• Highlighted Events

      Friday’s ArtNight, Tech & Astronomy Schedule

      Pasadena Art WeekendTo simplify things, and help diffuse confusion, here’s a one-stop simplified daily listing that you can check, recheck, and consult, every time you are wondering what’s going on in the city!

      By Marguerite Kribs

      This list is IOS and Android friendly.

      8:15 – 9:30 am:
      Game for your Life – Gamification Trends & Innovation
      Innovate Pasadena Friday Morning Coffee
      @Cross Campus

      10:00 – 11:00 am:
      Growth Hacking for Start-ups
      Pasadena Angels present a forum on growth hacking with Pasadena Angels funded company CEOs of NailSnaps and Chai Energy, Angel Anderson and Cole Hershkowitz. Moderated by Pasadena Angels investor Taylor Adams and Chris Graham of Noname Ventures.
      @Pasadena Angels

      4:00 – 5:00 pm:
      Monetizing Your Expertise Quickly √ Staff Recommended
      Learn how to monetize your expertise by creating, and implementing, tools to quickly gain more visibility, credibility and revenue. Every business person has expertise that can be packaged and marketed and monetized in different mediums. You’ll see 7 different types of media that you can use to drive profitable customer action.
      @WeWork Pasadena – Register here.

      5:00 – 6:00 pm
      WeWork Cocktail Break & Panel: Investing Time and Energy to Build a Legacy
      a brief cocktail & networking break with delicious light appetizers courtesy of WeWork. At 5:15 we’ll start a “fireside chat” style panel. Our panelists will be sharing perspectives on what’s important to investors who invest their money and effort for the biggest impact.
      @WeWork Pasadena – Register here.

      6:00 – 10:00 pm:
      Art Night  √ Staff Recommended

      VENUE ROUTE
      1 A ROOM TO CREATE (ARC) PASADENA
      1158 E. Colorado Blvd.
      626.204.0331
      The Pennington Dance Group presents a kinetic evening of dance works, music & dialogues with local dance & performing artists.
      2 ARMORY CENTER FOR THE ARTS
      145 N. Raymond Ave.
      626.792.5101
      Radio Imagination: The Exhibition celebrates the inspiring legacy of Octavia E. Butler, an African-American science fiction writer who was born in Pasadena. This group exhibition includes Laylah Ali, Courtesy the Artists (Malik Gaines and Alexandro Segade), Lauren Halsey, Mendi + Keith Obadike, Connie Samaras, and Cauleen Smith.
      3 ARTCENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN
      Williamson Gallery

      1700 Lida St.
      626.396.2200Experience the public debut of Uncertainty, where science-meets-art through installations, artifacts, and visualizations of data by nine artists/scientists. You’ll see the spectacular and the intriguing in this unique exhibit!
      4 ARTCENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN
      South Campus

      950 S. Raymond Ave.
      626.3962200Explore the artistic and aesthetic possibilities of data-driven-form-making though the medium of typography with DoubleData. This exhibition draws from a broad range of subjects—from architecture to linguistics, pop culture to public policy, and Dr. Seuss to Wikileaks.
      5 artWORKS TEEN CENTER
      2914 E. Walnut St.
      626.793.9202artWORKS teens display their talents through live performance and visual arts.  An interactive evening that includes hands-on printmaking and screen-printing, supported entertainment by Eclectic Waves.
      6 CITY OF PASADENA – CITY HALL
      100 N. Garfield Ave.Enjoy a snack and listen to live music while you wait for a free shuttle to take you to one of the many cultural venues open during ArtNight.
      7 CURATORIAL ASSISTANCE
      113 E. Union Street
      626.577.9696

