Just before Alameda’s Angels Drag Show, come watch the behind the scenes documentary about Alameda’s own Tap Dancing Christmas Trees with special Q&A after the viewing
Join Alameda's Angels as we celebrate the Holidays! A night filled with fierce performances, cold drinks and a good time! ✨
🎉 Alameda's Angels Drag Show! 🎉
Join us for an unforgettable evening at Faction Brewing on Friday, December 5th from 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM PDT! Hosted by the fabulous Summer Lynn Spears, this night will feature jaw-dropping performances and stunning looks by the Bay Area’s top drag queens.
✨ Everyone is welcome! ✨This inclusive, all-ages event is for anyone who loves drag, fabulous performances, and great company. Come as you are, and let’s create unforgettable memories together!
Taco 'bout a good time! 🌮Savor mouthwatering tacos, tortas, and desserts from La Santa Torta, paired perfectly with Faction Brewing’s finest craft beers for an amazing culinary experience.
The fun begins at 7:00 PM, with the main show starting at 8:00 PM.
75 Vendors!
Records, Music Memorabilia, Musical Instruments, Vintage Clothing, Tiki/Hawaiiana, Handmade Jewelry & Gifts, Books, Videos, and much more!
Featuring DJ’s playing all vinyl! All Day!
Food by Satay by the Bay and Crazy Block Cheesecakes
Sponsors: Alternative Tentacles Records, Amoeba Music, Faction Brewing, Satay by the Bay
Free Admission
All Ages
Freestyle Edition
Get ready for an unforgettable holiday night with special guests Drop N Harmony and Kai
Bringing those classic freestyle vibes to Alameda!
Shop, Eat, and vibe under the lights - Holiday style
An end-of-year celebration of the Guilty Gear Xrd community!
RESSHOUMANIA is NorCal's yearly celebration of Guilty Gear Xrd! Join us for two full days of awesome Xrd action.
RESSHOUMANIA highlights include:
The RESSHOUMANIA Xrd showmatch card
Two days of hanging out with the extremely cool Xrd community and mashing on casuals
More stuff to come when the full schedule drops
Tickets
RESSHOUMANIA early registration costs $50 and includes attendance for BOTH days and a t-shirt. We will have a limited number of single-day passes available onsite for $35.
Early registration ends on 11/13, after which the price goes up to $75 and shirt availability is no longer guaranteed.
Refunds will be allowed up until one week before the event. Ticketing fees will not be refunded
CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS AND MORE INFORMATION
with special guest Andres Amador
Artist, Andres Amador Arts
FREE and open to all!
Some art asks to be looked at. Andres Amador’s art asks you to listen.
To the beach. To the wind. To the tide.
And—if you’re quiet enough—to yourself.
His vast sand drawings appear and vanish within a single tide cycle, but something about them lingers. They’re mirrors disguised as patterns: reminders that the coastline isn’t just a place we visit, but a place we’re shaped by. Every curve he rakes into the sand carries the same question—How do we want to move through the world?
On December 18, we're welcoming an artist who has spent 25 years turning impermanence into insight. In his talk, he’ll share how a personal search for meaning grew into a creative practice rooted in environmental awareness, public participation, and deep attention to place.
Raised amid San Francisco’s activist murals, shaped by conservation work in Ecuador, and transformed through large-scale community art, Andres brings a perspective that feels both ancient and urgently current. His pieces aren’t static—they respond to the grain of the sand, the shape of the tide, the angle of light, the openness of the public. They’re collaborations with the coastline, made to dissolve, made to teach.
“People are seeking connection to something larger than themselves; our work is to help them find it.”
— Andres Amador
Expect an evening of storytelling, practice, and reflection—an invitation to slow down, settle into the rhythm of tide and light, and rekindle the part of ourselves that still knows how to belong to the ocean’s living margins.
Close out the year with community, with creativity, and with a reminder that hope can be drawn in the sand—brief, beautiful, and powerful enough to stay with us long after the tide has taken it back.
Bring friends. Bring openness. Bring that end-of-year sense of possibility.
