Events

Saturday’s inaugural Re:Imagine Garden Grove – Art in the Park event, hosted by the City of Garden Grove and the Garden Grove Unified School District (GGUSD), brought crowds out to enjoy art-themed activities, and visit the GGUSD’s 41st annual First Impressions Student Art Gallery.

Garden Amp is an all-ages, open-air venue located next to Village Green Park on Main Street, Garden Grove, CA.

The Historic GEM Theater is true treasure. Located at the end of Historic Main Street, The GEM is surrounded by quaint restaurants and shops. A vaudeville house in the 1920s, The GEM became a single-screen neighborhood movie theater in the 1930s. The City of Garden Grove remodeled The GEM and reintroduced it as a live theatrical performance venue in 1979.

In August 2017, KLOS, in collaboration with LFA, presented the first annual two-day High and Mighty Festival at Village Green Park. Part of the programming included performances from Sublime with Rome and The Dirty Heads.

The free Outdoor Movie Series is a fun family event held every summer in various locations in Garden Grove, featuring popular movies.

A 2.5-mile route was closed to cars and open to all forms of non-motorized transportation. The Open Streets route spanned from Garden Grove Boulevard at West Street, to Acacia Parkway and Historic Main Street.

Event pop-ups projects, sponsored by “Go Human”, provided a sneak peek into long-term active transportation improvements, such as new bike lanes and roundabouts highlighting concepts from the City’s Active Streets Plan.

The City will be promoting the diamond anniversary, with 60th anniversary street banners highlighting the City’s 60th anniversary logo. During the months leading up to the event in June, the City’s Facebook and Twitter will feature themed photos and videos, highlighting different aspects of the Garden Grove community.

Programming for the 2015 event was influenced by the Goals and Policies in the General Plan to support bike safety and bike education, and ideas from the Re:Imagine community forum to explore new ways to enjoy biking and walking in the civic center while combining it with a street fair, food, music, art, and a night time component.

An “Open Streets” event that invites you to explore Downtown Garden Grove in a new way!

The car-free route of Re:Imagine Garden Grove will traverse sections of Nutwood St., Stanford Ave., Acacia Pkwy, Main St., Euclid St., 8th St., and Garden Grove Blvd. The route will create a temporary public open space for pedestrians, cyclists, skateboarders, joggers and all other forms of non-motorized transportation to utilize.