Join woodworker Max Geldman to learn how to make a simple bandsaw box. The bandsaw is a simple and versatile technique for making decorative boxes that can take a variety of shapes.  Participants will choose from a variety of wooden blocks for the base of their project. Some templates will be provided, and you are welcome to bring your own shape or idea. 

This class is ideal for individuals interested in working with the bandsaw. This class will be a great opportunity to learn more about what you can do with this versatile machine. All materials provided. 

Cost: 

• $85 single-person purchase

• $150 for two people 

• Fire impacted? We have several discounted tickets available for fire-impacted people. Contact us for a discount code.

Date: Saturday, December 6th, 2025 

Time: 10:00 am - 3:00 pm

Location: Held in Altadena, CA, exact location shared upon registration. 

How to Register: (12 spots available)  Online or call (626) 794-7444

Each person (adults and kiddos) will have their own adjustable workbench, equipped with all standard hand tools. The class will be taught by two trained Teaching Artists who will introduce you to the basics of hand tool woodworking. From there, you will choose from an array of templates to inspire your own woodworking creation. Templates include wooden animals, cars, picture frames, boxes, and more! All materials provided. 

Cost: 

• $60 single-person purchase

• $100 for two people

•  Fire impacted? We have several discounted tickets available for fire-impacted people. Contact us for a discount code.

Date: Saturday, December 6th, 2025 

Time: 10:00 am - 1:00 pm

Location: Held in Altadena, CA, exact location shared upon registration. 

How to Register: (15 spots available)  Online or call (626) 794-7444  

Join Side Street Project’s FREE Youth Woodworking Class!! 

Open to ages 5 - 15, students will learn the basics of woodworking, using only hand tools! They will learn woodworking techniques such as sanding, sawing, shaping, drilling, setting screws, using clamps, hammering, and incising.

RELOCATED TO: Jefferson Branch Library Children and Teen Services

Location: 1500 E Villa St, Pasadena, CA 91106

Date: Saturday, November 15th

Time: 11:00 am - 1:00 pm

Maximum 25 students per class. Arrive early/on time to claim your spot!

What to bring: Water, snacks, and closed-toed shoes! 

Contact us: (626) 798-7774 or info@sidestreet.org

Join Teaching Artist Mei Ge to learn how to mend fabric with this simple and beautiful Japanese technique, Sashiko stitching! Feel free to bring your own worn clothing or items that have holes or rips, and we can give them a second life.

This event is FREE and open to all ages. People of all skill levels in art are welcome. Registration is not required. 

RELOCATED TO: Jefferson Branch Library Children and Teen Services

Location: 1500 E Villa St, Pasadena, CA 91106

Date: Saturday, November 15th 

Time: 10:00 am - 1:00 pm

This project is made possible with the support of The Cultural Affairs Division of the City of Pasadena and the Arts and Culture Commission.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Mei is a weaver and woodworker from Gig Harbor, Washington. At the core of her artistic practice, she is interested in folklore and family history. She came to Los Angeles to receive a BA in Studio Art at Pomona College. Since graduating, she has been working as an artist, educator, and baker.

Join Side Street Project’s FREE Youth Woodworking Class!! 

Open to ages 5 - 15, students will learn the basics of woodworking, using only hand tools! They will learn woodworking techniques such as sanding, sawing, shaping, drilling, setting screws, using clamps, hammering, and incising.

La Pintoresca Branch Library   

Location: 1355 N Raymond Ave, Pasadena, CA 91103

Date: Saturday, November 8th 

Time: 11:00 am - 1:00 pm

Maximum 15 students per class. Arrive early/on time to claim your spot!

What to bring: Water, snacks, and closed-toed shoes! 

Contact us: (626) 798-7774 or info@sidestreet.org

Come up to Zorthian Ranch Saturday, November 8th, for a 1000 Voices Volunteer Session led by artist Alma Cielo! Participants will prepare shards for use in a mosaic and learn how to polish and clean them safely. Open to ages 18 and over. 

