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Pasadena Chalk Festival

Pasadena, CA · Arts & Culture

When

September 26–27, 2026

Where

Pasadena Convention Center plaza · Pasadena · CA

Cost

Not confirmed

Status

Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule

Hundreds of artists spend a weekend on their knees turning the pavement into murals, billed as the largest street painting festival in the world. Everything washes away with the next rain, which is the point.

The history within reach

• Pasadena Chalk Festivalsame spot

  Hundreds of artists spend a weekend on their knees turning the pavement into murals, billed as the largest street painting festival in the world.

• Hotel Green, home of the Valley Hunt Club and the Tournament of Roses0.3 mi

  George Gill Green opened the first of three buildings here in 1893 to a design by Frederick Roehrig, adding annexes in 1898 and 1903.

• Julia Child0.3 mi

  Born to money in Pasadena, six foot two, and by her own account a spectacularly bad cook until she ate sole meunière in Rouen at thirty-six.

• The Home Laundry, an industrial plant in Tudor Revival dress0.3 mi

  Three Pasadena businessmen, among them the hotel man Daniel Linnard, put up this building on Arroyo Parkway in 1922 for their laundry company.

• Jackie Robinson in Pasadena0.4 mi

  He grew up here and was the first athlete at UCLA to letter in four sports in one year, and he was better at football and track than baseball.