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/.
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.
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.
Work out your creative energy learning improv, sketch and musical improv, all while having loads of fun and laughs! Weeklong day camps are available thru June, July, and Aug. Ages 8-18yrs • Mon-Fri • 9am-3:30pm • $350 per camp. No previous experience is needed. Camp ends with a free show where the students show off what they’ve learned!
For more info, visit www.secondcitysummers.com
Each day students rotate through three subjects:
- Improv
- Sketch Comedy
- Musical Improv
2016 Camp dates:
- Camp #1: June 6-10
- Camp #2: June 13-17
- Camp #3: June 20-24
- Camp #4: June 27-July 1
- Camp #5: July 5-8*
- Camp #6: July 11-15
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Camp #7: July 18-22
- Camp #8: July 25-29
- Camp #9: Aug 1-5
- Camp #10: Aug 8-12
- Camp #11: Aug 15-19
SecondCitySummers.com
323-464-8542
EARLY DROP OFF AVAILABLE!
You can drop your student off as early as 8:30 free of charge.
AFTER CARE
Available from 3:30-5:00pm each day for $75.
Work out your creative energy learning improv, sketch and musical improv, all while having loads of fun and laughs! Weeklong day camps are available thru June, July, and Aug. Ages 8-18yrs • Mon-Fri • 9am-3:30pm • $350 per camp. No previous experience is needed. Camp ends with a free show where the students show off what they’ve learned!
For more info, visit www.secondcitysummers.com
Each day students rotate through three subjects:
- Improv
- Sketch Comedy
- Musical Improv
2016 Camp dates:
- Camp #1: June 6-10
- Camp #2: June 13-17
- Camp #3: June 20-24
- Camp #4: June 27-July 1
- Camp #5: July 5-8*
- Camp #6: July 11-15
-
Camp #7: July 18-22
- Camp #8: July 25-29
- Camp #9: Aug 1-5
- Camp #10: Aug 8-12
- Camp #11: Aug 15-19
SecondCitySummers.com
323-464-8542
EARLY DROP OFF AVAILABLE!
You can drop your student off as early as 8:30 free of charge.
AFTER CARE
Available from 3:30-5:00pm each day for $75.
Work out your creative energy learning improv, sketch and musical improv, all while having loads of fun and laughs! Weeklong day camps are available thru June, July, and Aug. Ages 8-18yrs • Mon-Fri • 9am-3:30pm • $350 per camp. No previous experience is needed. Camp ends with a free show where the students show off what they’ve learned!
For more info, visit www.secondcitysummers.com
Each day students rotate through three subjects:
- Improv
- Sketch Comedy
- Musical Improv
2016 Camp dates:
- Camp #1: June 6-10
- Camp #2: June 13-17
- Camp #3: June 20-24
- Camp #4: June 27-July 1
- Camp #5: July 5-8*
- Camp #6: July 11-15
-
Camp #7: July 18-22
- Camp #8: July 25-29
- Camp #9: Aug 1-5
- Camp #10: Aug 8-12
- Camp #11: Aug 15-19
SecondCitySummers.com
323-464-8542
EARLY DROP OFF AVAILABLE!
You can drop your student off as early as 8:30 free of charge.
AFTER CARE
Available from 3:30-5:00pm each day for $75.
Work out your creative energy learning improv, sketch and musical improv, all while having loads of fun and laughs! Weeklong day camps are available thru June, July, and Aug. Ages 8-18yrs • Mon-Fri • 9am-3:30pm • $350 per camp. No previous experience is needed. Camp ends with a free show where the students show off what they’ve learned!
For more info, visit www.secondcitysummers.com
Each day students rotate through three subjects:
- Improv
- Sketch Comedy
- Musical Improv
2016 Camp dates:
- Camp #1: June 6-10
- Camp #2: June 13-17
- Camp #3: June 20-24
- Camp #4: June 27-July 1
- Camp #5: July 5-8*
- Camp #6: July 11-15
-
Camp #7: July 18-22
- Camp #8: July 25-29
- Camp #9: Aug 1-5
- Camp #10: Aug 8-12
- Camp #11: Aug 15-19
SecondCitySummers.com
323-464-8542
EARLY DROP OFF AVAILABLE!
You can drop your student off as early as 8:30 free of charge.
AFTER CARE
Available from 3:30-5:00pm each day for $75.
