EVENTS ON SUNDAY, MAY 8, 2022 Sunday, May 08, 2022 Time: 5:00 a.m. Rose Bowl Flea Market click for more information » The granddaddy of them all, The Rose Bowl Flea Market is considered an outdoor MEGA event and it is held the second Sunday of each month. Vintage treasure hunters and bargain seekers flock to the legendary Rose Bowl Flea Market. The second Sunday of every month, experience over 2,500 vendors full of… Event Location: Rose Bowl Stadium Cost: $12.00 – $20.00 Sunday, May 08, 2022 Time: 9:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. 2022 Pasadena Showcase House of Design click for more information » Everything you know and love about the Pasadena Showcase House of Design is back, as it returns to South Pasadena for the first time in over 40 years from April 24 – May 22, 2022. Anchoring a historic Greene & Greene-planned neighborhood of century-old homes, this stately 1905 English Tudor mansi… Event Location: South Pasadena Cost: $40.00 – $50.00 Sunday, May 08, 2022 Time: 10:00 a.m. & 1:15 p.m. Mother’s Day Brunch click for more information » Enjoy Mother’s Day Brunch at The Huntington in the beautiful Rose Hills Foundation Garden Court. The full buffet includes fresh salad and fruit, a seafood station, omelet station, hot buffet, special selections for youngsters, a dessert extravaganza, and coffee/tea station. A full bar available for… Event Location: The Huntington Library’s Rose Hills Foundation Garden Court Cost: $38.00 – $125.00 Sunday, May 08, 2022 Time: 11:30 a.m. Mother’s Day Tours at The Gamble House click for more information » The Gamble House invites you to celebrate all the special people in your life with a docent-led one hour tour of the Gamble House. Touring guests may enjoy a complimentary** coffee or tea beverage and sweet treat on the Gamble House terrace and while explo… Event Location: The Gamble House Cost: $5.00 – $25.00 Sunday, May 08, 2022 Time: All day event Pollinator Helpers click for more information » Just Imagine What You Can Build at Kidspace’s Imagination Workshop! Guests of Imagination Workshop will have the opportunity to make one of four projects until May 29, 2022. A butterfly feeder made out of wire designed to hold small pieces of fruit, a home for solitary bees, decorative window decal… Event Location: Kidspace Children’s Museum Cost: Free with reservation Sunday, May 08, 2022 Time: 11:15 a.m. & 1:15 p.m. Earthworm Ensemble click for more information » Enjoy a spring day and sing along to songs about this beautiful planet. Earthworm Ensemble features musicians and songwriters from “I See Hawks In L.A.s” Dwight Yoakam, Aman Folk Ensemble, and Double Naught Spy Car. This special performance is included with your Kidspace same-day ad… Event Location: Kidspace Children’s Museum Cost: Free with admission Sunday, May 08, 2022 Time: 11:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. Las Fotos Project Mother’s Day Portrait Session click for more information » Arlington Garden is excited to partner with Los Fotos Project to offer a special Mothers’ Day Portrait Session at the garden on May 8th from 11:00am to 3:00pm. Bring your mothers and motherly figures to have your portraits taken by Los Fotos’ CEO students and enjoy meandering around Arlington Garden to en… Event Location: Arlington Garden Pasadena Cost: $45.00 Sunday, May 08, 2022 Time: 12:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Free Comic Book Day Jr at Comics Factory click for more information » Join Altadena Library as they take the Curiosity Connection to Free Comic Book Day Jr at Comics Factory for the second year of festivities, games, Free special edition comics, graphic novels, meeting authors and illustrators, and spin the wheel raffles…and more! This event is for FAMILIES and KIDS… Event Location: Comics Factory Cost: Free Sunday, May 08, 2022 Time: 12:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Workshop@PAM: Ikebana click for more information » It’s Free Second Sunday: Mother’s Day! Celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month at PAM. Join USC Pacific Asia Museum this Mother’s Day as we explore the Japanese art of flower arranging known as Ikebana! Create your own Ikebana, participate in an origami-inspired card-making … Event Location: USC Pacific Asia Museum Cost: Free Sunday, May 08, 2022 Time: 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Artist Reception, April Drew Foster click for more information » Crowell Public Library will host a reception with artist April Drew Foster. Believing that art should evoke the beauty and pleasure of natural forms, April Drew Foster strives to bring the joy of her artistic journey to her painting. Her portraits, landscapes, and still lives are preserving memories… Event Location: Crowell’s Barth Community Room Cost: Free Sunday, May 08, 2022 Time: 2:00 p.m. Metamorphoses (Preview) click for more information » A Noise Within presents Metamorphoses based on the Myths of Ovid. Written and originally directed by Mary Zimmerman. Directed by Julia Rodriguez-Elliott… Primal storytelling and modern sensibility collide