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In the Cal Lutheran School of Management PRiME Competition, students showcase their class projects that support the global sustainable development goals under the Principles of Responsible Management Education established by the United Nations. Students demonstrate how organizations balance economic and sustainability goals and develop innovative solutions. The public can view the recorded student projects online and cast their votes for the People’s Choice Award any time between April 21 and 28. The awards presentation beginning at 6 p.m. PST April 28. Register at CalLutheran.edu/prime. For more information, see the website or contact Susan Wood at swood@callutheran.edu or 805-493-3091.

Two of 2024's biggest new hitmakers consolidate their hold on the top of the pop charts, while a pair of stars from a previous generation — Katy Perry and Lady Gaga — both stumble with new work.

If Coachella and a Michelada Festival had a baby in Oxnard. Meet CHELITA.

Get ready to ignite your senses and immerse yourself in a whirlwind of creativity, culture, and pure excitement at the Chelita – the ultimate celebration of art, music, and mouthwatering Miches! Join us for an unforgettable day filled with electrifying performances, captivating art installations, delectable culinary delights, and an atmosphere that pulses with energy and inspiration.

​Live Performance on Two Stages
Feel the rhythm and let loose as two dynamic stages come alive with an array of heart-pounding beats, soulful melodies, and electrifying acts that will have you dancing the day away.

​Food Area
Embark on a culinary journey like no other at our Food Area, where a symphony of flavors awaits your taste buds. From traditional favorites to avant-garde delights, our diverse food offerings will tantalize your senses and satisfy your cravings.

Art Vendors and Installations
Immerse yourself in a world of artistic wonder as you explore a gallery of handpicked art vendors, each showcasing their unique creations. Be awe-struck by larger-than-life art installations that transform the event space into a mesmerizing tapestry of imagination.

Kids Zone
Create cherished memories with your family as you explore the dedicated Kids Zone. Engage in interactive activities and games ensuring that attendees of all ages can share in the wonder and excitement.

Admission: $15-$40 (17 and younger come in free when they enter with a ticket holder)

Sunday, October 1st, 2023
11am - 6pm
Location: Heritage Square in Oxnard
715 South A Street, Oxnard, CA 93030

Sustainably forested silver-tip fir trees from Northern California will be available for pickup on Saturday, December 2 during “Christmas At The Farm” at Petty Ranch (11971 Darling Rd.) in Ventura. Proceeds from the Christmas tree fundraiser will help fund Students for Eco-Education and Agriculture (SEEAG) agriculture education and healthy eating programs for kids in Ventura County.

Trees are available from 8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. on December 2 or can be delivered ($75 delivery charge). Free hot cocoa and cookies will be served. Local vendors will be on hand at a pop-up holiday market.

The trees were donated by Rob Paulus, a retired Cal Fire Battalion Chief, and his family to support SEEAG and its ag-education efforts. Paulus has a 200-acre parcel of private land near the northern Sierra Nevada mountain range. He thins the overgrown forest on the property to reduce the risk of forest fires and to help restore the natural environment.

By purchasing your Christmas tree from SEEAG you’re supporting the education of thousands of students and improving the natural forest landscape.

Tree sizes are 6' to 9 ‘($175) and 8' to 10’ ($225). SEEAG is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization so all tree purchases are tax-deductible. All trees must be pre-ordered by going to https://www.seeag.org/christmas-at-the-ranch.

For questions about delivery, call 805-892-8155 or email info@seeag.org.

Chaucer's will host local author Stephen Aizenstat, PhD, author of "The Imagination Matrix: How to Access the Greatest Power You Have for Creativity, Connection, and Purpose" for an in-store book talk and signing on Wednesday, October 25 at 6 p.m.

Aizenstat, the founder of Pacifica Graduate Institute and Dream Tending, is a leading depth psychologist, offering a practical approach for vastly expanding your creative resources—and discovering for yourself that even the challenges of our time can be overcome by the power of human imagination.

