Community Events
Events for May 11, 2018
Cal Poly Kennedy Library Exhibit to Showcase Hip-Hop Culture
Showcasing the five elements of hip-hop culture: graffiti writing, breakdancing, deejaying, emceeing, and knowledge production — used to speak truth and justice to social ills in the U.S. and beyond. The public is invited to an opening reception from 4 to 6 p.m. Thursday, April 19, on the second floor of Kennedy Library. The reception will include performances by student emcees, deejays, spoken-word artists and...
Cal Poly University Art Gallery presents: the “2018 Juried Student Exhibition”
Gallery opening reception set for April 12 from 5-7 p.m. SAN LUIS OBISPO – Cal Poly’s University Art Gallery will present a vetted showcase of artwork made in the Art and Design Department, to run April 12 through May 11. A reception will be held at 5 p.m. Thursday, April 12, in the gallery, located on the ground floor of the Dexter Building (No. 34)....
ELECTRIC ABSTRACTIONS
EXHIBITS // ELECTRIC ABSTRACTIONS APR 20 - JUN 10 OVERVIEW // Electric Abstractions focuses on three California artists using computer technology to create contemporary fine art. Daniel Leighton, Robert Chapman, and Jayne Behman have been creating images digitally for years—drawing with digits and painting with pixels. Jayne Behman and Robert Chapman both have had formal training and years of experience and backgrounds in traditional studio...
LOST IN YONKERS
Pulitzer Prize winning drama TIME & DATE: May 4-20, 2018 7 pm – Wednesdays‒Sundays 2 pm– Saturdays and Sundays EVENT DESCRIPTION: SLO REP presents LOST IN YONKERS, playwright Neil Simon’s Pulitzer Prize winning comedy/drama about a family in 1940’s New York. LOST IN YONKERS runs May 4-20, 2018, Wednesdays‒Sundays at 7 pm and Saturdays and Sundays at 2 pm. LOCATION: San Luis Obispo Repertory Theatre,...
Cal Poly Theatre & Dance Present: Hookman
by Lauren Yee Thursday, May 10, 2018 at 8:00pm Friday, May 11, 2018 at 8:00pm Saturday, May 12, 2018 at 8:00pm Thursday, May 17, 2018 at 8:00pm Friday, May 18, 2018 at 8:00pm Friday, May 19, 2018 at 8:00pm Transitioning from home to university can prove challenging -- especially when facing homesickness, roommate relationships ... and an urban legend stalking those around you. Lauren Yee's...
Cal Poly’s Theatre and Dance DEpartment present: “Hookman”
Cal Poly’s Theatre and Dance Department will present Lauren Yee’s existential slasher comedy “Hookman” at 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, May 10-12 and 17-19, in the Spanos Theatre on campus. “Hookman” follows a group of women as they navigate their freshman year of college, exploring significant issues confronting students today in a manner that is simultaneously familiar and surreal. “Transitioning from home to university can...
Cal Poly presents: SUCCULENTOPIA!
Quality Student-grown Succulents Friday 4pm - 7pm Saturday 9am - 2pm Drive north on Highland from Hwy1 and it becomes Carta as it continues to a dead end at the Horticulture Unit. FOLLOW THE SIGNS! Mike Bush Lecturer Horticulture and Crop Science Department College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, California USA 805-452-6817
Cal Poly presents W. Terrence Spiller: Beethoven Piano Sonata Cycle III
Friday, May 11, 2018 7:30 p.m., Pavilion W. Terrence Spiller continues his exploration of Beethoven’s sonatas in a program of four works: Sonata in B-flat major, Op. 22 Sonata in C-sharp minor, Op. 27, No. 2 “Moonlight” Sonata in F Major, Op. 10, No. 2 Sonata in C Minor, Op. 111 Tickets ($14 general, $9 students)
Choirs Represent United States in France
Cuesta College’s top student choirs, the Chamber Singers and Vocé, will represent the United States at two festivals in France this summer. The groups are the only choirs from the United States invited to attend the 23rd Annual Festival International en Provence and Festival Choral en Aveyron, and Cuesta College is the only college performing at both. “In most of the world, the high schools,...