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May
30
10:00 AM10:00

Creative Workers Rising - A Resource Fair


CREATIVE 
WORKERS 
RISING 

A RESOURCE FAIR FOR EATON FIRE-IMPACTED CREATIVES 

HEY CREATIVE COMMUNITY! WE HEARD YOUR NEEDS, AND WE ARE CREATING AN EVENT TO CONNECT YOU TO RESOURCES! PLEASE JOIN US! PLEASE PRE-REGISTER HERE

WHEN: May 30, 2026, 11 AM-4 PM


WHERE: The Eaton Fire Collaboratory
 

WHO WILL BE THERE:

  • Disaster Case Management support

  • 1000 Voices / Altadena Mosaic

  • Altadena Artists

  • Altadena Healing Village

  • Altadena Musicians

  • Altadena Photographers

  • Altadena Rotary

  • Armory Center for The Arts

  • Ca Lawyers for The Arts

  • Corita Art Center

  • Cornerstone Theater Company

  • Didi Hirsch Mental Health Services

  • Entertainment Community Fund

  • Home of Kings & Queens

  • LA County Dept of Arts & Culture

  • LA County Dept of Mental Health

  • LA County Program "Park on The Move"

  • La Wildfire Survivors Artist Residencies

  • NAMI San Gabriel Valley Chapter

  • One House Arts

  • ONEgeneration

  • Operation Hope

  • People's Playback Theatre

  • Pulse Arts LA

  • Saved by A Story

  • Side Street Projects

  • ToolBank USA

  • We Out Here -- Juicy Little Society

  • Xtreme Athletics

  • Young & Health
     

WHAT’S A CREATIVE WORKER?
Anyone who creates, imagines, crafts, performs, documents, designs, builds, or tells stories across any medium — from filmmaking, photography, digital art, music, writing, textiles, ceramics, sculpture, and craft‑based practices to hybrid, experimental, and multidisciplinary work. Whether your practice is professional, community‑rooted, home‑based, emerging, or spans multiple forms, your creative labor and cultural contribution count.*
 

*This also includes people who create outside traditional categories, make things for joy or healing, run small creative businesses, feel creatively blocked, or don’t always call themselves artists — if creativity is part of your life, you belong here.

ARE YOU A CREATIVE WORKER?

ARE YOU A RESOUCE PROVIDER?

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May
31
10:00 AM10:00

Kidspace Block Party

Hey ‘Dena, Let’s Play!

Come out to play at the Kidspace Neighborhood Block Party! A free, joy-filled celebration of our community in Brookside Park. Light Bringer Project will be bringing artists from the Pasadena Chalk Festival to join in on the fun.

Together, we’ll celebrate the beauty of our diversity and resilience. Kick off the summer with live entertainment featuring talent from Pasadena and Altadena. Make your mark on our community mural. Contribute an act of kindness to the animals at Pasadena Humane Society and explore the many flavors of our community with local food trucks and vendors.

Kidspace will be free all day! Enjoy the best of summer at Kidspace Campout – splash through the Arroyo Stream, pedal trikes over the mini-Golden Gate Bridge and gather for sing-alongs around a fanciful campfire.

You are what makes this community so special. So, join the celebration and be part of the joy that unfolds when a community gathers.

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Pasadena Chalk Festival
Sep
26
to Sep 27

Pasadena Chalk Festival

Every summer, we put together this event so that hundreds of skilled artists can create large colorful chalk murals in a wide variety of styles and subject matter. They range in both style and subject matter, including funny or whimsical illustrations, portraits of people, recreations of masterpieces, incredible original designs, adorable characters, moving tributes, powerful statements, and just plain jaw-dropping art.

All funds raised through merchandise and our unique Silent Auction support the arts education programs of Light Bringer Project throughout the year. We thank you for showing us your support so that we can continue to offer these programs to local youth.

Artist’s Applications will be posted come spring 2026.

We encourage you to follow us for up-to-date information @pasadenachalkfestival

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May
16
1:00 PM13:00

Omega Sci-Fi Project Culmination: Celebrity Readings & Honors

Join us in honoring top high school sci-fi writers from across Los Angeles with an awards ceremony and readings by celebrity actors!

Support Omega Sci-Fi Project today by making a donation when you reserve your free ticket, or visit lightbringerproject.org/support!

Omega Sci-Fi Project is proud to celebrate our student finalists for our creative writing competitions, The Tomorrow Prize and The Green Feather Award. Since its 2014 inception, the Omega Sci-Fi Project has empowered thousands of emerging young writers through hands-on workshops to express themselves and explore universal quandaries through the art of science fiction storytelling. At our culmination this May 16, 2026, six students’ visions of the future will be brought to life, performed aloud by celebrity actors.

The only program in California offering science fiction writing instruction and recognition to high school-aged students, the Omega Sci-Fi Project introduces young minds to ongoing conversations about existential dilemmas facing humanity by employing the genre’s unique power to reimagine our collective future. We celebrate the influence of writers like Octavia Butler, a Pasadena native who used her science fiction narratives to criticize the unjust structures she saw reflected in the world around her. Omega Sci-Fi Project Director Rosalind Helfand says, “The Omega Sci-Fi Project inspires diverse high school students from every corner of Los Angeles County to explore the issues they care about through science fiction writing and imagine new pathways.”

