Name: Vroman’s Bookstore: Have Yourself A Stickler Little Storytime with Miss Marie and Mr. Steve
Start: 2024-12-11T11:00:00-08:00
End: 2024-12-11T11:45:00-08:00
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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December 2024
December 3, 2024 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm In-Person Event

Vroman’s Bookstore: Juhea Kim, in conversation with Katya Apekina, discusses City of Night Birds

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

A once-famous ballerina faces a final choice—to return to the world of Russian dance that nearly broke her, or to walk away forever—in this incandescent novel of redemption and love On a White Night in 2019, prima ballerina Natalia Leonova returns to St. Petersburg two years after a devastating accident that stalled her career. Once […]

FREE
December 5, 2024 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm In-Person Event

Vroman’s Bookstore: Yxta Maya Murray discusses A History of Hazardous Objects

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

Laura de León is a radar astronomer who studies Potentially Hazardous Objects (PHOs) such as threatening asteroids and comets at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, California. In Los Angeles in 2020, several crises are coalescing. The first strain of SARS-CoV-2 triggers the lockdowns, the city roils with protests of Derek Chauvin’s murder of George […]

FREE
December 6, 2024 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm In-Person Event

Vroman’s Bookstore: Jordan Harper, in conversation with Travis Woods, discusses The Last King of California

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

Sometimes to find yourself, you have to go back to where you came from. You just might not like what you find. After failing in his new life, Luke decides to go home, back to the one place where he’d once felt he belonged. But that was a long time ago and now he has […]

FREE
December 7, 2024 @ 11:00 am - 1:00 pm In-Person Event

Vroman’s Bookstore: 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 7, 2024 @ 11:30 am - 12:30 pm In-Person Event

Vroman’s Bookstore: Kids Holiday Crafting Fun!

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

After you take your photo with Santa, join us upstairs in the event space for a special holiday craft activity! We provide the supplies! To ensure that we have enough to go around, please email us at rsvp@vromansbookstore.com to RSVP for this event, with the number of participants.

FREE
December 7, 2024 @ 7:30 pm In-Person Event

Pasadena Presbyterian Church: 80th Annual Candlelight & Carols

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

Once again all of Pasadena Presbyterian Church’s resident choirs collaborate on this annual “Pasadena Holiday Tradition for the Whole Family,” offering fresh performances of familiar Christmas music, as well as newly-composed pieces. Serving as a thrilling kickoff to the Christmas season for many, this year’s program features sacred and secular music composed or arranged by […]

FREE
December 7, 2024 @ 8:00 pm In-Person Event

Boston Court: The Lao Tizer Quartet

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

Lao Tizer surrounds himself with “musicians of stupendous talent, using improvisational passages that sweep the listener into luscious soundscapes. The Lao Tizer Quartet is a soulful outfit that delivers “smooth jazz rich in melodicism, with a deep groove that sparkles with intersecting ideas, beautifully played.” – Telluride Jazz Festival

$49
December 8, 2024 @ 7:00 pm In-Person Event FUMC Pasadena: Los Angeles Children’s Chorus Winter Concert

FUMC Pasadena: Los Angeles Children’s Chorus Winter Concert

First United Methodist Church 500 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, United States

Grammy Award-winning Los Angeles Children’s Chorus rings in the holidays with its annual winter concert “Celebrating Joy,” with back-to-back performances in Playhouse Village. On Saturday, December 7, the Apprentice Choir, Concert Choir, Chamber Singers, and Chorale will perform at First United Methodist Church, delivering an inspiring evening of festive music. The celebration continues on Sunday, December 8, at Pasadena […]

FREE
December 9, 2024 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm In-Person Event

Vroman’s Bookstore: Martha Blanding, in conversation with Tim O’Day, discusses Groundbreaking Magic: A Black Woman’s Journey Through The Happiest Place on Earth

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

An empowering and moving story of a young woman from South Central Los Angeles (Watts and Compton) who took a chance, defied the odds and became the first-ever Black American to achieve a half-century-long career with The Walt Disney Company. Disneyland was groundbreaking when it opened in 1955 and continues to possess a legacy of […]

FREE
December 10, 2024 @ 7:00 pm In-Person Event

Landmark Pasadena: Retro Replay: Elf

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

Retro Replay, our weekly series of modern and vintage film favorites, features films so satisfying we’re reviving them on the big screen to enjoy again—or to see for the first time! Each month’s thematic program offers a new film on Tuesdays!

$5
December 10, 2024 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm In-Person Event

Vroman’s Bookstore: Richard Walter discusses Deadpan

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

Deadpan follows the misadventures of a vaguely antisemitic West Virginia Buick dealer who wakes up one day transformed into the world's most popular Jewish comedian. Steeped in magical realism, the narrative confronts the pivotal issues of our day: identity, intolerance, tribalism, and the redemptive force of humor. The story is set during the worldwide oil […]

FREE
December 11, 2024 @ 11:00 am - 11:45 am In-Person Event

Vroman’s Bookstore: Have Yourself A Stickler Little Storytime with Miss Marie and Mr. Steve

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

Stickler, a quirky, multi-eyed character with a flair for the edgy, could give Jack Skellington a run for his money as the ultimate “alternative” Santa. While Charlie Brown may have bemoaned receiving rocks for Trick-or-Treating, Stickler joyfully hands out twigs, hailing them as the perfect all-purpose holiday gift. (After all, “sticks and stones” have their […]

FREE

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December 2024