Where: Meeting at Palos Verdes Nature Preserve at 30940 Hawthorne Blvd Rancho Palos Verdes, CA 90275

What: Nature Walk/coffee around the Preserve.

Stopping at yellow vase for a quick coffee/tea on our way back from our walk @Yellow Vase: 31248 Palos Verdes Dr W, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA 90275

You are welcome to bring your pets/dogs.  Plenty of parking if we get there early.

Location: Millie’s Cafe - Pasadena

What: Book club discussing Mount Holyoke College’s common read, Parable of the Sower

Hosted By: Caitlin Healey

RSVP Below!

Hosted By: Pattie Firestone

What: Mountain Day Celebration & Book Discussion of Frances Perkins book Becoming Madam Secretary. 

When: Tuesday, October 14 @ 4:00pm - 6:00pm

Where: 453 Las Alturas Rd. Santa Barbara, CA 93103

Parking instructions to follow RSVP.

Hosted By: Jackie Duvivier (Club President)

What: Mountain Day Hike + Coffee Hang

When: Saturday, October 11 @ 10:00am - 12:00pm

Where: Griffith Observatory- 2800 E Observatory Rd, Los Angeles, CA 90027

Meet at Trails Cafe for a quick and easy 3 mile loop followed by a coffee and scone :)

Hoted By: SoCal Alum Begonia Martinez

What: Break bread and mingle over some tapas and cava!

Where: 35205 Del Rey Dana Point, CA 92624

Location: West LA

What: Book club + potluck style dinner! *Special Activity* Bring paints and sketchbook / canvas if you want to dabble in some plein-air painting!

Address will be provided upon RSVP.

Hosted By:

RSVP - heale20c@gmail.com

RSVP Below!

Location: Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook 6400 Hetzler Rd Culver City CA 90232. This is the address to the parking lot. We can meet there and walk down.

What: Summer goal is to hike down and take the stairs back up and enjoy the beautiful view. It will be early enough to avoid the huge crowds and the bright sun.

Parking: Lot address provided above.

Remember: Bring your water bottle and walking shoes. Let's do this!!

Hope to see you ALL there!!

Location: First Congregational Church of Los Angeles

540 S Commonwealth Ave, Los Angeles, CA

The MHC SoCal Club Board is supporting a sister women’s organization in this one of kind concert. We have 3 FREE tickets (first come first serve) to join your host Mary Sheehan Rajswing rajswing2@aol.com for this wonderful event!!

Weather the Storm

VOX honors the fifth anniversary of the murder of George Floyd in this moving concert featuring the treble choir World Premiere of Rollo Dillworth’s “Weather."

Join VOX and three-time GRAMMY-nominated vocal activist Melanie DeMore for a concert that invites the audience to not only listen but to explore and acknowledge the ways in which they can make the world a better place. This concert will inspire you to sing, compel you to stand together, and leave you with a renewed sense of hope.

For more info go to:

https://www.voxfemina.org/current-season

Location: BMO Stadium DTLA

Are you a sports fan??? Or just want to have a fun evening with your fellow alums!!! Join us for a night of excitement to cheer on our very own Los Angeles Angel City FC women’s soccer team in DTLA at BMO Stadium.

Angel City FC will be playing Chicago Stars FC on 6/7/25 at 7:00 PM.

We have blocked off a group of tickets all together for this fun event. First come first serve … Tickets are $46 a person and can be reserved by RSVPing ASAP on our website and sending payment upon confirmation.

Hollywood Fringe Festival:The Wizard of Oh No

Synopsis: Angie McDormitt’s (self-proclaimed intersectional theater-maker and human soul) dream is to bring her own modern retelling of The Wizard of Oz to 2025 audiences. With a few last-minute dropouts, big egos, and tech snafus, the production does not go exactly as she imagined.

Location: Jaxx Theatre, 5432 Santa Monica Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90029

Tickets: https://www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/11492?tab=tickets

Cost: Friday, 6/6: $5 tickets with discount code: preview All other dates: $15 plus tax. JUST KIDDING! Let us cover the tax for you. Use discount code: MHCCLUB

Parking: Get there early to find parking! Rideshare is recommended. Parking lot available at 1110 N Western Ave.

Hang Out After the Show: Jim and James, 4854 Fountain Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90029 (4 minute drive from the theater. Food and drinks available for purchase).

RSVP below or to your host Emma Boisselle boisselle.e@gmail.com

ATTN: Book Club in North Hollywood Los Angeles!

