Name: Vroman’s Bookstore : Kids Holiday Crafting Fun!
Start: 2025-12-06T11:00:00-08:00
End: 2025-12-06T13:00:00-08:00
Location: Vroman’s Bookstore

Featured Activities

Holiday Tree Lighting Celebration Dec 4

SCCM: Animal Crackers with The Sunshine Storyteller

Pasadena Playhouse: Jingle & Mingle Dec 13

Chanukah Menorah Parade & Celebration Dec 18

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November 2025
November 29 @ 11:00 am In-Person Event

Vroman’s Bookstore: Shop Local with Richard Scarry: A Special Story Time Reading in Celebration of Small Business Saturday

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

"All the Busytown workers have worked hard to help their families and friends. I think it is about time to have a party to celebrate. Don't you?" — Richard Scarry, What People Do All Day Join the Vroman's Children's Department on November 29th at 11am for a special Small Business Saturday celebration, inspired by Richard Scarry […]

Free
November 29 @ 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm In-Person Event

Vroman’s Type-In Returns! A Holiday Celebration of Typewriters & Typewriting!

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

An afternoon of celebrating manual typewriters awaits. A Type-in is a community-based, family-friendly gathering where typewriter enthusiasts share their love for the analog art of putting ink to paper with mechanical marvels of the late 19th and 20th centuries. Visitors can enjoy demonstrations and experience the satisfying click and clack, no plug-ins needed.

Free
November 30 @ 11:00 am - 4:00 pm In-Person Event

Vroman’s Bookstore: An Artisan’s Holiday Market on the Vroman’s Paseo (Weather Permitting)

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

Join Vroman's Bookstore for a special holiday market outside on the Vroman’s Paseo. We have a confirmed list of local crafters and artisans all set to join us for this day in celebration of Artists Sunday, supporting local artists nationwide.

Free
November 30 @ 1:00 pm In-Person Event

Vroman’s Bookstore: Holiday Music @ Vroman’s with Café Luar!

Vroman's Stage 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, Select a Country:

Vroman’s Bookstore is celebrating the holidays with the Pasadena Conservatory of Music (PCM). Café Luar, a folk music trio, will perform as part of this partnership with the Pasadena Conservatory of Music.

Free
December 2025
December 2 @ 6:00 pm In-Person Event

Vroman’s Bookstore: Falon Ballard discusses & signs Something Wicked

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

The country of Avon is in deep turmoil... The Uprising has overthrown Avon's monarchial rulers, and a decree has been issued. Candidates for the first presidential election will be selected by the completion of a special task: to kill the former monarch of their home province. Callum, the son of the recently dethroned king, is […]

Free
December 2 @ 7:00 pm In-Person Event

Landmark Theatres: Retro Replay: Gremlins (1984)

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

In the fantastical black comedy Gremlins, a father (Hoyt Axton) buys a pet "Mogwai" as a Christmas present for his son (Zach Galligan). The boy is told to keep the cute and furry pet away from water, out of the light, and never to feed it after midnight. Inadvertently, the creature is dampened and almost […]

$5.00
December 3 @ 12:10 pm - 12:45 pm In-Person Event

Music at Noon: The Riner Scivally Trio, jazz ensemble

Pasadena Presbyterian Church Musical Events 585 East Colorado Boulevard, Pasadena, California

Pasadena Presbyterian Church presents Music at Noon with The Scivally Trio, jazz.

Free
December 4 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm In-Person Event

Holiday Tree Lighting Celebration!

Playhouse Village Park 701 Union St, Pasadena, CA, United States

Playhouse Village Holiday Tree Lighting Thursday, December 4 5 pm to 6 pm Playhouse Village Park 701 E. Union St. FREE & ALL AGES Experience Pasadena twinkle as we illuminate our tree to celebrate the holiday season in Playhouse Village! With live music and performances, and maybe even some snowfall, this is the perfect way […]

Free Event
December 4 @ 7:00 pm In-Person Event

Vroman’s Bookstore: Suzanne Weerts discusses & signs Champagne Girl in a Budweiser Family: A Memoir in Stories

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

"Suzanne Weerts' Champagne Girl in a Budweiser Family gives us a delightful and vivid time machine to bygone days of youthful folly and wide-eyed hope, while reminding us why girls in the seventies were just as eager to leave that time behind." -Cara Lopez Lee author of Candlelight Bridge, a 2025 Pick in Fiction in […]

Free
December 5 @ 7:00 pm In-Person Event

Vroman’s Bookstore: Tom Toro presents & signs And to Think We Started as a Book Club…

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

What can Leonardo DiCaprio, Bernie Sanders, Greta Thunberg, and Elon Musk all agree on? That Tom Toro's cartoons belong in their social media feeds. Now, with this debut collection by one of The New Yorker's contemporary stars, everybody can enjoy the timeless witticism and thigh-slapping wisecracks of Toro's cartoons without needing to go online. In […]

Free
December 6 @ 11:00 am - 1:00 pm In-Person Event

Vroman’s Special Holiday Event – Santa Comes to Vroman’s

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

Come get your photo taken with Santa and let him know what you want for Christmas this year! Photos are FREE courtesy of Vroman’s Bookstore. And while you’re here, don’t forget to finish up your holiday shopping!

Free
December 6 @ 11:00 am - 1:00 pm In-Person Event

Vroman’s Bookstore : Kids Holiday Crafting Fun!

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

After guests take their photo with Santa at Vroman’s Bookstore, they are invited upstairs to the event space for a special holiday craft activity. All supplies will be provided. To ensure there are enough materials for everyone, Vroman’s Bookstore asks participants to RSVP by emailing rsvp@vromansbookstore.com with the number of attendees.

Free

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November 2025

December 2025