What’s happening in Claremont?

FRIDAY 9/19

• Seniors interested in attending a free 10:30 a.m. cold and flu season seminar at La Verne Community Center, 3680 D St., must call (909) 596-8776 to RSVP.

• Pianist Aron Kallay plays a free 12:15 p.m. concert at Balch Auditorium, 1030 Columbia Ave., Claremont.

• Laemmle Claremont 5, 450 W. Second St., screens “The History of Sound,” starring Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor, at 1, 4 and 7 p.m. September 19-25. Tickets are at laemmle.com/theater/claremont-5.

• Young people 13 to 18 can sip beverages while painting from 4 to 5:30 p.m. at Ovitt Family Community Library, 215 E. C St., Ontario.

• Families with special needs members are invited to Claremont’s second annual free, 6 to 9 p.m. fall ball dance at the Youth Activity Center, 1717 N. Indian Hill Blvd. The first hour is for kids ages 5 to 12. The remaining time is for those 13 and older. RSVP at claremontca.gov.

• California Botanic Garden horticulturist Rio Fernandez leads a 6 p.m. gardening class at 1500 N. College Ave., free for garden members, $20 for the public. RSVP at calbg.org.

• Claremont’s 6-9 p.m. free live music showcase, Friday Nights Live, continues with Pride of Cucamonga (Grateful Dead tribute) at Village Plaza, Solid Ray Woods Soul Revue (R&B/Soul) at the chamber of commerce, and Farmer Tan (Americana) at Shelton Park. More info is at claremontchamber.org/friday-nights-live.

• Tri-City Mental Health Services’ wellness center, 1403 N. Garey Ave., Pomona, hosts a free 6 p.m. screening of “Finding Ohana.”

• Tickets are $15 for the 6 to 8:30 p.m. 50 and over country western dance at James L. Brulte Senior Center, 11200 Base Line Rd., Rancho Cucamonga, at cityofrc.us/events.

• “A Lifetime of Regret,” a stage reading and drinking game, gets underway at 8 p.m. at Ophelia’s Jump, 2009 Porterfield Way, Suite H, Upland. Tickets, $15, are at opheliasjump.org.

• Grammy-winning singer Gaby Moreno performs at Lewis Family Playhouse, 12505 Cultural Center Dr., Rancho Cucamonga, at 8 p.m. Tickets, $28-$61, are at lewisfamilyplayhouse.com.

SATURDAY 9/20

• Los Angeles Dodgers players Dalton Rushing and Miguel Rojas and former Dodger Ramon Martinez we be on hand for a 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. autograph event at Legends’ Attic, 619 W. Foothill Blvd., Claremont. More info is at legendsattic.com.

• Art in the park at the Dorothy A. Quesada Community Center runs from 9 to 11 a.m. at 1010 S. Bon View Ave., Ontario. More info is at ontarioca.gov.

• Tickets are $45-$50 for California Botanic Garden’s 10 a.m. drawing workshop at 1500 N. College Ave., Claremont. Register at calbg.org.

• San Dimas Library hosts a free 10 a.m. reading session with Jax the therapy dog at 145 N. Walnut Ave.

• Tickets are $65 for the 11 a.m. bookmaking workshop at Sam and Alfreda Maloof Foundation for the Arts and Crafts, 5131 Carnelian St., Rancho Cucamonga. Register at malooffoundation.org.

• Scrabble Fest, a Scrabble fundraiser for Ontario library programs, runs from noon to 4 p.m. at Ovitt Family Community Library, 215 E. C St., Ontario. Registration, $10-$20, is at ontarioca.gov.

• Adults can better their smartphone photography at a free 1 p.m. workshop at Lewis Family Branch Library, 3850 E. Riverside Dr., Ontario.

• Vocalist Nmon Ford, pianist Gayle Blankenburg, cellist Eric Lindholm, and guitarist Robert Wang perform a free and public 7:30 p.m. concert at Bridges Hall of Music, 150 E. Fourth St., Claremont.

