SLO Box Art is defined as “temporary public art” which provides for the opportunity to “refresh” periodically with new public art approximately every 5 years. In response, the City will be working this spring/summer 2016 on refreshing the original box art collection. The City is currently soliciting proposals to repaint 17 of the first-phase of utility boxes, in addition to 4 second-phase utility boxes that...

Ever-popular, our camps are a blast! Camps are usually 1-2 weeks in length and vary in content. Camps always conclude with a final celebratory performance for friends and family!

A collection of layered, broken narrative paintings of wasteland fairy tales by Los Angeles based artist Camille Rose Garcia will be on exhibit February 29 – March 25 at Cuesta College’s Harold J. Miossi Art Gallery. As the child of a Mexican activist filmmaker father and a muralist/painter mother, Garcia’s works are influenced by William Burroughs’ cut-up writings and surrealist film, as well as vintage...

In conjunction with the Central Coast Watercolor Society, SLOMA presents Aquarius 2016, a Pacific regional exhibition of the best in watercolor. This year’s juror, Chris Van Winkle, selected the artwork. He was a California scene painter who taught art for over 30 years at Citrus College in Los Angeles as well as jurying the annual exhibitions of Watercolor West and the Watercolor Societies of Oregon,...

The Rhinoceros Project is a large-scale installation by the Central Coast Sculptors Group paying homage to the Northern White Rhino, tragically on the brink of extinction.

The Great American Melodrama presents the new musical A Dog’s Life performs March 10 through April 24. Performances are Wednesdays through Fridays at 7 p.m., Saturdays at 3 and 7 p.m., and Sundays at 6pm (On Thursday March 24, a 2pm matinee will replace the 7pm performance). The Melodrama’s in-house snack bar features great food and drinks served before the show and during intermissions. Tickets...

Employment Development Department invites you to attend at No Charge an Employee or Independent Contractor Seminar March 15, 2016 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. America’s Job Center of California 880 Industrial Way San Luis Obispo, CA 93401 To make reservations, visit the EDD website at www.edd.ca.gov/Payroll_Tax_Seminars/ or call 866-873-6083.

At work, have you ever experienced your own “Dark Alley” or been challenged by … • growing your team and business, but still not getting the results or profit you desire? • constantly putting out fires and becoming too engrossed in the day-to-day tactics to strategize? Join us for our second no-host Cocktails with a Consultant event to share what growing pains and hurdles you...

This year’s book is The Barbarian Nurseries. The novel – written by Pulitzer Prize winning L.A. Times journalist Hector Tobar – focuses on the theme of being an immigrant in the U.S. today. Tobar’s visit to Cuesta College will take place on Tuesday, March 15, 5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m., in the Cultural and Performing Arts Center. General admission tickets are $5. Tickets for Cuesta...

(Not a film)

This glorious wood-burning rig will pull up to The Station every Tuesday from 5-8 PM where the super talented Alyx Gille of Good Tides Organic will be preparing some wholesome, creative, delicious fare. In addition, she’s setting up a dessert table in the shop for her cakes and cookies and breads from Little Red Hen and… Oh friends, it’s like a bake sale but YUMMIER....

Located halfway between San Francisco and Los Angeles, surrounded by lush vineyards, ranchland and a 100-mile coastline, the San Luis Obispo International Film Festival (SLOIFF) is headquartered in the quaint, sophisticated downtown of San Luis Obispo on the spectacular Central Coast of California. As a premiere 6-day annual event, the SLOIFF showcases contemporary and classic film screenings in a wide variety of venues, from the...

Classical music or comedy? It’s both when madcap musical virtuosi Igudesman & Joo bring serious fun to this concert. With goofball schtick and genreblurring musical montages that smash the stereotypes of classical music, these YouTube favorites mix music, comedy and theatre with inspired lunacy. (Think Mozart meets Monty Python! “South Park” meets Bach! Victor Borge in the 21st Century!) And Now Mozart will turn the...

On Tuesday, March 15, 2016, 7:30 p.m. at the Performing Arts Center, Cal Poly Arts presents “AND NOW MOZART” starring violinist Aleksey Igudesman and pianist Hyung-Ki Joo, the inventive comic duo whose hilarious mix of music, pop culture and pure zaniness has won them fans of all ages and cultures worldwide. Highly-trained musicians, Igudesman & Joo’s inspired silliness can start with Rachmaninoff or Liszt and...

This event brings together trivia aficionados, boneheads, and the chic geek for a night of boisterous fun!