Playhouse Village Association

USC PAM: Sacred Sand Mandala
2024-01-24 14:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | USC Pacific Asia Museum, 46 North Los Robles Avenue, Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
USC Pacific Asia Museum is proud to host Tibetan monks from the Drepung Loseling Monastery in South India. They will spend four days creating a Sand Mandala, a Tibetan Buddhist tradition that involves the creation and destruction of paintings made using colored sand. Once completed, it is dismantled as a symbol of the Buddhist belief in the transitory nature of material life.
The opening blessing ceremony will take place on Wednesday, January 24th at 2:00PM and the closing dissolution ceremony will take place on Saturday, January 27 at 3PM. Museum visitors will be able to observe the creation of the mandala during regular public open hours.
Schedule of events:
Opening blessing ceremony:
Wednesday, January 24th: 2:00 PM
View the monks as they work to create the mandala
Wednesday, January 24th, 2:00-5:00
Thursday, January 25th, 2:00-5:00
Friday, January 26th, 2:00-5:00
Saturday, January 27th, 2:00-5:00
Closing ceremony:
Saturday, January 27th, 3:00 pm

Monopole Wine by RX: Wine is Bottled Poetry
2024-01-24 18:00 - 20:00 | Monopole Wine By RX, 21 S. El Molino Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
Join Monopole by Wine RX for an evening of poetry and Wine featuring guest poets Phil Allen, Tamisha Tyler, and Victoria Lynne Mc Coy!

Vroman's: Sherri L. Smith and Elizabeth Wein discuss American Wings
2024-01-24 19:00 | Vroman’s Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
From the acclaimed author of Flygirl and the bestselling author of Code Name Verity comes the thrilling and inspiring true story of the desegregation of the skies.
In the years between World War I and World War II, aviation fever was everywhere, including among Black Americans. But what hope did a Black person have of learning to fly in a country constricted by prejudice and Jim Crow laws, where some previous Black aviators like Bessie
Coleman had to move to France to earn their wings?
American Wings follows a group of determined Black Americans: Cornelius Coffey and Johnny Robinson, skilled auto mechanics; Janet Harmon Bragg, a nurse; and Willa Brown, a teacher and social worker. Together, they created a flying club and built their own airfield on Chicago’s South Side. As the U.S. hurtled toward World War II, they established a school to train new pilots, teaching both Black and white students together and proving, in a time when the U.S. military was still segregated, that successful integration was possible.
Complete with black-and-white photographs throughout, American Wings brings to light a hidden history of pioneering Black men and women who, with grit and resilience, battled powerful odds for an equal share of the sky. (G.P. Putnam’s Sons for Young Readers)
Sherri L. Smith is the author of several novels for young adults, including the critically acclaimed The Blossom and the Firefly, Flygirl, Orleans, and Pasadena, as well as the middle-grade novel The Toymaker’s Apprentice. Visit her online at sherrilsmith.com
Elizabeth Wein is a recreational pilot and the owner of about a thousand maps. She is the author of several young adult novels, including Code Name Verity, an Edgar Award winner and a #1 New York Times bestseller; Black Dove, White Raven, winner of the Children’s Africana Book Award; and most recently, Stateless. Her book A Thousand Sisters: The Heroic Airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II was a finalist for YALSA’s Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Award. A dual American-British citizen, Elizabeth lives in Scotland. Learn more at ElizabethWein.com and follow her on Twitter @EWein2412

Ice House Comedy: Al Madrigal, Joey Bragg, Charlotte McKinney
2024-01-24 19:00 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Ice House Comedy presents Al Madrigal, Joey Bragg, and Charlotte McKinney! Live in the Legendary Room! The show starts at 7PM. 21+ with a 2-item minimum per seat.

Archetype Yoga: Full Moon Intention Setting (Wolf Moon)
2024-01-24 19:00 - 21:00 | Archetypa Yoga, 638 e colorado ave, pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
Archetype Yoga presents Full Moon Intentions Setting + Sound Bath + Tarot Reading to connect with January’s Wolf Moon – this moon is inspired by the cries of the wolves during the wintertime. It’s our reminder of the depth of winter and the necessary shifts that are made to make it through.
Full Moon Sound Bath
w/ Sara + Jen
Wednesday, Jan. 24th
7:30-9:00pm
Soundbat + tarot + tea

Ice House Comedy: Rudy Moreno & Friends!
2024-01-25 19:30 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Ice House Comedy presents Rudy Moreno & Friends featuring Allan Havey, Jerry Garcia, Carlos Oscar, and Phil Medina! Live in the California Room! The show starts at 7:30PM. 21+ only with a 2-item minimum per seat.