• Comedian Kevin Nealon is at Lewis Family Playhouse, 12505 Cultural Center Dr., Rancho Cucamonga, at 8 p.m. Tickets are $50-$66 at lewisfamilyplayhouse.com.

SUNDAY 9/21

•Shop locally made crafts, organic food, clothing, and jewelry from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Claremont Farmers and Artisans Market in the Village. Visit claremontforum.org for more info.

• Rising Stars of Equestrian Therapy hosts a 1 p.m. performance of “Silver Fox Follies” at Bonita Center for the Arts, 822 W. Covina Blvd., San Dimas. Tickets are $30-$35 at the door.

• Polyhedra play from 2 to 5 p.m. at Jazz at College Center, 665 E. Foothill Blvd., Claremont.

• Faculty and friends of the Pomona College Music Department perform for free in a 3 p.m. concert, “Fete musicale,” at Bridges Hall of Music, 150 E. Fourth St., Claremont.

MONDAY 9/22

• Folks 55 and up can watch a free screening of “Patch Adams” at 2 p.m. at Tri-City’s Wellness Center, 1403 N. Garey Ave., Pomona.

• Orders of original syrups made with plant material from California Botanic Garden are due by 5 p.m. at calbg.org. Three flavors are $32 for garden members, $42 for others. Orders can be picked up September 27-28.

• Claremont’s Emergency Preparedness Ad Hoc Committee meets at 6:30 p.m. in council chambers, 225 W. Second St. Learn more at claremontca.gov.

• Science fiction and fantasy author Ken Liu continues Claremont McKenna College’s free and public Athenaeum speaker series with his 6:45 p.m. lecture, “The Future Is Implausible: Why Science Fiction Always Gets the Future Wrong (And Why That’s a Good Thing),” at 385 E. Eighth St., Claremont. Info is at cmc.edu/athenaeum.

• Alexander Hughes Community Center, 1700 Danbury Rd., Claremont, hosts a 7 p.m. human relations committee special meeting. Info and agendas are posted at claremontca.gov.

• Alexander Hughes Community Center, 1700 Danbury Rd., Claremont, hosts a 7 p.m. human relations committee special meeting. Info and agendas are posted at claremontca.gov.

TUESDAY 9/23

• Women in Business Connections, a free monthly networking seminar, meets at 8:30 a.m. at 180 Via Verde., San Dimas. Reserve a spot at sandimaschamber.chambermaster.com/events.

• A free and open to the public health and resource fair runs from 9 to 11:30 a.m. at La Verne Community Center, 3680 D St.

• People 50 and up are invited to a free 11 a.m. harvest festival at Westwind Community Center, 2455 E. Riverside Dr., Ontario. RSVP at: ontarioca.gov/events.

• University Club of Claremont hosts Brad Starr, Emeritus Professor of religious studies at California State University, Fullerton, at 11:30 a.m. at DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel, 555 W. Foothill Blvd., Claremont. Tickets are $25. More info is at universityclubofclaremont.org.

• The yarn crafts with kindness group invites crocheters to twiddle time, its 2 to 3:30 p.m. Tuesday events at the Joslyn Center, 660 N. Mountain Ave., Claremont, throughout September. The group is compiling textured sleeves for seniors in memory care centers. Visit bit.ly/whatistwid for more info.

• Claremont City Council meets at 6:30 p.m. at 225 W. Second St. Agendas are posted at claremontca.gov and city hall the Thursday prior to the meeting. To attend virtually visit zoom.us/j/256208090. Call (213) 338-8477 to listen in via phone.

• Claremont Helen Renwick Library, 208 N. Harvard Ave., hosts a free book club for children 5 to 12 from 4 to 5 p.m. The featured book is “Squawk of Spanish” by Gabriella Aldeman.

