The CAT Team began this year under the new leadership of Jim Hendrick and Bob Niemack, thanks to Jim convincing Bob that it would be easy to do and would require little work and certainly no reports to be written.

Many on the team stepped up to lead Villagers on wonderful cultural adventures.

Jane Hufnagel

“Monuments” exhibit at Geffen Contemporary

Metrorail Trip to new LACMA Galleries

Trips to Sante Fe Dam for bird watching with the Audubon Society

Boston Court to see “Night of the Iguana”

Karen Bagnard

Art Reception for Art from The Ashes

Escape from The Holocaust - Arline Golden

9/10 Centering Sounds Concert: African & Latin American Rhythms by Earthseed

Schmoozendoodle goes Organic!

Village Holiday Bazaar

Wickedly Wonderful Witches’ Brew

Lost Trees of Altadena Return Home w/ Jeff Perry

Staff Connections: Nathan’s Work in Zambia

Author Talk with Dr. Sky Lea Ross

Art Reception - Celebrating the Future w/ Jane Brackman

A Holocaust Story: Father & Grandmother’s Escape from Nazi Vienna feat. Helen Kraus

Staff Connections – Rick Valladares

Irish Shenanigans Breakfast

Art Reception: Karla Field

Staff Connections – Kieran Highsmith

Acts of Art for Vintage Celebration

Art Reception: Maureen Kellen-Taylor

John Merriam

Riverside Art Museum & Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art

Lucinda Haagenson & John Merriam

Getty Center Excursion

LuCinda Haagenson

Book Talk with Dale LaCasselle

Outing to Ballona Wetlands

Jim Hendrick

Lunch & Where Were You When: 9/11

Lunch & Where Were You When: Television Has Arrived

Centering Sounds Concert: A Solo Stroll Through the Blues w/ Preston Smith

Author Talk with Ben Loory

Poetry/Author Talk with Carla Rachel Sameth

Art Heists with Helane Rheingold

How Did You Get Here? Lunch

Bob Niemack

Part I: Behind the Scenes of Signs of Life

Part II: Excursion to Signs of Life

TV: Behind the Scenes – The Singing Cowboys

TV: Behind the Scenes - “Beyond Death”

TV: Behind-the-Scenes - Garbage

TV: Behind-the-Scenes - “Return to Iwo Jima”

TV: Behind the Scenes – “Bad Dads”

Pasadena Heritage Walking Tour – Playhouse District

Broadway Gamble Ramble

The Huntingtons – From England to San Marino with Daren Higa

Intergenerational trip to Griffith Observatory to see “Signs of Life”

TV: Behind-the-Scenes - “Shoot/Don’t Shoot”

TV: Behind-The-Scenes - "Scared Straight!”

Gertrude Stein and the Birth of Modernism #1 presented by Nick Stein

An Evening of Karaoke

Patti LaMarr

9/3 Centering Sounds Concert: 20’s, 30’s & 40’s with Art Deco Entertainment

Introduction to Arcadia Travelers

Outing to Pasadena Playhouse – Brigadoon

Norma Shammas

A Noise Within: One Man, Two Guvnors

A Noise Within: Richard III

Jeff Gutstadt

Outing to The LA Opera - West Side Story

LA Philharmonic Concert – Brahms & Beethoven

Opera - Magic Flute

Frits Claase

Excursion to Queer Lens at The Getty

Kim Santell

Hilbert Museum in Orange

Mary Gandsey

Gamble House Tour

Prakash Shrivastava

Community Canvas Project – Diwali Celebration

Bridget Brewster

Kintsugi Workshops

Patrick Matthews

Jack Rutberg Fine Arts Gallery

Opera screening – The Marriage of Figaro

Toni Johnson

LA Opera: Akhnaten

Donna Sider

Artist Talk with Kate Muehlemann-Cataldo

Rubel Castle in Glendora

Dick Myers

9/24 Centering Sounds Concert: Great American Songbook & Classic Rock

Village Staff

Community Canvas Project

Artist Talk with Kate Muehlemann-Cataldo

LGBTQ+ Movie screening: Celluloid Closet

9/9 Conversations with Art: Hispanic & Latino Artists

Out of the Ashes: A Journey of Resilience through Jazz

Village Connections: Art Journaling at Washington Park Community House

Pacific Opera Project: Zorro

Centering Sounds Final Concert at Lineage

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