The workshop will take place in a remediated area of Zorthian Ranch, a fire-impacted site, where Side Street Projects has been settling. Bring a hat, sunscreen, and a water bottle. Snacks will be provided.

Date: Saturday, November 8th, 2025
Time: 10 am - 12 pm
Location: Zorthian Ranch, 3990 N. Fair Oaks Ave., Altadena, CA 91001

Register to reserve a spot for the November 8 event, as well as the tile-making class on December 6.

Join Side Street Project’s FREE Youth Woodworking Class!! 

Open to ages 5 - 15, students will learn the basics of woodworking, using only hand tools! They will learn woodworking techniques such as sanding, sawing, shaping, drilling, setting screws, using clamps, hammering, and incising.

The Gamble House 

Location: 4 Westmoreland Pl, Pasadena, CA 91103 

Date: Saturday, October 4th

Time: 11:30 am - 1:30 pm

Maximum 15 students per class. Arrive early/on time to claim your spot!

What to bring: Water, snacks, and closed-toed shoes! 

Contact us: (626) 798-7774 or info@sidestreet.org

Join Teaching Artist Diane Briones Williams during ArtNight Pasadena for a hands-on workshop that introduces participants to the art of tapestry weaving, offering a creative and meditative experience. Using simple tools and techniques, attendees will learn how to create their own woven piece, which they can take home and continue working on. This workshop is designed for ages 12 and up and is suitable for both beginners and those with some crafting experience. 

The Armory Center for the Arts

Location: 145 N Raymond Ave, Pasadena, CA 91103 

Date: Friday, October 10th

Time: 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm

This project is made possible with the support of The Cultural Affairs Division of the City of Pasadena and the Arts and Culture Commission.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Diane Briones Williams is a Filipinx artist whose practice is deeply rooted in research. She specializes in creating mixed-media artworks, including wall-hanging, suspended, and free-standing sculptural weavings. 

Utilizing materials sourced from her own family and friends, Williams weaves their histories and narratives in her work, thereby acting as a custodian of their stories. She also employs pre-colonial dyeing techniques using indigenous Philippine plants, food scraps, and minerals, allowing her to reconnect with her heritage and culture.

Join us and our friends at Gloria Molina Grand Park for this year’s FREE Block Party! Side Street Projects will be bringing the Woodworking bus, which will be open to all ages. Our teaching artists will be leading a wooden name-tag making activity. There will also be music, movement, art, and food. Groove with KCRW Summer Nights, explore Little LA activations, enjoy delicious bites from food trucks, splash around, and end the night with a dazzling Drone Show.

📍 3 P.M. – 9 P.M. | Gloria Molina Grand Park
🎟 FREE to attend! | All are invited

Artist Kate Muehlemann Cataldo takes on a second-year residency with their project, The Constellations Project. This project fosters connections between queer elders and youth, nurturing intergenerational bonds and community care. Kate's second-year exhibition of the project is being held at Ren Hen Press in Pasadena. This exhibition showcases audio-recorded oral histories and painted portraits of eight LGBTQ+ elders alongside 40+ artworks created by LGBTQ+ teenagers and young adults in response to the elders' stories.

This exhibition is free of entry, no registration needed. You can just show up. The exhibition is open Monday through Thursday from 9 am - 5 pm. You can visit anytime between open hours.

Artist Kate Muehlemann Cataldo takes on a second-year residency with their project, The Constellations Project. This project fosters connections between queer elders and youth, nurturing intergenerational bonds and community care. Kate's second-year exhibition of the project is being held at Ren Hen Press in Pasadena. This exhibition showcases audio-recorded oral histories and painted portraits of eight LGBTQ+ elders alongside 40+ artworks created by LGBTQ+ teenagers and young adults in response to the elders' stories.

This exhibition is free of entry, no registration needed. You can just show up. The exhibition is open Monday through Thursday from 9 am - 5 pm. You can visit anytime between open hours.