The beach is calling, even from the brewery.
Over 35 vendors, beer, and food
Warm your winter heart with this knotty, twisted and wickedly fun workshop! In class, each ticket holder will receive a demo ball of chilled pretzel dough to learn how to portion, roll and twist into pretzels. We’ll make traditional twists, unusual twists, and your creations. Our spring 2026 classes are emphasizing animal shapes like an octopus, a turtle, a snail, or a snake!
The in-class demo will cover:
How to make spent grain pretzel dough using the Grainbakers method
How to make hot cheddar cheese pub dip for your pretzels
Each ticket holder will leave class with:
4-6 ready-to-eat hot soft pretzels
Recipe cards for the Grainbakers Soft Pretzels, Grainbakers Hot Cheddar Cheese Dip and our Pretzel Dipping mustard
A new dough cutter/bench scraper
Soundsystem Music All Day
Free Entry
REIA
illexotic
Fal$e Profit
Saladbar
Singe
"Cheers & Cheers! Get Your Brewery Portraits with Santa at Faction Brewery in Alameda!
MINI SESSIONS AT THE BREWERY! Sip. Smile. Snap.
Come join us for a lovely afternoon of painting and sipping at Faction Brewing. Get creative with your partner or friends as you enjoy a beautiful sunset view. No experience needed, just bring your enthusiasm! We'll provide all the painting supplies and guidance you need to create your masterpiece. Unleash your inner artist while enjoying delicious drinks in a cozy atmosphere. Don't miss out on this perfect date night opportunity! Tickets include one drink. Bring sunscreen, hat and a warm jacket.
From Bay Wayers to a World Mapped in Hope Spots
with special guest
Liz Taylor, President, DOER Marine
November’s Ocean Hoptimism dives deep—literally and figuratively.
What if the world’s most inspiring ocean stories weren’t happening thousands of miles away, but right here in our own backyard? The San Francisco Bay, once written off as “too industrial to matter,” is now officially recognized as a Hope Spot—a place where science, policy, and community action converge to restore life and possibility to our waters.
And just across the estuary in Alameda, Deep Ocean Exploration and Research (DOER Marine) has quietly become one of the planet’s most innovative deep-sea engineering firms, designing the submersibles and subsea systems that make ocean exploration possible. Led by Liz Taylor, DOER’s president since 1994, the company has built vehicles for science, discovery, and even art: turning imagination into hardware for hope.
In this talk, Liz will guide us from the Bay’s rebounding shallows to the blue unknown, showing how engineering, ecology, and everyday citizens are connecting through Mission Blue’s network of 167 Hope Spots worldwide. Then, she’ll offer a glimpse beneath the surface of her next big project: the Honu Submersible Program, a vision for the next generation of accessible ocean exploration launching in 2026.
“While there are surely many reasons for despair, there are even more causes for hope. Everyone has the power to make positive change, x 8 billion."
—Liz Taylor
Part hometown pride, part planetary perspective, Engineering Hope invites us to see how local innovation in Alameda can ripple across the globe. Because every Hope Spot—whether it’s a kelp forest, coral reef, or our own Bay—starts with people willing to build, believe, and dive in.
Raise a glass to invention, inspiration, and a hometown hero helping map a world of hope.
Plus! Canned food drive to support the Alameda County Community Food Bank. Bring an unopened, unexpired, non-perishable item (canned meats, low-sodium soups, peanut butter, or cereal) and help local families.
Please no glass jars, prepared, or perishable foods. Every can counts.
More information at https://www.oceanhoptimism.org/
Profs and Pints Alameda presents: “The World Mount Vesuvius Buried,” on what we’re learning by the uncovering of ancient Roman towns buried in volcanic ash, with Michael Anderson, a professor of Classical archaeology at San Francisco State University who has spent nearly 30 years studying and excavating Pompeii.
The cataclysmic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE entombed towns, farms, and villas in ash and debris, dooming those around at the time but preserving for future generations a unique and invaluable window onto Roman and Pre-Roman daily life.
