What To Do This Weekend: October 20-22

Walktober 2022 (Photo – pasadenacsc)

Gear up for a weekend full of music, Walktober events, and spooky pumpkin decorating.

By Katlyn Ong

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Friday, October 20, 2023

• 1:00 pm: Movie Matinees at Pasadena Senior Center
  Enjoy a showing of Somewhere in Time (@ Pasadena Senior Center, Pasadena).
• 4:00 pm – 8:00 pm: Altadena Neighborhood Farmers Market
  Find freshly prepared foods and hand crafted goods from over 30 vendors while delighting in live music and a community garden open house (@ Altadena Farmers Market in Loma Alta Park, Altadena).
• 5:00 pm – 9:00 pm: Monrovia Friday Night Street Fair
  Enjoy the charm of Old Town Monrovia (@ Myrtle Avenue, Monrovia).
• 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).
• 7:30 pm: Pasadena Folk Music Society Concert
  Brooks Williams, an acclaimed guitarist-singer-songwriter with more than 30 records in three decades of performing, will play a solo concert (@ Knox Presbyterian Church, Pasadena).

Rose Bowl Aquatics Center (Photo – Rose Bowl Aquatics Center)

Saturday, October 21, 2023

• 8:30 am – 12:30 pm: Pasadena Farmers’ Market – Saturday
  Shop for fresh, nutritious, locally-grown fruits and vegetables (@ Victory Park, Pasadena).
• 9:00 am – 12:00 pm: Pasadena African American History Walk with the NAACP Pasadena Branch
  Join Allen Edson, President of the NAACP Pasadena Branch, Day One, and Pasadena Complete Streets Coalition for a guided walking tour of Pasadena African American History (@ Rose Bowl Aquatics Center, Pasadena).
• 9:00 am – 1:00 pm: Pasadena Free Oil Filter Exchange
  Bring your used oil filter and get a free new oil filter (@ O’Reilly Auto Parts, Pasadena).
• 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm: Pasadena Symphony Presents Tchaikovsky 4
  Grammy-winning composer Mason Bates, violinist Diana Adamyan, and conductor Brett Mitchell bring their talents to the opening concert of the 2023-24 Pasadena Symphony season (@ Ambassador Auditorium, Pasadena).
• 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm: Southern CA Haiku Study Group (on Zoom)
  Haiku poetry workshop and newcomers are always welcome (@ Virtual Event).
• 3:00 pm – 9:00 pm: South Pasadena Arts Crawl
  A free Neighborhood-Night-on-the-Town with Art, Music, Family, Shopping, Food and Friends! Artists, musicians, and merchants.
• 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm: Third@First Concerts
  Aaron Shows will perform the season opening concert “Let Music In” (@ First United Methodist Church of Pasadena, Pasadena).
• 8:00 pm: Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra Presents Dai Wei’s “Invisible Portals”
  The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra presents the West Coast premiere of Dai Wei’s Invisible Portals, a LACO Co-Commission, on a program that also includes Mozart’s Symphony No. 41 in C major, “Jupiter” and Violinist Augustin Hadelich performing Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in E minor (@ Alex Theatre, Glendale).

(Photo – Climate Halloween)

Sunday, October 22, 2023

• 8:30 am – 1:15 pm: Alhambra Certified Farmers Market
  Find a wide assortment of affordably priced fruits, vegetables, honey, herbs, bread, and more (2nd St. between Main and Commonwealth, Alhambra).
• 9:00 am – 12:00 pm: Arroyo Seco Walking Tour: A History of Advocacy
  Join Marcus Renner, a PhD candidate at UC Davis writing his dissertation on the Arroyo, for a walk through the Arroyo’s past, recounting the history of advocacy that led to the Arroyo we have today and the Arroyo we could have tomorrow (@ Cathedral Oak (Cross) Monument on the west side of street, across from 430 Arroyo Dr., South Pasadena).
• 11:00 am – 2:00 pm: One Colorado: Annual Pumpkin Decorating
  Transform ordinary pumpkins into a spooky work of art (@ One Colorado Courtyard, Pasadena).
• 4:00 pm: Restoration Concert Featuring Cellist Cecilia Tsan and Pianist Steven Vanhauwaert
  Cellist Cecilia Tsan and pianist Steven Vanhauwaert will be performing the music of Fauré, Brahms, Beethoven, Debussy, Nan Schwartz, and John Williams (@ South Pasadena Public Library Community Room, South Pasadena).
• 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm: Art & Architecture Tour of the Playhouse Village with Councilmember Lyon
  Join Councilmember Jason Lyon on a twilight exploration of Pasadena’s Playhouse Village (@ Playhouse Village Park, Pasadena).