March 31-April 6, 2025

JOSLYN IN BLOOM

FASHION SHOW LUNCHEON

SOLD OUT BUT WAITLISTING NAMES

Friday, April 11, 2025, 11am-2pm

Please join us for Joslyn's annual rite of spring at the Agua Caliente Resort Casino Spa Rancho Mirage on Friday, April 11, 2025, 11am-2pm. Tickets for the 15th Annual Joslyn in Bloom Fashion Show Luncheon are $150 per person or $1,500 for a table of ten. Sponsorship & underwriting opportunities range from $2,000-$15,000. Please click below for tickets, tables, and sponsorship opportunities. We hope to see you then and there in garden party luncheon attire!

Sparkling Wine Reception & Silent Auction

Three-Course Luncheon

Merrit & Penny Joslyn Award Honoring Desert Oasis Healthcare

Live Auction

Raise the Glass Fund Appeal

Fashion Show by Susan Stein Style with Model Citizens from the Community

Model Citizens

James Adams, MD

Kai Beech

Shelley Brunetti

Tyler Davis

Majna Dukic

Jeff Elder

LQ Mayor Linda Evans

Chase Huna

Gary Kautz, MD

Bobbi Lampros

Daniel Logsdon, MD

Maureen McDonald

Lori Rodgers

SHAG

Dick Shalhoub

Julie Spira

Katie Stice

PD Mayor Pro Tem Evan Trubee

IW Mayor Bruce Whitman

Ginny Whitman

THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS & UNDERWRITERS

Presenting Sponsor

Botanical Garden Sponsor

 English Garden Sponsors

Desert Garden Sponsors

Centerpiece Patron

Wine Patron

Susan

Gelman

In-Kind Sponsors

National Farm Workers Day is celebrated annually on March 31 to pay tribute to the unsung heroes on a farm who are the hired workforce doing the tougher part of the job such as plowing fields, operator tractors, spreading fertilizers, and trimming hedges. The labor force on a farm plays a pivotal role in bringing crops to fruition. Employed on low wages, they work day and night, crouching on fields under the glaring sun in all kinds of climates. Without their relentless hard work and commitment, farmers wouldn’t be able to grow, maintain, and harvest crops on such a large scale. So, on this day, we thank and glorify all farmworkers for making it possible to bring fresh produce to our tables in the face of increasing risks and challenges.

Our Joslyn Community Food Bank has recently started getting fresh produce from Hidden Harvest. They are a local organization that aims to reduce hunger and food waste while supporting small farmers in the Coachella Valley. They rescue fresh produce from local packing houses, or pay small farmers to grow crops, providing the much needed variety of FREE, nutritious produce to low-income seniors and families.

Our own Joslyn Gardening Club has been growing their own crops just down the street from Joslyn Center. They have four plots that they have planted and maintain. Right now, you'll see the lush fruits of their labor. The current crops consist of cherry tomatoes, rainbow chard, elephant kale, bok choy, curly kale, basil, fennel, eggplant, broccoli, zucchini, beets, carrots and green onions. These crops are primarily grown and maintained by Tahira Gindy and Henri Wilhelmi. They bring in the vegetables and herbs to Joslyn for members top enjoy when they are ready to harvest. If you would like to help out with the maintenance of the garden, they could really use help watering, especially as our temperatures start to creep up. Of course deciding on the crops to plant, planting and harvesting would be helpful as well. If you would like to lend your thumb, no matter the shade of green it is, please call the front desk and let Majesty put you in contact with Tahira.

Cats & Dogs

2001, 1h 27m

"Cats & Dogs" uncovers the truth about the high-tech, secret war being waged in neighborhoods everywhere that humans aren't even aware of: an eternal struggle between the two great armies of Cats and Dogs. The story follows a Cat plan to destroy a new vaccine that, if developed, would destroy all human allergies to Dogs, and the Dogs' efforts to stop the Cats from executing their plan.

Meet at Joslyn Center at 1:00pm for conversation,

then head over to

French Rotisserie Café

44489 Town Center Way STE G, Palm Desert

Click image for restaurant information.

Happy Hour / special pricing may be available.

Please call Francie at 760-310-1942 for reservations.

The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese tells the story of a multi-generational Indian family living in Kerala, where a mysterious "condition" plagues them: in every generation, at least one family member dies by drowning, seemingly by fate, as they navigate life's complexities against the backdrop of changing India, with the central theme revolving around the powerful, symbolic presence of water and the family's struggle to understand and confront this inherited curse; the narrative focuses on the matriarch "Big Ammachi" and her descendants, particularly the challenges they face with love, loss, and the evolving medical landscape, as they attempt to break the cycle of tragedy tied to water.

The Covenant of Water, by Abraham Verghese 

The Business Partner program is one of the reasons Joslyn Center is able to keep membership dues and activities low fee or free. Our business partners also sponsor events and social programs, helping to defray costs. To learn more about Gold Business Partner services, please click their logos below. 

For a full list of Joslyn Center Business Partners, please click below.

For information on becoming a Business Partner,

please contact Alex at AlexG@JoslynCenter.org or 760-895-4652.

The Joslyn Center provides extensive programs and services for older adults in Indian Wells, Palm Desert, Rancho Mirage, and surrounding Coachella Valley communities.