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.

Big Sunday Event Giving Opportunity! One-time Volunteer Opportunity Ongoing Volunteer Opportunity
Oct
5
Sat
Clean Air Day 2019: Habitat for Humanity & Conservation Corps of Long Beach @ Seaside Park
Oct 5 @ 8:00 am – 12:00 pm

Habitat for Humanity of Greater Los Angeles

&

Conservation Corps of Long Beach

Proudly Bring You

Clean Air Day 2019

This is a FREE event, open to the public and features free snacks and ice cream, raffles, DIY demonstrations, fun activities, valuable resources & MORE!

 

Hosted by Seaside Park and Long Beach Health Department

Come and Visit the Washington Neighborhood

Enjoy the Washington Middle School Mural

Join us in our Tree Planting on Pine & 16th Street

Aquarium of the Pacific will have their Climate Resilient booth

 

Saturday, October 5, 2019

8 am–12 pm

at Seaside Park is located at 14th Street and Chestnut Avenue

(440 W. Cowles Street, Long Beach, CA 90813)

 

For More Information Contact: Mayra Murillo

(310) 991-9531 or email communityoutreach@habitatla.org

Visit our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/events/410651329590585/

Together, we can help keep Long Beach air clean. Take the clean air pledge at CleanAirDay.org

Oct
18
Fri
Skid Row Arts Map Presentation @ Skid Row Museum @ Skid Row Museum
Oct 18 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Presentation of the SKID ROW ARTS MAP which puts the sites of all arts activities that are free and open to everyone in the community on the map. —so that everyone can find them and participate.  The Skid Row Arts MAP is designed to make it easy for people living in Skid Row– even if you’re a new arrival — to connect with other Skid Row artists and the arts activities that are open to everyone in Skid Row.

Right after Urban Voices Project’s Busk Fest on the streets of Skid Row (from 10am till 12pm) we’ll continue the party at the Skid Row History Museum & Archive at 1pm, with music, snacks and the presentation of the SKID ROW ARTS MAP.  Come on by, get your copy – or copies – of the map and go forth and create.

The ARTS MAP has been developed by Skid Row arts organizations:
Urban Voices Project, Los Angeles Poverty Department, Studio 526, Street Symphony, Piece by Piece and Skid Row Coffee with the generous support of USC’s Arts in Action program.

Skid Row Arts Map Presentation @ Skid Row Museum @ Skid Row Museum
Oct 18 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Presentation of the SKID ROW ARTS MAP which puts the sites of all arts activities that are free and open to everyone in the community on the map. —so that everyone can find them and participate.  The Skid Row Arts MAP is designed to make it easy for people living in Skid Row– even if you’re a new arrival — to connect with other Skid Row artists and the arts activities that are open to everyone in Skid Row.

Right after Urban Voices Project’s Busk Fest on the streets of Skid Row (from 10am till 12pm) they’ll continue the party at the Skid Row History Museum & Archive at 1pm, with music, snacks and the presentation of the SKID ROW ARTS MAP.  Come on by, get your copy – or copies – of the map and go forth and create.

The ARTS MAP has been developed by Skid Row arts organizations:
Urban Voices Project, Los Angeles Poverty Department, Studio 526, Street Symphony, Piece by Piece and Skid Row Coffee with the generous support of USC’s Arts in Action program.

Oct
26
Sat
10th Annual Festival for All Skid Row Artists @ Gladys Park
Oct 26 @ 1:00 pm – Oct 27 @ 5:00 pm

The 10th annual Festival for all Skid Row Artists
Saturday and Sunday, October 26 & 27, 2019
1-5pm each day in Gladys park (corner of 6th Street and Gladys Avenue)

Sign Up as a Skid Row artist – write info@lapovertydept.org / call 213-413 1077

Say What! TENth Annual –can you believe it! How Time Flies! How a community vitally sustains itself! You better believe it!

Los Angeles Poverty Department celebrates and preserves the rich artistic heritage of Skid Row and beginning with the first Festival in 2009 has generated a registry of Skid Row artists, which now numbers more than 800.

The Festival for All Skid Row Artists is a two-day festival of performing and visual art with plenty of music, showcasing the diverse range of talents among Skid Row residents. The festival has become one of the most anticipated grassroots cultural events in Skid Row where over 100 Skid Row Artists perform or display their artwork to enthusiastic audiences. Many come back each year and prepare their acts and works of art, and thanks to extensive street outreach, many people will get on-stage for the very first time and get in the mix of the vibrant Skid Row artistic culture.

