Valentine’s Night at OMCA: Dance Lessons, Music & Off The Grid | Oakland

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“Friday Nights at OMCA with Off the Grid” Block Party + DJs (Oakland)

Reconnect with family, friends, and community during Friday Nights at OMCA. These free events provide a gathering place each week, including live music, hands-on activities, Off the Grid (OTG) food trucks, and late-night access to our galleries and special exhibitions with a Museum ticket. Limited flat rate parking for Friday Nights is available in the OMCA Garage for $10.

Friday Nights at OMCA are back and ready to kick off the season in style on April 5, 2024.

Gather with family, friends, and community every Friday at 5 pm for free live music and hands-on activities, Off the Grid food trucks, and late night access to our galleries and special exhibitions, with a Museum ticket.

Bring your own or grab dinner from any one of the 8 Off the Grid food trucks on 10th Street between Oak and Fallon Streets. Beer, wine, mixed and non-alcoholic drinks are available for sale. After grabbing a meal from a wide and weekly changing menu of culinary creations, head to the OMCA Garden where you’ll find picnic tables and blankets to enjoy your local eats. Play lawn and table games, enjoy weekly rotating Museum programming, and create new memories at one of the Town’s most treasured spaces right in the heart of Oakland.

Friday Nights at OMCA with Off the Grid

Between April and October, every Friday, 5—9 pm
Special Events resume April 5, 2024
Oakland Museum of California, 1000 Oak St., Oakland
FREE (for food truck access and outdoor activities)

– Optional late-night museum admission for purchase

How To Get There

• BART: OMCA is at the corner of Oak and 10th Street and is located one block from the Lake Merritt BART Station.
• AC Transit: OMCA is accessible by a number of AC Transit bus lines. OMCA is at the corner of Oak and 10th Street. An accessibility ramp is located at the main entrance on Oak Street between 10th and 11th. For more information, visit actransit.org.
• Free Bike Parking: Free, on-street bike parking is available outside the Oak Street entrance to the Museum. Limited free covered bike parking is available in the OMCA Garage during garage hours, and on Oak Street Plaza, which is on the third level of the Museum, during Museum hours
• Street Parking: Free street parking of often available.
• Garage Parking: Event parking is available at the Museum Garage, with a $10 flat fee starting at 5 pm.
• Get Driving Directions

Off The Grid Mobile Food Creator Lineup

Details coming for the 2024 season

 

Friday, February 14, 2014
Valentine's Day | “Friday Nights at OMCA with Off the Grid” Block Party + DJs (Oakland)

What to expect on February 14, 2014:

• Valentine’s Day cocktails, local beer, and wine specials, coffee, tea and hot cocoa in the Blue Oak beer garden all night
• Dance instruction, costume contests, comedy, and more
• He(art) Attack in the Gallery of California Art. Show your love by placing a paper heart by your favorite work of art, all weekend long
• Family-friendly drop-in art activity: make your own mini hero figure, inspired Black History Month and the exhibition The Smallest of Worlds, from 5 to 8 pm
• DJ Dotmatic on the 1s and 2s in the 10th Street Amphitheater from 5 to 6:30 pm
• All-ages hip hop dance lesson led by Samara Atkins of Destiny Arts Center in the 10th Street Amphitheater from 6:30 to 7 pm
• Love Pub Trivia Game, where family and friends of all generations come together to compete for the team prize, with categories like The Birds & the Bees, Pop Culture Couples, and more, from 6:30 to 8:30 pm
• Live band Pan Extasy bringing the sounds of Carribbean music to the 10th Street Amphitheater from 7 to 9 pm
• OMCA-in-the-Headlines, a special discussion series in Above and Below: Stories From Our Changing Bay, this week with Cris Benton presenting his book, Saltscapes, followed by a special book-signing, from 7 to 8 pm
• A Snack Size Docent Tour, a fifteen-minute mini-tour led by a talented OMCA Docent to introduce you one of the Galleries—you won’t know which until the tour begins!—meeting at the ticketing desk on Level 2 at 7:30 pm
• Extended hours in the galleries and special exhibitions
• Twelve gourmet food trucks from Off the Grid featuring the best in local cuisine

Disclaimer: Please double check event information with the event organizer as events can be canceled, details can change after they are added to our calendar, and errors do occur.