[photo credit: Visit Pasadena]
Basketball Bonanza: Adaptive Sports for Every Body, scheduled for March 7, is a partnership among Kidspace, Angel City Sports and Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. The event brings wheelchair basketball skills workshops, free play and midday entertainment to the museum’s 3.5-acre Pasadena campus, according to a Kidspace press release.
Angel City Sports, a Los Angeles-based nonprofit that provides adaptive sports programming for people with physical disabilities, will field an all-star team for a wheelchair basketball exhibition game against a CHLA challengers squad at 12:30 p.m. Children can join the action at halftime.
After the game, the Rollettes — a Los Angeles-based wheelchair dance team founded in 2012 — will perform and lead a dance clinic. The Rollettes have performed at NBA games and competed internationally.
“We’re proud to partner with Angel City Sports and Children’s Hospital Los Angeles to create a day where everybody is part of the team,” Lisa Clements, Kidspace CEO, said in the press release. “When children see athletes of all abilities competing, collaborating, and celebrating together, it expands their understanding of who an athlete is and what is possible.”
The event runs 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Morning hours from 10 a.m. to noon feature skills workshops and free play. The exhibition game begins at 12:30 p.m., followed by the Rollettes performance and dance clinic at 1 p.m. Skills workshops continue through 5 p.m.
Basketball Bonanza is included with general museum admission: $15.50 for adults and children ages 1 and older, $13.50 for seniors 62 and older, and free for infants under 1 and museum members. Tickets are available at kidspacemuseum.org. Kidspace is located at 480 N. Arroyo Blvd. in Pasadena. Free parking is available in Rose Bowl Lot I.
Wheelchair basketball is played in more than 100 countries and has been a Paralympic sport since 1960. The event takes place as the 2026 Paralympic Winter Games are underway in Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy.
Angel City Sports, which hosts more than 250 adaptive sports clinics a year across Southern California, has previously partnered with Kidspace for adaptive sports programming at the Pasadena museum.
