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.

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.

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

Enjoy rockin’ Irish pub songs, lively fiddle tunes, sea shanties and polkas with plenty of food and drink too!

This free 8-week class is for family, friends and significant others of adults with mental health conditions. The course provides evidence based information about anxiety, depressive disorders, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and other mental health conditions. Other topics covered include communication, problem solving, treatment and recovery. Registration required: email education.nami.sloco@gmail.com!

Morro Coast Audubon Society March Virtual Community Program presents David Johnson, California State Park Elephant Seal Docent, to learn all about the elephant seals at Hearst San Simeon State Park. Discover the fascinating life cycle, adaptations, and natural history of these marine mammals and why they come to local beaches. You can a find the link to join this program on the MCAS events calendar on our website https://www.morrocoastaudubon.org/. No registration is needed.

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.

Grants are a vital source of funding for nonprofit programs and services. However, diving into the application process without proper preparation can drain already limited resources. Understanding grant readiness, knowing what it takes to be fully prepared, and mastering the essential components of a successful application are critical for securing and managing funding opportunities effectively.
In this class, you will learn:
—Why it’s important to be grant-ready
—How to assess and improve your nonprofit’s grant readiness
—The checklist requirements to become grant-ready, from documentation to nonprofit-funder alignment
—Valuable tools and resources to propel successful grant applications.
This class is designed for nonprofit boards, executive directors and staff in charge of grant application.

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