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If you would like to host an event, workshop, or would like to get involved in an upcoming event, we would love to hear from you. Please email us at info@greatergoods.org.

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Living Body Kyle Swan

Living Body & Kyle Swan

friday, june 30, 2017, 7-10pm
munique musique from across the POND Living Body & from our own yard Kyle Swan

needle felting workshop

Needle Felting Workshop

Saturday, July 1, 2017, 11am-1pm
we are excited to host ojai’s favorite felter, borbala arvai of boridolls creations, this saturday for a felting workshop.

Ted Sophie

Ted Lennon & Sophie Holt

Saturday, July 1, 2017, 7-10pm
an intimate night of music with honey-throated songbirds Ted Lennon & Sophie Holt! Ojai flavored folk, r&b, & more.

Peddler’s Theater

Sunday, June 25, 2017, 6:30-9pm
A Cronish Journey of Epic Proportions. Benefit performance for Greater Goods and Sue Blackshear’s Art Show Finale with yummy snacks from Quail Springs Farm

sabbath economics

Sabbath Economics

five thursdays: June 8, 15, 22, 29 & July 6
6:30pm potluck, 7:15pm talk

A five week series of interactive workshops that look at the human impulse to work compulsively, to consume addictively, and to use and exploit resources and labor mercilessly.

Harlem of the West cover

Harlem of the West, Book Signing & Music

Saturday, June 24, 2017, 6-10pm
The Harlem of the West SF Project is a book, website and photographic exhibit that celebrates the bustling Fillmore jazz era of the 1940s and 1950s, a period when the Fillmore was a vibrant neighborhood of more than two dozen nightclubs and music venues within its one square mile—all of which virtually vanished due to redevelopment in the 1960s. The project celebrates a unique and rediscovered chapter in jazz history and the African American experience on the West Coast.

the Cosmic Children surf film

The Cosmic Children

Friday, June 24, 2017, 8pm
the first of hal jepson’s many classic films, “cosmic children” helped to set the template for a more natural pairing of counterculture music & progressive surfing (1971). click the pic for a sample.

Morning of the Earth Film

Summer Saturday Surf Film

Saturday, June 17, 8pm
Morning of the Earth ( 1972 ) made by Alby Falzon was intended as an environmental statement presenting or suggesting an idealistic world in which surfers lived in harmony with the powers of nature. This was presented without narration or sub titles, and without any attempt to identify the surfing or the surfer’s locations, using music and imagery to provide an emotional context, and the lyrics of songs to reinforce its simple message.

Zavier music

Zavier Carbaga: A Personal History of Popular Music

Friday, June 16, 6:30pm
Zavier will sing and perform at the mighty Wurlitzer upright piano a selection of great well-known and obscure songs from then to now. Musical genres will range from Tin Pan Alley, to blues, to early Jazz, to rock, pop, folk, and country. There will be many sing-along songs some led by the bouncing ball. Accompanying the presentation will be a fascinating slideshow featuring—in addition to song lyrics—many rare historical graphics relating to the music. A few guest artists, such as Will Ryan “The King of the Radio Cowboys” will also do their respective things.

Ojai Bake & Gather

Ojai Bake & Gather

Saturday, June 10 9:30am
A community gathering, bake sale, and fundraiser with proceeds going to Girl’s Empowerment Workshop and Greater Goods. Sponsored by Kate’s Bread, Sun Oven, Farmer & the Cook, Beacon Coffee, friends, family, and artists. Poster art by Ojai’s Clinton Burger.

Vintage Swing

Vintage Swing & Old Time Music

Friday, June 9, 7pm
The Goat’s Beards will be joined by Ojai, CA band Mood Swing with their good friend Charletta Erb!

watercolor class

watercolor with sue blackshear

First Saturdays, 1:30-4:00pm, June-November
Begins Saturday, June 3rd, 2017

Intimate instruction for all levels from internationally recognized artist Sue Blackshear

memorial day concert poster

range of light wilderness, zeb zaitz, little wings

monday May 29 6:00-10:00pm.
amazing triple-header of live music in the coastal California mystic sea mist way.

