Name: Holiday Music @ Vroman’s with the Pasadena Conservatory of Music!
Start: 2025-12-13T13:00:00-08:00
End: 2025-12-13T13:00:00-08:00
Location: Vroman’s Stage

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December 2025
Vroman’s Bookstore: Elena Brower discusses & signs Hold Nothing: An Invitation to Let Go and Come Home to Yourself

December 6, 2025 @ 6:00 pm In-Person Event

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

A distinctive, artful, contemplative guide for self-discovery and self-inquiry, with wisdom, encouragement, and thought exercises by the best-selling author of Practice You. Includes 45 practices and full-color pieces of artwork by the author. What if the most important work of your life isn’t something you chase—but something you uncover, slowly, in stillness? What if your presence […]

Free
Boston Court: MARIOLOGY

December 6, 2025 @ 7:30 pm In-Person Event MARIOLOGY

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

In a mythical fifth-grade classroom, indoctrination explodes into fantasy and rebellion in Nancy Keystone and Critical Mass Performance Group’s form-busting and exuberantly theatrical West Coast Premiere. Mariology explores the Virgin Mary both as a source of faith and a weapon of control, illuminating Mary's roles in systems of gender, power, and personal agency.

$32
Vroman’s Bookstore: Annual Gingerbread House Decorating Party

December 7, 2025 @ 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm In-Person Event

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

Back by popular demand! Please, join us for the return of our Annual Gingerbread House Decorating Party. Decorate a house that you can take home! This event usually sells out, so we will be hosting two time slots at 12pm and at 4pm. Space is very limited. No more than 4 people per gingerbread house. […]

$30
Vroman’s Bookstore: Holiday Music @ Vroman’s!

December 7, 2025 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm In-Person Event

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

Vroman’s Bookstore invites the community to celebrate the holidays with a special performance from the Pasadena Conservatory of Music (PCM). This Jazz Trio, featuring saxophone, keys, and bass, is presented in partnership with the Pasadena Conservatory of Music.

Free
Boston Court: MARIOLOGY

December 7, 2025 @ 2:00 pm In-Person Event MARIOLOGY

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

In a mythical fifth-grade classroom, indoctrination explodes into fantasy and rebellion in Nancy Keystone and Critical Mass Performance Group’s form-busting and exuberantly theatrical West Coast Premiere. Mariology explores the Virgin Mary both as a source of faith and a weapon of control, illuminating Mary's roles in systems of gender, power, and personal agency.

$32 – $52
Vroman’s Bookstore: Elline Lipkin reads from & signs Girl in a Forest

December 8, 2025 @ 7:00 pm In-Person Event

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

Elline Lipkin's Girl in a Forest explores the roles and tropes of women at different life stages, filtered through the lens of the Brothers Grimm tale of Hansel and Gretel. These poems lay a trail of breadcrumbs through permutations of grief as a mother realizes her mortality, a girl awakens to possibility, and an elder […]

Free
Boston Court: Flutist Sarah Shin

December 8, 2025 @ 8:00 pm In-Person Event

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

Vibrant and eclectic flutist Sarah Shin, who played with Lizzo at the Met Gala, shares her artistry in a voyage through the centuries of solo flute music.

$26 – $52
Landmark Theatres: National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation

December 9, 2025 @ 7:00 pm In-Person Event

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

Landmark Theatres invites guests to experience these Holiday Essentials with family and friends the way they were meant to be seen — on the Big Screen at Landmark Theatres. Be social and have fun! Titles screen on the dates and showtimes shown below, and all seats are only $5 for Paid Loyalty Members!

Free
Vroman’s Bookstore: Nadia Davids discusses & signs Cape Fever

December 9, 2025 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm In-Person Event

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

From award-winning South African author Nadia Davids comes a gothic psychological thriller set in the 1920s, where a young maid finds herself entangled with the spirits of a decaying manor and the secrets of its enigmatic owner. I come highly recommended to Mrs. Hattingh through sentences I tell her I cannot read. The year is […]

Free
Pasadena Presbyterian: Music at Noon: David Lee Ruest, violin, and Taro Wayama, guitar

December 10, 2025 @ 12:10 pm - 12:45 pm In-Person Event

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

Pasadena Presbyterian church presents Music at Noon, David Lee Ruest, violin, and Taro Wayama, guitar!

Free
Vroman’s Bookstore: Fiction Reading

December 10, 2025 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm In-Person Event

Atrium Building 709 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, United States

The Vroman’s Fiction Reading Group explores contemporary fiction -– long and short -– from a diverse selection of writers. Enjoy lively discussions at our one-hour meetings. Our Fiction Reading Group is free and inclusive – there are no requirements nor criteria to join. We announce upcoming titles 3-6 months in advance and choose titles that are […]

Free
Holiday Music @ Vroman’s with the Pasadena Conservatory of Music!

December 13, 2025 @ 1:00 pm In-Person Event

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

Jazz faculty from the Pasadena Conservatory of Music perform a variety of holiday classics. This program is presented in partnership with our friends at the Pasadena Conservatory of Music. Musicians: Danny Janklow (saxophone), Sam Hirsh (piano), Ahmet Türkmenoğlu (bass)

Free

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December 2025