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Financial aid staff will assist students in accessing funds for college

Moorpark College, Oxnard College, Ventura College and Ventura College East Campus are holding free Cash 4 College workshops to help students apply for funds to help with college costs. Funds can be used for tuition, books, housing, transportation, childcare, computers and more.

In-person workshops are scheduled for Oct. 8 and 22. The workshops are free and open to the community; anyone may attend a workshop on either date and can drop in at any time during the events.

Bilingual financial aid staff will assist students in completing applications for the 2023-2024 school-year Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) or the California Dream Act Application (CADAA). Students can also access information about basic needs support (food, clothing and housing assistance), tutoring, academic counseling, mental health services and other student services.
AB 132 now requires school districts to confirm seniors have completed the FAFSA or California Dream Act Application before graduating in 2023. Cash for College events can help students get ahead.
For more information, visit vcccd.edu/cash4college.

Moorpark College
Oct. 8
Oct. 22
9 a.m. – noon
Fountain Hall Atrium
7075 Campus Road, Moorpark
For info: Contact the Moorpark College Financial Aid Office at (805) 378-1462 or mcfa@vcccd.edu.

Oxnard College
Oct. 8
Oct. 22
9 a.m. – noon
Oxnard College Student Services Building
4000 S. Rose Ave., Oxnard
For info: Contact the Oxnard College Financial Aid Office at (805) 678-5828 or ocfinaid@vcccd.edu.

Ventura College
Oct. 8
9 a.m. – noon
Ventura College Learning Resource Center
4667 Telegraph Road, Ventura

Ventura College East Campus
Oct. 22
9 a.m. – noon
957 Faulkner Road, Unit 106, Santa Paula
For info: Contact the Ventura College and Ventura College East Campus Financial Aid Office at (805) 289-6369 or vcfinancialaid@vcccd.edu.

About Ventura County Community College District
The Ventura County Community College District is a member of the 116-campus California Community College system and serves approximately 30,000 students annually. The District's three colleges — Moorpark, Oxnard and Ventura — offer programs in general education for degrees and certificates, transfer to four-year colleges and universities, career technical education and provide opportunities to engage in co-curricular campus activities. For more information, visit www.vcccd.edu.

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Ventura County Community College District
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Join the Museum of Ventura County in a celebration of oaks and native plants with Dr. David White of Once Upon a Watershed, Jenn Rodriguez of Growing Works, Katie Tilford of TinyPlants, and Melina Watts author of Tree, in partnership with Melissa Baffa of Ventura Land Trust. Feel connected to your county’s environmental community with the local leaders and creatives creating a more sustainable future.

10:00 a.m.– Dr. David White will give a talk about our local oaks
11:00 a.m. – Author Melina Watts will introduce Melissa Baffa, Executive Director of the Ventura Land Trust, and then Watts will give a talk about the novel Tree and the cycle of paintings inspired by the book created by internationally renowned painter Jeff Sojka.
10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. – TinyPlants and Growing Works will be selling beautiful California native plants, so join us, get some gorgeous plants and go wild.

Join other artists for a series of three open model drawing sessions at your Museum: 10/12, 10/26, 11/9. Models will be clothed and nude. Organized by artists Cathy Barroca and Barbara Brown. Chairs and easels will be provided; artists must bring their own supplies, paints not permitted. Note: this is not an instructional class. The fee for all three sessions is $50 for MVC members and students and $65 for non-members.

This is a great opportunity for artists of all skill levels to work from a live model to develop their life drawing skills. 10-35 participants per session.

About Cathy Barroca: A Ventura County artist and arts educator, she holds an M.F.A. in painting and printmaking from the University of Kansas and has been teaching with the Ventura College Art Department since 1998 and directed the Ventura College Art Galleries from 2001 to 2005. Catherine completed “Portrait of a Neighborhood”, a 100 foot mural in the interior of the Casa de Anza Library in 2001, and is featured in prestigious art collections such as the City of San Buena Ventura, the City of Oxnard, the Ventura County Museum of Art and History and the Spencer Museum of Art in Lawrence, Kansas. She presented a one-person exhibit of her bas-relief paintings at the Ventura County Museum of Art in 2008 and represented the Museum at the Los Angeles Art Show in 2009. Learn more about her at https://sites.google.com/site/daybarroca/.

About Barbara Brown: Barbara Brown is a California-based artist interested in figurative and landscape work. She is influenced by the Hudson River School, Thomas Moran, Albert Bierstadt, John Singer Sargent, Diego Velasquez, Artemisia Gentileschi, and Lucian Freud. She received her MFA in Painting from Laguna College of Art and Design and has studied at Harvard Business School and the University of California Santa Barbara in Fine Art. Much of her work was destroyed in the Thomas Fire in 2017. Her subsequent series on that cataclysmic event was a part of her recovery. Her work since then has been an integral part of her healing process. Learn more about her at https://www.barbarabrownartist.com.

What is Every Brilliant Thing?
Jonny Donahoe’s one-man show, Every Brilliant Thing, (which he co-wrote and originally performed) is one of the funniest and most heart-warming performances you will ever see about a boy growing up in the wake of his mother’s mental illness. The show has been performed more than six hundred times on four continents, including five months off-Broadway at the Barrow Street Theater.

