First Fridays After Five (Dec 7, 5–10 p.m.) “Night at the Museum”
Live music with Candido Oye-Oba AfricanBeatz (5–9 p.m.)
Velocity Circus performers (6-9 p.m.)
Holiday Print Show in Collectors Gallery (5-8:30 p.m.)
Soul Food Cooking Demo with Tanya Holland (6:30 p.m.)
Gospel and holiday music with recording artist Lawrence Beamen (8:30 p.m.)
Yoga (5:30 / 7:15 p.m.)
Talk and book signing with artist Rex Ray (7:30 p.m.)
Holiday shopping in museum store and Feria Urbana (5–9 p.m.)
Saturday (Dec 8, 11 a.m.–5 p.m.) “Access & Activism”
Feria Urbana (11a.m.–4 p.m.)
Building Tour with Architecture Council (12 p.m.)
Activities for our differently abled friends and visitors (1–4 p.m.)
Tactile textile tour with Inez Brooks-Myers (1 p.m.)
Behind the scenes gallery talks with curators Arthur Monroe (1 p.m.) and Phil Linhares (1:30 p.m.)
Hands-on Family Tactile Textures Experience (2 p.m.)
ASL storytellers Diane Ferlatte (1:30 p.m.) Ron Trumble (3:30 p.m.)
Axis Dance Company (2 p.m.)
Natural Sciences Tour (2 p.m.)
Black Artists of Oakland book signing (2:30 p.m.)
Krip-Hip-Hop Black Blind Blues CD Workshop with Leroy Moore (2:30 p.m.)
Spoken word by Avotcja (3 p.m.)
Oakland Arts Activists Talk the Talk with René de Guzman and Marcel Diallo (3 p.m.)
Sunday (Dec 9, 12-5 p.m.) “Family Festival Day” Wells Fargo Free Second Sunday
Thank you Ceremony (12 p.m.)
Koi Pond Tours(12:45 p.m./ 1:45 p.m. /2:45 p.m.)
Oakland Rainbow Jazz Quartet (12:45 p.m.)
Mandy Cheung - Chinese Music (1p.m./2p.m./3 p.m.)
Papel Picado Family Workshop with Carmen Lomas Garza (1:30-3 p.m.) Participation is limited. Children must be at least 9 years old. Call 510/238-6942 to RSVP.
Magician Timothy James (2 p.m./ 3:20 p.m.)
Book signing with Chris Beaver ( 3 p.m.)
Carmen Lomas Garza book signing (3:15 p.m.)
Carne Cruda (4 p.m.)
Face-painting, treasure hunt, dancing, drumming, Bat Cave tour, Indian life games (12-5 p.m.)