COYOTE Calendar: Feb 5-February 11

Welcome to the COYOTE Calendar. Here are this week's handpicked events, just for you. We're coming up on Valentine's Day, so this calendar is heavy on cute crafts and cute sex stuff to do. The Super Bowl is this weekend in Santa Clara (you are rooting for Seattle and I will hear nothing else), and that means both parties and resistance. ICE will be ramping up its presence using the game as cover, be ready to take care of your neighbors. Here are some tips on how to do that.

This weekend you can also check out Grimoire's Gothic Market in Vallejo, Queer Canvas (a queer market) in Alameda, and CODEX X (a fancy book expo) in Oakland. What you can't do, is go to this week's Latino Outdoors event, because once again it has sold out before I've gotten the chance to put it on the calendar! But check out their events page so you can actually get tickets to their stuff without waiting for me to tell you about it. The Bay Area Black Comedy Competition & Festival runs from the 10th through the 15th at the Henry J. Kaiser Center for the Arts, and the OMCA White Elephant Sale continues.

Along with all of that, this week we've got dunes, vintage animation, fonts, and paper fruit. Go forth and enjoy! (Especially you, Tabernacle Dan!) I’m handing the calendar off to my trusty colleagues for the next few weeks while I’m out of town, so be nice to them.

• Mushroom Dinner 〰️ Every year Millennium does a full five-course dinner based on locally sourced mushrooms, and it's back! All mushrooms, all the time. Sweet, savory, and everything in between. A fungal feast, a mycological meal, a shroomy snack, etc etc etc. 〰️ 5pm 〰️ Millennium, Oakland 〰️ $95 〰️ more info
• Artsy Bitches: Palentine’s Pop-Up 〰️ Valentines Day is around the corner, and you can get a head start on making something for each member of your polycule at this artsy gathering. There will be stations to make a charm keychain, a flower arrangement, and a necklace. Plus music, drinks, and other surprises. 〰️ 6:30pm 〰️ The Faight Collective, SF 〰️ $28+ 〰️ more info
• Black Film Unscreened & Unstreamed: Lorraine Hansberry 〰️ It's been 67 years (don't you dare) since A Raisin in the Sun opened on Broadway, making Lorraine Hansberry the the first-ever Black woman to author a play performed on the ultimate stage for theater in the US. But Hansberry herself never got mega-famous. Now, you can come see a long-overdue documentary about her life and work. 〰️ 6:30-9pm 〰️ Oakstop, Oakland 〰️ FREE 〰️ more info
• Valentine Vending 〰️ Get some art, smooch a cutie, and support the Compton Cafeteria Project and the Tenderloin Museum. You don't even have to bring your own baddie for the smooching — Compton Queens will be on hand for a kissing photo booth. 〰️ 6-9pm 〰️ 835 Larkin St., SF 〰️ FREE 〰️ more info
• Modern Miso Making 〰️ Picture it: You have friends over. You've made something with miso. When they compliment it, you casually say, "Oh thanks, I made the miso myself." The crowd goes wild. This could be you, if you take this class. Plus you'll be able to regale your guests with facts about the history and science of this ancient condiment and its modern variations. 〰️ 6-8pm 〰️ Preserved, Oakland 〰️ $125 〰️ more info
• Font Friends Hangout 〰️ How do you feel about Comic Sans? Papyrus? What about Bodoni? If you notice when the kerning is off, this meetup is for you. Plus, the folks from the archive will have some piece of their collection out on view for this. Get your font nerdery on! We will not judge you. 〰️ 6-7:30pm 〰️ Letterform Archive, SF 〰️ $10 suggested 〰️ more info
• Craft Night 〰️ Another Valentine's Day-themed craft night for you! This one is hosted by Jenny of “Jenny and Cabbage” (Cabbage is a dog), and all the supplies will be provided. I cannot promise that Cabbage will be there, but there is only one way to find out. 〰️ 6-9pm 〰️ Alameda Brewing, Alameda 〰️ more info

