Dia de los Muertos Berkeley

Celebrate and remember those who have passed on at a time of year when the veil between the living and dead is thought to be at its most diaphanous.

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Community Celebration for the Days of the Dead

Join us as OMCA marks two decades of the annual Days of the Dead Community Celebration. Craft activities, tasty food, dance and music groups, colorful ofrendas, and ceremonia bring the community together for this healing tradition.

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Autumn Lights Festival

The Oakland Autumn Lights Festival is a fabulously creative two-night fundraiser held inside the beautiful Gardens at Lake Merritt, the seven-acre oasis of themed gardens nestled at the north end of Lakeside Park in Oakland. Thirty-plus Oakland artists are bringing their light-infused art to illuminate every corner of our beautiful space.

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Fort Ross Harvest Festival

Harvest Festival starts out with a morning of gentle apple picking in the historic orchard, where we’ll harvest fruit while enjoying the Eastern European harmonies of Kitka’s Women’s Ensemble and Russia House Kedry. The celebration then moves to the historic Fort Ross compound, where we’ll enjoy the old-world charm of the 19th century Russian settlement.

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Autumn Lights Festival

The Oakland Autumn Lights Festival is a fabulously creative two-night fundraiser held inside the beautiful Gardens at Lake Merritt, the seven-acre oasis of themed gardens nestled at the north end of Lakeside Park in Oakland. Thirty-plus Oakland artists are bringing their light-infused art to illuminate every corner of our beautiful space.

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Opening Artist Ritual for Songs and Sorrows: Días de los Muertos

Kick off this year’s Días de los Muertos festivities by joining participating artists from the past two decades of the Days of the Dead exhibition at OMCA, as well as new artists represented for the first time in 2014, for this informal ceremony in Oak Street Plaza

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Community Day at Gamble Garden

Join us for a fall day filled with fun children’s activities, a splendid plant sale, horticultural resources, displays, garden demonstrations, food, entertainment, and of course… digging for worms!

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