• Guided UCLA Botanical Garden Tour – March 21

    Explore a living museum, featuring collections of plants from around the globe! Join a Garden Educator for a free guided 1 hour tour, and hear the stories of a selection...

  • Westside Repair Café

    Join the Repair Café at Joslyn Hall in Reed Park! This event is open to anyone - not just Santa Monica residents. Bring your items to be repaired by volunteers. Please...

  • A Force of Nature Climate Café

    Join a virtual Climate Café! This call is meant to: Have dialogue about the climate crisis & how it makes us feel Hear exciting updates about Climate Cafés coming soon...

  • Fowler Curator Talk: Archival Research Behind Fire Kinship

    Join a conversation with exhibition co-curators Daisy Ocampo Diaz and Lina Tejeda, who will discuss the archival research that behind the making of the exhibition Fire Kinship: Southern California Native Ecology and Art. REGISTER HERE

  • Webinar: Introduction to Composting

    Join a free, live webinar on how to turn yard clippings and kitchen scraps into nutrient-rich compost for your lawn and garden. Webinars are approximately 45 minutes followed by a 15-minute period to answer questions and take orders for compost bins. REGISTER HERE

  • Marina Del Rey Household Hazardous & Electronic Waste Drive-Thru Collection

    The Household Hazardous Waste and Electronic Waste Collection Program (HHW) gives Los Angeles County residents a legal and cost-free way to dispose of unwanted household chemicals that cannot be disposed of in the regular trash. MORE INFO HERE Things You CAN Bring Motor oil, antifreeze Paint, paint thinner Turpentine, cleaners with acids or lye Pesticides...

  • The Fumes of Mars: Book discussion with artist and writer Katerina Angelopoulou

    One of the deadliest wildfires ever recorded took place on July 23, 2018 in Mati, just 30 km from the historical center of Athens. Writer and artist Katerina Angelopoulou survived the fire, and her book, The Fumes of Mars, combines her photographs with personal testimonies from other survivors, timelines, maps, and reports. With these materials,...