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.
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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.
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Check it out! On Sunday, September 7, Oakland LifeFire Laughter Yoga will be partnering with the fabulous food justice organization, Phat Beets Produce! We’ll be adding some laughter to their potluck, food swap and work day at their amazing community garden at Dover Street Park. You can also get some yummy produce for free – yay! Get healthier and happified with Laughter Yoga! Join us for Fun warm ups, laughter exercises, a rollicking laughter flow, and a relaxation will leave you blissed out!
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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.
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Onam is a Kerala Harvest Festival and Ganesh Visarjana is the culmination of Ganesh Chaturthi. The symbolism of the Ganesh immersion ceremony is that all forms are temporary, having both their origin and final destination in the formless Absolute.
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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.
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Join us for three unique and exciting public programs as Chinese Whispers: Bay Chronicles retraces the forgotten history of Chinese shrimp fishing in San Francisco Bay, through sailings on the Grace Quan, a 43-foot replica of a 19th century Chinese shrimp junk, to former Chinese shrimping sites around the Bay.
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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.
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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!
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This Fall Festival is held every year in downtown Campbell California. The tradition of celebrating the harvest is especially important to this community whose roots are in the agricultural past of the area. Lots of fun music, art, dancing, food, and great beer are the important attractions that thousands of people enjoy year after year.
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