Playhouse Village Association

SCCM: Bilingual Circle Time
2021-07-15 10:00, 2021-07-22 10:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Southern California Children’s Museum, 459 E. Colorado Blvd, Pasadena, CA, 91011, United States
THURSDAYS AT 10:00AM
Enjoy a fun interactive story time or sing a long in either Spanish or Vietnamese! This program is suitable for native speakers and those seeking exposure to a new language.

USC PAM: Nick Dong: Mendsmith Project
2021-07-15 12:00 - 17:00 | USC Pacific Asia Museum, 46 North Los Robles Avenue, Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
The USC Pacific Asia Museum and artist Nick Dong invite you to participate in an intimate and healing artistic endeavor as part of Divine Immersion: The Experiential Art of Nick Dong.
This project emerged after a close friend of Dong’s lost her husband and all that remained was his wedding ring. Dong wanted to do something more meaningful and lasting than offering his sympathies. Given his background in metalsmithing, Dong offered to craft their rings together, forging a newly fashioned piece, bringing positivity and healing to her grief.
As part of USC PAM’s special exhibition, selected participants will be asked to bring two sentimental jewelry pieces or other personal objects to be “mended” together. Working collaboratively with the participant, Dong will use the stories and memories of their relationship to guide the final design, marrying the two pieces together to form a new personal item. Participants will be able to keep the newly mended pieces free of charge.
To apply to participate, please RSVP and fill out the following google form before July 5, 2021.
Apply here to google form
Please note that not all RSVP’s/applications will be selected to participate.
Nick Dong will be working on each piece in the gallery during the museum’s open hours.
More information on Dong’s work can be found on his website:
https://www.studiodong.com/
More information on Divine Immersion: The Experiential Art of Nick Dong can be found on the USC Pacific Asia Museum website:
https://pacificasiamuseum.usc.edu/exhibitions/upcoming/

Cost: FREE

University Club: Thursday Nights at the Patio
2021-07-15 17:00 - 20:00, 2021-07-22 17:00 - 20:00 | University Club of Pasadena, 175 N. Oakland Ave., Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States

Vroman's: Kimberly B. Cummings discusses Next Move, Best Move: Transitioning into a Career You'll Love
2021-07-15 18:00 | CA
This is a virtual event and will take place on Crowdcast. Register for FREE ahead of time to save your spot and get an email reminder! Scroll down to purchase your copy of the book from Vroman’s.
EVENT LINK: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/in90un0i
Kimberly B. Cummings, author of Next Move, Best Move: Transitioning into a Career You’ll Love, leaves no stone unturned with this thorough, expert guide for professionals seeking to understand how to navigate the world of work, from beginning to end, starting with uncovering personal and professional values in an effort to align their expertise and skills to roles and companies that will finally change the trajectory of their career and set them up to be leaders in the workforce.
As a former career development adviser in some of the nation’s top universities and a diversity + inclusion professional in a Fortune 100 company, Cummings has recognized that people work for the sake of working without understanding how to leverage their unique gifts and position themselves for success. As a result, Next Move, Best Move: Transitioning into a Career You’ll Love shares transformational lessons to ensure success and puts the ball back in your court. (Wiley)

SCCM: Wild California Explorers
2021-07-16 11:00, 2021-07-16 15:00, 2021-07-23 11:00, 2021-07-23 15:00 | CA
Did you know that the Washingtonia filifera is the only species of palm trees indigenous to California? Learn more about our amazing state through games, scavenger hunts and craft projects!

USC PAM: Conversation@PAM: Artist Talk - Nick Dong
2021-07-16 16:00 | USC Pacific Asia Museum, 46 North Los Robles Avenue, Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
Join exhibited artist Nick Dong as he discusses his immersive show Divine Immersion: The Experiential Art of Nick Dong, in an intimate virtual conversation via Zoom.
The exhibition journeys us past the loss and pain of the last year caused by COVID-19 into an immersive experience rooted in the ethos of healing. Inspired by a meditative experience at a Buddhist retreat, the Oakland-based Taiwanese artist, Nick Dong, designed a series of immersive installations to recapture our personal and collective spirit. Learn about the artist’s practice and influences before experiencing the work for yourself.

For questions or to request accommodations for this event please contact Cristina Hernandez-Guerrero at ch45852@usc.edu . For additional information please visit https://pacificasiamuseum.usc.edu/
Please note that the zoom URL will be shared a week before the event.

