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Garden Club’s
June – Garden of the Month
“Strawberry Creekside Stroll”

While water is still flowing, you won’t want to miss this shady stroll along Strawberry Creek to discover June’s Idyllwild Garden of the Month.  Marilyn Kemp’s creekside garden is an experience you won’t want to miss.  Park near the Amphitheatre / Brewpub and find the path along Strawberry Creek and saunter downstream. When you reach the two wooden chairs (and our Garden of the Month sign), you’ve reached the destination. Rest on the chairs or stroll past our Garden Club sign and into Marilyn’s Garden side garden. Her lovely garden includes Junipers, Privets, Cherry Laurel, Pyracantha, English Ivy, Artemisia (Great Basin Sagebrush), Smoke Tree, Snapdragon, Euonymus, Lilacs, Grevillea and Rock Roses (beautiful blooms).

This hidden stream-side trail is shaded with mature Alder, Willow, Pine, Cedar, Canyon and Live Oak trees. You’ll also find a cornucopia of native plants, including California Rose, Thimbleberry, Meadow Rue, Snowberry, Gooseberry, Columbine, Bracken Fern, Checker Mallow, Hedge Nettle, California Fuchsia, Mugwort, Sedge and Juncus (Rush), Mahonia (Oregon Grape), California Everlasting, and, of course, strawberries. You will also encounter several non-native invasives includes Armenian Blackberry, Ivy, Vinca and Mustard. Special THANKS to Michael Duval for his great expertise in confirming identification of the plants.

If you know an impressive Idyllwild garden you’d like to have featured, please contact Stephen Sutton at (562) 254-6721 or stepheninidy@gmail.com

Thursday June 18
Yarn Club
Idyllwild Library
10 am – Noon

Join us for Yarn Club where you can meet other knitters and crocheters!  Bring a project to work on as you share ideas and make new friends!  All levels welcome. 

Thursday June 18th
Michael Kabotie Lecture Series and Native Foods Luncheon with Kimberly Blaeser (Anishinaabe, White Nation)
Krone Library
12:00 Noon

Kimberly Blaeser (Anishinaabe, White Earth Nation), is a Writer, Photographer, Scholar, and the Founding Director of Indigenous Nations Poets. Kimberly will perform recent poems, including works from her award-winning collection Ancient Light, and will underscore the healing and activist roles Indigenous poetry can play in our imploding world. Her performance will also include her nature photography and the short poetry film, “Poems for a Tattered Planet,” featuring members of the national Indigenous Nations Poets organization. A Native foods luncheon will be provided.

Thursday June 18th
Fireside Book Club
“East Of The Mountains”
Idyllwild Library
2:00 pm

David Guterson’s East of the Mountains follows Dr. Ben Givens, a retired, terminally ill heart surgeon and widower who journeys into eastern Washington intending to stage his suicide as a hunting accident, only to have his plans altered by a series of unexpected encounters that rekindle his will to live.

Thursday June 18th
Chess League
Community Center
54201 Ridgeview Dr.
Ages 5-14: 3:30 – 5:00
Ages 15+ 5:00 – 6:30

Thursday June 18th
Hemyu’mu’kotsat
Honoring Indigenous Jazz Matriarchs
Idyllwild Arts
Bowman Theater
7:00 pm
Everyone Welcome
FREE

Hemyu’mu’kotsat: Honoring Indigenous Jazz Matriarchs – Indigenous female Jazz musicians have been prolific, trailblazing figures in the genre since its infancy, yet are often overlooked within the pages of history. After nearly two decades working in clubs and concert halls, one jazz vocalist from Indian Country makes it her mission to honor the mighty Indigenous women who came before her. Join us for a night of music, stories, and celebration with Indigenous jazz vocalist and bandleader Julia Keefe (Nez Perce) and her fantastic cast of musicians in this jazz jam meets one-woman show.

Friday June 19th
Family Movie Afternoon
“UP”
Idyllwild Library
2:00 – 4:00 pm

Friday Family Movie: “UPIn-Person

Grab the family and join us for a heartwarming, balloon-powered adventure with Disney and Pixar’s Up!

Friday June 19th
Adult & Native American Art Summer Program Culmination
Parks Exhibition Center
4:00 pm
Everyone Welcome

Join us for our Adult & Native American Arts Center Culmination for all 2D and 3D visual arts! Come celebrate our adult summer students and see the results of all their hard work.

