La Profesora del Mundo By Jim Logan • UCSB Sara Poot-Herrera has long had one foot in the U.S. and the other in Mexico. A professor in UC Santa Barbara’s Department of Spanish and Portuguese, she’s been a powerful champion…
Annual Golf Tournament to Benefit El Concilio Family Services of Oxnard OXNARD — El Concilio’s 6th Annual Golf Classic will take place on Friday, Sept. 27 at River Ridge Golf Course in Oxnard Club. Registration starts at 7:00 am, tee…
OXNARD — The Mixteco/Indígena Community Organizing Project (MICOP) is hosting its 9th annual Night in Oaxaca fundraiser event at the beautiful Olivas Adobe Aug. 16. The event includes authentic food, arts, crafts, and dancing from the region of Oaxaca. Come…
Editor’s note: Amigos805 welcomes local guest columns, letters to the editor and other submissions from our readers. All opinions expressed in submitted material are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the viewpoint of Amigos805. By David Magallanes •…
Cabrillo’s San Salvador: “The Pacific Heritage Tour 2019,” created and produced by Maritime Museum of San Diego, returns to Oxnard Channel Islands Maritime Museum Be part of history as Maritime Museum of San Diego’s full-scale replica of San Salvador, the…
Click here for the entire e-newsletter President’s Message Dear Friends, On Saturday, August 24, we will celebrate our 15th Annual Spirit Awards Gala for the first time in the beautiful City of Oxnard at the Embassy Suites by Hilton Mandalay…
Livable Communities Newsletter Vol. 13, No. 51 August 2019 Quick Links – See the Current State of the Region Report – Last Quarter’s Newsletter May 15, 2019 Join us at the Ventura County Civic Alliance! Welcome to Our Summer 2019 Livable Communities…
AGOURA — The Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Conejo Valley (BGCGCV) welcome local youth back to school providing an excellent and safe place for kids to thrive, while offering quality programs and enrichment classes to help build solid futures. The…
Community members relieved, urge speedy process VENTURA — The Newsom administration on Aug. 14 sent notices to Dow and other manufacturers of its intention to cancel all registrations of the neurotoxic pesticide chlorpyrifos, the formal start of proceedings to cancel…
The Museum of Ventura County at 100 E. Main St. in Ventura will be closed August 19 — September 20, 2019 for renovation. This exciting transformation will be complete in time for the opening of California Cool, a new exhibit…
OXNARD — Oxnard College is pleased to announce the grand opening ceremony of the Dream Resource Center at 3 p.m. on August 14. The ceremony will be at Oxnard College, 4000 S Rose Ave., Oxnard, in the Dream Resource Center. It…
VENTURA — Occasionally parents face difficult and desperate circumstances and find they are not ready or able to raise a newborn. These parents have the option under the Safely Surrendered Baby Law to legally and safely surrender their newborn baby within…
SANTA BARBARA — Family Service Agency (FSA), doing business as the Santa Maria Valley Youth & Family Center in north county, announces “The Good Life on the Central Coast” Photo Contest for 2019. Santa Barbara County residents of all ages are…
PORT HUENEME — Vendor applications are available for the 8th Annual Port of Hueneme Banana Festival set for Saturday, September 28. The festival is seeking vendors with banana-related merchandise as well as unique arts and crafts. Food and beverage vendors…
SANTA BARBARA — It’s not always easy for adolescent girls to feel “strong, smart and bold,” but administrators at Santa Barbara City College (SBCC) and local chapters of Girls Inc. joined forces this summer to make sure they grow up…
OXNARD — The Association of Mexican American Educators (AMAE), Oxnard Chapter, is proud to honor two outstanding high school seniors for their academic and community accomplishments. Honorees are Jazmine Lucente, student at Adolfo Camarillo High School, and Kassandra Barragan, student at…
Speech and Occupational Therapy Program Funded by CenCal Health SANTA BARBARA — Every week day this Summer, in a small nondescript office building on Santa Barbara’s Westside, young lives are transformed. Camp Mariposas provides speech, language and occupational therapies to…
Click here for the entire e-newsletter Join Us! We, at the Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara (MCASB), were thrilled to kick-off Fiesta weekend with the opening reception of Bloom Projects: Brian Rochefort, Absorption by the Sun! Not only…
“… A historic settlement negotiated with LA County to remove 1.5 Million inactive voter registration records. We are encouraged that LA County has begun compliance by mailing 1.6 million cards to registrants on the inactive list!” EIPCa President Linda Paine…
Santa Paula Art Museum Jeanette Cole Art Center & Cole Creativity Center The Art Auction Is August 10 This painting could be hanging in your home come Saturday night! Bread and Butter by Jessie Arms Botke, c. 1946, watercolor on…
