Latest Events in Oakland(March Updated)

Experience an unforgettable evening with David Gray on his "Past & Present Tour" at Fox Theater in Oakland. The event is scheduled to take place on February 10, 2025, at 1807 Telegraph Ave, Oakland, CA, 94612. Don't miss this opportunity to witness the iconic singer-songwriter perform live in the vibrant city of Oakland. Get ready to be mesmerized by Gray's timeless music and captivating stage presence. It's a night you won't want to miss!

Knitwear Mending - Two Week SessionWeek 1: Weds, Feb 12 , 6:30-8:30pm Knitwear Class 1 - Mends for fine knits - small holes and elbow patching Many is the sweater that has been lost to moths. Take back your beloved knits! Students will learn how to close and cover small holes in fine knits like cashmere and merino and also how to add patches to thin and worn out elbows in fine knit sweaters. This is an intermediate class. Students should have some experience with hand sewing. All materials are included. (P.S. The skills in this class also work for wool socks!) Week 2: Weds, Feb 19 , 6:30-8:30pm Knitwear Class 2 - Missing stitches - mends for medium to heavy weight knits Got a hole you could pump a fist through? Did a moth the size of a dachshund take a bite out of your sweater? In this class students will learn how to fill in thin patches, how to repair a laddered knit, and how to replace missing stitches by grafting in new ones. This is an advanced class. Students should be proficient with hand sewing. (But no knitting skills required!) Take one class for $50 or both classes for $75 (a 25% discount)! Instructor Cirrus Wood is a self-taught artisan who enjoys coming up with and learning fun designs to make clothing more visually appealing and more durable. He runs his own mending and tailoring business 'Muzhik' - named for the Russian word for peasant, but a muzhik is also someone resourceful, someone who can be relied upon to come up with a creative fix. Information Source: East Bay Depot for Creative Reuse | eventbrite

Experience the captivating performance of Guster at the Fox Theater in Oakland on February 14, 2025. Known for their unique indie rock sound and energetic live shows, Guster is sure to deliver a memorable evening for fans in the Oakland area. The Fox Theater, located at 1807 Telegraph Ave, Oakland, CA, 94612, provides a stunning backdrop for this highly anticipated event. Don't miss the opportunity to witness Guster live in concert at this iconic venue in the heart of Oakland.

Welcome Christina Clancy to Kalamazoo for a reading and discussion of her new book: The Snowbirds. This event will include a 20 minute conversation between Christina and Bonnie Jo Campbell (The Waters, Once Upon A River), a brief Q&A, followed by book signing. More about the book: The Last Thing He Told MemeetsFleishman Is in Troublein this page-turning story of a couple who flee winter in the Midwest for Palm Springs, where they find their relationship at a crossroads. Kim and Grant are at a turning point. A couple for thirty years, their separate but together partnership is running up against the realities of late middle age: Grant’s mother has died, the college where he taught philosophy was shuttered, and their twin girls are grown and gone. Escaping the bitter cold of a Midwestern winter for the hot desert sun of Palm Springs seems as good a solution as any to the more intractable problems they face. When they arrive at Le Desert, a quirky condo community where everyone knows everyone’s business, Kim immediately embraces the opportunity to make new friends and explore a more adventurous side of her personality. Meanwhile, Grant struggles to find his footing in this unfamiliar landscape, leaving Kim to wonder if their relationship can survive the snowbird season. But when Grant goes missing on a hike in the Palm Springs mountains, Kim is forced to consider two terrifying outcomes: either Grant is truly lost, or this time, he’s really left her. Is it ever too late to become the person we wanted to be—and is there still time to change into someone better? The exhilarating, but often confusing transitions of midlife are pitched against the promise and glamour of Palm Springs in this tender, honest story of what it takes to commit to someone for a lifetime. With compassion and humor, Clancy explores the redemptive power of finding ourselves, and of being found. Information Source: this is a bookstore | Bookbug | eventbrite

