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Echo Park Rising

All day @ Echo Park Lake
El Segundo Main Street Car Show

All day @ Main Street
818 Legends Party: A Decade of 8one8

1:00pm @ 8one8 Brewing
Garden Concerts for Kids: Divinity Roxx Presents: Divi Roxx Kids World Wide Playdate

4:00pm @ The Getty Center
Levitt Pavilion Los Angeles Summer Concert Series 2025

6:00pm @ Levitt Pavilion Los Angeles @ MacArthur Park
NoHo Summer Nights: IT’S BRITNEY BEEP

7:00pm @ North Hollywood Recreation Center
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826LA@Hammer: Images + Imagination: Poetry Inspired by Collage

11:00am @ Hammer Museum
WonderLAnd! with UniverSOUL Hip Hop Dance Company

11:30am @ The Ford
Sensory Friendly Mornings

8:00am @ Discovery Cube Los Angeles
8th Annual OC Yoga Fest

9:00am @ Huntington Beach Pier
Smorgasburg 2025 Ice Cream Alley

10:00am @ ROW DTLA
Dancing in the Light: Healing with the Arts

11:00am @ Debbie Allen Dance Academy
Barefoot Dreams Presents A Taste of Malibu

12:00pm @ Barefoot Dreams Flagship Store
Soulful Sundays at Festival of Arts

5:30pm @ Festival of Arts
Warner Concert Series

5:30pm @ Warner Park
Agoura Hills Summer Concerts in the Park 2025: Brandon Ragan Project

6:00pm @ Chumash Park
Richard An with House on Fire

7:30pm @ Sierra Madre Playhouse
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Rapunzilla, The Monster With The Golden Hair

10am-11:15am @ Occidental College
Nisei Week

All day @ Japanese American Cultural & Community Center
Honest x Babylist Pop-Up Opening

12:00pm @ Babylist Beverly Hills Showroom
Bamboozled: An Unexpected Bamboo Adventure

All day @ South Coast Botanic Garden
Tea for Two: The Teapots of Gloria and Sonny Kamm

12:00-6:00pm Tues-Sat @ Craft in America Center
A Midsummer Night's Dream

All day @ Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum
Titanic: A Voyage Through Time

All day @ Beverly Center
Rescue Exhibition

All day @ Discovery Cube Los Angeles
2025 Pokémon World Championships

8 am - 6 pm @ Anaheim Convention Center
Creative Minds: Italian American Inventors and Innovators

10:00am @ Italian American Museum of Los Angeles
Wired for Wonder: A Multisensory Maze

10:00am @ Kidspace Children's Museum
Diary of Flowers: Artists and Their Worlds

11:00am @ The Museum of Contemporary Art
Butterfly Pavilion

9:30am @ Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
From Los Angeles to Catalina: The Art of Sonia Romero

10:00am @ Catalina Museum for Art & History
Kidspace Campout

10:00am @ Kidspace Children's Museum
Fairytale CAMP

10:00am @ CAMP Los Angeles
World of the Terracotta Warriors: New Archaeological Discoveries in Shaanxi in the 21st Century

10:00am @ Bowers Museum
Sunset Series at South Coast Botanic Garden

5:00pm @ South Coast Botanic Garden
Kayak Harbor Tour

9:00am @ Ocean Institute
Grand Performances

6:00pm @ California Plaza
Guided Snorkel Tour

7:30am @ Ocean Institute
The World’s Biggest Boombox

10:00am @ Citadel Outlets
ANTARCTICA 3D

11:00am @ The California Science Center
Sunset Sail

4:30pm @ Ocean Institute
Summer of Smorgasburg

10:00am @ ROW DTLA
Bioluminescence Night Cruise

8:30pm @ Ocean Institute
59th Annual Sawdust Art Festival

11:00am @ Sawdust Art Festival
Youth Art Classes at Festival of Arts

12:30pm @ Festival of Arts
Teen and Adult Art Classes at Festival of Arts

3:00pm @ Festival of Arts
Paint and Sip Art Classes at Festival of Arts

8:30pm @ Festival of Arts
Alice and the Wonderful Tea Party

12:30pm @ Santa Monica Playhouse
Griffith Park Free Shakespeare Festival: Love’s Labour’s Lost

7:00pm @ Griffith Park
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All-Inclusive Zumba

6:00pm @ San Fernando Recreation Park
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Family Story Time Meetup

9:00am @ South Coast Botanic Garden
PCH Explorers Kids Club: Summer Edition

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Toddler Sing-Along at the Skirball

