Calendar of Events

DUANE EELLS

Mar. 12-July 5:

Gallery: BOUNDLESS • DUANE EELLS AND JAMES PETRUCCI Fox Fine Jewelry, Ventura • Receception: 3/14, 6-8 PM

OVA Arts, 238 Ojai Ave., Ojai, CA

Collect Online at eells.com Studio visits by appointment. • duane@eells.com

JUNE CALENDAR OF EVENTS

JUNE 6 Thucydides - The Peloponnesian War, II Time: 12 noon to 2 p.m. Saturday, June 6, 2020 Location: agorafoundation.org, register to receive link Is there an art to writing and reading history? Is a detached view of historical events desirable, or even possible? What does this conflict (431-404 BC) in particular have to teach us. This series will cover all eight books over time, with one two-hour online seminar per book.

JUNE 13 Series On Marcel Proust – Swann’s Way – Part II – Combray II, pp. 49-135 Time: 12 noon to 2 p.m. Saturday, June 6, 2020 Location: agorafoundation.org, register to receive link “Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.” Tutor: Patricia Locke

JUNE 11-14 74th Ojai Music Festival, Online Edition The Ojai Music Festival will honor the spirit of the unrealized 2020 Festival, cancelled due to the worldwide pandemic, by bringing online offerings June 11 to 14, including Ojai Talks hosted by Ara Guzelimian. The free virtual events will feature insightful conversations with special guests interspersed with video and music excerpts. Audiences can watch at OjaiFestival.org beginning at 6 p.m. each evening. Also available on the Festival website will be complementary program notes and links to music and video playlists.

JUNE 11 Conversation with Chad Smith and Matthias Pintscher Time: 6 p.m. Musical excerpts of Ensemble intercontemporain’s performance of Pierre Boulez’s sur Incises and Matthias Pinscher’s Bereshit

JUNE 12 Conversation with Matthias Pintscher and Olga Neuwirth Time: 6 p.m. Musical excerpts of Ensemble intercontemporain’s performance of Olga Neuwirth’s Le Encantadas and Eleanor

JUNE 13 Conversation with the Calder Quartet Time: 6 p.m. With musical excerpts of a Calder Quartet performance.

JUNE 14 Conversation with Steve Reich Musical excerpts of Steve Reich’s Tehillim and Drumming

REOCCURING EVENTS

WEEKLY Monday, Wednesday & Friday “Somatic Stretch for Self Healing”

Instructor: Meredith Sands Keator Time: 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. Location: Anywhere you can find a sturdy internet connection. Contact: somaticsanctuary.com email support@somaticsanctuary Phone: 805-633-9230

MONDAY & THURSDAYS “Introduction to Somatic Stretch”

Instructor: Sultana Parvanka Time: 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Contact: somaticsanctuary.com email support@somaticsanctuary Phone: 805-633-9230

WEDNESDAYS “Offerings with Sarah Grace” — Somatic Satsang, free community gathering and tools for

OPPOSITE PAGE: Somatic Sanctuary is hosting online events with instructors every week. The Ojai Music Festival will take place online, with Matthias Pintscher, this year’s music director. The Ojai Film Festival

is hosting Friday free screening of highlight films from prior years. The Ojai Farmers Market and Farmer & The Cook are open and providing outlets for local farmers and fresh-food seekers.

resiliency

Instructor: Sarah Grace Time: 7 p.m. Contact: somaticsanctuary.com email support@somaticsanctuary Phone: 805-633-9230

THURSDAYS “Ojai: Talk of the Town” Podcast

New episodes come out Thursday evenings through OjaiHub.com newsletter.

“Awareness Through Movement”

Instructor: Mary Jo Healy

FRIDAYS “Ojai Film Festival — Free Fridays”

Time: Early Morning Release Contact: Ojaifilmfestival.org 805-640-1947 info@ojaifilmfestival.com In this time of self-quarantine the Ojai Film Festival presents frustrated moviegoers with a new online film series. “Festival Highlights” launches Friday, May 22 and continues through June 26 with two to three films released each week. The films then remain available for viewing for free in the early morning on the festival’s website until July 17.

JUNE 5

“The Perfect Firestorm” “August in Berlin”

JUNE 12

“The Timepiece” “Traces” “Eternal Winter”

JUNE 19

“Vice” “The Root of Happiness” “Evergreen”

JUNE 26

“The Lightkeeper” “A Great Ride” “The Vow From Hiroshima”

Farmer & The Cook

Location: 339 West El Roblar Avenue, Meiners Oaks Times: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. This popular farm-to-kitchen destination has reopened, with usual precautions in place to reduce exposure to coronavirus.

Certified Farmer’s Market

Date: Every Sunday Time: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

New episodes of Ojai’s podcast are released on Thursdays with the Ojai Hub newsletter. Sign up at OjaiHub.com or wherever you get podcasts.

Contact: 698-5555 Location: Matilija Street city parking lot behind the Arcade. Open air market featuring locally grown produce, plants, musicians and handmade items, including soaps, baskets, beeswax candles and olive oil. Again, with proper social distancing and vendor spacing, the Farmers Market will stay open through the duration of the stay-athome order.