Playhouse Village Association

Dia de los Muertos Festival
2021-10-24 13:00 - 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | CA
Mercadito Monarca & Playhouse Village continue the cultural tradition of Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) celebration, bringing the community together to honor and celebrate those who have passed away. Join us for these free, family-friendly programs:

Dia de los Muertos Festival
October 24th, 1:00pm to 7:00pm
Arcade Lane (696 E Colorado Blvd)
The Dia de los Muertos festival in Playhouse Village is back and bigger than ever! See Arcade Lane transform into a beautiful Mexican Zócalo where you can hear music and see live performances featuring Aztec dance, ballet folklorico, mariachi, DJ set by La Junta and more. Families can also enjoy arts & crafts activities, tour an altar exhibit in the neighborhood, shop our artisan market, see chalk artists at work, play fun games, and more.
Boston Court Pasadena (70 N Mentor Ave)
Boston Court joins the Playhouse Village and Mercadito Monarca in celebration of Día de los Muertos with live performances in their parking lot from Manny Giella and his band, and youth slam poets from Get Lit. Our ofrenda, created by a local artist Denise Esparza and dedicated to loved ones lost by our community, will also be on view in the lobby throughout the afternoon.
Full schedule of performances and artists will be announced soon.

Altars Exhibit
October 24 – November 3
Experience and learn about the traditions of Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) and stroll through ofrendas or altars located throughout Playhouse Village. Objects important to lost loved ones, such as favorite foods, mementos, and pictures, are collected and incorporated into these elaborate displays that include sugar skulls, candles, flowers, papel picado (paper cutouts) and other decorations. The altar installations in this self-guided tour are created by artists and community partners in Pasadena.
Complete list and map of altar locations will be announced soon.

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SCCM: Story and Craft
2021-10-25 10:30, 2021-10-25 15:00, 2021-10-26 10:30, 2021-11-01 10:30, 2021-11-02 10:30, 2021-11-09 10:30 | Southern California Children’s Museum, 459 E. Colorado Blvd, Pasadena, CA, 91011, United States
Join Southern California Children’s Museum for a read-aloud, and then bring the story to life through arts and crafts! From a Trailblazer who made their mark in history or an influential illustrator who brings stories to life, you will not want to miss out on this one!

Vroman's: Local Author Day featuring Jared Seide and José L. Recio
2021-10-25 18:00 | CA
This is a virtual event and will take place on Crowdcast.
Register for FREE ahead of time to save your spot and get an email reminder! Scroll down to purchase your copy of the book from Vroman’s.
EVENT LINK: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/jared-seide-jose-recio
Jared Seide presents Where Compassion Begins
Compassion is sometimes confused with empathy, or even sympathy. It is neither, though it includes some aspects of both. Compassion begins when we allow ourselves to really hear and attune to suffering, that of others, as well as ourselves. And hearing and perceiving this anguish, we are moved to do something about it. What takes compassion beyond sympathy or empathy is that it includes action, action that is considered, skillful and beneficial.
Council is a foundational practice that builds our capacity to perceive the experience of others and invites us to pay attention. When we listen differently to someone’s story, without judging, we create the conditions for compassion to arise. Council asks us to lean in, to learn ways we can skillfully attend to the pain we recognize in ourselves and others, and to do something helpful in response. This book is an invitation to build the muscle of compassion, through exercises and practices that enhance our capacity to listen from the heart and, in so doing, take care of ourselves and those around us.
José L. Recio presents Transitions
Transitions is a book of mainstream fiction, written in the tradition of the short stories classics. Like Joseph Conrad, the author of “Transitions” put fictional characters in situations different from his own experiences but suitable to trigger the same or very similar set of emotions when dealing with those situations.

Pasadena Presbyterian: Music at Noon
2021-10-27 12:00, 2021-11-03 12:00, 2021-11-10 12:00 | Pasadena Presbyterian Church, 585 East Colorado Boulevard, Pasadena , CA, 91101, United States
Friends of Music is delighted to announce that Music at Noon, their weekly half-hour concert is going online! To see who is playing, visit ppcmusic.org.

