Local Events Not to Miss
October 2018
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Sunday, October 21, Downtown Lafayette
Burn some energy with the kids in the 5k, put on your serious running shoes for the 10k around the Lafayette Reservoir or simply walk your dog or push the stroller in the 2 mile fun run/walk! All ages welcome. Awards for fastest runners. Live music plus Healthy Lifestyles Fair.
Register now for the 5k (8am), 10k (8:15am) or the 2 mile (8:45am) and chose your local school: Acalanes Dons, Burton Valley Bobcats, Campolindo Cougars, Happy Valley Huskies, Lafayette Leopards, Miramonte Matadors, Springhill Scorpions and Stanley Wildcats.
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Trick or Treat Street
Friday, October 26, 4pm-6pm, Downtown Lafayette
For a fun, safe Halloween event, children and their parents are invited to Trick-or-Treat on Mt. Diablo Blvd. from Plaza Way to Dewing Ave, Lafayette Circle and in La Fiesta Square from 4:00-6:00pm on Friday, October 26, 2018.
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UPCOMING COMMUNITY EVENTS:
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Return Engagement of
black odyssey
at Cal Shakes
Now through October 7, Bruns Amphitheater, 100 California Shakespeare Theater Way, Orinda
California Shakespeare Theater has announced the cast of the return engagement of its record-breaking hit play
black odyssey, playing now through October 7, 2018 at the Bruns Amphitheater. The 2017 northern California premiere of black odyssey marked the Cal Shakes debut of Oakland native Marcus Gardley (The House That Will Not Stand at Berkeley Rep), and was the second production ever of the play, which was re-set in Oakland for Cal Shakes. The music-filled journey through African-American folklore garnered box office records, critical acclaim, sold-out houses, and standing ovations during its initial August 2017 run. The production and artistic company garnered a collective sixteen Theater Bay Area Award nominations, including nominations for Outstanding Ensemble, Production, and Direction. Tickets for the return engagement ($20 - 97, subject to change) are available at
calshakes.org or 510.548.9666.
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Town Hall Theatre Opens Season 2018/19 with Lauren Gunderson's Explosive Comedy
The Revolutionists
Now through October 20, Town Hall Theatre, 3535 School Street, Lafayette
Town Hall Theatre “Lost & Found” Season 2018/19 opens with the Bay Area Premiere of
THE REVOLUTIONISTS, a bold and irreverent new comedy by Lauren Gunderson.
THE REVOLUTIONISTS will have 12 performances
through October 20 at Town Hall Theatre Company, 3535 School Street, Lafayette. Tickets are $18 - $30, and are available through the Box Office at (925) 283-1557 or online at
www.TownHallTheatre.com.
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Lafayette Youth Commission presents Movie Night in the Plaza
Friday, September 28, 7:15pm, Lafayette Plaza Park
Come out to Lafayette Plaza Park this Friday, September 28, at 7:15pm for a Movie in the Plaza! Sponsored by the Lafayette Youth Commission and in partnership with the City of Lafayette, we will be showing
Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory (circa 1971 - Rated G). It is a FREE event, but donations are greatly appreciated! All donations will be used for youth commission supported causes and events! Grab something to eat and bring a seat! Food and beverage available at surrounding restaurants including picnic service from Sideboard!
Learn more here.
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La Clínica's 47th Anniversary - All that Jazz (& Sushi!)
Saturday, September 29, VIP Reception with special guest and sponsors at 5:15 pm; Doors open for general admission at 6:00 pm; Dinner from 6:00 - 7:45 pm, Yoshi's Jazz Club and Japanese Restaurant, Jack London Square, 510 Embarcadero West, Oakland
Each year, La Clínica celebrates its anniversary through our signature ALL THAT JAZZ (& Sushi!) benefit event. Join over 300 guests from corporations, foundations, businesses, lifelong supporters and friends of La Clínica at Oakland's Jazz Club and Japanese Restaurant.
Event highlights include:
• Specialty menu of Yoshi's finest Omakase and signature cocktails
• Exclusive Sake Ceremony
• Exciting BIG TEN auction packages & raffle prizes
• Live entertainment from Pete Escovedo
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Gold Coast Chamber Players: Coast to Coast
Saturday, September 29, 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM, Community Hall
Manhattan comes to Lafayette! The award-winning Gold Coast Chamber Players are excited to collaborate with the Manhattan Chamber Players (MCP). The MCP roster is comprised of some of New York City’s leading musicians, both as chamber performers and as soloists. Pre-concert talk at 7:00 pm included. For more information and to purchase tickets
click here.
