Click here for more information SANTA PAULA ART MUSEUM JEANETTE COLE ART CENTER & COLE CREATIVITY CENTER Every week is full of great moments at the Santa Paula Art Museum. Below are our 5 best from last week. And…
VENTURA COUNTY — Clinicas del Camino Real Inc. celebrates National Health Center Week 2018 throughout Venetura County through Aug. 18. Clinicas del Camino Real, Inc. will host events throughout all 13 of its health centers, in honor of National Health Center…
National Campaign Celebrates HealthCare Heroes SANTA BARBARA — As part of a national campaign, Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics (SBNC) will be celebrating National Health Center Week 2018, from August 12th – 18th, with events to raise awareness about the mission…
Santa Barbara City College’s Community Newsletter Message From the President – August 2018 On August 2, we had a very special event at the Wake Campus. Enrique Morones, President and Founder of Border Angels, was the keynote speaker. Enrique helped…
VENTURA — Natalie Hernández has been named as the County’s Assistant Public Information Officer, a bilingual position intended to extend the County’s outreach into Spanish-speaking communities and support the overall public information program. Hernández graduated summa cum laude from Azuza…
SANTA BARBARA — Moriah Contreras is a self-confessed “Star Wars fan and space junkie” with hopes of having a career working for NASA one day. So when she was selected as one of 280 students from across the U.S. to be…
Decision confirms that California must also take action to protect communities now. Ventura County Coalition Advocating for Pesticide Safety (VC CAPS) is a local coalition in the CPR network. SACRAMENTO — Slamming the Trump administration’s repudiation of science, today the 9th Circuit Court of…
Annual Golf Tournament to Benefit El Concilio Family Services of Oxnard CAMARILLO — El Concilio Family Services has announced the Annual Golf Tournament, The Dr. Raymond F. Lopez Jr Golf Classic set to take place on Monday, August 27th at Spanish Hills…
Calling all enthusiast photographers SANTA BARBARA — Family Service Agency (FSA) of Santa Barbara County is launching “The Good Life on the Central Coast” Photo Contest for 2018. The contest invites Santa Barbara County residents with a creative spirit to share…
VENTURA — Donations and grants are turning the Ventura County Library System’s dream of a hi-tech bookmobile into reality. Following a four-year fundraising effort, the Ventura County Library Foundation presented a $100,000 check toward the purchase of the bookmobile to…
Exciting Courses This Fall! We here at OC LIVE just wanted to let you know that Oxnard College has some wonderful courses on offer this Fall in the Performing Arts Mariachi Ensemble – MUS R126 – CRN 73180 Our first Mariachi…
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SANTA BARBARA — On Sunday, August 5, the Boys & Girls Club of Santa Barbara celebrated the last day of Fiesta at their annual Fiesta Car Show. Over 400 car enthusiasts, local car clubs and community members rolled into the Club…
SANTA BARBARA — The Boys & Girls Club of Santa Barbara will be hosting their Annual Fiesta Car Show and Tri-tip Cook off from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 5 at 632 East Canon Perdido St. The Moose Lodge…
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VENTURA — The Ventura County Library has announced its first “One County, One Book” community reading program. One County, One Book aims to unite the Ventura County community around a common narrative, spreading interest in, and facilitating discussions about, the selected…
Editor’s Note: Recently we received a request by reader Isabel González to include a series of columns on Latino health. Isabel, age 13, who plans to be a doctor, even provided us with a link to a half-dozen Latino health websites. Thank…
CAMARILLO — Two longtime friends of CSU Channel Islands (CSUCI) will serve as co-presidents of the CSUCI Alumni & Friends Association Board. Longtime board member and well-known community activist Leah Lacayo and CSUCI alumnus Melissa Mirkovich-Scholes will serve together, both sharing a…
CARPINTERIA — Girls Inc. of Carpinteria is pleased to announce the election of a new board president, Theresa Huerta, and three newest members to its Board of Trustees: Dawn Howards, Chris Jacobs and Diana Rigby. Theresa Huerta is a seasoned,…
Community members are invited to attend the Foster Care Summit, designed to encourage and equip individuals who have a heart for foster care and adoption. VENTURA COUNTY — Child Hope Services and Foster VC Kids will host a Foster Care Summit, August…
Nerve agent chlorpyrifos is a Toxic Air Contaminant that threatens agricultural communities and harms children’s developing brains, state scientists agree SACRAMENTO — California took a step closer Monday to curbing the use of a pesticide linked to permanent brain harm, including…
VENTURA — La Hermandad Unidad de Escritores Latinos de Los Ángeles presentarán una feria del libro el 8 de septiembre, 2018, 12 pm, en el Bell Arts Factory, 432 N. Ventura Ave., #101, Ventura. Una presentación de poetas y escritores de condado…
CAMARILLO — Monday, September 17 at 6:30pm in the Community Room at the Camarillo Public Library. Mixtec is an indigenous language predominantly from Oaxaca, Mexico, yet the language has a strong presence in Ventura County and throughout California. This presentation will reifly…
CHEERS TO FIFTY YEARS – LOS ÁNGELES AZULES September 24, 2018 at 7 P.M. $39 | $59 | $79 at Oxnard Performing Arts Center, 800 Hobson Way in Oxnard. oxnardperformingarts.com Help us celebrate the opening of our 50th Anniversary…
VENTURA COLLEGE — Ventura College will host Dreamers Set Your Course, a series of free and safe events for the community to learn about resources available for undocumented students. These events will take place at Ventura High School on Sept. 20…
