Community Calendar

Siji Krishnan’s paintings invite viewers into a world where memory, myth, and daily life intertwine. Working primarily on delicate rice paper, she builds up translucent layers of watercolor and oil to reveal figures, landscapes, and hidden details. Her images often feel dreamlike—ponds shimmering with light, grasses bending in the rain, or figures dissolving into their surroundings—suggesting the ways that identity, home, and belonging are shaped by both what we see and what lies beneath the surface.

The exhibition The Secret Place brings together recent works from Krishnan’s Los Angeles debut, alongside five new large paintings created in her studio in Kerala, India. In these new works, Krishnan replaces her more figurative elements with water, plants, and sky. The natural world of her home—backwaters, monsoon rains, and village ponds—becomes a central motif, a site of both refuge and transformation. Themes of fertility and motherhood, community, and renewal flow through her practice, informed by her experiences of raising a child and the shifting boundaries between self and environment.

Krishnan’s art asks us to look slowly and closely. Small details emerge—an animal, a flower petal, a shadow of a figure—like secrets discovered over time. Both intimate and expansive, her paintings transcend cultural and geographic boundaries, embodying the Upanishadic (ancient Indian sacred philosophical texts) philosophy vasudhaiva kutumbakam: “the world is one family.”

Exhibition runs from October 11 to February 22.

The Cambria Center for the Arts will be having our annual Holiday Exhibit, “Small Gems.” We're ending 2025 with colorful squares once again. Our talented local artists are creating miniature masterpieces on 8- and 12-inch canvases—on any theme or topic. Each one will be unique and ready to gift or collect.

—Runs October 28 to December 28. (Tuesday through Sunday from 12 to 4 pm).
—Artist’s Reception: Saturday, November 1st from 4:30 to 6:00 pm.
—Contact: www.cambriaarts.org or gallery@cambriaarts.org

Event Schedule:
—Opening Reception October 31, 5:30–7:30 pm
—Exhibition: Saturday & Sunday, November 1 and 2

More info: www.the-slopoke.com

UCC SLO is hosting Trunk-or-Treat in the Laguna Neighborhood of San Luis Obispo. This year’s theme is Monsters vs. Aliens. Everyone is invited to this free neighborhood event.
Face Painting, Bounce House, Mini “haunted” House, Hay Maze and more is available for you and your children 12 and under. Spread the word, it’s going to be “Out of this World.”

Music Department faculty members will be featured in a showcase recital as part of Cal Poly’s Mustang Family Weekend. It will include instrumental applied faculty who are recognized across the region for their expertise in solo and chamber ensemble performance.

—New faculty member and Los Angeles-based flutist Jennifer Jo will make her Cal Poly debut with pianist Idona Cabrinha in a performance Astor Piazzolla’s “Night Club 1960” from “Histoire du Tango.”
—Violinists Emily Lanzone and Grace Seng will play a movement from Sergey Prokofiev’s “Sonata for Two Violins,” Op. 56
—Pianist Janet Joichi will perform two movements from Frédéric Chopin’s “Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-flat Minor,” Op. 35
—Christopher J. Woodruff, trumpet, and Stephen Nutt, tuba, will play a movement from Eugene Anderson’s “Baroque 'N Brass.”

Get ready for a fast-paced, door-slamming, laugh-out-loud comedy! In a seedy motel room, two rookie cops set up a sting operation to catch a corrupt mayor. But when the mayor’s nervous accountant arrives, mistaken identities, double-crosses, and a mysterious Scottish hit man throw everything hilariously off-course. With eight doors, nonstop confusion, and a steady stream of outrageous twists, this award-winning farce delivers a night of side-splitting fun. Buckle up—it’s going to be a wild (and very funny) ride!

Celebrate Halloween in style at the Fireside Lounge! Enjoy live music, a festive atmosphere, and a thrilling costume contest with great prizes:

1st Place: Dinner for Two with a Bottle of House Wine at the Cambria Pines Lodge Restaurant
2nd Place: Lunch for Two at the Cambria Pines Lodge Restaurant
3rd Place: A Bottle of Wine

This exhibition showcases historic Broadway posters from collector Richard C. Norton, a comprehensive selection of musical theater posters 1972 to the present ranging from the famous to the obscure, from the celebrated to the damned. These posters offer insight into the evolution of American musical theater, graphic design, marketing, image branding and audience engagement. Far more than advertisements, they reflect the artistic, social and commercial contexts of their time—revealing how productions were first introduced, how stars were celebrated, and how visual trends paralleled theatrical innovation.

Exhibition runs from October 6 to December 5.

Join us for the first-ever Murder Mystery Weekend in the historic Village of Arroyo Grande - where history, community, and a little bit of mystery come together!

Over 15 local businesses will transform into characters and clue stops from The Curious Case of J.J. Branch—a murder mystery set in 1911, the year the village was officially founded. Pick up your "1911 Newspaper" from Monarch Books, starting at 10 am on Saturday, 11/1. The newspaper will provide the background story, character bios, event rules, and space to log your clues. Then visit each shop to interview suspects and hunt for clues to solve the mystery.

Submit your final guess to Monarch Books before 4 pm on Sunday, 11/2. Participants who guess the Suspect and Motive correctly will be able to enter a grand-prize drawing for the Winner's Basket. The grand-prize drawing will be at 5 pm on Sunday 11/2.

Free and family-friendly!

Family to Family class is a free educational program for families, friends, and significant others of people with mental illness. Call or email to register.