• Author and director of the Huntington Program on Strengthening US-India Relations Sumit Ganguly continues Claremont McKenna College’s Athenaeum speaker series with his 6:45 p.m. talk, “The Unresolved Question of Kashmir,” at 385 E. Eighth St., Claremont. Info is at cmc.edu/athenaeum.

WEDNESDAY 9/24

• La Verne Community Center, 3680 D St., hosts a free 10:30 a.m. fall prevention seminar for seniors. Call (909) 596-8776 to RSVP.

• Learn intermediate level Microsoft PowerPoint tips at a free 11 a.m. webinar. RSVP at: visit.lacountylibrary.org/events.
• Eunji Paige Chung, founding director of USC’s Transformative Center for Nanomedicine and Drug Delivery, speaks about her research and work at a free Scripps Presents @Noon event at Nucleus, 1030 Columbia Ave., Claremont. RSVP at scrippscollege.edu/events/calendar.

• Claremont Helen Renwick Library’s free and public Naloxone (Narcan) clinic runs from noon to 4 p.m. at 208 N. Harvard Ave. Learn more at visit.lacountylibrary.org/events.

• Adoption fees are cut in half from noon to 8 p.m. at Rancho Cucamonga Animal Center’s special adoption event at 11780 Arrow Rte.

• Ms. Crystal leads a free 3 p.m. children’s story time session at Pomona Public Library, 625 S. Garey Ave.

• A free online artificial intelligence workshop gets underway at 4 p.m. at visit.lacountylibrary.org/events.

• A free and open to the public 6 to 7:30 p.m. reading takes place at Ovitt Family Community Library, 215 E. C St., Ontario, as part of the city’s “One Book, One Ontario” event. The book to be read is “Your House Will Pay” by Steph Cha.

• Nadine Strossen of New York Law School, a former president of the American Civil Liberties Union, delivers “Free Speech Rights and Wrongs: Current Controversies,” a 6:45 p.m. talk part of Claremont McKenna College’s free and public Athenaeum speaker series at 385 E. Eighth St., Claremont. More info is at cmc.edu/athenaeum.

THURSDAY 9/25

• The City of Rancho Cucamonga’s free and open to the public health and wellness fair runs from 8 to 11 a.m. at Central Park, 11200 Base Line Rd. Info is at cityofrc.us/events.

• American Museum of Ceramic Art Executive Director Beth Ann Gerstein leads a noon tour of the exhibit “Hot! & Ready to Serve,” at 399 N. Garey Ave., Pomona. Museum members are free, non-members $9-$15 at amoca.org.

• The Rembrandt Club opens its 120th season with a free and public 1:30 p.m. tour of the Benton Museum of Art vaults at 120 W. Bonita Ave., Claremont. Info is at therembrandtclub.org.

• OPARC leads a 4 to 6 p.m. chamber mixer, with a video premiere and Q and A panel, at Laemmle Claremont 5, 450 W. Second St. Tickets are $15 at https://onecau.se/_bk62g1.

• Tickets are $40 at uplandchamber.org for a 4 p.m. pizza class at Barcuso Social Club, 151 N. Second Ave., Upland.

• Kids 13 to 17 can learn stress management skills during a free 4 to 5 p.m. webinar at visit.lacountylibrary.org/events.

• Claremont Heritage and Nosotros host “Tale of Two Cities” a 5 to 10 p.m. Hispanic Heritage Month celebration spotlighting Claremont’s sister city connection to Guanajuato, Mexico at Padua Hills Theatre, 4467 Padua Ave., Claremont. Tickets are $50-$60 at claremontheritage.bigcartel.com.

• Claremont renters are invited to a 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. potluck dinner hosted by Claremont Tenants United at Blaisdell Park, 440 S. College Ave., Claremont. RSVP to claremonttenantsunited@gmail.com.

• Tickets to the 6 p.m. Taste of Montclair at city hall, 5111 Benito St., are $20 for Montclair Chamber of Commerce members, $25 for the public.

