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What's Happening in Richmond
June 19, 2012
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So much to do in Richmond this week...
Try out a new Tequila, enjoy art exhibits, participate in the 3rd Annual Pow Wow, walk our beautiful Bay Trail with local experts, or learn how to be a magician.
Some of you are aware that our editor (me) had an accident over Memorial Day weekend. I'm house bound until the end of August, and still working away on behalf of Richmond, albeit from home. Please continue to post your events on the Community Calendar and send them to me...
If you have an upcoming event, please send the details to my email to be included in the next edition.
Michelle
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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Tequila Tasting
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Hotel Mac
50 Washington Avenue
Tuesday, June 19th
Tasting 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Come for the Tasting & Stay for dinner, buy one entree and receive one free! After the tasting, turn this e-mail into the manager to receive your free entrée.
Please be our guest for a complementary dinner for one when ordering two or more entrees at an equal or lesser value. Maximum value for the dinner entrée is $15.00. One offer per table. Offer good only on Tuesday June 19, 2012.
Reservations Recommended 510-233-0576.
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The Art of Summer Exhibit
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Point Richmond Community Center
139 Washington Avenue
Tuesday, June 19th
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Ten Local Artists Featured
Robert Anderson, fine art photographer
Rita Gardner, fine art photographer
Daniel Wooddell, blown glass artist
Steven Hurst, clock artist
Rev. Rabia & Keizo Yamazawa, composer/musicians
Paul Thompson, poet
Joan Gatten, poet
Ilza Lewis, pastry artist
Isabelle Murphy, food artist
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Point Richmond Art Walk Featured Artist Rita Bagley
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Point Richmond Post Office
102 Washington Avenue
June - August
Rita Bagley is an American painter and a sign maker. Originally from Cicero, Illinois, she has a degree in Design from the University of Illinois. Rita has been living in the San Francisco Bay area since 1989, arriving just weeks prior to the Loma Prieta earthquake. With her design strengths, Rita's compositions with deliberately chosen intimate viewpoints are visually exciting. She focuses the light in her paintings on a great moment. Her paint application process and disciplined palette choices create a flow and energy that comes alive with a brilliance of spirit and spark as these images speak.
"The Baltic Picnic is part of my newest series of work. I retrieved a hundred vintage photographs, tiny, diminutive in size, mostly black and white from the 40's, 50's and 60's. A selection of these my paintings are at a hundred times larger than the photo once was. It excites me to edit the composition down to the most intimate viewpoint. After the sepia under painting, I limit the palette to three deliberately chosen contemporary colors for each piece. The process as I apply these paints creates a flow and energy that comes alive with a brilliance of spirit as these images speak. My painterly concept is the catalyst that takes me to the who, what, where and why of these subjects placed in time of what was once a forgotten snapshot. "
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ArtWalk Point Richmond
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Art In Windows Closing Reception & Art Walk
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Richmond Main Street Office
1000 Macdonald Avenue, Suite C
Friday, June 22nd
5:00 pm - 7:30 pm
The Art Walk tour will depart from the office at 5:45pm. Following the tour, guests are invited to return to our office to enjoy wine and light refreshments courtesy of Quiche & Carry, mingle, and meet the artists:Tracy Ricks and Stephen Bruce
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3rd Annual Richmond Native American Pow-Wow - "Honoring the Ancestors"
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Nicholl Park
3230 Macdonald Avenue
Saturday June 23rd
10 am - 6 pm
Grand Entry Noon
FREE
All Drums and Dancers are Welcome!
Contest Dance Categories; from Golden Age to Juniors.
Tiny Tots
Richmond Princess Contest
Hand Drum Contest
Drum Contest
Arts, Crafts & FoodVendors
Bring your own chair
Alcohol & Drug-free Event
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Rosie Day on the Bay
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Lucretia Edwards Park, Marina Bay
Saturday, June 23rd
9 am to Noon
Registration required
Join Bruce & Sandra Beyaert for this Greenbelt Alliance four-mile walk to explore five shoreline parks in Richmond. As we walk, we'll enjoy bay vistas and tidal marshes teeming with birdlife. The outing will end at the newly-opened visitor center of Rosie The Riveter/WW II Home Front National Historical Park next to the historic Ford Assembly Building.
