Friends of the San Lorenzo Pioneer Cemetery Meeting

HAHS Center for History and Culture 22380 Foothill Boulevard, Hayward, CA, United States

Do 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 States

The 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.

Making It: Chicano Artists from the Mexican Museum Collection

Museum of Art and History 705 Front Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

Tonight’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 States

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!

Sustainability Fair

Our Garden N. Wiget Lane and Shadelands Drive, Walnut Creek, CA, United States

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.