Sign My Name to Freedom: The Lost Music of Betty Reid Soskin Director: Bryan Gibel | Co-Director: AK Sandhu Join local filmmaker Bryan Gibel and members of the film team at the West Oakland Branch of the Oakland Public Library for a FREE work-in-progress documentary film sample of “Sign My Name to Freedom,” a feature documentary about iconic National Park Ranger Betty Reid Soskin, her hidden life as a singer-songwriter, and her family’s experiences confronting Jim Crow-style segregation on the West Coast. This will be followed by a Q&A and discussion with Director Bryan Gibel, Outreach Producer Stephisha Ycoy-Walton, and a West Oakland Librarian representative. (We apologize that earlier versions of this Eventbrite said Photographer Henry Raulston will be attending! Unfortunately, he will not be able to attend this event, he will be celebrating his Birthday!) Betty gained fame as the oldest Park Ranger in the country after starting that job at the age of 85, and she continued working at the Rosie the Riveter National Historic Site as an interpretive oral historian until she retired at 100. Through her experience as a WWII file clerk for an all-black union auxiliary in Richmond, she helped to reshape the national narrative about home front segregation in the workplace, labor unions, and in the armed forces. The documentary takes Betty’s work for the Park Service as its jumping off point, and then it explores lesser-known aspects of her personal story, focusing in large part on her family’s role as the first African Americans to cross the color line into Walnut Creek, and her hidden life as a singer/songwriter in the years that followed. The film also looks at Betty’s journey in her 90s to reexplore the music she left behind fifty years earlier and her collaborations with younger musicians to give her songs life again. The film team is currently raising funds to complete the documentary while Betty is still with us to experience it, which she very much hopes can happen. Their goal is to finish the film by 2025. Although Betty is doing well at 103, the clock is ticking. Support the making of the documentary Documentary Trailer Sign up for the films’ newsletter Read Betty Reid Soskin’s Memoir Pictured above (top to bottom): Film Director/Producer Bryan Gibel, Co-Producer and Social Media Manager Alyana Reid, Outreach Producer Stephisha Walton, Photographer Henry Raulston. Information Source: Sign My Name To Freedom | eventbrite

Please join us for a celebration of Black Women Taught Us: An Intimate History of Black Feminism. Author Dr. Jenn Jackson will be in conversation with Naledi Yaziyo, followed by Q&A from the audience and book signing. Order your copy of BLACK WOMEN TAUGHT US ABOUT BLACK WOMEN TAUGHT US Jenn M. Jackson, PhD, has been known to bring historical acuity to some of the most controversial topics in America today. Now, in their first book, Jackson applies their critical analysis to the questions that have long energized their work: Why has Black women’s freedom fighting been so overlooked throughout history, and what has our society lost because of our refusal to engage with our forestrugglers’ lessons? A love letter to those who have been minimized and forgotten, this collection repositions Black women’s intellectual and political work at the center of today’s liberation movements. Across eleven original essays that explore the legacy of Black women writers and leaders—from Harriet Jacobs and Ida B. Wells to the Combahee River Collective and Audre Lorde—Jackson sets the record straight about Black women’s longtime movement organizing, theorizing, and coalition building in the name of racial, gender, and sexual justice in the United States and abroad. These essays show, in both critical and deeply personal terms, how Black women have been at the center of modern liberation movements despite the erasure and misrecognition of their efforts. Jackson illustrates how Black women have frequently done the work of liberation at great risk to their lives and livelihoods. For a new generation of movement organizers and co-strugglers, Black Women Taught Us serves as a reminder that Black women were the first ones to teach us how to fight racism, how to name that fight, and how to imagine a more just world for everyone. ABOUT DR. JENN JACKSON Jenn M. Jackson, PhD, is an award-winning professor of political science at Syracuse University and a columnist for Teen Vogue, where they write the popular “Speak On It” column that “explores how today’s social and political life is influenced by generations of racial and gender (dis)order.” A queer genderflux androgynous Black woman, Jackson primary research is in Black Politics with a focus on Black Feminism, racial trauma and threat, gender and sexuality, and social movements. Black Women Taught Us is their first book. ABOUT NALEDI YAZIYO Naledi Yaziyo is a bookseller and curator based in Oakland, Cali. In 2021 she founded Rofhiwa Book Café, a bookstore and coffee shop in Durham, North Carolina. Offering a curated selection to capture Black literary traditions across the world, Rofhiwa was named among the literary treasures of North Carolina by PBS. Naledi curates bookish spaces in unconventional places, bringing the bookstore alive in unexpected places (bars, markets etc.). She holds a Masters’ degree in Cultural Anthropology from Duke University and brings her training to bear in her curation; presenting the book as material, cultural object imbued with meaning that changes with context. Information Source: Womb House Books | eventbrite

