Joshua Desert Retreats
Recommended Calendar of Events
December 2011
- Winter Light Parade | Saturday, December 10th or second Saturday of December
This is a fun parade for the whole family, whether your in it or just watching on the sidelines. The general rule is: If you can put lights on it, you can enter it. Everything from cars and floats, to pets and skateboards have been entered in the past.
The parade travels around Luckie Park, and is followed by a bonfire, caroling, and festive refreshments.
For information, call the 29 Palms Chamber of Commerce at (760) 367-3445.
- Geminid
Meteor Shower December 13th
Around 70 meteors an hour can be seen in the southern sky
- Christmas Tree Lighting | TBA
M.C.A.G.C.C. - (760) 830-6213
- Headquarters Battalion Ball | TBA
M.C.A.G.C.C. - (760) 830-6213
January 2012
- 11th Wonder Valley Music Festival - TBA
At The Palms Resturant - (760)361-2810
Featuring: Ben Vaughn Desert Classic, I See Hawks in L.A., Get Set Go, The Sibleys, Gertie Fox, The Fresas
83131 Amboy Road - 29 Palms, CA 92277
Free Admission and Free Camping On-Site - (760) 367-5522
- New Years at the Integratron - Jan 1st 12-4pm
Bring your wishes, dreams and good intentions for the new year! You'll receive a Sound Bath, enjoy warming Fire and Music. Hot food and drink will be available for purchase. $20/person RESERVATIONS ARE REQUIRED. Integratron is an acoustically perfect tabernacle and energy machine sited on a powerful geomagnetic vortex in the magical Mojave Desert.
- Public Sound Bath - TBA
The Sound Bath is a 30-minute sonic healing session that you can experience while
resting comfortably in the Integratron's highly resonant, multi-wave sound chamber.
- Art Classes at 29 Palms Creative Center & Gallery – Jan 14th 12-2pm
Creating dazzling stained glass designs using copper foil and lead-free solder. All the necessary tools and stained glass are at your disposal during your instructed class. Doug also offers to design, build, and install a custom stained glass piece for a site specific location or a gift for someone special. Stained Glass $30
- LA Times Travel & Adventure Show | Jan 27th-29th
The Los Angeles Times Travel & Adventure Show is held at the Los Angeles Convention Center.
Travel Trade: Friday 9am-6pm
Public: Saturday & Sunday 10am–5pm
- Art Classes at 29 Palms Creative Center & Gallery – Jan 21st 12-2pm
Gretchen will show you the mysterious technique of printing with Akua Intaglio inks where a different amount of oil is added to each color, making the inks resist each other. This creates a mysteriously magical effect that is only possible with viscosity printmaking. This class is an excellent way to explore the dynamics of color! Viscosity Printmaking $55
- Theatre 29’s Jake's Women - Jan 13th-Feb 11th
Theatre 29 is a non-profit community theatre and this year there are many plays lined up!
This month through February, Jake's Women will be performed and following in March-April is Lost in Yonkers.
General admission is only $12, senior & military $10 and students $8!
February 2012
- Public Sound Bath at the Integratron TBA
The Sound Bath is a 30-minute sonic healing session that you can experience while resting comfortably in the Integratron's highly resonant, multi-wave sound chamber. It is only $10!
- Art Classes at 29 Palms Creative Center & Gallery – Feb 4th 12-2pm
Creating dazzling stained glass designs using copper foil and lead-free solder. All the necessary tools and stained glass are at your disposal during your instructed class. Doug also offers to design, build, and install a custom stained glass piece for a site specific location or a gift for someone special. Stained Glass $30
- Theatre 29’s Jake's Women - Jan 13th-Feb 11th
Theatre 29 is a non-profit community theatre and this year there are many plays lined up!
This month through February, Jake's Women will be performed and following in March-April is Lost in Yonkers.
General admission is only $12, senior & military $10 and students $8!
