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Museum of Ventura County — THIS WEEKEND: Grab & Go Bag Giveaway!

by Community Contributor • April 27, 2021 • Comments Off

THIS WEEKEND!

“Small Footprints”

Grab & Go Bags

Community Member,

Join us at the Agriculture Museum (926 Railroad Ave., Santa Paula) this Saturday, May 1st @ 10am and at the Museum of Ventura County (100 E. Main St., Ventura) this Sunday, May 2nd @ 10am for our next Grab & Go Bag giveaway!

Discover creative ways to help protect our planet by using the 3Rs: Reducing, Reusing, and Recycling. Each fun-filled bag contains Small Footprints: Mateo Learns About the 3Rs storybook, Small Footprints: Activity and Coloring booklet, Paper Populous Garbage Truck Favor Box Craft, Food Forward’s Get Crafty with Your Food Waste Recipes, Play-Well TEKnologies wrist band, Compost Circle of Life, Composting at Home!, and so much more.

PLUS! When you pick-up your Grab & Go Bag, you’ll discover how you can enter to win a Play-Well TEKnologies LEGO Summer Camp Scholarship at either museum location this Summer!

Grab & Go Bags

Small Footprints

Saturday, May 1st @ 10am

(While supplies lasts)

Agriculture Museum

926 Railroad Ave.

Santa Paula, CA

Grab & Go Bags

Small Footprints

Sunday, May 2nd @ 10am

(While supplies lasts)

Museum of Ventura County

100 E. Main St.

Ventura, CA

Grab & Go Bags are brought to you in part by the

generous support of EJ Harrison & Sons

2021 Programming at the Agriculture Museum is

supported by Topa Topa Flywheelers

Coming Soon

Upcoming Zoom Programming

Changemakers Series:

Local Heroes Battling Climate Change

Thur., April 29, 2021 @ 6:30PM on Zoom

You are invited to join us on Thursday, April 29, 2021 from 6:30—7:30PM for Changemakers: Local Heroes Combatting Climate Change. Admission is free with registration.

Panelists include Dr. Chris Funk, Director of the Climate Hazard Center at UCSB and author of Drought, Flood, Fire: How Climate Change Contributes to Recent Catastrophes, Hans Cole, Director of Environmental Campaigns and Advocacy at Patagonia, Florencia Ramirez, Ventura County Climate Emergency Council and author of Eat Less Water, and Michelle Stevens, Founder of the Refill Shoppe, public artist and environmental activist.

JUST ADDED! Kristine McDivitt Tompkins, president and co-founder of Tompkins Conservation, an American conservationist, and former CEO of Patagonia, has been added to the panel.

Local History

Happy Hour

with José Alamillo

Tue., May 4, 2021 @ 5PM on Zoom

Join us for the next installment in our new Zoom series, Local History Happy Hour with José A. Alamillo on Tuesday, May 4, 2021 from 5—6PM. In this series, local authors and historians will sit down with The Barbara Barnard Smith Executive Director Elena Brokaw to discuss their unique perspectives on our region’s history, and take questions from the audience.

This online program is free, but requires advanced registration.

José A. Alamillo is professor of Chicana/o Studies at California State University Channel Islands (Camarillo, CA) and author of Making Lemonade out of Lemons: Mexican American Labor and Leisure in a California Town and co-author of Latinos in U.S. Sport. He is a consultant on Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History exhibition on Latinos and Latinas in baseball.