Pasadena Walking Tours: Haunted Pasadena
2024-01-26 18:30 - 20:30 | Pasadena Walking Tours: Haunted Pasadena, 36 S. El Molino Avenue, Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
Through darkened alleyways, castles, courtyards, mortuaries, and theatres, join Pasadena Walking Tours for Haunted Pasadena and discover the sordid side of the City of Roses. Meet the phantoms that haunt its alleys, underground tunnels, corridors, and back rooms. Unexplained mysteries and dirty dealings pepper Pasadena’s past, but we’ll expose them on a nighttime wander through the Playhouse Village and Old Pasadena! This tour does not visit building interiors.
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Starting Time: 6:30 PM
Starting Point: Performer Statue outside of The Stand, 36 S. El Molino Avenue, Pasadena CA 91101
Distance: 1.5 miles (please note that this tour ends approximately 1 mile from the starting point)
Duration: approximately 2 hours
Ending Location: Mills Place, Old Pasadena

Adults: $28
Children (5-12): $18
Children under 5: Free
(Parental guidance advised due to the nature of the stories told during the tour)
Note: Pasadena Walking Tours loves and welcomes solo adventurers, but please note that our tours run with a minimum of 2 participants, so grab a friend to guarantee your tour! Tours that have not met this minimum by 8PM the night before will be canceled and a refund will be issued.

Vroman's: Becky Nicolaides, in conversation with Naomi Hirahara, The New Suburbia
2024-01-26 19:00 | Vroman’s Bookstore
America’s suburbs have been transforming. The conventional story of suburbs as bastions of white, middle-class homeowners no longer describes the suburbs of America’s cities. Today they house a more typical cross-section of the nation–rich, poor, Black American, Latino, Asian, immigrant, the unhoused, the lavishly housed, and everyone in between. Stories of everyday suburban life, in the process, have taken on new inflections.
Nowhere are these changes more vivid than in Los Angeles. In this suburban metropolis and global powerhouse, lily white suburbs have virtually disappeared, and over two-thirds of the County’s suburbs have become majority minority. Examining this vanguard of change from the postwar to the present, The New Suburbia follows the Asian Americans, Black Americans, and Latinos who moved into white neighborhoods that once barred them. They bought homes, enrolled their children in schools, and began navigating suburban life. They faced a choice: would they remake the suburbs, or would the suburbs remake them? In places like Pasadena, San Marino, South Gate, and Lakewood, suburbanites faced the challenges of living together in difference. Historian Becky Nicolaides explores a range of community experiences, from internal resegregation to suburban poverty, an embrace of law-and-order culture to police brutality, friendly neighbors to social withdrawal. In some communities, diverse residents continued longstanding habits of exclusion and perpetuated metropolitan inequality. In others, they embraced more inclusive, multicultural suburban ideals. Through it all, the common denominators of suburbia remained–low-slung landscapes of single-family homes and families seeking the good life.
An authoritative work based on a half-century of quantitative data and unpublished oral histories and interviews, The New Suburbia explores vital landscapes where the American dream has endured, even as the dreamers have changed.

Ice House Comedy: Hive Comedy
2024-01-26 20:00 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Ice House Comedy presents Hive Comedy. Live in the California Room! Venue doors open at 6:30pm Seating in the Showroom begins 30 minutes before showtime. The show Starts at 8pm. 21+ only with a 2-item minimum per seat.

Ice house Comedy: Hive Comedy
2024-01-26 20:00 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Ice House Comedy presents Hive Comedy! Live in the California Room. The show Starts at 8PM. 21+ only with a 2-item minimum per seat.

Ice House Comedy: Max Amini
2024-01-26 22:00 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Ice House Comedy presents Max Amini! Ice House doors open at 6:30PM. Seating in the showroom begins 30 minutes before showtime. Legendary Room Show Starts at 10PM.

Ice House Comedy Presents TJ
2024-01-26 22:00 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Ice House Comedy presents TJ! Live in the California Room! The show starts at 10pm. 21+ only with a 2-item minimum per seat.

