Calendar of Events

JANUARY CALENDAR OF EVENTS

galleries

DECEMBER 23 – FEBRUARY 20

Barbara Hepworth Henry Moore Pablo Picasso Works on paper Times: Thursday – Sunday, noon – 5 p.m. Location: canvas and paper, 311 North Montgomery Street 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.

JANUARY 8, 15, 22 & 29 Ojai Valley Improv’s Classes on Saturdays

Times: 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturdays and Mondays Location: The Raymund Room at The Ojai Art Center, 113 South Montgomery Street Contact: 818-648-9540 Learn to own your power, embrace your feear, develop better listening skills, learn the value of collaboration, learn to adapt and be agile. Build a great ensemble troupe. Beginner’s Improv Classes are also available Mondays at Ojai Youth Entertainers Studio. Cost is $10 per session, first class is free.

JANUARY 3 &17 Shakespeare Reading Salon — Every 1st and 3rd Monday

Times: 7 to 9 p.m. Location: Ojai Main Library, 111 East Ojai Avenue Contact: Laurie at 805-646-3733 ojaibard@gmail.com Join our lively reading and discussion.

Forums & Salons

(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.

Whether you like to read aloud or just listen, everyone is welcome ! Drop in and join the fun. We read and discuss Shakespeare’s play.

JANUARY 6 & 27 Selections from Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein

Times: 12 noon to 1:30 p.m. Location: Online Contact: agorafoundation.org 805-231-5974 “Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.” Online Seminar Series - Now Enrolling Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein was published posthumously in 1953. Within the analytic tradition, the book is considered by many as being one of the most important philosophical works of the 20th century. The book paved the way for philosophy in the middle of the twentieth century and continues to influence contemporary philosophers working in the philosophy of language and mind. We invite you join us as we explore this challenging and highly influential work.

JANUARY 11 to FEBRUARY 15 What is the Soul?

Times: 12 noon to 1:30 p.m. Location: Online Contact: agorafoundation.org 805-231-5974 What does it mean to be a natural living thing? Are plants, animals, and people alive simply because of an arrangement of their material parts, or does life spring from something else? Is the soul (psyche) the cause of life, and what are the nutritive, sensational, motional, and intellectual powers of the soul? Is the soul of a living being essentially its form, over the body? We invite you to join us for these six weekly Tuesday lunchtime meetings, beginning January 11, as we engage with this intriguing and challenging work. “For if the eye were an animal, the soul of it would be its sight…”

Ojai Community Farmers Market

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

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