SCCM: Bilingual Circle Time
2021-10-28 10:00, 2021-11-04 10:00 | Southern California Children’s Museum, 459 E. Colorado Blvd, Pasadena, CA, 91011, United States
THURSDAYS AT 10:00AM
Enjoy a fun interactive story time or sing a long in either Spanish or Vietnamese! This program is suitable for native speakers and those seeking exposure to a new language.

SCCM: Wild California Explorers
2021-10-29 11:00, 2021-11-05 11:00 | CA
Did you know that the Washingtonia filifera is the only species of palm trees indigenous to California? Learn more about our amazing state through games, scavenger hunts and craft projects!

SCCM: Wild California Explorers
2021-10-29 15:00, 2021-11-05 15:00 | Southern California Children’s Museum, 459 E. Colorado Blvd, Pasadena, CA, 91011, United States

SCCM: Saturday Sing-Along
2021-10-30 10:30, 2021-10-30 15:00, 2021-11-06 10:30, 2021-11-06 15:00 | Southern California Children’s Museum, 459 E. Colorado Blvd, Pasadena, CA, 91011, United States
SATURDAYS AT 10:30AM AND 3:00PM
Kiddos of all ages get to explore various musical instruments while singing their favorite songs! From shakers to drums, we are ready to make some noise!

Vroman's: Local Author Day – Kids edition featuring Louise Wannier, Cecilia Caballero, and Dr. Antoinette Corley-Newman
2021-10-30 11:00 | CA
This is a virtual event and will take place on Crowdcast.
Register for FREE ahead of time to save your spot and get an email reminder! Scroll down to purchase your copy of the book from Vroman’s.
EVENT LINK: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/local-author-day-kids-10-30
Louise Wannier presents Tree Spirits
“What do you see when you look up at this tree?” Tree Spirits is a book written in rhyme which encourages children to develop their imagination, creativity and emotional intelligence. “How do you imagine they/he/she is feeling today?” For parents and grandparents and friends and family it is a fun book to read with the children in their lives. It includes an interactive drawing section.
Cecilia Caballero presents Lavender Little Girl
An ode to love of a darling daughter. A celebration of the love for a clever, strong, and compassionate girl. A cherished book by little girls everywhere. Parents will snuggle and read this every night to their daughters. A book for all women, sisters, and mothers who were also little girls once. A heartwarming story that makes this book a wonderful addition to your library.
Dr. Antoinette Corley-Newman presents Trick or Treat
Every year on October 31, the witch and warlock children of Transylvania jump on their magic brooms and fly into town to take part in the mortal’s Harvests celebration. Although she enjoys the festivities, Abigail – the most precocious little witch of them all – wishes to bring back enough mortal treats to share with all of Transylvania to enjoy all year long! One day, after accidentally slipping into her mother’s brewing pot, Abigail comes up with a brilliant plan.
Join Abigail as she embarks on a delightful and historical journey to change the mortal Harvest celebration to the miraculous birth of Trick or Treat and how the Switch Witch came to be.

Boston Court Pasadena: Hocket
2021-10-30 20:00 | CA
HOCKET: COMPOSER/PERFORMER
OCT 30, 8PM

Sarah Gibson and Thomas Kotcheff, pianists
Hocket presents Composer/Performer, a program featuring newly written works performed and written by some of Los Angeles’s most exciting composer/performers.
It takes a unique ability to compose music and then perform it for the world. This intimate relationship between music and musician furthers the artist’s self-expression and deepens the audience’s understanding. Violinist Cornelius Dufallo once said, “you don’t really know a phrase until you really feel that you wrote it yourself.”
This concert is being presented for FREE as part of Boston Court’s commitment to make these awful 18 months just a little bit better.

THE PROGRAM
This program will feature the world premiere of two of these commissions by electric guitarist Alexander Elliott Miller and violinist Nick Bentz. Additionally the concert will feature works by Sarah Gibson, Thomas Kotcheff, and others.
This program is in conjunction with Hocket’s Composer/Performer Initiative, a biennial commissioning project focused on cultivating new trios from composer/performers to write pieces that feature the commissioned composers on their instruments, plus Hocket.