- Art Classes at 29 Palms Creative Center & Gallery – Feb 11th & 18th 12-2pm
Gretchen Grunt attended Idyllwild Arts where she was instructed by a master book artist, Laura Wait. Eager to share her new knowledge, Gretchen will show you how to set colorfulmediums free with primitive printmaking, writing & painting techniques to create a one-of-a-kind handmade book using the leather strap or the raised cord sewing methods. The Artist's Book Part I & II, $55 per class
- Reach Out Morongo Basin's 8th Annual Parade of Homes - Feb 19th 12pm-5pm
Once again this year you will be able to participate in the Parade of Homes. This is the 8th parade for Reach Out Morongo Basin and it acts not only as a fun tour, but also as a fundraiser for ROMB. Join Reach Out for an intimate historical tour look at some of the most beautiful homes in the Morongo Basin including the All His Ranch, Desert Willow Ranch and Big Horn Ranch. The parade is a great way to both see your community closely and to give back to it. The self-guided tours include a map and lunch.
Tickets are $25 and can be purchased starting January 5th, 2011 at the Reach Out offices in the Yucca Valley and Twentynine Palms Senior Centers.
Yucca Valley and Twentynine Palms Senior Centers
- President's Day Run at Southern Railroad Museum - Feb 17th-19th
March 2012
- Desert Wildflower Season is from March to about May and should be especially beautiful this year with all of the rain this winter.
- Sunburst Art Studio | TBA
Sunburst Art Studio offers one day & weekend workshops for drawing, painting, recycled materials, ceramics and a series of women's workshops to learn the basics of how to build things. They use the majestic Mojave Desert as inspiration.
- Art Classes at 29 Palms Creative Center & Gallery – Mar 10th & 17th 12-2pm
Creating dazzling stained glass designs using copper foil and lead-free solder. All the necessary tools and stained glass are at your disposal during your instructed class. Doug also offers to design, build, and install a custom stained glass piece for a site specific location or a gift for someone special. Stained Glass Part I & II, $60 per class.
- Theatre 29’s Lost in Yonkers - Mar 11th-Apr 7th
Theatre 29 is a non-profit community theatre and this year there are many plays lined up!
This month through February, Lost in Yonkers will be performed and following in May-June is A Little Murder Never Hurt Anybody.
General admission is only $12, senior & military $10 and students $8!
- Art Classes at 29 Palms Creative Center & Gallery – Mar 24th 12-2pm
Choose from a wide selection of bisque ware clay creatures or functional ware to learn how to design and glaze. Gretchen offers a whole rainbow of colors to dazzle your custom cup or bowl, or a mystical figurine, piggy bank, or vase. Depending on which bisque ware you choose to paint, the prices vary, starting at $15 to $25 to $35 to $45 or on up to $60.
- Wildflower Wanderings Field Class | TBA
Ranger, Dar Spearing will lead this all day field class on a tour through the colorful flowers of a desert spring $60
Oasis Visitor Center, Joshua Tree National Park
74485 National Park Drive, 29 Palms 92277 (760) 367-5535
For more info please visit JoshuaTree/wildflower.org
- Hutchins Motor Sports | Polar Bear Run & Scavenger Hunt TBA
Rider check in at 8 am at Hutchins Harley Davidson, entry fee $25
includes commemorative t-shirt. 50/50 cash raffle to benefit Reach Out Morongo Basin. More information available at www.hutchinshd.com or (760) 365-6311
- Wonder Valley Homestead Cabin Festival
February - March 31
Festival opening at Fi-Lox-See February 9th, 2pm-7pm. 'Homestad Show 'n Tell' at The Palms Feb 23rd.
Artists, writers, performers, musicians, and just plain folks will be part of the Homestead Show 'n Tell open gallery and open stage at The
Palms Restaurant as part of the Wonder Valley Homestead Cabin Festival. Readings and performances are limited to 12 minutes each. The festival will take place at the Fi-Lox-See Gallery, The Palms Restaurant, and elsewhere in Wonder Valley.