LAPD partners with Studio 526 and United Coalition East Prevention Project (UCEPP) to produce the Festival. This year, the Goethe-Institut is an additional producing partner. The Goethe-Institut is organizing the event series “Worlds of Homelessness”, including discussions, music and film screenings, that begins Tuesday October 22, at LA Poverty Department’s Skid Row History Museum & Archive (with additional sites at Sci-Arc and Navel). The project brings together local and international artists, architects, scholars and others and culminates with the 2 days of the Festival.

“Worlds of Homelessness” will open with music by the LA Playmakers and the Playmakers will close out the Festival on Sunday Afternoon. The LA Playmakers are a local band founded by Joseph Warren and Stan Watson 5yrs ago. These accomplished professional musicians have played with a number of well known jazz and pop music figures. They can play anything, R&B, Hip-Hop, Reggae, Gospel– and they do.  The band members have one thing in common: they all were members of the Praise and Worship Team at Skid Row’s Central City Church of the Nazarene.

Festival attendees are invited to participate in a range of artist facilitated workshops and creativity stations. The LA City Department of City Planning will be there to gather community input on their emerging plan for downtown DTLA2040 and Skid Row Now & 2040, will also be getting festival-goer input on their community generated plan for a Skid Row future without displacement and with housing for area residents now on the streets. LAPD’s Festival for All Skid Row Artists gives audiences a chance to hear what you usually don’t hear about Skid Row: that it is a community rich with talent!

Nov
3
Sun
Inner-City Arts Imagine Awards: A Non-Gala Gala
Nov 3 @ 11:30 am

A PARTY 30 YEARS IN THE MAKING

Join us as we celebrate three decades of empowering young people through creativity and art. At this special day, your support makes it possible for us to invite the students and families whose lives have been transformed by our mission.

Continuing the Inner-City Arts' tradition of hosting the most interactive non-gala gala around, this year we're gathering on our campus for the first time! 

 

You're in for a treat: 

GOURMET BRUNCH FAVORITES

SIGNATURE COCKTAILS

INTERACTIVE ART MAKING

MUSIC TO MAKE YOUR MORNING

ORIGINAL ARTWORK FOR AUCTION

30 VISIONS EXHIBIT

 

BUY TICKETS HERE!!!

Nov
19
Tue
A Place Called Home Gala for the Children @ Beverly Hilton
Nov 19 @ 5:30 pm – 10:00 pm

Each year, our Gala for the Children brings together APCH’s long-standing supporters as well as new friends to celebrate our youth and raise funds to support the organization’s critical work.

It is a fun and meaningful evening dedicated to understanding our mission, meeting our young people, enjoying APCH music and dance, and sharing the company of our Board of Directors and fellow investors in the lives of the youth and families we serve.

This year, we honor Johnny Lopez, Founding Partner of Platinum Equity, with the Debrah Constance Humanitarian Award, and Damon Wolf, President of Worldwide Marketing for Lionsgate Motion Picture Group, with the Children’s Inspiration Award.

The night will begin with a cocktail party and extensive silent auction that includes fantastic, once in a lifetime experiences, trips, rare wines, sports tickets, artwork, jewelry, and more.

Once seated, guests are treated to stories from our APCH youth and families, dance and music from our youth (and sometimes surprise guests like Stevie Wonder or Gavin Rossdale), and heartfelt remarks from our Board Chair, Executive Director and our annual honorees.

Dec
8
Sun
Join the Children’s Lifesaving Foundation in Honoring the First CLF Legacy Sponsor @ Sunset Restaurant
Dec 8 @ 3:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Dec
14
Sat
KCF’s Holiday Event
Dec 14 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Dec
21
Sat
La Posada – A traditional Mexican holiday celebration @ Francis Avenue Garden
Dec 21 @ 4:00 pm

The Board of Urban Partners Los Angeles would like to invite the community to a very special  upcoming La Posada event on Sat. December 21, 2019. 

This is a traditional Mexican holiday celebration! It starts at 4PM at the Francis Avenue Garden (2909 Francis Ave.) The Second Stop happens at Caroline Severance Manor (2928 8th St.).The Service starts at 6PM at the First Unitarian Church located at 2936 W. 8th St., Los Angeles.

Please contact event coordinator:  Rochelle McAdam at (213) 401-1191 (office) or at Rochelle@uula.org

They  would also like donations of toys, children's books and baby items which will be given out at the end of the event. Food donations and volunteers would be greatly appreciated!

2019 Posada flyers

Feb
14
Fri
First Annual ValenTrans Day Party @ The LGBTQ Center Long Beach
Feb 14 @ 9:00 pm – 10:30 pm

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