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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? Marvelous musical majesty!

It’s Tiffany Savion’s SERENADE (formerly Salvaje), a groundbreaking musical and theatrical experience, starring Tiffany Savion! It’s an exhilarating showcase - an exploration of sight and sound, and the manifestation of an untamed spirit. On the Main Stage – for ages 18+

Tiffany Savion: Vocalist, actor; Jason Fitzmaurice: Lead guitar; Erika Heet: Drums; Chris Haller: Standup Bass. Produced by Playhouse Associate Director of Adult Education Berkeley Sanjay.

Don’t miss this great tradition celebrating the history and culture of our vibrant equestrian community in the Conejo Valley.

Day of the Horse is a FREE family friendly event open to the public and is full of fun activities aimed to educate and spread knowledge about horses. This open house event is located on our 30-acre Conejo Creek Equestrian Park that is part of the Conejo Recreation & Park District.

We are excited to present our first ever Showdeo, an accelerated show with top notch equestrian specialty acts designed to entertain. Our feature act will participate in an Extreme Cowboy race and demonstrate Garrocha Pole.

Many family-friendly activities and food trucks to enjoy! Join us to celebrate the love of horses!

The Simi Valley Family YMCA is hosting their annual Trunk-or-Treat, Saturday, October 15 from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. YMCA Child Care Staff decorate their car trunks with a fun theme and pass out candy. The event is free and open to the public. The Simi Y is at 3200 Cochran St.

In addition to more than 15 decorated cars, there will be a haunted laboratory, spooky yoga, a pumpkin decorating contest, thriller dance moves and a photo booth. Visitors are encouraged to dress up in their Halloween costumes.

The Y is accepting candy donations for the event. Donations of individually-wrapped candy can be dropped off at Simi Valley YMCA or Yarrow Family YMCA (31105 E. Thousand Oaks Blvd., Westlake Village).

For more information, go to https://www.sevymca.org/trunk-or-treat, email info@sevymca.org or call 805-583-5338.

Join us for a Conversation With Armin Shimerman, veteran actor of stage and screen. Shimerman is known for his portrayal of Quark on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Principal Snyder on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. His myriad acting, voiceover and teaching credits make him one of the most recognized actors of our time. He is also the author of a popular fantasy fiction trilogy, Illyria following a young Will Shakespeare's travels to Illyria, the setting of Twelfth Night.

Conversations With is an ongoing series similar to Inside the Actors Studio. Past guests have included Gary Sinise, Stacy Keach and Jessie Plemons.

Hub101, part of the Steven Dorfman Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship, is hosting Startup Weekend Conejo Valley.

Startup Weekend is a 54-hour immersive experience into the world of startups. Over an action-packed three days (Friday-Sunday), you’ll make significant strides toward creating a business, in addition to connecting with the right people and resources and meeting the very best mentors, investors, and potential co-founders.

Free for students, use code: STUDENTSWCV

How Does it Work?

Participants come together on Friday, Oct. 21, at 6 p.m. to form teams and select a startup idea to work on.

They work into the night and return on Saturday for workshops on starting a business, talking to customers, creating a pitch deck, and more. There are also mentor sessions to get feedback and ask questions from people in our community…and more food!

Sunday starts with more team time, pitch practice, and then in the evening, the teams present their startup ideas to a panel of judges for cash prizes!

If you’re curious to learn more, you can register as an observer and join us on Friday evening for pizza and kickoff games and hear the startup ideas pitched. Maybe you’ll even join a team!

What is Startup Weekend?

Now that the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has completed its commissioning phase and is operational, we will look at some of the first sets of data that have been released from JWST’s initial observations of nebulas, Jupiter, stars, stellar nurseries and exoplanets. In addition, we’ll give a brief overview of the history of the JWST conception, development, flight and deployment and include time for Q&A in this one-hour lecture.

Christopher Mick is the Executive Director for the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) educational nonprofit, Space St. Croix, which brings free, space-themed STEM programming and teacher support materials to all Hudson, Wisconsin area schools, as well as the YMCA, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, and home-school programs at the Hudson Area Public Library. He lives in Hudson, Wisconsin.

