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What's Happening in Richmond
January 11, 2011
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Mix & mingle, great art and music are here this week in Richmond. Looking for ways to give back to your community on Martin Luther King, Jr Day...check out the events sponsored by the City of Richmond!
Crab feed season is just around the corner. Holding one? Send us your information. Looking to go to a few? See the "Crab Feed" Section below.
Plan ahead for some great upcoming events in our "What's Coming Up" section.
Enjoy your week and enjoy Richmond!
Michelle Itagaki
Richmond Convention & Visitors Bureau
If your event isn't listed here, we probably aren't aware of it. Either send us your information by Monday morning to be included in the weekly edition or enter your event on the Community Calendar.
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The Art of Living Black 15th Anniversary Exhibition
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The Richmond Art Center
2540 Barrett Avenue
January 11th - March 11th
Gallery Hours 11:00 am - 5:00 pm
Artist's Reception February 5th
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
MAIN GALLERY
Celebrating the 15th anniversary of the only annual non-juried exhibition in the Bay Area to exclusively feature regional artists of African descent. Featuring over 75 local artists.
Artist Talk Sat, Feb 5 and Feb 12 with select TAOLB artists, 12 - 2 pm.
SOUTH GALLERY
Rae Louise Hayward and Jan Hart Schuyers - A Tribute
Honoring these two dynamic artists and founders of The Art of Living Black in honor of its 15th anniversary.
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West County Chambers 2011 Super Mixer
| Craneway Pavilion
1414 Harbour Way South
Thursday, January 13th
Admission: $5 Any West County Chamber Member
$10 Nonmembers
Join us in celebration of the new year as Members of all the West County Chambers gather for the second annual SUPER MIXER! Mix with businesses from all across West County. Learn about services that could benefit your business and dont forget about the great prizes, food and no-host bar! Everyone will be there! |
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Point Richmond Acoustic presents Ace Acoustic Guitarist Stevie Coyle
| First United Methodist Church
201 Martina Avenue
Friday, January 14th
8:00pm
$12.50 per person
$10 for seniors and students
Point Richmond Acoustic Music continues its fall concert series on Friday, January 14th. Singer songwriter Caren Armstrong opens the show. More information is available at www.folkunlimited.com. Coyle is best known as a former member of the popular Bay Area band, the Waybacks, and is also perhaps the Bay Area's most sought after finger style guitar teacher as well as a regular contributor to Acoustic Guitar magazine. Coyle's first solo CD, Ten In One, demonstrates Coyle's eclectic abilities. He could easily play it straight and perform acoustic ditties a la Leo Kotke. But Coyle's witty and quirky songwriting and deadpan vocals add another layer to Coyles's music and add depth to his live shows. Says Point Richmond Acoustic promoter Bruce Kaplan: "Stevie has a devoted following of fans, and its easy to see why. He's a great guitar player, and a completely charming performer." Opener Caren Armstrong is no stranger to Bay Area audiences. A singer, Songwriter and record producer, Armstrong emcees the long running Celebrating Songwriter series, the Bay Area's longest running showcase for songwriters. Her guitar work, catchy melodies and heartfelt songs have drawn audiences from the Bay Area to her native Texas. The Point Richmond First Methodist Church is an intimate place for concerts, and music is an important of its program. Built more than one 100 years ago, the hexagonal shaped sanctuary accentuates the up close and personal nature of the music. Point Richmond Acoustic is co-sponsored by Point Richmond Music, Folk Unlimited and the First Methodist Church of Point Richmond. |
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510Arts
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World Culture in the East Bay
Looking for an Art event in the East Bay? The Arts & Culture communities in Oakland, Emeryville, Berkeley & Richmond have formed a cultural corridor partnership to bring these events to you in an easy to find format. 510arts.com is a web portal linked to each city's own Arts calendar. Bookmark this page for your future use!
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What's Up at Bridge Artspace
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Bridge ArtSpace
23 Maine Street
Saturday, January 15th
Grand Opening Reception 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Come talk about bikes and art, hear music and party on.
