Wildfire Café for Healing & Connection at Getty Villa on Feb. 7

The Santa Monica Mountains Fire Safe Council will hold a Feb. 7 Wildfire Café—a welcoming, supportive space to connect, reflect, and heal together one year after the 2025 fires.

“Modeled after Climate Cafés, Wildfire Cafés are facilitated, community-centered conversations that offer a safe, judgment-free environment to share thoughts and feelings,” according to the organizer. “These gatherings are not lectures or action-oriented sessions, and no advice is given. Instead, they are spaces for listening, validation, reflection, and emotional support in community.”

Light refreshments and complimentary parking will be provided from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., and attendees are encouraged to enjoy the Getty Villa museum and gardens after the event.

The free café, which is open to community members impacted by wildfire and ecological change, is facilitated by Maksim, an artist and climate mental health facilitator featured by The Washington Post and the UN Science Summit, and Cindy, a climate action specialist and artist with Berkeley Law’s Center for Law, Energy, and the Environment (CLEE), whose work focuses on resilience, community care, and environmental justice.

Please click here to RSVP.

Funding provided by Edison International through the California Fire Safe Council.