Starting Oct. 13, Canyon Sages Chair Yoga 2022. Lola Babalon will teach six weekly, one-hour classes, beginning Oct.13 to Nov. 17, on Thursday mornings, 11 a.m. to noon. $10 each, or $50, prepaid for all six. Meets in the Sages room at the Topanga Community Center, 1440 N. Topanga Canyon Blvd, Topanga CA 90290. Lola Babalon is a longtime yogini, nurse, psychic and herbalist. She provides care, counsel and mentoring. For more information: (310) 455-0103 (landline), or lolababalon.com.
October 14-23, “When Pigs Fly.” Topanga Canyon Gallery presents the second annual all media group exhibition “When Pigs Fly,” a whimsical re-imagining of the axiom that turns the concept of the impossible on its head. Come celebrate the bohemian joie de vivre that exemplifies Topanga Canyon that has long nurtured creative expression and attracted artists and art enthusiasts alike to this “place above.” Topanga Canyon Gallery, 137 S. Topanga Canyon Blvd., Topanga, CA 90290.
Oct. 19 at 8 p.m., Nov. 13 at 5 p.m., Resilient (AF)—Kamakshi Hart’s second one-woman show, Resilient (AF), opened to a full and receptive audience at Corazón Performing Arts Center in Topanga on Sunday, Oct. 2, and continues with two more performances: Tuesday, Oct. 19 at 8 p.m. at The Hudson Guild Theatre, 6539 Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90038; and Sunday, Nov. 13 at 5 p.m. at the NAMBA Performing Arts Space, 47 S. Oak St., Ventura, CA 93001. Hart is a luminous and energetic woman who chooses to heal her own pain through the instrument of theater to demonstrate how she confronts “Shame” and embraces “Resilience” to heal herself, and then others. For more information and tickets: kamakshihart.com/resilient-AF.
Sunday, Oct. 16, 7 p.m., The Lion, the Witch and the Walk-In Closet—Directed by Kamakshi Hart, Kristy Beauvais’ first one-woman show opens at Corazón Performing Arts, 125 S. Topanga Canyon Blvd., Topanga, CA 90290. For more information on this and other shows at Corazón Performing Arts, go to corazontopanga.com.
Saturday, October 22, Topanga Elementary Halloween Carnival will be at its spooktacular best at the Topanga Community Center, from 4 to 8 p.m. One of the school’s essential fundraisers, they know how to throw a party. There will be carnival games, a haunted house, a costume contest, food trucks, beer and wine, and local rock band, Kummerspeck, who will play a Halloween-inspired live show. Some post-COVID restrictions continue. Tickets are pre-sale only ($20 per person or $60 for a family ticket, includes up to five people). Available at bit.ly/topangahalloween. Look for some frightfully good fun for the whole family, while benefitting Topanga Elementary Charter School.
