What’s happening Claremont?

by Andrew Alonzo | calendar@claremont-courier.com

Friday, April 17

• 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.

 

• Doors open at 10 a.m. for the Claremont Colleges’ Intercollegiate Media Studies Program’s April 17-18 conference, “AI Meditations: The State of the Field,” at Pitzer College’s Broad Center, 1050 N. Mills Ave., Claremont.

 

• 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 free gallery talk from 2 to 2:30 p.m.

 

• Folks 50 and up can picnic at Ontario Senior Center, 225 E. B St., for free from 2 to 4 p.m.

 

• Kids 7 to 17 are invited to a free 5:30 p.m. gardening workshop at 1259 E. D St., Ontario.

 

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

 

• 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 free concerts at Bridges Hall of Music, 150 E. Fourth St., Claremont, at 8 p.m. tonight and 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, at 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

• Cyclists depart from Central Park, 11200 Base Line Rd., Rancho Cucamonga, for an 8 a.m. community ride.

 

• 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.

 

• Glendora’s free and public Earth Day Festival runs 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. 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 includes live music and art experiences at Central Park, 11200 Base Line Rd.

 

• A free 10 a.m. pollinator workshop takes place at Root 66 Garden, 12151 Foothill Blvd., Rancho Cucamonga.

 

• Bikechella, a free 10 a.m. to noon bike decorating event, takes place at 2455 E. Riverside Dr., Ontario.

 

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

 

• Endless Fitness Foundation’s free and open to the public inaugural Claremont Pride Festival runs 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.

 

 

Sunday, April 19

• The Pomona Swap Meet and Classic Car Show at Fairplex, 1101 W. McKinley Ave., Pomona, runs from 5 a.m. to 2 p.m. Admission is $15. Children 12 and under are free. Parking is $20. Call (714) 538-7091 or visit fairplex.com for more info.

 

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

 

• Claremont and Sustainable Claremont’s annual free and open to the public Earth Day celebration at Shelton Park, on the northeast corner of Harvard and Bonita avenues, runs from 8:30 a.m. 1 p.m.

 

• Claremont Community Emergency Response Team’s free car show starts at 9 a.m. at Claremont Toyota, 601 Auto Center Dr. The fee to show a car is $35 at claremontcert.org.

 

• Tickets are $50 at uplandchamber.org for SoCalXade’s 9 a.m. basketball clinic for kids in second through 12th grades at Pacific Community Center, 814 Alpine St., Upland.

 

• Tickets are $20 at claremontforum.org/events for a 2 p.m. children’s book reading with Mirelle Ortega, an award-winning Mexican artist and writer for kidlit and animation at 586 W. First St., Claremont.

 

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

 

• Visit claremontmealsonwheels.org/events for $25-$35 tickets to Claremont Meals on Wheels 11 a.m. drag queen bingo fundraiser at Piano Piano, 555 W. Foothill Blvd., Claremont.

 

• Graduating Claremont and San Antonio high school seniors have until 11:59 p.m. to apply for a Woman’s Club of Claremont scholarship at womansclubofclaremont.com/scholarships. An award ceremony is set for June 10.

 

 

Monday, April 20

• Pomona Public Library hosts Lego club, a free noon to 1 p.m. building program for children Mondays and Thursdays at 625 S. Garey Ave.

 

• Tickets are $15 at events.humanitix.com/host/amoca for 5:30 to 8 p.m. games of mahjong at American Museum of Ceramic Art, 399 N. Garey Ave., Pomona.
  

 

• U.C. Berkeley political science professor Vinod Aggarwal’s “New Economic Statecraft: From Cooperation to Coercion,” a free and open to the public lecture, gets underway at 6:45 p.m. at Claremont McKenna College’s Athenaeum, 385 E. Eighth St. Info is at cmc.edu/athenaeum.

 

• The free and public Inland Valley storytellers story swap open mic takes place from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at Ginger Elliott Center, 840 N. Indian Hill Blvd., Claremont.

 

• Pomona College music students deliver a free 8 p.m. recital at Lyman Hall, 340 N. College Ave., Claremont.

 

 

Tuesday, April 21

• California Botanic Garden’s 9 a.m. children’s story time is free with garden admission at 1500 N. College Ave., Claremont.

 

• Upland Geology Club meets at 10:30 a.m. at Gibson Senior Center, 250 N. Third Ave.

 

• Spanish speakers can register for a free 11 a.m. Microsoft Word webinar at visit.lacountylibrary.org/events.

 

• Annie Frew of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, speaks at noon on “Equity in Every Drop: Evaluating California’s SB 200 and Access to Clean Drinking Water in Disadvantaged Communities” for Claremont Graduate University’s free Tuesday talk series at 1021 N. Dartmouth Ave., and via Zoom at research.cgu.edu.

