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  • Art in the Park @ Dinosaur Caves
    Pismo Beach,CA
    For more information please call: 805-704-8128
    website
    This once a month event takes place at Dinosaur Caves Park in Shell Beach along the path where the ocean meets the cliffs. The event takes place the first Sunday of every month May through October with over seventy local artists and craftsmen selling and displaying their work. The art include paintings, sculpture, pottery, glass artist, textile, jewelry, wood and metal furniture, and much more. Along with the sale of fine arts, the event offers live music, hands-on children's activities, fresh flowers and plants, BBQ.
  • Hike to Avila Lighthouse
    Pecho Coast Trail
    Avila Beach,CA
    For more information please call: 805-541-8735
    8:45 AM
    website
    Most Wednesdays & Saturdays (and some other days), take a guided hike along the beautiful Pecho Coast Trail. See the old Point San Luis Lighthouse (built 1890), as well as beautiful views of the harbor. The trail is only open during these times. Must be 9 years or older, and you must be in good physical shape. Hikes last about 4 hours. Saturday offers one fast and one slower hike.
  • Music & Movement Storytime
    Serenity Natural Living Health & Wellness Center
    104 Main Street
    Templeton,CA
    10:30 am
    website
    Come to the Serenity Natural Living Center the first Friday of every month for Yoga Music & Movement Storytime. Price is $8 per family or $60 for the entire year.
  • Serenity Natural Living Health & Wellness Center
    Kids Yoga
    104 Main Street
    Templeton,CA
    3:15 pm - 4:15 pm
    website
    Kids Yoga is offered at the Serenity Natural Living Health & Wellness Center each Wednesday. $40 per month.
  • Walk in the Elfin Forest
    El Moro Elfin Forest
    N. End of 15th Street off Santa Ysabel
    Los Osos,CA
    9:30 AM - 11:30 AM
    website
    Enjoy a guided walk thru the fascinating "Elfin Forest", a 90-acre nature preserve with pygmy trees and home to endangered plants, butterflies and birds. Please stay on boardwalk and designated trails when visiting, and keep pets leashed. Walks on Third Saturday of Month. Different theme and guide each time.

Friday January 1 - Sunday January 31

  • "Restaurant Month"
    Countywide,CA
    For more information please call: 805-541-8000
    website
    Enyoy an an incredible series of great meals at a great price, as 39 destination restaurants throughout SLO County offer a great deal. Each participating restaurant offers at least one fixed price 3 course meal for just $30. Many also offer special paired flights of local wine. (Additional charge). SLO County has many premium restaurants, due to the growing local wine industry, and the incredible variety of fresh food grown locally. Click on the website link for a complete list of participating restaurants & sample menus.

Friday January 8

  • Solvang Annual Christmas Tree Burn
    Fields of Old Mission Santa Ines
    1760 Mission Drive
    Solvang,CA
    6 pm
    website
    The Santa Barbara County Fire Department will supervise the burn at one of the largest fire safety demonstrations and community gatherings on the Central Coast . All area residents are invited to bring their tree (stands & ornaments must be removed) to the burn pile between January 1-7, 2010. Fire Department info: 805-686-8184

Thursday January 14

  • Central Coast Folk Fest
    Pismo Beach,CA
    For more information please call: 805.556.3306
    website
    Celebrate a California tradition of folk music with Americana themed events, live concerts, outstanding food and drink created by our chefs and unique works by local artists.
  • SNOW NIGHT
    Higuera Street
    San Luis Obispo,CA
    For more information please call: (805) 781-7300
    6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
    website
    Come make snow angels on Chorro Street during Farmers' Market. Co-sponsored by the City of San Luis Obispo Parks and Recreation Department and the Downtown Association, Snow Night allows youth, ages 12 and under, to frolic in a winter wonderland.

Thursday January 14 - Sunday January 17

  • Central Coast Folk Fest
    Pismo Beach,CA
    For more information please call: 805.556.3306
    website
    Celebrate a California tradition of folk music with Americana themed events, live concerts, outstanding food and drink created by our chefs and unique works by local artists.

