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.
The next Social Impact Breakfast is on Thursday, April 6, 2017, at the Downtown Central Library (630 W. 5th Street). Two dynamic breakfast speakers who are working to make an impact in LA will share their stories and insights into making that impact: Jessica Wethington McLean, Executive Director of Bringing Back Broadway, and Christina Rice, Senior Librarian of the LAPL Photo Collection.
Join us for TM@10 at Big Sunday headquarters where we’ll host a different service project each week that benefits a worthy cause! Enjoy good food, good company and good deeds; everyone is welcome. Some of the groups we’re helping include My Friend’s Place, Covenant House, and lots of shelters, hospitals, and senior facilities around all over town. For more info or to sign up, contact rob@bigsunday.org. Click HERE for TM@10’s full schedule.
Oil Painting: Capture the Beauty of Nature
Saturdays, (6 week sessions):
January 14 – February 18
February 25 – April 1
April 8 – May 13
May 20 – June 24
1:00pm – 3:30pm
Ron Pettie, Instructor
$69 Arboretum members / $79 non-members (includes Arboretum admission)
All materials are included.
Capture the beauty of nature! The instructor will guide a beginner to draw and paint with confidence. More advanced students will be able to paint independently at their own pace and will be able to choose their own subjects.
Each subsequent six-week class will explore other areas of painting such as landscape, still life, domestic animals, structures, deserts, and seascapes. Master artist Ron Pettie will guide you on this adventure.
At the end of a six-week session students will learn the following:
- Composition styles
- How to read a color chart
- Color mixing
- How to use the grid system and the rule of thirds
- Use of dark and light values and gray scales
- Learn a variety of techniques for painting , including using different brushes and the palette knife for texture and depth
- How to use the magic frame on photographs
- Self-Critiquing – Standing back and squinting
- Choosing a signature
Reservations REQUIRED; To register please call the Education Department at 626-821-4623.
We love working for (and with!) veterans. We’ll be hosting vets from all over town. Together, we’ll enjoy great games (including our 1st-Ever Trivia Night) and entertainment from our amazing friends, The New Directions Veterans’ Choir, who are back for a return performance! We’ll also be writing letters to military personnel on active duty. Then, of course, everyone’s invited for a big, memorable Big Sunday community dinner. It’s a great way to show the vets how much we care!
We are collecting comic books for our pals at Operation Gratitude to include in their care packages that are sent to service members deployed overseas. We’re also collecting unexpired, non-perishable food for the Downtown VA as part of April’s End of the Month Club.
RSVP today by clicking HERE.
Interested in sponsoring this great event? Awesome! Sponsorships are $5000, $2500 and $1000. Please contact adam@bigsunday.org for details.
Ages: 1st – 4th Grade
Are your nieces, nephews, cousins or children curious about marine science and animals?
Heal the Bay's Santa Monica Pier Aquarium offers Spring Break Camp. Campers will explore the Aquarium environment through hands-on science. It's fun. It's educational. And it's almost here!
Heal the Bay members get a discount. Scholarships are available.
Heal the Bay members:
- $65/day
- $300/week
Non-members:
- $70/day
- $325/week
Questions? Please contact Jackie Cannata, Camp Director, by email at jcannata@healthebay.org or via phone at 310-393-6149 x 106. We look forward to hearing from you.
Each Monday morning at 10 am, we host a fun, hands-on service project at Big Sunday headquarters called MM@10 (Monday Mornings at 10). It’s a great way for folks of all ages to get together to help others. Join us for all the fun!
To RSVP for upcoming MM@10 events, please contact beenish@bigsunday.org. Click HERE for MM@10’s full schedule.
Ages: 1st – 4th Grade
Are your nieces, nephews, cousins or children curious about marine science and animals?
Heal the Bay's Santa Monica Pier Aquarium offers Spring Break Camp. Campers will explore the Aquarium environment through hands-on science. It's fun. It's educational. And it's almost here!
Heal the Bay members get a discount. Scholarships are available.
Heal the Bay members:
- $65/day
- $300/week
Non-members:
- $70/day
- $325/week
Questions? Please contact Jackie Cannata, Camp Director, by email at jcannata@healthebay.org or via phone at 310-393-6149 x 106. We look forward to hearing from you.
Ages: 1st – 4th Grade
Are your nieces, nephews, cousins or children curious about marine science and animals?
Heal the Bay's Santa Monica Pier Aquarium offers Spring Break Camp. Campers will explore the Aquarium environment through hands-on science. It's fun. It's educational. And it's almost here!
Heal the Bay members get a discount. Scholarships are available.
Heal the Bay members:
- $65/day
- $300/week
Non-members:
- $70/day
- $325/week
Questions? Please contact Jackie Cannata, Camp Director, by email at jcannata@healthebay.org or via phone at 310-393-6149 x 106. We look forward to hearing from you.
Ages: 1st – 4th Grade
Are your nieces, nephews, cousins or children curious about marine science and animals?
Heal the Bay's Santa Monica Pier Aquarium offers Spring Break Camp. Campers will explore the Aquarium environment through hands-on science. It's fun. It's educational. And it's almost here!
Heal the Bay members get a discount. Scholarships are available.
Heal the Bay members:
- $65/day
- $300/week
Non-members:
- $70/day
- $325/week
Questions? Please contact Jackie Cannata, Camp Director, by email at jcannata@healthebay.org or via phone at 310-393-6149 x 106. We look forward to hearing from you.
Instructor: Master Arnold Chien
Tai Chi is a martial art based on the theory of an ancient classic called “I Ching”. Kinetic Tai Chi is created by Master Chien based on this foundation coupling with contemporary Physics of potential & kinetic energy. The training sessions include striking, throwing & submission techniques. There are 10 levels of form to advance. Combining this advanced physical routine with Tai Chi’s rich thinking, students will benefit lifelong health, achieve mental superiority and enjoy high level combat skills.
Thursdays
9:00am-10:30am
Winter 1st: 1/26, 2/02, 2/09, 2/16
Winter 2nd: 2/23, 3/02, 3/09, 3/16
Spring 1st: 4/13, 4/20, 4/27, 5/04
Spring 2nd: 5/11, 5/18, 5/25, 6/01
Cost for Classes:
- $35 per month – members
- $45 per month – non–members
- $15 Drop In – per day
- 10% discount if you sign up for 2 sessions
Pre-registration preferred; To register please call the Education Department at 626-821-4623.
Grandmaster Arnold Chien is the founder of Kinetic Tai Chi, 2012 & 2014 Kungfu master at USC Pacific Asia Museum & 2008 Chinese idol in martial art category. In 2013, he became the first instructor to teach Tai Chi at the legendary Gold’s Gym Arcadia, CA. Chien’s heavy focus on the principle of softness to conquer hardness has helped students to achieve not only the physical limitations, but their mental ones as well, thereby reach the ultimate level of “soft as silk and hard as steel”.
