Name: Vroman’s Bookstore: Dr. Niki Elliott discusses & signs Heart-Centered Connections: Seven Essential Skills for Helping Neurodiverse and Marginalized Children Thrive
Start: 2026-07-21T19:00:00-07:00
End: 2026-07-21T19:00:00-07:00
Location: Vroman’s Bookstore

Featured Activities

Brigadoon at Pasadena Playhouse: May 13 — June 14

Boston Court: Civic Soul: June 20

Wellness in the Park: Anytime Fitness: June 25

Jazz in the Park: Sundays June & July: 6PM-8PM

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July 2026
Pasadena Museum of History: Exploring Pasadena on Foot | Part 2: Route 66 & Car Culture in the Playhouse Village

July 11 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am In-Person Event

Pasadena Presbyterian Church 585 East Colorado Boulevard, Pasadena , CA, United States

This walking tour will pick up thematically where the previous tour finished and continue walking east on Colorado Boulevard through the Playhouse Village. Pasadena’s Playhouse Village was developed as a commercial district in the 1920s when automobile ownership was rising rapidly across the country. Many of its buildings represent important milestones in car culture, including […]

$20 – $25
Vroman’s Bookstore: Jenna Rothberg reads from & signs Deli Days

July 11 @ 11:00 am In-Person Event

At Zeyde's Deli, Sundays mean helping Grandpa serve the neighborhood's best pastrami on rye. One moment you're carrying a tray of the deli's famous sandwiches. The next, you're standing in a sea of broken cookies and scattered sprinkles while the lunch rush stares. But right there in the chaos, a grandchild learns what family tradition […]

Free
Vroman’s Bookstore: Nadia Paredes discusses & signs Art Therapy for Every Day: 365 Tools & Exercises to Help You Create, Heal & Grow

July 11 @ 4:00 pm In-Person Event

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

Find your creative flow, soothe nerves, and reconnect with yourself through art therapy. Art is the best medicine--and by tapping into our creativity regularly, we can develop tools to help us feel better, calmer, and more resilient. Art Therapy for Every Day features 365 accessible and engaging exercises, each designed to help you develop self-awareness, […]

Free
Boston Court: NT Live: Les Liaisons Dangereuses

July 12 @ 2:00 pm In-Person Event Boston Court: NT Live: Les Liaisons Dangereuses

Boston Court Pasadena 70 N. Mentor Ave., Pasadena, CA, United States

BAFTA Award-winner Lesley Manville (Phantom Thread) joins Aidan Turner (Rivals) in a striking new staging of Christopher Hampton’s celebrated adaptation of the classic novel, where among the glittering salons of the super-rich, one misstep can mean ruin. Marquise de Merteuil is a master in the art of survival. Alongside the magnetic Vicomte de Valmont, they […]

$27
Boston Court: NT Live: The Playboy of the Western World

July 12 @ 7:00 pm In-Person Event Boston Court:

Boston Court Pasadena 70 N. Mentor Ave., Pasadena, CA, United States

Nicola Coughlan (Bridgerton) joins Éanna Hardwicke (The Sixth Commandment) and Siobhán McSweeney (Derry Girls) in John Millington Synge’s riveting play of youth and self-discovery. Pegeen Flaherty’s life is turned upside down when a young man walks into her pub claiming that he’s killed his father. Instead of being shunned, the killer becomes a local hero […]

$30
Vroman’s Bookstore: Marisa Solis & Elizabeth Dougherty discuss & sign The Complete Expert-To-Author Guide: Plan, Write, and Publish Your Nonfiction Book

July 14 @ 7:00 pm In-Person Event

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

Learn how to turn your expertise into a clear, compelling nonfiction book that reaches the people who need it most. Whether you're a consultant, coach, educator, healthcare provider, or entrepreneur, writing a book can expand your influence and help more people benefit from your ideas. The Complete Expert-to-Author Guide provides a practical, step-by-step roadmap for […]

Free
Vroman’s Bookstore: Fatimah Asghar discusses & signs Daughter of the Mountains: Poems of Heartbreak & Homecoming

July 15 @ 7:00 pm In-Person Event

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

A tender, searching collection that breaks open notions of faith to ask how a daughter, alienated from kin, can find love and a home in the world, from the award-winning author of If They Come for Us and When We Were Sisters "There is, in Daughter of the Mountains, an almost supernatural sense of connectedness, […]

Free
Vroman’s Summer Reading Program: Stuffed Animal Sleepover

July 16 @ 11:00 am In-Person Event

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

Your stuffed animals are invited to an overnight sleepover in the Vroman’s Children’s Department! The plushies will get a chance to experience the fun of a bookstore after dark, climbing ladders, browsing books, and making new friends! Drop your plushie off at the Kids Info Desk on Wednesday, July 15th, between the hours of 5-8 […]

Free
Vroman’s Bookstore: Michael Elias discusses & signs Bender’s L.A.

July 17 @ 7:00 pm In-Person Event

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

In the coke-dusted canyons and deal-making rooms of 1970s Los Angeles, Bender's L.A. follows writer David Bender as he sets out to remake his life - romantically, professionally, and spiritually - after his wife walks out in Puerto Vallarta with a single sentence and a suitcase. While the Vietnam War casts its shadow, Bender runs […]

Free
Vroman’s Bookstore: Local Author Day Introducing Esma Ali, Paul J. Ramirez & Kimberly Lee

July 19 @ 4:00 pm In-Person Event

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

Esma Ali presents Was Jesus A Narcissist?: A Muslim's Defense of Jesus! As a Christian, I found this book thought provoking. Well-researched. It has helped me understand the Muslim mindset. I appreciate Esma's use of Psychology in her illustrations. -Anne Nolty, PhD, Psychologist, Pasadena, CA. As a Catholic, I have immensely enjoyed the reading!!! Esma Ali brings […]

Free
Alicia Upano, discusses & signs Everything to the Sea

July 20 @ 7:00 pm In-Person Event

Vroman's Bookstore

Part riveting love story, part coming-of-age tale, Everything to the Sea is a breathtaking debut novel spanning years and shores after a sudden tsunami devastates the island of Hawai’i and cuts short a young couple’s budding romance—a deeply moving testament to the catastrophes love can endure. This is how the story goes: Jane will fall in love. […]
Vroman’s Bookstore: Dr. Niki Elliott discusses & signs Heart-Centered Connections: Seven Essential Skills for Helping Neurodiverse and Marginalized Children Thrive

July 21 @ 7:00 pm In-Person Event

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

A transformative guide for anyone working with the child who is left out, left behind, or labeled "difficult." Heart-Centered Connections teaches the best practices to support kids who are misunderstood and marginalized--those who are neurodivergent, have a learning disability, or are trauma survivors. They have extraordinary potential waiting to be unleashed. Heart-Centered Connections is based […]

Free

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