COYOTE Calendar: April 30-May 6

Welcome to the COYOTE Calendar. Here are this week's hand-picked events, just for you. This Friday is International Workers' Day aka May Day and this calendar is dedicated to the walkouts, opt-outs, and other actions that you can partake in to show solidarity for workers and the labor movement. I've included all the May Day events I could track down in the Bay Area, but if you know of some I missed, please put them in the comments! Solidarity forever.

(Fun fact: the United States does not technically recognize International Workers' Day, which is almost too on the nose. For more on the history of this day, check out The Incomplete, True, Authentic, and Wonderful History of May Day.)

On top of May Day, this weekend we've got SF Rubber Weekend, the Museum of Forgotten Fun's newest exhibit, Silicon Valley Open Studios, the Tri-Valley Artist Studio Tour, and the Santa Rosa Zine Fest. The SF International Film Festival continues as well (check out our COYOTE picks here), and if you love murder mysteries and dinner theater wow do I have a special treat for you. Plus, for the banjo sickos, the Freight's 10th Anniversary Bluegrass Festival.

This week we've also got Star Wars, saws, Sailor Moon, and several ways to swap. We'll post new events each Wednesday. Go forth and enjoy!

• Harm Reduction Resource Pop Up 〰️ Come meet folks, share resources, and learn about harm reduction practices and tools. There will be educational sessions, tool kits on offer, and a community of folks who care about one another. 〰️ 4:30–7pm 〰️ Strut, SF 〰️ FREE (but please register) 〰️ more info
• Field Notes from the Bay: An Evening of Live Storytelling 〰️ Come hear environmental scientists from the San Francisco Estuary Institute tell you their best, funniest, and most touching stories of conservation, collaboration, and the natural world. This is what it's really like to protect the Bay. 〰️ 5:30–8:30 pm 〰️ Deep Ocean Explore Store, Alameda 〰️ $23.18 〰️ more info

