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Family Movie Day at Alpert JCC in Long Beach
JANUARY 14: Join Alpert Jewish Community Center for a fun family movie day with a screening of An American Tail on the big screen. Film is free, snack box available for purchase.
MLK Pizza Party & Skate Clinic with Skatedogs in Long Beach
JANUARY 15: Enjoy a pizza party and skate clinic with Skatedogs on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The day is filled with skateboarding lessons, free skate, and pizza.
MLK Day at the Skirball – Free Museum Admission
JANUARY 15: Explore special exhibits and enjoy activities including tours, pop-up poetry and spoken-word performances, cooking demo, family lounge, and film screenings.
Jurassic Quest in San Diego
JANUARY 19-21: Embark on an adventure, excavate fossils, train raptors, walk with life-size dinosaurs, and more at Jurassic Quest.
Early Learning & Kindergarten Festival with Long Beach Unified School District
JANUARY 20, FEBRUARY 3, MARCH 2: Families of all incoming 2024-2025 TK and kindergarten students can learn about LBUSD enrollment and school readiness. Participate in free parent workshops, dental screenings, and many more fun activities.
Ben Franklin’s Birthday Celebration at International Printing Museum
JANUARY 20: Celebrate Ben Franklin highlighting his life as a printer. Enjoy working tours, print your own colonial letterpress keepsake, watch a theatre performance, meet Dr. Franklin with a Q&A session, and enjoy birthday cake and colonial punch.
Sci-Fi Movie Night at Columbia Memorial Space Center
JANUARY 20: Bring a blanket and enjoy a screening of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Orange Unified School District Open House & School Showcases
JANUARY 24, 31 and FEBRUARY 7, 21: This year, the community is invited to join the 2024 High School Showcases to learn about OUSD's signature academic programs and tour each brand new STEM complex. Students and families are encouraged to attend any or all of the OUSD High School Showcase events at Canyon, El Modena, Orange, and Villa Park High Schools.
Chicks & Sprouts Educational Workshop at Tanaka Farms
THURSDAYS & SATURDAYS, JANUARY 25 - JUNE 29: Children learn how baby chickens grow inside the egg as well as how plants grow! Children will plant their own giant sunflowers to bring home, harvest a vegetable, and visit barnyard friends.
Free Day at Pretend City
JANUARY 26 - Explore the Museum for free on Friday, January 26!
Movie Night: Transformers – Rise of the Beasts at Petersen Automotive Museum
JANUARY 26: Enjoy an electrifying movie night at the Petersen and stand face-to-face with some of the legendary Transformer movie cars.
Science of Dance at Discovery Cube LA
JANUARY 27: Discovery Cube LA is hosting a day of dance, inspiring creative movement and community! Enjoy performances by Benita Dance Group, get the opportunity to learn dance techniques, and enjoy dance demos and Q&A session.
Stratford School Open House
JANUARY 27: At Stratford School, high expectations lead to extraordinary results. Their advanced, innovative, and intentionally balanced curriculum inspires, challenges, and nurtures the minds and hearts of every student.
Riverside Lunar Festival
JANUARY 27-28: Welcome the year of the Dragon with cultural performances, live entertainment, street food, a kids zone with games and crafts and more!
Meet Baby Shark at Cayton Children’s Museum
JANUARY 27-28: Meet Baby Shark, go on a ocean-themed scavenger hunt, groove at a bubble dance party, enjoy crafts, and sensory exploration.
Environmental Education Day Celebration at Living Coast Discovery Center
JANUARY 27-28: Join the Living Coast Discovery Center to celebrate Environmental Education Day with animal presentations, encounters, discovery tables, and crafts.
Limited-Time Exhibit: Solar System Encounter & Artemis Adventures at Discovery Cube OC
JANUARY 27 - MARCH 3: Enjoy a limited-time return of Solar System Encounter featuring a colossal display of the sun, moon and its planets, plus footage from the Webb Telescope. The all-new Artemis Adventures exhibit allows visitors to drive a remote-controlled lunar rover.