Vroman’s: Special Storytime featuring Barney Saltzberg presenting Arlo Needs Glasses
2024-01-27 11:00 | Vroman’s Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
From the bestselling author of Beautiful Oops! comes an inspiring story for every child who needs or wears glasses.
One out of four kids either wears or needs glasses, and their parents will want their child to feel that glasses are awesome because they’re cool, fun, and enable us to do all the things we want to do. That’s where Arlo steps in. He’s a shaggy, free-spirited dog who loves to play catch, until one day he can’t see the ball anymore. He needs glasses!
Created by Barney Saltzberg, the bespectacled author of the bestselling title Beautiful Oops!, Arlo Needs Glasses is an inventive and reassuring story that gets it. Readers will follow along with Arlo as he does all the big firsts involved in getting glasses–visit a doctor, get tested on an eye chart, look through the phoropter. And then the fun part–choosing frames! What should Arlo get? Movie star glasses? Superhero glasses? Classic frames that never go out of style?

Vroman's Bookstore: Artists Talks@PAM: Ken Lum and Jennifer Ling-Datchuk
2024-01-27 13:00 - 14:00 | USC Pacific Asia Museum, 46 North Los Robles Avenue, Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
USC PAM presents exhibited artists Ken Lum and Jennifer Ling Datchuk from Another Beautiful Country as they discuss their work in an intimate gallery conversation. Drawing from the Chinese translation of America, (美國/měiguó) and the American-born Chinese abbreviation, ABC, Another Beautiful Country, features artworks that portray nuanced interplays between Chinese American identities and representations, challenging conventional notions of nationhood. Resisting stereotypes and globalization’s dehumanizing aspects, Another Beautiful Country brings together artworks as scenes of cross-cultural sharing.
Free with cost of admission
RSVP recommended
More about the Artists:
Jennifer Ling Datchuk /玲
Jennifer Ling Datchuk was born in Warren, Ohio and raised in Brooklyn, New York. Her work is an exploration of her layered identity – as a woman, a Chinese woman, as an “American,”and as a third culture kid. Trained in ceramics, Datchuk works with porcelain and other materials often associated with traditional women’s work, such as textiles and hair, to discuss fragility, beauty, femininity, intersectionality, identity, and personal history. Through these materials, she explores how Western beauty standards influenced the East, how the non-white body is commodified and sold, and how women’s – globally, girls’ – work is still a major economic driver whose workers still struggle for equality. Datchuk holds an MFA in Artisanry from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and a BFA in Crafts from Kent State University. In 2017, she received the Emerging Voices award from the American Craft Council, and in 2020 was named a United States Artist Fellow in Craft. Her work is in the collections at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, San Antonio Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art. She is an Assistant Professor of Ceramics at Arizona State University and lives and maintains a studio practice in Phoenix, Arizona.
Ken Lum / 林蔭庭
Ken Lum is an artist with an international exhibition record that includes Documenta, the Venice Biennale, Sao Paolo Bienal, Shanghai Biennale, Gwangju Biennale, Carnegie Triennial and the Whitney Biennial. He is co-founder and founding editor of the Yishu Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art. He is a prolific writer and has given 6 keynote addresses including the 2022 congress of the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics in Philadelphia. A book of his writings titled Everything is Relevant: Writings on Art and Life 1991 – 2018 was published in 2020 by Concordia University Press. In 2020, he wrote a screenplay titled The Cook about Chinese contract laborers in the 19th century. In 2021, he penned a second screenplay about the forced expulsion of Chinese from Tacoma, Washington Territory in 1885. Lum has realized numerous permanent public art commissions, including co-curating Shanghai Modern: 1919 – 1945. A long-time professor, Lum is currently the Marilyn Jordan Taylor Presidential Professor and Chair of the Department of Fine Arts, Stuart Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania.

Ice House Comedy: LYT Comedy Show
2024-01-27 20:00 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Ice House Comedy presents LYT Comedy Show hosted by Megan Sousa, Esau McGraw, Ron G, Nicole Tran, and Eunice Elliott! Live in the California Room! The Show Starts at 8pm. 21+ only with a 2-item minimum per seat.

