Celebrate the 5th Birthday of Ira the African Lion at Moorpark Teaching Zoo on Feb 2, 2019

Enjoy celebrating the 5th birthday of African Lion “Ira" at American's Teaching Zoo at Moorpark College on Saturday, February 2, 2019. Guests of this party will sing “Happy Birthday” to IRA as he claws and bites into his presents at 1pm. All party guests will get a piece of birthday cake and kids can make crowns to wear for this royal event! Adults $8, children and seniors $6, under 2 free. Hours are 11am to 5pm. Check or cash only. zoo.moorparkcollege.edu/events

President Reagan's Birthday Celebration at Reagan Library in Simi Valley on February 6, 2019

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To honor President Ronald Reagan on the anniversary of his birthday, the President of the United States has designated that a program be held at President Reagan’s Memorial Site at The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library each year.  Please join us at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library as we pay tribute to President Reagan on the anniversary of his 108th birthday on Wednesday, February 6, 2019 at 10:30am.

The Commanding General at United States Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton will conduct the ceremony, which will commence at 11:00 a.m. with a music prelude beginning at 10:30 a.m. by the Camp Pendleton Marine Division Band.  The ceremony includes a color guard, chaplain, a brass quintet, a 21-gun salute, the placing of an official White House wreath on President Reagan’s gravesite and keynote remarks by Arizona Senator Jon Kyl.

The ceremony will be held outdoors at The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, located at 40 Presidential Drive, Simi Valley.

This event is free, however, reservations are recommended.  Museum admission will apply to visit the Reagan Museum. Learn more at www.reaganfoundation.org/programs-events/events-calendar/president-reagans-birthday-celebration-2019.

14th Annual IHOP National Pancake Day on Tuesday, March 12, 2019

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On Tuesday, March 12, 2019 IHOP restaurants nationwide will celebrate National Pancake Day from 7 am to 7 pm and will offer each guest a free short stack of buttermilk pancakes. In return, IHOP will ask guests to consider donating what they would have paid for the pancakes or more to Children's Miracle Network, Shriners Hospitals for Children and the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. IHOP has raised nearly $30 million for charity through this event since 2006!

The free pancakes are limited to one free short stack per guest. Dine in only. More information at www.ihoppancakeday.com.

Local area IHOP locations in Newbury Park, Agoura Hills, Camarillo, Oxnard, Port Hueneme, Fillmore and Ventura.

Touch-A-Truck Event Planned at Malibu Public Library on Saturday, January 26. 2019

The City of Malibu, Parks & Recreation Department and the Malibu Library proudly present Touch-A-Truck on Saturday, January 26, 2019 from 10am to noon at the Malibu City Hall, 23825 Stuart Ranch Road. A special event where children can see, touch, explore and honk the horns of their favorite trucks and emergency vehicles serving the Malibu community. All ages welcome! Event will include construction trucks, emergency vehicles, story time, art activity, a food truck and more. Visit www.malibucity.org or call 310.456.2489 for more information.

Winter LEGO Robotics Camp at LeXT Robo Academy in Agoura Hills 12/21/18 to 1/7/19

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WINTER CAMP at LeXT Robo Academyin Agourra Hills FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2018 – JANUARY 7, 2019 (weekdays only) CALL OR TEXT TODAY! 818-699-2388 Space is limited 9:00am-3:00pm Earlycare and Aftercare 8:00am-5:30am ($10/hour) Cost: $40/Half Day; $65/Full Day LeXT Robo Academy 29039 Thousand Oaks Blvd. Agoura Hills Please note: there are no classes on Tuesday, December 25, 2018, and Tuesday, January 1, 2019. Monday, December 24, 2018 will only be a half-day camp 9:30am-12:30pm.

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805 Strong 5K Run/Walk for Ventura County Community Foundation in Thousand Oaks on December 16, 2018

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The 805 Strong 5K Run/Walk for the Ventura County Community Foundation is a fundraising event to support the Conejo Valley Victims Fund (Borderline shooting) and the Hill Fire/Woolsey Fire Sudden and Urgent Needs Effort Fund. The event is planned for Sunday, December 16, 2018 at 7:30am.

Event to take place at Thousand Oaks Community Park, 2525 N. Moorpark Road, Thousand Oaks. Donation $35.

Learn more and sign up at www.805strong5k.com.