• 504 History Walking & Rolling Tour 〰️ In 1977, a group of disability activists staged a month-long occupation of 50 UN Plaza, demanding the government actually enforce the laws that protected their civil rights. On this walking & rolling tour, you'll hear from 504 protestor and "chief morale officer" Dennis Billups and scholar-activist Emily Beitiks about this history that happened right here in the Bay Area. 〰️ 11am-12pm 〰️ 165 Grove Street, SF 〰️ FREE 〰️ more info
• Rally Against ICE 〰️ ICE is upping their presence in the Bay for the Super Bowl and it's up to us to tell them that they are not fucking welcome here. Join South Bay activists to gather and resist ICE. 〰️ Bayshore/NASA VTA Station, Sunnyvale 〰️ Time TBD, check link for updated info 〰️ more info
• Mutual Aid for Minnesota Pop-Up Event 〰️ All we have is each other, so let's send love and support to Minnesota as they continue to rally around their neighbors and against the federal occupation. Come through this kid-friendly community event with food, music, and spoken word — 20% of all food and drink sales will be donated to Minnesota Immigrant Movement and families impacted by ICE. 〰️ 5-9pm 〰️ Open Test Kitchen, Oakland 〰️ more info
• Sound Box: Dream Awake 〰️ I'm just gonna quote the description on this one because I don't know what it really means but it sounds cool: "Violinist and curator Alexi Kenney leads us into a realm infused with nocturnal energy and psychedelic fantasy. Experience the unnerving and visceral confusion of waking life, the wild fear and frenzy of a shadowy nightmare, and a finale warmed and calmed by the clarifying rays of the rising sun." 〰️ 6-8pm 〰️ Davies Symphony Hall, SF 〰️ $80 〰️ more info
• Seollal Mandoo Workshop 〰️ In Korea, Lunar New Year is called Seollal and obviously comes with special traditions. Join this immersive session to learn two core pieces of Seollal: mandoo and bojagi. Make dumplings, learn how to wrap rainbow cloth, and share space with a community looking into the new year. 〰️ 6-8:30pm 〰️ Sōhn, SF 〰️ $165 〰️ more info
• After Dark: Rooted in STEM 〰️ Despite the administration's attempts at denying these things, it is indeed Black History Month. And from the very beginning, Black folks have made huge impacts in science. Come see some of those impacts, and hear from modern Black STEM professionals on their journeys and influences.〰️ 6-10pm 〰️ The Exploratorium, SF 〰️ $22.95 〰️ more info
• Film screening night: Princess Iron Fan 〰️ Come see the first the first feature-length animated film produced in China, created in wartime Shanghai and released in 1941 that tells the story of a monk and his companions making their way to the mythical and powerful Princess Iron Fan with a request. After the screening there will be an informal conversation about "Chinese animation, childhood memory, myth, and what animation unlocks for us as adults." 〰️ 7:15pm 〰️ Now Place, SF 〰️ $10+ 〰️ more info
• Gumby's Junk, Whine, Diesel Dudes, Diletantes 〰️ A really fun lineup for this one at The Planetarium, which you should absolutely check out if you haven't already. Gumby's Junk, Whine, Diesel Dudes, Diletantes — good shit all around. All ages. 〰️ 7-10pm 〰️ Planetarium, Richmond 〰️ $10-$15 〰️ more info
• Queer Canvas - Sex-Positive Queer Arts Night Market 〰️ Celebrate identity and creativity with a sex-positive queer art walk & market featuring LGBTQ+ artists, vendors, & live performances. 〰️ 7-11pm 〰️ Dragon Rouge Bistro, Alameda 〰️ more info
• Backroom Bros 〰️ "A party by transmasculine people for transmasculine people, where trans attendees are the focus – not an afterthought." Get your kink on with folks who actually thought about you and didn't include you as an asterisk at the bottom of the play party flyer. If you really want to commit, start your night here and then make your way to the Heated Rivalry Rave (see below). 〰️ 8:30pm-12:30am 〰️ Transform1060, SF 〰️ $15+ NOTAFLOF* 〰️ more info
• SF Bondage Ball: Post-Apocalyptic Masquerade 〰️ This is, apparently "the largest & longest running bi-annual fetish / dance event in the world." Come dressed for the end of the world, because even after the apocalypse, we'll all be freaky freaks inside. 〰️ 9pm-2:30am 〰️ DNA Lounge, SF 〰️ $26+ 〰️ more info
• The Room screening w/ Tommy Wiseau 〰️ The first date I went on with my partner of 10+ years was to see The Room. I did not know what The Room was. This movie is for sickos only, and honestly I don't want to say that much more about it. Bring a friend. Bring some spoons. Tommy Wiseau himself will be there so you can thank or blame him in person. 〰️ 11pm-12:55am 〰️ Balboa Theatre, SF 〰️ $25 〰️ more info
• Heated Rivalry Rave: A Hot Sexy Yearning Party 〰️ You've read the books, you've watched the show, you've seen the memes, but have you been to the rave? Yes, a Heated Rivalry Rave. Get sweaty. No hockey knowledge required. Bring your own banana. 〰️ 10pm-2am 〰️ The Stud, SF 〰️ $24-$55 〰️ more info

