Enjoy all the fun activities happening around town. It sure feels like it’s beginning to look a lot like…
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Friday
– 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm: Free First Friday at PMCA
Free admission to the PMCA (@ Pasadena Museum of California Art).
– 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm: Free Norton Simon Museum Admission
Art, Art and more Art. Free admission (@ Norton Simon Museum).
– 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm: La Cañada Flintridge Tree Lighting
Festival in Lights. Holiday activities (@ La Cañada Memorial Park).
– 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm: Pasadena Tree Lighting
Pasadena’s big day. Mayor Bogaard’s final tree lighting (@ Pasadena City Hall).
– 5:00 pm – 8:30 pm: San Marino Tree Lighting
Huntington Drive is decked for holiday festivities (@ Huntington Drive).
– 5:30 pm – 9:30 pm: Alhambra Tree Lighting
Holiday fun and LED lights exchange (@ Renaissance Plaza).
– 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm: Holiday Jazz Concert and Sing-along
Get into the spirit of the holiday season with the JazzZone and emcee Roscoe Lee Owens and a jazz vocalist (@ Altadena Library).
Saturday
– 9:00 am – 2:00 pm: Holiday Snow Festival
It will snow in Arcadia on Saturday. Event is happening rain or shine (@Arcadia Community Center).
– 9:00 am – 11:00 am: South Pasadena Historic Walk
Easy 3 mi walk through historic neighborhoods of South Pasadena threatened by proposed extension of 710 Fwy. (@ Meridian Iron Works (SW corner Mission & Meridian St, adjacent to Mission Station on Gold Line light rail).
– 10:00 am – 1:00 pm: California Food Law: Locally Grown, Made and Shared
Workshop designed to create more awareness about recent California legislation that makes local food production, selling and sharing more accessible (@ THE ARMORY CENTER FOR THE ARTS).
– 10:00 am – 12:00 pm: Merry Merry Movie
Holiday movie plus a winter wonderland day with fun, fun, and more fun (@ Laemmle’s Playhouse 7).
– 11:00 am – 5:00 pm: Third Open Studios Art Tour
The third Open Studios Art Tour is upon us (@ Pasadena and Altadena).
– 11:00 am – 9:00 pm: Holiday City Market
An all-day European market-inspired local shopping experience (@ Holly street).
– 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm: North Lake Pole Holiday Festival (and Sidewalk Sale)
There’s South Lake and there’s North Lake! Altadena will usher in the holiday season with the North Lake Pole Holiday Festival and Sidewalk Sale (@ Lake Avenue and Mariposa).
– 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm: South Lake Holidayfest!
And there’s South Lake with holiday celebration with family friendly activities around the district (@ South Lake Ave).
– 2:30 pm – 4:30 pm: Cottonwood Canyon Open House
Visit One of Pasadena’s Few Remaining Open Spaces (@ Cottonwood Canyon).
– 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm: Allendale Tree Lighting
Allendale Holiday Library Festival and Tree Lighting (@ Allendale Branch Library).
– 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm: Paseo Colorado Tree Lighting
Help Santa light the holiday tree (@ Paeo Colorado).
– 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm: Kids in Concert: “Ring in the Holidays”
The San Gabriel Valley Choral Company culminates this Saturday in Monrovia during the “Ring in the Holidays” concert (@ First Presbyterian Church, Monrovia).
– 8:00 pm – 11:00 pm: Art Opening
Brandon Mahlberg and Karen Neubert (@ Century Books).
Sunday
– 11:00 am – 4:00 pm: Holiday Gourmet Showcase & Family Free Day
A family free day and special holiday shopping event. Locally produced gourmet foods will be featured with an opportunity to taste complimentary samples (@ Pasadena Museum of History).
– 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm: Live Choir Performances
Westridge School Madrigals & Los Angeles Filipino American United Church of Christ (@ One Colorado).
– 6:00 pm – 10:00 pm: Upper Hastings Ranch Tree Lighting
One of the best Christmas lights displays in the area (@ North Michillinda Avenue to the east, Eaton Canyon Golf Course & Riviera Dr. to the west, Sierra Madre Blvd to the south).
– 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm: “The People’s Republic of Chemicals” Illustrated Program
William Kelly and Chip Jacobs present an illustrated program based on their new book “The People’s Republic of Chemicals” (@ Eaton Canyon).
You are as young as you feel. If you begin to feel the warmth of your soul, there will be a youthfulness in you that no one will be able to take away from you.
–John O’Donohue
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