Upcoming events in the city of Santa Monica.
On Friday, Downtown Santa Monica, Inc. will be celebrating Park(ing) Day, the yearly world-wide event during which people transform metered parking spaces into temporary public spaces, with its own parklet. From 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Downtown Santa Monica, Inc., the nonprofit…
Via Bay Foundation press release. Santa Monica Next is a “Coastal Host” sponsor of this event. On Thursday, September 28, from 5:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m., The Bay Foundation (TBF) will host its Third Annual Coastal Connections fundraiser at a customized venue in Pacific Park on the Santa Monica…
This Saturday from 4 to 7 p.m., we’ll be celebrating the end of summer and raising money for a good cause at Santa Monica Next’s third annual cocktail party fundraiser. We hope you can join us and our friends, including…
Well, actually, a little bit more than a week since you can even get your tickets at the door on Saturday, September 9 from 4 to 7 p.m. But you have to RSVP here to get the location and join us at this…
Via city of Santa Monica press release. The City of Santa Monica, in partnership with Downtown Santa Monica, Inc., is launching a series of temporary artworks intended to energize the downtown area and enliven Triangle Square and Third Street Promenade…
Santa Monica will once again close off about two miles of streets to motor vehicles for its second-annual open streets event, COAST, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on October 1. “COAST invites you to enjoy approximately two miles of…
As we have been advertising, Santa Monica Next will hold its annual cocktail fundraiser on September 9. We have decided to extend the party an extra hour. The new times will be from 4 to 7 p.m. (instead of 5 to…
While the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times may be selling international vacations with their journalists to help raise revenues, we at Santa Monica Next are a tad more modest. But we still depend on your support to keep the lights…
Via press release from Food Forward, a local non-profit that fights hunger and food waste. How are we doing as a country in eliminating hunger? In his new book, Big Hunger: The Unholy Alliance Between Corporate America and Anti-Hunger Groups, long…
Help support Santa Monica Next at our 3rd annual cocktail party this year on Saturday, September 9 from 5 to 7 p.m. You can get your tickets here. As with past years, we’ll be celebrating in style at the home…
Via the city of Santa Monica website. Santa Monica Public Library is taking its popular How-To Festival on the road! Celebrate National Parks Month at Christine Emerson Reed Park, 1133 7th Street, on Saturday, July 22, 2017 from noon to 3:00 p.m. for an afternoon…
Yesterday, Santa Monica celebrated the Fourth of July in the same way it has for the past decade: a parade down Main Street. The parade, organized by the Ocean Park Association, featured hundreds of marchers and included nonprofit organizations like…
Claims that 60,000 people showed up to the first night of the Santa Monica Pier Concert series were greatly overstated, according to an independent tally released by Pier officials Thursday. Digital Design & Imaging Services, one of the firms that…
Nearly two years after the City Council approved three parklets on Main Street, they will open to the public with a ribbon cutting Sunday at 10 a.m. The three parklets — small public open-space expansions of the sidewalk that usually replace on-street…
This week, the free Twilight Concerts series at the Santa Monica Pier kicks off with Khalid and Bibi Bourelly and Sloan’s Ice Cream opens up on the Third Street Promenade. Twilight Pier Concerts Start On Thursday, 21-year-old German singer and…