Friday January 15

  • Annual Morro Bay Winter Bird Festival
    Morro Bay,CA
    For more information please call: (805) 772-4467
    website
    Every January on the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend (January 16-19 in 2009), the Morro Coast Audubon Society in collaboration with California State Parks, Central Coast Natural History Association, the city of Morro Bay, the Morro Bay Chamber of Commerce, and Friends of the Estuary, host the Winter Bird Festival. All-day and half-day tours will take participants to a wide variety of habitats, including deep water pelagic, oak woodland and riparian, wetland and estuary, and the unique grassland habitat of the Carrizo Plain. Workshops will cover a vast array of topics ranging from beginner birding classes to gull identification. Outstanding Evening Speakers will make presentations on Saturday and Sunday. A variety of vendors will be present with nature related artwork, books, field equipment and attire, and local merchant wares. Morro Bay California is one of the few remaining estuaries on the Pacific flyway. Christmas Bird Counts on the bay have numbered above the 200 species mark, and the festival bird lists have totaled over 220 species for the weekend, making this area on the central California coast a prime birding destination.
  • The Heroic Story of Jackie Robinson
    Christopher Cohan Center
    1 Grand Avenue
    San Luis Obispo,CA
    7 PM
    map
    website
    In celebration of the indomitable human spirit, we proudly present Dallas Childrenﾒs Theater on Tourﾒs real-life dramatic story of Jackie Robinson, live on stage in an inspiring event for the whole family. The beloved baseball legend is brilliantly depicted in this stage bio-drama that is a heartfelt testament to courage, stamina, and the triumph in one manﾒs life.

Friday January 15 - Monday January 18

  • Annual Morro Bay Winter Bird Festival
    Morro Bay,CA
    For more information please call: (805) 772-4467
    website
    Every January on the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend (January 16-19 in 2009), the Morro Coast Audubon Society in collaboration with California State Parks, Central Coast Natural History Association, the city of Morro Bay, the Morro Bay Chamber of Commerce, and Friends of the Estuary, host the Winter Bird Festival. All-day and half-day tours will take participants to a wide variety of habitats, including deep water pelagic, oak woodland and riparian, wetland and estuary, and the unique grassland habitat of the Carrizo Plain. Workshops will cover a vast array of topics ranging from beginner birding classes to gull identification. Outstanding Evening Speakers will make presentations on Saturday and Sunday. A variety of vendors will be present with nature related artwork, books, field equipment and attire, and local merchant wares. Morro Bay California is one of the few remaining estuaries on the Pacific flyway. Christmas Bird Counts on the bay have numbered above the 200 species mark, and the festival bird lists have totaled over 220 species for the weekend, making this area on the central California coast a prime birding destination.

Sunday January 17

  • Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration
    Robbins Field
    6th and Park Streets
    Paso Robles,CA
    1:00 pm
    website
    Be inspired. Listen in awe. Watch with delight performances interpreting the message of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Monday January 25

  • Moscow Circus
    Christopher Cohan Performing Arts Center
    Cal Poly Campus
    San Luis Obispo,CA
    For more information please call: (805) 543-3533
    7 pm
    map
    website
    The circus is coming to town, with amazing acts at their stupefying, awe-inspiring best! Crazy clowns and jugglers, acrobats, contortionists ﾖ even a clever canine! ﾖ and physically unbelievable stunts abound in an evening of mesmerizing magic, music, and vivid color sure to enthrall the entire family.

Friday January 29 - Sunday January 31

  • Annual Art & Wine Festival
    Cambria,CA
    Noon - 6:00 pm
    website
    Three days of shopping, wine tasting, food pairing and local artists demonstrating their work. Main event ticket includes shopping specials and demonstrating artists throughout the village, main hall wine tasting on Saturday, wine and food pairing along with artists demonstrations on Saturday, Artists' Faire on Sunday with demonstrating artists and wine tasting. You can add to your Cambria experience a wonderful barbecue at the Artists' Faire or a Vintage Winemakers Dinner to be served Saturday night.