Learn about the fascinating finds of archeologists at work there with Michael Anderson, director of the Via Consolare Project excavations of ancient Pompeii, author of Space, Movement and Visibility in Pompeian Houses, and co-author of House of the Surgeon, Pompeii: Excavations in the Casa del Chirurgo.
He’ll discuss how what Vesuvius buried was lost and largely forgotten for centuries, and how the discovery and early excavation of these sites in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries would transform forever the disciplines of art history and archaeology. It also greatly enriched our understanding of ancient Roman daily life, a process that continues to this day, making Pompeii the longest continuously excavated site in the world.
Evidence from these sites has provided some of the clearest answers to questions about what life was really like for both the rich and the poor in ancient Italy in Roman times. Dr. Anderson will discuss what we’ve learned through the unearthing of houses and wall paintings, as well as the remains of graffiti, bakeries, clothes cleaners, and taverns and of evidence of politics, elections, and graffiti.
What was it like to experience a cataclysmic volcanic eruption? Did anyone escape? We’ll explore the impact of the eruption on the nearby settlements of Pompeii and Herculaneum using evidence from Pliny the Younger’s eyewitness account combined with scientific study of the bodies of those who perished and the traces left by those who may have escaped.
Finally, we’ll look at what is still being excavated and why. We will examine recent—and, in some cases, still unpublished—discoveries from active and on-going excavations. You’ll learn how these sites continue to enrich our understanding of ancient life nearly two thousand years ago, not only during the sites’ final years and hours but throughout the sites’ long histories from foundation to destruction. (Tickets available only online. Advance tickets: $13.50 plus processing fees. Doors: $17, or $15 with a student ID. Listed time is for doors. The talk starts 30 minutes later.)
All genres of records, CDs, tapes, and memorabilia!
All ages
Beginner workshops are perfect for you to grab your friends, grab a drink and come make tiny trees! We’re bringing the awesome art of bonsai out of the hedged in gardens and into the streets! Or at least into your favorite bars/breweries/pubs. Bonsai Bar is a night of fun you don’t want to miss. Learn the fundamental skills and techniques behind the art of bonsai while enjoying a night out with friends! Our teachers will introduce core concepts and guide your experience as you pot, prune, and design your very own bonsai tree!
Join Alameda's Angels as we celebrate Summer Lynn Spears! A night filled with fierce performances, cold drinks and a good time! ✨
🎉 Alameda's Angels Drag Show! 🎉
Join us for an unforgettable evening celebrating Summer Lynn Spears at Faction Brewing on Friday, November 7th from 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM PDT! Hosted by the fabulous Summer Lynn Spears, this night will feature jaw-dropping performances and stunning looks by the Bay Area’s top drag queens.
✨ Everyone is welcome! ✨This inclusive, all-ages event is for anyone who loves drag, fabulous performances, and great company. Come as you are, and let’s create unforgettable memories together!
Taco 'bout a good time! 🌮Savor mouthwatering tacos, tortas, and desserts from La Santa Torta, paired perfectly with Faction Brewing’s finest craft beers for an amazing culinary experience.
The fun begins at 7:00 PM, with the main show starting at 8:00 PM.
Beginner workshops are perfect for you to grab your friends, grab a drink and come make tiny trees! We’re bringing the awesome art of bonsai out of the hedged in gardens and into the streets! Or at least into your favorite bars/breweries/pubs. Bonsai Bar is a night of fun you don’t want to miss. Learn the fundamental skills and techniques behind the art of bonsai while enjoying a night out with friends! Our teachers will introduce core concepts and guide your experience as you pot, prune, and design your very own bonsai tree!
with Rita Lucarelli, associate professor of Egyptology at the University of California, Berkeley, faculty curator of Egyptology at its museum of anthropology, and scholar of ancient Egyptian demonology and death practices.
Get yourself hyped up for Halloween in a distinctly old-school way, by learning about magic, death, and demon beliefs in ancient Egypt. Come to Faction Brewing in Alameda and take a scholarly trip through space and time to learn about evidence of belief in the uncanny among those who lived under pharaohs many centuries ago.
