East Bay
Wednesday, May 23
Fourth Wednesday of the month means free improvised comedy in Oakland from The Senseless Bureau.
The East Bay’s witty bunch of Senseless Bureaucrats will take your random suggestions and craft them into clever scenes to delight and amuse you. Watch the Senseless Bureau simultaneously write, act, …
The Uptown hosts a night of free alt and indie featuring Bam! Bam!, Cleveland Brown, Wild Assumptions (featuring Spensaur Cooper) and special guests.
Bam! Bam! are a couple of Oakland scrumpers sent here to take our apple-sized rock’n’roll hearts. Don’t be fooled, they will devour you one …
Thursday, May 24
Jack London Square invites you to its 2nd annual outdoor music series, SoundWaves. The series offers free live music by some of the Bay Area’s top performers on five consecutive Thursdays in May and June.
The SoundWaves spring lineup includes a range of local talent including …
Come out for Bicycle Bingo at Actual Cafe. This is a weekly event at the cafe, benefiting East Bay Children’s Book Project.
This week’s prizes will be awarded by Bay Area Bikes, 21st Amendment, and Actual Cafe.
How it works:
1) Get Cards for donations
2) Play your cards …
Friday, May 25
Held on the final Friday of each month from Friday, April 27 through Friday, October 26, Summer Nights features special evening hours and half-price Museum admission (that’s $6) after 5 pm.
With classic ’68 film screenings under the stars on Oak Street Plaza, Amoeba Music DJs …
Sunday, May 27
Sundays are Dollar Days at Golden Gate Fields. If you haven’t made it out yet, you should check out the thoroughbred action of horse racing. Nearly everything costs just a single buck at Golden Gate Fields in Albany.
Some Sundays there are also free concerts at …
The Berkeley Underground Film Society is a club for collectors, researchers, and film enthusiasts in the East Bay and San Francisco Area.
Every Sunday they reach into their archives for a selective film history of unseen, rarely projected, or otherwise obscure 8mm, 9.5mm, and 16mm prints.
Berkeley Underground Film …
Monday, May 28
AAA’s Tipsy Tow Program offers a free tow for drinking drivers in Northern California from 6pm on Memorial Day 2012 until 6am the next morning, in Northern California, Nevada and Utah.
And you don’t even have to be a AAA member.
For Tipsy Tow, call (800) 222-4357 …
Thursday, May 31
It’s time to celebrate and honor your favorite Oakland-based businesses and artists at the 6th Anuual Oakland Indie Awards!
The nominees are the Oakland businesses and artists that make a difference in our neighborhoods. Winners will be announced at the party – come help us celebrate! You’ll …
Friday, June 1
Oakland Art Murmur is a group of nearly 30 galleries in Oakland that have coordinated openings on the first Friday of every month.
Every First Friday of the month, member galleries are open to the public from 6-9 pm. Additionally 23rd Street between Telegraph and Valley is closed to …
Voted “Best Art Murmur Offshoot” in the East Bay Express Readers’ Poll, enjoy monthly art exhibits, artisanal food, free live local musicians and a creative mix of independently owned shops, along Temescal Alley and Alley 49 at Temescal Square. Every First Friday (6-9 pm).
Alley 49 …
You had us at “burlesque” and “creepy puppets!”
As Oakland Art Murmur winds down on your Friday night , find your way to the Stork Club on 23rd and Telegraph around 9pm for the perfectly strange after-party – The First Friday Follies burlesque show – a monthly …
Despite all outward appearances, Hoodslam is not a wrestling show. A live-action, comedy, performance art and athletic stunt presentation with a cast and crew as diverse as The Town itself.
There will be live music with your emcee for the evening Ike Emelio Burner, plus top …
Saturday, June 2
During the first two weekends in June, and throughout the year by appointment, East Bay Open Studios connects the public with over 400 artists in 14 cities in the East Bay. Since 1979, this event remains the largest art event in the region and draws …
Come celebrate the 9th annual Berkeley World Music Festival with a full day of live concerts in Berkeley starting from 12pm at People’s Park and ending at 9pm at the Village. Come and celebrate world music with us. All performances are free to the public.
Enter Berkeley’s World Crafts Bazaar and you …
Join Amoeba Berkeley for a special Berkeley World Music Festival performance from Fely Tchaco. The Ivory Coast-born singer, who now resides in San Francisco, delivers the best music of both cultures, a bridge between where she comes from and where she lives now.
The free 9th Annual Berkeley World …
What is “Oakland Nights…Live!!“? Why it is Oakland’s very own low-budget monthly late night talk show.
It’s half Johnny Carson, half Pee-Wee’s Playhouse, all Oakland. We’ve had marine biologists, talks with Oakland public school teachers, Star Trek: TNG re-rnactments, call-in relationship advice, live interviews with astrophysicist …
Sunday, June 3
The Oakland Museum of California (OMCA) brings together collections of art, history and natural science under one roof to tell the extraordinary stories of California and its people.
Oakland Museum of CA’s First Free Sunday of the Month
A Survival Guide for a Free Museum Day
Free admission …
Thursday, June 7
Come for an important discussion with local policymakers from the City of Berkeley Solid Waste Department, City of Berkeley Zero Waste Commission, Save the Bay, and the Ecology Center about recent trends and innovations in zero waste.
Did you know that a recently adopted state law …
Friday, June 8
The East Bay Bike Party is a monthly mobile party for riders of all ages, experience levels, and bike types, to meet, ride, and play together in the streets on the second Friday of the month with upwards of 400 riders (with all supposedly obeying …
Saturday, June 9
Ukulele fans will gather in the friendly neighborhood cafe setting of Oakleyville’s Actual Cafe on the second Saturday of every month for a concert, sing-a-long and lessons
Group Lesson: (7-7:40) learn more about this fantastic little instrument with a group lesson from a guest teacher each …
Sunday, June 17
Come out and enjoy monthly free sail boat rides with Cal Sailing Club. At the Open Houses they offer an opportunity to learn first-hand how to enjoy fun on a sailboat in the bay.
Sign up in front of the clubhouse between 1 – 4 pm.
Bring a strap …
Wednesday, July 4
AAA’s Tipsy Tow Program offers a free tow for drinking drivers in Northern California from 6pm on the Fourth of July 2012 until 6am the next morning, in Northern California, Nevada and Utah.
And you don’t even have to be a AAA member.
For Tipsy Tow, call …
Sunday, July 22
Come out and enjoy monthly free sail boat rides with Cal Sailing Club. At the Open Houses they offer an opportunity to learn first-hand how to enjoy fun on a sailboat in the bay.
Sign up in front of the clubhouse between 1 – 4 pm.
Bring a strap …
Monday, September 3
AAA’s Tipsy Tow Program offers a free tow for drinking drivers in Northern California from 6pm on Labor Day 2012 until 6am the next morning, in Northern California, Nevada and Utah.
And you don’t even have to be a AAA member.
For Tipsy Tow, call (800) 222-4357 …