• A free and public car show takes place from 6 to 8 p.m. at Bonita Car Wash, 555 W. Bonita Ave., San Dimas.

•United Nations Association of Pomona Valley hosts Michael Sequeire for “Global Health Without WHO – What Now,” a free and public 7 p.m. talk at Claremont Graduate University’s Staffer Hall, at the corner of 10th Street and Dartmouth Avenue.

•Claremont High School Theatre Department’s “The Guy Who Didn’t Like Musicals” runs at 7 p.m. September 25-26 at the Don F. Freuchte Theatre of the Performing Arts, 1601 N. Indian Hill Blvd., Claremont. Tickets are $10-$12 at chstheatre.cusd.claremont.edu.

FRIDAY 9/26

• Tickets are $10-$25 for the Grand National Truck Show, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. September 26-27 at Fairplex, 1101 W. McKinley Ave., Pomona.

• The Cornucopia Baroque Ensemble performs a free 12:15 p.m. concert at Lyman Hall, 340 N. College Ave., Claremont.

• Montclair Place’s pumpkin patch opens at 4 p.m. at 5060 E. Montclair Plaza Ln., running through November 2, 4 to 9 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 4 to 10 p.m. Friday, and noon to 10 p.m. weekends. Learn more at montclairplace.com/events.

• Celebrate Route 66 with the Kiwanis Club of Claremont at its 6 to 10 p.m. party at the DoubleTree, 555 W. Foothill Blvd., Claremont. Tickets are $100 at bit.ly/2025kiwanisroute66 or $120 at the door.

• Claremont’s 6-9 p.m. free live music showcase, Friday Nights Live, continues with Soulshine (Rock/Pop) at Village Plaza, James Donaldson (Rock/Pop) at the chamber of commerce, and Sidekarz (Classic Rock) at Shelton Park. Info is at claremontchamber.org/friday-nights-live.

• A free 6 p.m. screening of “Mr. Peabody and Sherman” takes place at Tri-City Mental Health Services’ wellness center, 1403 N. Garey Ave., Pomona.

• The curtain rises at 8 p.m. for Ophelia’s Jump Productions’ “The 39 Steps,” running 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, and 4 p.m. Sundays from September 26-October 5 at 2009 Porterfield Way, Ste. I, Upland. Tickets are $20-$40 at opheliasjump.org.

SATURDAY 9/27

• Registration for “runnin’ scared,” a 5K, 1K and toddler trot hosted by San Dimas at Civic Center Park, 245 E. Bonita Ave., opens at 6:30 a.m. Saturday, September 27. Fees are $40 for the 5K at 7:30, $30 for the 1K walk at 9; and $15 trot at 9:30. Costumes are welcome. Register ahead online at sandimasca.gov.

• A free 9 a.m. to noon hiring fair takes place at Central Park, 11200 Base Line Rd. Rancho Cucamonga. Learn more at cityofrc.us/events.

• American Museum of Ceramic Art hosts an 11 a.m. weaving workshop, $10-$15, at 399 N. Garey Ave., Pomona. RSVP at amoca.org.

• Tickets are $65 for an 11 a.m. watercolor workshop by Aleta Jacobson at Sam and Alfreda Maloof Foundation for Arts and Crafts, 5131 Carnelian St., Rancho Cucamonga. Register at malooffoundation.org.

• Tickets are $100 at uplandrotary.org for the Rotary Club of Uplands’ 5 to 9 p.m. Lobsterfest fundraiser at YMCA, 1150 E. Foothill Blvd., Upland.

• Award-winning songwriter Joel Rafael is joined by Claremont’s Citrus Sisters for a 7:30 p.m. concert at Folk Music Center, 220 N. Yale Ave. Tickets are $20.

• “Rains, Bells and Concor Dance,” a free and public 8 p.m. concert at Bridges Hall of Music, 150 E. Fourth St., Claremont, features pianist Genevieve Feiwen Lee.