• Workers Over Billionaires San Rafael Banner Drop 〰️ Get started nice and early on May Day with this banner drop in support of workers and families. 〰️ 8–9:30am 〰️ San Rafael Pedestrian Overpass 〰️ FREE 〰️ more info
• May Day East Bay DSA 〰️ East Bay residents can start their May Day by gathering with a coalition of organizers working to stop killer cargo moving through the Oakland airport. 〰️ 9am 〰️ ILWU Local 6 Union Hall, Oakland 〰️ FREE 〰️ more info
• May Day Shutdown Interfaith Prayer Breakfast 〰️ Seeking a little holy strength for your day of resistance? Join fellow spiritual folk for some grounding (and coffee). 〰️ 9–10am 〰️ First Presbyterian Church Palo Alto 〰️ FREE 〰️ more info
• No Work, No School, No Shopping, No Oil! 〰️ If you want to take your ire directly to a Chevron station, this one is for you. 〰️ 10am–12pm 〰️ Montclair Park, Oakland 〰️ more info
• ICE Out of SFO 〰️ If you're on the peninsula, you can start your Friday with a similar action at SFO, demanding that United Airlines pay its workers a living wage, and the airline industry stop facilitating ICE abductions. 〰️ 11am 〰️ SFO Terminal 1 〰️ FREE 〰️ more info
• Berkeley May Day 〰️ Meet up with people who remember what People's Park was actually about, and demand fair wages, healthcare, and more with other Berkeley residents. 〰️ 11am–12:30pm 〰️ MLK Civic Park, Berkeley 〰️ more info
• Overfelt Walkout 〰️ Students in San Jose are walking out en masse to join the rally! The kids are all right! If you're a student in San Jose, consider joining them. 〰️ 1:50pm 〰️ W.C. Overfelt High School, San Jose 〰️ FREE 〰️ more info
• Oakland Sin Fronteras: International Workers’ Day March & Resource Fair 〰️ Start with a resource fair, and then move into a rally to demand full rights for migrants and refugees, sanctuary for all, and an end to the brutal and disgusting US policies of deportation and family separation. 〰️ 2–6pm 〰️ Fruitvale Plaza, Oakland 〰️ more info
• San Jose May Day: SHUT IT DOWN 〰️ Join the workers of San Jose for not just a march, but also cultural performances and community resources. Put on by the SJ May Day Coalition, which is vast and beautiful. 〰️ 2pm 〰️ Meet at Story & King and march to San Jose City Hall 〰️ FREE 〰️ more info
• Mission Action SF May Day 〰️ There are a couple of SF marches this afternoon. This one is organized by Bay Resistance with support from United Educators of SF, Mission Action, Jobs with Justice, Indivisible, Nuevo Sol, El/La Translatina, AFSCME 3299, SEIU USWW, California Nurses Association, Unite Here Local 2, Housing Rights Committee, National United Healthcare Workers, Palestinian Youth Movement, San Francisco Labor Council, Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL), Mujeres Unidas y Activas (MUA), PODER, Tech Workers Coalition, and others. 〰️ 2pm 〰️ Civic Center Plaza, SF 〰️ FREE 〰️ more info
• Workers Over Billionaires (Pacifica) 〰️ There are loads of gatherings aimed at billionaires and their undue wealth and influence. This one also includes a "May Day Indoors" element that involves folks coming together and planning for future actions. 〰️ 2–6pm 〰️ St. Edmund's Episcopal Church, Pacifica 〰️ FREE 〰️ more info
• May Day Action: Novato Sidewalks & Signs! 〰️ Bring a sign and join your neighbors! Get those honks! 〰️ 3–5pm 〰️ Rowland Blvd and Vintage Way, Novato 〰️ FREE 〰️ more info
• May Day Worker Power March 〰️ This one is specifically farmworker-led, organized by the North Bay Labor Council, AFL-CIO. La Unión Hace La Fuerza! 〰️ 4pm 〰️ Southwest Community Park, Santa Rosa 〰️ FREE 〰️ more info
• Workers Over Billionaires (SF) 〰️ Another San Francisco way to get involved — this one is organized by the SF Labor Council, unions, and allied organizations and is focused specifically on rejecting the greed of billionaires. The march will stop at a few locations to honor labor actions throughout history. 〰️ 4pm 〰️ 5 Embarcadero Center, SF 〰️ FREE 〰️ more info
• Workers Over Billionaires (Richmond) 〰️ Same as the above, just in Richmond this time. 〰️ 4–6pm 〰️ Macdonald Avenue & Civic Center Plaza, Richmond 〰️ FREE 〰️ more info
• Workers Over Billionaires (El Cerrito) 〰️ You know the drill 〰️ 4–5pm 〰️ El Cerrito Plaza 〰️ FREE 〰️ more info
• Workers Over Billionaires (Berkeley) 〰️ You can also say "fuck billionaires in particular" in Berkeley! Tax the rich, even the rich who live in Berkeley. 〰️ 5–6pm 〰️ Gilman St. and Santa Fe Ave. 〰️ FREE 〰️ more info
• Workers Over Billionaires (Palo Alto) 〰️ Several actual, living (unfortunately) billionaires reside in Palo Alto so this one feels extra important. Show up and tell them that they are a cancer on society! 〰️ 5–6pm 〰️ 393 Stanford Shopping Center, Palo Alto 〰️ FREE 〰️ more info
• Mountain View May Day 2026 March 〰️ For those living in the true maw of billionaires, don't worry, plenty for you as well! This one is organized by Mountain View Action Pod, Papeles Para Todos, SIREN, Together We Will, Day Worker Center, MV Voices for Peace & Justice, Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity, Tech Workers Coalition, Peninsula Peace & Justice Center, Blue Turn Indivisible, IPA+, and a few others. Note: This one has a fairly long route — about 40 minutes total walking time. 〰️ 5:30–8pm 〰️ Rengstorff Park, Mountain View 〰️ FREE 〰️ more info
• Native Plant Restoration and Cooking Workshop 〰️ Taking a quick break from May Day for a really cool workshop on native plants of the region and how to identify, nurture, and use them responsibly. This event is specifically for East Palo Alto residents, so don't show up if that's not you. Be cool. There will be an Oakland one soon. Dinner and childcare is provided! 〰️ 5–7pm 〰️ Cooley Landing, Palo Alto 〰️ RSVP required 〰️ more info
• Zine Social 〰️ If you want to make some friends before you head to the Santa Rosa Zine fest this weekend, come through to the social! Make zines, make friends, win win. There will be supplies available and even "facilitated speed-friending activity" (optional) if you need a little push to get into the friend zone (complimentary). 〰️ 6–8pm 〰️ Taqueria Mila 〰️ Santa Rosa 〰️ FREE but please buy some delicious food 〰️ more info
• Muskism: A Pyrotechnic Examination 〰️ Back to May Day events! This one is for those who like a little talk with their walk. Come hear Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff talk about their new book, Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed, and get to know your enemy (Elon Musk) and what his rise says about our modern economy and culture. 〰️ 7pm 〰️ Fluid510, Oakland 〰️ FREE 〰️ more info
• Queer & Trans Workers of the World Unite: A Gay Shame Tour of Technofascist Terror 〰️ "Calling all hookers, loiterers, shoplifters, street sellers, truants, 1099 queens, gig workers, students, time theft recidivists, hustlers, welfare fags, & ssdi dykes." Come make some noise. Bring a light-colored shirt and you can get it screen printed with something cool. Featuring drag, resource giveaways, zines, stickers, piñatas, and whatever you're bringing with you. 〰️ 7pm 〰️ 16th Street BART, SF 〰️ 😷 masks requested 〰️ FREE 〰️ more info
• Newsreel: Collective Fragments of Living Struggle 〰️ If you prefer your May Day activities more on the obscure side, don't worry: I have you covered. Come hear labor scholar Gifford Hartman speak and then view an archival 16mm newsreel covering the 1969 Richmond Oil Strike. 〰️ 7:30pm 〰️ 34 Trinity Arts & News, SF 〰️ FREE 〰️ more info
• Full Moon Water Rituals 〰️ There's no real May Day connection for this one but I made a pact with the moon to always include her events in the calendar so here we are. Join artist Rhiannon Evans MacFadyen in a celebration of May's pink moon, and connect with the water, the moon, and the liminal space between. All ages welcome. 〰️ 7:30pm 〰️ India Basin Waterfront Park, SF 〰️ FREE 〰️ more info
• Party for the Workers 〰️ We have two parties you can end your May Day with, which is the right way to cap off a long day of demands and solidarity. Catch organizer and rapper Bambu performing from his album Party Worker, along with an incredible lineup of other performers and special guests including Otayo Dubb, The Sampaguitas, AntiFaSon, Boots Riley, Walter Riley, W Kamau Bell, Kampala Taiz-Rancifer, and more! 〰️ 8pm 〰️ La Peña Cultural Center, Berkeley 〰️ $10–$25 〰️ more info
• May Day Party 〰️ Dance the night (and some of your capitalism-induced blues) away with comrades. There may be effigy burning. There will definitely be baddies who know how to organize. And they'll be raising funds for organizing against ICE. 〰️ 9pm 〰️ Tamarack, Oakland 〰️ FREE (but donate if you can) 〰️ more info

