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What makes a place a sanctuary, a place of worship, or a simply a sacred space? Is it about the space, the structure, the history or something else? On February 22nd, we explored this fascinating topic from the perspective of the the Bahá’í, Greek Orthodox, and Jewish communities. On April 26th at 7:00 PM, we’ll revisit the topic with panelists from the Buddhist community, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and Mount Cross Lutheran Church. Among the questions that we’ll ask these panelists are: *What spaces do you consider sacred? *What makes them sacred? *What myths, legends, historical events contribute to making these spaces sacred? *Is there a protocol/behavior/dress requirement when entering, occupying or exiting a sacred space? *May anyone enter a sacred space at any time? If not, what are the conditions for admission? *How do you construct a sacred space? Is there a specific type of architecture? How do you consecrate it? This panel discussion will take place via Zoom. You can participate by clicking on this link at the appointed time: https://bit.ly/3xg9O07. To join by phone, dial 669 900 6833 and enter the meeting ID (861 0508 8233) and the passcode (087771) when prompted. This forum is free of charge and all are welcome, so pass the word to as many friends and family as you think might be interested!

Contact: Alissa Maddren - SLO Women in Film President | slowomeninfilm@gmail.com Date: 5/1/22 Time: 12:00pm Location: Fremont Theater, San Luis Obispo Tickets: General Admission $10.00 / Student/Film Society $5.00 Live Panel Discussion: The Screen Writing Life SLO and Cal Poly Women in Film & Television and the SLO Film Fest present an inspiring and entertaining panel to help you take your screenplay to the next level. Feeling stuck in your story? Come workshop it “in the room” with screenwriters Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna (Inside Out, The Good Dinosaur and Captain Marvel). Tell your story in 5 minutes and they’ll help by asking questions and churning up some ideas and inspiration. They’’ll workshop 3-5 projects based on random draws of those who want to participate. Or come and listen and apply to your own work. The workshop will also be featured as an episode of Meg and Lorien”s hit podcast, The Screenwriting Life. As an added bonus, students and WIFT members can attend for only $5! About the presenters: professional screenwriters, Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna, whose combined credits include writing and production on such films as Inside Out, The Good Dinosaur and Captain Marvel, discuss the craft, journey and business of writing for the screen. From dialogue to delivery, Meg and Lorien will guide you through the process, offering inside tips and tricks to help you become the best writer you can be. For tickets and more information, visit the SLO Film Festival website: https://slofilmfest.org/events/panel-1-live-story-workshop/ SPONSORED BY CAL POLY WIFT & SLO WIFT, CENTRAL COAST FILM SOCIETY, CAL POLY INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES IN LIBERAL ARTS & CAL POLY CENTER FOR EXPRESSIVE TECHNOLOGIES

Not If But When – An event featuring wildfire awareness and recovery – presented by the Ventura County Library, the Museum of Ventura County, and the Ventura County Library Foundation. The Ventura County Library Foundation and the Museum of Ventura County are partnering with the Ventura County Library to present an upcoming special event. At 2pm on Saturday, April 23, 2022, the Ventura County Library will host a screening of Radu Sava’s film Not If But When: Wildfire Solutions. This event will occur at the Museum (100 E Main St, Ventura, CA 93001).

The film, awarded Best Environmental Visions Film at the Sacramento International Film Festival, discusses how wildfires are becoming a global issue. California is one of the places that is hit the hardest. The film is based on interviews with leading experts from state, federal, and grassroots organizations, water agencies, community partnerships, and more. You can register to attend this event by registering below. This film event will complement the Rising from the Ashes tour of homes rebuilt after the Thomas Fire, presented by the Ventura County Library Foundation on Saturday, April 30, 2022. For more information about this home tour, please visit www.vclibraryfoundation.org. For additional information, contact Nancy Schram, Ventura County Library Director, at (805) 256-8535 or Ron Solórzano, Regional Librarian, at (805) 218-9146. The Ventura County Library is available 24/7 at www.vencolibrary.org. Please visit our website for information on the location and hours of the library closest to you.

