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The Claremont Forum is a non-profit community organization serving the city of Claremont and its neighbors. Our mission is to promote individual and social well-being through education, arts and wellness programs. We’re also proud to sponsor the nationwide Prison Library Project which sends books to inmates nationwide.
Since 1985, we’ve hosted over 500 community events, including lectures, workshops, art exhibits and performances. We sponsor Claremont’s Sunday Farmers & Artisans Market and have created a vibrant community service program for local volunteers through the Prison Library Project.
The Claremont Forum
For Arts, Education & Community Service
The Claremont Forum is a non-profit community organization serving the city of Claremont and its neighbors. Our mission is to promote individual and social well-being through education, arts and wellness programs. We’re also proud to sponsor the nationwide Prison Library Project which sends books to inmates nationwide.
Since 1985, we’ve hosted over 500 community events, including lectures, workshops, art exhibits and performances. We sponsor Claremont’s Sunday Farmers & Artisans Market and have created a vibrant community service program for local volunteers through the Prison Library Project.
The Claremont Forum
For Arts, Education & Community Service
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SPIRITUALITY STUDY GROUP, WRITER'S WORKSHOP, JAPANESE, INLAND VALLEY STORY TELLERS, CONSCIENTIOUS PROJECTOR
In Our Gallery
Wednesday, February 1 - Tuesday, February 28
Twila Knight has a true passion for Photography. She has had a camera in her hand for as long as anyone can remember. Growing up, modeling became her involvement with the camera, until children and family became her soul. That is when she picked up the camera once again and started finding a love in capturing the beauty of the world through her perspective of it. Now her work is based on the things she loves. This show was a grouping of places at the beach, one of the main stays in her life. She goes every chance she gets to sit out by the waves. Her children and husband go, sometimes with camera in hand, right along with her, and they all capture the people and places that catch their eye. The support of her husband and children, and being able to teach her children her passion, fuel the fire inside. Whether she is on a motorcycle, working on cars, hiking and camping, or putting make up on her models for her shoots, this true Aquarian simply does what she loves, and from that comes art.
Lear more at TwilaKnight.com
Friday, February 17th from 8:00 - 10:30 PM
Tickets: $5.00 or a new paperback dictionary.
This is a benefit concert for the Prison Library Project. Savall Isona and musical guests play psychedelic inspired indie rock. Listen here.
Listen to xoxo tomemitsu here. About xoxo tomemitsu: xoxo tomemitsu is the side project of basement babies bassist, Martin Roark. He crafts songs with acoustic guitar, vocal drone, and ambient synthesis. The music derives from classical pop structures mixed with heavy doses of nostalgia and digital tape bliss.
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Lecture Series with Allan Hartley: Carl Jung
Sundays, March 4, April 1 and 29 from 7:00 - 9:00 PM
Allan Hartley presents what he researched about the women who collaborated and expanded on the teachings of psychoanalytic psychology with the founder, C. G. Jung. Hartley is the founder, publisher, editor of New Perspectives: A Journal of Conscious Living.
Sabina Spielrein - patient, confident, then analyst, portrayed in movie “A Dangerous Method”; Emma Jung wife, author, researcher, analyst; Toni Wolff mistress, researcher; Esther Harding analyst, author; Aniela Jaffe secretary, author; others. We will touch on each person’s relationship with Jung and their impressive amount of work.
Women were personally supportive to Jung when he split with Freud and when he went through his Nekyia that led up to the Red Book. Other women came to him as patients and later became analysts. Women then and now maintain institutes and spread the teachings.
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1st Street Gallery Art Center: Mixed Media Art Show
Saturday, March 31 - Tuesday, May 1
Poetry: Presented by the Friends of the Claremont Library
Sunday, April 22 from 2:00 - 5:00 PM
Meet Author Sam McPheeters as he reads from his latest book THE LOOM OF RUIN
Friday, April 27 from 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Trang Yang is an angry, angry, angry man, neurologically incapable of any emotion but rage. He's also L.A.'s most successful gas station franchise owner. But no one can quite seem to figure out what makes him tick. Not the LAPD, who have long since granted him full immunity. Not his boss, who scrutinizes him with covert psychologists. Not the corporate spies who infiltrate his stations. And certainly not the encroaching FBI, who know only that Trang is involved in something big and dangerous and that time is running out. Buy or read more on Amazon
2nd Annual Packing House PHestival of the Arts
Saturday, April 28 from 1:00 - 4:00 PM
Join the City of Claremont and the Packing House Merchants for a FREE family art event. Exhibits, performances, mini-classes, entertainment and more in the Packing House. Follow and learn more on Facebook.
Our bookshop/community center hours of operation:
Tuesday: 12:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Wednesday: 12:00 - 7:00 PM
Thursday: 12:00 - 7:00 PM
Friday: 12:00 - 8:00 PM
Saturday: 12:00 - 8:00 PM
Sunday: 12:00 - 5:00 PM
The Claremont Forum, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, was established in 1985 to encourage the development of arts, wellness and community service in the local community with a specific focus on the Prison Library Project and local arts programs. The Claremont Forum is dedicated to advancing education, to nurturing community-wide participation in the cultural arts, and to sponsor the weekly Farmer’s & Artisans Market in downtown Claremont.
Website updated and maintained by Claremont Forum volunteers. For information about the website please contact Rachel at rachel@claremontforum.org.