Click Here for details and required registration.
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Dynamite History Walk at Point Pinole Regional Shoreline
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Point Pinole Regional Park
Sunday, June 24th
10:00 am to 1:00 pm
Explore the explosive and peaceful past of this shoreline park that was "preserved by dynamite". A flat and easy 3-mile walk with Naturalist Dave Zuckermann.
For more information, call 510-544-2233
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Magic Camp, Session I at Playland-Not-at-the-Beach - ALL AGES
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Playland Not-at-the-Beach
10979 San Pablo Avenue
Monday, June 25th
Friday, June 29th
9:00 am -1:00 pm
$220 per week Teacher, performer and master magician Mike Della Penna will be leading a week of magic instruction. Learn to perform a multitude of magical effects that you can really perform. Improve your stage presence and explore concepts such as character, scripting, and material choice. Meet guest magicians and learn the history of magic. Each camper will receive a magic book and DVD along with all the materials necessary for the camp. Ages 7 through 107 welcome. Camp is from 9:00am to 1:00pm daily. Cost is $220 per person and is limited to the first 15 students/people/registrants. ($40 discount given if you sign up for both sessions of Magic Camp.)
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Over the Hills Gang Walk in Miller/Knox Regional Shoreline
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Miller/Knox Regional Shoreline Park
Tuesday, June 26th
10:00 am to 12:30 pm
Join EBRPD Naturalist Dave Zuckermann on this outing for hikers 55 years and older interested in nature study, history, fitness and fun to explore Miller/Knox Regional Shoreline. For more information, call 510-544-2233.
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Rosie the Riveter Visitor Center Tours
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Daily Tour from Visitor Center
1414 Harbour Way South
2:00 pm - 2:45 pm
FREE
Meet a ranger or docent in front of the new Rosie the Riveter Visitor Education Center for a 45 minute walk along the Bay Trail. If it's raining the tour will be conducted in the Visitor Center.
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FREE Zumba Fitness in Downtown Richmond - Last Class June 28th
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Richmond Main Street
Due to the limited space and high demand for these classes, ALL interested participants must call (510) 236-4049 to reserve a space. Registration lists will open the Friday before each remaining class.
Richmond Main Street Iniative
1000 Macdonald Avenue Suite C
6:30 pm - 7:30 pm.
Get fit in downtown Richmond by doing Zumba! This high energy exercise incorporates latin dance to make working out fun and effective.
Make sure to wear comfy workout shoes and clothes.
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Pt. Richmond Farmer's Market
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Pt. Richmond
Wednesdays
4:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Organic fruits & vegetables. Food vendors and more...
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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
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.
A free market basket is given away each week. For more information contact Steve Ghigliotto, market manager, at 510-206-7271. |
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The Baltic
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The Baltic
Wednesday, June 20th
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Salsa Lessons
Thursday, June 21st
8:00 pm - 11:00 pm
Baltic Sessions - Jazz Jam
Hosted by The Kit Eakle Trio" featuring Michael Price and Marcelino Quiroz
Friday, June 22nd
9:30 pm - 11:30 pm
Upward Movement ~ Hip Hop fusion
Hip hop is alive and well. It is a movement that is both pious and pundit, both pure and poisoned. It is of the people and for the people. The movement moves on
Saturday, June 23rd
9:30 pm - 11:30 pm
Mark Holzinger Group ~ Jump Jive
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School's Out Weekend at Playland-Not-at-the-Beach
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Playland Not-at-the-Beach
10979 San Pablo Avenue
Saturday, June 23rd
Sunday, June 24th
10:00 am -5:00 pm
Adults $15
Children under 14/Seniors $10 Parents, forget the stress of planning for summer. Start the season off right by bringing the kids to Playland, the perfect place to play when it's too hot or too wet, or when the children are too bored. As the school year comes to an end, spend the day where the whole family can have a good time together.
