Neighborhood News

Family Science Day  |  Pacific Palisades

Seven Arrows Elementary School and Roots & Wings TK Center will host Family Science Day on Sunday, May 21, from 2 to 5 p.m. at the Aldersgate Campus, located at 925 Haverford Avenue.

“Join us for an afternoon of family fun and science,” read an event flyer.

Open to all, Family Science Day will feature makerspace and robotics, nature conservation, family science workshops, and food and refreshments.

Attendees ages 2 and up are invited to bring their “most creative” Lego or Duplo creations for a building contest, where all entries will be put on display. Prizes will be awarded.

There will also be a garbage collection contest, with attendees invited to pick up trash off the street or beach and bring it in. Bags will be weighed and prizes awarded to the heaviest.

There will be informational booths, including Resilient Palisades, Los Angeles Mushroom Society, birdwatching specialist Ann Flower, Pacific Palisades Garden Club, Temescal Canyon Association and Palisades Forestry Committee.

For more information or to sign up to attend, visit bit.ly/familyscienceday.

—SARAH SHMERLING

Calvary Conversation  | The Highlands

Researcher and educator Jason Craige Harris will share “insights from the psychology of compassion and belonging” and what it teaches about empowering children to make a difference in the world in a discussion that is open to the public on Thursday, May 11, at 8:15 a.m. at Calvary Christian School.

“As parents/guardians, our responsibility for rearing children ready for this complex world has taken on new urgency and significance,” according to a press release about the event, which is part of the Calvary Conversation program. “We must be equipped with tools to raise compassionate children—and to ready them to address the gap in care and belonging in the world around them.”

—LILY TINOCO

‘Big Read’  |  Palisades Branch Library

Palisades Branch Library will host a book discussion and film screening as part of the National Endowment for the Arts Big Read on Saturday, May 13, at 12 p.m.

“The NEA Big Read, a partnership with Arts Midwest, broadens our understanding of our world, our communities and ourselves through the joy of sharing a good book,” according to a flyer.

This year’s book selection to be discussed is “Interior Chinatown” by Charles Yu. The library will also be hosting a screening of “Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood.”

—LILY TINOCO

Village Green Work Party  |  The Village

The community is invited to join Palisades Village Green for its monthly clean-up efforts on Saturday, May 20, from 9 to 11 a.m.

“We provide gloves, brooms, rakes, etc. to spruce our favorite little park,” Village Co-President Betsy Collins said. “All are welcome.”

—LILY TINOCO

Palisadian Book Launch at Zibby’s Bookshop  |  Santa Monica

Zibby’s Bookshop—owned by Marquez Knolls resident Zibby Owens—will celebrate the paperback launch of fellow Palisadian Leslie Lehr’s “A Boob’s Life” on Saturday, May 13, at 11 a.m.

In “A Boob’s Life: How America’s Obsession Shaped Me—and You,” Lehr utilized her personal experiences, history and current discussions to advance the conversation, and to take autonomy over it.

“It’s a very neat book because it’s a hybrid between a very, very intimate, very emotional, personal memoir, but it expands out to the entire culture,” Lehr previously said to the Palisadian-Post. “It stands for these larger trends and changes that have happened to our society over the last 50 to 60 years … The book doesn’t solve the problem but I think it helps create a real awareness.”

Lehr will be in attendance, joined by Cassandra Lane, editor-in-chief of L.A. Parent magazine.

A Mother’s Day Giveaway will include two copies of the book, a $50 gift card to Zibby’s Bookshop, two John Kelly chocolates and two “A Boob’s Life” mugs.

—LILY TINOCO