Calendar of Events

AUGUST CALENDAR OF EVENTS

"Summer of Soul," free screening August 12

events

JULY 28 TO SEPTEMBER 25 Drawings of Jean-Baptiste Camille Coret, Gustave Courbet, Jean-Francois Millet

Location: canvas and paper, 311 North Montgomery Street Times: Thursday to Sunday, 12 noon to 5 p.m. Contact: canvasandpaper.org Free admission — canvas and paper is a non-profit exhibition space showing paintings and drawings from the 20th century and earlier in thematic and single artist exhibits. Covid precautions: Please wear a mask inside.

AUGUST 7-14 Ojai Playwrights Conference

Location: Besant Hill School 8585 Santa Paula-Ojai Road Times: Varies Contact: ojaiplays.org 805-633-1170 The esteemed workship and readings return for their 25th year. Renowned playwrights Stephen Aidly Guirgis (“Between Riverside and Crazy”) and Bill Cain (“How to Write a New Book for the Bible”) will be developing new works for readings, with another cohort of promising young playwrights. Readings take place at the school’s Zalk Theater.

AUGUST 10 Richie Kotzen

Time: 5 p.m. Location: Libbey Bowl

Aloha Beach Festival, Sept. 3-4

(Image credit: Ivon Hitchens, Algerian Woman No. 1, 1948, oil on canvas © 2021 Artists Rights Society (ARS) New York / DACS, London)

WEEKLY

Certified Farmers Market

Every Sunday Time: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Contact: 805-698-5555 Location: Matilija Street city parking lot behind the Arcade. Open air market featuring locally grown produce, as well as plants, musicians and handmade items.

210 South Signal Street Richie Kotzen has always been on a clear, laser-focused mission as an artist. He is acknowledged worldwide for being a stellar guitar player, an emotive singer and a dynamic live performer.

AUGUST 12 Ojai Film Society: “Summer of Soul”

Time: 7:30 pm Location: Libbey Bowl 210 South Signal Street Contact: ojaifilmsociety.org The Ojai Film Society’s summer series includes the award-winning “Summer of Love,” the Questlove-produced documentary about the Harlem Cultural Festival in 1969. This is a free event but please RSVP. (RSVP please)! at Ojai Film Society’s Eventbrite page.

AUGUST 26 Ojai Film Society: “Yesterday”

Time: 7:30 pm Location: Libbey Bowl 210 South Signal Street Contact: ojaifilmsociety.org ojaifilmsociety@gmail.com This Danny Boyle-directed gem posits a future in which The Beatles had never existed, except in the memory of one struggling street musician, played by Himesh Patel, who goes on to captivate the world while feeling like a fraud. What happens when he encounters a few people who also remember The Beatles?

Ojai Community Farmers Market

Every Thursday Time: 3-7 p.m. Location: Chaparral High School Courtyard

SEPTEMBER 3-4 Aloha Beach Festival

Location: Surfers’s Point Shoreline Drive, Ventura Times: Varies Contact: 805-200-8674 aloha@alohabeachfestival.us The fun and fantastic festival returns after its pandemic hiatus workshop. Described as “surfing contest, frisbee contest and music festival” the Aloha Beach Festival is the creation Chipper “Bro” Bell, Patagonia’s goodwill ambassador.

THURSDAYS

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