THE ARTISTS
Hocket is a cutting edge piano duo based in Los Angeles. Lauded as “brilliant” by Mark Swed in the Los Angeles Times and as an “adventurous young ensemble” by The New Yorker, members Sarah Gibson and Thomas Kotcheff are both pianist-composers dedicated to commissioning and performing contemporary music.
They have performed in some of the most exciting festivals and venues across the country including The Bang on Can Summer Music Festival at MASS MoCA, MATA Festival in New York City, The Center for New Music in San Francisco, the Carlsbad Music Festival, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s “Noon to Midnight” Festival. Together, they have premiered over one hundred chamber and solo works and have collaborated with the premier, new music ensembles Eighth Blackbird and the Bang on a Can All-Stars. They have performed concerti with the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble, USC Thornton Edge, Oberlin Sinfonietta, and Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra. HOCKET has received grants from the Presser Foundation and The Earle Brown Music Foundation and has been a selected artist in Firebird Ensemble’s Outstanding Young Artists Initiative and Eighth Blackbird’s Blackbird Creative Lab. HOCKET is a Piano Spheres core artist and a performing artist on the Schoenhut Piano Company Artist Roster.

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Run With Us: L.A. Marathon Block Party
2021-10-31 08:00 - 12:00 | Run With Us, 235 N. Lake Ave., Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
Mark those calendars because on Sunday, October 31st Run With Us is going to celebrate this sport they love with food, drinks, and a TON of prizes!
If you’re running the LA Marathon, this is the time to celebrate your training journey. If you recently completed a race, this is the perfect time to celebrate that! If you’re just getting started with running, then this is the perfect time to come party and make new friends.
The event will begin at 8AM with an optional run and will be followed by tacos from Guisados and plenty of post-run beverages starting at 9AM. This event is FREE for all to attend. Everyone will receive one raffle ticket, but you can purchase additional raffle tickets with all proceeds going to a great cause being led by LA Saves Track.

Vroman's: hristina Diaz Gonzalez discusses Concealed
2021-11-05 18:00 | CA
This is a virtual event and will take place on Crowdcast.
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EVENT LINK: TBA
What if you had no name, no past, and no home?
Ivette. Joanna. And now: Katrina
Whatever her name is, it won’t last long. Katrina doesn’t know any of the details about her past, but she does know that she and her parents are part of the Witness Protection Program. Whenever her parents say they have to move on and start over, she takes on a new identity. A new name, a new hair color, a new story.
Until their location leaks and her parents disappear. Forced to embark on a dangerous rescue mission, Katrina and her new friend Parker set out to save her parents–and find out the truth about her secret past and the people that want her family dead.
But every new discovery reveals that Katrina’s entire life has been built around secrets covered up with lies and that her parents were actually the ones keeping the biggest secret of all. Katrina must now decide if learning the whole truth is worth the price of losing everything she has ever believed about herself and her family. (Scholastic Press)

Vroman's: Special Storytime featuring Victoria Kahn presenting Rubylicious
2021-11-06 11:00 | CA
This is a virtual event and will take place on Crowdcast.
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EVENT LINK: TBA
The #1 New York Times bestselling author-artist of the Pinkalicious series, Victoria Kann, is back with an all new-picture book about generosity and kindness, starring Pinkalicious and Peterrific.
Pinkalicious is searching for stones for her rock collection when suddenly–POOF!–out pops a surprise! Rocky is here to grant Pinkalicious and her brother Peter one wish, and one wish only, so they must choose wisely.
Should they wish for a pile of sweets? Or the ability to fly? Or maybe a castle with a fire-breathing dragon? But are any of those things good enough to be their very best, most special wish in the whole wide world? And what will happen to Rocky after they make their wish?
This gem of a book looks at how being selfless can be its own best reward. Rubylicious is a sparkling addition to the Pinkalicious library! (HarperCollins)