• Ocean Beach Dune Revegetation 〰️ Come put your back into it and not only touch grass, but plant it. Help seed native dune grass and restore a critical habitat that provides space for animals and plants and also helps prevent erosion. This one is physically demanding, so be ready for it. Tools and gloves will be provided. WEAR SUNSCREEN please (yours truly, a person who has had skin cancer). 〰️ 9am-12pm 〰️ FREE (waitlist only) 〰️ more info
• Lunar New Year Celebration 〰️ Pretty much every local library is doing a Lunar New Year event, so if you can't make any of the ones we grabbed for this calendar, check out yours! This one features a dance performance by One Tribe Martial Arts Academy and a craft that you can take home and gaze upon with pride later. All ages welcome. 〰️ 11am-12:30pm 〰️ Ygnacio Valley Library, Walnut Creek 〰️ FREE 〰️ more info
• Clay, Conversation & Community Care 〰️ Veins of natural clay run through the ground across borders all over the world. Join friends and neighbors in the universal act of making something from the Earth while learning your rights, and raising funds for the Deportation Defense & Legal Advocacy Program. 〰️ 11am-2pm 〰️ Artillery Ceramics, SF 〰️ $35-$100 〰️ more info
• Day Trip! Drag Brunch 〰️ This drag brunch is extra special because it's all trans performers. Bring your dollars and your friends. 〰️ 12:30pm and 2:30 pm 〰️ Beaux, SF 〰️ $10 cover 〰️ more info
• Truffle Fest 〰️ Back in the day, you used to have to train a pig to find truffles, but now you can just saunter on down the street in Rockridge and taste a whole array of them. This truffle-themed fest features pasta, pizza, chocolate, salami and more. You can still bring a pig if you want. (I actually don't know if that's true. Please check the website rules about bringing animals.) 〰️ 12-3pm 〰️ Market Hall, Oakland 〰️ FREE 〰️ more info
• Valentine's Day Storytime with Ace Palomino 〰️ This is the cutest thing I've ever heard: "Inspired by the time she saw Prince's appearance on Muppets Tonight when she was seven years old, Ace started reading for drag story hour." Bring your littles to storytime to hear a cute little tale (and to have a reason to explain to your children who Prince was). 〰️ 3pm 〰️ Berkeley Public Library, North Branch 〰️ FREE 〰️ more info
• Creating the Hero Book Event 〰️ Michael Schwab is an absolute icon of graphic art. Just a true legend walking amongst us. I guarantee you have seen and admired his designs — from national parks to Amtrak to Turner Classic Movies. And now you can celebrate the release of his new book Creating the Hero: A Defining Monograph on Iconic Poster Design. 〰️ 4pm 〰️ Book Passage, Corte Madera 〰️ FREE 〰️ more info
• Art Deco Society of California Silent Auction 〰️ Get fancy schmancy with this one — an evening of music, dancing, cocktails, and bidding at a silent auction! Plus, you'll get access to the Historical Radio Society in Alameda’s museum full of gorgeous old radios. "Elegant attire is encouraged." 〰️ 5:30-9:30pm 〰️ California Historical Radio Society, Alameda 〰️ $24 〰️ more info
• Gay Ass Solidarity Market: Love Notes 〰️ Meet fellow riled-up queers to talk love, joy, creation, and mutual aid. If you've been wondering how to get plugged into community efforts of support and resistance, it's these kinds of events that are the key! 〰️ 5pm-12am 〰️ 7th West, Oakland 〰️ 😷 COVID SAFE (masks required, air filters indoors) 〰️ $15-$25 NOTAFLOF* 〰️ more info
• Chow & Pong - Mahjong Night 〰️ Mahjong is a complete mystery, personally, but the ceramics guy in me loves the tiles. Join the community in a night of chow and pong and good food. This one is open to beginners and veterans, so come through even if you're still learning how to play. There will be a table for coaching. 〰️ 5pm and 7:30pm 〰️ Understory, Oakland 〰️ $10+ 〰️ more info
• 11th Annual Black History Month Celebration 〰️ This is the 11th year for this event by the Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir, and it's always a powerful, very cool night that blends traditional and contemporary gospel with deep-cut spirituals rarely heard outside the South. This one sells out most years, so get your tickets fast. 〰️ 7pm 〰️ 〰️ Freight and Salvage, Berkeley 〰️ $39+ 〰️ more info