turner & friends

turner & friends

friday may 26 7pm
a birthday concert for one of ojai’s finest & most humble sons: tyler turner. in addition to being a solid craftsman, father, surfer, & luddite, tyler also writes, picks & sings a mighty fine tune! joining him & adding some of their own will be todd hannigan, ted lennon, jeff wells, dan malloy, vaughn montgomery, soren mitchell, ollie cornell, & more. try click here for one kind taster!

drawing classes

drawing with sue blackshear

Third Saturdays, 1:00-2:30pm, May – October.
Begins Saturday, May 20.

instruction in drawing for beginner to advanced students from internationally recognized artist Sue Blackshear

saturday screening! one winter story

one winter story

saturday, may 20, doors 7:30pm, film 8pm
“one winter story” is an unprecedented glimpse into the male-dominated world of big-wave surfing from an unusual and seldom seen perspective – a woman’s.

godseye

community craft – ojo de dios

sunday, may 21, 12-3pm
the weaving of an ojo de dios is an ancient contemplative and spiritual practice for many indigenous peoples in the americas, people of all ages are welcome to come weave a gods eye.

OHMME & Alina Bea

OHMME & Alina Bea

monday, may 15 at 7pm
excited to welcome ohmme, an experiment in voice and sound by sima cunningham and macie stewart. inspired by the chicago improvisational music scene, cunningham and stewart joined forces in 2014.

rehmannia dean thomas w/ craig eastman

friday may 12th. 7:30-10pm
renowned herbalist & underground kentucky bluegrasser rhemannia dean thomas returns with his old friend & fiddle maestro, craig eastman, for a night musical delight.

watercolor workshop

kids watercolor workshop

***workshop full***
an exploratory class, for kids ages 5-10, with beautiful provocations and materials, working with different brush types and a variety of mediums such as salt, pen and watercolor, tape resistance, wood, canvas and paper.

folk steady

Sunday, May 7th, 2017, 2-8pm
Due to the wonderful blessing of a little more rain, greater goods is subbing in for the ojai rancho inn this sunday, not as a place to sleep, but as the host site for the may round of folk steady. take her easy like the wooden mountains & listen to a variety of local songbirds join the rain in ringing out across the checkered valley.

awake film

film screening! awake, a dream from standing rock

Saturday, May 6th, 2017, 7:30pm
satuday night we’ll be screening the powerful new film awake: a dream from standing rock, that recently premiered at the tribeca film festival. some of us were lucky enough to hear the youth runners & chief arvol looking horse & his family when they came through town last fall, & the importance of their story & the legacy of standing rock remains deep & wide.

sage stoneman & ella anderson

thursday, may 4, 2017, 7-10pm
original music. good friends old and new.

fundraiser art sale gathering

Friday, April 28, 2017, 6-10pm
Original art by Heather Mattoon. live music by Bernie Larsen & Cassidy Linder, Todd Hannigan, Ted Lennon, Vaughn Montgomery & more….

film screening! baraka

sunday april 23rd 7:30pm
we are excited to invite you to our first film screening, this sunday at 7:30pm at greater goods: ron fricke’s wordless wonder, baraka. named after a sufi word meaning “breath of life” or “blessing,” the film is both, and remains a powerful reminder of the importance of our relationships to our earthly home, our fellow creatures, & our fellow humans.

califone

califone

saturday april 22st 6:00pm
welcoming three dynamic musicians & visual artists to greater goods: tim rutili of califone, tara jane o’neil, & rachel blumberg of the decemberists.

wallet making workshop

wallet making workshop

friday april 21st 4:00-5:30pm
make a one-of-a-kind leather wallet with one-of-a-kind local leatherman jeff otterbein. all materials included

knitting class

beginners knitting class by josie mitchell

friday april 14th 3-4pm
yarn and needles will be available but you are also welcome to bring your own. tea will be served.

Dean Thomas

rehmannia dean thomas w/ craig eastman

thursday april 13th. 7-10pm
rehmannia dean thomas doesn’t often show his musical side, but greater goods seems to have inspired the kentucky native to come out for a special show of traditional bluegrass and country music. joining him will be fiddle maestro craig eastman.