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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

info@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.