      Curatorial Assistance opens the E.O. Hoppé Estate Collection archive to share recently discovered masterworks from this Photo-Modernist’s great American road trip of 1926.
      8 JACKIE ROBINSON COMMUNITY CENTER
      1020 N. Fair Oaks Ave.
      626.744.7300Learn about the history of African American Art and the legacy of Pasadena and world icons Jackie & Mack Robinson.
      9 KIDSPACE CHILDREN’S MUSEUM
      480 N Arroyo Blvd.
      626.449.9144Paint the night with light and color at Kidspace Children’s Museum.  Explore the transformative effects of light on shape, color and the world around us.  Join us for a luminous performance at 7 pm in the Stone Hollow Amphitheater.
      10 LIGHT BRINGER PROJECT @ DAY ONE
      175 N. Euclid Ave.
      626.590.1134Come celebrate the creative thinkers and risk-takers who help shape our future! Visual art, photography, music, installations, food and more will demonstrate the power of idea-making.
      11 LINEAGE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
      89 S. Fair Oaks Ave.
      626.844.7008The Lineage Performing Arts Center is a community hub for the arts, presenting selections from the dance company along with special musical guests for ArtNight.
      12 NORTON SIMON MUSEUM
      411 W. Colorado Blvd.
      626.449.6840Enjoy States of Mind: Picasso Lithographs 1945–1960, an exhibition exploring the evolution of Picasso’s individual print compositions through multiple states, subtle adjustments and radical revisions.
      13 PASADENA CENTRAL LIBRARY
      285 W. Walnut St.Meet local authors, comic creators and artists then browse through their books. Enjoy family fun activities, musical performances, and crafts all presented by community organizations.
      14 PASADENA CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC
      100 N. Hill Ave.
      626.683.3355Live music all night at the Pasadena Conservatory of Music! Explore multiple venues on PCM’s campus while enjoying continuous classical, multicultural, and interactive performances!
      15 PASADENA MUSEUM OF CALIFORNIA ART
      490 E. Union St.
      626.568.3665See paintings inspired by vistas, lifestyles, and industries existing along the California coastline; Lloyd Hamrol’s large-scale felt sculptures and Joan Perlman’s abstract paintings and prints.
      16 PASADENA MUSEUM OF HISTORY
      470 W. Walnut St.
      626.577.1660Explore the artistry, beauty, and legacy of Arts & Crafts and mid-century ceramics in the exhibits Batchelder: Tilemaker and Cast & Fired: Pasadena’s Mid-Century Ceramics Industry.

      6:00 – 10:00 pm
      Passion – Opening art Reception
      New exhibit, “Passion!” with  tours of the historic, 110-year-old Blinn House.
      @Women’s City Club of Pasadena

      6:00 – 10:00 pm
      Double Data: Typography + Data Visualization
      A focus on the expression of data through the medium of typography, Double Data.
      @ArtCenter College of Design

      6:30 – 7:30 pm:
      Illuminating Designs: ADP UX Designer and ArtCenter Alumni Roel Punzalan talks about Project HiFi Highlight
      With Roel Punzalan.
      @ADP Innovation Center

      6:30 – 8:00 pm:
      Universal Laws and Principles for Success
      Skip Jennings workshop to help you understand the greatest gift to you is you.
      @Epic Spaces

      7 pm:
      Suppressed Desires by pioneering female playwright Susan Glaspell. Premiered in 1915 by the Provincetown Players, one of the groundbreaking theater troupes of the early 20th Century paving the way for modernism in American Theater, this one-act play is a comic send up of Freudian dream theory that still resonates today. Directed by Lori Brodbeck. Performed in the Chapel. Snack buffet following the performance.
      @First United Methodist Church

      8 pm:
      Organ Concert – Aaron Shows presents Sounds of the Season on the church’s venerable Skinner pipe organ. Don’t miss this as Aaron “pulls out all the stops.” Performed in the Sanctuary.
      @First United Methodist Church

      7:00 – 8:00 pm:
      JPL The von Kármán Lecture: same Thursday talk repeated at PCC.
      @Pasadena City College

      7:00 – 9:00 pm:
      Pasadena’s Interplanetary Connection: How it all works
      @ArtCenter College of Design

      7:00 – 10:00 pm:
      Rails Girls LA
      A a non-profit volunteer worldwide community inspiring women to be involved in the tech community.
      @Spokeo

       

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