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The Occasional Pasadena Doo Dah Parade is back November 22nd, 2026 with an 11am step-off in Pasadena, CA! Updates to come on https://www.pasadenadoodahparade.info
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
Saturday, September 19
7:00 - 9:00pm
Refreshments
We are thrilled to announce the 24 Hour Gallery's autumnal season opening for artist, Cynthia Minet. Her works are sculpted with domestic plastic products. Lighting effects reveal animal forms which are visually stunning and startlingly realistic.
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"I hope that viewers recognize the contrast between the inanimate animal heads, fixed in place as trophy heads are, and the running or sleeping dogs as actively alive." - Cynthia Minet
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This is an outdoor exhibit venue located in Old Pasadena.
The 24 Hour Gallery is a showcase of five sweeping windows, located on Holly Street, at the corner of Raymond and Holly, directly across from the Pasadena Senior Center. The exhibition is curated by Light Bringer Project.
In the spirit of art and community found in the exhibition Village Square, chalk artists Stacy Nalapraya and Randall Williams will recreate a version of Edouard Manet's Young Woman in a Round Hat (c. 1877–79) outdoors on LACMA's Smidt Welcome Plaza. Drop in and witness its progress as this 19th-century portrait takes new form.
This program is part of Third Weekends at LACMA, a monthly line up of free and ticketed programs inspired by our collection and special exhibitions. Discover other Third Weekend programs.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Join us in supporting the United Teachers of Pasadena at their Rally at Pasadena City Hall, 100 N. Garfield Avenue, Pasadena, CA 91101.
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!
Affected community artists and students will gather to benefit from the Eaton Fire Fund, share stories, and provide support for the Eaton Fire survivors at this combination art show, live performance, and auction benefit to commemorate the first anniversary of the Eaton Fire.
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?