Artist Kate Muehlemann Cataldo takes on a second-year residency with their project, The Constellations Project. This project fosters connections between queer elders and youth, nurturing intergenerational bonds and community care. Kate's second-year exhibition of the project is being held at Ren Hen Press in Pasadena. This exhibition showcases audio-recorded oral histories and painted portraits of eight LGBTQ+ elders alongside 40+ artworks created by LGBTQ+ teenagers and young adults in response to the elders' stories.

This exhibition is free of entry, no registration needed. You can just show up. The exhibition is open Monday through Thursday from 9 am - 5 pm. You can visit anytime between open hours.

Artist Kate Muehlemann Cataldo takes on a second-year residency with their project, The Constellations Project. This project fosters connections between queer elders and youth, nurturing intergenerational bonds and community care. Kate's second-year exhibition of the project is being held at Ren Hen Press in Pasadena. This exhibition showcases audio-recorded oral histories and painted portraits of eight LGBTQ+ elders alongside 40+ artworks created by LGBTQ+ teenagers and young adults in response to the elders' stories.

This exhibition is free of entry, no registration needed. You can just show up. The exhibition is open Monday through Thursday from 9 am - 5 pm. You can visit anytime between open hours.

Artist Kate Muehlemann Cataldo takes on a second-year residency with their project, The Constellations Project. This project fosters connections between queer elders and youth, nurturing intergenerational bonds and community care. Kate's second-year exhibition of the project is being held at Ren Hen Press in Pasadena. This exhibition showcases audio-recorded oral histories and painted portraits of eight LGBTQ+ elders alongside 40+ artworks created by LGBTQ+ teenagers and young adults in response to the elders' stories.

This exhibition is free of entry, no registration needed. You can just show up. The exhibition is open Monday through Thursday from 9 am - 5 pm. You can visit anytime between open hours.

Artist Kate Muehlemann Cataldo takes on a second-year residency with their project, The Constellations Project. This project fosters connections between queer elders and youth, nurturing intergenerational bonds and community care. Kate's second-year exhibition of the project is being held at Ren Hen Press in Pasadena. This exhibition showcases audio-recorded oral histories and painted portraits of eight LGBTQ+ elders alongside 40+ artworks created by LGBTQ+ teenagers and young adults in response to the elders' stories.

This exhibition is free of entry, no registration needed. You can just show up. The exhibition is open Monday through Thursday from 9 am - 5 pm. You can visit anytime between open hours.

Artist Kate Muehlemann Cataldo takes on a second-year residency with their project, The Constellations Project. This project fosters connections between queer elders and youth, nurturing intergenerational bonds and community care. Kate's second-year exhibition of the project is being held at Ren Hen Press in Pasadena. This exhibition showcases audio-recorded oral histories and painted portraits of eight LGBTQ+ elders alongside 40+ artworks created by LGBTQ+ teenagers and young adults in response to the elders' stories.

This exhibition is free of entry, no registration needed. You can just show up. The exhibition is open Monday through Thursday from 9 am - 5 pm. You can visit anytime between open hours.

Artist Kate Muehlemann Cataldo takes on a second-year residency with their project, The Constellations Project. This project fosters connections between queer elders and youth, nurturing intergenerational bonds and community care. Kate's second-year exhibition of the project is being held at Ren Hen Press in Pasadena. This exhibition showcases audio-recorded oral histories and painted portraits of eight LGBTQ+ elders alongside 40+ artworks created by LGBTQ+ teenagers and young adults in response to the elders' stories.

This exhibition is free of entry, no registration needed. You can just show up. The exhibition is open Monday through Thursday from 9 am - 5 pm. You can visit anytime between open hours.

Artist Kate Muehlemann Cataldo takes on a second-year residency with their project, The Constellations Project. This project fosters connections between queer elders and youth, nurturing intergenerational bonds and community care. Kate's second-year exhibition of the project is being held at Ren Hen Press in Pasadena. This exhibition showcases audio-recorded oral histories and painted portraits of eight LGBTQ+ elders alongside 40+ artworks created by LGBTQ+ teenagers and young adults in response to the elders' stories.

