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

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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.
Major funding for these programs is made possible by the City of
San Buenaventura, the County of Ventura and private and community donors.