We’ll start by discussing what is meant by “magic” and “demons” in ancient Egypt and in the ancient world at large. We’ll look at recent studies on the topic as well texts and artifacts from Egypt from early Pharaonic times to the Greco-Roman periods. Professor Lucarelli will discuss ritual and magical objects, particularly coffins, as well as ancient Egyptian magic spells from the Book of the Dead and other sources.
From there we’ll look at the character of ancient Egyptian magical practices, with a special focus on the role that demons played in magical texts and images. You’ll learn how the demonologies and magic practices of ancient Egypt compared with and influenced those elsewhere in the ancient world, including Greece, the Near East, and the ancient Jewish world.
You couldn’t ask for a better guide on such a journey. Dr. Lucarelli is the co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of the Egyptian Book of the Dead and the author of The Book of the Dead of Gatseshen: Ancient Egyptian Funerary Religion in the 10th Century BC. In addition, she is working on a project aimed at creating 3D models of ancient Egyptian coffins and writing a monograph about ancient Egyptian demonology. She serves as faculty curator of Egyptology at UC-Berkeley’s Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology and she teaches courses on Egyptology and on interest in ancient Egypt in the modern world.
Learning from her will be a Halloween treat. (Tickets available only online. Advance tickets: $13.50 plus processing fees. Doors: $17, or $15 with a student ID. Listed time is for doors. The talk starts 30 minutes later.)
Over 75 vendors!
Records, Vintage clothing, handmadfe jewelry and gifts, musical instruments, tiki/haaiiana, books and videos, and more!
Special Halloween Show featuring Jimmy Dale, Insect Surfers, Draculina, Pollo Del Mar, and Surf Monster
$5
12 and under free!
Apply to be a vendor here
Sam Miller is a stand-up comedian from Olympia, Washington, known for his raw, heartfelt humor drawn from his experiences with addiction, homelessness, and recovery. Standing at 6’6” and 360 pounds, he’s a commanding presence on stage, blending self-deprecation with poignant storytelling. Sober since 2008, Miller’s debut album Round Trip (2023, Stand Up! Records) hit #1 on the iTunes Comedy Charts, recorded at Olympia’s Capitol Theater—across from where he once spent his last night homeless. A runner-up in the 2021 Seattle International Comedy Competition and winner of the 2017 Comedy on Trial, he’s performed at major clubs like The Laugh Factory and at NA/AA conventions. Miller co-hosts The Tarp Report podcast, is a frequent guest on The Bob & Tom Show, and won the 2024 Washington Center for the Performing Arts’ Achievement in the Arts award. Married with two sons, he’s also an avid magnet fisherman.
Chelsea Bearce is a comedian from Benicia, California, who honed her craft in New York City at renowned venues like Gotham Comedy Club, The Stand, and Caroline’s, where she performed alongside Darrell Hammond. Known for her observational humor and self-deprecating style, she engages audiences with crowd work that encourages lighthearted self-mockery. Bearce studied sketch and improv at Upright Citizens Brigade and has headlined at Sacramento and San Francisco Punch Lines, as well as breweries and festivals nationwide. She placed third in the 45th San Francisco International Comedy Competition, won Best of Fest at Big Pine Comedy Festival, and was a featured headliner at Colorado Springs Comedy Festival. A regular on The Gateway Show and Don’t Tell Comedy, she tours with her husband, comedian Matt Walker, as The Lovebirds. Her debut special, That’s So Stupid, was released in 2023. Also an award-winning actress and competitive karaoke singer, Bearce has starred in plays and appeared in Brunch in Babel (2020), Fault Lines (2014), and Holey Moley.
with special guest
Dr. Simon Scarpetta, Assistant Professor
Department of Environmental Science
University of San Francisco,
We have a true “creature feature” for October!
How does a land-dwelling, desert-loving lizard end up thriving on far-flung, verdant Pacific islands thousands of miles from home? Against impossible odds, and the immensity of the world’s largest ocean basin, iguanas pulled it off.