The winners of The Tomorrow Prize and The Green Feather Award will be celebrated at the May culmination, alongside other finalists and honorable mentions, and awarded with cash prizes and publication of their stories in LA Parent Magazine or the Nature Nexus Newsletter, respectively. “The young writers are offered a wonderful chance at recognition for their creative work through the awards process. Often, students don't even realize that creative writing is a meaningful way for them to explore a world they struggle to understand. That is, until they get to try it!” says Bodin Adler, a participating teacher from Hollywood High School.

We invite you to join us at our momentous Culminating Event on May 16, 2026, from 1-3 PM at Vroman’s Bookstore in Pasadena to celebrate the power of science fiction storytelling and the many talented voices of young writers across Los Angeles.

The Omega Sci-Fi Project is a program under the arts and education nonprofit, Light Bringer Project. The program was founded by Sci-Fest LA in 2014. Sponsors also include L.A. Parent Magazine, Nature Nexus Institute and Vroman’s Bookstore.

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May
1
to May 2

LitFest in the Dena

  • Pasadena Presbyterian Church (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

How do books shift our viewpoints? Powerful literature has reimagined what has already been established, reframed narratives that we thought we understood, and introduced new ideas that challenge the status quo. 

Think of The Silent Spring and its role in sparking the environmental movement; The Jungle, which exposed labor conditions in the meatpacking industry; The New Jim Crow, which examined systemic mass incarceration; On the Road, which celebrated nonconformity and new mores; Grapes of Wrath, which foretold a day of reckoning against injustice; The Second Sex, which deconstructed gender roles – all part of a trove of revered books that became part of our national conversation. 

LitFest 2026 celebrates the force of literature in turning around how we see the world and our place in it.

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Apr
26
3:00 PM15:00

Expressing Feelings Through Art Showcase

Expressing Feelings Through Art (EFTA) is an arts and literacy program delivered to public high school students of L.A. County. Students in 9th through 12th grade are challenged to create art pieces that tell stories that hold personal meanings for them. Topics run the gamut of subject matter and emotional tone and are often as moving as they are original. The students must also engage in an exercise of mind mapping & writing that sheds light on their visual imagery, provoking a thoughtful articulation of the stories they were artistically driven to tell and emotions they explored.

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Jan
18
12:00 PM12:00

Pasadena Neighbor Day

Sunday, January 18, 2026 - a City-Wide Celebration of Neighbors and our Community.

Here’s the details on the main event at Wild Parrot Brewing Co:

BANDS: The Nextdoors | The Licata Brothers | Nina Lares | Jason Heath and the Greedy Souls

NON-PROFIT PARTNERS and BENEFICIARIES: Pasadena Educational Foundation | Lightbringer Project | Pasadena Firemen’s Relief Association

RAFFLE PRIZES: Rose Bowl Parade 2027 tickets (thank you Gene Masuda) | Santa Anita Race tickets (thank you Chelsea Jones) | MORE COMING SOON!

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ArtNight Pasadena
Oct
10
6:00 PM18:00

ArtNight Pasadena

ArtNight is Pasadena’s signature cultural event. Produced by the Cultural Affairs Division in partnership with Pasadena cultural organizations, it is a dynamic arts and cultural open house--showcasing visual arts, literary arts, dance, music, and theater--that takes place on a Friday in March and October from 6:00-10:00pm at sites all around Pasadena. Participating Partner organizations vary from event to event and include many of the 30 cultural venues listed below; all provide free entry during ArtNight. Smaller organizations and ensembles are invited to apply for MiniGrants to perform at Partner venues.

On October 10th, 2025, Light Bringer Project will partner with Day One for the city’s Fall ArtNight event for our interactive art installation: Lucid: Real or Unreal?

These days, life feels more surreal than dreams. From nightmarish adversity, disaster, and hardship to visions of reimagining a possible future, now more than ever we must fall back on our subconscious instincts to discern a path forward. When the powers that be attempt to distort and deny reality, when “the facts” are up for debate, our dreams allow us to access the emotional truth of living through this moment in history. 

Lucid dreaming is a state of self-awareness–even control–inside a dream. While we may not have the power to wake up from the parts of life that feel like nightmares, “Lucid” asserts that we can reclaim control over the narrative. To become aware of authority’s manipulation of normalcy is to begin to unravel it, to restore the people’s power over what we know to be true.

In contrast with realism, which purports to represent life objectively, surrealism embraces feelings and personal perspective over one dominant version of the truth. In this interactive exhibition, we honor imagination, emotion, and intuition, the subconscious substance of our dreams. This art displays real feelings, even as authorities claim that this living nightmare is unreal and dreams of rebuilding a better future are impossible. 

We invite you to enter the dreamscape, to navigate a vision of dreams and nightmares. As you explore the work of local artists, professionals and students alike, ask yourself: is this real or unreal?

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