The Central Coast Section of the California Chapter of the American Planning Association is hosting its 4th Citizen Planning Academy this fall in San Luis Obispo.

The Academy will begin on September 26, 2019 and occur over 8 sessions on Thursday evenings from September to November (excluding October 31).

The Academy will cover a range of planning topics to help citizens understand local planning, how it impacts our lives, and the land use and resource issues that face our communities today. Each session will be taught by experienced and knowledgeable planners, as well as speakers from the community who are experts in the issue covered in that particular session. $40 for all sessions due at first class. Applications due Sept. 20.

Show Times: November 1 – November 17, 2019
Wed-Sat @ 7 pm
Sat & Sun @ 2 pm

A roller-coaster comic thriller!

Comfortably ensconced in his charming Connecticut home, Sidney Bruhl, a successful writer of Broadway thrillers, is struggling to overcome a dry spell which has resulted in a string of failures and a shortage of funds. A possible break in his fortunes occurs when he receives a script from a student in the seminar he has been conducting at a nearby college—a thriller that Sidney recognizes immediately as a potential Broadway smash. Sidney’s plan, devised with his wife’s help, is to offer collaboration to the student for co-credit. Or is it? This ingeniously constructed play offers a rare and skillful blending of two priceless theatrical ingredients: gasp-inducing thrills and spontaneous laughter.

This SLO REP production is directed by Kevin Harris and features Michael Brusasco* as Sidney Bruhl (last seen locally as Earnest in PCPA―Pacific Conservatory Theatre’s production of The Importance of Being Earnest) and Melinda Parrett* (last seen locally as Morticia in PCPA’s production of The Addams Family) as Myra. Cameron Parker (SLO REP’s The 39 Steps) plays Clifford, Zoia Wiseman is Helga and Tom Ammon (SLO REP’s Tuesdays with Morrie) is Porter.

Get ready for a blockbuster show San Luis Obispo!

The Downtown SLO Farmers’ Market is undoubtedly one of the most treasured events on the Central Coast and has a long history of bringing locals and visitors together to eat, shop, listen to music and connect with their community.

The Market takes place every Thursday evening from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM (weather permitting and excluding major holidays) on Higuera Street between Nipomo and Osos streets.

California Health & Safety Code 114259.5 stipulates that live animals aren’t allowed in certified farmers markets (such as ours) and permitted food facilities, with the exception of service animals. Fraudulently misrepresenting service animals is a misdemeanor (California Penal Code 365.7 [a]). Please, leave your pets at home to keep our Market clean and safe for all guests.

Free bike valet service on Morro Street sponsored by San Luis Ranch and operated by Bike SLO County

The Downtown Trolley operates every Thursday night from 5 PM to 9 PM on a 15-20 minute loop.

Parking is available on a first-come, first-served basis along surrounding side streets as well as in Downtown parking garages.

For more information about Downtown SLO Farmers’ Market please contact our Market Manager at (805) 541-0286 ext. 2 or [email protected]

Central Coast native Jay Carlon brings his work about his family’s Filipino migration story to the stage in his hometown at Cal Poly.

Cal Poly Ethnic Studies Department is bringing FLEX to Spanos Theatre on November 14 at 7:30 p.m.

FLEX—a dance theatre work in search of the Filipino American narrative—is an in-depth focus on colonization, obedience, resistance, and solidarity. The work is dedicated to director Jay Carlon’s father Honorio Carlon, part of the first large wave of Filipinos to migrate to the U.S. and the Central Coast in the 1920s as agricultural migrant workers. FLEX draws from Jay’s experiences as a competitive wrestler, where the characteristics and dynamics of wrestling parallel that of his multicultural identity as the youngest of 12 in a Filipino, Catholic, working class family. The performance originally premiered February 2019 at L.A. Dance Project Studios.

Jay Carlon is a contemporary choreographer, born and raised in Santa Maria, CA, and currently living and working in Los Angeles. In 2016, he started CARLON, a multidisciplinary dance company that creates evocative site-responsive theatre (www.jaycarlon.com).

FLEX is free and open to the public.

Spokes Resources for Nonprofits invites you to join other nonprofit leaders for an action-packed, hands-on professional event led by Beth Kanter.  Collaborate, learn, and grow as you enhance your skills as an empowered nonprofit leader!

Beth Kanter is an internationally recognized thought leader and trainer in networks, social media, philanthropy, and well-being in the workplace, Beth has worked in the non-profit sector for more than 35 years. She has facilitated training events on every continent in the world and was named one of the most influential women in technology by Fast Company and one of Business Weeks’s “Voices of Innovation for Social Media”.

Morning Workshop: Avoiding Burnout

Session-based on Beth’s most recent award-winning book, The Happy, Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact Without Burnout. Learn how to setup a simple process with maximum impact in your organization.

Afternoon Workshop: Digital Fundraising

Create your resilient digital strategy for online fundraising and marketing in this interactive session, then find out how to measure the results of your social media activities. Based on Beth’s book, Measuring the Networked Nonprofit

Spokes is the nonprofit resource center in San Luis Obispo County. Spokes provides support and expert resources to assist nonprofits to increase their capacity, build sustainability and reach their goals.

Nearly 300 Cal Poly students will be joined by Boston Brass at the university’s annual Bandfest concert!

The show will feature Cal Poly’s Wind Ensemble, Mustang Marching Band and Wind Orchestra. The Wind Orchestra will be conducted by Nicholas P. Waldron, Cal Poly’s new associate director of bands. Director of Bands Christopher J. Woodruff will conduct the Wind Ensemble. The evening will feature works ranging from the sublime to the powerful.

Members of Boston Brass — acclaimed for their musical brilliance, lively repartee, humor and personality — tour internationally and appear in over 100 annual solo and group performances for concerts, educational clinics, and jazz festivals. The group regularly performs with orchestras, wind ensembles, brass bands, marching bands and a variety of other ensembles.

Bandfest will begin with the Wind Orchestra’s performance of John Mackey’s “Until the Scars” and Ron Nelson’s “Courtly Airs and Dances.” The Wind Ensemble will continue with Roshanne Etezady’s “Shoutout” and Robert Kurka’s satirical suite from “The Good Soldier Schweik.”

Boston Brass will join the two bands with their arrangements of “Malagueña” and “Pluto: The Lost Planet.”

“We’re opening our season with a real bang,” said Woodruff. “We have Boston Brass on board to work with our students and present an amazing program. We’re also fortunate to welcome our alumni back for Homecoming weekend with this concert.”

The Mustang Band will conclude the concert with arrangements the group is performing at this fall’s football games in Spanos Stadium. Along with traditional school songs, the band will perform music by Blood, Sweat and Tears; Blue Swede; and The Who.

Tickets ($12 and $14 general, $9 and $12 students)