SCCM: Obon Week: Tuesday, (Engage in koi fish sensory play)

Southern California Children's Museum 459 E. Colorado Blvd, Pasadena, CA, United States

Playhouse Village invites you to join in the inaugural Obon Week, celebrating the traditional Japanese holiday of honoring loved ones. From August 12 – 17, visitors can enjoy activities such as making miniature Torii, exploring a koi fish sensory bin, creating yukata puppets, and crafting floating lanterns. Special guests include performers from Makoto Taiko, author […]

Free With Admission

Vroman’s Bookstore: Ellen Byron, in conversation with Naomi Hirahara, discusses A Very Woodsy Murder

Vroman's Bookstore 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, United States

Down-on-her-luck sitcom writer Dee Stern is flipping the script. Twice divorced and wasting her talents on an obnoxious kids’ show, the lifelong Angeleno embraces the urge to jump in her car and keep driving. It's a road trip with no destination—until she pulls into a mid-century motel filled with cobwebs and retro charm. Nestled in […]

Free

Landmark Theatres Pasadena: Retro Replay: Lock, Stock & Two Barrels

Landmark Theatre 673 E Colorado Blvd, Pasadena, Pasadena, CA, United States

Check out Retro Replay at Landmark Theatres Pasadena! Enjoy classics from '99: The Year That Changed Movies, including The Matrix, Eyes Wide Shut, Lock, Stock, Two Barrels, and Three Kings for just $ 5.

$5

SCCM: Obon Week: Wednesday, (Storytime featuring Suki’s Kimono and then learn how to make yukata puppets)

Southern California Children's Museum 459 E. Colorado Blvd, Pasadena, CA, United States

Playhouse Village invites you to join in the inaugural Obon Week, celebrating the traditional Japanese holiday of honoring loved ones. From August 12 – 17, visitors can enjoy activities such as making miniature Torii, exploring a koi fish sensory bin, creating yukata puppets, and crafting floating lanterns. Special guests include performers from Makoto Taiko, author […]

Free With Admission

Vroman’s Bookstore: Daniel A. Olivas, in conversation with Stephanie Yu, discusses My Chicano Heart

Vroman's Bookstore 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, United States

My Chicano Heart is a collection of author Daniel A. Olivas’s favorite previously published tales about love, along with five new stories, that explore the complex, mysterious, and occasionally absurd machinations of people who simply want to be appreciated and treasured. Readers will encounter characters who scheme, search, and flail in settings that are sometimes fantastical […]

Free

SCCM: Bilingual Circle Time

Southern California Children's Museum 459 E. Colorado Blvd, Pasadena, CA, United States

Enjoy a fun day at Southern California Children's Museum with an interactive Spanish-English story time or sing-along! This program is for native speakers and those seeking exposure to a new language. Free for the public every Thursday afternoon. *Event is free with the price of admission

Free with Admission

Vroman’s Bookstore: Hala Khouri, Tessa Hicks Peterson, Nkem Ndefo, and Valerie Thomas discuss Practicing Liberation

Vroman's Bookstore 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, United States

Practicing Liberation reorients collective justice work toward a model that transforms the effects of injustice, harm, and oppressive systems into resilience, joy, and community care. Through frameworks like trauma-informed methodology, transformative movement organizing, engaged Buddhism, and healing justice, editors Hala Khouri and Tessa Hicks Peterson show readers how to: -Embody healing, wellness, and beloved community -Guard […]

Free

SCCM: Wild California Explorers Fridays

Southern California Children's Museum 459 E. Colorado Blvd, Pasadena, CA, United States

Did you know that the Washingtonia filifera is the only species of palm tree indigenous to California? Learn more about our amazing state through games, scavenger hunts, and craft projects every Friday at the Southern California Children's Museum! *Event is free with the price of admission

Free with Admission

Vroman’s Bookstore: IN-STORE TICKETED: Maria Bamford and Scott Marvel Cassidy sign Hogbook and Lazer Eyes

Vroman's Bookstore 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, United States

Fans of Maria Bamford’s acclaimed quasi-autobiographical Lady Dynamite! Netflix series already know of her romance with LA painter Scott Marvel Cassidy, as well as her droll pug sidekicks Blueberry and Bert.Now the story has been recounted in the graphic novella Hogbook and Lazer Eyes, written by Bamford/Cassidy, drawn by Cassidy, and all told by the […]

Free

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