News Filtered By: 2012

Sunnylands Center & Gardens Offers a Variety of Garden and Birding OpportunitiesThe nine-acres of gardens at Sunnylands include more than 50,000 individual plants that are home to a wide variety of bi...

In 2013, Sunnylands is presenting a number of lectures on various topics that mesh with the organization's mission and programs. These free events, which require no reservation, take place at the City...

New York Center for Living is Retreat PartnerVenturing out of Rancho Mirage, CA, The Annenberg Retreat at Sunnylands convened a retreat in Tarrytown, NY on October 4 to 6, 2012 with the New York Cente...

Now funded in part with a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Sunnylands Math Strategy Group will pursue a study and design effort to help achieve the promise of emergent technology-en...

Nightlife--on the second Wednesday evening of every month--begins February 13 and combines learning opportunities with networking and a tasting. Discussions ranging from art to business will be follow...

Family Day Program Celebrates Chinese Culture from Annenberg Retreat @ Sunnylands on Vimeo. On the third Sunday of January, February, April, and May, Sunnylands presents a thematic family day program...

The Annenberg Retreat at Sunnylands made a commitment to community support when it first opened in March 2012 and has welcomed a number of community groups since then. On Wednesday, October 17, Janic...

Sunnylands Center & Gardens is participating in an on-going butterfly tagging program in partnership with the Southwest Monarch Study (SWMS), a non-profit organization in Arizona that studies the migr...

The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) honored James Burnett with a 2012 ASLA Professional Award for the design of Sunnylands Gardens, a nine-acre, arid-landscape garden completed earlie...

Mayor of Los Angeles Antonio Villaraigosa believes that the U.S.-Mexico relationship must embrace new areas of shared focus, including cultural exchanges, university exchanges, and foreign direct inve...

The Annenberg Retreat at Sunnylands and the Woodrow Wilson Center will hold a breakfast discussion on the Future of U.S.-Mexico Relations at the Democratic National Convention (DNC). The event, cohost...

Arturo Sarukhan, Ambassador of Mexico to the United States, stated the relationship between the United States and Mexico must include a more “holistic and strategic agenda” encompassing trade, ene...

The Annenberg Retreat at Sunnylands and the Woodrow Wilson Center will hold a breakfast discussion on the Future of U.S.-Mexico Relations at the Republican National Convention. The event, cohosted by ...

The Annenberg Retreat at Sunnylands and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars will issue A Stronger Future: Policy Recommendations for U.S.-Mexico Relations, a report that resulted fro...

WASHINGTON - A high-level panel of binational and bipartisan experts is to recommend major changes in the tone and content of U.S.-Mexico relations. In a new report - to be released on July 11 by the...

It was a perfect morning at Sunnylands for celebrating Flag Day 2012 and the men and women who defend the principals it stands for--active duty service members and veterans. Joining Sunnylands Presid...

There were lots of high-fives when Nic Fanocvic of Desert Arc chipped his ball up onto the green of the third hole of the historic Sunnylands golf course. Teammate Damion Hayes got some useful tips on...

There were 36 boys and girls age 9 to 17 participating in a junior scramble on the Sunnylands golf course today. All of them, accompanied by their coaches, are members of The First Tee of Coachella Va...

The 1965 Dick Wilson-designed golf course on Sunnylands, the former 200-acre estate of Ambassadors Walter and Leonore Annenberg, was once walked by the likes of Presidents Reagan, Nixon, Ford, and Bus...

Rancho Mirage CA: April 2012 – A Kwakiutl totem pole located at The Annenberg Retreat at Sunnylands will be dedicated at a traditional reraising ceremony at 10am, Sunday, April 15. The first 100 vis...

On Monday, January 23, 2012, Senator Barbara Boxer read into the Congressional Record* the following statement: Mr. President, this year the late Walter and Leonore Annenberg's legendary California e...

A morning of conversations with a select group of global leaders in public policy, education, and the arts will be presented by The Annenberg Retreat at Sunnylands as part of an invitation-only openin...

More than 50,000 plants, including 50 species of arid-landscape plants from North and South America, Africa, and the Mediterranean, are on nine-acres of gardens at Sunnylands. Visitors can explore 1.2...

When Sunnylands Center & Gardens opens to the public on March 1, 2012, several significant pieces of silver-gilt from the collection of Ambassadors Walter and Leonore Annenberg will be on exhibition. ...

The Annenberg Retreat at Sunnylands is committed to environmental sensitivity. The new Sunnylands Center, designed by Frederick Fisher & Partners, architects, received a LEED Gold rating. Sunnylands C...

The Annenberg Retreat at Sunnylands, which will be dedicated on Sunday, February 12, 2012, is the most recent gift to the nation from Walter and Leonore Annenberg. The Annenberg Retreat at Sunnylands ...

Public tours of the new Sunnylands Center & Gardens and the Sunnylands historic estate and residence will begin on March 1, 2012. The public opening follows a private dedication on February 12 and a p...