in a sensual re-envisioning of Greek myths, as gods and mortals alike endure love, loss, and … Event Location: A Noise Within Cost: $25.00 – $49.00 Sunday, May 08, 2022 Time: 2:00 p.m. Both And (A Play About Laughing While Black) click for more information » Don’t miss this rare and extraordinary piece of theatre, conceived, written, and performed by Carolyn Ratteray. Through clowning, poetic text, and a tour-de-force performance, the play deeply investigates the nucleus of Black joy. As her mother is dying, Teayanna finds herself in a netherworld bet… Event Location: Boston Court Pasadena Cost: $20.00 – $39.00 Sunday, May 08, 2022 Time: 2:00 p.m. Sustainability Sundays click for more information » Let’s get creative! Part sensory play, part art class and part environmental studies, participants will learn about the environment and how you can help take care of the planet while exploring items from your gardens or building amazing creations out of recycled materials! *Sign up required. Sched… Event Location: Southern California Children’s Museum Cost: Free with admission Sunday, May 08, 2022 Time: 3:00 p.m. Caltech Chamber Music Spring Concert Series click for more information » The Caltech Chamber Music Ensembles, directed by Maia Jasper White, present their spring concert series. There will be a Mother’s Day Concert on Sunday, May 8 at 3:30 pm, and a Marathon concert on May 15 at 3:30 pm. Featured will be the music of Dvorak, Mozart, Telemann, Brahms, Kodaly, Martinu a… Event Location: Caltech’s Dabney Lounge Cost: Free Sunday, May 08, 2022 Time: 4:00 p.m. Restoration Concert: Robert Thies, piano click for more information » Friends of the South Pasadena Public Library’s Restoration Concert Series continues with Robert Thies, pianist. Pianist Robert Thies is an artist renowned for his consummate musicianship and poetic temperament. He first captured worldwide attention in 1995 when he won the Gold Medal at the Second I… Event Location: South Pasadena Public Library Community Room Cost: $20.00 Sunday, May 08, 2022 Time: 5:30 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. Strings Honor Recital click for more information » Pasadena Conservatory of Music (PCM) presents student recitals throughout the school year. These recitals offer students the opportunity to perform in a formal setting and gain confidence as musicians. These recitals are typically attended by the friends and families of the student performers, howev… Event Location: Pasadena Conservatory of Music Cost: Free Sunday, May 08, 2022 Time: 7:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. On Gold Mountain click for more information » The Huntington, LA Opera Connects, and members of the LA Opera Orchestra present an evening performance of the opera On Gold Mountain in the Chinese Garden. The opera is based on author Lisa See’s bestselling book that tells the story of her great-grandfather, Fong See, who emigrated from China to … Event Location: The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens Cost: $135.00 – $150.00
Rose Bowl Flea Market click for more information »
The granddaddy of them all, The Rose Bowl Flea Market is considered an outdoor MEGA event and it is held the second Sunday of each month. Vintage treasure hunters and bargain seekers flock to the legendary Rose Bowl Flea Market. The second Sunday of every month, experience over 2,500 vendors full of…
Event Location: Rose Bowl Stadium
Time: 9:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.
2022 Pasadena Showcase House of Design click for more information »
Everything you know and love about the Pasadena Showcase House of Design is back, as it returns to South Pasadena for the first time in over 40 years from April 24 – May 22, 2022. Anchoring a historic Greene & Greene-planned neighborhood of century-old homes, this stately 1905 English Tudor mansi…
Time: 10:00 a.m. & 1:15 p.m.
Mother’s Day Brunch click for more information »
Enjoy Mother’s Day Brunch at The Huntington in the beautiful Rose Hills Foundation Garden Court. The full buffet includes fresh salad and fruit, a seafood station, omelet station, hot buffet, special selections for youngsters, a dessert extravaganza, and coffee/tea station. A full bar available for…
Event Location: The Huntington Library’s Rose Hills Foundation Garden Court
Mother’s Day Tours at The Gamble House click for more information »
The Gamble House invites you to celebrate all the special people in your life with a docent-led one hour tour of the Gamble House. Touring guests may enjoy a complimentary** coffee or tea beverage and sweet treat on the Gamble House terrace and while explo…
Event Location: The Gamble House
Pollinator Helpers click for more information »
Just Imagine What You Can Build at Kidspace’s Imagination Workshop! Guests of Imagination Workshop will have the opportunity to make one of four projects until May 29, 2022. A butterfly feeder made out of wire designed to hold small pieces of fruit, a home for solitary bees, decorative window decal…
Event Location: Kidspace Children’s Museum
Time: 11:15 a.m. & 1:15 p.m.