Join us for open model drawing sessions with nude and clothed models at your Museum, occurring twice a month every other Wednesday night until early November. Every experience level is welcome. Learn with artists Cathy Barroca and Barbara Brown. Chairs and easels will be provided; artists must bring their own supplies. 10-35 participants per class. Pricing per class: $10 for members $10 for students $20 for non-members. Register at https://bit.ly/3DNsGF2 About Cathy Barroca: A Ventura County artist and arts educator, she holds an M.F.A. in painting and printmaking from the University of Kansas and has been teaching with the Ventura College Art Department since 1998 and directed the Ventura College Art Galleries from 2001 to 2005. Catherine completed “Portrait of a Neighborhood”, a 100 foot mural in the interior of the Casa de Anza Library in 2001, and is featured in prestigious art collections such as the City of San Buena Ventura, the City of Oxnard, the Ventura County Museum of Art and History and the Spencer Museum of Art in Lawrence, Kansas. She presented a one-person exhibit of her bas-relief paintings at the Ventura County Museum of Art in 2008 and represented the Museum at the Los Angeles Art Show in 2009. Learn more about her at https://sites.google.com/site/daybarroca/. About Barbara Brown: Barbara Brown is a California-based artist interested in figurative and landscape work. She is influenced by the Hudson River School, Thomas Moran, Albert Bierstadt, John Singer Sargent, Diego Velasquez, Artemisia Gentileschi, and Lucian Freud. She received her MFA in Painting from Laguna College of Art and Design and has studied at Harvard Business School and the University of California Santa Barbara in Fine Art. Much of her work was destroyed in the Thomas Fire in 2017. Her subsequent series on that cataclysmic event was a part of her recovery. Her work since then has been an integral part of her healing process. Learn more about her at https://www.barbarabrownartist.com. Proof of vaccination will be required on arrival for in-person attendees over 12 years of age. Masks will not be required for this event. If you would like a mask, we’re happy to provide one for you.

Many recognize Bob Eubanks as a TV personality and game show host, best known for hosting the explosively popular “The Newlywed Game.” In this fun evening, you will learn so much more about Bob, including the little-known story of how meeting the Beatles helped launch his career, and all the twists and turns that recently earned him a Lifetime Achievement Emmy Award. What you may not know is that in 1964 Bob Eubanks was a bright-eyed and increasingly popular DJ in Southern California when the opportunity of a lifetime popped up. Did he want to be the concert promotor at the legendary Hollywood Bowl to present a hot new group from Liverpool who were about to embark on their first tour of America? You bet he did! But there was one big problem: they demanded a huge chunk of upfront money to clinch the deal–and Eubanks didn’t have that kind of cash. So he gambled. He persuaded a bank to get a massive loan on his home to promote a rock group from England no one had ever seen live! He did it, and the rest is history. The rock group was the Beatles–and Eubanks –like the Beatles became a legend in his own right! In this live event, Bob Eubanks will reveal all; how he became a legend in his own right, his charmed life and career, and how meeting The Beatles helped make it all possible. Proof of vaccination will be required on arrival for in-person attendees over 12 years of age. Masks will not be required for this event. If you would like a mask, we’re happy to provide one for you.

Enjoy a one of a kind day trip to Santa Cruz Island to paint with acclaimed artist Margaret Garcia and naturalist Cliff Rodrigues! We will provide a box lunch from Peirano’s for attendees. All participants should bring their water bottles and art supplies. Participants are welcome to create with oil paints, watercolors, ink, pencils, or take photographs! This event is limited to 30 adult attendees. $125 for members, $175 for nonmembers.

