It’s Saturday! It’s a GLORIOUS, SPRING DAY for lots of fascinating activities. Here are several suggestions.
Let me suggest you take a look at this broadcast and then scroll down this page for more information I did not have time to tell your during the broadcast.
Take a look! Enjoy! Please stay safe!
Gayle 😊
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Bloom! at South Coast Botanic Garden
26300 Crenshaw Boulevard
Palos Verdes Peninsula
424 452 0920
southcoastbotanicgarden.org
Spring is in happening in Orange County at the South Coast Botanic Garden. This is an experience called BLOOM! Five floral displays featuring more than 21-thousand bulb of various flowers are putting on a vernal equinox show now thru June. Visitor information is on the southcoastbotanicgarden.org website.
The Flower Fields at Carlsbad Ranch
5704 Paseo del Norte
Carlsbad
760 431 0352
theflowerfields.com
Mother Nature is putting on a Springtime show at the FLOWER FIELDS AT CARLSBAD RANCH. 55-acres of radiant rows of Ranunculus flowers are in bloom only until Mother’s Day weekend on the rolling hills of North San Diego County. theflowerfields.com website says all tickets must be purchased online. The website suggests checking the bloom status before visiting. The website also reminds guests pets, drones, balloons, and bicycles are not permitted.
Saturday, April 13th & Sunday, April 14th
2024 Native Plant Garden Tour
Theodore Payne Foundation for Wild Flower & Native Plants
nativeplantgardentour.org
Brandy Williams, the Garden Butterfly, is one of the participants in the 2024 NATIVE PLANT GARDEN TOUR produced by the Sun Valley based Theodore Payne Foundation for Wild Flower and Native Plants. Tickets are available now for the Saturday, April 13th and Sunday, Sunday, April 14th event. More details are on the nativeplantgardentour.org website.
Free!
Sunday, April 7th @ 2pm
Messiah -Resurrection
Chancel Choir
Inner City Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles
Rolling Hills United Methodist Church
26438 Crenshaw Boulevard
Rolling Hills Estates
213 788 4260
icyola.org
There’s an award-winning documentary “The Orchestra Chuck Built”, the story of former lawyer turned orchestra conductor Chuck Dickerson, who created the Inner City Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles, the largest majority African American orchestra in the United States.
Prepare to see in person Conductor Chuck Dickerson, his Inner City Youth Orchestra and the Chancel Choir perform Sunday, April 7th George Handel’s Easter classic Messiah at Rolling Hills United Methodist Church in Rolling Hills Estates.
The icyola.org website says the 2pm event is free!
Union Rescue Mission Store
Gerry Building
910 South Los Angeles Street
Downtown Los Angeles
213 347 6300
urm.org
New to the downtown Los Angeles Fashion District, the UNION RESCUE MISSION STORE. This is not a thrift shop. All of this retail merchandise is brand new.
The prices? Beyond affordable! The urm.org website says this new discount retail outlet is open Monday through Saturday, from 10am to 5pm.
Free!
Saturday, April 6th
City of STEM + Los Angeles Maker Faire
Los Angeles State Historic Park
1245 North Spring Street
Los Angeles
cityofstem.org/event-details
*Produced by Los Angeles Public Library & the Columbia Memorial Space Center*
Celebrate science, technology, engineering and math at the 2024 CITY OF STEM + LOS ANGELES MAKER FAIRE. More than 200 organizations and educators invited you to bring your curiosity, today, to Los Angeles State Historic Park. Among the organizations to explore, South Los Angeles Robotics.
The cityofstem.org website says Madison of South Los Angeles Robotics and hundreds of other STEM groups and exhibitors are waiting for you and questions today from 9am to 5pm at Los State Historic Park in downtown Los Angeles.
So, let’s make this a “learn something new” Saturday. Gayle Anderson, KTLA 5 News.