[photo credit: City of Pasadena]
The activity, called “Collage Your Role Model!,” takes place at the Santa Catalina Branch Library as part of the City of Pasadena’s month-long observance of National Women’s History Month.
Mayor Victor M. Gordo proclaimed March 2026 as Women’s History Month in Pasadena on behalf of the City Council, and the collage event is the first in a series of library programs running through the month.
The 2026 national theme, selected by the National Women’s History Alliance, is “Leading the Change: Women Shaping a Sustainable Future.”
The subject of each collage is up to its young maker. The City’s announcement invites participants to honor “anyone from an actress to your grandma to a women’s rights activist to a teacher.”
The library will provide collaging supplies. Participants may bring copies of their own photos or use images provided at the branch.
The Santa Catalina Branch, at 999 E. Washington Blvd., has roots in the community that stretch back more than a century. Established in 1913, it is one of the oldest branches in the Pasadena Public Library system.
The collage event opens a busy stretch of Women’s History Month programming at Pasadena’s branch libraries.
An “I Am” Radiating Paper Mosaic workshop for ages 13 and up follows on Thursday, March 12, at 3:30 p.m., also at Santa Catalina. On Saturday, March 14, the branch hosts Amelia Earhart’s Paper Plane Race at 3 p.m. The San Rafael Branch Library will hold a bookmark-making activity for adults on Friday, March 20, at 11 a.m.
Beyond the libraries, the Pasadena Commission on the Status of Women will host “HERstory 2026: The Path Forward for Pay Equity” on Saturday, March 14, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Robinson Park. That event features a panel discussion with excerpts from the 2024 feature film Lilly, starring Patricia Clarkson as Lilly Ledbetter, according to a separate City of Pasadena press release.
“Women of every race, class and ethnic background have made history contributing to the growth and strength of Pasadena in countless recorded and unrecorded ways,” Mayor Gordo said while presenting the Women’s History Month proclamation at a March 2 City Council meeting.
The Pasadena Public Library has also assembled a curated reading list of titles by women authors and on the topics and experiences of American women, available at Bit.ly/
Registration for this afternoon’s collage activity is required.
Collage Your Role Model!, Saturday, March 7, 2026, 3 p.m. Free; ages 9 and up. Registration required. Santa Catalina Branch Library, 999 E. Washington Blvd., Pasadena. For more, call (626) 744-7272 or visit CityOfPasadena.net/Library/
