Community Calendar

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.

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

Calling all Dog Man fans! Come pick up Dog Man and Cat Kid masks, posters and free mini-comics. Take a picture at a Dog Man photo booth. Make your own paper Petey toy, learn how to draw Dog Man and more.

Live music from Kellytown. Rocking Irish pub-songs, fiddle tunes, sea shanties and accordion. Down by the waterfront in beautiful Morro Bay.

Sunny Jain’s Wild Wild East encompasses myriad facets of Jain’s identity both as a first-generation South Asian-American and as a global musician, from his own family’s immigration story to his eclectic musical upbringing. In recasting the immigrant—steeped in the courage to leave a familiar homeland for a new beginning—as the modern-day cowboy and cowgirl, Jain sources musical inspiration from the scores of Bollywood classics and Spaghetti Westerns, Punjabi folk traditions, jazz improvisation, and rollicking psychedelic styles.
Sunny Jain’s Wild Wild East is rooted in the contemporary global soundscape, singing in a new voice, “I am large, I contain multitudes.”

The Cal Poly Symphony’s Winter Concert will showcase student soloist winners in the Performing Arts Center. Musical selections from the movies “Lawrence of Arabia,” “Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl,” “Raiders of the Lost Ark” and “Star Trek: Into Darkness” will also be on the program.
The concert will be the capstone of the all-day Cal Poly Band and Orchestra Festival which is being produced in collaboration with the San Luis Obispo County Band Directors Association. Tickets available from the Cal Poly Ticket Office — https://pacslo.org/cpmusic

The Templeton History Museum welcomes you to the "Some Like It Hot" blacksmithing and chili cook-off event. Drop by or stay for the day! Learn about blacksmithing, blacksmith art, and educational opportunities (and enjoy some incredible chili!).
Celebrate the opening of the first exhibition of hand-forged sculptures at the museum. Outbid your friends in our silent auction featuring local treasures and artwork from the day’s event. Discover fine metal art for sale in our gallery.
—From 8 am to noon: teams of professional blacksmith artists compete against the clock to forge the winning sculpture.
—Starting at 12 pm: sample the culinary entries in our associated event, the “Some like it Hot” Chili Cook-off.
—From 1 to 4:30 pm: witness a spectacular blind forging battle. Individual blacksmith contestants will get 20 minutes to reproduce an object that they will not have seen; only touched and handled. A championship round will decide the victor.
—At 4:30 pm: raffle and prizes will be awarded!

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.

Do YOU wanna be the very best like no one ever was? Then bring your Pokémon cards to meet, compete, and trade with other collectors your age! All attendees will receive 1 card of their choosing from the librarian, while supplies last.
Parents and guardians note: Staff will not monitor individual card trades. Please use good judgment with cards that you/your children are not comfortable trading.