FlyBoy Promotion & Sunday Night Vibes present All * Star Game Final & Valentine Weekend Experience Sunday, Febraury 16th (Monday is a holiday) Time: 8PM-2AMAge: 21 yrs and older agneda: ** 8pm-10pm- game watching with light musical mix **10:01PM-2:00AM - after party with great dJ, life & birthdays celebrations, dancing, networking, and social attractions:Models hosting, trilling entertainment x performnces, dj mixing, and afterparty We got VIP booths for booking at an affordable price - call 510 - Sounds by DJ: * * Musical genres: Hip HOP * AfroBeats * Seductive RnBs of 80, 90s, and 200s *Dancehall * Reggaeton * Amapiano * Reggae * house music * Makosa Music * Root Reggae ===== The venue capacity is limited and easily packed, we encourage our guests, customers, fans, and potentail customers to buy their tickets ahead of time to guaranteed entry dues to the capacity and the interest of this event. must be 21 years and older to attend If you plan to drink alcohol. Please drink responsively and don't drink and drice. Arrive safely. Aternativel, make drivers app arrangement (Lift, Uber, Taxi). Tickets sale are final, non refundable, non transferable, and no tickets excahange --------------------- Thank you for attedning FlyBOY Promotion and Sunday Night Vibe Information Source: FlyBoy Promotion is an event curator and event conciege based in Bay Area | eventbrite

Experience the ultimate watch party and day party at CONNECT SUNDAY - ALL STAR 2025 in Oakland. Join fellow enthusiasts at the Parliament Event Venue on 811 Washington Street on February 16, 2025. Immerse yourself in the excitement and entertainment of the event, with ticket prices ranging from $0 to $23.18. Don't miss out on this opportunity to be part of a memorable experience.

Join us at the bookstore in celebration of Elyse Durham's debut novel, Maya & NatashaLeningrad, 1958. Twin sisters Maya and Natasha have worked their whole lives in the pursuit of one goal: to dance with the Kirov Ballet, like their late mother. But a new law from the Kremlin upends Maya and Natasha’s lives: due to fears of defection, family members may no longer travel abroad together. The Kirov can only accept one of them. As the Cold War heats up, Maya and Natasha must confront their loyalties: to East versus West; to the government that saved them versus their dreams of freedom; and, always, to each other. Now available for pre-order ABOUT THE AUTHORElyse Durham is a graduate of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. Her fiction has appeared or is upcoming in the Cimarron Review, Image Journal, the Cincinnati Review, and elsewhere. She is an Elizabeth George grantee and has held residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, the Glen Arbor Arts Center, and The Mount, the home of Edith Wharton. She lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan, with her husband, who is a Greek Orthodox priest. Information Source: this is a bookstore | Bookbug | eventbrite

Don't miss out on the COIN: I'm Not Afraid Of Tour Anymore event happening in Oakland at the Fox Theater - Oakland on February 18, 2025. Located at 1807 Telegraph Ave, Oakland, CA, 94612, this event promises to be an unforgettable experience for fans of the band COIN. Secure your tickets now to witness a night filled with incredible music and performances in the heart of Oakland.

Attention fellow Wednesday Peeps and Back Issue Bin Divers! Join us at Kona Club for our monthly gathering of the Good Vibes (Comic) Book Club! Each month, we dive into an issue, discussing everything from wild plot twists to how the art hits differently. It's all about fun and good vibes—no hating, just celebrating the good stuff! (Okay, maybe just a little bit of hating.) This meeting, we're covering: New Gods #1Ultimate Spider-Man #12 (The gang is loving this book.)Absolute Wonder Woman #3 (This one is a keeper!)Please grab your comics from Cape & Cowl Comics in Oakland (or your favorite shop). Please don't pirate the books. Support the folks making them. Absolutely LGBTQ+ and POC friendly. Absolutely no Nazis. Every attendee is entered into our little raffle for the most sought-after prize in all of nerdom: the Infinity Bag Prize. Whether you're a seasoned comic book reader or just starting out, all are welcome to share their thoughts and insights. Let’s geek out together over our love for comics! See you there! Information Source: Mark Haven Britt | eventbrite

This is a class for adults or teens who have either not yet learned how to ride a bike, or learned a long time ago but want a refresher on the basics of balancing, pedaling and steering. Our trained instructors are friendly, patient, and will help you get off to a great start in a safe, non-judgmental environment. A working bicycle is required in order to participate in this class. A limited number of bikes are available to rent for $30. We prefer that attendees bring their own equipment, so please only request a rental if you do not have access to a bike. Any rentals require a reservation. This workshop has a very low student-to-teacher ratio. If the class is full, you can be added to the wait list or be notified about future sessions as they are added. Information Source: Bike East Bay Education Program | eventbrite

