What’s happening Claremont?

by Andrew Alonzo | calendar@claremont-courier.com

Friday, April 10

• Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center is offering $50 mammograms throughout April at 1910 Royalty Dr., Pomona; 1601 N. Monte Vista Ave., Claremont; 2333 Foothill Blvd., La Verne; and 2140 Grand Ave., Chino Hills. More info is at pvhmc.org/events-calendar.

 

• Keck Graduate Institute’s spring visit day runs from 10 a.m. to 2:45 p.m. Saturday, April 11 at 535 Watson Dr., Claremont. RSVP at events.kgi.edu.

 

• California Botanic Garden, 1500 N. College Ave., Claremont, hosts a 10 a.m. grand opening of its children’s woodland area and accompanying exhibit, “Joy in the Garden: A Celebration of Play, Adventure, and Native Plants,” included with admission.

 

• Visit bit.ly/pomonacareerexpo to enroll in Pomona Chamber of Commerce’s free career and job experience expo, running from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. today at 1460 E. Holt Ave., Pomona.

 

• The Pomona Valley Brass Quintet performs at a free 12:15 p.m. concert at Balch Auditorium, 1030 Columbia Ave., Claremont.

 

• “Les Miserables” is this week’s 12:30 p.m. movie matinee at Joslyn Center, 660 N. Mountain Ave., Claremont. Free popcorn is available. Call (909) 399-5488 for more info.
  

 

• Claremont Helen Renwick Library hosts a 2 to 3 p.m. flower art workshop for young people 12 to 17 at 208 N. Harvard Ave. RSVP at visit.lacountylibrary.org/events.

 

• Ovitt Family Community Library hosts a free 3 to 5 p.m. create an Egyptian cartouche or hieroglyphic nameplate event at 215 E. C St., Ontario.

 

• A free 4 to 8 p.m. leadership summit for young people 12 to 17 takes place at De Anza Park, Community and Teen Center, 1405 S. Fern Ave., Ontario. Call (909) 395-2030 for more info.

 

• Tickets are $8-$10 at cityofrc.us/events for Rancho Cucamonga’s 5:30 p.m. IncredABLES space-themed workshop for kids 8 and up at Central Park, 11200 Base Line Rd.

 

• People 50 and up are invited to a 6 to 9 p.m. ballroom style dance at Ontario Senior Center, 225 E. B St. Admission is $4.

 

• Tickets are $28-$50 at lewisfamilyplayhouse.com/events for actor Ronnie Marmo’s 8 p.m. Festival of Voices opening one-man show, “I’m Not A Comedian … I’m Lenny Bruce,” at Lewis Family Playhouse, 12505 Cultural Center Dr., Rancho Cucamonga.

 

 

Saturday, April 11

• San Dimas Chamber of Commerce and Life Pacific University’s Innovate26 free technology and business summit, “What if we get AI right,” runs from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. at 1100 W. Covina Blvd. RSVP at i26summit.com.

 

• Email glendoratrailscouncil@gmail.com to volunteer for the 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. trail clean-up day at South Hills Park, 701 E. Mauna Loa Ave., Glendora.

 

• Volunteers are needed to help with Special Olympics training from 9 to 11 a.m. Saturdays at Claremont High School, 1601 N. Indian Hill Blvd. Special needs athletes are also welcome. The Special Olympics Southern California Summer Games take place June 5-7 at Cal State Long Beach. Call or text (909) 518-1496 for more info.

 

• Claremont Graduate University’s free spring preview for prospective students begins at 9 a.m. at DesCombes Family Quadrangle, 160 E. 10th St. RSVP at cgu.edu/events.

 

• La Verne Community Center, 3680 D St., hosts a free 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. craft fair.

 

• The Sam and Alfreda Maloof Foundation for Arts and Crafts, at 5131 Carnelian St., Rancho Cucamonga, is a stop on the Cucamonga Valley Water District’s 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. savvy garden tour. RSVP at cvwdwater.com.

 

• The final free 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. volunteer income tax assistance clinic for those with a gross income under $67,000 takes place at Pomona Public Library, 625 S. Garey Ave. Visit pomonaca.gov for more info.

 

• Children’s Foundation of America’s “ChariTea” fundraiser begins at 11:30 a.m. at Granite Creek Gardens, 1580 N. Claremont Blvd., Claremont. The event benefits scholarships, grants, and foster care services for children in need and includes a tea luncheon, photo opportunities, and a silent auction. Tickets are $100 at eventbrite.com, search “ChariTea.”