• Merritt College Horticulture Spring Plant Fair 〰️ I will not be at this if you think you see me buying plants it's my evil twin trying to frame me! I am innocent! 〰️ 9am–5pm 〰️ Merritt College, Oakland 〰️ FREE 〰️ more info
• Strawberry Festival 〰️ Legend has it that in May of 1868, six nuns arrived in the Bay Area from Montreal and were greeted with fresh strawberries and cream. Coming from Canada, they found the sweet fruits mind-blowing, and every year the Holy Names High School hosts a strawberry festival in honor of this occasion. I didn't make any of that up! Come celebrate the blessed fruit, shop some local crafts, get your face painted, and help raise funds for a program that prepares students for college. 〰️ 11am–2pm 〰️ Holy Names High School, Oakland 〰️ UPDATE: this is sold out 😭. 〰️ more info
• The Boil 〰️ The Bay Area has a lot, but one thing you don't see that often is a good New Orleans-style crawfish boil. Until now! Come eat river bugs at communal tables, make new friends, listen to good music. A real gathering. 〰️ 2–5pm 〰️ Calicraft Brewing Co., Walnut Creek 〰️ $10+ 〰️ more info
• Clueless Crafting Matinee 〰️ Once again I am here to remind you that the movie Clueless is, allegedly, based on the Jame Austen novel Emma. You can bring your copy of Emma to this viewing and bedazzle it while you watch. Or just bring any craft, and join fellow crafters as you watch and create. 〰️ 3pm 〰️ The New Parkway, Oakland 〰️ $10 〰️ more info
• Stacks & Sovereignty: Somatic Edition 〰️ This event asks a question that many COYOTE co-owners, readers, and subjects are constantly grappling with: How do we do what we love and still get paid? Join artists, dancers, writers, musicians, and others in a collective exploration of financial liberation. 〰️ 3–7pm 〰️ Pacific Felt Factory, SF (there is also an online option) 〰️ $2–200 (NOTAFLOF*) 〰️ more info
• Fruity Pop-Up & Community Cafe Clothing Swap 〰️ I'm obsessed with Ari's hand dyed clothes and while I wish I could buy them all for myself, the next best thing is to tell you about them so you can all buy these pieces. Plus, other rad stuff at this clothing swap! 〰️ 5–8pm 〰️ Discover Community Cafe, Oakland 〰️ FREE (but maybe buy something!) 〰️ more info
• Garrett Schlichte & Mamrie Hart presents: DIRTY DISHES 〰️ No bondage events this week but for the freaks among you (complimentary) here's my next best offering: "Eight courses of delicious bites and sumptuous sips, all themed to your favorite sexy songs." Also featuring a side of drag from Mary Vice. 〰️ 6–10pm 〰️ Solar Punk Farms, Guerneville 〰️ $129.89 〰️ more info
• The Gilded Age Ball 〰️ Bust out your finest Victorian garb (you've got that laying around, don't you?) and come dance the night away to period dances. "No partners required and all quadrilles and set dances will be taught and called at the ball." I don't know what that means, but maybe you do! If you see someone asking around about where they keep the guillotine, that's me. 〰️ 6:30pm 〰️ Alameda Elks Lodge 〰️ $30–35 〰️ more info
• Golden Gate Storm Final Home Game 〰️ It's your last chance to root for the Golden Gate Storm in person! Come out and help them make attendance history, see these women go hard, and ponder the many layers of supporting women's tackle football. 〰️ 7pm 〰️ Laney Field, Oakland 〰️ $27.62 〰️ more info