First Look into the Residency Program and artist Slimm Buick. Justine tenZeldam and Slimm Buick are coming to Bridge this January. Slimm is the first to receive a residency at BAS. He and wife Justine have an abundance of creative ideas. They're looking into bringing public art along the Greenway, seeking partnership with other local groups like RYSE and using their studio for some great community projects. One of these is making their studio space available to youth to build art bikes/scraper bikes. With huge popularity in Oakland, their city of origin, scraper bikes are now a worldwide phenomenon. Many people think Slimm Buick when they muse about any type of art bike. Slimm worked at the Crucible at some of the bike clinics and he makes some artrageous bikes. Slim and Justine want to explore doing a fireart event with the Crucible at Bridge ArtSpace. Cyclecide.com who also does makers fairs is another of the many connections Slimms made in 25 years of doing art bikes, as is Heavy Pedal Cyclecide Bike Rodeo -- a club of alter-bike mechanics, mariachi-punk musicians and psychotic clowns form a traveling pedal-powered carnival that is fun for people of all ages.
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Martin Luther King Jr - Make it A Day
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| Marina Gardens Bingo
1401 Marina Way South
Wednesday - Saturdays
Doors Open at 5 pm
Games begin at 7 pm
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Bingo players are loving this wonderful hall, the friendly and safe environment and the honest games. Marina Gardens Bingo has become a new destination for people come from all over the bay area.
See flyer for more details
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Richmond Certified Farmers Market at Civic Center Parking Lot
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Civic Center Parking Lot
24th & Barrett Avenue
Fridays
8 am - 5 pm
Richmond Certified Farmers Market is open every Friday, year round from 8am to 5 pm. The market, in the Richmond Auditorium parking lot at 24th and Barrett Avenue, has offered locally grown fruit, vegetables, nuts, plants,eggs, chickens and other edibles since l983 that is for 27 years. A free market basket is given away each week. For more information contact Seve Ghigliotto, market manager, at 510-206-7271. |
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Game On!
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Boilerhouse Restaurant
1414 Harbour Way South
Every Monday night
Come watch the game with us at the BoilerHouse and enjoy the season food and drink specials.
Al fans welcome- Monday Night Football, College Football, NBA basketball...
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| Martin Luther King Jr. Day Celebration at Playland. | |
Playland Not-at-the-Beach
10979 San Pablo Avenue
Saturday, January 15th
Sunday, January 16th
10am - 5 pm
Youth/Seniors $10
General Admission $15
Learn about the impact of Martin Luther King Jr. on American culture.
Playland is a Museum of Old-Fashioned Fun chock-full with over 30 pinball machines set on FREE play, penny arcade games and a carousel carnival (where you can win prizes!), miniature circus, magic shows, and interactive displays honoring America's Bygone Amusements. More information about Playland here
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2nd Annual Chocolate and Beer Festival at the Craneway
| Craneway Pavilion
1414 Harbour Way South
Saturday, February 19th
2:00 pm - 6:00 pm
The Craneway Pavilion will host the 2nd Annual Chocolate and Beer Festival Saturday February 19th from 2pm to 6pm. We are inviting local, craft chocolatiers and breweries to help us to raise funds for a local non-profit, Saffron Strand, who finds solutions for the homeless. SaffronStrand.org See last years event summary and photos here.
Stay tuned to our website for festival info and special ticket offers.
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Life of The World To Come: Twist and Crawl
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NIAD
551 23rd Street
Monday - Friday
9:00 am - 4:00 pm, or by appointment
Opening Reception: Saturday, January 22, 2-5pm
THE FIRST IN A THREE-PART SERIES OF EXHIBITIONS ORGANIZED BY TIMOTHY BUCKWALTER
OFFERING A BROADER VIEW OF CONTEMPORARY ART
Shattering the conventions that have until now segregated artists with disabilities from their mainstream contemporaries, Twist and Crawl blends more than 30 works culled from artists and galleries across the country with those from the National Institute of Art and Disabilities studio program.
