APRIL 2015 NEWS 

 
 
Dear Members & Friends of Claremont Heritage,

We hope to see you at one or more of the events listed below! Especially our annual Gala:
 
An Evening at Padua
.   
Make sure you mark your calendars
for Friday, May 8th to attend our annual Gala!
 
This year, our annual fundraiser will be held at the historic
Padua Hills Theatre
~
We promise you a wonderful evening - and for a very good cause!
 Claremont Heritage is our communities only 501(c)3
not-for-profit organization whose sole mission is to preserve and celebrate our Heritage.
 
Enjoy an inspired menu, cocktails and live jazz at this elegant and historic location.  Of course a raffle, live and silent auction featuring many local artists as well as the presentation of Claremont Heritage's two annual awards, the Bess Garner Preservation Award and Cultural Heritage Award, will keep you entertained and engaged!  This is our largest fundraiser of the year and guaranteed to be a fantastic evening. You can pre-order tickets to the Gala HERE. 

 david shearer
David Shearer, Executive Director



  7TH ANNUAL EARTH DAY |

Saturday April 18 | 10:00 am - 3:00 pm | 2nd Street Claremont Village

 
Be Sure to Visit the Claremont Heritage Earth Day Booth and pick up a copy of our Spring Newsletter and learn about how
PRESERVATION = SUSTAINABILITY
 


CLAREMONT ECLECTIC: The 2nd Annual Sustainable Claremont Garden Club Tour


Sunday April 19 | 10:00 am Check-in at Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden | Tour 1:00 - 4:00 pm 

Check in begins 10 a.m. at Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden 

(Tour Gardens are available for viewing from 1-4 p.m.)

 

Claremont Eclectic: The 2nd Annual Sustainable Claremont Garden Club Tour provides a unique opportunity to visit six outstanding and varied local gardens. If you are interested in spectacular and inventive Claremont landscaping, you won't want to miss this! The tour is Sunday, April 19, from 1 to 4 p.m. and the price of the ticket ($20) includes admission to Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden (within 30 days of event date). Ticket holders are welcomed to enjoy the Annual Wildflower Show event also occurring on April 19 at the Garden.

  

Tickets may be purchased online up to the night before the tour, in person in advance at Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden's Admissions Kiosk, or on April 19 at Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden.

Garden Tour Ticket holders can pick up a brochure and tour map at Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden beginning at 10 a.m. on Sunday April 19 (RSABG opens at 8 a.m., ticket holders are also welcome to enjoy the Garden before 10 a.m. as well.)

 

You can purchase tickets online now and up to the night before the tour HERE, or buy them at the RSABG admissions kiosk, Claremont Heritage, Rio de Ojas, and Vom Fass Claremont.

 

Proceeds benefit Sustainable Claremont Garden Club and Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden.

 

 

TICKETS STILL AVAILABLE ! Stop by Claremont Heritage before this Saturday -  
open weekdays 9:00 am  - 1:00 pm Garner House 840 N Indian Hill Blvd




CLAUDIA RANKINE BOOK READING

Monday April 20 | 4:30 pm | Bridges Hall of Music

Meet one of our 2015 Cultural Heritage Awardees - Claudia Rankine who will receiving the award with her husband John Lucas at our Gala Event May 8th at the Padua Hills Theatre!

Claudia Rankine, winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry, will give a reading from Citizen: An American Lyric at 4:30 p.m. on Monday, April 20 in Bridges Hall of Music at Pomona College. The reading is free and open to the public. Bridges Hall of Music is at 150 E. Fourth St., in Claremont.

 

Rankine, Pomona College's Henry G. Lee Professor of English, has been lauded widely for her boundary-crossing work, blending poetry, essays and images.  Praised for her "consummate talent" and "courageous spirit," over the course of the last year Rankine was featured in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times and Los Angeles Magazine.  In Citizen, Rankine examines everyday racism in the U.S.  

 


GOLD LINE UPDATE
|

Wednesday April 29 | 6:00 - 8:00 pm |Alexander Hughes Center
Padua Room - 1700 Danbury Rd.  Claremont, CA 91711

Meet Claremont's Gold Line Station artist, Joyce Kohl and see how plans are developing in our City


GUIDED WALKING TOURS |  
 
Saturday May 2 | Claremont Village Walking Tour with Ginger Elliott

10:00 am  - 12:00 pm | Meet in front of Historic Claremont Depot - 150 W First Street
FEE: $5/person - pay at tour |
INFO/RSVP: 909.621.0848 or click
 HERE 





ANNUAL GALA EVENT |
An Evening at Padua

Friday May 8 | 6:00 - 10:00 pm | Padua Hills Theatre  INFO: 909.621.0848 
 

*Invitations are in the mail and tickets are available online HERE 

It is not too late to gain positive community exposure by being a sponsor of the Gala - If you or your company would like to help underwrite this event please contact David Shearer or Kristen Fass at 909.621.0848 or click HERE to learn more! 


PO Box 742 (mailing)
840 N Indian Hill Blvd (office)
Located in the Historic Garner House in Memorial Park
hours: Monday  - Friday 9:00 am  - 1:00 PM

(909) 621-0848