Boston Court Pasadena: The Lyris Quartet
2021-11-06 20:00 | CA
THE LYRIS QUARTET
NOV 6, 8PM

The wonderful Lyris Quartet brings their charming European classical style back to Boston Court. This time with a program designed to elevate historically overlooked string quartets during the time of Mozart.
The evening will include one of the rare female composers of the time, Fannie Hensel Mendelssohn; selections from a series of short string quartets by the musical prodigy Joseph Bologne (Chevalier de Saint-Georges), one of the first prominent classical composers of African descent; and Mozart’s Dissonance String Quartet.
This concert is being presented for FREE as part of Boston Court’s commitment to make these awful 18 months just a little bit better.

Vroman's: Saraciea Fennell Wild Tongues Can’t Be Tamed: 15 Voices from the Latinx Diaspora
2021-11-08 18:00 | CA
This is a virtual event and will take place on Crowdcast.
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EVENT LINK: TBA
Edited by The Bronx Is Reading founder Saraciea J. Fennell and featuring an all-star cast of Latinx contributors, Wild Tongues Can’t Be Tamed is a ground-breaking anthology that will spark dialogue and inspire hope.
In Wild Tongues Can’t Be Tamed, bestselling and award-winning authors as well as up-and-coming voices interrogate the different myths and stereotypes about the Latinx diaspora. These fifteen original pieces delve into everything from ghost stories and superheroes, to memories in the kitchen and travels around the world, to addiction and grief, to identity and anti-Blackness, to finding love and speaking your truth. Full of both sorrow and joy, Wild Tongues Can’t Be Tamed is an essential celebration of this rich and diverse community. (Flatiron Books)

Vroman's: Wil Haygood discusses Colorization: One Hundred Years of Black Films in a White World
2021-11-09 18:00 | CA
This is a virtual event and will take place on Crowdcast.
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EVENT LINK: TBA
This unprecedented history of Black cinema examines 100 years of Black movies–from Gone with the Wind to Blaxploitation films to Black Panther–using the struggles and triumphs of the artists, and the films themselves, as a prism to explore Black culture, civil rights, and racism in America. From the acclaimed author of The Butler and Showdown.
Beginning in 1915 with D. W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation–which glorified the Ku Klux Klan and became Hollywood’s first blockbuster–Wil Haygood gives us an incisive, fascinating, little-known history, spanning more than a century, of Black artists in the film business, on-screen and behind the scenes.
He makes clear the effects of changing social realities and events on the business of making movies and on what was represented on the screen: from Jim Crow and segregation to white flight and interracial relationships, from the assassination of Malcolm X, to the O. J. Simpson trial, to the Black Lives Matter movement. He considers the films themselves–including Imitation of Life, Gone with the Wind, Porgy and Bess, the Blaxploitation films of the seventies, Do The Right Thing, 12 Years a Slave, and Black Panther. And he brings to new light the careers and significance of a wide range of historic and contemporary figures: Hattie McDaniel, Sidney Poitier, Berry Gordy, Alex Haley, Spike Lee, Billy Dee Willliams, Richard Pryor, Halle Berry, Ava DuVernay, and Jordan Peele, among many others.
An important, timely book, Colorization gives us both an unprecedented history of Black cinema and a groundbreaking perspective on racism in modern America. (Knopf Publishing Group)

Pasadena Playhouse: Head Over Heels
2021-11-09 20:00 - 20:30 | Pasadena Playhouse, 39 S. El Molino Avenue, Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
Head Over Heels |
November 9 — December 12
The music of The Go-Go’s fuels this non-stop, dance-filled joyride though magic, merriment and mischief. From the first notes of “We Got the Beat” to the final rapturous curtain call, you’ll be whisked away through a world of whimsy and wit. This jubilant celebration follows a royal family in search of a purpose, lovers in search of each other and a whole kingdom in search of a beat.
It’s a party! And you’re invited.
“Shrewd, funny, sexy, and with a glorious beat, Head Over Heels will have you flipping for joy.”
-VILLAGE VOICE
