Art Night Pasadena

Marine life and faces in the windows of the PCC administrative building

Model and artists at Castle Green

Pasadena Museum of California Art covered in vinyl

Art Center gallery

artnightpasadena.com

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Office hours for Saturday, October 13

Office hours are on for Saturday, October 13!

We’ll be at Metropolitan (across the street from Vroman’s) from 10 a.m. to noon. Wireless is free at Metropolitan. I’ll have my laptop with me. If you want help with your existing blog, help starting a blog, help figuring out what RSS is, or if you just want to hang out and visit, come on by.

Metropolitan Coffee and Tea
716 E Colorado Blvd
Pasadena, 91101
Saturday, October 13
10 a.m. – noon

Also, Pasadena Art Weekend starts tonight with Art Night Pasadena (free admission to Pasadena’s art venues and free shuttles between locations).

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Summer movies in South Pasadena

Outdoor movie nights

The South Pasadena Preservation Foundation is showing free movies outside on the lawn next to the historical museum on Saturday nights. Here’s a link to the schedule online, and here’s a close-up:

Schedule close-up

View from the grass

The poster

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Pasadena’s Really Really Free Market

John Loghry and family, organizers of Pasadena’s Really Really Free Market

The next Pasadena Really Really Free Market (RRFM) will take place this coming Saturday, July 14. In the spirit of the RRFM, I’ve created a temporary blog for RRFM announcements and pictures — it may be the permanent blog, or it may be the precursor to the permanent blog. In any event, it is at http://rrfm.wordpress.com, and more details about this coming Saturday are posted here.

A little guitar playing

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Pasadena Chalk Festival

The 15th annual Pasadena Chalk Festival took place last weekend at the Paseo. We were there Saturday afternoon and saw hundreds of drawings in progress.

The Kiss

A character Gavin recognizes

Oranges and a mission

This drawing won “Best 3D Effect“

John and Yoko

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Community bulletin board: Greening the Earth Day and Armory Family Arts Festival

This Saturday, April 21, the City of Pasadena Greening the Earth Day and Armory Family Arts Festival will take place from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at Memorial Park and Armory Center for the Arts. Free! For more information, see the pdf here.

Path to Freedom will have a booth there.

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Community bulletin board: An Evening of Iranian Culture

This Friday night, April 6, Friends of Iranian Culture at Caltech will celebrate Nowruz (Iranian New Year) with dancing, music and food. The celebration starts at 6:00 p.m. and is free and open to the public. Caltech Today has the details.

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Art Night Pasadena

Last night we visited Pasadena Jazz Institute and The Armory Center for the Arts.

Walking into the Pasadena Jazz Institute

Paul Lines greeted us at the door and showed us around

There was a large performance space with lots of cozy little tables, and there were separate bar, pool and patio areas where you could hear the music and watch it on screen, but where you could also move around and socialize more or enjoy a little more privacy.

Saxophonist at the Pasadena Jazz Institute

Main performance space

Out on the patio

Pool in the back room at Pasadena Jazz Institute

Pasadena Jazz Institute
260 East Colorado Blvd.
Suite 206
Pasadena, CA 91101
626-398-3344
www.pasjazz.org

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Then we rode the free Art Night shuttle over to the Armory.

Art Night at the Armory

Local community ensemble Kan Zaman was there playing classical Arabic music.

Kan Zaman, 1

Kan Zaman, 2

You can hear samples of their music here: http://www.kanzaman.org/cds.htm

Armory Center for the Arts
145 N. Raymond Ave.
Pasadena, CA 91103
626-792-5101
www.armoryarts.org

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Art Night Pasadena is tonight

Come on out and ride free shuttles around town to Pasadena’s art museums and other art and music venues, where admission will be free from 6-10 p.m. For shuttle routes and a list of venues, check out http://www.artnightpasadena.org/.

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Pasadena Art Night

Pasadena Art Night is Friday, March 9 from 6-10 p.m.

Every six months in March and October, Pasadena’s museums and art schools open their doors to the public for free, and free shuttles take people from venue to venue. It’s a pretty neighborly feeling event. It’s fun to ride around in buses with people from all around town and look at art.

http://www.artnightpasadena.org/

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