Community Calendar

Are you ready to learn something new and challenge yourself in 2025? Join Pale Kai and learn Outrigger Paddling. Meets Sundays from 9 to 11 am.
No prep registration required...just show up. We are a non-profit organization that builds a strong, fun community that believes in teamwork.

CALLING ALL MARINE DETECTIVES! Join us as we embark on a week-long journey of marine science mystery and fun to uncover who stole the forbidden treasure of Captain McCracken. Through lab activities, games, team challenges, and adventures, we will work together to crack the case! Arrrrrgh you up for the task?
Each week of camp will feature a different theme with similar activities and daily beach time fun.
Visit education@centralcoastaquarium.com or call (805) 457-5357 ext.2 for more information.

The focus of the 45-minute workshop, Single Use Plastics 101, is designed to inform and support consumers to reduce their single use plastic consumption. This will be taught by Kathleen Bond of the SLO County Citizens’ Climate Education (CCE) organization, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. They’re a nonpartisan, nonpolitical grassroots education and advocacy organization empowering people from diverse backgrounds to educate the public, key stakeholders and policymakers to work for effective solutions to the climate emergency.
For more information, see: Citizens Climate Education – Working to Preserve a Livable Planet

Art Center Morro Bay Proudly presents One Gallery--Two Shows: Estuary and Marsh and Aquarius 2025 with Featured Artist Richard Rowe February 20 – March 31, 2025
The Estuary and Marsh exhibit celebrates the Morro Bay National Estuary Program’s 30th anniversary. Artists living along the coast are invited to explore the rich, dynamic theme of “Estuary and Marsh.” These vital ecosystems, where land meets water, teem with life, contrast, and transformation.
The Aquarius 2025 California Exhibition is a premiere juried show presented by Central Coast Watercolor Society. This annual exhibition features excellence in water media painting, from traditional to experimental, and encourages appreciation for water media painting as a vital, enduring, and expressive art form.
Richard Roe, the Featured Artist, over the last fifty years, has sold his pottery at galleries and art festivals throughout the southwestern U.S. His limited editions and one-of-a-kind pieces are in private collections all over the world.
Artists Reception & CCWS Awards Ceremony is Sunday, February 23rd from 2 to 4 pm.
www.artcentermorrobay.org

Cambria Center for the Arts (CCA) Visual Arts Gallery proudly present “An Eye Opener,” featuring local artist Ken Christensen. The gallery will also be filled with Local Artist’s work who may be inspired by “An Eye Opener” theme, but not restricted it.
The featured artist, Los Osos resident Ken Christensen, is a landscape painter who works in oil, watercolor and other mediums. His rich, distinctive style recalls the bold tradition of the Post-Impressionists and the intense colors of the French Fauve painters. A native of Michigan, Christensen has also worked and exhibited in Paris, London, San Sebastian, Spain, and New Mexico. He settled in California in 2000. Christensen’s goal for this exhibit is to open viewers’ eyes to the beauty that surrounds them, often in overlooked places. He uses color with confidence – in an assertive, exaggerated manner – to capture our attention and delight the senses, elevating the mundane and creating visions of wonder. For further information about Ken and images of his work, please visit: www.kenchristensen.net.
Reception: Saturday, March 1 from 4:30 to 6 pm.
Exhibit: February 25 to April 27
Contact: www.cambriaarts.org or (805) 927-8190
Gallery Hours: 12 to 4 pm

These well known musicians have performed locally and recorded together for years but this will be their first live show on the same bill. On the recent Public Radio Music Day, KCBX' Morning Cup host Neal Losey invited Damon Castillo to play a song or two. The acoustic set extended to half an hour as Neal kept asking for more. We thought Damon's solo work would be a nice addition to Bob and Wendy's upcoming Bunker SLO show and he agreed to join us. We will be joined by former Nashville drummer Paul Griffith, who has done extensive studio and live work with Damon and Bob and Wendy.

The SLO County Jazz Federation presents the Young Jazz Musicians who will play individual and group selections accompanied by Tom Bethke on guitar, Ken Hustad on bass and Darrell Voss on drums. This program, started in 1984, awards scholarships to talented and deserving students from local high schools and colleges in an effort to further musical development and to keep the jazz tradition alive. The scholarships are funded by the Jazz Federation through donations.
For further information see www.slojazz.org or call Dave Becker at 805 234-7474

This 8-week class will focus on accessing emotion in the moment, building characters and relationships on emotional perspectives, and using patterns of emotional behaviors to drive scenes forward. Emotion brings out character rather than caricature, delighting audiences who want to see you caring about something made up on the spot and being affected by your scene partner. By the end of this course, you’ll have developed the skills to be a good longform improviser.
8 weeks: February 9 to April 13

CALLING ALL MARINE DETECTIVES! Join us as we embark on a week-long journey of marine science mystery and fun to uncover who stole the forbidden treasure of Captain McCracken. Through lab activities, games, team challenges, and adventures, we will work together to crack the case! Arrrrrgh you up for the task?
Each week of camp will feature a different theme with similar activities and daily beach time fun.
Visit education@centralcoastaquarium.com or call (805) 457-5357 ext.2 for more information.

Learn strategies to communicate with a person living with dementia. Learn how to maintain your connection with your loved one throughout all stages of the disease.