 

• Tickets are $30 at events.humanitix.com/host/amoca for a noon soft sculpture workshop at American Museum of Ceramic Art, 399 N. Garey Ave., Pomona.

 

• Tickets are $39 at lewisfamilyplayhouse.com/events for Lewis Family Playhouse’s Festival of Voices at 12505 Cultural Center Dr., Rancho Cucamonga. Dasha Kelly Hamilton’s “Makin’ Cake” starts at 1 p.m., followed by Patrick Dewane’s “The Accidental Hero” at 7:30.

 

• Claremont Helen Renwick Library’s 2 p.m. Ikebana flower workshop takes place at 208 N. Harvard Ave. Register at visit.lacountylibrary.org/events.

 

• A free and open to the public community reception for “Community as Canvas” takes place from 2 to 4 p.m. at Chaffey Community Museum of Art, 217 S. Lemon Ave., Ontario, and Ontario Museum of History and Art, 225 S. Euclid Ave.

 

• Tickets are $50 at napierinitiative.org for the 16th annual Napier Initiative celebration, beginning at 5 p.m. at Decker Auditorium, 665 Avery Rd., Claremont.

 

• Tickets are $45 at tickets.haughpac.com/journeyusa26 for tribute bands Journey USA and REO Dreamwagon’s 7 p.m. concert at Haugh Performing Arts Center, 1000 W. Foothill Blvd. Glendora.

 

• Students of Genevieve Feiwen Lee perform works for piano at a free and public 7:45 p.m. concert at Thatcher Music Building, 340 N. College Ave., Claremont.

 

 

Sunday, April 12

• Children 5 to 7 can read together and make crafts at Claremont Forum’s 10 a.m. reading hour at 586 W. First St.

 

• Jazz at College Center presents a free concert with Zzaj from 2 to 5 p.m. at 665 E. Foothill Blvd., Claremont.

 

• Visit lewisfamilyplayhouse.com/events for $39 tickets to Lewis Family Playhouse’s final Festival of Voices performance, Megan Dolan’s “Not the Right Mom” at 2 p.m. at 12505 Cultural Center Dr., Rancho Cucamonga.

 

• Mexican singer Aida Cuevas, “the queen of ranchera music,” takes the stage at 2 p.m. at Haugh Performing Arts Center, 1000 W. Foothill Blvd., Glendora, as part of her 50th anniversary tour. Tickets are $28-$55 at tickets.haughpac.com/cuevas.

 

• Author James Gaylord delivers a free 4 to 6 p.m. author talk at Ginger Elliott Center, 840 N. Indian Hill Blvd., Claremont.

 

• Tickets for Newcomers Access Center’s 4 to 8 p.m. gala at DoubleTree, 222 N. Vineyard Ave., are $130 at newcomersaccesscenter.org/gala26.

 

• Tickets are $10-$20 at southlandsymphony.com/tickets for Southland Symphony Orchestra and Chorus’s 4 p.m. concert, “Haydn’s Nelson Mass,” at Bethel Congregational Church, 536 N Euclid Ave., Ontario.

 

• Good Shepherd Lutheran Church presents a free and public 5 p.m. concert with pianist Edward Zeliff, “Musical Gems from 19th Century Western Europe,” at 1700 N. Towne Ave., Claremont.

 

• Pianist Jenny Soonjin Kim performs Beethoven’s “Emperor Concerto” at a free 7 p.m. concert at Drinkward Recital Hall, 320 E. Foothill Blvd., Claremont.

 

 

Monday, April 13

• Shakespeare Club of Pomona Valley’s free and public 2 p.m. meeting includes a discussion led by Pamela Stith, “Shakespeare’s Death Scenes: Who Gets the Spotlight, and Who Doesn’t,” at Joslyn Center, 660 N. Mountain Ave. Call (909) 728-2178 for more info.
  

 

• Older adults are invited to learn about LA Metro’s On the Move Riders Program during a free 4 p.m. online workshop at visit.lacountylibrary.org. This program repeats in Spanish on April 15 at visit.lacountylibrary.org/events.

 

• Palomares Park, 499 E. Arrow Hwy., Pomona, hosts a 5 p.m. 55-and-up floral fantasia dance, free for Pomona residents, $4 for non-residents. Call (909) 620-2324 to RSVP.

