Community Calendar

From Paso Robles to Solvang, the Central Coast will be swinging this fall with the return of Jazz Jubilee Central Coast 2025! For 12 incredible days (October 15th through the 26th), the Basin Street Regulars are orchestrating a celebration that brings world-class jazz to some of the most beautiful venues across our coast.

See the full show line-up, performance times and updates:
https://www.pismojazz.com/2025-schedule-jazzfest/

Here are the TOP 4 shows you will NOT want to miss.
10/24: The Idiomatiques
10/25: Midiri Brothers & Black Market Trust
10/26: Black Market Trust & Midiri Brothers
10/26: After Glow Party

Bookworms, assemble! Woods is welcoming animal lovers ages 7 to 17 to join us in reading to our furry friends. Shelter life can be stressful, and reading is proven to relax and comfort companion animals. Book Buddies will be held at our San Luis Obispo location on Wednesdays from 3:30 to 4:30 pm.

Join Scholastic graphic novelist Kane Lynch for a weekly workshop in comic creation! Over six weeks, we'll design original characters, develop a story, and learn the professional tools to turn our concepts into finished comics.
Appropriate for ages 8 to 15 years old.

6 weeks, September 17th to October 22nd. Wednesdays, from 4 to 5 pm

UC Santa Barbara Library invites you to the opening event for Unyielding Voices: Global Resistance and the Black Radical Tradition, an exhibition documenting the life’s work of Cedric J. Robinson and Elizabeth Peters Robinson, whose seminal scholarship and activism had wide-ranging influence at UCSB, in academia, and across many public arenas.

The event features a reception followed by a moderated conversation between Elizabeth Robinson, Charlie Hale, SAGE Sara Miller McCune Dean of Social Sciences, and Lidia Uziel, Associate University Librarian for Research Resources and Scholarly Communication, engaging the exhibition’s central themes—universities as sites not only for preserving freedom of expression but also for promoting social justice and the betterment of societies.

Advance registration is recommended as space is limited.

The exhibition will be displayed from October 15 to June 12, 2026, Monday to Friday, from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm.

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.

SLO Friends of the Library Fall Book Sale is October 16th to 18th. 7,500 books for adults, teens, and children on sale, priced at $1.50/inch. Music CDs and puzzles will also be available.

SLO FOL Members receive early access to the sale from 9 am to 12 pm on Thursday, October 16th, become a member at the door or at https://www.slofol.org.
Sale opens to the general public starting at 12 pm on Thursday. Prices drop to $5/bag all day Saturday, October 18th.

This special benefit evening supports Good Samaritan Shelter, a nonprofit dedicated to transforming the lives of the Central Coast’s most vulnerable populations. The evening will feature the premiere of Hope Lives Here: Breaking the Cycle of Homelessness, a short documentary created for Public Broadcasting Television. The film offers an intimate look at the challenges of homelessness in Santa Barbara County and the impact of programs that provide shelter, support, and hope.

Before the screening, sponsors and VIP guests will enjoy a reception featuring farm-to-table cuisine prepared by Good Samaritan’s Culinary Training Program, with ingredients grown at Bridgehouse Farm. Following the premiere, the audience will be treated to a musical performance by Lois Mahalia and a intimate conversation between actor Duane Henry and Sylvia Barnard, Executive Director of Good Samaritan, about his early life story.

Three friends have invested everything to start an immersive party planning business, but will the business die before they can even get it started. They need to impress investors at their first event, a murder mystery party, but when guests begin dying for real can they impress the investors or simply hope to make it out alive. This comical murder mystery was written by local playwright and actor Ben Abbott. Come join us for an evening of fun that will knock your socks off and possibly leave you dying with laughter.

Friday, October 10 - 7:00 PM
Saturday, October 11 - 7:00 PM
Sunday, October 12 - 2:00 PM
Thursday, October 16 - 7:00 PM
Friday, October 17 - 7:00 PM
Saturday, October 18 - 7:00 PM

A little magic can take you a long way. After James Henry Trotter's parents are tragically eaten by a rhinoceros, he goes to live with his two horrible aunts, Spiker and Sponge. Life there is no fun, until James accidentally drops some magic crystals by the old peach tree and strange things start to happen. The peach at the top of the tree begins to grow, and before long it's as big as a house. Inside, James meets a bunch of oversized friends- Miss Spider, Old-Green-Grasshopper, Centipede, Ladybug, and Earthworm. With a snip of the stem, the peach starts rolling away, and the great adventure begins!

Tickets are available online, or call the box office at (805) 546-3198.

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.