• Free Chinese Medicine Clinic 〰️ Drop in for a free massage, cupping, gua sha, moxa, and more! Folks Healing "brings together education, clinical care, and shared practice within a coherent cosmology rooted in seasonality, relationship, and lived experience." Plus, free food! 〰️ 9am–5pm 〰️ Clinton Park, Oakland 〰️ FREE 〰️ more info
• Mare Island Art Studios Spring Show 〰️ Some incredible artists work out of this studio, and the Spring Show is not one to miss! If you can't make it this weekend, the show is on every Sunday this month. 〰️ 12–4pm 〰️ Mare Island Art Studios, Vallejo 〰️ FREE 〰️ more info
• 10 Years El Ultimo Baile 〰️ Come celebrate the ten year anniversary of Tacos El Último Baile, which is like 50 in restaurant years, especially in the Bay Area. There will be music, dessert, and, obviously, killer tacos. 〰️ 12–6pm 〰️ Broc Cellars, Berkeley 〰️ FREE (but buy some tacos, obviously) 〰️ more info
• Queers Who Craft Supply Swap 〰️ Got extra craft supplies collecting dust? Don't lie, I know you probably do. Bring it with you and meet crafters who are also ready to offload their extras and wishful thinking purchases. Leave with a new craft obsession. All are welcome, even if you don't have anything to donate. 〰️ 1–3pm 〰️ Mission Dolores Park, SF 〰️ FREE 〰️ more info
• Beltane Maypole Ritual 〰️ Join a Beltane ritual and maypole with folks interested in witchery. Bring colorful clothes, food to share, flowers and vines, and a chair if you know you're going to need to sit. Kids welcome, and there will be a kids circle and maypole dance for all ages. 〰️ 1pm 〰️ Strawberry Creek Park, Berkeley 〰️ more info
• Swap Don't Shop 〰️ Clean out your closet so you can fill it up again (that's how it works, right?) all for free. Like a clothing potluck. Anything left over will be donated. 〰️ 2:30–4pm 〰️ Little Green Plant Bar, Redwood City 〰️ FREE 〰️ more info
• Sailor Moon Figure Drawing Salon 〰️ All ages welcome at this drawing salon dedicated to the champion of justice. In the name of the moon, go draw! Models will be costumed, and there will be props and other fun surprises along with live music. BYOLSC (Bring Your Own Legendary Silver Crystal). 〰️ 2–4pm 〰️ Monument, SF 〰️ $30 online, $35 at the door 〰️ more info
• Bakers & Makers Fair 〰️ May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month and you can kick off the celebrations with some extremely delicious food and gorgeous crafts! Entry fees support Bay Resistance. 〰️ 3–8pm 〰️ Nisei, SF 〰️ $5 〰️ more info

