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.
Interested in doing something amazing for our veterans? In honor of Earth Day on April 22, join the good folks at Veterans Home of California, Chula Vista as they beautify their grounds. Up to 100 volunteers are needed to pitch in with much-needed tasks ranging from landscaping to weed pulling, all in an effort to make the campus look spectacular for the veteran residents who utilize this facility. Please bring garden gloves and small trowels to help out (as well as a whole lot of muscle), and take a bit of time to swap stories with veteran residents from all walks of life … many of whom have served in WWII. They love sharing stories with new faces! Volunteers must be 18 and older, please.
Guide: Frank McDonough
On this tour, you’ll see some of the biggest, the oldest and the weirdest plants in the LA Arboretum. For more info, please visit http://www.arboretum.org/events/amazing-plants-tour/2016-06-11.
The Arboretum invites children to Crescent Farm to learn about water conservation and a healthy backyard ecosystem. This series of educational walks is for children ages 5-12. It’s a fun-filled learning experience for the whole family. It’s at 2pm on the Sundays.
June 19: Habitats in the garden: Attracting animals, birds and beneficial insects to your yard.
- Members free: free with admission
The Crescent Farm horticultural team presents our arid climate orchard and short-season fruit and vegetable production surrounded by a California native-based landscape of meadow and low water lawn alternatives. Not only beautiful, the plants provide habitat for an amazing insect and wildlife population.
- Members free; free with admission
- Sponsored by the W.M. Keck Foundation
“OPEN SISTER CIRCLE”
An invitation to inner happiness, sisterhood and turning your dreams into reality.
Learn To Stress Less, Love Yourself, Heal Yourself, Market Yourself and Build Wealth.
Inner City Cultural Center II, Inc. and Tuesday Conner present a FREE Seminar on “How To Live a Happy Life & Earn Your Worth”. The event is hosted by Royal Queens United on Friday, August 12th, 2016 at the Vision Theater, 3341 West 43rd PLACE, Los Angeles, CA 90008.
Royal Queens United are eclectic artists, businesswomen, entrepreneurs and teachers who help women align their vision to move with vision. Sisters of all ages and races are welcome to this Free Seminar; if they wish to develop the self confidence and the wisdom it takes to gain her worth. The Open Sister Circle is where you’ll hear the Secret to becoming a whole woman who's confident and wealthy and it’s Free.
Whether you want to start your own company, design your own line or break into the entertainment industry, Royal Queens United will teach you what you need to know to Change Your Life Today. They want to help you succeed and teach other women what they learned to share the wealth that’s available if you have the right tools. Come to the Open Sister Circle to open the door to your wealth and success. Don’t miss this life changing experience … it’s free!
Register Today for this Free event at www.tuesdayconner.com.
For more info, please contact opensistetcircle@gmail.com or call 818-714-4242.
Don't miss the California Friendly Landscape Training Class {En Español} on December 8 from 5:30 – 8:30 pm. *Please note that this event is conducted entirely in Spanish.
SoCal Quilts of Valor creates handmade quilts to be presented to military to thank them for their service, welcome them home and help them in their healing. They will be sewing, ironing and trimming threads to create these works of art. Volunteers may even have some hand-binding to do as well. To join the group, please contact Barbara Winkler.
Don’t miss "Geometric Patterns," one of four themed exhibitions throughout the year to showcase the creative accomplishments of Heart of LA’s young artists. The Tour begins at 4:30 pm and the Opening kicks off at 5:30 pm. For more info or to RSVP, please email ecurtis@heartofla.org.
Make the Connection — VA’s leading national mental health awareness campaign — is coming to LA to film Veterans and their families to participate in a national campaign to help Veterans manage mental health challenges that affect their well-being and their daily lives. They can join more than 500 Veterans and family members who have participated in the Make the Connection campaign to spread the word about mental health and encourage Veterans to reach out for support.
Who: Any Veteran — of any age or branch of service (including National Guard and Reserve) — with or without his or her family
When: Friday, Feb. 23, and Saturday, Feb. 24, 2018, for approximately two hours between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.
What: On-camera, professionally filmed interview to talk about experiences with mental health challenges and recovery
Where: Los Angeles; address provided upon confirmation of participation
(If interested, please email outreach@maketheconnection.net or call 323-813-1426 with your name and age, military service affiliation and service dates, and discharge status as listed on your DD214. You can also learn more at www.maketheconnection.net/outreach)
Adult volunteers needed.
Our ceremonies at YOUR LA NATIONAL CEMETERY are always FREE and open to the public. Would love your help letting all know they are truly welcome. This year, for the very first time, we will feature the Randy Van Horne Singers in a marvelous tribute to WWI and WWII music as part of our ceremonies. Come join us as we honor veterans and active duty; ring those bells and sound those shofarot; and follow it all with a Town Hall with our 33rd District Congressman.
