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SAN LUIS OBISPO, CA –Join us at the Garden on December 11th from 1pm-4pm and give your artist an outdoor showcase in our Children's Garden! The Garden hosts picket painting parties in the Children’s Garden every second Saturday of the month. Music and materials will be set up for you to paint with your loved ones and the community. Or you may come to the Garden Gift Shop to pick up your picket to paint it yourself. The Garden will provide instructions for painting your picket. Painters are encouraged to get creative with the theme “Connecting People with Nature” by using images of people, plants, animals, and other items from nature. Your contribution to this public art fundraiser provides much needed financial support for vital Garden operations and enables expansion of our educational programs.
Questions? Contact megan@slobg.org or call 805-541-1400 x 304.
3450 Dairy Creek Road San Luis Obispo, CA 93405 805.541.1400 Slobg.org

Free Range Comedy presents "Jingle Bell Flock!" at 7:30 PM on Saturday, December 11! Come see family-friendly comedy improv in the style of "Whose Line is it Anyway?" using audience suggestions!
Covid-19 Precautions are being taken to protect all players and audience members! Performers are all Vaccinated! Audience members must be masked and show proof of vaccination!
Camarillo Art Center 3150 E. Ponderosa Drive Only $10, kids under 12 $5. Info at freerangecomedy.com!(413) 862-2433

Free Range Comedy presents "Little Drumstick Boy" at 7:30 PM on Saturday, December 18! Come see family-friendly comedy improv in the style of "Whose Line is it Anyway?" using audience suggestions!
Covid-19 Precautions are being taken to protect all players and audience members! Performers are all Vaccinated! Audience members must be masked and show proof of vaccination!
Camarillo Art Center 3150 E. Ponderosa Drive Only $10, kids under 12 $5. Info at freerangecomedy.com!(413) 862-2433

Join SLOMA on December 12 from 3 to 5 PM for the public premiere of, "Celebrating Our LGBTQI+ Elders: Stories from the Central Coast" presented by the Central Coast Queer Archive Project. For nearly two years, this collaborative and community-based oral history project has been pairing student and youth interviewers with senior members of the queer community, and has yielded an inspiring intergenerational portrait of the LGBTQI+ experience on the Central Coast. The event will begin with a panel discussion from the project participants paired with selected video clips from the archive followed by a Q+A with the audience. Admission is free and wine and light refreshments will be provided. Following the presentation, an informal dinner gathering will be held from 6 to 8 PM at Taco Temple, 1575 Calle Joaquin, San Luis Obispo. Seating is limited to COVID restrictions, so please RSVP to sloqueerarchive@gmail.com by December 5.

The Museum of Ventura County has been partnering with the county library to bring in-person Story Time on the 2nd Saturday of each month at 11:30am, this will be the last one of the year! On the 11th of December, in time for Christmas, we’ll feature a story about Family. Join us for stories, then play & learn in the Children’s Garden, a fabulous and FREE outing for ALL! 11:30am – Story Time Begins 12:00pm – Story Time Concludes 12:00-12:30pm – Mobile Library-time OR Children’s Garden-time

Norma Pimentel is a sister with the Missionaries of Jesus and a licensed professional counselor. As executive director of Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley, she oversees the charitable arm of the Diocese of Brownsville in Texas and was instrumental in organizing community resources to respond to the surge of Central Americans seeking asylum in the United States and setting up Humanitarian Respite Centers in McAllen and Brownsville in 2014.
Before overseeing Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley, Pimentel was one of the leaders who directed Casa Oscar Romero, a refugee shelter in San Benito and later Brownsville for Central Americans fleeing their war-torn countries in the 1980s.
Pimentel’s efforts have earned her considerable recognition: Catholic Charities USA gave her the Martin Luther King Jr. “Keep the Dream Alive” Award in 2015; Our Sunday Visitor named her one of eight Catholics of the Year who made an indelible mark in 2015; and Time magazine included her among its 100 Most Influential People of 2020.

The Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations invited her to speak at the U.N. Headquarters in New York City.

During the U.S. papal visit, Pimentel met with Pope Francis in New York City and presented him with one of her original paintings that depicted an immigrant mother and child.
She will be sharing some of her experiences with the Humanitarian Respite Centers and immigration. Pimentel received a bachelor’s degree in fine arts from Pan American University in Edinburg, Texas; a master’s degree in theology from St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas; a master’s degree in pastoral counseling from Loyola University in Chicago; and an honorary doctorate in humane letters from Holy Family University in Philadelphia. The virtual lecture is free, but registration is required at bit.ly/3kaMASx. Registered participants will receive a Zoom link a few days before the event. For information, contact Ana Gorman at agorman@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.

Moorpark College is partnering with Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter John Ondrasik, who is known as Five for Fighting, to host the “Concert for the Cats” benefit.

Proceeds from the concert will assist in the completion of America’s Teaching Zoo’s Tiger Retreat Habitat for Bengal tigers Neil and Karma. The new exhibit will include two sections for Neil and Karma with a connecting bridge that zoo visitors will be able to walk under.

Moorpark College Music department students will open the show at 5 p.m. in the Moorpark College Campus Quad.

VIP tickets for the fundraiser include an exclusive pre-show photo-op meet-and-greet with Ondrasik at 4:30 p.m., a tour of America’s Teaching Zoo with animal interactions, refreshments and reserved seating for the concert.

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/.