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ROCK for SHELTER
Sunday, September 30, 12pm–8pm, Vinnie’s Bar & Grill, Concord
You're invited to SHELTER, Inc.'s Rock For SHELTER friend-raiser event! This event will be held in the heart of Concord, California at Vinnie's Bar and Grill. There will be live music, food and positive vibes! SHELTER, Inc. believes in building relationships in the community so come rock out, have fun, dance and enjoy delicious food for a great cause, ending homelessness one family at a time. Tickets are $20 and can be bought
now. Tickets will also be sold at the door for $20 that includes a barbecue dinner.
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Help a Foster Child Get Back to Being a Kid. Become a CASA Volunteer.
You have the powerful opportunity to impact the life of a vulnerable child when you volunteer with CASA of Contra Costa County. CASA volunteers may be the only reliable and stable presence in a child's life to help encourage, support and motivate them to keep going.
Learn more.
Sign up
to attend in-person Informational Session.
Monday, October 1, 6:30 - 8 p.m. at IEC
Friday, October 5, 12:30 - 2pm at Richmond Chamber
Friday, October 12, 12:30 - 2 p.m. at IEC
Monday, October 15, 6:30 - 8 p.m. at IEC
Saturday, October 20, 12:30 - 2 p.m. at IEC
Friday, October 26, 12:30 - 2 p.m. at IEC
Monday, October 29, 6:30 - 8 p.m. at IEC
Or register for our upcoming webinar:
Friday, October 19, 12:30 - 2 p.m.
Register
Informational Sessions, except 10/5, are held at IEC office, 2151 Salvio St., Ste. 299, Concord. The Richmond Chamber is located at 3925 Macdonald Avenue, Richmond.
You must be 21 years or older to volunteer.
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Jennifer Perlmutter Gallery, Adam Shaw and William Rushton
Artists Reception: Thursday, October 4, 6-8pm; Painting Demonstration with William Rushton Saturday, October 20, 4-6pm
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Lafayette Citywide Garage Sale
Saturday, October 6
It’s Lafayette’s first citywide garage sale, Saturday, Oct 6, 2018, all day, everywhere. Here’s how it works: If you're a seller, register the address of your garage sale online or by calling (925) 671-5813. Deadline to register online is Friday, October 5. To receive a lawn sign, you must register by Monday, October 1. A lawn sign will be brought to you by our sponsoring business, The Dana Green Team. If you register after Monday, you may not receive a lawn sign. You may wish to advertise with additional street signs (not in public rights of way) and advertise online or in newspapers. Please take all signs down after your sale. Donate leftover items to our local thrift stores.
Now, if you’re a buyer, you can browse the ads to find households taking part in the citywide garage sale. Start early but not before listed times. Experienced shoppers come early to find the best buys. Bring a reusable bag or a cart, which will allow you to carry heavier items more easily and to protect fragile objects. Everything you want to know is here,
https://lafayettegaragesale.com. Have fun and clean out your junk!
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Lafayette Suburban Junior Women’s Club Presents it 25th Annual Rummage Sale
Saturday, October 6, 8am-2pm, Early Bird Entrance from 7am-8am ($5/person),
Lafayette Orinda Presbyterian Church - 49 Knox Drive, Lafayette
Please join us on Saturday, October 6 for our annual Rummage Sale to raise money for our wonderful beneficiaries. The sale items include Clothing (including a high-end boutique section), Accessories (Shoes, Handbags, Jewelry), Furniture, Smaller Household Furnishings, Kitchen Items, Toys, Bikes, Baby Equipment and Sporting Goods, Decorative items, Art, Music, Movies and Books and MORE! All at incredible prices! Early bird access for $5/person from 7am-8am. See you there!
http://lafayettejuniors.org
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Pleasant Hill Art, Wine & Music Festival
Saturday, October 6, 10am - 6pm; Saturday Evening Concert starting at 6:30pm, and Sunday, October 7, 11am -5pm
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Leisure Sport Triathlon
Saturday, October 6, 11am-3:30pm, 10:30am check-in begins, Moraga Commons Park, 1425 St. Mary's Rd.
The Moraga Leisure Sport Triathlon is a fun alternative to the traditional triathlon. Teams of four participate and compete in Bocce Ball, Cornhole, and Disc Golf. Check in at 10:30, event starts at 11:00 am. Teams rotate between the three activities throughout the day, ending around 3:30 pm. Participants will receive an event t-shirt, event pint glass, and catered BBQ lunch. The winning team gets their names immortalized on the Leisure Sport Triathlon perpetual trophy. Registration ends September 28, 2018.
