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Thursday, April 2, 2009

Friday Night Fun

First Friday’s in Oakland = Art Murmur and there is a fantastic line-up for April. Everything is in walking or biking distance from the HarriOak neighborhood. Here are a few highlights of what you can choose from and they are all FREE. Enjoy yourself. The weather’s perfect.

Awaken Café
414 14th Street at Broadway
Domestic Relocation, paintings by Erin Hamilton
& live music with blues & soul singer Amber Gougis
5 to 8 p.m.

Oakopolis
447 25th Street – between Broadway & Telegraph
Earth Days
Artists: Tyrell Collins, Ralph Singer, John Wood, Michelle Bertho and Andrew Kaluzynski.
“Each artist in this Earth Days exhibition has a unique voice for expressing the wonders of nature... and an accomplished method of channeling light into visual language.”
Show opens: 7 p.m.

21 Grand (same street as Oakopolis)
416 25th Street
[Print] Run: works by Jason Byers and Patricia Wakida

Creative Growth Art Center
355 24th Street
CHANGING CHANNELS EVENT:

April Art Murmur Video Screening (with popcorn!)
7:30 p.m.

Studio One Reading Series
365 45th St (off of Broadway)
Readings by Stephanie Young and K. Silem Mohammad. Music from Meklit Hadero
Doors open at 7 p.m., Readings start at 7:30 p.m.

For a full map of all Art Murmur events, click here.

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