Earthworm Ensemble click for more information »
Enjoy a spring day and sing along to songs about this beautiful planet. Earthworm Ensemble features musicians and songwriters from “I See Hawks In L.A.s” Dwight Yoakam, Aman Folk Ensemble, and Double Naught Spy Car. This special performance is included with your Kidspace same-day ad…
Event Location: Kidspace Children’s Museum
Time: 11:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Las Fotos Project Mother’s Day Portrait Session click for more information »
Arlington Garden is excited to partner with Los Fotos Project to offer a special Mothers’ Day Portrait Session at the garden on May 8th from 11:00am to 3:00pm. Bring your mothers and motherly figures to have your portraits taken by Los Fotos’ CEO students and enjoy meandering around Arlington Garden to en…
Event Location: Arlington Garden Pasadena
Time: 12:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Free Comic Book Day Jr at Comics Factory click for more information »
Join Altadena Library as they take the Curiosity Connection to Free Comic Book Day Jr at Comics Factory for the second year of festivities, games, Free special edition comics, graphic novels, meeting authors and illustrators, and spin the wheel raffles…and more! This event is for FAMILIES and KIDS…
Time: 12:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Workshop@PAM: Ikebana click for more information »
It’s Free Second Sunday: Mother’s Day! Celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month at PAM. Join USC Pacific Asia Museum this Mother’s Day as we explore the Japanese art of flower arranging known as Ikebana! Create your own Ikebana, participate in an origami-inspired card-making …
Event Location: USC Pacific Asia Museum
Time: 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Artist Reception, April Drew Foster click for more information »
Crowell Public Library will host a reception with artist April Drew Foster. Believing that art should evoke the beauty and pleasure of natural forms, April Drew Foster strives to bring the joy of her artistic journey to her painting. Her portraits, landscapes, and still lives are preserving memories…
Event Location: Crowell’s Barth Community Room
Metamorphoses (Preview) click for more information »
A Noise Within presents Metamorphoses based on the Myths of Ovid. Written and originally directed by Mary Zimmerman. Directed by Julia Rodriguez-Elliott… Primal storytelling and modern sensibility collide in a sensual re-envisioning of Greek myths, as gods and mortals alike endure love, loss, and …
Event Location: A Noise Within
Both And (A Play About Laughing While Black) click for more information »
Don’t miss this rare and extraordinary piece of theatre, conceived, written, and performed by Carolyn Ratteray. Through clowning, poetic text, and a tour-de-force performance, the play deeply investigates the nucleus of Black joy. As her mother is dying, Teayanna finds herself in a netherworld bet…
Event Location: Boston Court Pasadena
Sustainability Sundays click for more information »
Let’s get creative! Part sensory play, part art class and part environmental studies, participants will learn about the environment and how you can help take care of the planet while exploring items from your gardens or building amazing creations out of recycled materials! *Sign up required. Sched…
Event Location: Southern California Children’s Museum
Caltech Chamber Music Spring Concert Series click for more information »
The Caltech Chamber Music Ensembles, directed by Maia Jasper White, present their spring concert series. There will be a Mother’s Day Concert on Sunday, May 8 at 3:30 pm, and a Marathon concert on May 15 at 3:30 pm. Featured will be the music of Dvorak, Mozart, Telemann, Brahms, Kodaly, Martinu a…
Event Location: Caltech’s Dabney Lounge
Restoration Concert: Robert Thies, piano click for more information »
Friends of the South Pasadena Public Library’s Restoration Concert Series continues with Robert Thies, pianist. Pianist Robert Thies is an artist renowned for his consummate musicianship and poetic temperament. He first captured worldwide attention in 1995 when he won the Gold Medal at the Second I…
Event Location: South Pasadena Public Library Community Room
Time: 5:30 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.
Strings Honor Recital click for more information »
Pasadena Conservatory of Music (PCM) presents student recitals throughout the school year. These recitals offer students the opportunity to perform in a formal setting and gain confidence as musicians. These recitals are typically attended by the friends and families of the student performers, howev…
Event Location: Pasadena Conservatory of Music
Time: 7:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
On Gold Mountain click for more information »
The Huntington, LA Opera Connects, and members of the LA Opera Orchestra present an evening performance of the opera On Gold Mountain in the Chinese Garden. The opera is based on author Lisa See’s bestselling book that tells the story of her great-grandfather, Fong See, who emigrated from China to …
Event Location: The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens
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