Every Brilliant Thing has been replicated by dozens of comedians throughout the world, and HBO has even produced a documentary special about the performance. We are very fortunate to bring the co-creator and original performer of Every Brilliant Thing to Santa Barbara and are excited to share this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity with our donors and community members for our next annual fundraiser.

Join us for the 7th Annual BFF Binge Fringe Festival of FREE Theatre, Oct 15 - Nov 6, offering over two dozen plays and family-oriented events thanks to generous grants from the City of Santa Monica and the Santa Monica Arts Commission and Playhouse PALS. What’s on today?

Is She a he Or is he A she...will we find out...keep watching. A child of three has her first experience with gender. The questions she faces at that young age pursue her right up to the present...how to cope with people who don t like gender being borderless...especially in 1950...The entire show is told through Tap dance, Spoken mime, characterizations, multi-media and narration. Written & performed by Lynne Jassem who also hosts a post-show Q & A.

The Museum of Ventura County has been partnering with the Ventura County Library to bring bilingual (in English and Spanish) in-person Story Time every first Friday of the month at 3pm. Join us for stories, then play and learn in the Evelyn and Howard Boroughs Chumash Children’s Garden, a fabulous and FREE outing for ALL!

Come celebrate your school and the Goleta Valley at the Lemon Run on Sunday, September 18. There is something for everyone – run, walk, or volunteer with your family and friends as a new school year kicks off. The 10K, 5K and 1K events take place on the flat Obern Trail bike path, perfect for competitive runners and first-timers alike. Races take place throughout the morning beginning at 8:00 a.m.

With great food, family-friendly activities, and prizes from local businesses, this is a Goodland event you don’t want to miss. The Lemon Run is presented by the Goleta Education Foundation and supports educators in Goleta schools who bring new and exciting learning opportunities to students.

For more information and to register, go to https://goletaeducationfoundation.org/goleta-lemon-run/.

Humanizing. Hopeful. Heartbreaking. Honest.

Join us for a night of storytelling closing out OPAC's two-year programming series, CLOSE TO HOME: A Community Conversation Spotlighting the People, Places + Perspectives Surrounding Homelessness. Directed by Juliana Acosta + portrayed by local actors, Stories from the Street profiles the experiences of unsheltered residents in Ventura County as told to + transcribed by writer Craig Rosen.

Free + open to the public. Light refreshments provided.
Event will be held outdoors. Please dress accordingly.

The event is part of OPAC's two-year programming series, Close to Home, which spotlights the people, places and perspectives surrounding homelessness through a community conversation. This two-year programming series (2020-2022) is made possible with support from California Humanities.

Ventura County Area Agency on Aging’s Fall Prevention Program presents:
Stepping On

Stepping On is designed for individuals 60 and older who have fallen or who are fearful of falling. Participants have access to a physical therapist who teaches strength and balance exercises, a vision expert, a public safety expert, and a pharmacist who will discuss fall risks associated with certain medications.

Participants should not have dementia and should not be reliant on a walker. Individuals should be motivated to exercise with gradual use of leg weights at home.

ALL CLASSES ARE FREE!

Thursdays, Oct. 6 - Nov. 17, 2022 | 1 - 3pm
Oxnard Performing Arts Center
800 Hobson Way, Oxnard, California 93030

For more information or to register for classes, e-mail Fall.Prevention.Program@ventura.org or call 805-477-7300 option 6.

Post-Roe: What Happens Now? is the topic of an online Community Forum to be held on Friday, Aug. 12 at 7 p.m. to examine the impacts of the U.S. Supreme Court's June 24th ruling on abortion.

The high court ruled that women no longer have a constitutional right to abortion, overturning the historic Roe v. Wade decision that mandated federal abortion protections for 49 years. The high court's decision upholds a Mississippi law that bans most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy and the ruling leaves it up to state legislatures to decide if and under what circumstances abortions will be permitted.

Nearly half of U.S. states are expected to outlaw or severely restrict abortion. Other landmark decisions could also be at risk, including those that legalized same sex marriage and birth control, Supreme Court observers in the media have reported.

Three panelists involved with public policy advocacy will discuss topics including federal, California and around-the-country updates, disparate impacts, funds to support abortion access, and how to get involved.
The panelists are:

--Sandra Fluke, a public interest attorney. She is nationally known for her congressional testimony regarding birth control access under the Affordable Care Act. For two decades, she has worked in the nonprofit sector to advance social and economic justice.

--Tami Martin, Legislative Director of Equality California, where she works to advance the LGBTQ+ community's priorities in Sacramento through legislative, budget and administrative advocacy.

--Adrienne N. Spires-Sar, Reproductive Justice Manager with Black Women for Wellness. She has worked in the anti-gender-based violence field in California as a project coordinator for the last five years and has 20-plus years of nonprofit experience addressing violence, sexual assault and mental health.

The forum via Zoom is presented by Chalice Community Forum, a program of Chalice Unitarian Fellowship of the Conejo Valley. To register for a link to the free event, visit forum.chaliceuu.org. For information, contact Randall Edwards at forum@chaliceuu.org or through the church office at (805) 498-0548.