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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.
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The Neptune Beach Community Celebration is a two-day street festival along Webster Street in Alameda, California, which recalls and commemorates Neptune Beach, a popular Alameda amusement park known as Coney Island West from 1917 to 1939. The 2014 3rd Annual Neptune Beach Community Celebration is produced by the Alameda Chamber of Commerce and recalls this festive carnival atmosphere of the early 1900s, offering a full weekend of rides and children’s amusements, music, food and drink, arts and crafts, a history walk, and more.
Continue readingJoin 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!
Continue readingTonight’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.
Continue readingThe 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.
Continue readingDo 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.
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