Sunday, October 5, 2025
Sunday, October 05, 2025
Time: 8:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
PCC Flea Market click for more information »
The Pasadena City College Flea Market is known primarily for selling antiques and collectibles, with the products varying from high-end antiques to rummage sale-type items. Over 400 vendors attend the market, located in the Pasadena City College parking lots along the West side of campus….
Event Location: Corner of Hill and Del Mar
Cost: Varies
Sunday, October 05, 2025
Time: 9:00 a.m.
“New” Public Art and Architecture Tour click for more information »
Take a stroll with City staff Corey Dunlap and Kevin Johnson and visit just some of the many public art installations and architecture that grace our city. New locations this year and bonuses will include access to restricted areas….
Event Location: USC Pacific Asia Museum
Cost: Free
Sunday, October 05, 2025
Time: 10:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
2025 Los Angeles Chocolate Salon & Festival click for more information »
Chocolate lovers, en garde! The premier major chocolate show in the Los Angeles area this millenium takes place at the 16th Annual Los Angeles Chocolate Salon! Chocolate aficionados, fanatics, lovers and addicts can taste & experience the finest in artisan, gourmet & premium chocolate in one of the …
Event Location: Pasadena Convention Center
Cost: $14.12 – 25.00
Sunday, October 05, 2025
Time: All day event
Banned Book Week click for more information »
Banned Books Week is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read and highlighting the value of free and open access to information. Banned Books Week brings together the entire book community – librarians, booksellers, publishers, teachers and readers of all types – in shared support of the …
Event Location: All Pasadena Public Library Branches
Cost: Free
Sunday, October 05, 2025
Time: All day event
Halloween at Kidspace click for more information »
Load up the family broomstick because Kidspace is brewing up a cauldron full of fun for the most fantastical celebration of the year – the Kidspace Halloween Bash! Join the rollicking costume parades, take a thrilling trike ride through a spooky house, and adopt a monster. The party begins Septemb…
Event Location: Kidspace Children’s Museum
Cost: $13.50 – $15.50
Sunday, October 05, 2025
Time: 10:30 a.m. & 1:30 p.m.
Wild Impressions at SCCM click for more information »
This hands-on clay experience invites children to experiment with natural materials, creating textured dishes, sculptures, or whatever their imagination dreams up! It’s process art at its finest—messy, exploratory, and completely child-driven.
Event Location: Southern California Children’s Museum
Cost: $9.00 – $10.00
Sunday, October 05, 2025
Time: 10:00 a.m.
The Gold Line Jazz Collective click for more information »
The Gold Line Jazz Collective is led by the talented pianist Hank Mehren, who is well-known locally and internationally for his incredible musical abilities. This jazz collective expands and contracts throughout the year, integrating local talent from South Pasadena, Pasadena, and the greater Los An…
Event Location: Jones Coffee Roasters
Cost: Free
Sunday, October 05, 2025
Time: 11:15 a.m. & 1:15 p.m.
Bob Baker’s Hallowe’en Spooktacular click for more information »
As an extra-special treat to our other Halloween festivities, on October 5 at 11:15 am and 1:15 pm, Bob Baker Marionette Theater presents a preview of Hallowe’en Spooktacular, a family-friendly boo-sical revue featuring fuzzy monsters, wild witches, out-of-this-world aliens, and silly dancing pump…
Event Location: Kidspace Children’s Museum
Cost: $13.50 – $15.50
Sunday, October 05, 2025
Time: 2:00 p.m.
The Night of the Iguana click for more information »
Tennessee Williams’s rarely staged The Night of the Iguana tells the story of the Reverend T. Lawrence Shannon, a defrocked minister now conducting guided tours through Mexico on the verge of a nervous breakdown. As he struggles with his connection to God and yearns to escape his own tortured exis…
Event Location: Boston Court Pasadena
Cost: $20.00 – $57.00
Sunday, October 05, 2025
Time: 2:00 p.m.
Eureka Day click for more information »
The Pasadena Playhouse presents “Eureka Day” by Jonathan Spector. When a mumps outbreak hits a progressive private school in Berkeley, the well-meaning PTA descends into full-blown chaos trying to create a perfectly inclusive vaccination policy. Spoiler: it does not go well… As passive-aggressio…
Event Location: The Pasadena Playhouse
Cost: Call for ticket cost
Sunday, October 05, 2025
Time: 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Sacred Hands: Flower making cempasuchil (Mexican marigold) & Storytelling click for more information »
Everything handmade is sacred. “When we create, we infuse the essence of our ancestors and ourselves into our handiwork. Join us as we make flowers for our ofrendas or home altars or the library’s community ofrenda and share our personal stories.” Registration is not required, while supplies…
Event Location: Hastings Branch Library
Cost: Free
Sunday, October 05, 2025
Time: 2:00 p.m.
