Calendar of Events

DECEMBER CALENDAR OF EVENTS

galleries

TO DECEMBER 12 Ivon Hitchens: “Nudes”

Times: Thursday to Sunday, noon to 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. Contact: canvasandpaper.org

TO JANUARY 3 “Before the Wilt:” Works by Renée A Fox & Mary Warner

Location: Porch Gallery 310 East Matilija Street Times: Thursday to Monday: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday: 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Guest curated by China Adams Before The Wilt features the work of painters Renee´ Fox and Mary Warner. Both accentuate the flower through dramatic scale, rich color and Realism (in places verging on Hyper-Realism). Poised at either ends of the life-cycle spectrum, seen together, the work of Fox and Warner act symbolically to suggest a kind of bookending to the compressed floral life-cycle. Contact: 805-620-7589 porchgalleryojai.com

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.

TO JANUARY 3 Before the Wilt: Works by Renée A Fox & Mary Warner

Location: Porch Gallery 310 East Matilija Street Times: Thursday to Monday: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday: 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Guest curated by China Adams “Before The Wilt” features the work of painters Renée Fox and Mary Warner. Both accentuate the flower through dramatic scale, rich color and Realism (in places verging on Hyper-Realism). Contact: 805-620-7589 porchgalleryojai.com

(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.

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.

Shakespeare Reading Salon — every 1st and 3rd Monday

Times: 7 to 9 p.m. Location: Ojai Main Library, 111 East Ojai

Avenue EVERY DAY Contact: Farmer & The Cook Laurie at Location: 339 West 805-6463733 El Roblar Avenue, Meiners Oaks Times: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. This popular farm-to-kitchen ojaibard@ destination has reopened, with gmail.com usual precautions in place to reduce Join our exposure to coronavirus. lively reading and discussion. 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.

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