News & Events from the Lafayette Chamber
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Jay Lifson, Executive Director
251 Lafayette Circle, Ste 150, Lafayette, CA
Office Hours: Monday-Thursday 9am-4pm, Friday 9am-1pm
Closed Monday, May 27, Memorial Day
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Early Bird Tickets Now on Sale for Taste of Lafayette - Lafayette's Favorite Dinner Party!
Tuesday, May 14, 5:30pm-8:00pm, Downtown Lafayette
The Taste of Lafayette stroll begins when ticket holders head out at their own pace to stop at any or all of the participating restaurants for sampling. This year, the will-call, appetizers, bar and dessert will be located at
JPG@TheBank, 3525 Mt. Diablo Blvd. Evening includes music throughout the stroll and a raffle supporting the
Lafayette Community Foundation.
Finish the night with dessert, coffee and entertainment by the
Gold Coast Chamber Players’s latest venture, pop-up BACH, chamber music experience in unexpected places, featuring the
Little Stars Trio at 7:30pm at
JPG@TheBank, 3525 Mt. Diablo Blvd. Drawing for the raffle will be held at 7:45pm also at JPG@TheBank.
Participating Restaurants/Businesses (to date)
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Local Business and Downtown Vibrancy Meeting with City Council
Monday, April 15, 7pm, City Offices, 3675 Mt. Diablo Blvd.
Council Committee for Objective 4: Develop a strategy to expand City support of local businesses and commerce and increase the vibrancy of downtown Lafayette. This meeting is for all stakeholders including downtown residents, employees, realtors, arts, School Districts and of course business and property owners.
This will be the final meeting!
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Grand Opening / Ribbon Cutting at Lemon
Tuesday, April 23, 10am, 3539 Plaza Way
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Mixer at Philz Coffee
Wednesday, April 24, 5:30pm-7pm, 3597 Mt. Diablo Blvd.
Philz Coffee began in the Mission District of San Francisco in the backroom of a corner store. What started out as passion project has blossomed into a labor of love. Our Lafayette store carries on the traditional brewing style that Phil himself perfected, offering individually crafted cups of coffee prepared just the way you like it. Our mission is to Better People's Days, so come in and let Shellie and her team better yours!
Our April mixer is free for members!
Registration is requested.
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Coffee with the Mayor
Friday, April 26, 8am-9am, Lafayette Chamber Conference Room
Join us for Coffee with the Lafayette Mayor! This event is free but registration is requested due to limited seating.
Register here.
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Tuesday Talk: What a Digital Home Record Is and and Why Your Clients Need One
Tuesday, April 30, 12noon-1pm, Lafayette Chamber Office
Are you a realtor, builder, insurer, home manager or professional organizer? Wouldn't it be helpful if your client's homes had an online inventory of all home finishes, fixtures, appliances and contents? We think so! Let us show you how modern information technology can help you and your clients manage essential home ownership information with a digital home record.
Kent Godfrey, Lafayette resident and tech entrepreneur, has created a cloud-based software service and app to track the many aspects of homes and home management.
Jules, by HomeIQ, is a secure online service with a database of over 300 item types which can be stored, shared and accessed on the go. Easy to use, so come see this demo and learn more!
This event is free but registration is requested due to limited seating.
Register here.
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2019 Art and Wine Sponsorship Opportunities
Saturday, September 21 & Sunday, September 22
Over 80,000 people stroll the downtown street festival throughout the weekend visiting our local retail business and award winning restaurants as well as 450+ booths of art, handmade crafts, food samplings, wine, beer, commercial vendors, non-profits … pausing to enjoy continuous live music and entertainment from our four stages.
The following businesses have signed up as either a sponsor or a vendor in the past week!
Check out the full list of committed partners for this year
here.
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Business Resources
FREE Coffee Break or Lunch for your Business from KKDV 92.1!
Gain more visibility with a free Coffee Break at your location! A KKDV representative will come to your office with coffee and Buntinis or you can choose a free lunch for you and your staff! KKDV will do an interview about the goods or services you offer and stream it on the radio station during the day at no cost for you!
Sign up here.
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Participation in Local, upcoming JOB FAIR - open to all Lamorinda Businesses
The Moraga Country Club has generously opened its doors to host a Job Fair on Monday, April 29th from noon to 6pm. There is no charge to participate in this Fair. Tables, chairs and light refreshments will be provided.
