Events for April 23, 2022
SLO Museum of Art Presents | Faig Ahmed: Collision
The San Luis Obispo Museum of Art is pleased to present a solo exhibition of prolific contemporary artist Faig Ahmed. From his studio in Baku, Azerbaijan, Ahmed creates textile works that transcend and transform the history of carpet making in the region. Ahmed is interested in how the contemporary and the traditional collide to create something new that defies genres, borders, and even history. Ahmed...
Poem of the Body: David Limrite & Lena Rushing
POEM OF THE BODY: DAVID LIMRITE & LENA RUSHING Apr 1–May 29, 2022 This Nybak Gallery exhibition will feature two SLO County painters: David Limrite and Lena Rushing. David Limrite works primarily in graphite, charcoal, acrylic, and collage to create mysterious, dramatic, energetic, dark, and edgy mixed media figurative work. Lena Rushing’s work typically features a strong, unconventional female presence and relies heavily on symbolism....
Imprinted: Printmaking and Portraiture
The act of printmaking itself is intimate, from the laborious processes such as woodcarving, acid etching, and meticulous ink application, to the revealing of an image from a plate. These processes too are experimental and infinitely varied, with no two printmakers working in quite the same way. Similarly, portraiture has an individualistic, intimate, and vulnerable nature to it — whether it be sitting for a...
Earth Day at Laguna Lake Park
Fun and Free! Live music, kid's zone, food and drink, e-vehicles
Cal Poly Gender Equity Center Presents: Original Womxn’s Narratives
Sat, Apr 23, 2022 2:00 PM As a student-created, student-performed production at the intersection of social justice and theatre, OWN explores the countless stories of taking ownership of or defying expectations of gender. OWN features stories of being socialized as womxn or experiences of womxnhood in body, mind, and/or spirit, be that in past, present, future, and/or fluid. OWN centers stories from women-identified, femme, nonbinary/gender...
SLO Master Chorale Presents | The Letter and the Spirit: The Religious and Visionary Music of Ralph Vaughan Williams
There is no small irony in the fact that Vaughan Williams’s contributions to sacred music reveal a powerful understanding of and respect for religious faith, given his own lack of it. Yet in making his many contributions to hymnody and other genres of liturgical music—as well as non-liturgical pieces with sacred themes—Vaughan Williams hoped to elevate listeners to the same level of inspiration that he...
Cal Poly Arts Documentary Playing In Unison
We are thrilled to announce that the Foundation for the Performing Arts Center’s documentary film, Playing in Unison, will premiere on April 23! Playing in Unison tells the story of a small, arts-loving community on the Central Coast determined to build a world-class performing arts center. Through their efforts, the Performing Arts Center opened its doors in 1996 and has hosted over 5,000 performances, attended...
FPAC Documentary Film Premiere: Playing in Unison
Foundation for the Performing Arts Center presents: Playing in Unison Sat, Apr 23, 2022 7:30 PM We are thrilled to announce that the Foundation for the Performing Arts Center’s documentary film Playing in Unison has been completed and will premiere on April 23! Playing in Unison began as the story of a small, arts-loving community on the California Central Coast determined to build a world-class performing arts center. As the...
Cal Poly Gender Equity Center Presents: Original Womxn’s Narratives
Sat, Apr 23, 2022 7:00 PM As a student-created, student-performed production at the intersection of social justice and theatre, OWN explores the countless stories of taking ownership of or defying expectations of gender. OWN features stories of being socialized as womxn or experiences of womxnhood in body, mind, and/or spirit, be that in past, present, future, and/or fluid. OWN centers stories from women-identified, femme, nonbinary/gender...
Vina Robles Amphitheatre Presents: Alice Cooper with Ace Frehley
NEW ALBUM DETROIT STORIES OUT NOW Cooper, a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, usually spends up to six months a year on the road, bringing his iconic band of rock psycho-drama to fans both old and new, enjoying it as much as the audience does. Known as the architect of shock rock, Cooper (in both the original Alice Cooper band and as...