Friday June 19th
“Welcoming Home the Birds”
Native American Arts Festival Week
Idyllwild Arts
Husch Field
5:00 pm – 10 pm

This 5th annual event celebrates and shares the cultural legacy of Bird Singing regionally, inviting groups throughout Southern California and Arizona. The event also includes an artist marketplace, hands-on activities for all ages, Rabbit Stick Games, Native Food booths, community partner informational booths, and more! This event is free, family friendly, and open to the public.

Friday June 19th
“Dead In The Pines”
Pre-Party
Rustic Theatre
8:30 pm
$15

Saturday June 20th
Paint & Battery Recycle Day
Transfer Station – “The Dump”
8:00 am – 4:30 pm

Saturday June 20th
Garden Club Class
“Birdhouse Building”
Community Garden
Alderwood St. & N. Circle
9:00 am – 10:30 am
$10

Join us today for a class to learn about the birds of Idyllwild and build your own birdhouse for Western Bluebirds.

Please RSVP for this class. The donation for this class is $10 and can be paid at the garden on the day of the class. Rain/snow cancels the class.

Please RSVP below, class is limited to 15 people. See you at the garden!.

Saturday June 20th
Sunday June 21st
Strawberry Fest
Idyllwild Brew Pub
54423 Village Center Dr.

Stagecoach Rides
Saturday 1 pm – 5 pm
Sunday 11 am – 2 pm

Petting Zoo: Noon – 4 pm
Beer Garden:
Live Music
Vendors
Saturday 1 pm – 6 pm
Sunday Noon – 5 pm

Saturday June 20th
Dead In The Pines
“After Party”
Rustic Theatre
8:30 pm
$10

Sunday June 21st
Writers Week Craft Talk
“Ben Loory”
Idyllwild Arts
Krone Library
2:30 pm

Please join us for a Writer’s Week Craft Talk with special guest Ben Loory at the Idyllwild Arts Summer Program! This event is free and open to the public. 

Ben Loory’s first book, Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day (Penguin, 2011), was a selection of the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Program, and his second book, Tales of Falling and Flying (Penguin, 2017), has been named “One of the Best Fantasy Books of All Time” by both Esquire and Good Housekeeping magazines. Loory’s fables and tales have appeared in The New Yorker, Fairy Tale Review, Bomb Magazine, and the Sewanee Review, and been heard on This American Life and the Selected Shorts podcast. They have also been adapted to live theater, short film, chamber music, and dance, and been translated into many languages, including Arabic, Farsi, Japanese, Chinese, Burmese, and Indonesian. Loory is also the author of a picture book for children, The Baseball Player and the Walrus (Dial Books for Young Readers, 2015). He lives and teaches short story writing in Los Angeles.

Sunday June 21st
Writers Week Evening Reading
Janet Fitch
Krone Library
7:30 pm
Free & Everyone Welcome

Please join us for an evening reading with guests, faculty, and students of Writer’s Week at the Idyllwild Arts Summer Program! This event is free and open to the public. 

Janet Fitch is the author of the #1 national bestselling novel White Oleander, which was translated into 24 languages, selected for Oprah’s Book Club, and adapted into a feature film. Her published works also include Paint It Black (also widely translated and adapted into a film), young adult novel Kicks, and two epic novels of the Russian Revolution, The Revolution of Marina M. and Chimes of a Lost Cathedral, in addition to many short stories, essays, articles, reviews, and contributions to anthologies. 

Monday June 22nd
Writers Week Craft Talk
Tom Laichas: On Poetry & Politics
Idyllwild Arts
Krone Library
2:30 pm
FREE & Everyone Welcome

Tom Laichas is author of Three Hundred Streets of Venice California (FutureCycle Press, 2023), Sixty-Three Photographs at the End of a War (3.1 Press, 2021), and Empire of Eden (The High Window Press, 2019). He holds a Ph.D. in History from UCLA, and taught U.S. and world history courses for over thirty years at the high school and college levels. His recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in Prairie Schooner, Plume, The Los Angeles Times, The Irish Times, Blue Unicorn, and elsewhere. The featured American poet at the High Window Review (UK), his work has also won awards from Jabberwock Review, Puerto del Sol, and Prime 53. He lives with his family in Venice, California.