We are looking for participation from retail, restaurants and office based businesses for both full time and part time work. This Job Fair is being promoted to all local Lamorinda businesses and the Lamorinda Weekly.
If you wish to reserve a table, please contact Kathe Nelson at the Moraga Chamber of Commerce 925-323-6524 no later than Friday, April 26th.
Reserve your company's exclusive booth at Bay Area KidFest booth
We're inviting your company to REGISTER TODAY as a vendor at the 30th annual Bay Area KidFest on the Memorial Day Weekend in Concord on May 25-27. At this exciting outdoor festival our vendors are interspersed with free art, crafts and sports activities that ensure the 20,000+ family attendees are exposed to your booth in the center of the KidFest grounds. We only allow one representative from each multi-level marketing company so don't miss out and sign up today!
Registration information.
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Lafayette Rotary Club Annual Candy Scramble
Saturday, April 20, 10am, Lafayette Plaza Park
The Lafayette Rotary Club's “Annual Candy Scramble ” is open to all children ages 2-through 2nd grade. The event takes place at Lafayette Plaza Park (corner of Mt. Diablo Blvd. and Moraga Rd) in Lafayette. The park lawn will be covered with candy for the kids to put in their baskets. The youngest are always given extra time to get their share! The Bunny along with the Police and Fire Departments will be there to take pictures with the kids. Please arrive on time. We start promptly at 10:00am. Join us for the fun. And don’t miss the Jonny’s Donut Dive (for adults only).
Learn more here.
Lamorinda Arts Alliance Artist Zarmine Aghazarian at Dr. Samadian Family and Advanced Dentistry
Friday, April 19, 5:30pm-7:30pm, 23 Orinda Way, Suite 301, Orinda
Dr. Amin Samadian is proud to have affiliated with the Lamorinda Arts Alliance and to have the opportunity to showcase the artwork of the organization’s artists at Dr. Samadian’s center for reconstruction and implant. We are excited to be hosting our FIRST art exhibition reception and celebrate the integration of Art, science and technology! Zarmine Aghazarian is our featured artist and will exhibit her artwork throughout the office for patients, friends, and family to view. Bring your friends and family to sip on wine and taste hors d'oeuvre as you walk through the office and admire her beautiful work. For more information about the event, please call: Katherine Trent-Director of Public Relations, 925-212-6332 or
ktrent@dionhealth.com.
9th Annual Lafayette Community Music Festival
Saturday, April 27, Doors open @ 7:00pm; Music @ 8:00pm; $25 Advance; $30 At-Door, Town Hall Theatre
Featuring: The Big Jangle Acoustic, including Kiki Stack; and The Real Lafayette All Stars, including Jeff Tamalier (Tower of Power), Dave Martin (Buzztones, Dave Martin's House Party), Mark Stanley (Rock Island) and Paul Cotruvo (Big Jangle, Cover to Cover).
https://www.townhalltheatre.com/up-next
LiT Lamorinda
April 27, 7pm-9pm, JPG@TheBank, 3525 Mt. Diablo Blvd., Lafayette
LiT Lamorinda - A fun night of music, wine and poetry from Bay Area writers. Poet Laureate of Lamorinda, Amy Glynn leads this night with pairing 5 Bay Area poets to local wines. Boutique wineries in the region will pour tastes to match the poetry and the Rob Evans Trio will perform. Enjoy pours from: Meadow View, Los Arabis, Deer Hill Vineyards, Raisin D’Etre, Thal Vineyards. Tickets are $25. Bring a friend and spend the evening immersed in art from the visuals, music and palette.
Tickets and more info here.
Earth Day Reminds Us to be Nice to Mother Earth
Sunday, April 28, 11am–2pm, Lafayette Library & Learning Center
If you were a hippie back in 1970 you might remember the first “Earth Day.” Saving the Planet was not the first thing many thought of back then. Global warming has launched an awareness about who we are and how we act. Earth Day has been set aside to share the challenges and solutions to our environmental issues. Come find out how you can make a difference with the future of our world. Join us at the Lafayette Library and Learning Center on Sunday, April 28, 2019. This event is produced by Sustainable Lafayette, the Lafayette Chamber, the City of Lafayette and the Lafayette Library and Learning Center.
http://www.sustainablelafayette.org/earth-day-festival
Nancy Hu, administrator for Lafayette's Buy Nothing Project chapter, will be collecting items for Terracycle recycling and discussing ways you can reduce your waste at home!