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Gonna Take a Sentimental Journey
Sunday, October 7, 4pm, Lafayette-Orinda Presbyterian Church, 49 Knox Rd., Lafayette
Cantare Con Vivo kicks off their 32nd season in early October with the Chorale’s annual Ice Cream Family Concert, Gonna Take a Sentimental Journey, featuring folk and popular songs, Broadway selections, light classics, and spirituals. Included is a medley of songs from the 1940’s featuring: Chattanooga Choo Choo, People Will Say We’re in Love, You Are My Sunshine, Over the Rainbow, and It’s a Big Wide Wonderful World. In addition are songs by Copland and Mulholland, Sweet Honey in the Rock’s Wanting Memories, Norwegian composer Kim Arnesen’s Even When He Is Silent, Ride the Chariot, and others. In keeping with tradition, following the concert Cantare will offer ice cream for everyone! $25 General, $65 Family, $10 Student.
Buy tickets here.
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Connected Horse at Xenophon - New Program for People Affected by Early Stage Dementia
Wednesdays, October 10, 17, 24, 31, November 7, 9:30am-12:00pm
Xenophon Therapeutic Riding Center in collaboration with Connected Horse is offering Equine Assisted Workshops for people with early stage dementia and their care partners.
- No prior horse experience needed to participate. Participants will be engaging with horses from the ground, no riding.
- All participants must be ambulatory and willing to participate together.
- There is no fee to participate
- Xenophon is located in Orinda
The Connected Horse program is based on research conducted through UC Davis School of Medicine and Center for Equine Health. If interested in participating, please contact (925) 377-0871 or email
info@xenophontrc.org.
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Disability Educational Forum
Wednesday, October 10, 10am-noon, Lafayette Methodist Church, 955 Moraga Road, Lafayette
Attend to hear each candidate answer questions about issues specifically affecting individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Assemblywoman Catharine Baker will speak at 10:00; Rebecca Bauer-Kahan at 11:00. For more information, contact the Consumer Action Committee at
CAC@Futures-Explored.org, or call Jason Parks at (925) 383-3443.
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AAUW's 5th Annual Tech Trek Shred-Fest fundraiser
Saturday, October 13, 9am-12noon, 5A Rent-a-Space, 455 Moraga Road, Moraga
Shred papers on site! $9 per file box. Keep your boxes. Rain or Shine!
Pulverize Shred your sensitive personal, financial, medical, and business papers. A locally owned, East Bay shredding company, Shred•Defense Inc. (WBE), provides secure, state-of-the-art, HIPAA-compliant shredding right at the truck, on site at 5A Rent-a-Space, Moraga. Local volunteers unload papers to shred bins and return boxes to your car.
Cash or Checks accepted at shred site. All proceeds and welcomed donations help fund scholarships to send teacher-nominated Lamorinda girls to Tech Trek Science & Math Camp, on campus at Stanford University.
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Little Fall Music Fest
Saturday, October 13, 2pm-5pm, Lafayette Library Community Hall
An afternoon of great music, dancing, BBQ, and FUN. Three terrific groups starting with Quake City Jug Band, a veteran jug band with snare drum, tap dancing, accordion, vocal harmonies, and feather boas, followed by The Stevens Sisters, an all female barbershop quartet made of 2 sets of sisters, and finishing with Dirty Cello, blues, bluegrass, and rock cello like you've never heard. For more information and to purchase tickets
click here.
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The 5th Annual Art of Mixology
Saturday, October 13, 4:30pm-7pm, Orinda Theatre Square
It's Lamorinda Arts Council's largest fundraiser of the year! With an anticipated crowd of over 300 attendees, the event will host over 20 bartenders creating luscious craft cocktails competing for the Mixologist of the Year, Top Amateur, Audience Favorite and the Art of Staging Award (Table Decorating). Audience members sample over 20 craft cocktails and vote for their favorites. Learn more at
https://lamorindaarts.org/mixology.
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Be a Star Free a Star, New Day for Children’s Fall Fundraiser
Saturday, October 13, 5:15pm–8:30pm, Chabot Space & Science Center, 10000 Skyline Blvd., Oakland
Enjoy a planetarium show, new exhibit, finger foods, libations, silent auction,
telescope viewing, and have your picture taken on the moon! $125 per person
BE A STAR as you support young American girls freed from child sex tracking.
New Day for Children provides restorative care and education to American minor girls victimized by sex tracking here in the U.S. Register at
www.newdayforchildren.com.
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37th Annual Evening of Promise Gala to Support Foster Children
Saturday, October 13, 6pm-10pm, Round Hill Country Club, 3169 Round Hill Rd., Alamo
CASA of Contra Costa County invites you to an inspirational evening of fine dining, silent and live auctions in the beautifully renovated Round Hill Golf Club in Alamo. Enjoy exceptional gourmet dining and Round Hill's impeccable service, while supporting the work we do with children and youth living in foster care. Funds raised at our event help us recruit and train volunteers that are vital to aid and support abused and neglected children and youth within our community.
