This weekend!
March 27-29
Beverly Hills
Friday
Voluspa’s Vanilla Sunday Ice Cream Social
Celebrate the launch of Voluspa’s newest gourmand fragrance at Cassetta with limited-edition soft serve, Cloud Nine lattes, and photobooth moments. The first 50 purchases will receive a gift.
Saturday
Lululemon X Hot Holy Healed Walk + Shop Experience
A curated wellness and shopping experience in Beverly Hills, featuring gifting, private shopping, raffles, and a walk around Beverly Hills.
West Hollywood
Sunday
Room to Read
A women’s leadership panel event that brings together a diverse mix of women across industries as the perfect way to closeout Women’s History Month. They will have a live DJ, with cocktails and thoughtful moments for networking woven throughout.
Culver City
Friday
Game Night
Game Night returns with board games, good company, and classic soul and RnB music. Guests are welcome to bring a favorite game to join in.
Mid City
Sunday
Collaging Workshop
Collage to make new wall art for your home, create a greeting card, or bring a notebook to set compositions on.
West Adams
Friday
Creative Networking Mixer
A free night to meet other creatives. Meet someone new, share what projects you’ve been working on, reminisce about old ones, or leave inspired to dream up something new. There will be music, wine and snacks.
Downtown
Friday
Speed Dating Social
Society of Cosmetic Chemists at USC invites you to their Speed Dating Social. Enjoy light bites from Porto’s and exclusive goodies from Anastasia, Dermalogica, and Mugler.
Saturday
Slow Motion
A day of wellness and community, starting with a 5K, matcha drinks, a floral workshop, and a sound bath.
Saturday
Spring Equinox Collage Party
An afternoon of vision boarding to celebrate the new season. Magazines are provided.
Saturday
Archives of Us One Year
AOU celebrates one year with a neighborhood event, bringing together a closet sale, a Pepper Pout Beauty pop-up, flash tattoos, and music. The first 100 guests will receive a complimentary hat.
Sunday
Jazz cats
Tea, live music, and cat lounge.
Highland Park
Saturday
Oblivion & Crap Market
A market with food, drinks, and live music.
Sunday
Vänskap Welcome Party
Celebrate Vanskap Coffee’s home base at Cheerio Collective with pizza, drinks, live music, and a 50% off sale. Enjoy complimentary coffee with purchases of $65+.
Melrose Hill
Sunday
Sunday Picnic
Sunday Picnic returns to Steve’s Backhouse featuring coffee, matcha, baked goods, plants, and ceramics in the courtyard. Step inside to create your own tattoo-style fridge magnets.
Burbank
Sunday
Coffee & Clay
Join Claytivity Burbank for a day filled with specialty coffee, matcha, hojicha, a live DJ set, a hands-on wheel throwing demo, featured ceramic artists, and more.
Montecito Heights
Saturday
Cyanotype & anthotype Sun Printing
Explore alternative printing methods that use the sun to develop images.
Multiple Locations
Friday-Sunday
Marby X LA
Marby is popping up at some of LA’s favorite Pilates studios for a week of movement, coffee, matcha, and curated goodies.
Undisclosed Location
Sunday
Have You Eaten Yet?
A Chinese Vietnamese outdoor dinner BBQ.
Being a beginner is cool!
It feels like at some point in your 20s, you’re supposed to have your “things.” The workout you do, the places you go, the hobbies you can casually mention when someone asks what you’re into. And for some reason, being a beginner at something starts to feel so foreign.
And then the new hobbies people do pick up somehow turn into networking or dating events, like pickleball.
It feels like as we get older, we’re supposed to be good at everything we do. When did being a beginner become so uncool?
Over the past 5 years, I’ve picked up horseback riding and ballet. I’m still a beginner. I can’t jump anything, just trot around, but that’s enough for me. There’s something so therapeutic about being on a horse that eliminates any need for competition, even with myself.
In my Beginner 1 ballet classes, I’m surrounded by professional dancers. Half the time, I don’t know where my arms are supposed to go. And when it gets to the dancing portion at the end of class, sometimes I just leave. I don’t strive to be the best in class, I just get to enjoy it for what it is. The present, for me.
Someone I had been briefly spending time with said to me, “I highly doubt you’d start ballet at 27.” Which, honestly, is what made me think about all of this. Don’t let narrow-minded people define how you spend your time.
There’s something really grounding about having a part of your life where you don’t need to excel. It’s not your career, it’s not dating, there’s nothing to prove, no outcome you’re working toward. You don’t have to be good at it. You don’t have to turn it into anything. You’re just there, trying to remember the steps, figuring out where your arms go, trotting in a circle, fully consumed with learning something new. And honestly, that feels a lot cooler than sticking to the things you already know just to be good at them.
I think we make space for so many new things in our lives, new people, new opportunities, new places, but not always for new parts of ourselves.
If anything, that might be the only place left where you get to just enjoy something for what it is.
— Your Friend