No, this isn’t the plot of a new Pixar film. But it should be! This improbable journey stands as the longest known transoceanic crossing ever accomplished by a terrestrial vertebrate. A survival saga written not by humans, but by nature itself.
Join Dr. Simon Scarpetta, evolutionary biologist, herpetologist, and paleontologist at the University of San Francisco, as he unravels this extraordinary natural history mystery. Blending fossil evidence, genetics, and evolutionary biology, he’ll take us millions of years back to witness iguanas rafting from North America to Fiji—and reveal how scientists know they truly made this voyage.
But this is more than a tale of deep time. Today, Fiji’s iguanas stand on the razor’s edge of survival, facing modern threats of habitat loss and invasive species. Dr. Scarpetta will highlight how these remarkable reptiles, once castaways now endemic to Fiji, depend on urgent conservation. In their story lies a reminder that even in an age of extinctions, resilience endures, and hope is worth fighting for.
“Understanding the history of life on oceanic islands—like the origins of Fiji’s iguanas—shows why we must protect their habitats. Native forests and reefs are the only homes for these iguanas and countless other species, and local conservation is key to their survival."
—Dr. Simon Scarpetta
Come raise a glass to science, resilience, and one of the greatest ocean voyages you’ve never heard of.
Learn more at: www.oceanhoptimism.org
on the folkloric origins and literary evolution of today’s fanged fiends, with Sara Hackenberg, professor of English at San Francisco State University and scholar of Victorian literature and literature’s vampire tradition.
Did you know that vampires sprang from literature nearly a whole century before Bram Stoker wrote Dracula, and that they prowled in folklore for centuries before that?
You’d have to visit a lot of gravesites to witness the unearthing of as many vampires as will be brought up before you on October 22nd at Alameda’s Faction Brewing.
The excavation will be carried out by Professor Sara Hackenberg, who previously gave an excellent Profs and Pints talk on Christmas ghost stories and whose interest in vampires extends well beyond the weeks leading up to Halloween.
She’ll show you the vampire beneath the vampire beneath the vampire, tracing their evolution in old European folklore and the English literature of the nineteenth-century.
You’ll get to know the seductive, snaky Lamia in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s 1816 poem “Christabel” and the sapphic seductress at the center of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu’s 1872 novella Carmilla. You’ll spend time with the mad, bad, and dangerous Byronic vampire that originated in John Polidori’s 1819 gothic horror story “The Vampyre,” found his way into theatrical adaptations such as James Planché’s 1820 “The Bride of the Isles,” and then stalked through cheap popular publications–known as “penny bloods” or later as “penny dreadfuls”—such as James Malcolm Rymer’s mid-1800s serial Varney, The Vampire.
We’ll consider how Bram Stoker was influenced by all of these texts and folded a variety of characteristics of their fearsome femmes and hommes fatales into Count Dracula, the most famous literary vampire of all. (Tickets available only online. Advance tickets: $13.50 plus processing fees. Doors: $17, or $15 with a student ID. Listed time is for doors. The talk starts 30 minutes later.)
Join us for a day of Latin Food, music and a great time at The Sazon Latin Food Market! We will have Latin food vendors representing all the best flavors from the Caribbean, Central and South America.
There will also be great music and drinks, so make sure you bring your friends and family for a day of fun and celebration. Come hungry, because you’re going to want to try everything and we'll have something for everyone including dessert!
Get free tickets today to Sazon Latin Food Festival! Space is limited, arrive early.
For more information follow us on Instagram at @Latincity and on Facebook at @OurLatinCity or visit our website at OurLatinCity.com
VENDORS/SPONSORS: Want to join us? Please fill out this application and we will be in contact:https://ourlatincity.com/pages/vendor-application
Choose from six different packages depending on how many portraits you would like.
Photographer provides initial selects for you to choose from, usually within 3-5 business days after the photography session.
Session fee includes each portrait on the original color of the backdrop (e.g. if the backdrop is white, the final portrait background will be white). Color changes can be added for $10 per portrait.
Final digital portraits are usually delivered via email 4-6 business days after you choose your selects, although sometimes it can take a little longer. We are a small business working hard to make everyone’s portraits perfect - we thank you for your patience!