Back by popular demand and In support of an active and healthy lifestyle, Toasted Life will be hosting another group tennis outing on Feb 22nd! Bring your rackets, some water and come break a sweat. Suggested Tennis Levels: Beginners and Intermediate players Our Instructor: Larry Atkins from OTC will be our private instructor for the session. OTC is a local group of tennis players organized with the aim to educate the community about healthy living through tennis. Their Mission is to work with Small Business, Non-Profit, Corporate, and individuals to create a vibrant tennis environment for youth and adults to enjoy the beauty of the sport What to bring: Racket, Water & Your work out gear. About Toasted Life: Toasted Life is a community-based experience platform empowering connections for ambitious dreamers of color. We specialize in designing 360 lifestyle experiences and engagements that center the needs of multicultural audiences through events, activations and cultural programming. Information Source: Toasted Life | eventbrite

FIRST SATURDAYS AT QUINN'S LIGHTHOUSE!!!!! *USE PROMO CODE “WEALLWEGOT” for $5 OFF!* SOUL GLO! is a featured artist showcase platform designed to give the audience and intimate look at some of the dopest spoken word poets, comedians and hip hop and R&B artists in the Bay Area. The featured artists for Soul Glo 17! will be: Prentice Powell, Jay Rich, Ori Clé, 4Fam, Swirv, Scoody Trill + SPECIAL GUEST! Hosted by AFRO ENT! CEO UpsideDownGhost! Doors open at 6:00pm. Show starts at 7:00pm. Event will be held at Quinn's Lighthouse (1951 Embarcadero Ave, Oakland, CA) Early arrival is HIGHLY SUGGESTED. Come early, order your food and drinks and catch the vibe before the show! Safe parking available. Uber/Lyft recommended. Come out and enjoy some great Spoken Word Poetry, some hilarious comedy and a good night to be had at Quinn's Lighthouse for FIRST SATURDAYS!!! FULL MENU AND BAR OPEN! (Kitchen closes at 10PM) Early arrival suggested for parties with tables for food service. Stay after for the AFTERPARTY SO FRESH & SO CLEAN SATURDAYS from 10:00pm - 2:00am (Wrist band from Soul Glo includes FREE afterparty admission) Grab your tickets now! General Seating is on a first come first serve basis. If you have a party of 4 or more, please contact the event organizer for seating accommodations. Once tickets are sold out on Eventbrite, general admission only tickets will be on sale at the door. For more information, to RSVP for parties of 4 or more, please visit our Instagram page at @acoupleofkidsfromoakland - @_upsidedownghost_ or email me directly rbradfordsr@hotmail.com Information Source: UpsideDownGhost | eventbrite

Experience the mesmerizing THUY - Wings World Tour live in Oakland at the prestigious Fox Theater. Located at 1807 Telegraph Ave, Oakland, CA, 94612, this highly anticipated event is scheduled for March 1, 2025. Don't miss the chance to witness a captivating musical journey that will surely leave you in awe. Get ready for an unforgettable evening filled with exceptional performances and memorable moments. Join fans from around the world for a night you won't forget.

Explore accurate Collision sporting information and times for 1st March, as well as links for Pro Wrestling news, tickets and more with Fixture Calendar. Collision is an adrenaline-fueled, action-packed pro wrestling event that brings together some of the fiercest competitors in the sport. The event takes place at the iconic Madison Square Garden stadium in New York City, attracting thousands of enthusiastic fans from around the world. Some of the top teams and players to watch out for at Collision include the reigning champions, The Demolition Crew, led by veteran wrestler and fan favorite, The Beast Brock Stone. The talented newcomer, The Viper Vanessa Silver, will also be making her debut at Collision, ready to take on the established stars in the ring. With its electrifying atmosphere and intense matches, Collision is a must-see for any die-hard pro wrestling fan. Information Source: fixturecalendar.com

Pink Sweat$ - Welcome Home Tour with Special Guest Aqyila is set to take place at Fox Theater in Oakland. The event is scheduled for March 2, 2025. Located at 1807 Telegraph Ave, Oakland, CA, 94612, this highly anticipated concert promises an unforgettable night of soulful music and mesmerizing performances. Don't miss the chance to experience the magic of Pink Sweat$ live on stage, supported by the talented special guest, Aqyila. Get ready for a captivating evening filled with incredible music at this iconic venue in Oakland.

Don't miss the highly anticipated Molchat Doma - Molchat Doma Tour 2025 coming to Oakland on March 5, 2025. The event will take place at the Fox Theater, located at 1807 Telegraph Ave, Oakland, CA, 94612. Prepare to experience an unforgettable evening filled with the captivating music of Molchat Doma in this iconic venue. Get your tickets early to secure your spot at this must-see event.