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...

Abandon the silverware and enjoy steaming lobster, prawns, corn-on-the-cob, artichokes, potatoes, and garlic as they are ceremoniously poured from huge cooking pots down the middle of butcher paper-covered tables. Sip on perfectly paired Chamisal wines as you dig in and socialize with friends and the Chamisal team. 6:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

Every Spring, Transitions-Mental Health Association (TMHA) hosts the “Strike Out Stigma” Bowl-a-thon to raise funds and awareness for mental wellness on the Central Coast. Dozens of local businesses treat their teams to a fun day for an important cause. Every team of five can play for $500--and there’s no limit to the number of teams you send. Each team gets to roll two games while...

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...

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...

Join us at the 2023 May Entrepreneurship Forum where you will meet the Summer Accelerator teams before they embark on their journey! The Summer Accelerator is an intensive 12-week program that provides Cal Poly students and recent graduates with the resources needed to turn their startup ideas into real, scalable businesses, including $10,000 in seed funding.

To register for this free event, call 855-916-0219, or visit TenetHealthCentralCoast.com/Events Early detection can save your life. Skin cancer is the most common cancer in the United States, with millions of cases diagnosed yearly. It’s also one of the most preventable cancers and highly treatable when found early. During our free skin cancer screening event, a dermatologist will perform a complete body examination in a...

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...

Bay Area rock band Whiskerman is coming to Bang the Drum for a show you won't forget! Max MacLaury (full band) will be opening for them. See the website for details and to purchase tickets.

*Single tickets to The Book of Mormon will be available on Monday, August 15The New York Times calls it “the best musical of this century.” The Washington Post says, “It is the kind of evening that restores your faith in musicals.” And Entertainment Weekly says, “Grade A: the funniest musical of all time.” Jimmy Fallon of The Tonight Show calls it “Genius. Brilliant. Phenomenal.” It’s THE BOOK OF MORMON, the nine-time Tony Award-winning...