• Paper Food Workshop 〰️ An artist at the studio I work out of makes these absolutely incredible, lifelike, paper surprise items, and I've always been curious how you would even begin making something like that! Now you can learn (not from Anandamayi, but from another amazing Bay Area artist: Reina Takahashi). No experience necessary, just come ready to play with paper. 〰️ 10am-4pm 〰️ Draw Together, Emeryville 〰️ $160 〰️ more info
• My Fair Lady 〰️ One time on a date, a man compared me to Eliza Doolittle, and I had no idea what he was talking about but I do not think it was meant as a compliment. I guess I should go to this film screening to find out. 〰️ 11am 〰️ Orinda Theatre, Orinda 〰️ $16 〰️ more info
• Guy Fieri's 10,000-Person Super Bowl Tailgate Party 〰️ The bleached-haired human avatar of the early-aughts will be hosting "the world's largest Super Bowl party" on gameday at the Cow Palace in Daly City. 'Nuff said. 〰️ 11:30am-3:30pm 〰️ Cow Palace, Daly City 〰️ Packages range from free to $50+ 〰️ more info
• Create Your Own Mushroom Ring 〰️ Pick your favorite mushroom species, learn what electroforming is, and create your own custom ring! Really cool. If you don’t have a favorite mushroom species, might I suggest Craterellus cornucopioides or Sparassis radicata? 〰️ 12-3:30pm (if you can’t make this one, there are future dates available) 〰️ Emeryville 〰️ $55 〰️ more info
• Traditional Sufi Qawwali Music with Nizami Qawwali 〰️ An immersive afternoon of traditional Sufi and classical music from the Indian subcontinent. "The program will unfold gradually, beginning with contemplative and devotional compositions and building toward more rhythmic and ecstatic Qawwali forms." This is the kind of music that makes your cells vibrate in a new way. 〰️ 2:30-4:30pm 〰️ The Alembic, Berkeley 〰️ $25+ 〰️ more info
• Play Bad Bunny 〰️ You don't have to give a single shit about the Super Bowl to enjoy some Bad Bunny. Come to El Rio for a halftime show viewing party y un BAILE INoLVIDABLE. 〰️ 3-8pm 〰️ El Rio, SF 〰️ more info
• Flavors of Irpinia with Chef Anita Di Pietro 〰️ If the way to your baby's heart is through pasta, prep for a special Valentine's Day surprise by learning how to make fresh pasta entirely by hand, "just as it’s done in villages across southern Italy using flour, water, and patience." Plus, learn all about recipes from Irpina, Italy (a mountainous region in the South — don't worry, I had to Google it too) and share a meal with your fellow culinary curiosos. 〰️ 4pm 〰️ 8pm 〰️ 18 Reasons 〰️ San Francisco 〰️ $205 〰️ more info
• Cultural Food Traditions Project dinner with Chef Nikki Garcia of ASÚKAR featuring Palestine 〰️ Anybody who ever says that "food isn't political" should be immediately ignored because they have no idea what the fuck they're talking about. Join folks who know that food is essential to conversations about justice and our collective future, with a particular focus on the ongoing genocide in Palestine. Chef Nikki will share her Palestinian heritage through a multi course meal, ranging from mezze to maqluba to baklawa." 〰️ 5-8pm 〰️ Lakeside Park Garden Center, Oakland 〰️ $85+ 〰️ more info
• Dr. Kiyasu's Snare Drum Experience 〰️ Forget the 808, it's time to appreciate the snare drum. Ryosuke Kiyasu (described as "avant-garde royalty" in several places) is visiting the East Bay and his shows are... well they're hard to describe. Often he kind of attacks a table? Every performance is memorable, I will promise you that. 〰️ 7-9pm 〰️ Wyldflowr Arts, Oakland 〰️ $12+ 〰️ more info