More information about Playland here
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Forgotten Fragments: Art Made from Overlooked Materials
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NIAD
551 23rd Street
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Ink, paint and clay are conventional art materials. They're easy to acquire and put into immediate action with the right tools. Torn paper bags, outdated newspapers and scraps of bamboo require a bit more forethought, especially when creating sculpture. NIAD artists have been recycling these types of materials into artwork for several months while working with instructor Ruben Guzman, who encouraged them to simply play with materials until something interesting happened. Forgotten Fragments will feature the results of their experimentation in show of abstract and figurative sculpture.
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Golden State Model Railroad Museum
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Golden State Model Railroad Museum
900-A Dornan Drive
Wednesdays 11:00 am - 3:00 pm
Saturdays Noon - 5:00 pm
Sundays Noon - 5:00 pm
Admission Prices (when trains are running)
$4 for Adults
$2 for Senior Citizens & Children under 12
$9 for Families
A visit to our 10,000 square foot Museum of operating model trains provides an inexpensive, fun-filled outing for young and old, with plenty of room for youngsters to stretch their legs and expend energy as they follow trains along the 200+ feet of public walkway.
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| Marina Gardens Bingo
1401 Marina Way South
Wednesday - Saturdays Doors Open at 5 pm
Games begin at 7 pm |
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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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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July 3rd at the Craneway with Oakland East Bay Symphony
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BBQ and Fireworks on the Red Oak Victory Ship July 3rd
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SS Red Oak Victory Ship
1337 Canal Boulevard
Tuesday, July 3rd
Registration Required!! Please RSVP by July 1st
6:00 pm Boarding
BBQ 7:00 pm
Fireworks 9:00 pm
$25 per person
Already have plans for July Fourth?
That's OK, because this 3rd of July the SS RED OAK VICTORY will once again host their annual 4th of July celebration! This will be a great event for the entire family.
BARBECUE!
KARAOKE!
MOVIE!
FIREWORKS!
From the deck of the ship you will enjoy the best view of Richmond's amazing July 3rd fireworks display. What better way to watch the fireworks than from this historic WWII vessel?
This will be a fun filled evening so don't miss out!
All funds benefit the SS RED OAK VICTORY, a restoration project of the Richmond Museum of History. Please RSVP. |
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Because kids write our future...
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Help Richmond students succeed - become a writing coach!
WriterCoach Connection brings well-trained volunteer writing coaches into English classes to give students one-on-one support with their writing assignments. The students develop self-confidence and writing proficiency, and strengthen their comprehension and creative and critical thinking capabilities, critical skills for school, college, and career success. There are 530+ writing coaches working with over 2,000 students in Berkeley, Oakland, Albany and El Cerrito. Richmond High School is launching the program this fall. We need community volunteers who want to help Richmond students learn to communicate their ideas with clarity, confidence, and pride.
To learn more and register please visit: www.WriterCoachConnection.org or contact Shelli Fried, WCC Volunteer Coordinator at 510-530-7600 or sfried0530@gmail.com
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Downtown Free Shuttle funded through 2013!
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The Richmond Circular Shuttle began operation through its service provider- TransMetro, Inc. on July 1st. The service is funded through the Bay Area Air Quality Management District, and can be accessed within a five mile radius to multiple health facilities and clinics, pharmacies, businesses, recreation, residential communities, and employment centers for those traveling to and from the El Cerrito Del Norte and Richmond Intermodal BART stations.
In an effort to provide the highest level of quality, dependability, reliability, customer service and a convenient schedule, riders can hop aboard the free "Richmond Circular Shuttle" at any of its 11 stops.
Buses will arrive every 15-20 minutes during commute hours from 7:00am - 7:00pm (excluding weekends and holidays).
The objectives of the service is to ensure mobility and access and to link key regional destinations through reliable public transportation services including bus, Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) and Amtrak for all of Richmond residents to travel to and from San Francisco and other Bay Area destinations. The service uncommon efficiency to meet evolving transportation needs promotes quality service and reliability.
Shuttle Route Cutting Blvd
Shuttle Route Cutting Blvd Schedule
Medical Shuttle Route
Medical Shuttle Route Schedule
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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? We can help! Give our office a call at(510) 237-1403
or send an email.
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