Current Events 
Uptown Body & Fender Exhibition
Friday, November 4th from 6-9pm, 2011
Come on out to Oakland's Art Murmur this upcoming First Friday, November 4th from 6-9pm for an evening of amazing artists sharing their work in this incredible space! Featured artists include:
Raymond Patlan, Joaquin Alejandro Newman, Eduardo Pineda, Patricia Rodriguez, Salvador "El Chamuco" Cortez, Daniel Camacho, Ernesto Hernandez-Olmos, Maria Guzman, Tony Coleman, Sean Levon Nash, Juan Domingo, Lulu Liu, & Jaz Davis.
Oakland's Art & Soul Festival
August 20-21, 2011, 10am-6pm
$15 at door; $7 Youth 13-18; 12 & under free
Downtown Oakland
For the 11th annual Art & Soul festival, six concert stages will be packed with an eclectic all-star lineup of 60 national recording artists and hot Bay Area bands to please every musical taste. Stroll the Global Artisan Marketplace for great art by Forrealism Artists and unique gifts to take home!
Temescal Street Fair
Sunday, July 10, 12-6 PM
Telegraph Avenue between 45th and 51st, North Oakland
The festival is sponsored by the Temescal Telegraph Community Association, founded to revitalize the economic potential of Temescal, one of Oakland's oldest neighborhoods. The event features two stages (Main Stage and Kids' Stage) and promotes local craft artists and cultural performers, representative of the rich mosaic of culture in the area.
Enjoy Food and Drinks from these Featured Restaurants: Lanesplitter Pizza and Pub, La Calaca Loca Taqueria, The Avenue, Barlata, SR24, Whole Foods, Fine Crafts and community booths and much more!
Valet bike parking by East Bay Bike Coalition. 8 blocks from MacArthur BART
Information/volunteer line: 510-860-7327
Days of the Dead Celebration
Saturday & Sunday, October 30-31, 2011
National Museum of the American Indian, Washington DC
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian and the National Museum of American History are co-sponsoring a celebration of the Latin American holiday Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) with a two-day family e
vent Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 30–31, 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. each day at the National Museum of the American Indian. The celebration will feature hands-on activities for adults and children, take-home crafts, demonstrations, films and performances that reflect traditions associated with this holiday. Admission is free.
Common holiday festivities include setting up ofrendas—an altar used to display portraits, foods, special possessions and memories of a loved one. Throughout the weekend, visitors can visit and observe three ofrendas while Evelyn Orantes (Guatemalan Maya) and multimedia artist Tlisza Jaurique (Mexica/Yaqui/Basque/Xicana) demonstrate traditional offerings (10:30 a.m. to noon and 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the Potomac Atrium).
Other highlighted activities include customary Day of the Dead crafts, such as papel picado (paper cut-outs) and calavera (papier-mâché skull) demonstrations (10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.), and hands-on family crafts consisting of the decorating plaster skulls and making papel picado (10:30 a.m. to noon and 1 to 3 p.m.) in the third-level classroom and overlook. A special adult papel picado workshop led by Catalina Delgado-Trunk (Mexican of Nahuatl/Culhuacan paternal ancestry) (11 a.m. and 3:30 p.m.) will take place in Room 4025.
National Museum of the American Indian Website
The Power of Chocolate
Saturday, February 14, 2010, 10:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Sunday, February 15, 2010, 10:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
National Museum of the American Indian, Washington DC
Various locations throughout the Museum
This year's Power of Chocolate festival will come alive in a colorful celebration of culture, music, dance, art, science, and of course food. The program will explore the rich history and ongoing story of chocolate and the world of cacao and will be comprised of an assortment of programming from the spectacular Peruvian scissor dancers, to demonstrations with artisans like the Guatemalan gourd artists, meso-American vase painting reproductions, food demonstrations, to one-on-one interactions with Bolivian cacao growers.
Visitors will be able to extend their understanding of chocolate, including its healing, scientific, and medicinal properties, and deepen their understanding of the cultures and communities that have cultivated this valuable crop. Program will also include hands-on activities for families and children.
National Museum of the American Indian Website
Chillin' Productions Art & Fashion Show
Mezzanine (444 Jessie Street) Here's a Saturday, May 11, 2011
8:00pm-2:00am
Chillin' Productions Brings You:
60 fashion designers, 80 painters/photographers, 60 filmmakers
Music by DJ JOHANSON, Russell Vargas, DJ Shon (Gossip/Cat Club), Kerowack, Dirtyhertz, and Dave Madix + more
Admission $6
21+ ID
For details about the show go to:
www.chillinproductions.com
www.mezzaninesf.com
This event was covered in SF Gate! Check it!