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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

Performances by Black Ant, Mia The Clown, Diahnna Baxter, & a surprise performance by one of hip-hop's emerging artists. BIG DEAL. For one evening artists will combine their crafts into one expression for the unhoused communities of our nation who sleep on the cold concrete, while most are too busy looking to see why. "Don't look, See" screams from the origin of this trauma-- foster care, where children are shuffled from house to house with letters written by abusive handlers, speaking for them long before they arrive. Imagine! You can't. All you can do is listen. The children who knock are never seen. Their voices were never heard, pushed to any corner that will listen after the mandates run out. Every major city has seen a spike in homelessness over the past few years. Don't look at homelessness, see the gift of life! https://bit.ly/DontLookSEE

The acclaimed hit show "La Divina - The Last Interview of Maria Callas" performed by musician-actor-writer Shelley Cooper returns to Southern California, Namba Performing Arts Space, to perform her show, which received resounding audience and critical plaudits this past summer. “We feel fortunate to bring this incredible talent to the community of Ventura,” said Namba Board Chair Tamara Varney, “as part of the Women’s Voices series that began this past October. Shelley Cooper was chosen as a NAMBA Splash Award finalist at the 2021 Hollywood Fringe Festival.”
Winner of the 2021 Orlando Fringe Critics Choice Award for Best Individual Performance in a Drama! La Divina: The Last Interview of Maria Callas is a one-woman show inspired by the life and work of the Dramatic 20th Century Opera Singer Maria Callas. The audience eavesdrops on La Divina’s interview with a nonexistant Mr. Wallace and are taken on a journey through trauma, allowed glimpses of an extremely complex and tormented woman, and treated to some operatic gems including “O Mio Babbino Caro”, “Habanera”, and “Vissi d’arte”. The show provides interesting tidbits from the singer’s life — how opera kept her alive during World War II — and delves some into her complicated relationship with Aristotle Onassis, while offering insight into the singer’s own complications.
Cooper-as-Callas sings selections from Callas’ repertoire, including arias from Puccini, Verdi, Bizet, Gluck- a selection of some of opera’s greatest hits, as it were. Cooper’s own thrilling soprano singing works associated with La Divina is perhaps the finest homage one could make to her acclaimed predecessor. It has the effect of making Cooper’s show a concert as much as a narrative.

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