Jingle Bell Run/Walk for Arthritis in Van Nuys on Sunday, December 2, 2018

The Jingle Bell Run/Walk for arthritis is a 5K holiday themed event. Tie jingle bells to your shoes and come out on Sunday, December 2, 2018 at Woodley Park, 6350 Woodley Avenue, Van Nuys (previously planned at Paramount Ranch, which was devastated by the Woolsey Fire).

On site registration opens at 8:00am and the run/walk begins at 9:30am. After the run/walk join us in the festival zone to meet our honorees and enjoy holiday entertainment, food, fun and a costume contest.

Register at www.JBR.org/ThousandOaks

Chanukah Celebration at the Simi Valley Town Center on Sunday, December 2, 2018

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CHANUKAH AT THE MALL

A Family Chanukah Celebration

Sunday, December 2

2:30 - 4:30 PM

At the Simi Valley Town Center

south of center court, near ULTA

Giant Menorah!

Dreidel-bot activity!

Dazzling Illusions show by Todd Reis!

Judah Macabee photo-op!

Music & dancing!

Latkes!

Chanukah crafts & gifts!

 

FREE Admission. All are welcome!

 805-577-0573 * info@chabadsimi.org

 Made possible by Chabad of Simi Valley & local donors

CANCELLED - TO BE RESCHEDULED New West Symphony Presents "The Romantics" in Thousand Oaks, Oxnard, November 17, 18

Music heals. And there will be a time for that. 

Right now is the time for families to embrace and for our community to try to comprehend the devastation that has befallen us.
 
In respect for everyone affected by the events of the past week, our November 17 and 18 concerts in Thousand Oaks and Oxnard are being rescheduled for future dates.
 
Watch for further details regarding new dates, arrangements for ticket holders, and how the New West Symphony will honor our community’s love and resiliency at future concerts.

The New West Symphony presents its November program, “The Romantics,” on Saturday, November 17th at the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza and Sunday, November 18th, at the Oxnard Performing Arts Center.

The Romantics Music Director Candidate Fawzi Haimor leads a program of three works from the romantic era, featuring the talents of Cleveland International Piano Competition Gold Medalist, Martina Filjak, in her New West Symphony debut. It also marks the Symphony’s first performance of American composer Edward MacDowell’s virtuosic, Liszt-inspired Piano Concerto No. 2. Closing the program is Johannes Brahms’ majestic First Symphony, which took Brahms 14 years to complete, and which, with its soaring final movement chorale, has often been called the Beethoven 10th.

Weber | Overture to Der Freischütz
MacDowell | Piano Concerto No. 2
Brahms | Symphony No. 1

Tickets available at www.newwestsymphony.org/the-romantics for the 7:30 p.m. show on the 17th in Thousand Oaks and the 3 p.m. show on the 18th in Oxnard.

One of the most exciting young artists to emerge in recent years, Martina Filjak is garnering international praise for her poetic passion and technical mastery at the keyboard as well as for her charismatic personality and magnetic stage presence.

Martina Filjak came to international attention by winning the Gold Medal, the 1st prize and the Beethoven prize at the Cleveland International Piano Competition in 2009, which brought her numerous engagements in the United States and internationally. Prior to that, she won 1st prizes at the Maria Canals Piano Competition (Barcelona) and the Viotti Piano Competition (Vercelli), and was a laureate at the Busoni Piano Competition.

In recent years, Ms Filjak has performed with esteemed orchestras including The Cleveland Orchestra, San Diego Symphony Orchestra, The Florida Orchestra, the Strasbourg Philharmonic, Barcelona Symphony, Bilbao Symphony and the Granada Symphony; the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie, the Staatskapelle Weimar; the Israel Chamber Orchestra as well as the Orchestre Symphonique de Nancy. She has been heard in major international venues such as the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Konzerthaus Berlin, l’Auditori and Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona, Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York, Boston’s Jordan Hall, Teatro San Carlo in Naples, Sala Verdi in Milan, Salle Gaveau in Paris, Musikverein and the Konzerthaus in Vienna, NDR Hall in Hannover, Residenz in Munich, Auditorio Nacional in Madrid.

Her most recent conductor collaborations include JoAnn Falletta, Michael Schonwandt, Christoph Poppen, Hans Graf, Sebastian Lang–Lessing, Josep Caballe-Domenech, Tito Munoz, Christopher Warren-Green and Stefan Sanderling.

