Community Events
Events for May 8, 2026
SLO Regional Rideshare Presents: Bike Month Kick-Off Party
May is Bike Month across San Luis Obispo County! Join us in May for a month of celebration as we embrace the Pedal Power and enjoy the flowers of spring. Whether you bike for fun, fitness, or transportation, Bike Month is an invitation to connect with your community at events organized by local businesses, organizations, and people like YOU! Plus, you can log your trips at iRideshare.org to earn a...
Cuesta Drama: Spring Awakening
Experience an engaging evening of live performance at the Cuesta College Harold J. Miossi Cultural and Performing Arts Center. This event showcases the talent and creativity of Cuesta’s performing arts community, bringing together students, faculty, and guest artists for a memorable program. Join us for an inspiring night of music, theater, or artistic expression while supporting student programs and the local arts scene.
Bike Month: Branch Street Breakfast
We will either be making pancakes or homemade bagels for an awesome morning of community and bikes! For more information, please visit the link below.
Cal Poly Bike to School Breakfast
Cal Poly ITE is setting up a booth on Dexter Lawn to give out free breakfast to students who have biked to school for classes. We will serve breakfast through a cereal bar with cereal dispensers, cereal, milk, bowls, and spoons.
World Donkey Day Open House
Celebrate World Donkey Day at Rancho Burro! Celebrate the world’s most charming long-eared residents! Join us at Rancho Burro Donkey Sanctuary for a special Open House as we honor World Donkey Day. This is a rare opportunity to step behind the gates of our sanctuary, meet our resident donkeys and mules, and see firsthand the peace and healing that happens here every day. Pre-registration for...
Cal Poly Studio Art BFA Exhibition 2026
The opening reception for this year's exhibition will take place in the Dexter Art Gallery on Friday May 8th from 5-7pm.
Region SLO: Friday Night Live Music with Max MacLaury
Kick off your weekend with our Live Music Fridays at Region! We’ll be featuring fresh local artists you’ll want to hear again and again every other Friday. Settle in with a glass (or two) from our list of 50+ wines, explore local beers and ciders. Great music, great drinks, and an easygoing Friday night vibe—this is your new favorite way to start the weekend. For...
The Lifespan of a Fact
A whip-smart comedy of fact vs. fiction. Winner of the Ovation, Drama-Logue and Graland awards, Lifespan of a Fact tells the story of a fresh-out-of-Harvard fact checker for a prominent but sinking New York magazine. John D’Agata is a talented writer with a transcendent essay about the suicide of a teenage boy—an essay that could save the magazine from collapse. When Jim is assigned to fact check...
PCPA: Come From Away
In the wake of tragedy, kindness took flight. Come From Away is an uplifting, Tony-award-winning musical based on a real story. An average day in the isolated community of Gander, Newfoundland becomes a defining moment when 38 planes are suddenly grounded in the small town on September 11, 2001. The population of the remote Gander doubles overnight. But instead of panic, something remarkable happens. Undaunted...
Cal Poly Theatre & Dance: Hurricane Diane
Meet Diane, a permaculture gardener dripping with butch charm. She’s got supernatural abilities owing to her true identity—the Greek god Dionysus—and she's returned to the modern world to gather mortal followers and restore the Earth to its natural state. Where better to begin than with four housewives in a suburban New Jersey cul-de-sac? In this Obie-winning comedy with a twist, Pulitzer Prize finalist Madeleine George...