Big Sunday happily welcomes you to Our Really Big Community Calendar.
We try to include all kinds of volunteering and helping opportunities for all kinds of interests, talents, passions, and ages! As you’ll see, these include volunteering opportunities (one-time and long-term) as well as the chance to support a nonprofit by attending fundraising events. Plus, of course, we include all of Big Sunday’s homegrown events, too! Whoever you are, and whatever you do, there is someone out there who could use your help.
If you have questions about our calendar, or would like to add a listing, please contact calendar@bigsunday.org or submit your event/opportunity via the button below.
For years, Big Sunday Weekend—an incredible three-day festival of helping each May—has been our signature (and largest) event. In 2015, thousands of volunteers turned out—some as individuals, others with their families, still others as part of a class, church, synagogue, mosque, business or club—to lend a hand at hundreds of different projects from San Diego to San Francisco, making Big Sunday Weekend one of the largest regional community service events in America. In 2016, Big Sunday Weekend is expanding to A Month of Big Sundays. After 17 years, we’ve simply grown too big to contain everything in one weekend.
In May 2016, Big Sunday is hosting and/or sponsoring special events every single day of the month. Now we can take on even bigger projects, reach more people, make new alliances, and more easily fit in with everyone’s (and every organization’s) busy schedules. We’ll still have all kinds of events for every kind of passion and every type of talent. If you are at a school, faith group or business making your 2016 calendar now, please set aside any day during May 2016 and know that we’ll find a project that’s both impactful and fun for you to do. If you want to host a project, please select any day during May. Of course, we’ll still be bringing people together from all walks of life in the name of making the world a better place. For many people, A Month of Big Sundays (formerly Big Sunday Weekend) is just the beginning of an involvement that continues throughout the year. In the mea
ntime, if you have any questions or suggestions, please visit http://mobs.bigsunday.org/.
Help support and lead outdoor volunteer days with Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy! Volunteer for two events and sign up at pvplc.volunteerhub.com.
Join the Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy on Saturday, May 21st from 9 am –
12 pm at White Point Nature Preserve. Volunteers are needed to help care for the Native Demonstration Garden by planting shrubs, removing invasive weeds, grooming trails and more! To sign up please visit: http://pvplc.volunteerhub.com. Questions? Please contact Volunteer Program Manager Brittany Goldsmith at Bgoldmsith@pvplc.org or 310-541-7613 x215.
Join Team Big Sunday at the American Cancer Society Relay For Life for Griffith Park Communities and Hollywood. The Relay For Life events bring hope, encouragement and services to those struggling with cancer, remembrance for those who have lost a loved one, and provides fundraising for the cure. Registration is free. Donations are optional. Come walk with the team!
Looking for a great volunteer opportunity? Well, you’re in luck! Volunteers are needed to help the Mu Lambda Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. clean up the playground areas at Rancho Cienega Sports Complex.
For more details and to register, please contact Cheryl Gray at cdgray37@aol.com or call 323-236-2224.
LA Film Festival returns to FIGat7th Plaza in downtown LA for two nights of outdoor film screenings and special programming. This year’s selections are beloved blockbusters returning to the big screen with highly anticipated remakes this summer!
June 3: Ghostbusters
7 pm
Several underdog scientists lose their cushy positions at a university in New York City and set out on their own to become “ghostbusters.” The film stars Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis and Ernie Hudson as the eccentric team waging a high-tech battle with supernatural spirits.
June 4: Independence Day
7 pm
When massive spaceships appear in Earth’s skies and blast destructive beams down on the planet, a determined band of survivors must unite for one last strike against the invaders before it’s the end of mankind. An all-star cast including Will Smith, Jeff Goldblum and Bill Pullman join forces in this ultimate battle against powerful aliens.
Volunteers Needed at Wright's Field
Join Back Country Land Trust and their community of volunteers as they host the 3rd annual volunteer event in honor of National Trails Day, a national event celebrating hiking, trails and the great outdoors! National Trails Day is organized by the American Hiking Society every year on the first Saturday in June.
This year, they'll be working to repair and maintain the trails that run alongside Alpine Creek. This winter's rains caused some sections to wash out, creating the potential for even more erosion if not repaired, as well as being a hazard for hikers, mountain bikers, and equestrians. Due to the extensive damage to this trail, we'll be filling the erosion channel with hay bales for support and using vertical mulch to close this short trail section around the washout.
Join them! All ages and abilities are welcome.
Volunteers should wear appropriate outdoor work clothes – boots or hiking shoes, sun protection, etc. Water and all tools will be provided.
Arts Brookfield presents a highly acclaimed public art installation by Australian artist Amanda Parer. The installation, titled Intrude, features seven monumental rabbits constructed of sewn white nylon that have been inflated and internally lit. Two of the seven rabbits were specially commissioned by Arts Brookfield, each scaling over two stories in height.
Rabbits in Parer’s native Australia are an out of control pest first introduced by white settlers in 1777. Their intrusion into the landscape and impact on the country’s endemic species was the initial inspiration for Intrude. Their presence in LA’s urban landscape invites viewers to get up close, cuddle and enjoy while also asking one to consider every species’ larger than life impact on their surroundings.
The seven rabbits of Intrude will be spread across several Brookfield properties on Bunker Hill and at the FIGat7th retail center in downtown Los Angeles from June 5 – June 11.
Locations:
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FIGat7th
735 S. Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, CA 90017 -
Bank of America Plaza
333 S. Hope Street, Los Angeles, CA 90071 -
Wells Fargo Center
330 S. Hope Street, Los Angeles, CA 90071
Food on Foot needs volunteers to help serve food to the homeless and poor on Sunday, June 5 in Hollywood at 3pm.
It only takes 90 minutes and the experience is always something you never forget. Those in the food line are extremely appreciative and grateful to the volunteers.
Advance registration is required at http://www.foodonfoot.org/volunteer/.
Arts Brookfield presents a highly acclaimed public art installation by Australian artist Amanda Parer. The installation, titled Intrude, features seven monumental rabbits constructed of sewn white nylon that have been inflated and internally lit. Two of the seven rabbits were specially commissioned by Arts Brookfield, each scaling over two stories in height.
Rabbits in Parer’s native Australia are an out of control pest first introduced by white settlers in 1777. Their intrusion into the landscape and impact on the country’s endemic species was the initial inspiration for Intrude. Their presence in LA’s urban landscape invites viewers to get up close, cuddle and enjoy while also asking one to consider every species’ larger than life impact on their surroundings.
The seven rabbits of Intrude will be spread across several Brookfield properties on Bunker Hill and at the FIGat7th retail center in downtown Los Angeles from June 5 – June 11.
Locations:
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FIGat7th
735 S. Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, CA 90017 -
Bank of America Plaza
333 S. Hope Street, Los Angeles, CA 90071 -
Wells Fargo Center
330 S. Hope Street, Los Angeles, CA 90071
