The South Pasadena Farmers Market is a California certified farmers’ market offering fresh, California grown produce and delicious hot foods every Thursday afternoon (rain or shine - except Thanksgiving) in South Pasadena. Exit the Gold Line at the South Pasadena station – we’re right there! Open 4pm to 8pm in Spring/Summer and 4pm to 7pm in Fall/Winter. Read more on the Farmers' Market website.

Please join the South Pasadena Chinese-American Club (SPCC) on Saturday Sept 21st from 10:30am to 1:30pm for the annual Moon Festival! Completely FREE event with food and drinks available for purchase, hosted at Marengo Elementary School. Join Jon Primuth and Katy Nielsen as they MC a full entertainment lineup including Shaolin Kung Fu, Chinese singers from the Xing Hai Music Conservatory, beautiful dances from Dancing Wings Studio, and Bilingual Story Time with Marengo Dual Immersion Teacher, Mrs April Wu Chang. Join in on numerous free activities including lantern making, dragon ribbon dance, chopstick challenge, tea tasting and moon cake sampling, and the kids craft corner. TeaMorrow will be there selling delicious boba drinks and egg tarts, and there will be yummy Chinese food for sale, as well Ravenous Couple selling taiyaki and bingfen. Councilwoman Janet Braun and Marengo Principal Noelle Fong, along with SPCC, will greet attendees from the stage at 11am. We hope you can join all the fun!

CELEBRATING NATUREAn Exhibition Featuring Works by Mixed-Media Artist Karen SteenOpening Reception: Saturday, September 21, 2024, 3:00 pm - 6:00 pmSPARC Centre Gallery      Inspired by a natural environment under threat, Steen says she views her vibrant, buoyant works “as ecosystems, a group of diverse elements and forces that have settled into a balanced and dynamic system.” These are interpreted through an amalgamation of painting, drawing, and paper shapes laser-cut from images of life forms in the natural world. “I attempt to imbue my pieces with qualities of the biological world: diversity, repetition, intricacy, rhythm, balance and interconnection,” she states. Steen’s interest in nature’s diverse ecosystems began in a childhood fascination with tidepools—“small worlds filled with life.” In addition to academic degrees from ArtCenter College of Design and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Steen, based in Pasadena and a South Pasadena native,is a certified California Naturalist.      Celebrating Nature runs through November 9, 2024.SPARC Centre Gallery1000 Fremont Ave., Suite 120South Pasadena, CA 91030(The entrance is off the parking lot at the rear ofthe Fremont Centre on El Centro Ave.)Gallery hours will vary after the opening. To schedule visits on other dates during the run of the show, contact curator Blue Trimarchi at (626) 676-4195. Admission is free.