Clarkia Flower Festival

Get ready for the most vibrant event of the year: the Clarkia Flower Festival! Mark your calendars and invite your friend to join us for a fun-filled day celebrating nature and community. Join us on Saturday, May 16 from 10 am to 4 pm for an unforgettable celebration featuring exciting nature activities, a lively beer garden, fantastic live music, amazing community organizations, and so much more! Admission to this event is free and open to the public, no RSVP required. You won’t want to miss out on this blooming good time! Event Highlights: Tables from local organizations Themed Naturalist Walks Engaging talks and activities about nature Delicious food trucks A fun beer garden Live music Arts and crafts for everyone Food Vendors: Rice Balls of Fire Creamy Boys Flaming Grain Sunseri’s Bar and Beverage Catering Vendors: Invertebrate Club of Southern California Margaret Gallagher Art Berbo Studio Hunny Bunny Studios Fostering Flowers Soapure Louise Fleurs Sunny Tran Crafting for Cancer LA Is Not A Desert Growing Works Nursery Community Partners: Altadena Seed Library Resource Conservation District of the Santa Monica Mountains California Wildlife Center (CWC) CNPS Santa Monica Mountains Chapter Friends of the LA River (FOLAR) Los Angeles Public Library Los Angeles Regional Collaborative for Climate Action and Sustainability Save the Vireo Southern California Botanists Stunt Ranch Tawa Compost The Xerces Society Theodore Payne Foundation Tree People Women Forage SoCal Westwood Greenway National Forest Foundation HoneyLove Community Organized Relief Effort Vets Garden UCLA Organizations: Bruin Birding Club Congo Basin Institute at UCLA Sage Hull UCLA Botanical Club UCLA EEB Undergraduate Association UCLA ESN Ecological Restoration Association UCLA Campus Biodiversity 2025 IoES Practicum Special thanks to our sponsors: Los Angeles County Supervisor Lindsay Horvath, UCLA Health, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, UCLA Department of Life Sciences, the W Los Angeles, and UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. Visit this link for more information about parking on campus and an interactive parking map.