More about the Artist:
Dong is a conceptual metalsmith, mixed-media sculptor, and socio-commodity engineer. From a multidisciplinary maker/craftsman practice he founded studioDONG and leads a team to produce experiential sculptures, objects, and installations that combine an advanced knowledge of materials and techniques to engage an audience’s experience beyond the optical. As a Taiwanese-American, Dong identifies himself as a 21st-century continuation of Wen-ren, the Chinese cultural lineage of intellect-scholars, in which each work is a quest of self-evolution, a vehicle of sharing philosophy. By carefully integrating scientific and handcrafted components, supernatural movements, light, sound, and various interactive or situational strategies, Dong’s work produces a fully immersive event, only complete once a viewer steps into space and the encounter is experienced.

More information on Dong’s work can be found on his website: https://www.studiodong.com/

Vroman's: Gale Sinatra and Barbara Hofer discuss Science Denial
2021-07-16 18:00 | CA
This is a virtual event and will take place on Crowdcast. Register for FREE ahead of time to save your spot and get an email reminder! Scroll down to purchase your copy of the book from Vroman’s.
EVENT LINK: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/7hu3ty36
How do individuals decide whether to accept human causes of climate change, vaccinate their children, or wear a mask during a pandemic? In Science Denial: Why It Happens and What to Do About It, psychologists Gale Sinatra and Barbara Hofer identify the problem of science denial and offer tools for addressing it. The authors focus on key psychological issues such as social identity and reasoning biases that limit a public understanding of science–and describe solutions for individuals, educators, science communicators, and policy makers. For those who wonder why science denial exists and how to combat it, this book provides crucial insights. (Oxford University Press)

SCCM: Saturday Sing-Along
2021-07-17 10:30, 2021-07-17 15:00, 2021-07-24 10:30, 2021-07-24 15:00 | Southern California Children’s Museum, 459 E. Colorado Blvd, Pasadena, CA, 91011, United States
SATURDAYS AT 10:30AM AND 3:00PM
Kiddos of all ages get to explore various musical instruments while singing their favorite songs! From shakers to drums, we are ready to make some noise!

Vroman's: Thriller panel event featuring Alexa Donne, Laurie Elizabeth Flynn, and Kara Thomas
2021-07-17 15:00 | CA
This is a virtual event and will take place on Crowdcast. Register for FREE ahead of time to save your spot and get an email reminder! Scroll down to purchase your copy of the book from Vroman’s.
EVENT LINK: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/rkfqur5y
The Ivies, five prep school elites who would kill to get into the colleges of their dreams, has a showdown after Liv gets into Harvard and queen bee Avery does not. (Crown Books for Young Readers)
In The Girls Are All So Nice Here, a lot has changed in the years since Ambrosia Wellington graduated from college, and she’s worked hard to create a new life for herself. But then an invitation to her ten-year reunion arrives in the mail, along with an anonymous note that reads, ‘We need to talk about what we did that night.’ It seems that the secrets of Ambrosia’s past–and the people she thought she’d left there–aren’t as buried as she’d believed. Amb can’t stop fixating on what she did or who she did it with: larger-than-life Sloane ‘Sully’ Sullivan, Amb’s former best friend, who could make anyone do anything. At the reunion, Amb and Sully receive increasingly menacing messages, and it becomes clear that they’re being pursued by someone who wants more than just the truth of what happened that first semester. (Simon & Schuster)
In That Weekend, after Claire wakes up alone on a mountain with no memory of how she got there, she learns her best friend Kat and Kat’s boyfriend are missing and Kat’s past is full of secrets. (Delacorte Press)

Event date:

Saturday, July 17, 2021 – 3:00pm

University Club: Sunday Brunch
2021-07-18 10:00 - 13:00 | University Club of Pasadena, 175 N. Oakland Ave., Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
First Seating 10:00am, Last Seating 1:00pm | More details coming soon!

SCCM: Story and Craft
2021-07-19 10:30, 2021-07-19 15:00, 2021-07-20 10:30, 2021-07-26 10:30, 2021-07-26 15:00, 2021-07-27 10:30 | Southern California Children’s Museum, 459 E. Colorado Blvd, Pasadena, CA, 91011, United States
Join Southern California Children’s Museum for a read-aloud, and then bring the story to life through arts and crafts! From a Trailblazer who made their mark in history or an influential illustrator who brings stories to life, you will not want to miss out on this one!

