Month: April 2023

From "Shoe Shine Caddie," making its U.S. debut at SLOIFF this month. On May 2, 2023, the SLO International Film Festival announced that Shoe Shine Caddie won the 2023 Audience…

She was young, maybe in her twenties, a pretty face, asleep and cocooned in a blanket in the space between the concrete wall of the shopping cart corral and the…

This event was presented April 21-23, 2023. So . . . By the Sea Productions is presenting Rebecca Gilman’s thought-provoking play “Spinning Into Butter” as a staged reading for three…

A Cautionary Tale about Writing the Other At various times during the drafting and editing of my second novel, Cross Body Lead, I wondered if I was complicating my life by…

Classicism meets modern convention, dance becomes emotion, and movement speaks in “Ballet Unbound,” SLO Movement Arts Collective’s annual celebration of “everything that ballet is and everything it is not.” Two…

Two local authors have combined their very different experiences to publish a book leading people on a “journey to peace.” Peace Be with You: Tools and Thoughts to Guide You…

This event was scheduled April 28-May 14, 2023. Take a simple melodramatic plot, such as “I can’t pay the rent,” and tell it five different ways as if it had…

Join a “Salute to America” presented by the San Luis Obispo Wind Orchestra at 3 p.m. on Sunday, April 30 at the Harold J. Miossi Cultural and Performing Arts Center…

Subscriptions and sponsorships for the San Luis Obispo Symphony’s 2023-24 season are now available. The season opens October 7 with a “back by popular demand” classics concert “Rachmaninov Rocks,” and…

This event was scheduled May 6, 2023. The San Luis Obispo Symphony is offering up two opportunities to experience “Tchaikovsky & Testimony,” its final concert of the 2022-23 season—both performances…