Posts Tagged ‘festival’
Eat Real Festival cultivates local food
The 11th annual Eat Real Festival at Jack London Square this weekend drew in thousands of people with an appetite. Food trucks, environmental advocacy booths, and stalls serving locally-sourced food and drink fed a steady crowd hungry for new flavors. Eat Real is a food festival where lines become masses, and sensory overload is, above…
Read MoreSixth annual Black Eyed Pea Festival celebrates African American art, flavors
The presence of culture and community was radiant this weekend in Oakland during the 6th Annual Black-Eyed Pea Festival.
Read MoreComing soon to Oakland: the Black Choreographers Festival
Dance professor Julia Hughes is finishing a rehearsal in a big circle in the center of a studio. “Breathe in, breathe out,” she says. “Let’s leave all our bad energies and refresh by saying something we are thankful for!” This is the first time that her group, Tô Aí: We Are One People, will be…
Read MoreArtists and dancers celebrate culture, community, and the dead on Día de los Muertos
The festival’s theme wove through the 26 altars assembled by local artists as well as artwork created by this year’s poster contest winner Eduardo Chaidez. The poster features an illustrated image of a little girl with Día de los Muertos-inspired face paint and an Oakland T-Shirt, holding a sign that reads “DREAM FOR ALL.”
Read MoreThe San Francisco Bay Area Cuban Festival comes to the East Bay
The San Francisco Bay Area Cuban Festival brought live music, salsa dancing, dominos, and food to Oakland.
Read MoreStudents compete in MLK Jr. Oratorical Festival for 38th year
Oakland Unified School District’s 38th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Oratorical Festival culminates on March 7.
Read MoreBigger than ever, the Oakland Music Festival is back for nine days
They say if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it but what if your goal is to transform it? After three years of steadily increasing attendance and growing popularity, Oakland Music Festival (OMF) CEO and founder Alfonso Dominguez decided to do something different—change the format of the festively entirely. What started as traditional, one-day music festival…
Read MoreFans flock to Hiero Day to celebrate Oakland
Hiero Day was developed in 2012 and celebrates underground music, grassroots organizations and local businesses.
Read MoreMobile art and music festival Station to Station reaches the end of the line
Oakland’s long abandoned 16th Street Station hosts the coast-to-coast project.
Read MoreOakland International Film Festival kicks off at Grand Lake Theater
This weekend the 11th edition of the Oakland International Film Festival (OIFF) will take place in screening venues in throughout the city. Over 55 films from both local and international filmmakers will be screened through Sunday by the Oakland Film Society, the non-profit that organizes the festival.
Read MoreArtists, Oaklanders celebrate creativity at Art in Nature festival
The 3rd annual Art in Nature festival featured more than 200 artists at Redwood Regional Park in the hills east of Oakland this Sunday.
Read MoreRockridge’s Out and About festival appeals to kids, adults
Hundreds gathered on College Ave. this Sunday for the Out and About Festival, Rockridge’s annual celebration of food, music, crafts, community organizing, and good-natured neighborhood noise. The festival featured Bay Area musicians such as The Clifford Lamb Trio and The Blue Monday Jazz Jam. Young children had their faces painted, practiced hula hooping, painted small pumpkins, planted seeds, and tried to climb a gigantic rock wall…
Read MoreEat Real food festival kicks off in Oakland this weekend
The third annual annual Eat Real Festival’s organizers hope the event is so much fun you’ll forget it’s reshaping your assumptions about food. The free event in Jack London Square this weekend, which is billed as half street festival, half block party, will feature local music and film screenings alongside food workshops, demonstrations, contests and scores of vendors.
Read MoreHow to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day in Oakland
St. Patrick’s Day isn’t until March 17, but the festivities start this weekend. Find the best way to unleash your inner Irish on Oakland North’s activities listings.
Read MoreThis weekend in Oakland
Community events and activities for the weekend of March 4 – 6. Got an event we didn’t know about? Please add it in the comments!
Read MoreThis weekend in Oakland
Looking for something fun to do in Oakland this weekend? Check out our weekend events calendar for some great ideas.
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