Preview Grumpy Monkey The Musical at Kidspace Children’s Museum
JANUARY 28: Join the cast of Pasadena Playhouse’s Grumpy Monkey The Musical in an exclusive preview featuring songs and scenes from this all-new musical based on the hilarious #1 New York Times bestselling picture book.
February Fun at Pretend City Children’s Museum
Feb 1: Black History Month | Feb 8: Cooking in the City | Feb 9: Way to Play Day | Feb 10-11: Lunar New Year | Feb 11: Baby Steps "Baby Bowl!" | Feb 13: Neurodivergent Family Night | Feb 14: Valentine's Day | Fed 17: STEM Up to the Challenge | Feb 22: Neurodivergent Family Night | Feb 24: Reading with Jas Kaur
Disney’s The Lion King at Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa
FEBRUARY 1-25: Giraffes strut. Birds swoop. Gazelles leap. The entire Serengeti comes to life as never before. And as the music soars, Pride Rock slowly emerges from the mist. This is Disney’s THE LION KING, making its triumphant return to Segerstrom Center for the Arts!
San Diego Museum Month
FEBRUARY 1 - FEBRUARY 29: The event offers half-off admission to visitors at more than 60 museums and cultural institutions. Your pass can be picked up at SD Public Libraries and used for half-off admission four times at any of the museum locations that are part of this program.
Barbie Party in Lakewood
FEBRUARY 2: Enjoy a day with Barbie and Ken as they host fun games and a party for the entire family. Menu includes pasta, meatballs, lemonade, and dessert before the show starts!
Fun-Tastic Family Night in Lakewood
FEB 2, MAR 15, APR 2: Join the City of Lakewood for Fun-Tastic Family Night! Each event includes a light dinner followed by family-friendly entertainment.
Grumpy Monkey, the Musical at Pasadena Playhouse
FEBRUARY 3 - MARCH 3: Watch Grumpy Monkey, a #1 New York Times bestselling picture book, come to life with this live musical performance! Enjoy Jungle Floor Seating for kids to move around and interact with Jim Panzee and his friends.
Bluey’s Big Play Live at Dolby Theatre
FEBRUARY 3-4: Join the Heelers in their first live theatre show, featuring brilliantly created puppets, this is Bluey as you’ve never seen it before, brought to real life.
NASCAR: Clash at The Coliseum
FEBRUARY 3-4: The Busch Light Clash at the Coliseum returns to kick-off regular season for the NASCAR Cup Series. NASCAR Fan Fest features fun, interactive opportunities for fans of all ages.
Summer Opportunities Fair in Pasadena
FEBRUARY 3: Visit one of the largest camp fairs in the nation, plus enjoy games, food, music and more.
Kids Paint Party at Crafted in San Pedro
FEBRUARY 3: Join Chickartdee for a special Valentine's Day themed Kids Paint Party. Everyone will leave with a one-of-a-kind painting. All supplies included. No art experience necessary. Reserve online.
Lunar New Year at SteelCraft in Bellflower
FEBRUARY 3: Join SteelCraft for pop-up shops, lion dancers, live music and more!
Lunar New Year at Runway in Playa Vista
FEBRUARY 4: Celebrate the Year of the Dragon with live performances, traditional Chinese arts & crafts, food, raffles, and local vendors.
Make a Guidebook at Hammer Museum in LA
FEBRUARY 4: Make your own planet or island and create guidebooks for these strange and wondrous places, facilitated by Lorraine Allen Derosa.
Chinese New Year at Bowers Museum in Santa Ana
FEBRUARY 4: Celebrate the year of the Dragon with free art activities, treats, and live performances.
Chinese New Year Festival at Bowers Museum
FEBRUARY 4: Enjoy free art activities, face painting, complimentary treats, and exhilarating dance and music performances.
