Community Calendar

This series is designed for caregivers to learn clear and practical tools to prevent caregiver burnout. It teaches self-care skills, enabling caregivers to reduce personal stress, change negative thinking, better communicate with healthcare providers and make difficult caregiving decisions.

“When They Took the Seeds, They Took the Land”: Indigenous Sovereignty and Land as Principle in Refugee Memory Archives. Presentation with Crystal Mun-hye Baik, Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Gender & Sexuality Studies, UC Riverside will be held in COB2-295.

Tenacious, innovative string musicians, the Evie Ladin Band - Evie Ladin, Keith Terry and Erik Pearson - throws down captivating, truly entertaining live shows.

Claiming Queer P’urhépecha Methodologies and Building Queer P’urhépecha Futures: " From the Community to the Stage." Presentation with Mario A. Gómez Zamora, Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow, UCLA, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities Center, Stanford University in the COB2-295.

Join the Kern Literacy Council for an engaging evening of conversation and storytelling with Beth Brookhart, Bakersfield-based author, former journalist, and longtime museum advocate, as she shares from her debut novel "The Four Queens of the Buttonbush Museum" discussing the inspiration behind the story.

You'll enjoy this visually and musically captivating stage production led by accomplished vocalist, pianist and star performer, Sean Trombley, who gives a genuine and powerful tribute to the music that inspired him as a vocalist and musician.

Celebrate the magic of butterflies at the 2026 Mariposa Butterfly Festival! Come for a weekend of fun, education, and entertainment for all ages. Experience the spectacular live butterfly release, explore Jurassic Mariposa with animatronic dinosaurs, enjoy two days of live music, a petting zoo, train rides, stilt walkers, jugglers, silk aerialists and more.