Evening Out
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!
Hoot and Howl
Happy Hollow Park and Zoo 1300 Senter Road, San Jose, CA, United StatesThis is a fundraising benefit unlike any other.
The Casablanca Ball
Alameda Elks Lodge 2255 Santa Clara Avenue, Alameda, CA, United StatesOf all the gin joints in the world, we hope you walk into ours. Please join us at the Casablanca Ball for a memorable evening of music, dancing, comedy, and drama at our re-creation of Rick's Cafe Americain. The Brassworks plays the hits of the late 1930s and early 1940s, ranging from vintage Swing to romantic waltzes, tangos, and fox trots, and, of course, As Time Goes By and La Marseillaise. Vintage or modern evening dress, 1930s or early 1940s costume, or Moroccan native dress is admired, but not required. Everyone comes to Rick's!
Rumi’s Caravan
Humanist Hall 390 27th Street, Oakland, CA, United StatesRecitation of world poetry with Barry and Maya Spector, Doug Von Koss, Larry Robinson, Kay Crista, Maurice Wren and musicians.
What River Are You Made Of? Tuolumne Inside Out
Capital One 360 Cafe 101 Post Street, San Francisco, CA, United StatesThis show brings you 20+ artists’ interpretations of our Tuolumne River, as well as the 411 on the river itself. The artists weave a story about the Tuolumne on the molecular, infrastructure, and end use levels through their 2D, 3D, digital, and mixed media artwork.
Mystery Mystery Science Theater 3000
The New Parkway Theater 474 24th Street, Oakland, CA, United StatesThe New Parkway Theater presents a mystery episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000. Who knows what episode we'll be playing… but you can be sure it's definitely going to be good! Please join us for a night of laughter and fun hosted by The New Parkway's own resident MST3K fan, Oliver Beckwith. The pre-show includes an MST3K trivia contest with prizes!
Sea Music Festival
Historic Vessels at Hyde Street Pier Hyde Street Pier , San Francisco, CA, United StatesJoin us for a day and evening of traditional music from around the world.