Farm life thrives at this rural haven in Carpinteria, where 40 alpacas, llamas, sheep, chickens, horses, a buffalo, and peacocks are primed for meet-and-greets. Photo Courtesy of Canzelle Alpacas.

On Saturdays and Sundays, head to City Hall for a docent-led tour of the town’s historic buildings, architectural styles, landscape, and backstory. Photo Courtesy of Lydia Rao.

Women’s chores and their household tools from the late 1800s are explored at the Stagecoach Inn and Museum in Newbury Park.

Discovering Soolip Creative Arts Workshops feels like finding a key inscribed with your initials on the forest floor. Open the door to your creativity in the setting of small Soolip gatherings, intimate happenings. Rare opportunities to tap into your spirit […]

Choose a trail, pick a horse, and explore the Paso Robles wine region on horseback with an experienced wrangler. Photo Courtesy of Molly Virginia Photography.

The solar system and its connection to the earth’s history is explored at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. Photo Courtesy of Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History.

Simi Valley Cultural Arts Center. Experience Jonathan Larson’s Pulitzer Prize–winning musical, inspired by Giacomo Puccini’s opera La Bohème. The story takes place in the 1990s and captures bohemian life in New York City as young artists try to achieve success […]

Celebrate the moonlight grape harvest by indulging in five West Coast wines with seasonal bites at Blackbird restaurant at Hotel Californian Santa Barbara. Photo Courtesy of Hotel Californian.

Get movin’ in Ventura, Santa Maria, Westlake Village, San Luis Obispo, and Santa Barbara to help raise money for this debilitating disease.

The coast transforms into a picture palace with outdoor screenings of Jaws, then Hocus Pocus, along with games and contests on the Ventura Harbor Village main lawn.

Chumash Casino Resort, Santa Ynez. The laughs just keep coming when this Emmy- and Grammy-nominated comedian dishes out his raw, cutting-edge humor in a solo show. With his energetic delivery, even accounts of mundane life experiences become funny.

Performing Arts Center San Luis Obispo. Originally written in German, Englebert Humperdinck’s fairy-tale opera comes to life in this production, performed in English by Opera San Luis Obispo, with two-story woodland sets, special effects, choreography, period costumes, and a live […]

Libbey Bowl and Ojai Art Center. AI takes a backseat at this congregation of authentic, live, real-time storytellers who are ready to tell original tales that are humorous, naughty, spooky, silly, and serious. Slated are workshops, parties, story swaps, and […]