Prints come via USPS 10-14 calendar days after the digital files.
Click here for more information or to book your session!
Caitlin’s wildly popular soft pretzel class is back!
Please note that two sessions of this class will be held tonight, at 5:00 PM and 6:45 PM.
In class, each ticket holder will receive a whole batch of chilled pretzel dough to learn how to portion, roll and twist into pretzels. We’ll make traditional twists as well as unusual twists and your creations. You will take a whole tray of pretzels home.
The in-class demo will cover:
How to make spent grain pretzel dough using the Grainbakers method
How to make hot cheddar cheese pub dip for your pretzels
Two Soft Pretzel Making Classes:
5:00 PM (Kid-friendly-ish. ONE child allowed per adult ticket only.)
6:45 PM (Strictly 18+)
Brews, Eats, Air Show Views
We’ll be opening early, and bringing in multiple food trucks!
Join us for an unforgettable evening celebrating Horror, Fright, and Drag at Faction Brewing on Friday, October 3rd from 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM PDT! Hosted by the fabulous Summer Lynn Spears, this night will feature jaw-dropping performances and stunning looks by the Bay Area’s top drag queens.
✨ Everyone is welcome! ✨This inclusive, all-ages event is for anyone who loves drag, fabulous performances, and great company. Come as you are, and let’s create unforgettable memories together!
Taco 'bout a good time! 🌮Savor mouthwatering tacos, tortas, and desserts from La Santa Torta, paired perfectly with Faction Brewing’s finest craft beers for an amazing culinary experience.
The fun begins at 7:00 PM, with the main show starting at 8:00 PM.
So grab your tickets, bring your friends, and get ready for a night of dancing, laughter, and fabulous entertainment!
For more information and tickets click here
Over 30 vendors!
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In 1940, author John Steinbeck and his best friend, marine biologist Ed Ricketts, set out aboard the Western Flyer on a beer-fueled research trip that became The Log from the Sea of Cortez—a journey that’s inspired generations of scientists, conservationists, and ocean lovers.
Eighty-five years later, the Western Flyer is back—fully restored and relaunched as a floating classroom and community hub for scientists, students, fishers, artists, and dreamers.
On September 25, join us as Sherry Flumerfelt, Executive Director of the Western Flyer Foundation, shares how this storied vessel is once again sparking curiosity, connecting people to the ocean, and standing as a powerful symbol of resilience.
Sherry has spent 25+ years turning big ocean ideas into real-world wins for coastal communities. She’s led the Monterey Bay Fisheries Trust, worked with the Coral Reef Alliance and Environmental Defense Fund, and advanced ocean sustainability from California to the South Pacific. Now, she’s blending science, art, and storytelling aboard one of the most iconic ships in marine history.
“The ocean needs many diverse voices, and the Western Flyer is a place where they can come together—inviting curiosity that’s the first step toward true stewardship."
—Sherry Flumerfelt
Come raise a glass to the Western Flyer’s comeback—and to the ocean’s own comeback story we’re all here to help write.
a guide to finding effective treatment and sifting out fads, charlatans and snake oil, with Trevor M. Ahrendt, licensed clinical psychologist, former lecturer in psychology and new clinician trainer at the Wright Institute, and co-founder of the San Francisco Therapy Group and board member of the San Francisco Psychotherapy Research Group.
The world of psychotherapy has a problem: While we’re quite sure it works, we don’t know exactly how. Moreover, diagnoses don’t necessarily point to the most effective treatment—five people with depression might each need a different cure—and no brand of therapy necessarily predicts successful outcomes.
Meanwhile, there are more than 600 types of therapy out there now, many associated with gurus who persuasively champion their brands. Simply identifying what they are can mean sorting through an alphabet soup of acronyms such as IFS, CBT, DBT, or ACT. Meanwhile, therapists who are practicing the exact same brands often approach clients in very different ways. Complicating matters are claims being made about the therapeutic potential of psychedelics such as Ketamine, Psilocybin, and MDMA.