 

• Journalist and academic Steven Thrasher delivers Pitzer College’s annual free and open to the public 4:15 p.m. Stephen and Sandra Glass Humanities lecture, “Your ‘Right to Die’ v. Your ‘Right to Live’: Necropolitics and Liberal Governance,” at Broad Center, 1050 N. Mills Ave., Claremont. RSVP to philanthropy@pitzer.edu.

 

• Doug Frankel leads a free 5 p.m. virtual meditation at visit.lacountylibrary.org/events.

 

• Tickets are $25 at womansclubofclaremont.com for the Woman’s Club of Claremont’s 6 to 9 p.m. bunco game night at 343 W. 12th St., Claremont.

 

• San Dimas Senior Center, 201 E. Bonita Ave., hosts the free and open to the public yarn ‘n’ stitch at 6:30 p.m.

 

• Glenn Loury, emeritus professor of social sciences, economics, international and public affairs at Brown University, delivers his 6:45 p.m. lecture, “Is “Race” Over? Citizenship, Backlash, and the Quiet Politics of Self-Censorship,” at the Marian Miner Cook Atheneum, at 385 E. Eighth St., Claremont. Register at cmc.edu/athenaeum.

 

 

Wednesday, April 22

• Happy Earth Day!

 

• Tickets are $40-$50 at glendoramayorspb.com for the 2026 Glendora Mayor’s prayer breakfast, a 7 a.m. gathering at Glendora Country Club, 2400 Country Club Dr., featuring Glendora Mayor David Fredendall and Homeboy Industries Founder Father Gregory Boyle.

 

• Tickets are $250 at pvhmc.org for Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center’s 32nd Perinatal Symposium, 7 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at DoubleTree by Hilton, 222 N. Vineyard Ave., Ontario.

 

• Volunteers are needed to plant trees with Ontario’s Recreation and Community Services and Parks Departments at 8 a.m. at 1257 E. D St., Ontario.

 

• Register for a free 11 a.m. virtual author talk with Miranda Cowley Heller at visit.lacountylibrary.org/events.
  

 

• Author Steven Kim is the featured guest of Claremont Graduate University’s free 11:30 a.m. Drucker Institute Spotlight at 1021 N. Dartmouth Ave. Claremont, and via Zoom. RSVP at eventbrite.com, search “Claremont Graduate University.”

 

• 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.

 

• Claremont McKenna mathematics professor Lenny Fukshansky leads “A Special Russian Truth,” a free and public 12:45 p.m. lecture at 385 E. Eighth St. Register at cmc.edu/athenaeum.

 

• Stacy Alaimo of University of Oregon and Melody Jue of U.C. Santa Barbara will be on hand at Benson Auditorium, 1050 N. Mills Ave., Claremont for a free 2:45 p.m. book talk. Email lishan@pitzer.edu for more information.

 

• A free 3 p.m. Earth Day-themed crafting hour takes place at Claremont Helen Renwick Library, 208 N. Harvard Ave. RSVP at visit.lacountylibrary.org/events.

 

• Mother Nature will take photos with families and hand out bookmarks during Montclair Place’s free 4 to 7 p.m. Earth Day event at 5060 N. Montclair Plaza Ln.

 

• Turn soda bottles into planters at a free 4 p.m. Lewis Family Branch Library workshop at 3850 East Riverside Dr., Ontario.

 

• Staff from Los Angeles County’s Department of Mental Health lead a free 5 p.m. virtual informational session on substance use among seniors. Register at visit.lacountylibrary.org/events.

 

• Architect and urban designer Daniel Libeskind offers a free and public 6:45 p.m. lecture, “Memory Foundations,” at Claremont McKenna College’s Atheneum, 385 E. Eighth St. Register at cmc.edu/athenaeum.

 

 

Thursday, April 23

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

 

• Phebie’s NeedleArt, at 532 W, First St., Suite 210, Claremont, is among 16 stops on the Los Angeles County Yarn Crawl. Shops are open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. April 23 to April 25 and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. April 26. Info is at layarncrawl.org.

 

• Register at pomona.edu/events for Oldenborg Luncheon Colloquium’s 12:15 p.m. lecture, “In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Short Fiction by Jewish Writers from the Soviet Union,” with Harriet Murav and Sasha Senderovich at 350 N. College Way, Claremont.
  

 

• El Ranchero Mexican Food and Margaritas, 984 W. Foothill Blvd., Claremont, will donate a portion of meal proceeds to United Nations Assoiation of Pomona Valley from 4 to 10 p.m.

 

• Young people 13 to 17 can register for a free 4 p.m. time management workshop at La Verne Library, 3640 D St., at visit.lacountylibrary.org/events.

