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 Drama Department’s production of Ghost Ship has been chosen to compete for national awards at the 2019 Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KCACTF) in Los Angeles from February 12-16. The production made its debut at Cuesta College in November of 2018.  Prior to the festival, the cast and crew will remount the production at the Harold J. Miossi Cultural and Performing Arts Center’s Experimental Theater. The...

Studies clearly demonstrate the importance of branding when it comes to things like visibility, image, marketing effectiveness, and (of course) revenue. Or, to put it another way, branding is crucial to business growth. Why then do so many businesses seem to place so little importance on their brand? In this workshop, Tony de la Riva of de la Riva Brands will discuss branding, its role...

  FULL - Mushroom Discovery Friday, February 8, 20195:30 PM Sunday, February 10, 20194:00 PM Google Calendar  ICS WITH AUTHOR, CHRISTIAN SCHWARZ Are you mystified by the seasonal appearance of mushrooms? Have you always been interested, but daunted by the complexity of fungal forms? Well, now is the time to get some in-depth and hands-on training on mushroom identification! The Garden is excited to welcome Christian...

Levity® Academy, San Luis Obispo, a 1,250-square-foot aerial silks and circus arts studio in San Luis Obispo, celebrates the beauty of love this Valentine’s Day season with “Hearts Above,” a choreographed aerial arts show performed by aerial dancers and acrobats of all ages on silks, hoops, ropes and more. The studio performance is appropriate for the whole family and takes place at 207 Suburban Road, San Luis Obispo on Friday, February 8 and Saturday, February 9, 2019, starting at 7 p.m. (doors open...

Several of Cal Poly’s finest student music ensembles will perform traditional and contemporary chamber music at 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 8, at Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa. “A Night at the Mission” will feature performances by a chamber wind ensemble, woodwind quintet, saxophone quartets, a large clarinet ensemble and a brass choir. This annual event has long been a favorite of student performers and...