What To Do This Weekend: April 4-6

Viennese Minetti Quartett (Photo – The Da Camera Society)

Start off April with local entertainment and opportunities to help the environment.

By Katlyn Ong

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Friday, April 4, 2025

Mission Playhouse in San Gabriel (Photo – Laurie Avocado)

• 8:30 am – 10:00 am: Friday Coffee Meetup
  Ian Crueldad will present “Think Like a Machine, Build Like a Human: Unlock AI’s Power” (@ FoundrSpace, Pasadena).
• 10:00 am – 11:00 am: Sierra Madre Senior Hawaiian & Polynesian Dance Class
  Join instructor Barbara Dempsey as she leads you in the art of Hula (@ Memorial Park, Sierra Madre).
• 1:00 pm: Movie Matinees at Pasadena Senior Center
  Dumb & Dumber – Two imbecilic best friends are pursued cross-country by hired killers and police as they try to return a suitcase of money to their kidnapped friend (@ Pasadena Senior Center, Pasadena).
• 3:00 pm – 7:00 pm: Sierra Madre Library Used Book Sale
  The Friends of the Sierra Madre Library will host a used book sale (@ Sierra Madre Temporary Library, Sierra Madre).
• 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm: Free Admission at the Norton Simon
  Enjoy free admission for all visitors on the first Friday of the month (@ Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena).
• 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm: Kidspace Free First Fridays
  Kidspace Children’s Museum is opening up their doors for free on the first Friday of every month (@ Kidspace Children’s Museum, Pasadena).
• 5:00 pm – 9:00 pm: Monrovia Friday Night Street Fair
  Enjoy the charm of Old Town Monrovia (@ Myrtle Avenue, Monrovia).
• 6:00 pm: San Gabriel Dance Showcase
  Enjoy an evening of dance performances by San Gabriel Community Services dance classes (@ San Gabriel Mission Playhouse, San Gabriel).
• 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm: Caltech Tai Chi Club – Fridays
  Learn and practice Hao-style tai chi chuan (@ Caltech – Hameetman Center, Pasadena).
• 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm: DBSA San Gabriel Valley Support Alliance
  San Gabriel Valley Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance (@ DBSA San Gabriel Valley, Pasadena).

Saturday, April 5, 2025

Sichong Xie, “Trampoline House: Memory Drawing Series,” 2025 (Photo – Sichong Xie)

• 8:00 am – 12:00 pm: Alhambra Recycles Event
  Bring documents to be shredded; electronic waste, plastic bottles, and aluminum cans to be recycled; and containers to collect free compost (@ Granada Park, Alhambra).
• 8:00 am – 12:00 pm: Monterey Park Bulky Item & E-waste Drop-off Event
  This is a drive-in and drop-off event for Monterey Park residents only (@ Barnes Memorial Park, Monterey Park).
• 10:00 am – 2:00 pm: Sierra Madre Library Used Book Sale
  The Friends of the Sierra Madre Library will host a used book sale (@ Sierra Madre Temporary Library, Sierra Madre).
• 11:00 am – 2:00 pm: Friends of the Pasadena Public Library Book Sale
  The Friends of the Pasadena Public Library (FOPPL) Bookstore is open again with a variety of used books, DVDs, CDs, LPs, and lots of children’s books (@ Jefferson School, Pasadena).
• 7:15 pm – 8:00 pm: “Trampoline House: Memory Drawing Series”
  Drawing from children’s games and the rawness of construction site materials, this durational performance collapses the boundaries between play and labor (@ Armory Center For the Arts, Pasadena).
• 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm: WeOlive Comedy Night
  Enjoy a rotating lineup of some of the best local and national comedians every first Saturday of the month (@ We Olive, Pasadena).

Sunday, April 6, 2025

Bentley on a hot day in Pasadena (File Photo – BreAnn Mueller)

• 8:00 am – 3:00 pm: Pasadena City College Flea Market
  The Pasadena City College Flea Market is known primarily for selling antiques and collectibles, with the products varying from high-end antiques to rummage sale-type items (@ Pasadena City College, Pasadena).
• 8:00 am – 11:00 am: Wiggle Waggle Walk & Run
  This family and canine-friendly community fundraiser promises an exciting day of activities including a 1-mile or 5k walk (or run) around the Rose Bowl, vendor expo with giveaways for pets and people, a doggy costume contest, agility course, food trucks, and more (@ Brookside Park, Pasadena).
• 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm: Talk on Short Life of the Safer Aeroplane Company
  Historian Paul R. Spitzzeri will give a free talk about the short life of Monrovia’s “Safer Aeroplane Company,” a 1914 aviation company that promised great things with its “tandem monoplane” design (@ Monrovia Public Library, Monrovia).
• 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm: The Da Camera Society Presents Vienna’s Minetti Quartett
  The Minetti Quartett from Vienna will perform an afternoon concert of Haydn’s String Quartet Op. 76, No. 2 “Fifths”; Shostakovich’s String Quartet No. 7, Op. 108; and Schubert’s String Quartet No. 13, D. 804 “Rosamunde” (@ Barrett Hall Pasadena Conservatory of Music, Pasadena).
• 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm: “Journey Beyond Despair, A Memoir of Love, Psychosis, and the Healing Power of Insight”
  Julie Parker’s book asks whether mental illness can be a gift to a relationship (@ Armory Center For the Arts, Pasadena).
• 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm: Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra Caps Chamber Series with Works by Women Composers
  The final program on LACO’s popular Chamber Series, curated by Concertmaster and Director of Chamber Music Margaret Batjer, features lauded contributions to chamber music by women composers (@ The Huntington’s Rothenberg Hall, San Marino).