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Pasadena Celebrates 132 Years This Sunday
Community May 31, 2018
Victor Gordo makes a point at a recent candidate forum. – Photo by Terry Miller/ Beacon Media News
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132 years deserves a cosmic celebration
By Staff
This year’s Happy Birthday Pasadena celebration takes its theme from the Pasadena Museum of History’s popular exhibition, Dreaming the Universe: The Intersection of Science, Fiction, & Southern California. They invite you all – locals and otherworldly visitors alike – and thank Baja Ranch Supermarket.
The cosmic array of free activities and entertainment is sure to be a pure delight. Don’t miss the Robot Making Workshop. You supply imagination and creativity and Art 2 Go will provide guidance and supplies. Watch in amazement (or horror) as makeup artist Carmen MacDonald brings the Frankenstein Monster to life in the Makeup Demo Studio. Be sure to wish the monster a Happy 200th birthday. Once inspired, let the face painters enhance your look and then watch as wizards from Mind Blowing Balloons make you an amazing accessory. Want a photo op to commemorate the celebration? With the Mayor? Star Wars Stormtroopers? Frankenstein? All three?
That space-themed music you hear will be live – follow the sound and catch a performance by Gypsy Jambo. Be sure to visit the exhibition galleries, the Finnish Folk Art Museum, and all 10 of the Interactive Stations featuring art, education, and history. Get your Intergalactic Passport stamped at each one for a chance to win a prize.
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Pasadena Scots entertain the crowds at Happy Birthday Pasadena most years. – Photo by Terry Miller / Beacon Media News
At last year’s Happy Birthday Pasadena, a Hurdy-gurdy man shows a young girl the fine art of his German Harmonipan. – Photo by Terry Miller / Beacon Media News
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