One of the country’s most popular plays is set to premier at the Great American Melodrama in Oceano: Robert Harling’s Steel Magnolias. This charming comedy about the bonds of friendship spawned the popular Oscar-nominated film version and follows the same story. “It’s a delightful play to open our season with. It’s so funny, so well-written, and the best actors wanted to work on the project,”...

Télévoix’ is a group of artworks about the shadows of images, the emptiness and mystery that poses -- thinking about the presence, thickness and material of images, whose pixels have none of those things,” Fu said. The exhibition consists of a video on a monitor, a projected video of fake shadows, an image-based sculpture in a corner, and a large double-sided curtain. Fu is an associate professor of art at the University of San Diego and...

OVERVIEW // AWAKEN is a year-long program celebrating art and community expressed through the imaginative creations of our county's students. Three student exhibitions will be displayed at SLOMA throughout the year—High Schools in the Fall; Middle Schools in the Winter; Elementary Schools in the Spring. AWAKEN is presented in partnership with the San Luis Obispo County Office of Education. Dozens of studies demonstrate a strong correlation...

Cuesta College invites the public to attend a groundbreaking ceremony for the new Measure-L funded R & B Shultz Early Childhood Education (ECE) Center at the North County Campus in Paso Robles. The event will be held at 3:00 p.m. this Friday, February 1st and will include a brief program, light refreshments, and a fun activity for the children enrolled at the current ECE Center....

JOIN US EVERY MONTH TO CELEBRATE ART AND LOCAL ARTISTS! From 6 to 9 pm, downtown comes alive with new art exhibits, performances, music, and community. Visit dozens of galleries and non-traditional exhibit spaces. It’s everyone’s favorite night of the month to celebrate art for free. On a typical Art After Dark, approximately 30 venues including galleries, restaurants, salons, and boutiques spotlight the best of...