Vroman's: Local Author Day featuring Chantal Donnelly, Roger Parham-Brown, and Marcia Arrieta
2024-01-28 16:00 | Vroman’s Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
Chantal Donnelly presents Settled: How to Find Calm in a Stress-Inducing World
Are you constantly on a stress rollercoaster, jumping from frantic to collapsed without ever finding a place of comfort?
In SETTLED, physical therapist Chantal Donnelly searches for ways to help her patients and ends up delving into the fascinating science behind stress. She discovers it’s not just a mental or emotional issue, but a physical one too.
Through personal anecdotes, case studies, research, and her professional expertise, Donnelly’s innovative guidebook offers you quick and easy tools for finding calm.
Learn to communicate with your body so you can reap the positive benefits of stress while minimizing its negative effects.
Regain the sense of vitality, ease, and connection you are longing for.
Whether you’re feeling overwhelmed, trying to improve your health and relationships, or wanting to relax enough to enjoy your successes, this book is for you.
Say goodbye to the stress rollercoaster and hello to a settled and balanced life.

Ice House Comedy: Trevor Wallace, Charlotte McKinney, Joey Bragg
2024-01-28 19:00 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Ice House Comedy presents Trevor Wallace, Charlotte Mc Kinney, and Joey Bragg! Live in the California Room! The show Starts at 7pm. 21+ only with a 2-item minimum per seat.

Vroman's: Graham Zimmerman, in conversation with Abbey Smith, discusses A Fine Line
2024-01-30 19:00 | Vroman’s Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
How do we reconcile our love of outdoor adventure with the inevitability of loss in high-risk sports? Still in his thirties, Graham Zimmerman has made first ascents from Alaska to Pakistan, and in 2020 he received the Piolet d’Or for his climb on Pakistan’s Link Sar with Steve Swenson. A sponsored athlete who is sought out as a climbing partner, Zimmerman knows that he must find a balance between his ambitions as an alpinist and his social responsibilities–as a husband, climate advocate, and community leader.
His generation has faced devastating grief in the mountains, including the deaths of Kyle Dempster, Hayden Kennedy, and Inge Perkins, and his cohort has witnessed firsthand the effects of climate change in the form of disappearing glaciers and increasingly erratic weather. Zimmerman writes of the exhilaration he feels while climbing but also the painful realization that summiting at all costs is an outdated model. As A Fine Line traces Graham’s journey, mountain lovers everywhere will see themselves in this coming-of-age story of adventure and personal reckoning.

Pasadena Heritage: 2024 Pasadena Heritage Annual Meeting
2024-01-31 17:00 - 19:00 | Blinn House, 160 N. Oakland Ave., Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
Want to become a member of Pasadena Heritage?
Pasadena Heritage invites all current and prospective members to join us for this year’s Annual Meeting on Wednesday, January 31st. The evening will start at 5:00 pm with an open house and light refreshments. The Annual Meeting will be called to order at 6:00 pm.
The program will include a retrospective of 2023, plans for the year ahead, the election of new members to the Board of Directors, and honoring our retired Board Members. This event is free for all Pasadena Heritage members, but reservations are required. Others are welcome with a $10 donation.
Please RSVP by Tuesday, January 30. THANK YOU for your support, and we look forward to seeing you at the Annual Meeting!

Ice House Comedy: Trevor Wallace, Charlotte McKinney, Joey Bragg
2024-01-31 19:00 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Ice House Comedy presents Trevor Wallace, Charlotte McKinney, and Joey Bragg! Live in the Legendary Room. The show starts at 7PM. 21+ with a 2-item minimum per seat.

Vroman's Bookstore: Duane Swierczynski discusses California Bear
2024-02-01 19:00 | Vroman’s Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
NONE OF YOU ARE SAFE
“KILLER” Jack Queen has been exonerated and freed from prison thanks to retired LAPD officer Cato Hightower. But when guilt gnaws at Jack, he admits: “I actually did it.” To which Hightower responds: “Yeah, no kidding.” You see, the ex-cop has a special job in mind for the ex-con…
THE GIRL DETECTIVE: Fifteen-year-old Matilda Finnerty has been handed a potential death sentence in the form of a leukemia diagnosis. But that’s not going to stop her from tackling the most important mystery of her life: Is her father guilty of murder?
GENE JEANIE: Jeanie Hightower mends family trees for a living, but the genealogist is unable to repair her marriage. And her soon-to-be ex may have entangled her in a scheme that has drawn the bloody wrath of…
THE BEAR: A prolific serial killer who disappeared forty years ago, who is only now emerging from hibernation when the conditions are just right. And this time, the California Bear is not content to hunt in the shadows…
From two-time Edgar nominee Duane Swierczynski, California Bear is clever, moving, and surprising as it aims at the true crime industry, Hollywood, justice, and the killers inside us all.

