Year of the Rooster
Impact Theatre at La Val's Subterranean 1834 Euclid Avenue, Berkeley, CA, United StatesOdysseus 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.
Rough Weather All Day: An Account Of The Jeanette Search Expedition By The USS Rodgers
Aboard the Balclutha Hyde Street Pier, San Francisco, CA, United StatesIn 1879, USS Jeanette left on a rescue mission towards the Northwest Passage. Caught in the ice, she wrecked and stranded her crew. The USS Rodgers was sent on both an exploration and rescue mission. Patrick Cahiil, a machinist on the expedition, kept a daily diary describing the journey, the people they encountered, and his thoughts and observations. Did the Rodgers find the Jeanette? Did the Rodgers make it back to San Francisco? Find out September 4 aboard the Balclutha!
Friends of the San Lorenzo Pioneer Cemetery Meeting
HAHS Center for History and Culture 22380 Foothill Boulevard, Hayward, CA, United StatesDo you have an interest in historic cemeteries? Learn more about the San Lorenzo Pioneer Cemetery and join in efforts to maintain, preserve, and protect this local historic treasure.
Fault Lines: The Sixties, the Culture War, and the Return of the Divine Feminine
Many Rivers Books and Tea 130 S. Main Street, Sebastopol, CA, United StatesThe United States is suffering its greatest upheaval since the Civil War - politically, economically, socially, religiously. With elegant, sweeping vision, Gus diZerega explores the complex causes leading us to this point, comparing them to giant fault lines that, when they erupt, create enormous disturbance and in time new landscapes.
The Last Days of Judas Iscariot
The Flight Deck 1540 Broadway, Oakland, CA, United StatesThe Aluminous Collective presents The Last Days of Judas Iscariot by Stephen Adly Guirgis, directed by Michael French
Goddess Festival
Join us for a blissful weekend filled with magic, sisterhood, and deep connection to the rhythms of the Earth!
Take 5 for the Sierras
Take 5 Cafe 3132 Sacramento Street, Berkeley, CA, United StatesConcert proceeds will benefit creating accessible space at the Clear Air Mountain House, a new LGBT-friendly, fragrance free eco-retreat house in the Sierra Buttes, near the Yuba River, Sierra Hot Springs, waterfalls, and over 40 lakes! Dinner includes pasta (gluten free or regular), with sauce (meat or veggie options), plus salad, garlic bread and iced tea!
Making It: Chicano Artists from the Mexican Museum Collection
Museum of Art and History 705 Front Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesTonight’s First Friday invites you to the opening of our new exhibit, Making It: Chicano Artists from the Mexican Museum Collection. Making It explores what it means to ‘make it’ as an artist, as a family, as an individual, as a social activist, as someone from a marginalized background, and more. The show features work by artists Carlos Almaraz, Enrique Chagoya, Rupert Garcia, Carmen Lomas Garza, Gronk, Ester Hernandez, Patssi Valdez, and John Valadez, who are are all leaders in the founding generation of Chicano artists.
Fermentation and Brewing with Lone Pine Co.
Homestead Apothecary 486 49th Street, #C, Oakland, CA, United StatesJoin 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!
Music, Magic, and Life – The Annual Shirathon
Hillside Church 1422 Navellier Street, El Cerrito, CA, United StatesShira 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.