More Info: WonderValleyArts.com
April 2012
- Desert Wildflower Season is from March to about May and should be especially beautiful this year with all of the rain this winter. For more info please visit Desert USA Wildflower Reports
- Theatre 29’s Lost in Yonkers - Mar 11th-Apr 7th
Theatre 29 is a non-profit community theatre and this year there are many plays lined up!
This month through February, Lost in Yonkers will be performed and following in May-June is A Little Murder Never Hurt Anybody.
General admission is only $12, senior & military $10 and students $8!
- Joshua Tree National Park Art Festival | Apr 6th-8th, 9am - 5pm
Work exhibited at the Art Festival reflects the the artists' interpretation of the landscape, wildlife, history, or archaeology of Joshua Tree National Park and the California deserts. Subjects are presented in representative or abstract form and do not have to be site-specific. Original work on display and for purchase includes the following media: sculpture, drawing, painting, ceramics, gourd art, photography, and other two- and three-dimensional art forms. Free.
Joshua Tree National Park Visitor Center, 29 Palms
74485 National Park Drive, 29 Palms 92277 (760) 367-5525
- National Park Week April 21st-29th
During National Park Week all National Parks have FEE-FREE DAYS! The National Park Services have selected days & weeks throughout the year for all parks to be free to all visitors.
- Art Classes at 29 Palms Creative Center & Gallery – Apr 14th & 21st 12-2pm
For 6 years & up, we offer throwing on the wheel to make your own cup or other functional ware. Learn to wedge clay, center on the wheel, and throw your own pieces. Once your ware is bisque fired, you'll learn to design and glaze the surface with bright fun colors. Pottery on the Wheel Part I & II, $60 per class.
- Art Classes at 29 Palms Creative Center & Gallery – Apr 28th 12-2pm
Creating dazzling stained glass designs using copper foil and lead-free solder. All the necessary tools and stained glass are at your disposal during your instructed class. Doug also offers to design, build, and install a custom stained glass piece for a site specific location or a gift for someone special. Stained Glass $30.
- Bike Ride through the Park Supports Shoes That Fit | May 17
The ninth annual Bike Ride Tour through the Park, named after the founder of the original ride Art Ehrenberg, will once again support the Shoes-That-Fit program. This charitable program is sponsored by the four Rotary Clubs in the Morongo Basin in concert with Reach Out Morongo Basin, provides underprivileged school-aged children with gift certificates for the purchase of new shoes for school.
For more information and for registration online go to Bike 4 Shoes
- Hilltoppers M.C. “29 Palms Wild West Grand Prix”
First weekend in April. There are different classes in which riders participate including Kids and Pee-Wee racing, Vintage, Classic, and a Pro Team race with a minimum $3000 purse. Over 1300 riders participate. Races begin at 8:00 a.m. both days; grandstands are available for spectator viewing. Vendors and food booths will be open both days.
Gate fee is typically $10.00 per person, per day or $15.00 per person for the weekend. AMA, D-37 cardholders, seniors and military I.D. holders typically pay $5.00 per day or $10 for the weekend. Children aged twelve and under are free. Overnight camping is allowed. This event is held annually in the late spring/early summer.
For more detail, please contact the 29 Palms Chamber of Commerce (760) 367-3445.
- Poplight Art Exhibit | Every Sat and Sun, 7pm
Wonder Valley artist Helena Bongartz has been creating Poplight in the vast dark desert night amid the salt flats near Amboy ongoing for two years. A constantly changing dual-video projection dances on a solitary and semi-abandoned cabin with digitally manipulated images arising from shards of plastic pop bottles. Weekend nights, weather permitting, rain and high winds stop the show.
Amboy Road, about 45 minutes east of 29 Palms (before Amboy)
For more info please visit PopLight.net
- Retro UFO Spaceship Convention
TBA
What really happened at Giant Rock in the 60's and 70's? And what is happening now? Hear first-hand stories from the people who were there. $125 per day, $225 for both days includes lunch. Space limited, first come, first served.
(760) 365-3266 or Email to retroufo@gmail.com