 

• U.S. poet laureate Arthur Sze leads a free and open to the public 6:45 p.m. presentation, “An Evening with United States Poet Laureate Arthur Sze,” at Claremont McKenna College’s Athenaeum, 385 E. Eighth St. Info is at cmc.edu/athenaeum.

 

• Ontario Chaffey Community Show Band performs “Salute to Entertainment,” a free 7:30 p.m. concert at Chaffey High School, 1245 N. Euclid Ave., Ontario.

 

 

Tuesday, April 14

• Tickets are $150 at uplandchamber.org for April 14 and 21 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. artificial intelligence workshops for businesses at CCS Interactive, 123 E. Ninth St., Suite 201, Upland.

 

• Magdalena Breyer of the University of Basel, Switzerland, speaks at noon on “The Political Consequences of Competing Identities in the Working Class” as part of Claremont Graduate University’s free Tuesday talk series at the Ron W. Burkle Family Building, 1021 N. Dartmouth Ave., and via Zoom at research.cgu.edu.

 

• University Club of Claremont’s 1 p.m. lecture at DoubleTree by Hilton, 555 W. Foothill Blvd., features Principal Andrea Deligio on “San Antonio High School — Claremont’s Continuation High School.” A $25 fee includes lunch at noon. Info is at universityclubofclaremont.org.

 

• RSVP for a free 4 p.m. online author talk with Brad Taylor at visit.lacountylibrary.org/events.

 

• Claremont Helen Renwick Library hosts a free 5 to 6 p.m. informational workshop at 208 N. Harvard Ave. RSVP at visit.lacountylibrary.org/events.

 

• Pomona Public Library, 625 S. Garey Ave., hosts a free 5 p.m. gardening class.

 

• Scripps College alumna and artist Elizabeth Turk returns to Vita Nova Hall, 385 E. Ninth St., Claremont, to speak about her sculpture “Suspended Meditation,” which was recently installed at The Nucleus, at a 6 p.m. free and public Scripps Fine Arts Foundation program.

 

• Today’s Claremont City Council meeting at 225 W. Second St. opens to the public at 6:30 p.m. 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.

 

• The Marian Miner Cook Atheneum, at 385 E. Eighth St., Claremont, hosts two 6:45 p.m. lectures: “Local Investigative Journalism and the Future of the Press: A Conversation with David Dreier ’75 and Scott Woolley ’92,” and Barry Trachtenberg’s “Never Again — for Whom? Racial Hierarchy in American Holocaust Memory.” Register at cmc.edu/athenaeum.

 

 

Wednesday, April 15

• Sorry, but it’s Tax Day!
  

 

• 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.

 

• A free and public 12:15 p.m. walking and meditation group meets at McConnell Apron, 1050 N. Mills Ave., Claremont.

 

• Lewis Family Branch Library, 3850 E. Riverside Dr., Ontario, hosts a free 4 to 5 p.m. credit building workshop for youth ages 13 to 18.

 

• Pitzer College hosts Denise Werchan of UC Irvine’s Department of Psychology for “Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience,” a free 4:30 p.m. program at Burns Lecture Hall, 925 N. Mills Ave., Claremont.

 

• Pitzer College hosts the free and public 19th annual Animation Show of Shows, a screening of 16 internationally acclaimed animated short films, from 6 to 8 p.m. at Benson Auditorium, 1050 N. Mills Ave., Claremont.

 

• Michael McFaul of Stanford gives a free and public 6:45 p.m. lecture, “Autocrats vs. Democrats: China, Russia, America, and the New Global Disorder,” at Claremont McKenna College’s Atheneum, 385 E. Eighth St. Register at cmc.edu/athenaeum.

 

• Tickets are $75-$125 at supportcef.com for Claremont Educational Foundation’s 7 p.m. 21-and-over fundraiser, “Big Retro Road Trip ’Round the Pomona Valley,” at Padua Hills Theatre, 4467 Padua Ave., Claremont.

 

 

Thursday, April 16

• Access Kiwanis Club of Claremont’s annual Route 66 auction, open today through April 30, at claremontkiwanis.org.

 

• The Rembrandt Club of Claremont hosts Steve Comba, associate director and registrar of the Benton Museum of Art, for “Travelogue,” a free and open to the public 1:30 p.m. lecture at Pomona College’s Studio Art Hall, 370 Columbia Ave., Claremont.

 

• Scholars and guests gather at Claremont Graduate University’s Albrecht Auditorium, 925 N. Dartmouth Ave., for the fourth annual free and public free 4 p.m. TEDxCGU event. RSVP at cgu.edu/events.