View Flyer.
Showing Up: How We All Make Art: A Conversation with California Shakespeare Theater
Sunday, April 28, 2019. 4pm-6pm, JPG@TheBank 3525 Mt. Diablo Blvd. Lafayette
Is a play without an audience still a play? Is a painting without a viewer still a painting? How do we, with our physical presence, make art – and change – possible? California Shakespeare Theater artistic director Eric Ting, with JPG@TheBank artist and Cal Shakes board member Betsy Streeter, along with other guests, and with you, will tackle these and other questions about how we bring art to life in physical space, and what that means to ourselves and our communities in a time of fragmentation and digital overkill. We're excited to add that our guests can also try wines from Lamorinda at our event from 4:00-4:45. Local wineries Deer Hill, Los Arabis, Meadow View and Thal will pour wines from grapes grown in Lamorinda! Learn what one of the newest US American Viticultural Areas, Lamorinda, is all about! Doors open at 4pm for wine reception, program begins at 4:30.
Learn more here.
Las Trampas Spring Gala and Benefit Auction
Sunday, April 28, 4pm-7pm, Diablo Country Club
Join us for a very special gala event to benefit Las Trampas. We promise a wonderful evening including dinner, live entertainment and live and silent auctions to benefit local services for our friends and neighbors with developmental disabilities.
Learn more and register here.
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Community Announcements
Who Will You Nominate? Sustainability Award Nominations Open!
Sustainable Contra Costa is proud to honor the leaders and activists whose good work is making Contra Costa communities healthy, beautiful, clean, and resilient. Awards are presented to individuals, nonprofits, government programs, schools, and businesses.
Learn more and submit your nomination(s) here.
Teenage Band Showcase
Friday, April 26, 7pm, Lafayette Community Center, 500 St. Mary's Rd
A Brighter Day Charity, along with the Lafayette Youth Commission, is thrilled to host our Annual Teenage Band Showcase. Bands will perform 2-4 songs with the judges being your local Music Teachers. All participating members of these bands will receive a recognition/thank you award and the participants of the winning band of the evening will receive well-deserved awards. This will be a fun evening. Bands will be judged in two ways: First on their music, second on the amount of teenage friends they bring to the event. Food will also be available. There is no event charge for this event. Learn more and to register your band, visit
https://abrighterday.info/band-showcase-lafayette-2019/
Acalanes HS Color Run
Sunday, April 28, 9am, Acalanes High School
The third annual Color Run will take place on Sunday, April 28 at Acalanes High School. This fundraiser supports the Classes of 2020 & 2021 and is a 1.5 mile run through the Acalanes campus. Each participant receives a white t-shirt to wear through the five color stations where participants will emerge in a rainbow of colors by the end of the run. Registration opens at 8 am with music & giveaways; race begins at 9 am. Signup today and encourage your friends, family members and neighbors to join the fun! The Color Run is also a great team bonding event for scout troops, club and LMYA teams. Participation fee - $25. Visit the
Acalanes High School Webstore to sign up. If you don't have a Webstore account, you may check out as a guest by using the code 9999999.
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Happening at the Lafayette Library and Learning Center
Night at the Library - Saturday, June 1
Tickets on sale now - while they last! Purchase tickets or make your donation
here.
Master Gardeners: Pomegranates
Thursday, April 18, 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM, Homework Center
Join UC Master Gardener Bonnie Brookhart as she takes us through the fascinating story of Pomegranates. Learn their history and the many ways you can enjoy growing this delicious fruit in your own backyard.
To register for this event click here.
Bird Feeder Craft
Saturday, April 20, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Children's Room
Come make a special treat for your neighborhood feathered friends. We will be making bird feeders out of used toilet paper rolls. This is a peanut free activity. Registration is required.
2019 is the 10th Anniversary year for the Lafayette Library and Learning Center
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AdLib to learn about upcoming programs and events at the Library. Recognized as a model for 21st Century libraries, the Lafayette Library is the heart and central gathering place for the community offering a rich menu of 1,000 programs a year for the lifelong learner in all of us.
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Photo from the Social Media Workshop - Instagram for Business at the Lafayette Library on Wednesday, April 10.
Join us on Instagram! @lafayettechamber_ca #lafayettechamber
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