Craft Fair Cool: There’s a reason that April, specifically the part of the month that connects with May, has inspired poets and painters: It’s downright ethereal and definitely beautiful. Artisans and craft-cool people will bring an inspirational spirit to SoCal at Jackalope Pasadena, a free-to-enter craft fair in Central Park April 25 and 26, and Renegade Craft, which is popping up at LA State Historic Park April 25 and 26 (an entry fee of $5 is the suggestion). Home goods, wearables, jewelry, baby toys, and more are part of these two huge and happy scenes.
Art Event Awesomeness: Calling ceramics lovers and anyone who fancies a beautifully shaped pot, plate, cup, vase, or you-name-it: CLAY LA 2026 returns to the Craft Contemporary on the Miracle Mile April 24-26, and your museum admission is your entry fee on April 25 and 26 (April 24 is $20 for non-members, $15 for members). And if you’re headed to DTLA April 25 and 26? It’s time again, big yay, for the free Brewery Artwalk & Open Studios, a twice-a-year delight that gives visitors a chance to visit oodles (like hundreds) of studios and galleries.
Pizza City Fest Los Angeles: Does the word “unlimited” as it applies to pizza tastings send you into a delicious daydream, where slices dance and pies sizzle? Same. This mondo two-day spectacular will feature different pizzerias each day, and a host of pizza pros paneling-it-up and giving helpful demos for at-home pizza cooks. Desserts are a focus, too. Be sure to check the attendees on April 25 and 26 so you can plan to be at L.A. Live when the places you want to try are in the house.
CicLAvia West LA: Oh hello again, CicLAvia, we’ve missed your closed-to-cars energy and your big-bike-fun pizzazz and your get-out-and-be-with-neighbors flair. This is the first open streets events of the year from the CicLAvia crew, and it is rolling through three miles of West Los Angeles April 26 (sizable sections of Westwood Boulevard and Santa Monica Boulevard will be open to people-powered movement and closed to motorized traffic). We’re so ready to roll again, beep beep.
Stagecoach Music Festival 2026: If you’re clip-clopping in the direction of the Empire Polo Field in Indio, and you’ve got your boots at the ready and the desire to dance, dance, dance, you’re likely making for this colossal country extravaganza, a music festival brimming with big stars and plenty of homespun-meets-haute diversions. Post Malone, Hootie & the Blowfish, Cody Johnson, Lainey Wilson, Lyle Lovett, and Wynonna Judd are on the line-up, along with a plethora of spirited and full-of-heart-and-honky-tonk artists. It’s boot-scootin’ April 24 through 26.