CAMARILLO — September 30 at 2pm, join us for Mariachi Camarillo to celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month. Fun and free for the whole family. For more information, visit the Camarillo Public Library at 4101 Las Posas Road, Camarillo. Call (805)-388-5222 or send…
Click here for more information SANTA PAULA ART MUSEUM JEANETTE COLE ART CENTER & COLE CREATIVITY CENTER Collection Has New Home Our permanent art collection has been moved next door to a more spacious home inside our new Cole…
Click here for the entire e-newsletter August Programs @ CAM Porfirio Gutierrez, artist, master weaver and advocate comes from a long line of traditional Zapotec weavers from Teotitlan del Valle, Oaxaca, Mexico where his family is still dedicated to…
By Talya Meyers • UCSB The third time’s the charm for populist candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador. After unsuccessful campaigns in 1994 and 2006, he has now become Mexico’s newest president, winning 53 percent of the vote. Considered an unconventional…
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OXNARD – How is broadband internet access working for you? The City of Oxnard wants to know. It is inviting businesses, institutions and other commercial organizations in Oxnard, Port Hueneme and the surrounding area to complete a broadband survey in order…
CAMARILLO — CSU Channel Islands (CSUCI)’s Celina Zacarias believes growing up in Oxnard’s La Colonia gave her the sense of community that helped earn her the 2018 Latino Leadership Award from the Pacific Coast Business Times. Zacarias, who serves as the Senior…
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Click here for the entire e-newsletter THIS WEEK @ CAM Summer education programs sizzle… don’t miss the last Free Farmer’s Market Art Booth and Art Lab! Art Lab Art Lab classes are where kids and their grownups can share…
Click here for more information Major funding for these programs is made possible by the City of San Buenaventura and the County of Ventura. Figure Drawing with Artist Ryan Carr Join the Museum’s Resident Artist Ryan Carr, 6 to 8 p.m., July…
CAMARILLO — CSU Channel Islands (CSUCI)’s Institute for Global Economic Research (IGER) will be examining economic issues closer to home under its new director, Assistant Professor of Economics Miguel Delgado Helleseter, Ph.D. “The main direction we’re taking is to give IGER more…
VENTURA — Pacific Coast Business Times is having its 7th annual Latino Business Awards and for its second year, presenting the Pacific Coast Business Times Scholarship. The scholarship is a partnership between the Business Times and Ventura County Community Foundation. We…
VCCF grant to help kidSTREAM explore kids’ dreams for museum design CAMARILLO — KidSTREAM, an emerging children’s museum, has been awarded a grant from the Ventura County Community Foundation in the amount of $30,000 to renovate the community room at the former Camarillo…
Discover Your Gift Through Artful Self-Expression at the Santa Paula Art Museum Saturday, July 21, 2018: 2:00pm to 3:00pm. Admission to the talk is included with regular museum admission, which is $4 for adults, $3 for seniors, and free for…
Reserve Your Premium Seating Now! Don’t miss your opportunity to purchase seats or tables ONLINE for the Friday Night Kick-Off Concert featuring Poncho Sanchez & his Latin Band! Get them now or it’s first-come, first serve at the gate on Friday night. Plus get your Club…
Santa Barbara Museum of Art — August – October 2018 events 1130 State St., Santa Barbara. Open Tuesday-Sunday 11 am – 5 pm, Free Thursday Evening 5 – 8 pm 805.963.4364 www.sbma.net Enjoy half-price admission in 2018! Exhibition Opening Childe…
Santa Barbara City College’s Community Newsletter Message From the President – July 2018 On a snowy winter evening in Reading, Pennsylvania, a small group of college students invented a movie game called the “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon.” The general…
By Jim Logan • UCSB The photos are chilling: Giant swathes of devastation in the Brazilian Amazon. Men hip-deep in the brown muck of the gouged and flooded earth. They are the scenes of illegal gold mining in “Garimpeiros: The Wildcat…
Community leaders will dance for the greater good during the 2018 Dancing with our Community Stars Dance Contest and Charity Fundraiser taking place during the 25th Annual Oxnard Salsa Festival. The 2018 line-up will take to the dance floor to raise much-needed…
SANTA BARBARA — SBCC’s School of Extended Learning Adult High School, GED and Bilingual GED students proudly turned their tassels June 29. For many, this was the first major step on a path to higher education. More than 40 students…
CAMARILLO — CSU Channel Islands (CSUCI) and three other universities will address a challenge they have in common with a $75,000 joint grant from the Educational Credit Management Corporation (ECMC) Foundation. CSUCI, CSU Northridge, CSU Fresno and Portland State University all have…
Hello lovers of Teatro/Theatre Teatro de las Américas did not get funding this year from the Oxnard City Cultural Arts Fund. I wrote the grant proposal and am studying the rationale for the low scores received. Of course I feel bad about…
By Ventura County Behavioral Health DID YOU KNOW? 81 people died by suicide in Ventura County in 2016. There has been a significant rise in suicide for middle-aged men. Nationally, it is the second leading cause of death for…
VENTURA — Mark Sandoval has been named as the new Channel Islands Harbor Director. The appointment was made by County Executive Officer Mike Powers and follows a nationwide recruitment that attracted applicants from across the country and internal candidates. Sandoval…
THIS WEEK @ CAM Free Family Day Spend an afternoon exploring, creating and letting your imagination soar. Drop in for free, hands-on family fun activities. Families with children of all ages and abilities are welcome. Saturday, July 7 noon –…