The artist’s extensive repertoire ranges from Bach to Berio and encompasses more than 30 piano concertos. She is dedicated to continuous exploring of piano literature and various concert formats. Performing with orchestra takes the biggest part of her time and she frequently states that she enjoys the interaction and the exchange of energy between so many musicians on the stage. An avid chamber musician, she frequently takes part in chamber music festivals, and has participated in the recording of Schumann’s Andante and Variations with cellists Jan Vogler and Christian Poltera, released on Sony Classical (August 2013). Her recording of Sonatas by Padre Antonio Soler was released in 2011 on the Naxos label.

During the 2014-2015 season, Miss Filjak appeared in Brazil and Japan and performed with the Osaka Century Symphony Orchestra and Alan Buribayev, the Slovenian Philharmonic and Marcelo Lehninger, the Sinfonieorchester Aachen and Kazem Abdullah, the Zagreb Philharmonic and Hans Graf. She debuted with the Orchestra Sinfonica La Verdi in Milano as well as at Milan’s Serate Musicali. Performances in 2015-16 featured her with the Staatskapelle Halle and Josep Caballe Domenech, the Bremen Philharmonic Orchestra and Markus Poschner, the Bilkent Symphony Orchestra and Stefan Sanderling, the Phoenix Symphony and Tito Munoz the San Antonio Symphony and Karina Canellakis, the Las Vegas Philharmonic and Donato Cabrera, and the Pro Musica Chamber Orchestra and David Danzmayr in performances of concerti by Beethoven, Ravel, Brahms, Saint-Saens and Rachmaninov.

Martina speaks seven languages. Fortunately, for an active performer, she loves to travel.

Fawzi Haimor has worked with Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover, WDR Funkhausorchester Köln, Orquesta Sinfonica do Porto, Oulu Sinfonia and Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi. In the US, Haimor conducted orchestras such as The Florida Orchestra, Indianapolis Symphony, New West Symphony and New Mexico Philharmonic. He also made an acclaimed debut with the Grant Park Symphony in July 2017. Further afield, he collaborated with Qatar Philharmonic, Kyoto Symphony and the New Zealand Symphony.

Upcoming guest appearances include a return to the Louisiana Philharmonic, and debuts with orchestras including Deutsche Radiophilharmonie Saarbrücken, Philharmonie Zuidnederland and Bilkent Symphony Orchestra.

Haimor’s broad repertoire includes a focus on the late romantic Germanic works, 19th and 20th century Russian and American composers, plus he is a committed advocate of contemporary music and has performed premieres by composers such as Mason Bates and Kareem Roustom. An eloquent and compelling speaker from the podium, he equally excels in outreach and education projects.

Haimor was born in Chicago in 1983 and educated in the Middle East and in San Francisco. He completed his violin training at the Jacobs School of Music in Indiana University, and studied conducting under David Effron and Arthur Fagen. He earned bachelor’s degrees in both music and neurobiology, a master’s degree in conducting from the University of California-Davis, and second master’s in instrumental conducting at Indiana University. He was previously Assistant Conductor at Alabama Symphony Orchestra, where he was also the first Music Director of the Alabama Symphony Youth Orchestra. Until 2015, he was Assistant Conductor and Resident Conductor of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, where he led a variety of concerts including classical, pops and outreach. While in Pittsburgh, he also served as a cover to esteemed conductors including Manfred Honeck, Leonard Slatkin, Gianandrea Noseda, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos and Yan Pascal Tortelier.

38th Annual Westlake Village Juniors Gingerbread Boutique on November 8-9, 2018

The Westlake Village Junior Women's Club (WVJWC) will be hosting their 38th Annual Gingerbread Boutique on Thursday, November 8th from 6-10pm and Friday, November 9th, 2018 from 10am-6pm at St. Maximilian Kolbe Catholic Church in Westlake Village.

Get your friends and join us for a girls-night out on Thursday November 8th from 6-10pm. Your ticketed entry gets you dinner, dessert, wine and a raffle ticket to our amazing gift basket! Tickets will be $20, payable in advance or at the door.

Friday the boutique is open 10am-6pm for your leisurely pleasure. Ladies share with your husband! We have several jewelry vendors! 

The best part - 20% of all sales goes directly to help 5 local charities: Cancer Fit, Community Cancer Support, Many Mansions, Temple Adat Elohim, and Conejo Free Clinic Mammogram Fund. Give back to your community while getting your holiday shopping done!

For more information, visit www.facebook.com/events/448335402356142.

Tickets available at www.westlakejuniors.org/events/38th-annual-gingerbread-boutique/overview.