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Ventura County officials to celebrate ‘Giving Tuesday’ on Dec. 1 at Santa to the Sea starting line

by Amigos805.com • November 29, 2015 • Comments Off on Ventura County officials to celebrate ‘Giving Tuesday’ on Dec. 1 at Santa to the Sea starting line

Ceremonial ribbon cutting and toy drive kick off “12 Days of Giving” at iconic Santa Claus Park OXNARD — Ventura County Fifth District Supervisor John C. Zaragoza and Ventura County CEO Mike Powers will be joined by county non-profit organizations, local…

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by Amigos805.com • January 1, 2025

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Jan. 13 — Ventura County Taxpayers Association (VCTA) Annual Meeting

by Community Contributor • January 1, 2025

Cheers to 79 years…

Jan. 13 — Bilingual report — Ventura to host King Tides event

by Community Contributor • January 1, 2025

VENTURA — Community members are invited to join the City of Ventura and local environmental partners to observe the King Tides event at the Ventura Promenade on Monday, January 13, 2025, starting at 9:00 a.m.

This engaging and educational event highlights the extraordinary natural phenomenon of King Tides when the alignment of the sun and moon increases the ocean’s gravitational pull. This event also explores how rising sea levels could impact our local coastline.

Jan. 15 — CLU School of Management to present ‘Life in Tune with Freddie Ravel’

by Community Contributor • January 1, 2025

Jan. 15 — CLU School of Management to present ‘Life in Tune with Freddie Ravel’

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Jan. 16 — Economic Development Collaborative (EDC) presenting Navigating the 2025 Employment Law Landscape: Key Updates and Insights

by Community Contributor • January 1, 2025

Schneiders & Associates, in partnership with the Ventura Chamber of Commerce and SCORE, invites you to the Annual Employment Law Update! This in-person event offers a comprehensive overview of the latest employment laws and practical insights to help your business stay compliant and ahead of the curve. This essential event covers critical topics like NLRB rulings, freelance protections, handbook updates, travel time rules, and IRS mileage rates.

Jan. 17 — Museum of Ventura County announces new exhibition, What is Beauty? Rethinking Women’s Portraiture in Art

by Community Contributor • January 1, 2025

VENTURA COUNTY — Opening Jan. 17, 2025, Museum of Ventura County invites you to experience What is Beauty? Rethinking Women’s Portraiture in Art, an engaging exhibition that challenges conventional notions of beauty through women’s portraiture. Featuring fourteen works by Ventura County artists from the Museum’s permanent collection, the exhibition explores how beauty is shaped by culture, media, and personal experience.

Jan. 19 — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present Miró Quartet String Quartet Chamber Music Concert

by Community Contributor • January 1, 2025

Jan. 19 — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present Miró Quartet String Quartet Chamber Music Concert

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Jan. 20 — Oxnard Film Society to present ‘OH CANADA’

by Community Contributor • January 1, 2025

Fiery but feeling his years and his illness, ailing filmmaker Leonard Fife (Richard Gere) wants to tell his life story, unfiltered, before it’s too late. As the director of lauded documentary exposés, he has much to be proud of, but his avoidance of the Vietnam War draft and his past relationships harbor thorny truths. Finally choosing to reveal the truth and lies in his life and career, Leonard sits for an extended filmed interview with his former student Malcolm (Michael Imperioli), charging ahead with candid stories about his younger self (Jacob Elordi) in the fractious 1960s and beyond. At Leonard’s insistence, his wife and indispensable partner, Emma (Uma Thurman), hears it all. Leonard’s successes are held up against his failings–the fibs held up against the facts–and as the man in full is cleansed of the myth, Leonard must confront what is left.

