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Brandon's Buddies is a FREE KIDS CLUB that meets every month at Brandon's Village at Gates Canyon Park located at 25801 Thousand Oaks Boulevard, Calabasas. This playground is the first fully-accessible playground in the region. The day may include integrated play, face painting, arts and crafts, entertainment and treats. Feel free to bring a sack lunch.

All children with and without disabilities and their families who want to spend a great day playing in the sunshine and making friends are invited to participate!

Brandon's Buddies gives children with disabilities the opportunity to play with their typically-able peers, while giving their parents a chance to share experiences and advice with other parents/caregivers. It gives children without disabilities the chance to get to know their peers and gain greater awareness and compassion.

We are committed to helping families and professionals expand their knowledge and understanding of the laws designed to protect the rights of children with special needs.

Support groups for people who have experienced brain injury and their family members/caregivers

Meets the first and third Thursdays of every month.

Every third Thursday of the month at 5:30 PM, the Museum presents Permanent Collection Spotlight, an after-hours exploration of artwork in SLOMA's permanent collection.

Each month three pieces are chosen to put on display. Participants are encouraged to join in an open conversation about the artwork with trained docents utilizing Visual Thinking Strategies.

This interactive event is free and open to the public.

More info HERE

Interested in gardening? Do you like getting your hands dirty? Or do you simply like going outside in the sunshine and fresh air?

Join volunteer, Judith Evans, who will be at Guadalupe Native Garden on the third Saturday of each month. She is helping to make the community a more vibrant place by working with the plants in our garden that are growing vigorously and your help would be gratefully appreciated.

Head north on Campodonico Ave until the street ends, you will see the garden on the left-hand side.

Please call the Dunes Center if you have questions on how to get to the Native Garden.

It’s never too early to plan for the next Free Figure Drawing session! Join the Museum’s Artist in Resident, Ryan Carr, every 2nd Tuesday of the month from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the Pavilion.

All skill levels are welcome and some instruction is provided. This is a dry medium drawing class, so please refrain from watercolors or paints.

This group will draw live, clothed models.

Bring your drawing pads, charcoal, pencils, pen and ink, pastels, whatever your favorite medium!

Grab a friend and get creative at the museum.

As expressed by Edward Said in “Orientalism,” our understanding of the Western world can only be appreciated by recognizing it as constructed by a Western binary in opposition to the East, or the Orient. This unstable and false dichotomy is demonstrated in Thinh Nguyen’s work, where the viewer’s assumptions of race, gender and sexuality are visually interrogated. At the heart of this body of work is the ability to expand one’s focus. To rotate the lens in which we perceive the world to benefit from additional, excluded narratives. This is a pulse check, a reassessment, a chance to pause and reappraise the internal compass that we use to navigate. Hence, the title REORIENT, which references directionally the sun rising in the east and is a nod to the artist’s national origin, Vietnam. Divided into three sections — Gendering, De-Centering and Pandemic — this exhibit responds to our collective cultural moment. The exhibit is online at https://reorientexhibit.weebly.com. For more information, visit rollandgallery.callutheran.edu or contact Rachel Schmid at rtschmid@callutheran.edu or 805-493-3697.

In celebration of 1st Thursday in Downtown Santa Barbara, join the Museum for after-hours dance performances AND dance party.

All ages invited. Free entry.

Please come by our monthly first Saturday BIG book sale! We have thousands of volumes of all types and genres, including loads of children's books.

Back to School! Sept monthly sale is 50% off all education related books.

Prices are very reasonable; 50 cents for kids books, $1 for paperbacks, and $2 for hardbacks.

Come and Browse.

“Black Memorabilia” explores the world of racist material, both antique and newly produced, that propagates demeaning representations of African Americans. From industrial China to the rural South to Brooklyn, the film shines a light on those who reproduce, consume and reclaim these items, from banks to Mammy kitchenware, confederate flags, Nazi insignia and other ephemera. Cal Lutheran’s art galleries, Center for Cultural Engagement and Inclusion, and Pearson Library are sponsoring access to this film. To request your free access code, click here. For more information, visit rollandgallery.callutheran.edu contact Rachel Schmid at rtschmid@calltutheran.edu or 805-493-3697.

Wilshire Hospice is looking for caring individuals to be Hospice In-Home Volunteers. This rich, in-depth, volunteer training program will be held over Zoom, 4 weeks in April: Wednesdays, April 7, 14, 21 & 28 from 12:30 to 4:30 pm. Even during this time of COVID-19, Volunteers are needed in all areas of San Luis Obispo County and North Santa Barbara County. While staying safe and following all infectious disease protocol, Hospice in-home volunteers are still providing support and companionship for Hospice patients and their families. Spanish speaking a plus. Please Contact Steve Willey swilley@wilshirehcs.org, (805) 547-7025 ext. 2021, www.wilshirehospicecc.org, You must RSVP to attend. Volunteer Manual and Zoom link will be provided upon registration. This training is offered free of charge, but donations support all of our Hospice programs and are always appreciated!