Monday June 22nd
Writers Week Evening Reading
Amber Tamblyn
Krone Library
7:30 pm
FREE & Everyone Welcome

Please join us for an evening reading with guests, faculty, and students of Writer’s Week at the Idyllwild Arts Summer Program! This event is free and open to the public.

Amber Tamblyn is the critically acclaimed author of seven books across genres, including the bestselling novel Any Man and anthology Listening in the Dark: Women Reclaiming the Power of Intuition. Tamblyn writes cultural criticism for The New York Times and is an Emmy and Golden Globe-nominated actress and director known for The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and the award-winning Paint It Black.

Tuesday June 23rd
Writers Week Craft Talk
Janet Fitch & Amber Tamblyn
Idyllwild Arts
Krone Library
2:30 pm
FREE & Everyone Welcome

Janet Fitch is the author of the #1 national bestselling novel White Oleander, which was translated into 24 languages, selected for Oprah’s Book Club, and adapted into a feature film. Her published works also include Paint It Black (also widely translated and adapted into a film), young adult novel Kicks, and two epic novels of the Russian Revolution, The Revolution of Marina M. and Chimes of a Lost Cathedral, in addition to many short stories, essays, articles, reviews, and contributions to anthologies. 

Amber Tamblyn is the critically acclaimed author of seven books across genres, including the bestselling novel Any Man and anthology Listening in the Dark: Women Reclaiming the Power of Intuition. Tamblyn writes cultural criticism for The New York Times and is an Emmy and Golden Globe-nominated actress and director known for The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and the award-winning Paint It Black.

Tuesday June 23rd
Line Dancing
Above The Peak Restaurant
Tahquitz Pines
55251 South Circle
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Tuesday June 23rd
Writers Week Evening Reading
Joy Harjo
Idyllwild Arts
Krone Library
7:30 pm
FREE & Everyone Welcome

Joy Harjo is an internationally renowned performer and writer of the Muscogee Nation. She served three terms as the 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States from 2019-2022 and is winner of the Poetry Society of America’s 2024 Frost Medal, Yale’s 2023 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry, and was recently honored with a National Humanities Medal. Her published works include eleven books of poetry, several plays, children’s books, non-fiction works, and two memoirs. Her many honors include the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the Ruth Lily Prize for Lifetime Achievement from the Poetry Foundation, the Academy of American Poets Wallace Stevens Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Wednesday, June 24th
Summer Reading Adventure
Ice Age Fossils with Western Science Center
Idyllwild Library
11:00 am – 12:00 pm

Explore the fossils of animals known to Hemet and touch a life-sized replica fossil!

Wednesday June 24th
Faces & Places Reading Group
“Iceland”
Idyllwild Library
2:00 pm
Everyone Welcome

This month the Faces and Places Reading Group will be discussing the country of Ireland. Iceland is a true literary paradise where roughly 1 in 10 people will publish a book, and the entire nation celebrates Christmas Eve by gifting books and spending the night reading in bed. Group will be meeting in the Study Room this month.

Wednesday June 24th
Writers Week Craft Talk
Brendan Constantine
“Any Job Worth Doing Is Worth Doing Badly”
Idyllwild Arts
Krone Library
2:30 pm

Brendan Constantine is a poet based in Los Angeles. His work has appeared in many standards, including Poetry, The Nation, Best American Poetry, Tin House, Ploughshares, and Poem-a-Day.  A popular performer, Brendan has presented his work to audiences throughout the U.S. and Europe, also appearing on NPR’s All Things Considered, TED ED, numerous podcasts, and YouTube. He currently teaches at the Windward School, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Midnight Mission. Since 2017 he has been developing workshops for writers living with Aphasia and Traumatic Brain Injuries. His fifth collection of poems, The Opposites Game, is forthcoming 2026 from Red Hen Press.

Wednesday June 24th
Teen & Adult Workshop
“Essential Oil Rollers”
Idyllwild Library
4:00 pm

Learn the basics of aromatherapy and mix your own custom, pocket-sized wellness rollers using pure essential oils. For Teens and Adults. Sponsored by the Friends of the Idyllwild Library.