Mick is a NASA Solar System Ambassador, OSIRIS-Rex Ambassador, member of the NASA Museum & Informal Education Alliance. He was recently on the Education Advisory Board for Infiniscope as well as a blogger for the Space Science Institute. He is a member of the Planetary Society, the National Space Society, is a NASA Social Alum, and has been a presenter at the Space Exploration Educators Conference at Space Center Houston, in Houston, Texas.

Fifty and Better was designed to offer university-level courses and lectures (no tests, no homework) taught by experts in the field, and to host social engagement activities for people age 50 and older.

A punderful Musical Comedy for Kids 2 to 102 re-imagined for 2022!

“A winning blend of vaudeville, English pantomime and music hall.” Drama-logue.

Join Alice as she accepts an invitation from the Queen of Hearts to return to the Wonderland of her youth. Will Alice prevail, or are the Cards stacked against her? Will the Queen suffer a heart attack? “STRONGLY RECOMMENDED!” raves L.A. PARENT. “A splendid children’s theatrical experience with a terrific new twist. The quality of performance is so pure and bright that children are fascinated throughout, all the while being exposed to superior theater that does not pander to their young age. The music and lyrics by Evelyn Rudie are the magic of the show. They provide a style and energy that keeps the children glued to the action.”

Lovely audience participation throughout the production helps Alice set a topsy-turvy Wonderland aright in this zany musical comedy. Gorgeous costumes by award-winning designer Ashley Hayes, lilting musical numbers and a charmingly bedecked rose garden enhance the "clever clowning and buoyant silliness" (L.A. Times) of this audience favorite crowd-pleaser.

The internationally acclaimed Family Theatre musical comedy, performed on three continents over the past 45 years is presented by renowned Actors’ Repertory Theatre, and features Jamie Cayer, Tiffany Haile, Cydne Moore. Marika Sayers and Meghan Nealon as “Alice.”

Birthday parties, hosted by colorful fairytale characters, are available with every performance.

Santa Monica Playhouse programs are supported in part by generous grants from the City of Santa Monica and the Santa Monica Arts Commission, the Ahmanson Foundation, and Playhouse PALS.

The English Department and First-Year Writing Program will present an evening presentation by Deborah Miranda, the author of this year’s English 110 Common Reading selection, Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir. The mixed-genre memoir plumbs deeply into Indigenous displacement, imprisonment, genocide, remembrance, resilience and solidarity in a poetically rendered corrective to prevailing narratives of Native erasure.

With dauntless emotional honesty, Miranda challenges the pedagogy of California Missions history, envisions Native life through colonization and reflects movingly on intergenerational legacies of colonial trauma and collective liberation.

Miranda is an enrolled member of the Ohlone-Costanoan Esselen Nation of the Greater Monterey Bay Area in California. She is a professor of English emerita at Washington and Lee University, where she taught literature of the margins and creative writing as the Thomas H. Broadus Jr. Endowed Chair.

Book signing will be 5-5:30 p.m. The 10th anniversary edition of Bad Indians will be available for purchase.

This event is free and open to the public. No reservations are required.

The event is sponsored by the English Department, Office of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Justice, Faculty Affairs and the Vesper Society funds for Indigenous Cultural Knowledge.

Petra Griffith, managing director and CEO of Wedbush Ventures, will be joining us as part of the Entrepreneur Speaker Series.

Dinner and networking begin at 6 p.m., the presentation is from 7 to 8 p.m.

Petra Griffith launched Wedbush Ventures to invest in the next generation of technology companies solving big market problems. Griffith has helped build many firsts: the first online printing software; first fitness wearable; and first native ads. Having launched a venture banking division for a regional bank, she understands the strategic and creative mindset necessary to narrow in on a product’s core features for successful market fit execution. Her past leadership-to-product, strategy, marketing, and operations teams at established and startup organizations such as Netflix, Yahoo!, and 24 Hour Fitness makes her a coveted product strategy ally to entrepreneurs ready to scale innovation.

Griffith holds a BA in International Politics and Economics from Middlebury College and an MBA from London Business School.