ArtNight Returns With Live Events on Friday

After almost two years of nearly exclusively virtual programming, Spring ArtNight will return from 6 to 10 p.m. on Friday.

The event will include 15 in-person venues and two virtual participating partners. Lively art, dance, music, videos, and other performances will engage audiences in person.

ArtNight Pasadena welcomes two new partner organizations this spring.

Alkebu-lan Cultural Center will present the visual artworks of Charles Bibbs and Maurice Howard, with music, crafts for kids and storytelling while Remainders Creative Reuse will offer mask-making crafts for all ages, motion drawing and a gallery show.

Other in-person ArtNight events focus on visual art, including the Armory Center for the Arts exhibition “how we are in time and space,” with artists Nancy Buchanan, Marcia Hafif and Barbara T. Smith; the USC Pacific Asia Museum’s celebration of Pakistan’s arts and culture; and an exhibition of annual student scholarship projects at the Pasadena City College Gallery.

Several other in-person venues invite audiences for participatory events: a “Paint Out” at the Gamble House in partnership with the California Art Club will feature live models in period costumes for artists and everyone to draw; the Pasadena Playhouse offers a chance to create improvised stories and characters with “Improv for Actors” teaching artists; and Red Hen Press solicits contributions to the community art wall, creation of black-out poetry and an opportunity to write a 1-page story.

For more visit https://www.cityofpasadena.net/artnight/