Michael’s Arts and Crafts presents arts and crafts events for kids, including a “Free Family Craft Time Event” Aug. 10. A “Kids Club Bookmark Event” is Aug. 17 from 10 a.m. to noon. Each event runs from 10 a.m. to noon in half-hour sessions at Michael’s Art and Crafts, 1934 S. Broadway, Santa Maria. More […]
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Celebrate local films
The San Luis Obispo International Film Festival presents “SLO County on the Silver Screen,” a film screening series celebrating films shot and made locally, as part of the festival’s 20th anniversary. A screening of Cecil B. DeMille’s 1923 silent production of The Ten Commandments, which was filmed in the Guadalupe Dunes, will be screened on […]
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Lompoc Civic Theatre needs actors
The Lompoc Civic Theatre is holding a casting call for an original play by Paul Allen Thornton titled Audition for Murder. The play is set to run in October; the auditions will happen Aug. 13 and 14 at 7 p.m. at the Stone Pine Hall, 210 South H St., Lompoc. The play calls for seven […]
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Eyes on the sky
The Tri Valley Modelers invite the community to observe–and even shoot down–RC model planes for National Model Aviation Day
It’s not every day pilots invite people to come over and shoot at their planes, but the Tri Valley Modelers are doing just that. True, they may not be sitting in the craft they’re piloting, but they’re maneuvering them nonetheless. And they’re so confident in their skills that they’re inviting locals to come try their […]
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Garbage no more
The Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes Center and Guadalupe Cultural Arts and Education Center present ‘reTHINK’
Even a single piece of trash has ramifications, whether the careless litterer thinks so or not. An environment cluttered with foreign objects, be they single-use plastics or tin cans, isn’t in its purest state. But two Guadalupe nonprofits are providing a home for an exhibit that makes use of such discarded waste, transforming it into […]
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Talent through the ages
Lompoc Youth Theater provides a professional theater experience to its students and audiences with Beauty and the Beast, Jr.
The words “youth theater” may conjure, for some, images of construction-paper set pieces, forgotten lines, and terrified-looking kids in costume. Joyce Mayhew, artistic director of the Lompoc Youth Theater, hopes to dispel any such myths theatergoers have about youth theater with her program’s upcoming production of Beauty and the Beast, Jr. “I feel like there […]
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Get the whole family involved
Michael’s Arts and Crafts presents arts and crafts events for kids, including a “Kids Club Handy Growth Chart Event” on Aug. 3. A “Free Family Craft Time Event” is Aug. 10. Each event runs from 10 a.m. to noon in half-hour sessions at Michael’s Art and Crafts, 1934 S. Broadway, Santa Maria. More info: 349-8801.
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PCPA ‘olds auditions for Mary Poppins
The Pacific Conservatory for the Performing Arts is in need of two young actors to play the roles of Jane and Michael Banks, the young children cared for in the play Mary Poppins, as well as young ensemble cast. Auditions are to be held on Aug. 10 from 10 a.m. to noon at the Columbia […]
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Take a night out
The City of Santa Maria Police Department, Recreation and Parks Department, and the People for Leisure and Youth (PLAY, Inc.) have joined forces to provide a fun and safe event celebrating the National Night Out on Aug. 6 from 4 to 8 p.m. Festivities will include free food and beverages, activities for youth, commercial and […]
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Santa Maria Arts Council calls for artists
The Santa Maria Arts Council is presenting its 2013 Birdhouse Fundraiser, which features 10 birdhouses painted by local artists to be raffled at the annual Autumn Arts Grapes and Grains Festival in October. The arts council currently needs artists to volunteer their talents in painting a birdhouse. Only five of the 10 birdhouses have been […]
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Local Notes: Lend me your ears
The Santa Maria Town Center offers live piano music on the weekends by yours truly
Sometimes, unavoidably, I appear as part of my reporting. I may be a writer, but I was a musician first, and I can’t help but have a foot each in the local art and music communities. Your humble columnist has performed Handel’s Messiah with the Allan Hancock College Singers and Santa Maria Philharmonic Orchestra, was […]
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Hancock students’ watercolor paintings featured in Santa Maria Public Library art show ‘Tuesdays with Marti’
It’s never too late to try your hand at art, or to return to a passion that got put on the back burner of life. At least that’s the attitude of many of Marti Fast’s students in her Allan Hancock College Community Education watercolor class, which currently has a show hanging at the Santa Maria […]
