Highlights include: A harvest festival celebrates APEN’s new community garden, Richmond author David Helvarg dives into the ocean’s vanishing kelp forests, and ‘Border Visions’ spotlights five female artists.
Tag: What’s Up
A weekly column of things to do and know in Richmond.
7 things to do in Richmond this week
Highlights include: Richmond’s working waterfront opens to the public for Ports Day, the Richmond Annex neighborhood turns 100 and a tacos and tequila fundraiser benefits local youths.
7 things to do in Richmond this week
Highlights: Beaufunk headlines final Music on the Main concert of the summer, California Coastal Cleanup Day brings volunteers to Richmond shorelines, a chance to spruce up the Miraflores Greenbelt.
9 things to do in Richmond this week
Highlights include: Fiestas Patrias Parade marches through Richmond; NIAD fashion on the runway; 50th Solano Stroll.
3 things to do in Richmond this week
Highlights include: Masquers is hosting a new comedy about a Hollywood homecoming and there’s a new art exhibit exploring memory.
4 things to do in Richmond this week
Highlights include: The Richmond Art Center’s 90th birthday celebration and the Spirit and Soul Festival.
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.
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.
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.
9 things to do in Richmond this week
Highlights include: National Night Out, an art festival in East Richmond and free school supplies.
7 things to do in Richmond this week
Highlights include: Los Cenzontles hosts a night of music and tacos, Cuban rhythms fill the Richmond Art Center corridor; and a tool library celebrates 10 years.
6 things to do in Richmond this week
Also: Theater group brings “A Chorus Line” to El Cerrito High; unique wooden art show at NIAD; and an open mic night downtown.
5 things to do in Richmond this week
Highlights include: North Richmond celebrates the grand reopening of Shields-Reid Park; Little Shop of Horrors opens at Masquers Playhouse; Point Richmond Music Festival returns.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
4 things to do in Richmond this week
Highlights include: Sign up for summer adult basketball league; live music at Multicultural Bookstore; tie-dye, pizza and kids’ story time.
4 things to do in Richmond this week
Highlights include: The Thrive Thursday wellness series returns to Nicholl Park; volunteers begin a new pollinator garden at Unity Park; birding at the Bayview library.

