Downtown SLO is excited to welcome our community back to the Market. After more than a year of non-operation and reduced capacity as an essential market due to COVID-19, Downtown SLO is thrilled to announce that the Thursday Night Farmers’ Market has returned to full operations, taking over five blocks of Higuera street every Thursday beginning June 17 from 6-9 pm. In addition to the Certified Farmers Market section, which features 25-30 produce vendors each week, Market visitors can now expect to see the following types of vendors when they come Downtown on Thursday nights:

• Certified Farmers offering fresh local produce
• Food Artisans offering pre-sealed to-go food items/ingredients such as bread, pastries, salsa, and more.
• Craft/Home goods such as soap, salves, candles, and more.
• Hot/Cold food, including BBQ, Korean, Indian, tamales, donuts, and more.
• Entertainment, including market favorites like Lord of the Cello (electric cello), Derek Derek (acrobats and juggling), comedy acts, rock covers and more.

Vendors and Entertainment Market Map

In accordance with the state of California reopening guidelines, masks and social distancing will not be required at the Market.

For more information on the market please visit DowntownSLO.com/farmers and follow @DowntownSLOFarmersMarket

• BLOOM Cleanse

• • Date: Mar 20 – Apr 3
  • Time: pickup between 7:30-10am
  • Description: An all-inclusive cleanse designed to detox, awaken, and expand in alignment with the Spring Equinox. You may choose to participate for 5, 10, or 15 days. Daily pickup between 7:30 – 10:00 am with instructions, affirmations, & Ayurvedic advice. All meals prepared in reusable containers.  Participants will receive a Bliss Product Swag Bag and gain free access to our BLOOM classes: Sustainable Gut Health Workshop with Chloe on March 24, Yoga to Awaken with Palaka on March 29, and Dance Flow with Dara on April 3.
  • Price:
    • Phase 1: DETOX – $195
    • Phase 2: AWAKEN: – $220
    • Phase 3: EXPAND – $300
    • Full BLOOM Cleanse – $665
  • Tickets

Friday, May 27, 2022
7:30 p.m., Performing Arts Center

We celebrate our return to sharing music with our audiences with this final concert of the Cal Poly Bands’ season!

Music is often often described in visual language: color, shade, structure, bright vs. dark, etc. The works presented for this concert are either inspired by imagery or meant to sculpt something new in the mind’s eye.

Composers featured on this program include Katahj Copley, Nicole Piunno and John Williams.

Tickets ($15 and $20 general, $10 students)

The Central Coast Cactus & Succulent Society will hold their annual show and sale at the Nipomo High School in Nipomo, CA on Saturday and Sunday, May 28 and 29, 2022 (Memorial Day Weekend).  Nipomo High School is located at 525 N Thompson Ave.  Hours for the show & sale are 10 am – 5 pm Saturday and 10 am – 4 pm on Sunday.  The show features hundreds of cacti and succulents in 70 different classes.  Admission to the show is free.

The sale portion of the show consists of a variety of dealers in rare and hard to find cacti and succulents and several specialty potters who bring an amazing variety of hand-made ceramic planters to the show.  Sunday afternoon at 1:00 pm, the Society holds an auction of show-quality plants that encourages lively bidding.

For more information on the show & sale, please contact Loring Manley at [email protected].  For pictures of our 2019 show, see the CCCSS website at www.centralcoastcactus.org.

Saturday, May 28, 2022
7:30 p.m., Spanos Theatre

The season finale will feature Cal Poly’s Jazz Ensemble and Vocal Jazz Ensemble. The concert will celebrate the vocal ensemble’s first single, an arrangement of Esperanza Spalding’s “Sunlight” by Director of Jazz Studies Arthur White. The single comes in anticipation of a new album by the Vocal Jazz Ensemble, which will feature special guests Kim Nazarian and Darmon Meader of the acclaimed New York Voices, in addition to Grammy Award-winning drummer Gregg Bissonette.

Tickets ($20 general, $10 students and Jazz Federation members)