Fall for plants at the UCLA Mathias Botanical Garden’s annual Fall Fest on October 18, 2025, from 12-4 pm!
This event is completely free to attend, no RSVP required!
Spend an afternoon at the Garden with friends and family enjoying arts and crafts like weaving, button making, botanical illustration and more. Enjoy a talk from Assistant Director Allison Keeney about succulents and stick around to learn about basket weaving.
Are you a new to campus and interested in learning more about what UCLA has to offer? We’ve got you covered! There will be UCLA clubs and organizations such as Plant Futures at UCLA, Bruin Earth Solutions, Bruin Birding Club, Congo Basin Institute, RefineLA, Laboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies (LENS), Environmental Humanities Reading Group (EHRG), The Backpacking Club at UCLA, and Radical Imagination Coalition (RIC) tabling at this event, along with community partners Alter Care Line.
If you joined us for our previous events like the Clarkia Flower Festival and last year’s Fall Fest, you’ll know we always provide amazing live music performances! This event will be no different with amazing live music performances from artists like Fire Safety, Jenna Rae, Going Outside, and Aidan Rockwell.
Never been to the Garden before? Take a 45 minute tour of the Garden with one of our amazing guides and learn all about the Garden! Tours will be held every hour starting at 12 pm with our last tour taking place at 3 pm.
Make sure to bring your wallet as we will have Rice Balls of Fire onsite and a plant sale by Californica Nursery! We will also have art vendors like Margaret Gallagher, Falk Ceramics, Samal Tayag, Kai Yung, and Sunny Tran selling their work at Fall Fest. You can also support us and events like this by purchasing our merchandise. Stop by our table to buy our swag and learn more about upcoming events at the Garden this fall!
Continue to check back in as we make more announcements about what to expect at Fall Fest.
If you have any questions about this event or would like to get involved, please reach out to botanicalgarden@ucla.edu.
We can’t wait to see you there!