Vroman's: Samantha Berger & Dan Santat present Trick or Treat, Crankenstein
2021-07-20 17:00 | CA
This is a virtual event and will take place on Crowdcast. Register for FREE ahead of time to save your spot and get an email reminder! Scroll down to purchase your copy of the book from Vroman’s.
EVENT LINK: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/6le04eov
Even the grumpiest kiddos will cheerfully gobble up this the delicious follow-up to Crankenstein and A Crankenstein Valentine! This year, Crankenstein’s favorite day of all–Halloween–has gone rotten! Creepy-cool costumes, super-scary jack-o’-lanterns, and loads of candy have been RUINED by costume disasters, pumpkin-carving nightmares, and a terribly untimely toothache! MEHHRRRR!!! Can Halloween be saved, or will today turn into the crankiest Halloween in history?
Samantha Berger’s beloved “crankster” character confronts all the wicked tricks and treats of Halloween in this bucket full of laughs, illustrated by bestselling, award-winning artist Dan Santat. (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)

Event date:

Tuesday, July 20, 2021 – 5:00pm

Pasadena Presbyterian: Music at Noon
2021-07-21 12:00, 2021-07-28 12:00 | Pasadena Presbyterian Church, 585 East Colorado Boulevard, Pasadena , CA, 91101, United States
Friends of Music is delighted to announce that Music at Noon, our weekly half-hour concert is going online! Beginning Wednesday, November 25, your favorite Music at Noon artists will be heard and seen on YouTube and Facebook.
To see who is playing, visit ppcmusic.org.

Vroman's: Terence Lester discusses When We Stand: The Power of Seeking Justice Together
2021-07-22 18:00 | CA
This is a virtual event and will take place on Crowdcast. Register for FREE ahead of time to save your spot and get an email reminder! Scroll down to purchase your copy of the book from Vroman’s.
EVENT LINK: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/rp4ez2xs
It’s easy to feel overwhelmed by all of the injustices that we see in the world. We don’t know what to do and might think that we don’t have anything to offer. But by using our gifts in collaboration with others, we can do more together than we ever could on our own. Activist Terence Lester knows it’s hard to change the world. But mobilizing and acting together empowers us to do what we can’t do as isolated individuals. Lester looks at the obstacles that prevent us from getting involved, and he offers practical ways that we can accomplish things together as groups, families, churches, and communities. He helps us find our place in the larger picture, discerning the unique ways we can contribute and make a difference. By connecting with our neighbors and discovering our own paths of service, we can drastically change how we follow Christ and see God moving in the world. Togetherness and community give visible testimony of the power of the gospel. In this broken world, the body of Christ can transform society–when we stand together. (IVP)

University Club: A Night with Elton
2021-07-24 17:30 | CA

Vroman's: Willa C. Richards, in conversation with Chia-Chia Lin
2021-07-27 18:00 | CA
This is a virtual event and will take place on Crowdcast. Register for FREE ahead of time to save your spot and get an email reminder! Scroll down to purchase your copy of the book from Vroman’s.
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In the summer of 1991, a teenage girl named Dee McBride vanished in the city of Milwaukee. Nearly thirty years later, her sister, Peg, is still haunted by her sister’s disappearance. Their mother, on her deathbed, is desperate to find out what happened to Dee so the family hires a psychic to help find Dee’s body and bring them some semblance of peace.
The appearance of the psychic plunges Peg back to the past, to those final carefree months when she last saw Dee–the summer the Journal Sentinel called “the deadliest . . . in the history of Milwaukee.” Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer’s heinous crimes dominated the headlines and overwhelmed local law enforcement. The disappearance of one girl was easily overlooked.
Peg’s hazy recollections are far from easy for her to interpret, assess, or even keep clear in her mind. And now digging deep into her memory raises doubts and difficult–even terrifying–questions. Was there anything Peg could have done to prevent Dee’s disappearance? Who was really to blame for the family’s loss? How often are our memories altered by the very act of voicing them? And what does it mean to bear witness in a world where even our own stories are inherently suspect?
A heartbreaking page-turner, Willa C. Richards’ debut novel is the story of a broken family looking for answers in the face of the unknown, and asks us to reconsider the power and truth of memory. (Harper)