Twist and Crawl is the first in a three-part exhibition series, Life of The World To Come, that presents a preview of a future where work from disabled artists is viewed in the same light as pieces and projects from artists who may not have a diagnosis extreme enough to qualify them as "other." In reality, however, the show is not breaking new ground so much as making visible what is already underway. Artists with disabilities - from Willem De Kooning to Chuck Close - are already a part of the contemporary art world. But Close and De Kooning were already established before becoming disabled. The next logical step in the opening up of the contemporary art world would be the inclusion of artists with disabilities
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The Masquers Playhouse
105 Park Place
January 21st through February 26th
Purchase tickets here.
by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa;
directed by Patricia Inabnet
Our 2011 Season kicks off with this celebration of the uncanny: Two intertwined one act plays in the style of Hitchcock and The Twilight Zone begin our season. In the first play, a director of horror films survives a terrible train wreck only to be haunted by the ghost of one of the passengers who didn't survive. In the second, Abby and Joe travel to a small town in rural Oregon to make peace with the man who murdered her parents and younger sister. The Mystery Plays wrestle with the most profound of human ideas: the mysteries of death, the afterlife, religion, faith, and forgiveness. |
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Salesian's 46th Annual Crab Feed
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Salesian High School
2851 Salesian Avenue
$40 per person
(510) 234-4433 xt 1126, please leave a message
Friday, January 14
Cocktail hour 7:00 pm, Dinner at 8:00pm
Saturday, January 15
Cocktail hour 6:00pm, Dinner at 7:00pm Music & Dancing following dinner
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Coronado YMCA
263 South 20th Street
Saturday, January 29th
5:00 pm - 10:00 pm
$45 per person, pre-sale tickets only, call (510) 412-5647
Come out for all you can eat hot crab, pasta, salad, bread and dessert (beverages included), live & silent auction, raffle, music and dancing. Cost per person only $45. Funds raised will benefit the Corornado YMCA's participants.
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St. David School Crab Feed
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St. David School
871 Sonoma Street
Saturday, January 29th
6:00pm
Tickets are $40 before January 24th
$50 at the door
Adults only
The dinner will be crab, pasta, salad, bread and dessert. There will be a raffle, prizes, music and dancing.. Tickets are $40 before 1/24 or $50 at the door. Childcare will be available for $10 and will include pizza and a movie.
We are asking that parents wishing to leave their children in childcare call before the event to give the names and ages of their children.
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Annual iExpect Crab Feed Fundraiser
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iExpect
5221 Central Avenue Suite 100
Saturday, February 5th
4:00pm - 7:00pm
$40.00 Adults
$25.00 Children 5yrs - 12yrs
Under 4yrs old... Free
iExpect is a local non-profit organization that offers assistants with under privileged children, teens and families in the East Bay and beyond. It is our goal to offer clothing, counseling, food, teach life skills, offer support groups, shelter and so much more.
We are committed to serving our community with the love and compassion it's deserves.
We need your help to launch this mission of helps. With your tax deductible donation, we can continue to be a light in our community...giving hope to the hopeless, training community leaders, while encouraging and empowering everyone we touch along the way.
Help us make a difference!
We will provide hot garlic butter sauce !
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Richmond Chamber Valentine's Crab Feed
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Memorial Auditorium
403 Civic Center Drive
Friday, February 11th
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
$45 per person
Purchase tickets here.
Support the Richmond Chamber at their annual fund-raising event!
This event means a great deal to the Chamber. As a nonprofit organization, we rely on the funds from this event to support us throughout the year. We thank those who attend and participate year after year and are looking forward to the 2011 event being the best ever! Bring a date and enjoy the party!
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201 W Richmond Avenue
Suite B
Richmond, California 94801
510-237-1403 |
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Are you planning an event? Give us a call and we'll help you plan!!(510) 237-1403
or send an email.
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