Events

Pints & Plants: Lucky Leaves
Mar
17
6:00 PM18:00

Pints & Plants: Lucky Leaves

Tuesday, March 17th

6pm-8pm

Pints & Plants

Grab a pint, plant something lucky, and toast to St. Paddy’s Day with brews, greenery, and good company

Pints & Plants: Lucky Leaves is a St. Patrick’s Day themed plant + beer experience where good brews meet green thumbs.

Celebrate the luck of the Irish with a cold pint in one hand and a plant in the other. During this guided, hands-on workshop, guests will pot their own plant to take home while enjoying craft beer in a fun setting. Whether you’re a seasoned plant parent or a total beginner, this event is designed to be easy, relaxed, and all about having a good time.

Expect festive St. Paddy’s Day energy, great music, and plenty of opportunities to sip, socialize, and get a little messy. This is the perfect alternative to the usual bar crawl come hang out, learn something new, and leave with a living souvenir.

🌿 What’s Included

  • One live plant to pot and take home

  • Pot, soil, and all planting materials

  • Step-by-step guidance throughout the experience

  • A fun, social atmosphere at a local brewery

  • A pint of beer included with the purchase of a ticket

Perfect for:

  • A unique St. Patrick’s Day outing

  • Friends looking for something different

  • Casual date ideas

  • Beer lovers, plant lovers, and anyone feeling lucky

🍀 Come for the brews. Stay for the roots. Leave with a plant and a little extra luck. 🍀

Spots are limited so grab your ticket early and get ready to sip, plant, and feel lucky.

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Grainbakers Soft Pretzel Workshop
Mar
25
6:30 PM18:30

Grainbakers Soft Pretzel Workshop

Wednesday, March 25th

6:30pm-8pm

Grainbakers Soft Pretzel Workshop

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

VIP / FAQ:

  • This 90-minute activity prepares you to do large batches of pretzels at home. You can take your class pretzels home or immediately eat them with a nice cold beer! (Recommended!)

  • These are whole-grain pretzels. We will be incorporating some very special caramel malted brewer’s grain. 

  • Grainbakers teaches an advanced version of the baking soda method - Sodium Carbonate. We do not teach the Lye Method. 

  • No beer is included with this class. 

  • This class will be on your feet, but it's only 90 minutes. It's fast and it's fun!

  • The portion of dough for the demo yields 4-6 pretzels. In class, you will roll, twist, boil and bake!

  • You may purchase additional frozen dough for 8 - 12 pretzels to take home for $10.

  • This class is strictly for adults 18+. No children will be allowed in or near our class area.

This class is:

  • This class is good for groups, including co-workers!

  • This class is a perfect date night!

  • This class is available for an afternoon Work Teambuilder.

  • This class is good for a solo outing.

  • This class is a great Birthday gift activity.

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Ocean Hoptimism
Mar
26
7:00 PM19:00

Ocean Hoptimism

Thursday, March 26th

7pm-8pm

Ocean Hoptimism: FINDING NOVELTY, CONNECTION, & PURPOSE IN THE OCEAN

Cold Water. Big Stories. Shared Courage.

with special guest Steve Peletz

https://www.oceanhoptimism.org/save-the-date

We’re carrying the momentum into March—this time with fog, sandstone cliffs, and a stretch of water that doesn’t offer comfort so much as clarity.

Just beyond the Golden Gate, where San Francisco’s edge frays into the Pacific, a small community of swimmers enters the ocean again and again. Not for records. Not for spectacle. But for connection—to the water, to one another, and to something wilder than daily life usually allows.

On March 26, we’re welcoming Steve Peletz—filmmaker, research diver, and storyteller—who will discuss his short film Land’s End, an intimate portrait of Bay Area swimmers who brave 51-degree water and unpredictable conditions off Land’s End. The film has been selected for screening at the International Ocean Film Festival, and we’re lucky enough to have the director join us for the night.

Steve’s path to this film spans more than 3,000 research dives across the Pacific—from kelp forests and coral reefs to mangroves and remote offshore pinnacles—working alongside scientists tagging sharks and tracking migratory species. Trained as a research diver at UC Berkeley, he now serves on the board of MigraMar, supporting science that connects and expands marine protected areas across the Eastern Pacific.

Steve will invite some of the Land’s End swimmers themselves to share what draws them into cold, moving water—and what they’ve found there. From that intimate starting point, the evening will open outward into a broader conversation about ocean storytelling, risk and reward, attention and awe, and how direct experiences with the sea can quietly but powerfully reshape how we show up for it.

This is a story about choosing discomfort over numbness. About finding novelty not by going farther, but by going deeper into a place you thought you already knew. And about how connection—earned, shared, and repeated—can become its own form of conservation.