This exhibition is free of entry, no registration needed. You can just show up. The exhibition is open Monday through Thursday from 9 am - 5 pm. You can visit anytime between open hours.

Artist Kate Muehlemann Cataldo takes on a second-year residency with their project, The Constellations Project. This project fosters connections between queer elders and youth, nurturing intergenerational bonds and community care. Kate's second-year exhibition of the project is being held at Ren Hen Press in Pasadena. This exhibition showcases audio-recorded oral histories and painted portraits of eight LGBTQ+ elders alongside 40+ artworks created by LGBTQ+ teenagers and young adults in response to the elders' stories.

This exhibition is free of entry, no registration needed. You can just show up. The exhibition is open Monday through Thursday from 9 am - 5 pm. You can visit anytime between open hours.

Artist Kate Muehlemann Cataldo takes on a second-year residency with their project, The Constellations Project. This project fosters connections between queer elders and youth, nurturing intergenerational bonds and community care. Kate's second-year exhibition of the project is being held at Ren Hen Press in Pasadena. This exhibition showcases audio-recorded oral histories and painted portraits of eight LGBTQ+ elders alongside 40+ artworks created by LGBTQ+ teenagers and young adults in response to the elders' stories.

This exhibition is free of entry, no registration needed. You can just show up. The exhibition is open Monday through Thursday from 9 am - 5 pm. You can visit anytime between open hours.

Artist Kate Muehlemann Cataldo takes on a second-year residency with their project, The Constellations Project. This project fosters connections between queer elders and youth, nurturing intergenerational bonds and community care. Kate's second-year exhibition of the project is being held at Ren Hen Press in Pasadena. This exhibition showcases audio-recorded oral histories and painted portraits of eight LGBTQ+ elders alongside 40+ artworks created by LGBTQ+ teenagers and young adults in response to the elders' stories.

This exhibition is free of entry, no registration needed. You can just show up. The exhibition is open Monday through Thursday from 9 am - 5 pm. You can visit anytime between open hours.

Save the date! Join Side Street Projects and artist-in-residence Mariah Cochran for their final exhibition and workshop, “Braiding Care and Connection” at Alkebu-Lan Cultural Center on Saturday, July 26th from 2 pm through 4 pm. 

Learn or practice braiding skills using repurposed fabric strips and share stories about what care and community have looked like for you this year. Braids can be added to the Care Canopy, a collaborative art piece that celebrates the joy, connection, and cultural legacies of braiding in Black and Indigenous communities.

This exhibition will showcase the Care Canopy along with mixed media artworks that intertwine braiding with nature, inviting a moment of reflection on how we tend to ourselves, each other, and the Earth.

Mariah’s residency aims to engage participants in a reflective relationship with our environment, our bodies, and how we can care for them through the practice of braiding. The project celebrates braiding as a sacred practice, a somatic experience, and an art form that is inherently rooted in community and connection.

Alkebu-Lan Cultural Center

1435 N Raymond Ave, Pasadena, CA 91103

2 - 4 pm

Artist Kate Muehlemann Cataldo takes on a second-year residency with their project, The Constellations Project. This project fosters connections between queer elders and youth, nurturing intergenerational bonds and community care. Kate's second-year exhibition of the project is being held at Ren Hen Press in Pasadena. This exhibition showcases audio-recorded oral histories and painted portraits of eight LGBTQ+ elders alongside 40+ artworks created by LGBTQ+ teenagers and young adults in response to the elders' stories.

This exhibition is free of entry, no registration needed. You can just show up. The exhibition is open Monday through Thursday from 9 am - 5 pm. You can visit anytime between open hours.

Artist Kate Muehlemann Cataldo takes on a second-year residency with their project, The Constellations Project. This project fosters connections between queer elders and youth, nurturing intergenerational bonds and community care. Kate's second-year exhibition of the project is being held at Ren Hen Press in Pasadena. This exhibition showcases audio-recorded oral histories and painted portraits of eight LGBTQ+ elders alongside 40+ artworks created by LGBTQ+ teenagers and young adults in response to the elders' stories.

