Community Calendar

Medicare can be confusing. Understanding how to use your healthcare benefits doesn’t have to be. Join MAMSA Foundation, Inc. for a free Medicare Education & Benefits Utilization Workshop designed to help older adults, people with disabilities, caregivers, and family members better understand Medicare, healthcare benefits, preventive services, provider changes, and local community resources.

Fresno’s historic Holy Trinity Armenian Apostolic Church is hosting their annual food bazaar with authentic Armenian cuisine, featuring beef and chicken kebabs and peda burger. Meals include pilaf, yalanchi, summer salad, bread and Armenian pastries.

Flor de Toloache brings its fearless, genre-crossing approach to mariachi to Merced. Founded in 2008 by Mireya Ramos and Shae Fiol as New York City’s first all-women mariachi, the ensemble has grown from performances in subway stations, dive bars, and music clubs to internationally acclaimed stages with virtuosic musicianship, magnetic vocals, and bold storytelling.

In 1759 rural England, a young woman is sentenced to hang for murder but claims she is pregnant, which could save her life. With no doctor available, twelve local women are gathered to determine whether she is telling the truth. As secrets, prejudices, and old wounds surface, The Welkin becomes a gripping, darkly funny examination of justice, power, and what happens when women are finally asked to decide another woman’s fate. A Phoenix Creative Collective production.

From Fresno to the Hollywood Improv, where he became a regular and even hosted, Danny has opened for comedy giants like Brad Garrett and Jim Jeffries. His credits include appearances at top comedy clubs and a role in the movie Alta California, where he also served as assistant producer.

What does it take to stand out at a crowded author event? Writers of Kern (WOK) invites writers of all experience levels to explore book promotion strategies during its October workshop featuring award-winning author and educator Lisa Behrens-Smith. The workshop, “Beyond the Book Table – The Author Event Playbook,” will offer practical advice for making the most of book signings, literary festivals, and other promotional events.

Bakersfield Museum of Art’s 28th Annual Via Arté Chalk Festival is back! Come watch hundreds of artists turn the pavement of The Marketplace into a gallery of jaw-dropping chalk masterpieces in BMoA’s largest annual fundraiser.

Polished chrome, custom builds and roaring engines return to the Fairgrounds as the 2nd Annual Big Fresno Fair Car Show takes over the Brian I. Tatarian Grandstand. Building on the success of its inaugural year, the event will once again showcase an impressive lineup of classic cars, hot rods, trucks, motorcycles and bicycles from across the Valley.

At this free, family-friendly event, decorate pumpkins from the campus farm, explore a hay bale maze, snap pictures of kids next to farm equipment, and participate in crafts, educational games, and demonstrations. Also get great prices on thousands of plants at a morning plant sale 8AM - 12PM, and enjoy lots of free items like student-made campus ice cream, food samples, and an afternoon wine tasting.

Dust off the leather jackets. Break out the mustaches. Channel your inner Freddie. Come sing every anthem, dance in the aisles, and relive the songs that defined a generation with tribute band Queen Nation.