“I am hopeful because over the last 50 years, humans are paying more attention to their impacts on our ocean. Public concern is beginning to catch up, but we have to keep fighting. Hope is not a substitute for action—it’s a necessary part of an action plan.”

—Steve Peletz

Join us March 26, 7–8pm at Faction Brewing for an evening of film, first-person stories, and ocean perspective that starts close to home and ripples outward.

Bring friends. Bring curiosity. Bring your willingness to feel a little cold, a little awe, and a lot more connected.

The ocean is closer than you think—and it’s already inviting you in.

www.oceanhoptimism.org

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Groove is in the Start
Feb
27
5:00 PM17:00

Groove is in the Start

Friday, February 21st

5pm-9pm

GROOVE IS IN THE START

LADIES: DANCE EARLY, GET TO BED ON TIME

Specifically for women who want the joy of dancing but not the late-night scene, Groove Is in the Start is the early-evening dance event that brings all the fun, nostalgia and energy—without the late-night drag—because going out should feel amazing and end at a reasonable hour.

 21+: No dress code, no velvet rope, no stress.

DJ heyLove spinning all the music genres you groove to best from the 80s, 90s, 00s and today!

Details/tickets here: https://www.ticketleap.events/tickets/groove-is-in-the-start/groove-is-in-the-start-275346888

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Ocean Hoptimism
Feb
26
7:00 PM19:00

Ocean Hoptimism

Thursday, February 26

7-8pm

Ocean Hoptimism

RESTORING ABUNDANCE:

Oysters Return to SF Bay

w/ special guest

CASEY HARPER, Program Director

Wild Oyster Project

FREE and Open to All

We’re keeping the momentum going in February—this time with shells, shorelines, and a comeback story hiding in plain sight.  

San Francisco Bay didn’t always look the way it does now. Beneath the shipping lanes and seawalls, it once held sprawling reefs of native oysters—living infrastructure that filtered water, softened shorelines, and stitched the Bay’s ecology together. Most of us never knew them. Fewer still imagined they could return.

Yet here we are.

For our February 26 Ocean Hoptimism, we’re welcoming Casey Harper, Program Director at Wild Oyster Project—one of the people helping turn historical loss into living reef, shell by shell.

Casey’s path to oysters runs through fisheries decks in the Gulf of Alaska, fieldwork in New Zealand, and now the tidal margins of San Francisco Bay. Her work sits right at the intersection of science, community, and place—where restoration only works if people show up and stay in it together.

In this talk, Casey will trace the story of the Olympia oyster: from abundance, to collapse, to the carefully rebuilding reefs now taking shape around the Bay. Along the way, she’ll share what oysters actually do—for water quality, shoreline resilience, habitat, and hope—and why their return depends as much on neighbors and volunteers as it does on biology.

This is a story about realism without resignation. About tough organisms in a tough estuary. And about what becomes possible when restoration is treated as a team sport.

“Olympia oysters are tougher than we give them credit for—and so are the people working to restore them. Even in a highly urbanized estuary, they persist when conditions are right. That resilience, both ecological and human, is what makes this work feel meaningful and worth continuing.”
—Casey Harper

Join us February 26, 7–8pm, for an evening grounded in local action, collective effort, and the quiet power of rebuilding something that almost disappeared.

Bring friends. Bring curiosity. Bring your Bay love.

The oysters are coming back—and they’d like you on the team.

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Profs and Pints
Feb
19
6:00 PM18:00

Profs and Pints

Thursday, February 19th

6pm-8:30pm

Profs and Pints Alameda presents: “Daredevil Democracy,”

how a nineteenth-century waterfall jumper invented modern celebrity and challenged American ideas about power, with Felicia Angeja Viator, professor of history at San Francisco State, nationally published culture writer, and author of the acclaimed book on West Coast rap, To Live and Defy in LA.

What’s the relationship between fame and power? And what happens when anyone, no matter how ordinary, can make themselves famous?

Join Professor Felicia Viator, a scholar of American society, popular entertainment, and mass culture, for a fascinating look at the first famous American daredevil and how he shaped the nation’s early debates about celebrity, power, and democracy itself.

To set the scene, she’ll take us back to a time in early American history when fame belonged to generals, founding fathers, and philosophers, being reserved mainly for people born into privilege or distinguished by military heroism and civil service. 

Young Sam Patch had none of that. No education, no political power, no traditional heroism. Nothing that would have typically been considered worthy of celebration.

Sam Patch was just a mill worker who jumped waterfalls for fun. But by sheer will he transformed himself into a household name, proving that anyone could manufacture their own fame simply by captivating an audience.

At a moment when the American republic was just taking shape, Patch inspired the disenfranchised with his motto, “Somebody besides other folks can do something." But his DIY success also terrified elites who saw in his spectacle-driven influence and mastery of “cultural mobility” a dangerous preview of what was to come.

