Claremont Colleges Events

Prospective students and their families have the choice of two dates to preview the Pitzer campus. Join us for a day of special activities to learn more about Pitzer College.

Get growing! Choose from thousands of native and California-friendly plants, including a vast selection of perennials, flowering shrubs, spring bulbs and native wildflower seeds. Consult our friendly plant experts for help with selection and planting decisions! Refreshments for sale, shuttle service available for shoppers and plants.
Plant list available on our website in October!

Everyone is welcome to join our "convivio" at lunch time (starting at 11:30 am) at the Private Dining Room in the McConnell cafeteria at Pitzer College. The talk will begin at noon.

What is Spanish Encuentros Tables?

Every Friday Pitzer hosts jornaleros, or day laborers from Pomona for lunch. The workers help students by providing a forum to practice Spanish with native speakers while discussing contemporary issues surrounding immigration, including organizing, worker rights, activism and many other topics. Professor Calderón envisioned these encounters five year ago.

This symposium is a 5-C event designed to showcase the array of research topics undergraduate students undertake while studying abroad. The goal is to creatively disseminate research findings and inspire first- and second-year students to consider studying abroad. Open to the public.

Rachel V. Huang (Scripps/CGU faculty), violin, and Paul R. Bishop (Scripps performance staff), piano, will play pieces by Francis Poulenc, "Sonata for Violin and Piano" and Joaquin Nin, "Seguida Espagñola."

Balinese music and dance by Gamelan Burat Wangi.
Twenty-five gamelan players and 14 dancers enact scenes from a Balinese adaptation of this ancient Hindu epic brought to Bali from India more than a millennium ago. Directed and choreographed by the distinguished duo of I Nyoman Wenten and Nanik Wenten.

Historian, University of Pittsburgh speaks about former Japanese Prime Minister Takahashi Korekiyo.

In this junior and senior joint recital, Mollie McLaren '10, mezzo-soprano and Eddie Sayles '11, tenor, are joined by pianists Leanne Welds '10 and Gayle Blankenburg in works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Samuel Barber, Vincenzo Bellini, Aaron Copland, Henry Purcell, and Ralph Vaughan Williams.