• May The 4th Be With You 〰️ When I was in college I watched Star Wars episodes 1–6 in one, extremely long stretch. I don't recommend this. But if you want to do the much more humane thing and just watch the original trilogy, there's no better day than the 4th to do so. (Jar Jar is a Sith Lord, and you will never convince me otherwise.) 〰️ 1pm–9pm 〰️ Orinda Theatre 〰️ $13 per film 〰️ more info
• QTBIPOC Hike 〰️ Venture out to Santa Rosa’s Howarth Park on this photo walk and picnic for queer and trans BIPOC, presented by Positive Images. After chowing on complimentary ‘ono from Luau Hawaiian BBQ, take a gentle hike around the park and snap pics together. Facilitation will be available in Spanish and English. 〰️ 5:30–7:30pm 〰️ Howarth Park, Santa Rosa 〰️ FREE 〰️ more info
• Taiwanese Heritage Night at Oracle Park 〰️ Root for the San Francisco Giants against the San Diego Padres, and if you get the special ticket you get a themed jersey. I can't actually tell what the jersey is meant to be? A rock? The moon? Help? (touches earpiece I’m being informed that they’re meant to be lanterns from the Pingxi Lantern Festival.) 〰️ 6:45pm 〰️ Oracle Park, SF 〰️ $63+ 〰️ more info
• Queering the SF Budget: Activist Teach-in 〰️ Budgets are only boring if you let them be! (Pretty much every other COYOTE co-owner is rolling their eyes at me.) Understanding budgets means understanding power, how money is spent, and how to change that. Come out and learn how SF is trimming its budget and cutting key HIV, LGBTQ+, and harm reduction programs, and help make plans on how to fight back. 〰️ 7–9pm 〰️ Strut, SF 〰️ FREE 〰️ more info

• Minhwa Folk Art Guided Paint and Sip 〰️ Okay this event is technically full but I'm putting myself on the wait list just in case and maybe you want to as well: Learn about Minhwa, a delightful traditional Korean art style while sipping on some nice little mocktails. Led by creator Tiffanie Nguyen, you'll also learn about the Korean-American artist Kate Oh who riffs on Minhwa and splashes in some of her own modern sensibility. 〰️ 5:30–7pm 〰️ Berkeley Public Library, Central Branch 〰️ FREE (but registration is required) 〰️ more info
• Safety & Solidarity Forum 〰️ “We keep each other safe” isn't just a slogan — it's something we can actually do. But it requires getting plugged in and informed about exactly how to do that. Come out to this event and learn about preparing and responding to ICE activity and how to help yourself and your community be as safe as possible when it comes to sex and substance use. Plus, tacos afterwards! 〰️ 6–8pm 〰️ Folsom Street, SF 〰️ FREE 〰️ more info
• Bayo Akomolafe on The Untimely 〰️ I'm not going to lie to you, I don't think I'm smart enough to understand this talk. But that doesn't mean I'm not interested in trying! That's curiosity baby! Bayo Akomolafe is a posthumanist philosopher, whose most recent work grapples with the question: “What if time misbehaves?” I think the answer probably is not "put into time out." 〰️ 7pm 〰️ Cowell Theater, SF 〰️ $28.52 〰️ more info
• I’M OUTSIDE! An Outdoor Open Mic 〰️ Bring your latest writing, song, or other groovy thing you might want to do for no more than six minutes into a microphone in a park. 〰️ 7pm 〰️ Cedar Rose Park, Berkeley 〰️ 😷 COVID SAFE: KN95/N95+ masks required and provided, including for performers. 〰️ FREE 〰️ more info

• Bench Workshop 〰️ Learn to build a bench that you can brag about (and sit on) for years to come with Dykes with Drills (an incredible name). No woodworking experience necessary, but they do want you to have some familiarity with mitersaws, drills, and drivers. 〰️ 5–9pm 〰️ Treasure Island Workshop, SF 〰️ $125 〰️ more info
• Queen Kelly 〰️ The SF Silent Film Festival kicks off on Wednesday with a reconstruction of a film that was never finished or released as the director intended. Introduced by Wesley Morris, the film is full of beauty and also a lot of darkness: whippings, suicide, violence and more. 〰️ 7pm 〰️ Castro Theatre, SF 〰️ $25 for members, $30 general 〰️ more info
• The Chalice: Is It Worth It? The Costs of “Mainstreaming” Psychedelics with Ismail Lourido Ali 〰️ For many subcultures, there comes a moment where the mainstream begins to pay attention, appreciate, and even adopt and accept what the freaks at the margin were doing. And each time that happens, those who've been playing in that sandbox have to grapple with the pros and cons of increased scrutiny and acceptance. Psychedelics are no different. 〰️ 7–9pm 〰️ The Alembic, Berkeley 〰️ $10+ 〰️ more info

You can see all of COYOTE's past calendar picks here. If you have an event you'd like to see on a future COYOTE Calendar, email us at calendar@coyotemedia.org. If you attended and enjoyed any of these events, we'd love to hear about it in the comments!

*NOTAFLOF = No One Turned Away For Lack Of Funds