Events for May 14, 2023
SLOMA Presents: Adam Parker Smith
This exhibition will feature several works made throughout the artist’s career as sort of a mid-career retorspective. Adam Parker Smith has a unique ability to address complex themes in a whimsical, light-hearted way that makes his work incredibly accessible. Adam Parker Smith is a sculpture and installation artist. He attended the University of California at Santa Cruz (BA Painting, 2000), the Tyler School of Art...
‘Bright Star’: A Bluegrass Musical! (Santa Maria Edition)
Steve Martin and Edie Brickell’s Grammy and Tony-nominated musical, Bright Star, weaves toe-tapping bluegrass and incredible true events into a rich, refreshingly genuine journey along the Blue Ridge Mountains. Starting at $25
Opening Minds: Community Arts Show
In partnership with SLO County Arts and The Bunker SLO, Transitions-Mental Health Association presents the Opening Minds Community Arts Show- an exhibit that will take place during the month of May in support of Mental Health Awareness Month! All events are held at The Bunker, 810 Orcutt Rd., San Luis Obispo, CA 93401
SLO Museum of Art Presents: And Also… By Charlie Rugg
The SLO Museum of Art is will be featuring the exhibit And Also... by Charlie Rugg from March 3rd until May 29th. Charlie Rugg is an abstract and portrait oil painter based in San Luis Obispo, California. Rugg’s work converges on exploring the collective nature of elements that make up human experience, and how they may be used to create a moment of perspective removed...
SLO Museum of Art Presents: Marcia Harvey and Elliot Perkins- Call and Response
Marcia Harvey and Elliot Perkins: Call and Response April 7, 2023 – July 3, 2023 11am-5pm daily In 1997, Elliott K. Perkins was working as a potter and ceramics lab technician at a small arts college in Portland, Oregon, when he met Marcia C. Harvey, who was there for the semester as an artist in residence in painting. Their first conversations were about art...
SLO Botanical Garden Spring Plant Sale
A wide variety of environmentally sustainable plants from the five Mediterranean climate zones (California, Chile, South Africa, Australia and the Mediterranean basin) perfectly suited for the Central Coast climate will be on display and for sale. The SLO Botanical Garden emphasizes education, horticulture, research, art, resource conservation, environmental stewardship, and community engagement. The Plant Sale is a key fundraising opportunity for the nonprofit organization. MEMBERS...
SLO Botanical Garden Faerie Festival
Spend your Mother’s Day in a magical way! Visit the first annual SLO Botanical Faerie Festival. Admission to the garden and all children’s activities, including crafts and musical performances, will be free! Come play with the faeries dressed in your favorite wings and flower crowns (or buy them here), enjoy special snacks, learn from our favorite faerie fanatic and celebrated children’s author, Sharon Lovejoy, and...
SLO REP Presents: A Doll’s House, Part 2
A slammed door. An awkward favor. And no, you don’t need to see Part 1. As a door slams in 1879 Norway, a young wife and mother leaves behind her family, freeing herself from the shackles of traditional societal constraints. Now, 15 years later, that same door opens to reveal Nora, a changed woman with an incredibly awkward favor to ask the people who she...
Opera SLO Presents: Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss II
Opera San Luis Obispo is thrilled to present an entirely new production of Johann Strauss II's comic masterpiece DIE FLEDERMAUS. Sung in English, our newly envisioned production updates the opera to a 1970's themed disco party while transforming Miossi Hall into San Luis Obispo's very own Studio 54! Make Mother’s Day Weekend 2023 a “forever memory” with an afternoon of laughs and tomfoolery set to...
M83 at Vina Robles
Today M83, aka Anthony Gonzalez, announces news of an extensive North American tour that will launch this April and run through the end of May, and includes a stop at Vina Robles Amphitheatre, Sunday, May 14. Tickets for the Vina Robles show are available via Ticketmaster, Friday, January 13, at 10AM. Also today, M83 announces the details of his new forthcoming full-length album, FANTASY, that will be released on March 17th, 2023 via Mute. In...