Jan. 21 — UCSB Arts & Lectures presents ‘An Evening with Esther Perel: The Future of Relationships, Love & Desire’

by Community Contributor • January 1, 2025

Jan. 21 — UCSB Arts & Lectures presents ‘An Evening with Esther Perel: The Future of Relationships, Love & Desire’

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Jan. 21 — UCSB Arts & Lectures presents the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment featuring Julia Bullock, soprano at The Lobero Theatre

by Community Contributor • January 1, 2025

Jan. 21 — UCSB Arts & Lectures presents the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment featuring Julia Bullock, soprano at The Lobero Theatre

Click here for tickets, more information.

Jan. 24 — UCSB Arts & Lectures kicks off its intimate Hear & Now concert series with rising star pianist Alexander Malofeev at Hahn Hall, Music Academy of the West

by Community Contributor • January 1, 2025

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Jan. 25 — Trae Crowder – Just Announced! Lobero Theatre in Santa Barbara

by Community Contributor • January 1, 2025

SATURDAY, JANUARY 25th

Lobero Theatre

Santa Barbara

TICKETS NOW ON SALE.

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For a full list of Trae Crowder’s tour dates and tickets, please visit TraeCrowder.com

Jan. 25 — Oxnard Performing Arts Center Corp. presenting NATIVE PLANT FEST 2025 Encourages Wellness through Nature

by Community Contributor • January 1, 2025

OXNARD — The Oxnard Performing Arts Center Corporation (OPAC) is proud to present its 4th Annual NATIVE PLANT FEST on Saturday, Jan. 25, 2025, from 11 AM to 4 PM. This family-friendly event is free and open to the public, inviting our community to celebrate and showcase local plant-inspired culture, food, traditions, and creativity. The festival offers a rich array of plants, services, artwork, culinary creations, products, and educational resources.

Jan. 25 — UCSB Arts & Lectures presents irreverent humorist and New York icon Fran Lebowitz at UCSB’s Campbell Hall

by Community Contributor • January 1, 2025

SUMMARY

UCSB Arts & Lectures presents Fran Lebowitz
Sat, Jan 25 | 7:30 p.m. | UCSB Campbell Hall (very limited availability)
Irreverent humorist and New York icon Fran Lebowitz shares her unapologetic opinions and dry social commentary on American life
Lebowitz will participate in a short moderated conversation followed by a lively 60-minute audience Q&A and a book signing
$37.50 – $67.50 General Public / $15 UCSB students (Current student ID required) (very limited availability)
Tickets & Info: www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu or (805) 893-3535

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Through Jan. 26 — Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara’s ‘Húóng Ngô: Core Memory’ now on view

by Community Contributor • January 1, 2025

H??ng Ngô: Core Memory is an exhibition that synthesizes the artist’s reflections on her family’s time in refugee camps in Hong Kong and their experiences as new immigrants in the US. Woven throughout the exhibition is a series of cyanotypes created solely from sunlight and water at the edge of a body of water. An image of the weather and waves of the day, they are also stand-ins for the refugee body, battered by the elements and an artifact of their resilience. Read more >

Jan. 30, 31 — Ventura Music Festival — See you next year! (see upcoming events)

by Community Contributor • January 1, 2025

We have a lot of fun surprises in store for you in January! We’ll be making our 30th Anniversary season announcement, and unveiling an exciting, new look for the festival! We can’t wait to share it all with you, our music-loving supporters, along with our new sponsor benefits for 2025 and ticket package options.

Feb. 1, 5 — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present Ant Hampton: Borderline Visible — An Art Performance

by Community Contributor • January 1, 2025

SANTA BARBARA — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present Ant Hampton: Borderline Visible — An Art Performance, at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 1 at Loeb Family Gallery/Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1130 State Street, Santa Barbara.

$25 Students & Teachers/$30 SBMA Members/$40 Non-Members
Tickets include the purchase of a copy of Borderline Visible.
Get tickets at tickets.sbma.net.