 

• Lewis Family Branch Library hosts a free 5 p.m. artist workshop for kids 9 to 12 at 3850 E. Riverside Dr., Ontario.
  

 

• Tickets are $65-$75 at clmoa.org/events/#upcoming for Sherwood Florist owner Sean Tao’s 6 p.m. 21-and-over floral art session at Claremont Lewis Museum of Art, 200 W. First St.

 

• The public is invited to view the archives of Ovitt Family Community Library, 215 E. C St., Ontario at 7 p.m.

 

 

Friday, April 24

• Visit uplandchamber.org to register for a free 8 a.m. website workshop at CCS Interactive, 123 E. Ninth St., Suite 201, Upland.
  

 

• El Ranchero, 984 W. Foothill Blvd., Claremont, will donate a portion of meal proceeds to Philanthropic Educational Organization Chapter PR from 11:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m.

 

• Pianist Kristin Ditlow and vocalist Sean Stanton perform a free 12:15 p.m. concert at Balch Auditorium, 1030 Columbia Ave., Claremont.

 

• Yarn in the Yuccas, a fiber arts group free with garden admission, meets at 1:30 p.m. at California Botanic Garden, 1500 N. College Ave., Claremont. Register at calbg.org.

 

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

 

• Play board games from 2 to 3 p.m. at Claremont Helen Renwick Library, 208 N. Harvard Ave.

 

• Ontario Senior Center, 225 E. B St., hosts an exercise class for people 50 and up at 2 p.m. Call (909) 395-2021 to register.
  

 

• Register for Ontario’s silent disco, $5 per headset, at ontarioca.gov. The event begins with a 5 p.m. sensory friendly hour at 224 N. Euclid Ave.

 

• Tickets are $15 at cityofrc.us/events for Rancho Cucamonga’s Looking Glass Gala, a 50 and up social event at 6 p.m. at Central Park, 11200 Base Line Rd.

 

• The Pomona College Band performs a free 8 p.m. concert at Bridges Hall of Music, 150 E. Fourth St., Claremont, repeating at 3 p.m. April 26.

 

 

Saturday, April 25

• Purchases from the Prison Library Project’s online wish list at bookshop.org — visit claremontforum.org/prisonlibraryproject to access — will be matched up to $1,000 during Independent Bookstore Week through May 2.
  

 

• Tickets are $50 at ivhsdogwalk.org for Inland Valley Humane Society’s 8 a.m. Paws 4 Pets Walk at Bonelli Regional Park, 120 E. Via Verde Park Dr., San Dimas. Kids 5 and under are free. Proceeds support Inland Valley and San Gabriel Valley humane societies.

 

• Tickets are $100 at malooffoundation.org/demos-and-workshops for Manny LeGaspe’s 10:30 a.m. art workshop at Sam and Alfreda Maloof Foundation for Arts and Crafts, 5131 Carnelian St., Rancho Cucamonga.
  

 

• Pitzer College’s Latinx Student Union’s free and public 19th annual Rockabilly Festival and fundraiser for social justice organizations, with live music, a vendor faire and car show, runs from noon to 7 p.m. at 1050 N. Mills Ave., Claremont.

 

• View memorabilia from local sports teams from noon to 2 p.m. at Ontario Museum of History and Art, 225 S. Euclid Ave., Ontario. Admission is free.

 

• Discuss Vanessa Miller’s “The Filling Station” at a free virtual 1 p.m. Black Resource Center Book Club meeting at visit.lacountylibrary.org/events.

 

• Poets Patty Seyburn and Allison Adelle Hedge Coke are featured guests for Friends of the Claremont Library’s free 2 p.m. fourth Saturdays poetry event at Claremont Helen Renwick Library, 208 N. Harvard Ave.

 

• SoCal Nordic folk music ensemble Keiju Kollektiv perform a free and public 3 p.m. concert at Claremont United Methodist Church, 211 W. Foothill Blvd., as part of the church’s new music series, “Music Speaks Beyond Borders.”

 

• Tickets are $43 to $85 at tickets.lewisfamilyplayhouse.com for Inland Pacific Ballet’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” at 4 p.m. April 25 and 2 p.m. April 26 at Lewis Family Playhouse, 12505 Cultural Center Dr., Rancho Cucamonga.

 

• Tickets are $20 at the store or the door for The Disassociation’s 7:30 p.m. debut concert at Folk Music Center, 220 Yale Ave., Claremont. For more info, search “The Disassociation: indie/literary supergroup drops debut record,” at claremont-courier.com.
  

 

• Tickets are $20 at opheliasjump.ludus.com for Both Sides Now at 7:30 p.m. at Ophelia’s Jump music lounge, 2009 Porterfield Way, Suite I, Upland.