Prost! 🍻 Walnut Creek Oktoberfest is back Friday, Sept. 25 (5–10pm) &amp; Saturday, Sept. 26 (12–9pm) at Civic Park East for two days of brews, brats, live music and Oktoberfest fun!
Grab your friends, family and pups and head Downtown for one of Walnut Creek’s favorite fall traditions. Sip craft beer and wine in the Biergarten, dance along to live music, dig into delicious food, shop artisan vendors, bring the little ones to Kinder Platz and soak up the festive atmosphere all weekend long.

FEATURING:🎶 Live Music &amp; Dancing 🍺 Biergarten with Craft Beer &amp; Wine 🌭 Delicious Food 🛍️ Artisan Vendors 🎡 Kinder Platz Kids Zone 🥨 Plenty of Oktoberfest Fun!

GETTING HERE:
🚗 $10 Event Parking at 1111 Civic Drive 🚲 Free Bike Valet 🚆 Take BART to Walnut Creek Station
FREE ADMISSION • RSVP TODAY!✨ Admission is FREE! RSVP in advance to let us know you’re coming, then stop by the Info Booth during Oktoberfest to check in and pick up some Oktoberfest swag (while supplies last)!*
👉 RSVP &amp; CHECK OUT THE FULL OKTOBERFEST LINEUP »&nbsp;<a href="https://walnutcreekdowntown.com/events/oktoberfest?utm_source=patch&amp;utm_medium=ad&amp;utm_campaign=OKT2026" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">walnutcreekdowntown.com/oktoberfest</a>

Local Event: Walnut Creek Oktoberfest: Prost to a Weekend of Brews, Brats & Bavarian Fun! 🥨🍻

Contra Costa County

Walnut Creek

California

Walnut Creek Oktoberfest: Prost to a Weekend of...

Prost! 🍻 Walnut Creek Oktoberfest is back Friday, Sept. 25 (5–10pm) & Saturday, Sept. 26 (12–9pm) at Civic Park East for two...

Walnut Creek Oktoberfest: Prost to a Weekend of Brews, Brats & Bavarian Fun! 🥨🍻

Prost! 🍻 Walnut Creek Oktoberfest is back Friday, Sept. 25 (5–10pm) &amp; Saturday, Sept. 26 (12–9pm) at Civic Park East for two days of brews, brats, live music and Oktoberfest fun!
Grab your friends, family and pups and head Downtown for one of Walnut Creek’s favorite fall traditions. Sip craft beer and wine in the Biergarten, dance along to live music, dig into delicious food, shop artisan vendors, bring the little ones to Kinder Platz and soak up the festive atmosphere all weekend long.
FEATURING:
🎶 Live Music &amp; Dancing 🍺 Biergarten with Craft Beer &amp; Wine 🌭 Delicious Food 🛍️ Artisan Vendors 🎡 Kinder Platz Kids Zone 🥨 Plenty of Oktoberfest Fun!
GETTING HERE:
🚗 $10 Event Parking at 1111 Civic Drive 🚲 Free Bike Valet 🚆 Take BART to Walnut Creek Station
FREE ADMISSION • RSVP TODAY!
✨ Admission is FREE! RSVP in advance to let us know you’re coming, then stop by the Info Booth during Oktoberfest to check in and pick up some Oktoberfest swag (while supplies last)!*
👉 RSVP &amp; CHECK OUT THE FULL OKTOBERFEST LINEUP&nbsp;»<a href="https://walnutcreekdowntown.com/events/oktoberfest?utm_source=patch&amp;utm_medium=ad&amp;utm_campaign=OKT2026" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">walnutcreekdowntown.com/oktoberfest</a>

Five Little Monkeys is celebrating 25 years of PLAY! Sunday, September 27 from 11AM-3PM 1240 Solano Ave in Albany ​ This FREE family fun event will include: Goodie Bags (While supplies last) Crafts &amp; Activities Games Toy Testing A raffle to benefit Albany Education Foundation A performance from beloved children's musician, Asheba ...and more!

Local Event: Five Little Monkeys 25th Anniversary Celebration!

Alameda County

Berkeley

Five Little Monkeys 25th Anniversary Celebration!

Five Little Monkeys is celebrating 25 years of PLAY! Sunday, September 27 from 11AM-3PM 1240 Solano Ave in Albany ​ This FREE...

