Event Calendar

Off the Grid is an evening of improv comedy presented by Theatricum’s resident troupe at Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum in Topanga Canyon. The event offers a live comedy program in the venue’s setting, with the performance scheduled for the evening. Admission is paid, and price details are not included in the available event information. Review the official event page before attending for the current performance schedule and ticket information.

Experience The People of Pompeii, an outdoor theater production by Bernardo Cubría at Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum. Following the performance, the program includes a talkback with the cast, playwright, and special guests, providing additional context and conversation connected to the production. The event is scheduled for an evening performance in Topanga. Admission is paid, and no price details are listed in the available information. Visit the official event website for current schedule and ticket information.

The purpose of Child Health Day is to help raise an awareness and a commitment to teaching children and parents the benefits of good health. This event is annually celebrated on the first Monday of October. The day was proclaimed in 1928 by Calvin Coolidge to increase awareness of health issues facing the children in the U.S. including health issues, healthy eating, fitness, child's development, immunizations, preventing injuries, and more.

Browse books, movies, LPs, and DVDs at the Sherman Oaks Friends of the Library Used Book Sale. This monthly Friends of the Library sale is scheduled on the second Saturday and welcomes all ages. Entry is free, while the available items are offered for sale. The October occurrence takes place at the Sherman Oaks Martin Pollard Branch Library, with a four-hour morning and early-afternoon sale window. Check the official event page for current sale details and the latest updates.

Halloween is a holiday celebrated on the night of October 31. Halloween activities include trick-or-treating, ghost tours, bonfires, costume parties, visiting "haunted houses" and carving jack-o-lanterns. Irish immigrants carried versions of the tradition to North America in the nineteenth century. Other western countries embraced the holiday in the late twentieth century. Halloween is celebrated in several parts of the Western world, most commonly in Ireland, the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico and the United Kingdom and occasionally in parts of Australia and New Zealand.