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Feb. 3 — Oxnard Film Society to present ‘THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG’

by Community Contributor • January 1, 2025

Feb. 3 — Oxnard Film Society to present ‘THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG’

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Feb. 4, 12, 27; March 11 — UCSB Arts & Lectures presents four exciting additions to the Winter quarter calendar

by Community Contributor • January 1, 2025

Palestinian-American poet Naomi Shihab Nye, conservation leader Kristine McDivitt Tompkins, Emmy-nominated environmentalist Baratunde Thurston, and a screening with Q&A of the disability rights advocacy film Facing the Falls

Feb. 13 through March 31 — Channel Islands Maritime Museum to present The Pastel Society of the Gold Coast Group Exhibition ‘The Living Ocean’

by Community Contributor • January 1, 2025

Feb. 13 through March 31 — Channel Islands Maritime Museum to present The Pastel Society of the Gold Coast Group Exhibition ‘The Living Ocean.’

Click here for more information to come.

Feb. 17 — Oxnard Film Society to present ‘I’M STILL HERE’

by Community Contributor • January 1, 2025

Feb. 17 — Oxnard Film Society to present ‘I’M STILL HERE’

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Feb. 17 — Music Academy of the West’s Mariposa Concert Series Continues with JACK Quartet, other upcoming events

by Community Contributor • January 1, 2025

As part of a Santa Barbara winter residency, London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) musicians collaborate with celebrated MAX (Music Academy Exchange) alums to create an unforgettable evening of chamber music.

Through Feb. 24— California Nature Art Museum Announces ‘A Deeper Love: New Paintings Inspired by Coral Reefs’ on-view

by Community Contributor • January 1, 2025

A Deeper Love will offer an artistic examination into some of the ocean’s most vibrant, ecologically productive, and fragile landscapes throughout the world. In addition to the intrinsic beauty of coral reefs and the equally breathtaking underwater communities that they support, it is

Feb. 28 — Save the Date for CLU ‘Affording a Dignified Life on the Central Coast of California: Challenges & Opportunities.’ Sponsors available

by Community Contributor • January 1, 2025

Feb. 28 — Save the Date for CLU ‘Affording a Dignified Life on the Central Coast of California: Challenges & Opportunities.’ Sponsors available

Click here for more information

Through March 10 — Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara announces 2024-25 Mariposa Concert Series

by Community Contributor • January 1, 2025

The Mariposa Concert Series, which debuted in 2022, furthers the Music Academy of the West’s mission to bring exceptional music to the community throughout the year. The series showcases the artistry of world-renowned musicians, including esteemed Music Academy alums, in unique musical experiences and events this fall through spring 2025. Featuring visionary artists, these performances offer fresh context and perspective on music spanning more than 700 years — from 1390 to 2025!

Continuing — Livingston’s Grief and Bereavement Program presents Free Grief & Bereavement Support Groups

by Community Contributor • January 1, 2025

Bereavement counseling can offer the support you need to help you through your grief. Livingston’s Grief and Bereavement Program offers both individual (one-on-one) counseling with trained bereavement counselors/therapists and group counseling.

All support groups are free for the community.

Continuing — Visiting Nurse & Hospice Care Bereavement Class – Loss of Loved One

by Community Contributor • January 1, 2025

SANTA BARBARA — Continuing — Visiting Nurse & Hospice Care Bereavement Class – Loss of Loved One. An ongoing support group held each month. Presented by Visiting Nurse & Hospice Care, Santa Barbara. Every 2nd and 4th Friday of the month, 2:00 –…

Continuing — Camarillo Hospice offers Grief Support in Spanish

by Community Contributor • January 1, 2025

CAMARILLO — Camarillo Hospice, a Program of Livingston Memorial Visiting Nurse Association, is now offering individual, couple, and family counseling in Spanish for those grieving the death of a loved one, Camarillo Hospice offers a Spanish General Bereavement Groups for the…

Continuing — Livingston’s Grief and Bereavement Program to present Survivors of Suicide Loss Grief Support Group

by Community Contributor • January 1, 2025

If you have experienced the loss of a loved one due to suicide, do not hesitate to join our Survivors of Suicide Loss grief support group. Livingston’s Grief and Bereavement Program are committed to maintaining an open, accepting, confidential atmosphere. All free of charge.

