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September 2014
Fermentation and Brewing with Lone Pine Co.
Join Lone Pine Co. at Homestead Apothecary for a fermentation-filled First Friday. Sample herb-infused meads, beers, and other magical brews. Stock your home brewery with recipes, handbooks, and pre-made herbal mixes: Entheogenic, flavorful, and medicinal tinctures, spice blends, and herbal sachets to add to your homemade kombucha, mead, wine, beer, and cider. Drink, contemplate, transform!
Find out more »Music, Magic, and Life – The Annual Shirathon
Shira Kammen, the Bay Area’s unique medievalist, traditionalist, and inventor of kinds of music we didn’t know existed, returns to Barefoot with another fabulous pre-season extravaganza. This year, she has teamed up with another unique Bay Arean, magician Kim Silverman. She tells stories with her strings and bow; he tells stories with his magic. Together they share some classic tales with music, bringing the narrative to life with their unique partnership.
Find out more »A Planet for Goldilocks
‘Not too hot, not too cold’ reads the prescription for a world that’s just right for life as we know it. Finding evidence of life beyond Earth is one of the primary goals of science agencies in the United States and abroad. The goal looms closer as a result of discoveries made by NASA’s Kepler Mission. Launched in March 2009, Kepler is exploring the diversity of planets and planetary systems orbiting other stars in the galaxy. Finding inhabited environments is a path of exploration that stretches decades into the future. It begins by determining if Goldilocks planets abound. Dr. Batalha will describe the latest discoveries of NASA’s Kepler Mission and the possibilities for finding inhabited environments in the not-so-distant future.
Find out more »Developing Healthy Boundaries and Deep Presence
Explore what happens energetically between you and another, and what coping mechanisms you may be unconsciously using to deal with the vulnerability of intimacy.
Find out more »The Last Days of Judas Iscariot
The Aluminous Collective presents The Last Days of Judas Iscariot by Stephen Adly Guirgis, directed by Michael French
Find out more »Year of the Rooster
Odysseus Rex is having quite a year. Quite a part of a year, anyway - Odie’s only eight months old. But even at his young age, he’s mad as hell and wants to fight his way to the top. Did we mention Odie’s a rooster? Odie’s trainer, fast-food cashier Gil, has been raising Odie in a bid to return to the horrific world of cockfighting, his only chance to win at something in life. To get there, though, Gil and Odie have to survive Dickie the cockfight promoter, Gil’s mom, and Philipa, Gil’s young McDonald’s manager who’s got big dreams of her very own. A gut-busting yet poignant portrait of the price of ambition, this is the must-see show of the fall.
Find out more »Block Printing on Fabric
Have you ever wanted to print your own fabric for your craft and DIY projects? In this class, and with a few simple tools, you will learn how to carve printing blocks and transfer your designs onto fabric. You’ll leave with your own custom-printed fabric, and the knowledge and tools to work on more projects at home.
Find out more »Renaissance Tudor Fayre
Join the King for a Weekend of Entertainment, Feasting, Arts, Crafts, and Merrymaking!
Find out more »Sustainability Fair
The Contra Costa Master Gardeners, in partnership with Sustainable Contra Costa, are hosting a free event to promote sustainability in our gardens, neighborhoods and communities.
Find out more »American Folk Art Festival
Expect to see an offering of one-of-a-kind folk art creations in a variety of mediums, and primitive Americana antiques, and folk art antiques. There will be everything from folk art figures to truly unique one of a kind antique finds which may also be a clever way to display your folk art, and decorate your home. Some of these pieces of folk art and folk finds will also celebrate the best of the fall season, and have a nod to Halloween! Expect to see some fall vendor surprises too!
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