Enjoy a free evening of art, music and entertainment as Pasadena’s most prominent arts and cultural institutions swing open their doors.
Here’s a comprehensive listing of all the ArtNight events. Choose wisely as there’s no way anyone can make it to all the events. Have fun.
| ARC Pasadena MAP | WEBSITE | FACEBOOK Pennington Dance Group presents a program of varied dancers, dances, and dialogues at A Room to Create (ARC) Pasadena. |
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| Armory Center for the Arts MAP | WEBSITE | FACEBOOK | TWITTER The Fifth Wall: Tom Friedman, Evan Holloway, Farrah Karapetian, Alice Könitz, Marco Rios, Corinna Schnitt, Artur Żmijewski: Works considering alternate, or “wrong” points of view. |
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| Art Center College of Design MAP | WEBSITE | FACEBOOK | TWITTER Featuring artists who explore the same real-space natural world that science studies, REALSPACE measures the emotional and conceptual dimensions of the “scientaesthetic,” through amazing works of art. |
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| artWORKS Teen Center MAP | WEBSITE artWORKS teens will showcase their talents through live performance, digital stories, & visual arts. Make prints with DIY screen printers. Join the “Monster Mash-up“ workshop. |
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| Boston Court Performing Arts Center MAP | WEBSITE | FACEBOOK | TWITTER Boston Court presents its Seventh Annual Art Show featuring Southern California visual artists. |
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| Consejo Fronterizo de Arte y Cultura @ Aahoo Gallery MAP | WEBSITE View the exciting, amazing iron works and abstract paintings of Luis Ituarte and the bold-colored abstract landscape and figure paintings of Parviz Payghamy at Aahoo Art Gallery. |
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| Jackie Robinson Community Center MAP | WEBSITE See exciting displays & videos of Pasadena and world icon brothers Jackie and Mack Robinson. Also enjoy the smooth jazz of Roscoe Lee Owens JazzZone. |
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| Kidspace Children’s Museum MAP | WEBSITE | FACEBOOK | TWITTER Join Kidspace for a night of interactive, hands-on excitement in celebration of nature and art. Enjoy a workshop with the Los Angeles Children’s Chorus and Much more! |
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| Light Bringer Project @ Day One MAP | WEBSITE | FACEBOOK | TWITTER Luminosity is a color and light extravaganza featuring radiant upcycle mammal and ice sculpture, Room 13 creations, African-American prints, celluloid, music, interactions and edibles. |
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| Lineage Performing Art Center MAP | WEBSITE | FACEBOOK Join Lineage Dance Company and the California Shakespeare Ensemble for an inspiring evening of live music, theater, and dance. |
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| MUSE/IQUE @ The Levitt Pavillion MAP | WEBSITE | FACEBOOK | TWITTER The Levitt Pavilion comes alive when MUSE/IQUE takes the stage for a wild mix of unexpected musical surprises by Double G and the nine-net and dancing under the stars |
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| Norton Simon Museum MAP | WEBSITE | FACEBOOK | TWITTER Enjoy the exhibition Home and Away: The Printed Works of Ruth Asawa, featuring portraits of the artist’s family and floral prints, as well as centuries of masterpieces. |
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| Offramp Gallery MAP | WEBSITE | FACEBOOK | TWITTER Claire Keith‘s hyper-real still life paintings; Minoru Ohira‘s sculpture and wall hangings; “Olly Olly Oxen Free” outdoor group sculpture exhibition. Live world music by Duo Ridiculo . |
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| Pasadena City College MAP | WEBSITE | FACEBOOK Faculty art exhibition, live music performances and more at the Boone Family Gallery, Pasadena City College’s showplace Center for the Art. |
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| Pasadena City Hall MAP | WEBSITE | FACEBOOK City hall is the hub for all the ArtNight shuttles, as well as a site of lively musical entertainment. |
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| Pasadena Museum of California Art MAP | WEBSITE | FACEBOOK | TWITTER Explore Jess and Robert Duncan’s lifelong artistic partnership, feminist photography in Burning Down the House, Stas Orlovski’s ethereal installation, and the Museum’s Kosmic Krylon Garage. |
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| Pasadena Museum of History MAP | WEBSITE | FACEBOOK | TWITTER Enjoy Contemporary Masters IV, the fourth biennial fine art juried exhibition featuring scenes of the greater San Gabriel Valley by nationally recognized representational artists. |
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| The Pasadena Playhouse MAP | WEBSITE | FACEBOOK | TWITTER Sing-along show tunes in the Carrie Hamilton Theatre, a Kiss Me, Kate art exhibit in the Friendship Center, and food/drink on the Courtyard. |
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| Pasadena Public Library MAP | WEBSITE | FACEBOOK Celebrate 130 Years of Reading! Meet local authors, artists and well-known storybook characters. Enjoy family fun activities; musical performances, craft making, comics creators and more! |
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| Side Street Projects MAP | WEBSITE | FACEBOOK | TWITTER Freewaves videos, QUESTION THE PROJECTION illuminate 12 artists’ unabashed reactions to our world. Attendees can answer HOW CAN ART CHANGE THE WORLD TODAY? using #questiontheprojection. |
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| USC Pacific Asia Museum MAP | WEBSITE | FACEBOOK | TWITTER Special exhibitions provide a glimpse into China’s dramatic cultural changes through art from the 1960s to 1980s, plus artworks on Bodhidharma and Chan (Zen) Buddhism. |
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Transportation
- Free Shuttles
Free shuttles will loop throughout the evening with stops at each venue. Park at any one venue and ride to the others. - ARTS Bus
Pasadena ARTS Route 10 runs along Colorado and Green St. until 8 PM. Find scheduling information at cityofpasadena.net/artsbus. - Metro Gold Line
Go Metro and receive special offers at various places. For more details, click HERE. Metro provides both bus and rail transportation to Pasadena till 2AM on Fridays and Saturdays. For your best route or more info, visit the Metro Trip Planner or call (323) Go Metro or (323.466.3876). Also, Follow @metrolosangeles on Instagram! #TAPandSave #GoMetro - ArtNight Bicycle Tour
For more information, visit cicle.org.
“Choose wisely as there’s no way anyone can make it to all the events.” — especially when your announcement makes it so difficult to get a good overview, with enough detail to think about choosing wisely.