Come to Faction Brewing in Alameda for a talk that will help you separate fact from fiction and fad from genuine advancement in the field when it comes to finding the right therapist for you.
The speaker, Trevor Ahrendt, will draw from the findings of the San Francisco Psychotherapy Research Group (SFPRG), a nonprofit organization founded more than 50 years ago to conduct evidence-based studies of how psychotherapy works and why some therapeutic approaches help some people but not others.
Dr. Ahrendt, a member of research organization’s board, will offer you a foundational new way of understanding therapy, one that guides treatment more effectively than diagnoses can.
He’ll talk about how researchers associated with the SFPRG synthesized the findings of neuroscience, evolutionary theory, and traditional therapy to develop an overarching model for understanding why therapy works across approaches, how therapy succeeds or fails, and why certain therapists succeed more often.
If you’re curious about therapy or have wondered why therapy worked (or didn’t) for you, you’ll benefit from learning about this research and how it can be applied directly to your life. (Tickets available only online. Advance tickets: $13.50 plus processing fees. Doors: $17, or $15 with a student ID. Listed time is for doors. The talk starts 30 minutes later.)
Click here for tickets
This is the Best of Faction Brewing with Five Headliners on 1-Show
Sydney Stigerts, Terry Dorsey, Jon Lehre, Becky Lynn and Jason Toupes
Sydney Stigerts - is a dynamic comedian from Sacramento, CA, known for her blonde pompadour and sharp, sarcastic humor. Rising quickly in the comedy scene, she captivates audiences with high-energy performances, skewering millennial culture and her queer community with wit and relatability. A viral sensation for her crowd work, Sydney has performed at major festivals like the San Diego Comedy Festival and won Best of Fest at The Big Pine Festival in Phoenix. She’s a regular opener for Jared Freid and has shared stages with Cameron Esposito, Bob the Drag Queen, and others. As a member of 1° of Separation: A Funny Look at Depression, she starred in the documentary Dying to Laugh and co-headlined the Hot & Funny tour.
Terry Dorsey is a stand-up comedian and actor from Illinois, now based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Known for his storytelling style infused with social commentary, he began his career on Chicago's south side, mentored by top comedians. Dorsey has performed as "Shady" in a solo act and as part of the comedy duo "Tu Shay De." His television debut came in 2000 on BET's Comicview, followed by appearances on Jamie Foxx's Laffapalooza. He helped launch the Laff Zone Comedy Club in Markham, Illinois, and is celebrated for engaging audiences with both clean and adult humor at diverse venues, including Barrel Proof Lounge comedy nights.
Click here for more information and tickets
Choose from six different packages depending on how many portraits you would like.
Photographer provides initial selects for you to choose from, usually within 3-5 business days after the photography session.
Session fee includes each portrait on the original color of the backdrop (e.g. if the backdrop is white, the final portrait background will be white). Color changes can be added for $10 per portrait.
Final digital portraits are usually delivered via email 4-6 business days after you choose your selects, although sometimes it can take a little longer. We are a small business working hard to make everyone’s portraits perfect - we thank you for your patience!
Prints come via USPS 10-14 calendar days after the digital files.
Join us for an unforgettable evening celebrating your favorite hits from the 90s and 2000s at Faction Brewing on Friday, September 5th from 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM PDT! Hosted by the fabulous Summer Lynn Spears, this night will feature jaw-dropping performances and stunning looks by the Bay Area’s top drag queens.
✨ Everyone is welcome! ✨This inclusive, all-ages event is for anyone who loves drag, fabulous performances, and great company. Come as you are, and let’s create unforgettable memories together!
Taco 'bout a good time! 🌮Savor mouthwatering tacos, tortas, and desserts from La Santa Torta, paired perfectly with Faction Brewing’s finest craft beers for an amazing culinary experience.
The fun begins at 7:00 PM, with the main show starting at 8:00 PM.
So grab your tickets, bring your friends, and get ready for a night of dancing, laughter, and fabulous entertainment!