Was Sam Patch's rise to fame an outgrowth of American revolutionary ideas about self-determination? Or was it evidence that democracy was going off the rails? The questions Sam Patch raised long ago— about who deserves to be influential—are the same ones we wrestle with in today’s age of reality stars and viral fame.

We're still asking if cultural mobility is democracy's promise or its problem. This talk at Alameda’s Faction Brewing won’t offer definitive answers, but will give you a much deeper understanding of the debate. (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

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Alameda's Angels Drag Show
Feb
6
8:00 PM20:00

Alameda's Angels Drag Show

Friday, February 6th

8pm-10pm

Alameda's Angels Drag Show

Join us for an unforgettable evening at Faction Brewing on Friday, February 6th, 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.

The fun begins with doors opening at 7:00 PM, and show at 8:00 PM.

✨ 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.

So grab your tickets, bring your friends, and get ready for a night of dancing, laughter, and fabulous entertainment!

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Grainbakers Soft Pretzel Class
Jan
29
6:30 PM18:30

Grainbakers Soft Pretzel Class

Thursday, January 29th

6:30pm-8pm

Grainbakers Soft Pretzel Making Class

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

CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION AND TICKETS

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Ocean Hoptimism
Jan
22
7:00 PM19:00

Ocean Hoptimism

Thursday, January 22nd

7pm-8pm

Ocean Hoptimism: Behind the Bark: Saving Seals and Sea Lions

with special guest

Adam Ratner, Director of Conservation Engagement

The Marine Mammal Center

FREE and Open to All

We’re kicking off 2026 with a bang (and a bark). Happy New Year, Ocean Hoptimists!

Seals and sea lions have a way of making us pay attention. They haul out on beaches, look us in the eye, and—whether we deserve it or not—remind us we’re connected. When one of them is in trouble, the whole coastline feels it. Eventually, so do we.

For half a century, The Marine Mammal Center has turned that connection into action, rescuing and rehabilitating thousands of sick and injured animals across California and Hawai‘i. But here’s the thing most people miss: every patient tells a story about the ocean’s health, and about us. They’re warnings. Clues. And sometimes, proof that care, time, and restraint can still leave a visible mark.

On January 22, we’re bringing in someone who knows those stories better than almost anyone: Adam Ratner, Director of Conservation Engagement and one of the great interpreters of what marine mammals have been trying to tell us all along.

In Behind the Bark: Saving Seals and Sea Lions, Adam will take us inside the world’s largest marine-mammal hospital—where frontline rescues, climate research, community action, and the occasional grumpy sea lion all collide. Expect real cases, big questions, and a surprisingly hopeful look at what’s possible when science, volunteers, and local communities pull in the same direction.

Adam’s work is about empowerment: helping people see themselves as part of the solution, not spectators to decline.

“I am hopeful for the future of the ocean simply because the overwhelming majority of people want to protect it. Study after study continues to show people want action. What's missing is the compelling story and clear guidance for how people can get involved themselves. All of us can help with that.”

   -Adam Ratner

Start the year with purpose, with community, and with a champion who reminds us that hope isn’t naive—it’s learned, practiced, and alive in every animal that gets a second chance.

Bring friends. Bring questions. Bring that new-year energy.

The ocean—and its noisiest neighbors—are calling.

More Info: www.oceanhoptimism.org

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Profs and Pints: How Money Shapes Minds
Jan
15
6:00 PM18:00

Profs and Pints: How Money Shapes Minds

Thursday, January 15th

6pm-8:30pm

Profs and Pints Alameda presents: “How Money Shapes Minds”

a research-based examination of how money alters our thought processes and behavior, with Daniel E. Martin, associate professor of management at CSU East Bay and director of Corporate Compassion Education at Stanford University’s Center for Compassion, Altruism Research and Education.

Acquiring more money doesn’t just change what we can buy. It quietly changes how we think, how we relate to others, and how we relate to and use power. Psychology, epidemiology, history, and ancient wisdom all converge on this conclusion: the more power and money we have, the less compassion we feel for others—unless, that is, such compassion is intentionally cultivated.

Gain insights into how money influences our behavior—and how we can keep growing wealth from shrinking our heart—with Daniel Martin, who directs Corporate Compassion Education at a Stanford University center focused on understanding the neural, mental, and social bases of compassion and altruism.

He’ll discuss why wealth so often reduces compassion rather than increasing it, and how the use of power changes as wealth grows. We’ll look at how inequality changes moral judgment and political tolerance for suffering, and whether compassion can be trained in leaders and institutions in ways that measurably change behavior.

Drawing from experimental research in social psychology and other fields, we’ll explore how merely thinking about money increases self-focus, reduces helping, and weakens empathy—effects that don’t stop at individuals but scale up into teams, organizations, and entire societies.

