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.
It's that time of year again! HOLA's Golf and inaugural Tennis Tournaments will be held on Monday, May 23 at the beautiful MountainGate Country Club. For more details about event, including tickets and sponsorship opportunities, please click here or contact Elizabeth Curtis at ecurtis@heartofla.org. We hope to see you there, for a day of relaxation and enjoyment!
Women writers and directors in the entertainment industry constantly encounter roadblocks when attempting to advance their careers – even when they are just as talented and capable as their male counterparts. Women actors have a similar problem simply because the number of female roles is significantly less than for men. Friend of Big Sunday Amy Lloyd and her business partner Christina Gray have combined efforts to combat this issue with a special IndieGogo campaign for their production company “Chicks Who Make Flicks.” This organization is working to do its part to increase visibility and provide more opportunities for women. The production company creates films made by women, films that tell great woman’s stories, films that capture the voices of women from all over the world and at every stage of their life. Their goal is to create an environment that supports, encourages, and celebrates talented female filmmakers. For more info on how you can support this great cause, please visit https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/chicks-who-make-flicks-a-film-production-company#.
Women writers and directors in the entertainment industry constantly encounter roadblocks when attempting to advance their careers – even when they are just as talented and capable as their male counterparts. Women actors have a similar problem simply because the number of female roles is significantly less than for men. Friend of Big Sunday Amy Lloyd and her business partner Christina Gray have combined efforts to combat this issue with a special IndieGogo campaign for their production company “Chicks Who Make Flicks.” This organization is working to do its part to increase visibility and provide more opportunities for women. The production company creates films made by women, films that tell great woman’s stories, films that capture the voices of women from all over the world and at every stage of their life. Their goal is to create an environment that supports, encourages, and celebrates talented female filmmakers. For more info on how you can support this great cause, please visit https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/chicks-who-make-flicks-a-film-production-company#.
BottleRock Napa Valley 2016 features more than 70 of the world’s biggest bands paired with the best Napa has to offer, including world-renowned wines from the Valley’s finest vintners, artisanal foods from acclaimed chefs and restaurateurs and craft beer from Northern California’s preeminent microbreweries.
Friday, May 27: Stevie Wonder, Lenny Kravitz, Grouplove, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Cold War Kids…
Saturday, May 28: Florence + The Machine, Death Cab For Cutie, Walk The Moon, Ziggy Marley, Iration, Atlas Genius…
Sunday, May 29: Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Lumineers, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Gogol Bordello, X Ambassadors, MisterWives…
3-day GA, VIP and VIP Plus Skydeck tickets are sold out. Grab your single day passes before they sell out.
For tickets and info, please click HERE.
An Evening with Eddie Huang
Co-presented with the Japanese American Cultural & Community Center
Double Cup Love: On the Trail of Family, Food and Broken Hearts in China
In conversation with actress Constance Wu
DJ set by SOSUPERSAM
Chef, food personality, bestselling author of Fresh Off the Boat, and inspiration behind the hit television show of the same name, Eddie Huang makes his ALOUD debut with a brash new memoir about love, meaning, and returning to your ancestral homeland.
Double Cup Love takes readers on a cultural romp from Williamsburg dive bars to the skies of Mongolia, from Michelin-starred restaurants to street-side soup peddlers in Chengdu.
Don’t miss a spirited evening as Fresh Off the Boat star Constance Wu interviews Huang about family, food, and broken hearts.
For tickets, visit lfla.org/aloud. All tickets include a copy of Double Cup Love.
The Sun Sand Sea event is an intriguing blend of vintage and modern art joining two art mediums: photography and painting. It’s a truly unique experience.
At its core, it is an exclusive photographic collection featuring the beaches, events and people of Santa Monica and Venice, circa 1920-1950. Curator, Branded Arts, has brought the event to a new level by commissioning cutting-edge artist, Hueman, to not only exhibit new paintings, but paint an onsite interpretive mural.
Look for Sun Sand Sea at Santa Monica Place from June 3-July 3.
Event proceeds benefit P.S. ARTS, an organization dedicated to improving the lives of children by providing high-quality arts education to California's underserved public schools and communities.
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
Join Program for Torture Victims’ Purple Rain Soul Ride for Human Rights
Register to ride for #35 or if you can’t make it sponsor Team PTV!
On Sunday, June 5th at 2:30 PM, take a ride at the SoulCycle Pasadena Studio.
REGISTER TO RIDE WITH THE PTV SOULCYCLE TEAM
SoulCycle is an engaging and inspirational workout, filled with energizing music and positivity that benefits both the body and mind. PTV’s benefit ride will feature the music of Prince.
One hundred percent of proceeds will go PTV's work of healing local survivors of torture, persecution, and other human rights abuse who have fled to the U.S. for freedom and safety.
If you can’t make it, please consider a small donation to champion the ride – go to ptvla.org/soul and TAP BACK $10 or more and write a message in MY NOTE TO PTV.