 

• The public is invited to a free 4 p.m. ribbon cutting to celebrate the opening of Bank of America Imagination Courtyard at Lewis Family Playhouse, 12505 Cultural Center Dr., Rancho Cucamonga.

 

• Register at visit.lacountylibrary.org/events for a free 6 p.m. virtual talk with author and reporter Danny Funt and LA County Library CEO Skye Patrick.

 

• Claremont’s Committee on Human Relations holds a 6:30 p.m. panel discussion on facilitating culturally inclusive conversations at Alexander Hughes Community Center’s Padua Room, 1700 Danbury Rd., Claremont. Register at form.jotform.com/claremonthumanservices/conversations.

 

• Active Claremont welcomes Keck Graduate Institute President Mohamed Abousalem and Claremont Graduate University interim President Michelle Bligh for a free 6:45 p.m. forum at the Hughes Center’s Grove Room, 1700 Danbury Rd.

 

• Claremont McKenna College’s Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum, 385 E. Eighth St., hosts a free live storytelling performance at 6:45 p.m. with Syrian-Armenian-American artist Sona Tatoyan, “Azad Storytelling: Shadow, Scherazad, and the Alchemy of Healing.” Learn more at cmc.edu/athenaeum.

 

 

Friday, April 17

• Pianist Genevieve Feiwen Lee and violinist Sarah Thornblade perform a free 12:15 p.m. concert at Lyman Hall, 340 N. College Ave., Claremont.

 

• Benton Museum of Art, 120 W. Bonita Ave., Claremont, hosts a gallery talk from 2 to 2:30 p.m.

 

• Ontario Senior Center, 225 E. B St., hosts a free 2 to 4 p.m. 50-and-up picnic.
  

 

• Veterans Memorial Park and Community Center hosts a free 5:30 p.m. gardening workshop for kids 7 to 17 at 1259 E. D St., Ontario.

 

• Tri-City Wellness Center, 1403 N. Garey Ave., Pomona host a free 6 p.m. screening of “Over the Hedge.”

 

• Tickets are $5-$10 for Claremont Forum Bookshop’s 7 p.m. bookshop jazz session at 586 W. First St.

 

• The Pomona College Choir and Orchestra play a free 8 p.m. concert at Bridges Hall of Music, 150 E. Fourth St., Claremont, repeating at 3 p.m. April 19.

 

• Tickets are $10 at scrippscollege.edu/events/calendar for performances of Scripps Dances 2026 at Garrison Theater, 231 E. 10th St., Claremont, set for 8 p.m. tonight and 2 and 8 p.m. April 18.

 

• Tickets are $28-$34 at lewisfamilyplayhouse.com/events for the 8 p.m. ‘80s kids concert at Lewis Family Playhouse, 12505 Cultural Center Dr., Rancho Cucamonga.

 

 

Saturday, April 18

• Glendora’s free and public Earth Day Festival takes place from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Finkbiner Park, 181 N. Cullen Ave.

 

• Tickets are $55-$60 at calbg.org for Aleta Jacobson’s 10 a.m. nature art journaling course at California Botanic Garden, 1500 N. College Ave., Claremont.

 

• Rancho Cucamonga’s free and public 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Community Arts Festival at Central Park, 11200 Base Line Rd., includes live music and art experiences.

 

• Westwind Community Center, 2455 E. Riverside Dr., Ontario, hosts bikechella, a free and public bicycle decorating event from 10 a.m. to noon.

 

• Musician Nathalia Palis performs at 10:15 a.m. at San Dimas Library, 145 N. Walnut Ave.

 

• Endless Fitness Foundation welcomes the public to the inaugural Claremont Pride Festival from noon to 4 p.m. at Memorial Park, 840 N. Indian Hill Blvd., Claremont. Learn more at givebutter.com/claremontpridefestival.

 

• Hands-on art workshops and virtual reality experiences on caring for the planet are part of Ontario Museum of History and Art’s free noon to 4 p.m. studio Saturday program at 225 S. Euclid Ave., Ontario.

 

• Visit events.humanitix.com/host/amoca for $5 tickets to the 2:30 p.m. clay workshop at American Museum of Ceramic Art, 399 N. Garey Ave., Pomona.

 

• Tickets are $100 at tasteofclaremont.com for Rotary Club of Claremont’s 5 to 9 p.m. Taste of Claremont at The Claremont Colleges Services Building, 101 S. Mills Ave. More info is at tasteofclaremont.com.