3:00pm @ Skirball Cultural Center
Story Time at CAMP: Walter’s Magical Alphabet Hunt

12:00pm @ CAMP Los Angeles
Shucked

2:00pm @ Dolby Theatre
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The Point Kids Club: Wildlife Safari

10:00am @ The Point
PLAY at The Steps

10:00am @ The Culver Steps
Toddler Sing-Along at the Skirball

3:00pm @ Skirball Cultural Center
Tribute Wednesdays at Festival of Arts

5:30pm @ Festival of Arts
All-Inclusive Zumba

6:00pm @ San Fernando Recreation Park
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Seaside Sessions

4:00pm @ Dana Point Harbor
Tulum Thursdays

6:00pm @ LouLou
Concerts on Canon

6:00pm @ Beverly Canon Gardens
The Hayden Tract Sunset Cinema Series: Wicked

6:00pm @ The Hayden Tract
Summer Music Series at The Original Farmers Market

7:00pm @ The Original Farmers Market
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Open Clay Time

3:00pm @ Craft Contemporary
Cultivate: Migration

4:30pm @ Descanso Gardens
Summer Vibes Night Market

5:00pm @ Partake Food Hall
Family Music Night: Global Grooves

5:30pm @ Begg Pool
Somos NELA Night Market

6:00pm @ Somos NELA
Moonlight Hikes

7:00pm @ Coldwater Canyon Park
Buena Vista Orchestra

8:00pm @ Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall, Segerstrom Center for the Arts
Move Night: 10 Things I Hate About You

8:00pm @ Ivy Station
Beach Movie Nights: Ferris Bueller's Day Off

8:00pm @ Dockweiler Youth Center
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North Hollywood Farmers Market

8:30am @ North Hollywood Farmers Market
Low Sensory Mornings at the Petersen

9:00am @ Petersen Automotive Museum
CLIC Community Pop-Up Market

11:00am @ City Language Immersion Charter
Endless Summer C.A.M.P. (Community | Art | Music | Picnic) at Tongva Park

11:00am @ Tongva Park
Making Scents of the Ancient World: Pylos Perfume Workshop

11:00am @ Getty Villa
Shvona Chung presents Hop Around

11:00am @ Vroman's Bookstore
Back to School Carnival

11:00am @ LBX Hangar
Rockin' Awesome Improv Show

11:00am @ Youth Academy of Dramatic Arts
Sensory-Inclusive Space Crafts

2:00pm @ Mar Vista Branch Library
Jae Ho! India Independence Day Celebration

3:00pm @ Levy Adult Center
Torrance Summer Nights: Sangre Nueva Salsa Band

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The City of Santa Clarita's Concerts in the Park

5:00pm @ Central Park
“California Dreamin’: A Benefit for the Arts”

5:30pm @ Festival of Arts
Off the 405: Emile Mosseri

6:00pm @ The Getty Center
Levitt Pavilion Los Angeles Summer Concert Series 2025

6:00pm @ Levitt Pavilion Los Angeles @ MacArthur Park
Nerd Out at the Garden

6:00pm @ South Coast Botanic Garden
Musica Transalpina

7:30pm @ Sierra Madre Playhouse
Movies Under the Stars at One Colorado

8:30pm @ One Colorado
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South Bay Walk for Water

7:00am @ Hermosa Beach Pier
Smorgasburg 2025 Ice Cream Alley

10:00am @ ROW DTLA
A Faery Hunt and Their Animal Friends

10:30am @ Kindred Spirits Care Farm
Foam Block Fun: Family Printmaking Workshop

11:00am @ The Getty Center
Artist-at-Work: Printmaking

11:00am @ The Getty Center
Soulful Sundays at Festival of Arts

5:30pm @ Festival of Arts
Warner Concert Series

5:30pm @ Warner Park
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All-Inclusive Zumba

6:00pm @ San Fernando Recreation Park
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Santa Monica 4th of July Parade

Ocean Park Library

Free

Fri, Jul 4

9:30am - 12:00pm

The 2025 Santa Monica Parade celebrates the Arts!

FULL DESCRIPTION

Join Santa Monica for 18th its annual Fourth of July Parade celebrating the vibrant artistic spirit of the community. Pick up your free goody bag from the Main Street Visitor Information Center to receive an art kit, coloring sheet and Santa Monica-themed treats, available to the first 200 kids.

Parade kicks off at 9:30 a.m. at Pico and Main Street and ends in Beach Lot 5 South. The official grandstand announcement location will be in front of the Ocean Park Library.

Ocean Park Library

2601 Main St., Santa Monica, CA 90405, USA

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