Jazz Sundays with Catlin & Rosser click for more information »
Barb Catlin and Ken Rosser’s performances have garnered local and national recognition with combined experience in touring, commercial projects, movie features, TV production, and artist albums. Their sets at Jones Coffee Roasters feature an eclectic selection of jazz by some of their favorite com…
Event Location: Jones Coffee Roasters
Cost: Free
Sunday, October 05, 2025
Time: 3:00 p.m. & 5:00 p.m.
Sunday Afternoon Concerts in the Dome: Musical Friends click for more information »
Mt. Wilson Observatory’s Sunday Afternoon Concerts in the Dome presents Musical Friends with Roger Wilkie (violin), Jonah Sirota (viola), Cecilia Tsan (cello), Geoff Osika (bass), Gigi Brady (oboe), and Sergio Coelho (clarinet). A winds & strings celebration. This program curated by Jonah Sirota…
Event Location: Mt. Wilson Observatory
Cost: $60.00
Sunday, October 05, 2025
Time: 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Anna Hays, in conversation with Cylin Busby, discusses & signs Vanished: Seven Women Magicians Who Simply Disappeared – featuring strolling magic! click for more information »
Discover the amazing illustrated stories of seven women magicians who pulled off spectacular and death-defying illusions and acts, achieved global fame, and then simply…disappeared. During the Golden Age of Magic from 1860 to 1930, seven women magicians in America defied Victorian conventions a…
Event Location: Vroman’s Bookstore
Cost: Free
Sunday, October 05, 2025
Time: 3:00 p.m.
Stories in the Afternoon: The Light Within You click for more information »
Diya has been waiting all year for Diwali, the Festival of Lights. Follow Diya to visit her family in India for this special Hindu holiday in The Light Within You, written by Namita Moolani Mehra and illustrated by Kamala Nair. As you prepare with Diya and her grandmother for nights of celebrations …
Event Location: Norton Simon Museum
Cost:
Sunday, October 05, 2025
Time: 5:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
CAPtoberfest 2 click for more information »
College Access Plan (CAP) Pasadena is gearing up for its highly anticipated annual fall fundraiser, CAPtoberfest 2, taking place at the beautiful garden setting of a private Pasadena residence. Open to the community, this festive evening will feature games, delicious food, craft beer, and lively fun…
Event Location: Private residence in Pasadena
Cost: Call for details
Sunday, October 05, 2025
Time: 5:00 p.m.
Cruising Colorado: Route 66 & Old Pasadena’s Car Scene click for more information »
On this tour, we’ll walk a section of Route 66 – known as the “Mother Road” and the “Main Street of America” – around present-day Old Pasadena. In November 1926, Route 66 was established as part of the U.S. numbered highways system, connecting cities like Pasadena to far flung locations acro…
Event Location: Provided with registration
Cost: Free
Sunday, October 05, 2025
Time: 6:30 p.m.
Mid-Autumn Moon Celebration click for more information »
Celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival with a magical stroll through the moonlit Chinese Garden at The Huntington. Marvel at breathtaking lanterns reflected in the lake as you stroll through illuminated pavilions, courtyards, and pathways. Delight in live music through …
Event Location: The Huntington’s Chinese Garden
Cost: $10.00 – $40.00
Sunday, October 05, 2025
Time: 6:00 p.m.
Carved click for more information »
During “Carved” – Descanso Gardens’ family-friendly Halloween experience – guests can wander through a trail filled with illuminated jack-o’-lanterns, massive hand-carved gourds, and vibrant light displays, while experiencing new vignettes on the Pumpkin Trail and treats at Harvest Acres. The p…
Event Location: Descanso Gardens
Cost: $10.00 – $45.00
Sunday, October 05, 2025
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Eureka Day click for more information »
The Pasadena Playhouse presents “Eureka Day” by Jonathan Spector. When a mumps outbreak hits a progressive private school in Berkeley, the well-meaning PTA descends into full-blown chaos trying to create a perfectly inclusive vaccination policy. Spoiler: it does not go well… As passive-aggressio…
Event Location: The Pasadena Playhouse
Cost: Call for ticket cost