Reading: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

Location: To be provided upon a ‘YES’ RSVP

Central LA Brunch Meet up

Hectic times call for community and a good meal. This spring, one week after Mother's Days, Central LA Mount Holyoke folks will gather to enjoy both. 

Join us on Saturday, May 17, for brunch at Great White in Larchmont Village. All the details are below. 

Location: Hammer Museum @ UCLA : 10899 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90024

What: Turiya Rising Performance Series: Step into the galleries of Alice Coltrane, Monument Eternal every Sunday for special performances on a stage designed for the exhibition by artist GeoVanna Gonzalez. Each performance is presented in celebration of Coltrane’s legacy as a musical innovator and as an ode to her Sunday services at the Sai Anantam Ashram.

Deluge Presents: Naliah Hunter & Adee Roberson: https://hammer.ucla.edu/exhibitions/2025/alice-coltrane-monument-eternal

Parking: Under the museum, $8 flat rate on weekends. Cash or credit card.

Remember: This free program is not ticketed. Limited seating in gallery will be available on a first come, first served basis.

Location: Sand Dune Park 3299 Bell Ave, Manhattan Beach (hike) and 840 CA-1 #110, El Segundo (brunch)

What: Spring hike to get your endorphins flowing and enjoy the beautiful views. It will be early enough to avoid the huge crowds and the bright sun.

Remember: Bring your water bottle and walking shoes. And Wear your MHC Gear!!

Hope to see you ALL there!!

Hosted by: Aretha Kou

Location: Kenneth Hahn Park / First Meet @ Norman O. Houston Park 4800 S LA Brea Ave, Los Angles CA 90008 park our cars and then walk over to Kenneth Hahn Park.

What: Kenneth Hahn Park walk/hike around the park! Beautiful view of downtown LA plus Martin Luther King Memorial. After our walk you are welcome to join us at Hilltop Coffee & Kitchen for tea/coffee or meal 4427 W. Slauson Ave Los Angeles CA 90043.

Parking: FREE PARKING @ Both locations (Norman O Houston Park & Hilltop Coffee & Kitchen)

Hope to see you ALL there!!

Enjoying contemporary art and MHC alums!!!

Location: MOCA Grand 250 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90012

What: MoCA Grand Focus: Ana Segovia In his paintings, Ana Segovia (b. 1991, Mexico City) twists assumptions about masculinity through a queer lens. Working with an aggressive palette of fluorescent colors, daring compositions, and cinematographic framing and cropping, Segovia undermines the gendered basis of national identity built around hypermasculine archetypes—such as the charro or cowboy—that have been standardized by film. The artist, who is a direct descendent of major players in the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema, an era spanning from the early 1930s to the late 1960s, has been using film stills drawn mostly from this auspicious tradition as a source for his paintings. Ordinary People: Photorealism and the Work of Art since 1968 Reexamining the postwar art movement of photorealism and tracing its lineages in art of the present day, Ordinary People: Photorealism and the Work of Art since 1968 includes more than forty artists (largely though not exclusively North American), spans the 1960s to the present, and features paintings, drawings, and sculptures. This historical, scholarly, group exhibition recovers the social art history of photorealism and complicates its meaning as a realism.

Hosted By: Suzy Stevens ‘76 suzycs@aol.com

RSVP - on our website or to suzycs@aol.com

Remember: Wear your MHC gear!!

Pasadena Playhouse Evening

Location:Pasadena Playhouse Theater
39 S. El Molino Avenue
Pasadena, CA 91101

What: An evening of drinks and theatre to watch this Pulitzer Prize winning play by MHC Alum Suzan-Lori Parks, ‘85. Tickets going fast and range from $117 - $40. Please buy your own tickets. Show starts at 8 pm.

Meet for a pre-show drink and mingle at 7 pm at The 1894 (wine bar) a block away from the theater. 695 E Colorado Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91101

Remember: RSVP on the website.

Calling all creative MHC alums!

Location: Plantitas Market 4003 E 4th St, Long Beach, CA 90814

What: Let's make something and get to know each other in real life. Take this 2 hour guided workshop for a hands-on experience in building your very own ceramic planter to take home for yourself or to gift to a loved one! You will be taught by Isabella, an experienced ceramics artist. Come unleash your creativity and design your own pot for a new plant baby.

Registration is $55.20 and includes all necessary materials (clay) and tools, and getting your finished piece fired by Isabella at a studio (which can take a few days). Note: allow up to two weeks from the date of the event for the pieces to be ready for pick up at Plantiitas Market. Early bird registration before February 28 is $44.52. Purchase your own ticket here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/planter-building-workshop-tickets-1200377564609?aff=oddtdtcreator.

