UPCOMING EVENTS

Thanksgiving Tuesday 11.23.21
RPOA presents their annual "Thanksgiving Tuesday" at Sylvan park. RPOA will be cooking and serving close to 300 hot meals. Starting at 9am the RPOA & volunteers will serve the free meals 1st come-1st served until gone. 

​To register please visit: redlandsturkeytrot.com
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​Redlands Veterans Day Parade & Celebration 11.11.21
"Honoring our veterans and celebrating our hometown heroes"
Parade starts at 9am. Parade route: Redlands HS to Jennie Davis Park Celebration immediately follows with food vendors, live music, fly overs, military vehicles, vendor booths and more. Hosted by American Legion Post 106 and Post 650. For more info visit: redlandsveteransparade@gmail.com

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Redlands Turkey Trot 11.25.21
"Annual Thanksgiving Day 5K run and Kids 1K Fun Run" The Redlands Turkey Trot race course will start at Sylvan Park and weave through the streets in and around the University of Redlands before finishing up at Sylvan Park. All registered participants will receive a free t-shirt.  100% of the proceeds benefit worldwide and local charities including Phoenix Hope Int., Redlands Educational Partnership Foundation, Youth Hope & Redlands Unified School District.
​Race Day:
6:30 am - Race day check in and registration
7:30 am - Kids 5k Fun Run Start
8:00 am - 5k Start
9:00 am - Awards (Top 3 overall and age group winners)

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​Redlands Downtown Christmas Parade 12.4.21. 
​"Redlands Annual Christmas Parade" Downtown area. The annual Downtown Redlands Christmas Parade is a magical evening event in Historic Downtown Redlands, with floats and musical performances. 
Time is TBA

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​Redlands 22nd annual Christmas Block Party 12.18.21
The annual Children’s Christmas Block Party was created to spread the spirit of the holiday and support families in need. All monetary and toy donations will assist in providing toys, food, bicycles, games and crafts to children that reside in Redlands. The Christmas Block Party will go from 10 a.m. until Noon.  Saturday, Dec. 14, at the Redlands Community Center, located at 111 W. Lugonia Ave. Redlands CA. For more info please contact the Redlands Community Center at 909.798.7572 

​Midnight Hoopz Every 3rd Friday 11.19.21  12.17.21  1.21.22  2.18.22  3.18.22  4.15.22 & 5.20.22 
"Midnight Hoopz Is Back" You think you got game? Prove it! For over 20 years The Village at SBCR and RPD have hosted Midnight Hoopz! What do you need to know? It happens every 3rd Friday every month! 5 person teams play tournament style to win a $125.00 prize. 

​Tournament sign ups start at 8:30 and end at 9PM all players must be present to sign up. Don't have a team? No problem we will create one for you. Games run from 9pm till midnight. As always this event is free. See you there! Located at the Redlands Community Center. 111 Lugonia Ave. Redlands CA 92374 for more info please call 909.793.1074

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Fourth Annual Redlands Juneteenth 6.19.22
"Building Bridges to Success"
 Presented by Unity in The Community
Free citywide celebration 
More Information will be available soon.

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A GLANCE AT PAST EVENTS...

JUNETEENTH

Redlands 1st Juneteenth Celebration 2018
"Safety For Our Children First"
Free citywide celebration held at Israel Beal Park.
Event honored Redlands Pioneer, Israel  “Doc” Beal  
A city monument was dedicated in his honor and city proclamation declared in honor of this former en-slaved city pioneer.

Second Annual Redlands Juneteenth 2019
"Our Community Matters"
Free citywide celebration at Israel Beal Park.  
Event included a community resource fair, children's craft corner, basketball tournament, bar-b-que, bike-give-aways, performances by Music Changing Lives, Second Baptist Church of Redlands Youth Choir and other community organizations.

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Active Shooter Defense Clinic

1st Active Shooter Defense Clinic 2019
 Free clinic open to the community. 
Held at First Baptist Church of Redlands.
​Attendees were trained to prepare, plan and protect houses of worship and faith based organizations and the community at large.  Over 90 participants  and organizations were represented at this gathering. ​

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Racial Healing Roundtable

1st Racial Healing Roundtable 2020
"Healing Racism in Redlands"
July 11, 2020 held on ZOOM
1st event focused on bringing houses of faith, the faith community and Redlands Police Department to begin the “continual conversation” on racial reconciliation.

See the Redlands
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Daily Facts News

Article Below

Healing Racism In Redlands Round Table II
"Healing Racism in Redlands Public Schools"
​Friday, October 30, 2020 4pm-6pm
​An Intergenerational Dialogue of Activists Past & Present 
Co-Sponsored by Next Gen United

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Wake Up Redlands
Presented by: The University of Redlands Black Student Union
& Next Gen United 
​Saturday, September 26, 2020
2pm-5pm at Ed Hales Park  
For more information contact @nextgenunited on IG

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Redlands event to honor Martin Luther King Jr.’s call for racial healing

​Dr. Joshua Beckley, (left) sings among other members of churches during a community-wide prayer service in response to the murders in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015, in this file photo. Beckley, senior pastor at Ecclesia Christian Fellowship church in San Bernardino, will speak at a virtual Martin Luther King Jr. Day event held by Second Baptist Church of Redlands on Jan. 18, 2021. (File photo)

​By JENNIFER IYER | jiyer@scng.com | Redlands Daily Facts
PUBLISHED: January 6, 2021 at 3:39 p.m. | UPDATED: January 7, 2021 at 4:12 p.m.

Organizers of a Jan. 18 virtual event honoring Martin Luther King Jr.’s call for racial healing and harmony hope to bring a revival to Redlands amid a pandemic and a racial justice movement that brought marches to the city’s streets. Second Baptist Church of Redlands will hold a solemn assembly on the holiday honoring King. In the Bible such an event was a time when the people of Israel came together to repent and pray on behalf of the whole community, said Bishop Jackie Green, co-pastor of the church. “We will be coming together on behalf of Redlands,” Green said. “We’re calling pastors, church and city leaders, families and worshipers, those who pray, to come together.”


Second Baptist has held many celebrations of Martin Luther King Jr. Day including youth history camps, and partnerships with the University of Redlands on activities, and with the coronavirus pandemic raging, organizers were undeterred.

“We’re going to do it anyway,” Green said. It will just be virtual. Keynote speaker Joshua Beckley, senior pastor at Ecclesia Christian Fellowship in San Bernardino, and a Redlands resident, has done much work on reconciliation and prayer across the Inland area, Green said. “Usually with reconciliation one person shares what it is that took place, whether it was generationally …” she said, “and the other person receives their repentance, it’s a beautiful, beautiful service.” Such acts, she hopes, will lead to “a revival in relationships, a revival where churches will fellowship more.” Green said she also hopes the event can be a model for other cities.

​“We’re actually inviting God, His presence, into our city, to help to heal our city of racism,” Green said. The event will be held from noon to 2 p.m. To join in, send an email to TheVillagesBCRedlands@gmail.com for a link to the virtual event. For more information, call 909-793-1074. The University of Redlands, which is partnering on the event, has a slate of other virtual offerings honoring King’s legacy, including a Jan. 18 poetry slam, a Jan. 21 luminaria ceremony, and a service on Jan. 25. Information on those events is available at redlands.edu/mlk.

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