This exhibition is free of entry, no registration needed. You can just show up. The exhibition is open Monday through Thursday from 9 am - 5 pm. You can visit anytime between open hours.

Artist Kate Muehlemann Cataldo takes on a second-year residency with their project, The Constellations Project. This project fosters connections between queer elders and youth, nurturing intergenerational bonds and community care. Kate's second-year exhibition of the project is being held at Ren Hen Press in Pasadena. This exhibition showcases audio-recorded oral histories and painted portraits of eight LGBTQ+ elders alongside 40+ artworks created by LGBTQ+ teenagers and young adults in response to the elders' stories.

This exhibition is free of entry, no registration needed. You can just show up. The exhibition is open Monday through Thursday from 9 am - 5 pm. You can visit anytime between open hours.

Artist Kate Muehlemann Cataldo takes on a second-year residency with their project, The Constellations Project. This project fosters connections between queer elders and youth, nurturing intergenerational bonds and community care. Kate's second-year exhibition of the project is being held at Ren Hen Press in Pasadena. This exhibition showcases audio-recorded oral histories and painted portraits of eight LGBTQ+ elders alongside 40+ artworks created by LGBTQ+ teenagers and young adults in response to the elders' stories.

This exhibition is free of entry, no registration needed. You can just show up. The exhibition is open Monday through Thursday from 9 am - 5 pm. You can visit anytime between open hours.

Artist Kate Muehlemann Cataldo takes on a second-year residency with their project, The Constellations Project. This project fosters connections between queer elders and youth, nurturing intergenerational bonds and community care. Kate's second-year exhibition of the project is being held at Ren Hen Press in Pasadena. This exhibition showcases audio-recorded oral histories and painted portraits of eight LGBTQ+ elders alongside 40+ artworks created by LGBTQ+ teenagers and young adults in response to the elders' stories.

This exhibition is free of entry, no registration needed. You can just show up. The exhibition is open Monday through Thursday from 9 am - 5 pm. You can visit anytime between open hours.

Artist Kate Muehlemann Cataldo takes on a second-year residency with their project, The Constellations Project. This project fosters connections between queer elders and youth, nurturing intergenerational bonds and community care. Kate's second-year exhibition of the project is being held at Ren Hen Press in Pasadena. This exhibition showcases audio-recorded oral histories and painted portraits of eight LGBTQ+ elders alongside 40+ artworks created by LGBTQ+ teenagers and young adults in response to the elders' stories.

This exhibition is free of entry, no registration needed. You can just show up. The exhibition is open Monday through Thursday from 9 am - 5 pm. You can visit anytime between open hours.

Artist Kate Muehlemann Cataldo takes on a second-year residency with their project, The Constellations Project. This project fosters connections between queer elders and youth, nurturing intergenerational bonds and community care. Kate's second-year exhibition of the project is being held at Ren Hen Press in Pasadena. This exhibition showcases audio-recorded oral histories and painted portraits of eight LGBTQ+ elders alongside 40+ artworks created by LGBTQ+ teenagers and young adults in response to the elders' stories.

This exhibition is free of entry, no registration needed. You can just show up. The exhibition is open Monday through Thursday from 9 am - 5 pm. You can visit anytime between open hours.

Artist Kate Muehlemann Cataldo takes on a second-year residency with their project, The Constellations Project. This project fosters connections between queer elders and youth, nurturing intergenerational bonds and community care. Kate's second-year exhibition of the project is being held at Ren Hen Press in Pasadena. This exhibition showcases audio-recorded oral histories and painted portraits of eight LGBTQ+ elders alongside 40+ artworks created by LGBTQ+ teenagers and young adults in response to the elders' stories.

This exhibition is free of entry, no registration needed. You can just show up. The exhibition is open Monday through Thursday from 9 am - 5 pm. You can visit anytime between open hours.