If ever there was a time and a place to reconnect with imagination, that place is here, that time is now. For anyone looking for a new way forward for yourself, your community, and our struggling planet, Professor Stephen Aizenstat offers a powerful message of hope. The trailblazers are people like you—the seekers, creatives, dreamers, doers—who are willing and ready to tap into a collective purpose so vital, so vibrant, so resonant in the world of today.

In The Imagination Matrix, Aizenstat shares a step-by-step process to help you gain access to the “source code of imagination”—energizing your capacity to innovate new outcomes, evolve real-world solutions, and nurture your well-being. Here you’ll explore:

• Opening the Curious Mind—a new method to engage imagination and wonder
• Answering the call of your Innate Genius
• Growing your capacities of Imaginal Intelligence
• Maintaining your humanity in an increasingly technological world
• Claiming your creativity and purpose to meet the pull of the future

"The Imagination Matrix" offers a practical and uniquely personal path for becoming more purposeful, resourceful, and resilient—while developing a profound connection to the creative force that animates and flows through us all.

Composer and Musician Kaki King brings her show Modern Yesterdays to the Grant R. Brimhall Library on Wednesday, February 28 at 7:00 pm.

Considered one of the most unique and influential guitarists of our time, Kaki King continues to deconstruct and redefine the role of solo instrumental artist though virtuoso technique, insatiable imagination, and boundless humanity. Her now-signature multi-media performance, both provocative and moving, uses projection mapping to present the guitar as a tool that can shape both music and video content, all triggered (and often improvised live) via her Ovation Adamas Signature 6-String Acoustic guitar, customized specifically for her multimedia performance. Art, sound, and motion will be on full display in this stunning display of music and video.

Hailed by Rolling Stone as “a genre unto herself,” composer and guitarist Kaki King is a true iconoclast. Kaki King is known for her percussive and jazz-tinged melodies, energetic live shows, use of multiple tunings on acoustic and lap steel guitar, and her diverse range in different genres. Over the past 10 years, the Brooklyn-based artist has released six extraordinarily diverse and distinctive albums, and performed with such icons as Foo Fighters and Timbaland.

She has played for audiences worldwide in innumerable world tours, playing venues and festivals as diverse as Sydney Opera House, North Sea Jazz Fest, the Krannert Center, The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi, the Ferst Center For The Arts, MASS MoCA, Kennedy Center, MOMA, North Sea Jazz Fest, Vancouver Folk Fest, Singapore’s Mosaic Festival, Japan’s Fuji Rock festival, the Festival of Arts & Ideas, and more.

The Conejo Orchid Society will hold its annual Orchid Show and Sale fundraiser June 7 - 9 at the Thousand Oaks Library (Grant Brimhall Library), 1401 E. Janss Rd., Thousand Oaks. This free event will be an opportunity to learn about orchids and the Conejo Orchid Society. Learn how to care for your orchids. Shop for some great bargains and try your hand at growing some of the most beautiful and unusual plants in the world.

This event includes an exhibit of members’ orchids, and a wide range of inexpensive, easy-to-grow orchids for sale. Several hundred orchids from quality orchid nurseries and society member divisions will be available. Many can be grown outdoors in Southern California. Other available items will include “companion plants”, such as tillandsias, and succulents, grown by Society members, and orchid potting mix.

Demonstrations will show how to repot and care for orchids. Society members will be available to provide guidance on how best to grow your new orchids and will answer your questions.

The hours of the Orchid Show and Sale are Friday, June 7 – Noon to 6pm, Saturday, June 8 - 10am to 5pm, and Sunday, June 9 – Noon to 2pm. Arrive early for the best selection. Demonstrations of general orchid care will be Friday at 2pm and Saturday at 11am and 2pm.

Admission is free.

We accept payment in cash or check only.

For more information, please call 805-410-3803 or visit us at www.ConejoOrchidSociety.org

The Conejo Orchid Society is a 501(c)(5) non-profit organization.