By Andrea Estrada • UCSB The UC Santa Barbara Library and La Casa de la Raza have reached a new accord that signals another milestone in the preservation of local community history. At a public reception July 11 at La…
OXNARD —The Sight + Sound Film Festival, Oxnard’s newest film festival showcasing cutting edge independent cinema and presented by the Oxnard Performing Arts Center and Oxnard College, on Aug. 1 unveiled its film lineup for 2019. The first annual festival will…
VENTURA COUNTY — August 4th-10th, Clinicas del Camino Real, Inc. will host events in honor of National Health Center Week (NHCW)! Clinicas invites community members to join them for a Health Fair at Del Sol Park, in Oxnard, on Sunday August…
SANTA MARIA — Incoming freshman students heading towards ERHS, PVHS and SMHS will be “Rocketing into High School” on August 5thand 6th. Science teachers and students plan to explore the wonders of science and participate in the NGSS (Next Generation Science…
Editor’s note: Amigos805 welcomes guest columns, letters to the editor and other submissions from our readers. All opinions expressed in submitted material are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the viewpoint of Amigos805. By Armando Vazquez / Guest contributor Once…
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VENTURA — The Midtown Ventura Certified Farmers’ Market will welcome the Ventura County Mobile Library on Wednesday, August 28 from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. at the Pacific View Mall. The mobile library will be offering many of the main services…
Click here for the entire e-newsletter Opening this Week! Join us Thursday, August 1, 2019 from 7 – 9 pm for a reception celebrating the opening of the new MCASB exhibition, Bloom Projects: Brian Rochefort, Absorption by the Sun. RSVP Here On…
CAMARILLO — Studio Channel Islands Art Center (SCIART) has announced Dr. Joseph (Joe) Halcomb III and his wife Joani Halcomb as the recipients of the 2019 Medici Award, the highest recognition presented by SCIART. Each year SCIART’s board of directors…
OXNARD — Twelve food judges sampled 23 amateur salsa recipes and selected their favorites in the Oxnard Salsa Festival’s Amateur Salsa Recipe Contest. Judging took place at the festival on July 28. Here are the winners: Toni Becerra, Red Bluff…
Santa Paula Art Museum Jeanette Cole Art Center & Cole Creativity Center Free Family Day Join us for Free Family Day at the Santa Paula Art Museum on the first Sunday of every month from 12:00pm to 3:00pm! In addition…
CAMARILLO — CSU Channel Islands (CSUCI) senior Nik VanKeersbilck had just completed a long research shift on board the Swedish icebreaker Oden, so he was relaxing on the bridge, gazing out over the floating ice for wildlife. He had spent five…
Reception to be held July 12 SANTA BARBARA — Santa Barbara artist Marianna Victoria Mashek will bring her emotion-filled drawings and watercolor paintings to the Santa Barbara Tennis Club this summer, beginning with a July 12 reception to her solo…
SANTA BARBARA — The Santa Barbara Museum of Art will present “Hope Kingsley on Salt & Silver: Early Photography, 1840–1860” at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 8 at 1130 State St., Santa Barbara. A foremost expert on the history of photography’s first decades, Hope Kingsley, Curator,…
SANTA PAULA — Get your craft on in the Santa Paula Art Museum’s new, monthly “Crafty Creations” class for ages 12 and up starting September 12, 2019! Enjoy the satisfaction and creative expression of crafting with friends, playing with techniques and…
SANTA PAULA — On Thursday, September 12, 2019, artist Annie Hoffman will perform a public painting demonstration at the Santa Paula Art Museum starting at 2:00pm. Admission to the demonstration is free. Hoffman will talk about her methods and answer questions…
PORT HUENEME — Oceanview Pavilion Performing Arts Theatre by the Beach is proud to present Colors by the Sea Summer Art Walk and Craft Fest from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday Sept 14, at 575 E. Surfside Drive, Port Hueneme.…
SANTA BARBARA —¡Viva el Arte de Santa Barbara!’s 15th season opens with Mariachi Ángeles de Pepe Martinez, Jr. With more than 25 years as a leading member of Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán, Pepe Jr. brings experience, professionalism and leadership to…
SANTA PAULA — “Beyond Function: Fiber, Wood and Clay,” a multidimensional exhibition featuring the work of three local craftsman, will premiere Saturday, September 21, 2019, at the Santa Paula Art Museum. In exhibiting their respective wares alongside each other, weaver…
Local Adventures and Intimate Salons Provide Monthly Opportunities to Spread Powerful Ideas SANTA BARBARA — TEDxSantaBarbara, a locally organized offshoot of the international TED nonprofit, announces two new offerings to engage locals in spreading and activating powerful ideas year-round: Adventures and…
