Calendar of Events

MAY CALENDAR OF EVENTS

exhibits

Jean Metzinger @ canvas and paper

MAY 15 “Oceans and Underworld” - Purgatorio by Dante, Part One - Cantos 1-16

Times: 2 to 4 p.m. Contact: agorafoundation.org Tutor: Elizabeth Reyes Register to receive the login link on website.

MAY 23 “Byron Katie & The Work” at Flourish Center Ojai

Date: Sunday, May 23 Time: 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Location: Online: Registration: $22 per person Your zoom link will be available in your email after registering, or by logging into FlourishOjai.com. If cost is prohibitive, please reach out to us: team@flourishojai.com

MAY 27 – JULY 25 “Paintings by Jean Metzinger”

Times: Thursday – Sunday, 12 noon to 5 p.m. Location: canvas and paper, 311 North Montgomery Street Contact: canvasandpaper.org 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.

MAY 29 “The Ancient City: A Study of the Religion, Laws, and Institutions of Greece and Rome by Fustel de Coulanges”

Peter Fox @ The Ojai Art Center

Time: 12 to 1:30 p.m. Location: Free online seminar Contact: agorafoundation.org. The Ancient City (La Cité antique), published in 1864, is the most famous book of the French historian Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges. Based on texts of ancient historians and poets, the author investigates the origins of the most archaic institutions of Greek and Roman society. Please join us as we explore this thought-provoking work through semi-monthly lunchtime meetings. Free Community Seminar Series

MAY 29-30 “44th Annual Art in the Park”

Times: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Location: Libbey Park Contact: 805-646-0117 ojaiartcenter.org Ojai’s finest artists and craftspeople converge on Libbey Park for one of the region’s most popular arts and crafts events.

THROUGH JUNE 2 “Together/Apart”

Dates: Tuesdays through Sunday Time: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays, 12 noon to 4 p.m. weekends Nine Ojai artists exhibit work made during 2020, and the put on display the effect this challenging year made on their creative process. A colorful, uplifting exhibit now through April 2021. The Ojai Art Center is presenting a group exhibition of Ojai artists Mark Thompson, Carlos Grasso, Peter Fox, Bruce Tomkinson, and Gayel Childress Location: Ojai Art Center, 113 South Montgomery

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.

EVERY DAY

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.

THURSDAYS “Ojai: Talk of the Town” Podcast

New episodes come out Thursday evenings through OjaiHub.com newsletter. Sign up at OjaiHub.com. Recent interviews include Malcolm McDowell on the 50th anniversary of “A Clockwork Orange,” and Dr. Tiffany Morse on reopening Ojai’s public schools during a pandemic. Available wherever you catch your podcasts.

STAY TUNED Tierra Sol Institute’s “Muses on the Mount”

The institute is curating shows for the benefit of Meditation Mount, which recently re-opened its doors after the Thomas Fire. Recent Muses on the Mount performances included RyX, Orpheo and Rachel McCord, and also painter Vera Long and sound bowl artists Trinity of Sound. Contact: To be notified of events in April and May, go to tierrasolojai.org and meditationmount.org.