This program is not a Thousand Oaks Library sponsored event

Santa Barbara Permaculture Network presents

Creating Local Resilience with Regenerative Design:
Solar Powered Homes, Communities & Gardens

With special guest Leif Skogberg
 of Appreculture Design

Wed, August 7, 2024, 6-8 pm, Free
CEC Environmental Hub,
1219 State St, Santa Barbara, CA 93101

Leif Skogberg is a holistic sustainability educator, consultant, builder and designer, who shares how we can partner with both Nature and modern technology to create more beauty, abundance and resilience for our local communities.

A twenty-year veteran of resilient & regenerative design, including permaculture, working with hundreds of large and small residential & commercial property owners, he is the founder of Appreculture Design Institute and TurnKi Sustainability, providing integrated land use design and solar energy system consulting around the country.  Formerly a resident of Santa Barbara, while a student at SBCC he is remembered for initiating several groundbreaking organizations, including the Students for Sustainability Coalition, the SBCC Center for Sustainability, and more, later working for the City of Santa Barbara Environmental Services Division, and later the Ojai Foundation. At home now in Wayne, New Jersey, he chairs the local Environmental Commission, and serves on the Wayne Master Plan Steering Committee.  Website: www.leifskogberg.com

A Community Event Hosted by Santa Barbara Permaculture Network
Cosponsored by the Community Environmental Council (CEC)
More info: www.sbpermaculture.org; margie@sbpermaculture.org

The legendary Chubby Checker and The Wildcats will play live at the Lobero Theatre (33 E Canon Perdido St, Santa Barbara, CA 93101) on Saturday, August 31, 2024, at 7:30 PM–A benefit concert for the Daniel Bryant Youth & Family Centers at CADA.

Brought to you by Earl Minnis Presents, this unique event allows you to enjoy timeless favorites like "The Twist" while contributing to a worthy cause. Since its establishment in 2001, the Daniel Bryant Youth & Family Centers at CADA have assisted more than 9,000 young people battling addiction and mental health issues.

Tickets are $25, we aim to provide wider access to the arts while attracting donations for this special cause. Please consider making an additional donation to benefit the Daniel Bryant Youth & Family Centers directly - ensuring they can continue their life-changing work, and the donation is tax deductible! Donations of $500 and over will receive two backstage passes to a “meet and greet” reception with Chubby Checker, beginning at 6 PM.

We appreciate your support and can't wait to see you at the Lobero Theatre.



Date: Saturday, August 31st
Time: 7:30 PM
Price: $25
Location: Lobero Theatre (33 E Canon Perdido St, Santa Barbara, CA 93101)
Link: https://www.lobero.org/events/v2-chubby-checker-and-the-wildcats/

Say “so long” to summer at the Carpinteria Valley Historical Society and History Museum’s Marketplace scheduled for Saturday, Aug. 31, from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the museum grounds, 956 Maple Ave. in downtown Carpinteria.

The Marketplace’s assorted gathering of dealers promises happy hunting for all. Handcrafted jewelry, artisanal food products, film camera collections, handicrafts, collectibles, exotic plants, and furniture are just some of the goods for sale. Prices at Granny’s Attic, the booth operated by the museum, begin at 25 cents and the treasure trove includes toys, linens, kitchenware, dishware, dolls, figurines, record albums, and other assorted offerings.

Suz-Anne Evans’ and Terrilyn Giamoni’ business Creative Mermaid Designs sells handmade Croc charms and custom items. Evans has been involved with the Marketplace since she moved to town in 2021. “It’s a great cause to support and I enjoy having the business/personal connections I have made because of it,” she noted. For more information, call Evans at (805) 705-8748.

Made possible by community volunteers, the family friendly Marketplace is free and includes musical entertainment. Hot dogs, cold beverages, and snacks are available for purchase.

Next month events at the museum include New Volunteer and Docent Drop-in on Sept. 10, 11 a.m. to noon; Sept. 26, 11 a.m. to noon; and a Talk and Talkback Event, “Moment of Truth: Sorting Fact from Fiction in the Misinformation Age” on Sept. 30 from 5 to 6 p.m.
For more information, call (805) 684-3112, email info@carpinteriahistoricalmuseum.org, or visit carpinteriahistoricalmuseum.org.