Highlights include: Masquers is hosting a new comedy about a Hollywood homecoming and there’s a new art exhibit exploring memory.
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4 things to do in Richmond this week
Highlights include: The Richmond Art Center’s 90th birthday celebration and the Spirit and Soul Festival.
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Richmond Art Center, born of one woman’s creative vision in dark times, celebrates its 90th
This week the art center, which has hired a new director, kicks off a series of celebrations and exhibitions honoring its past.
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7 things to do in Richmond this week
Highlights include: An Awesome Orchestra Collective performance; 65 years of city sisterhood with Shimada, Japan; and Bayview library turns 50.
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10 things to do in Richmond this week
Highlights include: A Plunge centennial party in Point Richmond; Open Studios continues; Soulful Softball Sunday at Nicholl Park.
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New mural on Cutting Boulevard captures Richmond’s waterfront history
Muralists are transforming a warehouse wall in Point Richmond into a large public artwork featuring Ohlone history, Rosie the Riveters, Betty Reid Soskin and present-day community heroes.
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8 things to do in Richmond this week
Highlights include: Richmond Open Studios; a Western swing pancake breakfast aboard the SS Red Oak Victory and family movie night at Marina Bay Park.
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Meet the man making alien-like sand art at Keller Beach
Point Richmond residents were mystified when Brighton Denevan’s crop circle-like work began appearing on the beach.
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‘A life with no limits:’ Hugh Shurley joins 90 artists for Richmond Open Studios
Shurley, who works with natural materials and “abandoned memories,” will welcome the public into his studio for the first time.
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A 50-foot tree sculpture is growing in a south Richmond art studio
Artist Sean Orlando’s latest whimsical work is expected to be one of the tallest sculptures at Burning Man in years.
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4 things to do in Richmond this week
Highlights include: Two ways to celebrate Independence Day in west Contra Costa County; a new waterfront-inspired art exhibit at ar-ti-fact; and the return of Music on the Main in downtown Richmond.
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7 things to do in Richmond this week
Highlights include: A photographer discusses his 50-year career; teens build pop-up books at the Richmond library; The RYSE Center opens free summer programs.
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8 things to do in Richmond this week
Highlights include: Richmond honors Juneteenth with a parade and Nicholl Park festival, dads celebrate Father’s Day two ways and local artists debut at the Richmond Art Center.
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Fun for ‘odd people.’ Richmond artist’s annual mushroom hunt has sprouted in 30 countries
The Game of Shrooms started in 2019 when artist Daniel “Attaboy” Seifert began hiding art around town to fend off depression. Today, the event draws thousands.
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7 things to do in Richmond this week
Highlights include: join an international hunt for hidden mushroom art; buy original artwork at affordable prices at NIAD’s solstice sale; catch a free waterfront concert by the Awesome Orchestra Collective.
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7 things to do in Richmond this week
Highlights include: a Pride parade from Nicholl Park to the Civic Center, an art exhibit inspired by a 12th century Persian poem and a groundbreaking for Richmond’s first garden designed for everyone.
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Richmond artists join large art sale fundraiser for Multicultural Institute
More than 300 works from 125 artists will be sold at La Peña Cultural Center in a first-of-its-kind fundraiser for the Multicultural Institute, a Richmond-based day laborer and domestic worker program.
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10 things to do in Richmond this week
Highlights include: A classic car show and makers market; women’s roller derby playoffs; and an electric vehicle event in downtown Richmond.
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6 things to do in Richmond this week
Highlights include: Classical music from the Contra Costa Chorale, a Small Business Week celebration downtown and a Mother’s Day pancake breakfast aboard the SS Red Oak.
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9 things to do in Richmond this week
Highlights include: A May Day rally for workers’ rights; an AAPI Heritage Month celebration; and an early Cinco de Mayo festival along 23rd Street.