You can find more information and tickets here
Vegan Street Fair is a free entry annual all ages vegan food celebration where local vegan and vegan-friendly restaurants and vendors come together to serve you bite-size portions of vegan eats and sell you vegan wares all in one place.
Attendees can nosh on as many small portions ($5 or less) as they wish without getting full on 1 large item OR they can purchase larger items too.
Your choice! Its the vegan foodie dream!
Vegan Street Fair is FREE to enter & family friendly!
Click here for more information
Save the date for an evening on the water and on the frontlines! We’re thrilled to welcome Sejal Choksi-Chugh, Executive Director of San Francisco Baykeeper and one of the Bay Area’s fiercest defenders of clean water, wildlife, and environmental justice.
You’ve seen the Bay from your commute or your weekend walk—and it looks beautiful. But Sejal’s talk reveals what most don’t see: a daily battle against toxic dumping, sewage spills, and policies that put polluters over people. Sejal leads a team of scientists, lawyers, and advocates who patrol by boat, testify at hearings, and sue polluters into compliance. This isn’t vibes-based conservation. It’s real, high-impact work, and they win. Raised in Atlanta, trained at Berkeley Law, Sejal’s been with Baykeeper since 2002. She co-founded the Bay Area chapter of Environmental Professionals of Color and brings both grit and grace to this work.
This isn’t a story of despair. It’s a story of wins. From blocking Big Oil pollution to saving 1,300 acres of wetlands from development, SF Baykeeper’s record proves that legal action and local advocacy work. And in a time of political headwinds, Sejal shares why this is a moment not just to worry—but to act, and to win.
“Given our current political climate, you have every reason to be concerned—and given our long record of winning fights on the frontlines, you also have every reason to be hopeful."
—Sejal Choksi-Chugh
More information can be found here
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A talk on the emergence of a human-focused technology sector as a rebellion against big tech’s evils, with Deb Donig, lecturer at the University of California-Berkeley, co-founder of the Cal Poly Ethical Technology Initiative, and host of the Technically Human podcast.
A profound shift occurred in how society views technology occurred In the wake of the 2016 election and the Cambridge Analytica scandal. What emerged wasn't just criticism of the tech industry, but the rise of an entirely new category of jobs dedicated to making technology serve human values.
Join Deb Donig, a scholar of the intersection of technology, ethics, and the culture of the Silicon Valley, for an eye-opening look at the “techlash” as one of the most significant but under-examined movements of our time.
She’ll discuss how the Silicon Valley’s utopian thinking has produced dystopian results, with many tech products envisioned as tools to "make the world a better place" ending up somehow making it worse. In exploring why this happened, she’ll argue that a “technological grotesque” emerges when our most sublime technological achievements simultaneously distort the human values they claim to serve.
We’ll look at how the Obama-era celebration of digital technology’s potential to serve our needs gave way to a sobering recognition of its technology's capacity for harm, leading to calls to somehow reconcile society’s need for democratic deliberation and ethical oversight with the Silicon Valley's “move fast and break things" mentality.
We'll explore why do so many tech products envisioned as tools to "make the world a better place" ended up making it somehow worse. Dr. Donig, who currently holds the Siegel Endowed Fellowship at All Tech Is Human, will argue that a “technological grotesque” emerges when our most sublime technological achievements simultaneously distort the human values they claim to serve.
Drawing from original research tracking thousands of jobs over five years, Dr. Donig will map the rise and evolution of a “techlash workforce.” She’ll discuss what “tech for good” really looks like, as well as how it can succeed, and what obstacles get in the way of workers who want better outcomes for tech products and users.
This talk isn't just about jobs. It’s about how society grapples with powerful innovations' unintended consequences. Examining the emergence of a “techlash” workforce offers crucial insights into whether we can build a future where technology truly serves human flourishing. You’ll find this talk essential if you’re a tech worker, policymaker, student, or just a citizen trying to understand how we got here and where we're headed. (Tickets available only online. Advance tickets: $13.50 plus processing fees. Doors: $17, or $15 with a student ID. Listed time is for doors. The talk starts 30 minutes later.)
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