be accepted. For information, call the Music Department at 805-493-3306 or visit CalLutheran.edu/music.

Las Posadas, a Christmas season tradition dating to 16th-century Mexico, commemorates the journey Joseph and Mary made from Nazareth to Bethlehem in search of a safe refuge for Mary to give birth to Jesus. This event will include a reenactment in which students portraying Mary and Joseph will travel by donkey through campus looking for shelter. Their journey will begin and end in Kingsmen Park. The event will include a piñata, raffle and refreshments.

Admission is free. Sponsored by Student Life and the Latin American Student Organization. For more information, contact Jerry Tovar at jerrytovar@CalLutheran.edu.

In what promises to be a joyful celebration of the holiday season, the singers of Areté, for their inaugural Christmas concert, will serenade the audience with classics as well as new music from around the world, surrounded by the warm glow of candles.

Tickets are $20 at the door or $15 if purchased online in advance. For information and to purchase tickets, visit www.aretevocalensemble.org.

Flipping the Script” is a history lecture series that highlights people, groups or events in world history that are typically ignored or considered irrelevant in mainstream cultural narratives.

For the fourth lecture in the series, Michaela Reaves, PhD, will discuss how ideas about democracy around the world have become accepted as “fact” due to cultural memory in all its guises. In the 21st century when we think of forced labor camps, boxcars carrying prisoners, and eugenics, we think of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. A look at World War I suggests the roots are deeper and the geography wider than anticipated.

The series will continue with:
April 20: Samuel Claussen, PhD, “Hear Me Roar: Powerful, Violent Women of the Renaissance”

This series is presented by the History Department faculty and other experts, focusing on different periods in world history. The series is sponsored by Cal Lutheran, the Thousand Oaks Grant R. Brimhall Library and Ventura County Library, and generously funded in part by a Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation grant. For information, contact David Nelson at dnelson@CalLutheran.edu.

A long-time tradition continues Sunday afternoon, September 11 as Prime Time Band presents a FREE public concert at 2:00 pm at Stow House in Goleta.

Santa Barbara’s beloved Prime Time Band—a concert band featuring more than sixty musicians—will perform under the direction of Dr. Paul Mori. The program offers something for everyone, with a variety of patriotic classics, pop tunes and family favorites.

Performing outdoors in the splendid surroundings of Rancho La Patera and Stow House, the band invites everyone to come early to claim a spot on the grass, bringing blankets or beach chairs to enjoy this delightful FREE concert.

Stow House is located at 304 North Los Carneros Road in Goleta with ample public parking onsite and nearby.

The non-profit Prime Time Band is a vibrant group of amateur musicians with a two-fold mission: providing free concerts for the community and entry points to music-making for mature adults, including those with no musical experience and those who have been inactive for a long time.

For more information: www.ptband.org or primetimebandsb@gmail.com.

Young Artists ... want to bring your drawings to life? Want to learn how to use carving tools? Want to meet other teenagers who are interested in art?

Join us for this six week class to learn the basic principles of carved linoleum block printmaking. Cesar Aldana (@sketchcrow), local artist, printmaker, educator, and OPAC favorite will guide us step-by-step through the history of this powerful art form. He'll share some history, examples, design ideas, and step-by-step instructions of how to cut your design into a linoleum block and then how to use your carved block to create prints.

If you have one, please bring your sketchbook and/or, some sketches you might like to develop into a print.

* Class, materials, and lunch are FREE for attendees thanks to our amazing, generous donors.
* All skill levels are welcome.
* Ages 13-18

Students must:
* Commit to and attend all (6) classes.
* Have transportation to/from the Oxnard Performing Arts & Convention Center.

Saturdays, Sept. 24 - Oct. 29, 2022 | 11am - 2pm
Oxnard Performing Arts Center
800 Hobson Way, Oxnard, CA 93030

Register here: https://form.jotform.com/222236835210144

OPAC and The House of MAGIC Foundation are proud to present Magic Mashup. An amazing collection of magicians, all on the same stage, for one night only. Each magician brings a unique set of skills to the stage, ranging from Comedy, illusions, and outstanding bird magic.

Presenting the host of the show, Wildcat Jackson is the self-proclaimed monarch of the west. With his silly yet edgy brand of comedy magic, he entertains as an old-west showman in a modern world. This bargain-basement Buffalo Bill Cody works a crowd with his larger-than-life charisma and offbeat carnival-style show.

Friday, October 7th, 2022 @ 7 - 9pm
Oxnard Performing Arts Center
800 Hobson Way, Oxnard, CA 93030

Tickets: $15 - $500

Get your tickets early for the best seats in the house: https://www.thomagic.org/events/magic-mashup/