Buy your ticket here.
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Lafayette Rotary Golf Classic
Monday, October 15, Registration opens at 10am, Moraga Country Club
The Lafayette Rotary Golf Classic at the Moraga Country Club is sponsored by Lafayette Rotary and will be held on October 15, 2018. Registration will open at 10am with use of the driving range. The event will begin at 12pm with a shotgun start and a box lunch.
Proceeds from The Lafayette Rotary Golf Classic are used to support a variety of charities in the San Francisco Bay Area and internationally. The tournament concludes at 4:30pm and participants can join us for cocktails and then dinner.
Register here.
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Sustainable Lafayette Education Series: An Inconvenient Sequel
Tuesday, October 16, 7pm, Town Hall Theatre, 3535 School Street, Lafayette
"An Inconvenient Sequel" addresses the progress made over the past ten years to tackle the problem of climate change. View "An Inconvenient Sequel" with a panel of climate change advocates on Tuesday, October 16. Sustainable Lafayette founder, Steve Richard, will be on hand to answer questions and share his insights on how we can continue to make progress at our local level!
Learn more and purchase tickets here.
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Lamorinda Moms & Dr. Allison Briscoe-Smith Promote How to Talk to Kids About Race
Tuesday, October 16, 7pm-9pm, Orinda Intermediate School
Broaching the topic of race with children can be challenging. Many of us do not even know how to begin to start such an important, complicated subject without feeling anxious about whether we are doing it right. Lamorinda Moms is proud to present to the community respected psychologist Dr. Allison Briscoe-Smith, who will advise us on how to communicate with children about this sensitive and timely issue. The cost to attend is $20 for non-members, $10 members, $10 for spouses/partners of members, and $10 for school teachers and admin. For discount code, email
meetings@lamorindamoms.org. Tickets can be purchased at
here..
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Art Moves Project
Encased: Presented
Friday, October 19, Performances at 4:30 and 6:30 pm, Lafayette Plaza Park
Our 2018 public presentation of Art Moves Project happens Friday, October 19th, in Lafayette Plaza Park because of you, our earliest donors and supporters.
Encased: Presented, Art installation with dance. Performances at 4:30 and 6:30 pm.
Encased: Presented is the collaborative work of choreographer Yukie Fujimoto with No Strings Attached Dance Company, musician Marquisse Moore and architect Lara Dutto and explores "What surrounds you?" AMP is free and open to all so join us on October 19th! (Note: Raindate Saturday, October 20th) Follow and share
@artmovesproject.
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Jennifer Perlmutter Gallery, "Generations of Pop!" Mel Ramos and Friends
October 24- November 10; Artist's Reception: Saturday, October 27, 6-8pm
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Halloween 2018 - Clue-baret! Trivia and Movie
Friday, October 26, Trivia begins at 7pm before screening of "Clue" at 8pm, Town Hall Theatre
Choose the pre-show trivia event, the film or both for a night of Halloween inspired fun for everyone! Trivia begins at 7pm before our screening of "Clue" at 8pm.
Learn more and purchase tickets here.
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Lafayette Youth Commission Haunted House
Open October 27 & 28 (Saturday & Sunday)
Not Too Scary - 5:00pm-6:45pm - $3 per person
Very Scary – 7:30pm-9:00pm - $5 per person
Come explore the Haunted Laboratory, but beware of the evil scientist and watch out for the spooky experiments being done inside!
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Upcoming Lafayette Chamber Events
Ribbon Cutting at Radiance Family Wellness
Social Media Workshop - Online Business Profiles Matter: 10 Things You Need to Know
Wednesday, October 10, 6-7:30pm, Library Homework Center
Potential customers are searching online for "nearby" solutions you offer. Are they finding you? Help them by optimizing strategic online business profiles. This includes Yelp, Google Local, and Bing, as well as NextDoor, your Chamber website profile, and more. In this popular workshop, we outline easy steps to get started. Speaker: Robin S Fox, Digital Strategist.
Learn more here.
Ribbon Cutting at Rivulet Chiropractic
Mixer at Orinda Academy
Join us for our October Mixer at Orinda Academy, 19 Altarinda Road, Orinda, on Wednesday, October 24 from 5:30pm-7:00pm. Bring your business cards!
Learn more here.
Coffee with the Steve Falk & Jeff Heyman
Join us for Coffee with Steve Falk & Jeff Heyman on Friday, October 26, 8am-9am, at the Lafayette City Offices, 3685 Mt. Diablo Blvd., Room 265.
Learn more here.
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Jay Lifson, Executive Director
251 Lafayette Circle, Ste 150, Lafayette, CA
Office Hours: Monday-Thursday 9am-4pm, Friday 9am-1pm
(925) 284-7404
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