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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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Music pulses through hearts and bodies, as Cameron Carpenter and The Symphony show us why the organ belongs in the spotlight. PROGRAM Bach | Prelude and Fugue in E-flat major, “St Anne” (for solo organ) Poulenc | Concerto for Organ, Timpani, and Strings in G minor Saint-Saëns | Symphony No. 3 in C minor, “Organ Symphony”

Music pulses through hearts and bodies, as Cameron Carpenter and The Symphony show us why the organ belongs in the spotlight. Program Bach | Prelude and Fugue in E-flat major, “St Anne” (for solo organ) Poulenc | Concerto for Organ, Timpani, and Strings in G minor Saint-Saëns | Symphony No. 3 in C minor, “Organ Symphony”

Violin superstar Anne Akiko Meyers ignites the stage in a program of Mexican and Spanish- inspired music, featuring Fandango – written for her by Mexican composer Arturo Marquez. PROGRAM Georges Bizet | Selections from Carmen Suite Arturo Marquez | Danzón No. 2 Arturo Marquez | Fandango Violin Concerto Rimsky-Korsakov | Capriccio Espagnol

Pairing the Symphony with jazz royalty, and featuring a work of the first African American woman recognized as a symphonic composer, innovation feels wonderfully familiar. Repertoire Gershwin | Piano Concerto in F (arr. M. Roberts, for jazz trio and orchestra) Price | Symphony No. 1 in E minor