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.
Don’t miss a hike around a scenic escape in the middle of LA–FRANKLIN CANYON PARK with our friends at Hike It Up!
Everyone will meet in the parking lot near the museum/ranger station off of Mulholland and Coldwater Canyon. Please drive carefully and stop at every stop signal (they give out tickets-camera enforced park).
There’s plenty of parking and a great escape. Beginner hikers welcome! Expect dirt trails, fun stairs to climb, NATURE- NATURE- NATURE—even a lake! Bring your camera, water and comfortable shoes for walking.
ALL HIKE IT UP EVENTS ARE A WAY TO HELP THE COMMUNITY, SO PLEASE BRING DONATIONS OF HYGIENE ITEMS (i.e. shampoo, toothpaste, toothbrushes, deodorant, feminine hygiene items, soap bars, etc. [travel-size items welcome]).
Only enter park off of Mulholland and Coldwater Canyon (Studio City)–it’s confusing from the Beverly Hills side unless you know the route. The hike leader is also offering to meet everyone 15 minutes early at Tree People, before taking a caravan to the location. Let Hike know if you want to meet a bit early to follow him into the park instead.
For more info, see https://www.facebook.com/events/1504247623214224/.
All are welcome to attend a pancake breakfast benefiting the Emerson Avenue Community Garden! $6 for adults, $4 for kids (6 and under), and there will be a prize raffle!
If you're interested in becoming a member of their community garden, they'll have all the information you need to join!
Join our friends at MEND (Meet Every Need with Dignity) for their annual fundraiser benefitting MEND’s programs. This special event culminates just after MEND’s huge donation drive from June 9 – July 8, which includes donations of furniture; house ware and decorative items; electronics; toys and jewelry that are in good-to-excellent condition for MEND’s clients.
For more information on the fundraiser, please contact MEND Clothing Department Manager Veronica Soto at 818-686-7328 or veronica@mendpoverty.org.
MEND’s mission is to break the bonds of poverty by providing basic human needs and a pathway to self-reliance.
“POETS JAZZ HOUSE LIVE IN LEIMERT PARK”
….just somewhere to go in the midst of searching your soul
A Spoken Word & Music Lounge where spilling your heart is art and searching your soul is mandatory to get in the door…
Inner City Cultural Center II, Inc., Kaos Network and Tuesday Conner are proud to present “Poets Jazz House Live in Leimert Park”. Host by Yawo Watts on the last Saturday of every month at the Vision Theater, 3341 West 43rd PLACE, Los Angeles, CA 90008.
Poets Jazz House is a Spoken Word & Music Lounge where spilling your heart is an art and searching your soul is mandatory to get in the door and the cover charge is always free. This little beatnik Open Mic venue is taking it to the streets with Soapbox Poetry. Join us in the courtyard where there is snapping instead of clapping, the atmosphere is lax but it sizzles. Come touch, be touched, hear the answer, heed the call…
Both audience and artist can get involved on stage or in the writer's workshop directly following the Open Mic performance. Come for the experience, come back for the cool.
This Free event is on the last Saturday of every month from 2 to 4pm at The Vision Theater, 3341 West 43rd PLACE, Los Angeles, CA 90008.
For Info contact: poetsjazzhouse@yahoo.com or visit www.tuesdayconner.com.
For more info, visit https://www.eventbrite.com/e/poets-jazz-house-live-in-leimert-park-tickets-26024288347.
In the Autry's Wells Fargo Theater
Native American playwrights from across the United States explore environmental issues such as climate change and pollution, legal debates surrounding borders and resources, and personal and spiritual connections to land. Are we doing enough to preserve the homelands of the First Peoples? To preserve our planet? One of these plays will receive the Von Marie Atchley Excellence in Playwriting Award, a $1,000 cash prize!
Space is Limited / Early Arrival is Suggested
Admission: Included With Admission to the American Indian Arts Marketplace (Free for Autry Members; $14 adults; $10 seniors 60+ and students with ID; $6 children)
More Details: https://theautry.org/events/performing-arts/native-voices-sixth-annual-short-play-festival-take-back-land
After a sold-out production at Carnegie Hall, Silent NO MORE returns to California on Thursday, April 27 at 7 pm! Join the cast for an inspiring, emotional, and educational evening, as individuals with hearing loss share their powerful life stories. A Q&A between the cast and audience follows the production. The production is presented by No Limits, an organization After a sold-out production at Carnegie Hall, Silent NO MORE returns to California on Thursday, April 27 at 7pm! Join us for an inspiring, emotional, and educational evening, as individuals with hearing loss share their powerful life stories. A Q&A between the cast and audience follows the production, which is presented by No Limits, an organization that provides high quality education for deaf children and their families so they have the opportunity to not only attend college, but graduate from college. Tickets are $10 per person. An ASL interpreter and captioning will be available. For more info or tickets, please call 310-280-0878 or email rsvp@nolimits-fordeafchildren.org.
Wonderland Ave. Elementary gently-used book collection for our school. We will be collecting books and cans From May 1 – 5.
On Sat 5/5 from 10am – 2pm Wonderland Avenue Elementary School will be holding a "Drive Through Drop Off” where volunteers will collect books and canned goods without donors having to leave their cars. Local residents are welcome to donate, as well.