Free Children’s Workshop: El Día del Cariño / Valentine’s Day at MOLAA
FEBRUARY 4: Join the Museum of Latin American Art to make cariñitos and craft mixed media valentines. Walk-ins welcome.
Hullabaloo Anniversary Concert at Birch Aquarium in San Diego
FEBRUARY 5: Celebrate 20 years of Hullabaloo's foot-stomping, wing-flapping, free-range, organic kid folk music.
Black History Month at Kidspace Children’s Museum in Pasadena
FEBRUARY 18-19: Celebrate Jackie Robinson's legacy through art and music. Be a part of a large-scale community art piece and enjoy music from Ray Briggs.
Lunar Festival in Commerce
FEBRUARY 8-9: Enjoy live cultural performances, foods, handmade goods, a kids zone and more during the Lunar New Year Festival!
Tet Festival at Mile Square Park in Fountain Valley
FEBRUARY 9-11: Families can enjoy traditional Vietnamese food, carnival rides, a firecracker display, lion dances, and live performances.
Stu-panda-ous Valentine’s Dinner & Turning Red Movie at The El Capitan Theatre
SELECT DATES, FEBRUARY 9-25: Celebrate Valentine's Day at El Capitan Theatre with a reserved ticket to Pixar's Turning Red at 7pm on select dates. Plus, enjoy dinner at Miceli's Italian Restaurant.
Play & Parties Grand Opening in Orange
FEBRUARY 9: Celebrate Play & Parties grand opening in Orange with character meet and greets, face paintings, crafts, photo ops, and balloon animals.
Parents’ Night Out – Valentine’s Party for Kids at AdventurePlex in Manhattan Beach
FEBRUARY 9: Activities include AdventureRoom play, arts & crafts, games & prizes and inflatable bouncers. Pizza dinner included.
Valentine’s Paint & Sip Tea Party at Children’s Museum at La Habra
FEBRUARY 10: Bring your sweethearts to a lovely Valentine’s Paint and Sip Tea Party! Enjoy juice or tea and cookies and paint a beautiful Valentine's Day canvas.
Lunar New Year Celebration at Diamond Jamboree in Irvine
FEBRUARY 10: Mark your calendars and join us for a memorable start to the Year of the Dragon! Details TBA.
Lunar New Year at Cayton Children’s Museum
FEBRUARY 10: Join special guests, UCLA's ACA Lion Dance group, for a performance and a lively parade throughout the museum. Celebrate with hands-on activities like lion puppet making, lantern decorating and Chinese pellet drum crafting.
Paw Patrol Live! “Heroes Unite” in Long Beach
FEBRUARY 10-11: Calling all good citizens! The PAW Patrol is yelping for help as they face their greatest challenge yet.
Alice’s Wonderland at South Coast Repertory
FEBRUARY 10-25: In this pop and hip-hop musical inspired by the Lewis Carroll classic, Alice is a brilliant, passionate teen who dreams of making the world better by creating a video game called “Wonderland.”
iHeart SOCO + the OC Mix
FEBRUARY 10: Enjoy a day of activities and crafts at SOCO + the OC Mix. Featuring a butterfly pollinating and greeting card stations. Make memories at the interactive photo booths and snack on small bites of local businesses.
Valentine’s Event at Forever Wild: Exotic Animal Sanctuary
FEBRUARY 10: Enjoy a day of meeting and learning about the animals in the sanctuary, and partaking in the activities and attractions during the event.
Valentine’s Day Family Cookout at Tanaka Farms
FEBRUARY 10: Enjoy a farm-to-table meal, make your own chocolate dipped strawberries, go on a tractor-pulled wagon ride, and visit the barnyard animals.
Lunar New Year Dragon Egg Workshop at LA Arboretum
FEBRUARY 10: Celebrate the Lunar New Year with this magical family workshop. While learning more about Lunar New Year and the dragon trees at the Arboretum, participants will create fantastic dragon eggs to remind them to be bold and strong like a dragon in the new year.
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