Survivors of Suicide Loss meets the 1st and 3rd Wednesday of every month from 6:30 to 8:00 pm

Continuing — Livingston’s Grief and Bereavement Program to present Children & Teens Grief Support Groups

by Community Contributor • January 1, 2025

VENTURA COUNTY — Many children and teens have experienced the death of a loved one, This is a difficult time for anyone grieving a loss. Livingston’s Grief and Bereavement Program provides two free support groups, Good Grief Club (ages 6-10) and Young Teen Group (ages 11-15). These groups will run from October 5th through November 9th on Thursdays 6:30 – 7:30 p.m. For reservations, contact 805-389-6870 or online at lmvna.org/grief. Space is limited.

Continuing — Bilingual report — United Parents provides variety of youth mental health, behavioral and/or emotional disorders programs and services

by Community Contributor • January 1, 2025

United Parents’ mission is to provide resources to empower, strengthen and support parents and other caregivers who have youth and/or children with mental health, behavioral, and/or emotional disorders.

Continuing — Livingston’s Grief and Bereavement Program to present new Men’s Grief Support Group

by Community Contributor • January 1, 2025

Livingston’s Grief and Bereavement Program announces a new Men’s Grief Support Group. The group is for men grieving the death of a loved one. It will meet on the 2nd and 4th Wednesday of every month from 6:30 to 8:00 pm, via Zoom. If interested, please contact us at 805-389-6870. For more information, visit LMVNA.org

Livingston’s Grief and Bereavement Program support groups are committed to maintaining an open, accepting, confidential atmosphere. We also offer individual, couple, and family grief counseling in English and Spanish.

Continuing — Livingston Memorial Visiting Nurse Association & Hospice offering free monthly classes for those with Type 2 and Pre-Diabetes

by Community Contributor • January 1, 2025

Livingston Memorial Visiting Nurse Association & Hospice offers free monthly classes for those with Type 2 and Pre-Diabetes. Learn about meal planning, exercise, blood sugar monitoring, medication management, and new developments for living with diabetes.

Continuing — Livingston’s Grief & Bereavement Program to present Free Grief & Bereavement Support for Children

by Community Contributor • January 1, 2025

Livingston’s Grief & Bereavement Program is offering a weekly Good Grief Club to children ages 6 – 11 who have lost a loved one. This session will focus on grief through cinematherapy. The club runs every Tuesday from 5:30 – 7pm through May 30th.

Continuing — Camarillo Hospice Announces Ongoing Support Groups

by Community Contributor • January 1, 2025

CAMARILLO — When a death occurs, we experience a variety of emotions and feelings that can make us feel as though we are navigating unfamiliar and challenging territory. We need support and although family and friends are important, they may…

Continuing — Mental Wellness Center Community Wellness Program presents ‘Stronger Together,’ a bipolar & depression support group on Thursdays

by Community Contributor • January 1, 2025

SANTA BARBARA — The Mental Wellness Center Community Wellness Program presents Stronger Together, a bipolar & depression support group from 6-7:30 p.m. Thursdays.

This is a drop-in support group where you can find support in a safe and confidential setting. Family members are welcome!

To join, contact Elizabeth Imperato at wrapofsantabarbara@gmail.com

Continuing — Livingston Memorial Visiting Nurse Association and Hospice presenting Free Grief & Bereavement Support Groups

by Community Contributor • January 1, 2025

CAMARILLO — Bereavement counseling can offer the support you need to help you through your grief. Livingston’s Grief and Bereavement Program offers both individual (one-on-one) counseling with trained bereavement counselors/therapists and group counseling.

All support groups are free for the community.