Wednesday June 24th
“Special Edition Beat Nite”
Visiting Poets from Idyllwild Arts
Middle Ridge Winery
54301 North Circle
5:00 pm

Beat Nite at Middle Ridge Winery on June 24th, 7-9 PM, is very special. The Beat Poets will be joined by Brendan Constantine, Lynne Thompson (former poet laureate of LA), Tom Laichas and, also, hopefully, a most wonderful surprise guest. Our theme is “Wilderness” because Idyllwild is in the middle of an untamed wilderness, but also to acknowledge the Wilderness of Incurable Diseases, the Wilderness of Emotions, the Wilderness of Hope, the Wilderness of Love. There will be a dedication to Julie Lively. We hope you can join us.

NEW BOOKS
at the Library!

Discover a world of NEW BOOK arrivals in our three SPOTLIGHT displays— from celebrated fiction and biographies to art, photography and memoirs. Stop by today to discover your next great read and check out our newest arrivals!

Home Tour Tickets
Now on Sale
Saturday September 19th

Thursday June 25th
Garden Club Field Trip
James Reserve Field Trip
10 am – 12:30 pm
FREE
Everyone Welcome

Join us on June 25th at 10:00 a.m. for a field trip to the James Reserve! The reserve is a beautiful, natural area close to Idyllwild where scientists can observe the workings of nature. 

The entryway is located to the left of Lake Fulmor, and Casey Woodall, Reserve Director, says that they can handle up to 15 cars. We encourage carpooling to this event. After the tour of the reserve, we can enjoy a picnic lunch, so bring your lunch and water that day. Please let us know if you will be going on this field trip by replying to this email.

People can park in the parking lot for Lake Fulmor, unless they want to drive into the James Reserve. If they are driving into that area, I recall that there is parking at the reserve. If they’re leaving their cars at Lake Fulmor, they do need a wilderness pass permit, I believe, but not at the reserve.

20950 Banning-Idyllwild Panoramic Highway, 20950 HWY 243 – Lake Fulmor, Idyllwild-Pine Cove, CA 92549

Saturday June 27th
Live – Laugh – Pup
(Pride Version)
Rustic Theatre
7:30 pm

Tuesday June 30th
Women’s Circle
The Community Center
54201 Ridgeview Dr.
4:30 pm – 6:30 pm

Tuesday June 30th
“Movies Filmed in Idyllwild”
With Bob Greenamyer
Idyllwild Library
5:00 pm

Step back in time and explore the hidden film history of Idyllwild. This engaging talk uncovers the legendary actors, directors, and film crews who used our stunning mountain landscape as their Hollywood backdrop.

Saturday July 4th
BBQ & Concert
American Legion
54360 Marian View Dr.
BBQ: 3:00 pm
Music: 6:00 pm

Body & Soul

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Delivery in Idyllwild

Bear Necessities Delivered
Groceries/Restaurant Food/Mail/Pharmacy/Etc.
Call or Text: (951) 512-0800
Available 7 Days a Week
Everyday: 11 am – 8 pm
Deliver to Idyllwild, Pine Cove & Mountain Center.

Public Bathrooms are OPEN!
Next door to the Idyllwild Gardens Nursery – Across the street from the Rustic Theatre.
Open Daily 9am – 5pm

Thank you to Shane & Ashley Stewart for donating the land for these bathrooms and to Stephanie Yost with ICC for her persistence with the County of Riverside to FINALLY get us public bathrooms. Thank you to the County of Riverside and Supervisor Manuel Perez for making this happen. It’s been a LONG time coming! Bathrooms will be locked at night.

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Idyllwild Community Center

Idyllwild TOWN HALL
25925 Cedar St

Chair Exercise Class
FREE
Town Hall

Monday 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Wednesday 11:30 am – 12:30pm
Friday 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Friday
Yoga for Seniors
Town Hall
10:45 am – 11:45 am

Fit after 50
Free Exercise Class
Town Hall
Tuesday 10:00am – 11:00am
Wednesday 10:00am – 11:00am
Thursday 10:00am – 11:00am

Mondays
Tai Chi Class
Free!
Town Hall
Mondays:10:30 am – 11:30 am
Fridays: 9:45 am – 10:30 am

Every 3rd Thursday
Chess League
Community Center
54201 Ridgeview Dr.

FEEDING AMERICA
First Tuesday of each month.

The Visitor Center is now open between the public bathrooms and Idyllwild Gardens on Saturdays & Sundays from 11am – 4 pm.

If you would like to volunteer to talk to visitors, help them find their way and point them in the direction of “A Good Time” please contact me at hello@GoodMorningIdyllwild.com.