Alt Music Center: Open Mic Night (5/13)

Instrumental given to LA Fire-impacted musicians? Yes, thanks to AltadenaMusicians.org. Now they are serving the Altadena, Pasadena, South Pasadena (the three Denas), Sierra Madre, and all the foothill and surrounding valley communities.

"Burning Down the House," Altadena Musicians/Quazar and the Bamboozled

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  Will the Eaton Fire destroy us?

  Open Mic Night, 7:00-9:00 pm
• Altadena Music Center (BYP)
• 1260 Lincoln Ave. #1300
• Pasadena, CA 91103
• (Sign up starts at 6:30 pm)
• FREE to attend, free to participate

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Thank you to the amazing Brandon Jay. Introducing Instrumental Giving powered by Altadena Musicians – our registry app where musicians can list the gear they lost in the LA Fires – and donors can help to replace them through gifting or purchasing directly. Think of it like a wedding registry for musicians. (And it’s tax-deductible!) Help Help Musicians - Donate your instruments Who lost it all in the Eaton Fire | Altadena musicians by donating instruments to those who lost them in the Eaton Fire. Download the app to get started: altadenamusicians.org

A Late Summer Night's Dream (poetry)

As the summer winds down, the Altadena Library is having its Open Mic on Monday, Sept. 8th at 6:00 pm at Callisto Tea House on Washington and Altadena Dr. (Open Mic Night, Monday, September 8, 2025, 6 - 7:30pm - Programs — Altadena Library District) FREE

• Callisto Tea House, 1359 N Altadena Dr. (Map)

• Aveson Black Box Theater
• 3051 N. Lincoln Ave., Altadena, CA 91001

Tuesday is the Odes to Altadena Poetry Workshop. All are welcome as this enclave returns to its rich history of art, activism, and writing. FREE

Bestselling author Janet Fitch will be reading! Thursday marks the return (from its usual summer hiatus) of Mandy Kahn's Deep Dive Poetry & Fiction at the Philosophical Research Society (PRS.org) historic mansion's Religions of the World Library on the next hill over, above Glendale, next to Griffith Park, at the eastern entrance to Hollywood (Tinsel Town proper). FREE

• PRS.org (Calendar)

Altadena Poetry Review Celebration
Saturday is the massive Altadena Poetry Review Celebration (2024-2025 Virtual Edition) at the Altadena Main Library Community Room featuring poets published in the anthology, including Mary Anne Berry, Don Kingfisher Campbel, Hazel Harrison, Ron Koertge, Noriko Nakada, Anna Mixtlan, Thelma Reyna (Golden Foothills Press), Lynne Thompson, Pam Ward, Alene Terzian-Zeitounian + OPEN MIC. Hosted by Altadena Library Co-Poets Laureate Sehba Sarwar and Lester Graves Lennon. (This event will be livestreamed at youtube.com/AltadenaLibrary for anyone wanting to tune in remotely). FREE

• Altadena Poets Laureate - Altadena Poetry Review Celebration - The 2024-25 Virtual Edition, Saturday, Sept. 13, 2025, 3-5 pm
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Of course, the whole of the community will be at Eagle's Hall for the free festival "Regrow Altadena" walking distance just down the hill along the miraculously unburned Christmas Tree Lane. (Both are on the same street at the same time, one on Woodbury, the other on Mariposa). The music and dancing from one may echo up and disturb the poetry readers if they whisper at the mic all NPR-style, so speak up or deliver those poems and attempts at haiku (haibun) as if they were spoken word with verve.

• Poetry and Garden - Poetry and Zine Workshop with Xitlalic Guijosa, Saturday, Sept. 20, 2025, 11am-1 pm
• Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum Events | SeatGeek
• Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Dhr. Seven, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly