[photo credit: Kidspace Children’s Museum]
The evening is one of five in the museum’s Sunset Music Series, a summer run on which the nonprofit stays open until 8:00 p.m., each night built around a different cultural tradition and none costing anything beyond general admission. Friday’s program, which the museum calls “Journey through the Philippines,” features Kayamanan Ng Lahi, a nonprofit founded in Los Angeles in 1990 that translates its own name as “treasures of our people.” The museum states on its event listing that the series was funded in part by a grant from the Pasadena Community Foundation.
The extended-hours block runs from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Kayamanan Ng Lahi will perform twice within it, at 5:30 p.m. and 7:00 p.m., in the Stone Hollow Amphitheater. Hands-on art-making runs alongside the performances, according to the museum. The museum’s regular hours run 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Altadena arrives earlier in the day. The Altadena Library District parks its mobile library, a unit it calls Curiosity Connection Vol. 2, outside the museum every Friday from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. Visitors who open a library card there receive $3 off Kidspace admission for up to four guests, according to the museum.
Admission is $17.00 for adults and for children ages 1 and older, and $15.00 for seniors 62 and older. Infants under 1 and museum members enter free. The museum does not accept cash. Reservations are recommended but not required.
Friday’s program is the fourth of the five 2026 dates. The series opened June 26 with West African drumming and dance by Le Ballet Dembaya, continued July 10 with the Sounds of Joy Kolintang and Angklung Ensemble, and reached July 24 with Masanga Marimba. It closes August 21 with Ballet Folklorico de Esperanza.
Kayamanan Ng Lahi presents Philippine folk dance and music and has been part of the Music Center’s performing artists roster, which describes its dancers working with bamboo poles, fans, fishnets, drinking glasses and coconut shells as props and instruments.
Families may bring a picnic or buy from the museum café and food trucks, the museum says. Sara Jennings, the museum’s senior marketing manager, told Pasadena Weekly in May that she hoped families would “experience joy together” across the summer’s programming.
The amphitheater sits on the museum’s 3.5-acre campus at 480 North Arroyo Boulevard, Pasadena, CA 91103, near the Rose Bowl. Parking is free in Rose Bowl Lot I, near the Jackie Robinson Baseball Field and the Rose Bowl Aquatics Center. The museum is reachable by Metro and Pasadena Transit, and can be called at (626) 449-9144. Tickets and the full calendar are at kidspacemuseum.org/calendar.
The company’s name translates as treasures of our people. On Friday, in Brookside Park, it unpacks them.