• Oakland Small Biz Townhall + Arms Embargo 〰️ Learn more about the Oakland Arms Embargo campaign and how small businesses and coops can support the organizing to stop arms from leaving our town to fuel the genocide of Palestinians. 〰️ 6-8pm 〰️ Understory, Oakland 〰️ FREE 〰️ more info

• A Ballerina's Tale screening 〰️ When Misty Copeland became a principal dancer with the American Ballet Theatre in 2015, she was the first Black woman to ever fill that role. Copeland's journey to the top of ballet was not easy, and this film shows not only how she worked her way there, but also explores the extreme absence of women of color at major ballet companies, and how ballet's twisted ideas about bodies impacts ballerinas and fans. 〰️ 4-5:30pm 〰️ Civic Center Library, San Rafael 〰️ FREE 〰️ more info
• Lunar New Year Celebration: Lion Dance & Martial Arts 〰️ Yee's Martial Arts has been operating in the Bay Area since 1962, and they're leading this Lion Dance & Martial Arts demonstration to get you ready for Lunar New Year. 〰️ 6:30pm 〰️ 7:30pm 〰️ Hercules Library 〰️ FREE 〰️ more info
• Queer Chess Night 〰️ Come capture some kings and queens both literally and figuratively at this free event. No chess experience required, so if you're chess-curious you're welcome to come — or if you're an expert with some sick tactics to share, bring those too. 〰️ 6-9pm 〰️ Mother, SF 〰️ more info
• Sea Zombies 〰️ Sometimes I like to take a break from worrying about the immediate threats of fascism and terror and worry about the longer term threat of climate change (I know they're connected, don't @ me). In this talk, Dr. Daniel Okamoto will give you new nightmares about the ways in which climate change is turning sea urchins into zombies. 〰️ 7pm 〰️ HopMonk Tavern, Novato 〰️ FREE 〰️ more info

• Polina Chesnakova Author Talk 〰️ Polina Chesnakova, author of the blog (and newsletter, because now nothing can just be a blog) Chesnok, finally has a cookbook coming out! Chesnok: Cooking from My Corner of the Diaspora Recipes from Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia is full of "essays, stories, and profiles of the amazing cooks in Polina's life are peppered amongst recipes as diverse as the communities from which they blossomed and the immigrant experience they were subsequently passed down in." 〰️ 6:30pm 〰️ Omnivore Books, SF 〰️ FREE 〰️ more info
• Paint-and-Chat with Maggie Tokuda-Hall 〰️ It's no secret that we are fans of Maggie Tokuda-Hall's pigeons here at COYOTE. Now you, too, can experience the joy of painting a little pigeon with a jaunty hat on. 〰️ 6pm 〰️ Local Economy, Oakland 〰️ $10 donation 〰️ more info
• A Vita and Virginia Valentine's Party 〰️ Tumblr sapphics assemble! A night of letter reading (featuring famous bangers like "I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia") and discussion of friendship, romance, and creativity. Plus, a floral workshop for your own literary love affair. 〰️ 6-9pm 〰️ Womb House Books, Oakland 〰️ $10 donation 〰️ more info
• Model screening 〰️ Long before "America's Next Top Model," there was Model: an inside look at a New York fashion modeling agency and the glamorous but also tedious, terrible, and sometimes gross things that the men and women who worked there had to do. 〰️ 7pm 〰️ BAMPFA, Berkeley 〰️ $18 〰️ 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!