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Channel Islands Maritime Museum Announces Indigenous Film Showcase “Home Waters: Coastal Communities and Maritime Traditions” The Channel Islands Maritime Museum (CIMM) is happy to announce its first film showcase event “Home Waters: Coastal Communities and Maritime Traditions,” a selection of four short films.

Through animation, cinema verite, and classic documentary formats, four directors take us across North America and Canada to explore coastal indigenous lifeways.

In “Now Is the Time'' and “Homecoming: Journey to Limuw” we see the revival of ancestral Haida and Chumash traditions after the impact of colonization. In “Lake” we watch a group of Metis women net fishing. Finally, in “Nibiising,” we see the importance of caring for the places we call home.

This showcase serves to show that Indigenous traditions continue to thrive today. The showcase will be followed by a panel discussion. “Caring for our waters and maintaining strong relationships to place is not a thing of the past,” says CIMM Collections and Exhibitions Manager, Olivia Morris, who curated the film showcase. “If anything, it is even more relevant today as we face a wide variety of serious and challenging issues as they relate to The Ocean and environments we all share.”

About Channel Islands Maritime Museum: Founded in 1991 and located in Oxnard’s Channel Islands Harbor, the Museum’s galleries feature rare and beautiful maritime paintings dating back to the 1600s, more than sixty world-class models of historic ships, rotating thematic fine arts exhibitions, and interactive exhibits that encourage visitors to expand their horizons about everything maritime. The Museum is open to the public Thursday through Sunday, Noon until 4 pm, and Monday, 10 am until 4 pm.

The Camarillo Public Library is proud to announce the return of Camarillo Reads: One City, One Book. Our selection this year is The Rose Code by Kate Quinn.

The story highlights women codebreakers of World War II. Set in 1940 and 1947, three very different women answer the call to mysterious country estate Bletchley Park, where the best minds in Britain train to break German military codes.

Kate Quinn is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of historical fiction. She will be joining us to discuss her newest book, The Rose Code, followed by a Q&A.

Studio Channel Islands Art Center (SCIART) invites the community to The Next Big Thing Juror Talk with Peter Mays on Saturday, 4:30 p.m. (doors will open at 4:00 p.m.), Oct. 2.

Mays, executive director of the Los Angeles Art Association, will discuss the pieces in the exhibition, explain the selections he made, and announce the winners.

This talk will be in-person at the Blackboard Gallery, 2222 E. Ventura Blvd., Camarillo.

Tickets can be purchased at https://bit.ly/NBTJurorTalk. Admission is free for members; $10 for non-members.

Submissions for the Next Big Thing Juried Exhibition close Aug. 30.

For more information on the Next Big Thing, visit https://studiochannelislands.org/nbt21/.

Fourth Annual Fredrick Michael Gibson 5K/10K Run for Depression Awareness.

This event benefits the Free Clinic of Simi Valley, whose mission is to provide medical care, counseling, dental and legal assistance to individuals and families in need.

The Run will honor Fredrick Michael Gibson and focus on spreading the message to those suffering from depression ...

Don't Suffer in Silence. We Walk, We Run, We Heal. Together.

Registration for the Run is now open at www.freeclinicsv.com. Dogs are welcome and if you want to participate from the comfort of your home sign up for the Virtual Run.

Seraphour, founded in 2020, presents its first live full-length concert and record launch, featuring Cal Lutheran faculty members Heidi Vass and Dana Rouse. Seraphour is an all-female vocal quartet that performs unaccompanied sacred music spanning the classical canon.

The group’s debut album, “Angele Dei,” features works by Palestrina, Gjeilo, Busto and Powell, and a piece commissioned for the quartet by L.A. Philharmonic young composer fellow Aidan Vass.

The concert will feature selections from the album in addition to other sacred music guaranteed to inspire and uplift.

For more information on the group, see seraphour.com.

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

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The Franzen Organ Recital will feature Jaebon Hwang, organist and interim director of music ministries at First United Methodist Church of San Diego. Named a fellow of the American Guild of Organists in 2011, she completed her Doctor of Musical Arts in organ performance at the University of Southern California. Please join us for an evening of exciting organ music.

The concert is free. For information, call the Music Department at 805-493-3306 or visit callutheran.edu/music.

Please visit callutheran.edu/events before attending to verify details because event information may change.

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Areté returns to the stage for its 13th season, which promises to be the most interesting and eclectic yet.

The innovative professional ensemble of vocal artists will open this concert with a performance of Quarantine Madrigals (2020) by Indian American composer Reena Esmail.

Composed in response to COVID-19, Quarantine Madrigals is intended to trace the break from society, the descent into isolation, and the eventual return to one another experienced during the pandemic.

Also on the program is “Membra Jesu Nostri” (1680) by the Baroque master Dieterich Buxtehude. This virtuosic work for voices and strings, known as the first Lutheran oratorio, is a cycle of seven cantatas, each a meditation on a different part of Christ’s crucified body: feet, knees, hands, sides, breast, heart and face.

With uncompromising attention to musical detail and a passion for live performance, Areté provides a joyful, moving, educational and soul-nurturing experience. Wyant Morton will conduct.

Tickets are $20 at the door or $15 if purchased online in advance; $10 for students with ID. For information and to purchase tickets, visit aretevocalensemble.org.

Please visit callutheran.edu/events before attending to verify details because event information may change. Please check callutheran.edu/visitors for the latest visitor policies before visiting campus.

The COVID-19 pandemic renewed interest in the global history of infectious diseases. This year’s History Lecture Series presented by History Department faculty and other experts focuses on different periods in world history when societies faced pandemics and their consequences.

In the third lecture, associate professor of history David Nelson, Ph.D., will address the 19th century outbreak of bubonic plague in China and its eventual global spread that led to the development of bacteriology in the 20th century.

Admission is free, but registration is required at bit.ly/3j2S2oh. The series is sponsored by Cal Lutheran, the Thousand Oaks Grant R. Brimhall Library and Ventura County Library, and funded in part by a Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation grant.

For information, contact David Nelson at dnelson@callutheran.edu.

Please visit callutheran.edu/events before attending to verify details because event information may change. Please check callutheran.edu/visitors for the latest visitor policies before visiting campus.

Margarita Mixoff & More is our annual fundraising event where local vendors prepare specialty margarita samples in a friendly competition to win the title of the “Best in the West” Margarita, which is selected by attendees in the "People's Choice" voting.

This has become a very popular community event! We are also inviting a couple of beer and wine vendors and a variety of food vendors to round out the margarita participants for the event. Our 19th Annual Margarita Mixoff & More, will be held Thursday, September 23, 2021, at The Gardens at Los Robles Greens, 299 S. Moorpark Road, Thousand Oaks, CA 91361, from 5:30 pm – 8:00 p.m.

For more info contact Dixie: 805 701-8537 ddiceglie56@gmail.com

Join us in the galleries with art historian and curator Susan M. Anderson for an in-depth look at CMATO’s new exhibition, GIFTED: Collecting the Art of California at Gardena High School, 1919-1956, on Thursday, September 30 at 6:00 PM.

The exhibition features nearly 50 paintings from the Gardena High School Art Collection, often cited as one of the nation’s greatest collections of early 20th century California art. Anderson, a former curator at the Laguna Art Museum, is a specialist in 20th century American art, with a focus on the art of California. Admission is free for museum members and $15 for non-members. Visit www.cmato.org to register.