Ice House Comedy: Jim Jefferies, Kevin Nealon, Doug Benson
2024-02-01 19:15 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Ice House Comedy presents Jim Jefferies, Kevin Nealon, and Doug Benson. Live in the Legendary Room! The show starts at 7:15PM. 21+ with a 2-item minimum per seat.

Ice House Comedy: Jim Jefferies, Kevin Nealon, Joey Bragg
2024-02-01 19:45 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Ice House Comedy presents Jim Jefferies, Kevin Nealon, and Joey Bragg! Live in the Legendary Room! The show starts at 7:15pm. 21+ with a 2-item minimum per seat.

Ice House Comedy: Shindig Show w/Iliza Shlesinger & Tom Arnold
2024-02-02 19:30 - 21:00 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Ice House Comedy Club presents the Party with Jimmy Shin and headliners Iliza Shlesinger and Tom Arnold! The ShinDig Show is one of the top comedy shows in Los Angeles bringing you the biggest headliners as seen on Comedy Central, Netflix, HBO, The Late Show, Def Jam, and Showtime. Don’t miss this Ultimate Comedy Party…This show always has the hottest rising talent and the biggest Stars of comedy! This week we have Iliza Shlesinger with 5 Netflix Specials and Tom Arnold from True Lies headlining! Live in the Legendary Room! The show starts at 7:30PM. 21+ with a 2-item minimum per seat.

Vroman's Bookstore: Special Storytime featuring Oliver Chin presenting The Year of the Dragon
2024-02-03 11:00 | Vroman’s Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
2024 is the Year of the Dragon! Dominic’s proud parents rule the sea and sky, advise the Emperor, and have high expectations for their son. Meanwhile Dom befriends the boy Bo and the other zodiac animals, who wish to paddle a boat in the village’s annual river race. But when other people and Dom’s parents disapprove, what will Dom do? Discover Dom’s ingenious solution in this enthusiastic tale!
When others tell him what to do, can Dominic eventually spread his own wings? Illustrating expressive characters and vibrant action, artist Jennifer Wood creates an inviting new world for readers to explore. Tales from the Chinese Zodiac is a popular annual children’s book series showcasing the twelve charming animals that embody the Chinese New Year. (Immedium)
Olive Chin will also be presenting his other newly released title, The Discovery of Chess.

Ice House Comedy: Craig Shoemaker, The Love Master
2024-02-03 20:00 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Ice House Comedy presents Craig Shoemaker, The Love Master! Live in the California Room. The show starts at 8PM. 21+ only with a 2-item minimum per seat.

Smash House Burger Co: Free Live Music
2024-02-03 20:00 - 22:00 | Smash House Burger, 46 N Lake Ave, pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
Get ready to rock out! Smash House Burger is hosting Live Music on Saturday, February 3 in their Patio area. Come enjoy food and drinks.

Archetype Yoga: Body Lab
2024-02-04 12:00 - 14:30 | Archetypa Yoga, 638 e colorado ave, pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
Discover the wonders of the human form with Archetype Yoga’s Body Lab—an immersive exploration designed to delve into the intricacies of your body. Bring your aches and pains to Archetype Yoga, where skilled Katonah Yoga instructors will unravel the root causes. Whether you’re returning to movement after a hiatus or recovering from an injury, our experts will craft a personalized pose plan. Body Lab offers a distinctive opportunity to enhance awareness in a secure environment, complete with abundant props and hands-on adjustments. Join us on a journey to rehabilitate old movement habits and embrace a renewed sense of well-being..

Ice House Comedy: Kevin Nealon Todd Barry Doug Benson
2024-02-04 19:00 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Ice House Comedy presents Kevin Nealon, Todd Barry, and Doug Benson! Live in the Legendary Room! The show Starts at 7PM. 21+ with a 2-item minimum per seat.

Ice House Comedy: Kevin Nealon, Todd Berry, Doug Benson
2024-02-04 19:30 | Ice House Comedy Club, 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91106
Ice House Comedy presents Kevin Nealon, Todd Berry, and Doug Benson! Live in the California Room! The show starts at 7:30pm. 21+ only with a 2-item minimum per seat.