And then RSVP here so we can save you a seat! Afterward, we will go across the street to Alder + Sage together for lunch or drinks. You can enjoy the vintage shopping along retro row on 4th street for the rest of the day, or relax at the art theatre for an afternoon screening.

Hosted By: Sara Stanza ‘06 and Elsa Tung ‘05

Plantiitas Market. 4003 E 4th St, Long Beach, CA 90814

RSVP - sara.stanizai@gmail.com

Remember: Wear your MHC gear!!

Location: Pasadena (address shared upon RSVP)

What: Start your Saturday with warm coffee, fresh bagels, and a creative experience designed to nourish your mind and soul. Through guided therapeutic art, you’ll explore self-discovery, resilience, and connection—all in a welcoming space where you can simply be. No art experience needed—just bring yourself, sip, create, and reconnect with what truly matters.

ATTN: Book Club in Mid-City Los Angeles!

Reading: Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

Location: To be provided upon a ‘YES’ RSVP

MHC Mary Lyons Birthday Celebration in Santa Barbara!

Location: Barbara Hauter’s Home / 212 Equestrian Avenue, Santa Barbara

What: Dinner & Drinks - Please bring what you want to drink. Barbara is making dinner. If you know how to  make Deacon Porter’s hat, that would be fun!

Remember: RSVP to Barbara Hauter <hauterb@gmail.com>

Parking: After 5:00 p.m. people can park for free at the County Admin building at the end of my street. (Mid-block between Anapamu and Victoria on the left hand side, immediately across from end of Equestrian Ave. I live at 212 Equestrian.) 

Celebrate Mary Lyon's Birthday with a social happy hour :)

Location: Gulp Restaurant located at 13020 Pacific Promenade #1 Los Angeles 90094.

What: Catch up on the latest college news. Prize for the alum who can produce the recipe for Dean Porter's Hat!

Hope to see many alums from Silicon Beach and the Westside there!

Remember: Wear your MHC gear!!

Let's celebrate MHC Founder Mary Lyon's Birthday with a hike and a scone!!

Location: Meet at the Trails Cafe 2333 Fern Dell Dr, LA in Griffith Park.

What: This is a quick and easy 2 mile r/t hike up to the observatory and back down to enjoy a delicious homemade scone at the Cafe after.

Remember: Wear your MHC gear!!

Join the MHC SoCal Club Board for an evening of cheer and mingling!!!

Date: Saturday December 14th ,2024

Time: 6 pm - 8:00pm

Location: Home of Jacqueline Duvivier Castillo ‘91

1100 Wilshire Blvd Apt 1705 Los Angeles, CA 90017 

(DTLA- St metered parking & paid Joe’s lot in the back)

MHC Club - Goleta Holiday Party!

• Tuesday Dec. 12 from 5:30-8pm 

• Location: Paula Bruice’s home— 1141 Via Del Rey, Goleta

Please BRING an appetizer to share with 8 people :)

LA County book club will meet in the SF Valley at Caitlin Healey's house (address provided upon "yes" RSVP). The title up for discussion in Dec. is The End of Drum-Time, by MHC alum Hanna Pylväinen.

MHC alumnae performing with Sandra Tsing Loh this coming Sunday 11/17 in West LA.

Website below for further info & Ticket link:
https://odysseytheatre.com/whats-on/ill-burn-that-bridge-when-i-come-to-it-a-post-apocalyptic-home-companion/

This is a second try at the Descanso Gardens walk in La Canada. It's a beautiful sight to see!

When & Where:

Let's meet at the cafe by the entrance at 10am on Saturday, November 2nd.

Directions and Info:

Can be found here: https://www.descansogardens.org/

Hosted by Regional Connector Katherine Stevenson

Game Night in North Hollywood!! Come play games and meet new alums.

Light snacks will be provided. Address will be given out upon RSVP.

Please use the form below to RSVP!

Mountain Day at the Beach Meet at Malibu Lagoon State Beach

Address: 3835 Cross Creek Road (at Pacific Coast Highway)

Parking: Available but the lot is small-- other options are to park across the street, cross at the light or along side PCH.

Game Plan: We will be meet at the beginning of the gravel walkway past the parking area, and walk to the beach and back. Ice cream follows across the street.

Wear comfortable shoes, bring binoculars if you like birds and sunscreen. Easy walk.

Hosted by Regional Connector: Amy Raine