We’ll look at evidence showing that higher social class predicts lower empathic accuracy, greater entitlement, and more tolerance for unethical behavior, while inequality itself erodes trust, generosity, and concern for suffering at all levels. These patterns help explain why large systems so often become indifferent to harm, even when the people being hurt by them believe they are acting rationally or fairly.

We’ll look at what great thinkers such as Plato, Rumi, Aristotle, the Buddha, the Vedas, Zoroaster, and Lao Tzu have to say on the matter. You’ll emerge with a better understanding of how money affects your behavior and the behavior of those around you. (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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Alameda's Angels
Jan
2
7:00 PM19:00

Alameda's Angels

Friday, January 2nd

7pm-10pm

🎉 Alameda's Angels Drag Show! 🎉

Join us for an unforgettable evening at Faction Brewing on Friday, January 2nd 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.

The fun begins with doors opening at 7:00 PM, and show at 8:00 PM.

✨ 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.

So grab your tickets, bring your friends, and get ready for a night of dancing, laughter, and fabulous entertainment!

CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS

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Ocean Hoptimism
Dec
18
7:00 PM19:00

Ocean Hoptimism

Thursday, December 18th

7pm-8pm

Ocean Hoptimism: from Nihilist to Activist: The Artwork of Andres Amador

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.

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Profs and Pints: Dickens' Christmas Myth
Dec
15
6:00 PM18:00

Profs and Pints: Dickens' Christmas Myth

Monday, December 15th

6pm-8:30pm

Profs and Pints Alameda: Dickens’s Christmas Myth

An appreciation of the cultural impact and staying power of A Christmas Carol, with Ian Duncan, professor of English at the University of California Berkeley, scholar and teacher of Charles Dickens and other nineteenth-century British authors.

It’s a talk that will give you a newfound appreciation of a beloved author and have you thinking about Christmases past, present, and future in a new way. (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.)

The bar will be open and serving beer but there will be no food truck on site, so please feel free to bring your own food!

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Tiny Winter Worlds: Terrarium Making Party
Dec
14
2:00 PM14:00

Tiny Winter Worlds: Terrarium Making Party

Sunday, December 14th

2pm-5pm

Tiny Winter Worlds: Terrarium Making Party

Welcome to Create your own winter wonderland Terrariums event! Join us at Faction Brewing on December 14, 2025 at 2:00 PM for a fun-filled workshop. Let's get creative and build beautiful terrariums to bring a touch of winter magic into your home. No experience needed, just bring your enthusiasm! Don't miss out on this opportunity to craft your own miniature winter wonderland. See you there! All materials will be provided.

There are two sections; 2pm tp 3pm and 3:30 pm to 4:40 pm. choose your time slot and our fun staff will guide you through how to make a terrarium.

Presented by Dream Maker Art Party

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Resshoumania: The Anime Fighting Game Festival
Dec
13
to Dec 14

Resshoumania: The Anime Fighting Game Festival

  • Google Calendar ICS

Saturday, December 13th and Sunday, December 14th

12pm-8pm

Resshoumania: The Anime Fighting Game Festival

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

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Alameda Point Pasko Night Market
Dec
12
5:00 PM17:00

Alameda Point Pasko Night Market

Friday, December 12th

5pm-10pm

Malaya Botanicals and Cultured Roots present Alameda Point Pasko Night Market

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

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Rock N' Roll Flea Market
Dec
7
11:00 AM11:00

Rock N' Roll Flea Market

Sunday, December 7th

11am-6pm

Rock N’ Roll Flea Market

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

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Alameda's Angels: Christmas is a Drag
Dec
5
7:00 PM19:00

Alameda's Angels: Christmas is a Drag

Friday, December 5th

7pm-10pm

Alameda’s Angels: Christmas is a Drag

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.

CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION AND TICKETS

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Romantic Sunset Paint and Sip
Nov
23
3:00 PM15:00

Romantic Sunset Paint and Sip

Sunday, November 23rd

3pm-5pm

Dream Maker Art Party: Romantic Sunset Paint and Sip

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.

​CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS AND MORE INFORMATION

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Ocean Hoptimism & Canned Food Drive
Nov
20
7:00 PM19:00

Ocean Hoptimism & Canned Food Drive

Thursday, November 20th

7pm-8pm

Ocean Hoptimism: ENGINEERING HOPE:

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/

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Profs and Pints
Nov
17
6:00 PM18:00

Profs and Pints

Monday, November 17th

6pm-8:30pm

Profs and Pints Alameda

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.)

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Bonsai Bar
Nov
8
12:30 PM12:30

Bonsai Bar

Saturday, November 8th

12:30pm-2:30pm

Bonsai Bar

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!

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Alameda's Angels: Summer's Birthday Bash
Nov
7
7:00 PM19:00

Alameda's Angels: Summer's Birthday Bash

Friday, November 7th

7pm-10pm

Alameda’s Angels: Summer’s Birthday Bash

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.

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