A Santa Barbara tradition returns when the Great Egg Hunt at Elings Park is held on Saturday, April 16 in the park’s softball fields from 9 a.m. to noon. Admission is free, parking is $10 per car. “With 19,000 candy-filled eggs up for grabs, every child has fun at this egg hunt,” said Elings Executive Director Dean Noble. “It’s the hoppiest day of the year.” The festive event also includes face painters, visits from the Easter Bunny, Luna’s Jumps bounce houses, photo opportunities, and festive tunes provided by Music by Bonnie. Children should bring their own baskets. There are three age groups with timed starts: Baby Bunnies (ages 0 to 3) at 10 a.m. Daring Ducks (ages 4 to 6) at 10:30 a.m. Jack Rabbits (ages 7 and up) at 11 a.m. For more information, visit www.elingspark.org.

A program of music, film and conversation about the power of music to heal will be presented live and online on Saturday, April 16 at Chalice Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of the Conejo Valley in Newbury Park. The 7:30 p.m. presentation and concert, organized by Chalice Community Forum, will highlight the work of Project: Music Heals Us, a nonprofit that brings the healing qualities of music to those in desperate need of human connection and the sense of community that live music can provide. The organization's work in hospitals and prisons has earned recognition from music luminaries like Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax and is highlighted in the recent Cannes Film Festival award-winning documentary "The Sound of Us." The program will include works by Brahms, Mendelssohn, Stravinsky and Rebecca Clarke, discussion, and a screening of an excerpt from "The Sound of Us." The world-class musicians who will perform are Dominic Cheli, piano; Aubree Oliverson, violin; and Andrew Janss, Cello. Cheli recently debuted at Walt Disney Concert Hall and he has won a place on the coveted roster of the Concert Artists Guild, which supports and empowers impactful young artists. Oliverson made her concerto debut with the Utah Symphony at age 11, and since then the 23-year-old violinist has continued to perform all over the world, most recently with the Pasadena Symphony. Janss is the Executive Director of Project: Music Heals Us. During the pandemic, he brought one-on-one live-streamed concerts to more than 10,000 individual patients in isolation. Yo-Yo Ma has nominated him for an Emerson Collective fellowship for his creativity and talent in advancing bold new projects. The evening at Chalice Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 3327 Old Conejo Road in Newbury Park, will begin with a 7 p.m. welcome reception, followed by the presentation and concert at 7:30 and a meet-the-musicians reception at 8:45. Proof of vaccination must be shown at the door and masks must be worn by all attendees while indoors. A limited number of tickets for the live program are available for a requested minimum donation of $25. A donation of $10 is suggested for the 7:30 live stream, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. To register to attend the live event or receive a link to view it on Zoom, visit forum.chaliceuu.org. For questions and information, contact Randall Edwards via e-mail at forum@chaliceuu.org or through the church office at (805) 498-9548.

Celebrate the Earth with CMATO and CReATE STUDIO and join us in the galleries as we explore how something old can become new again! Bring a handful of items that you would normally throw away plus a few things that can be recycled and together we'll incorporate them into a beautiful communal mural while discussing ways we can help protect the planet. The mural will then go on display in the Museum for our community to enjoy. Admission to Family Art Day is free for museum members and a $6 donation for non-members. All materials will be provided. Members, use promo code CMATOMEMBER

This series and pop-up exhibit celebrate the wide variety of plants in Ventura County. Visit to learn about the invasive Arundo plant and how it negatively impacts our vital watersheds, early detection and rapid response for invasive weeds, Romain Young’s 1916 local plant collection, and more. Friday, April 22nd at 1 pm: a presentation about Arundo in the Santa Clara River will be open to the public at the Museum. Saturday, April 23rd from 11 am-5 pm: the exhibit will be displayed during the Museum’s business hours. Sunday, April 24th at 12pm: Local plants will be displayed with scientific and common name identification for the public to discover up close the wild plants of Ventura County. We will also hold training in iNaturalist. Contact John Beall at 805-665-7730 or john.beall@ventura.org for more information. Sponsored by the Ventura County Weed Management Area