St. Alban's Episcopal Church, 1501 Washington Avenue, Albany, CA 94706

Open mic origins to local stages with Folk-rooted storytelling, emotion &amp; exploration.Have you ever heard a Swedish Nyckelharpa? Here's your chance!&nbsp;If a Tree Falls is a Berkeley-based folk trio featuring Mark Walstrom and daughter Jennie Walstrom - who together do that epic Everly brothers&nbsp; harmonizing - along with musical pal Bernie Lenhoff.&nbsp; Together they play the nyckelharpa, the dobro, guitar, and mandolin and sing beautiful traditional songs. Many know Mark through his work at his shop, Timbre Folk &amp; Baroque, where he sells and repairs stringed instruments. The trio are regulars at the HOOT!"The sound this trio makes isn't heard, it's felt - like a pang of love, or longing, or loss. And their alchemy not only carries you through such emotions, but leaves you in a place somewhere beyond them. This is sound that purifies." - JxoA nyckelharpa has 16 strings: 3 melody strings, one drone string, and 12 sympathetic vibration (or resonance) strings. It has about 37 wooden keys arranged to slide under the strings. Each key has a tangent that reaches up and stops (frets) a string to make a particular note. The player uses a short bow with the right hand, and pushes on the keys with the left. It has a 3 octave range (from the same low "G" as a fiddle's 4th string) and sounds something like a fiddle, only with lots more resonance.Bernie Lenhoff (Guitar, dobro, voice)Mark Walstrom (Guitar, mandolin, nyckelharpa, voice)Jennie Walstrom (voice, nyckelharpa)$15-$30.Presented by Calliope: East Bay Music &amp; Arts

Local Event: If A Tree Falls

Albany

If A Tree Falls

Open mic origins to local stages with Folk-rooted storytelling, emotion & exploration.Have you ever heard a Swedish...

Starfish Arts

Join us at the brand new Starfish Arts building featuring the premiere of Siren Gallery. New To You is our first curated group art show featuring established and emerging local artists. This is not to be missed. Starfish Arts is the premiere anchor makers and exhibit space in the East bay and serves as the new hub of Berkeley’s &nbsp;Gilman Arts district. VIP Collectors preview on September 30 6-8pm and the public opening is October 1, 6-8pm.

Local Event: New To You: a premiere gallery exhibition

New To You: a premiere gallery exhibition

Join us at the brand new Starfish Arts building featuring the premiere of Siren Gallery. New To You is our first curated group...

Live Oak Theater

One of the most treasured comedies in English-speaking theater, Oscar Wilde’s THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST never fails to delight&nbsp;and amuse audiences - and it provides nine of the most delicious roles in the canon.&nbsp; A madcap farce about mistaken identities, secret romantic engagements, and acute&nbsp;social class satire, EARNEST also contains one of the theater’s wittiest and most&nbsp;sophisticated texts.Plays October 2nd - 18th in the charming and intimate Live Oak Theater in north Berkeley, Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30, Sundays at 2 p.m.Tickets and more info at our website www.aeofberkeley.org Directed by Jay Manley with Jane Goodwin, with: Jack - Nikolas Greene Lady Bracknell - Paulette Herring Gwendolen - Bri Hunter Algernon - Moshe Quinn Cecily - Sophie Ruf Miss Prism - Linda Scaparotti Rev. Chasuble - Mark Shepard Lane/Merriman - Jeff Trescott

Local Event: The Importance of Being Earnest, by Oscar Wilde

The Importance of Being Earnest, by Oscar Wilde

One of the most treasured comedies in English-speaking theater, Oscar Wilde’s THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST never fails to...

One of the most treasured comedies in English-speaking theater, Oscar Wilde’s THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST never fails to delight&nbsp;and amuse audiences - and it provides nine of the most delicious roles in the canon.&nbsp; A madcap farce about mistaken identities, secret romantic engagements, and acute&nbsp;social class satire, EARNEST also contains one of the theater’s wittiest and most&nbsp;sophisticated texts.
Plays October 2nd - 18th in the charming and intimate Live Oak Theater in north Berkeley, Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30, Sundays at 2 p.m.
Tickets and more info at our website <a href="https://www.aeofberkeley.org" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">aeofberkeley.org</a> Directed by Jay Manley with Jane Goodwin, with: Jack - Nikolas Greene Lady Bracknell - Paulette Herring Gwendolen - Bri Hunter Algernon - Moshe Quinn Cecily - Sophie Ruf Miss Prism - Linda Scaparotti Rev. Chasuble - Mark Shepard Lane/Merriman - Jeff Trescott

One of the most treasured comedies in English-speaking theater, Oscar Wilde’s THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST never fails to delight&nbsp;and amuse audiences - and it provides nine of the most delicious roles in the canon.&nbsp; A madcap farce about mistaken identities, secret romantic engagements, and acute&nbsp;social class satire, EARNEST also contains one of the theater’s wittiest and most&nbsp;sophisticated texts.
Plays October 2nd - 18th in the charming and intimate Live Oak Theater in north Berkeley, Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30, Sundays at 2 p.m.
Tickets and more info at our website <a href="https://www.aeofberkeley.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">aeofberkeley.org</a> Directed by Jay Manley with Jane Goodwin, with: Jack - Nikolas Greene Lady Bracknell - Paulette Herring Gwendolen - Bri Hunter Algernon - Moshe Quinn Cecily - Sophie Ruf Miss Prism - Linda Scaparotti Rev. Chasuble - Mark Shepard Lane/Merriman - Jeff Trescott

Local Event: The Importancce of Being Earnest, by Oscar Wilde

The Importancce of Being Earnest, by Oscar Wilde

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Saturday, September 26

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