{"id":308375,"date":"2026-05-10T01:31:37","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T01:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/308375\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T01:31:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T01:31:37","slug":"oaklands-first-fridays-festival-could-end-after-sponsors-pull-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/308375\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland&#8217;s First Fridays festival could end after sponsors pull support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oakland&#8217;s First Fridays street festival is at risk of ending after several sponsors pulled their support, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kron4.com\/news\/bay-area\/sponsors-withdrawing-support-for-oakland-first-fridays\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">multiple<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/news\/survival-oakland-first-fridays-is-under-threat-after-some-sponsors-pull-out\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The event, which started in 2013, has been marred by violence and negative publicity recently, even though the incidents occurred outside the festival area and hours.<\/p>\n<p>In March, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/news\/bayarea\/article\/oakland-police-identify-2-killed-in-mass-21997023.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">two people were killed<\/a> and five others were injured in a shooting at the\u00a0EZ&#8217;s Lounge in downtown Oakland on 14th Street hours after the First Fridays festival ended.<\/p>\n<p>Last Saturday, seven people, including one juvenile, were hurt after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/bayarea\/article\/seven-pedestrians-injured-oakland-22238425.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">car plowed into a crowd<\/a> in the 500 block of 18th Street about 1:30 a.m., also hours after the event&#8217;s 9:30 p.m. closing time.<\/p>\n<p>Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee told KRON, \u201cI want to be clear: These incidents occurred later in the evening, after the Oakland First Fridays events had officially concluded. We will continue to work with stakeholders to make the necessary strategic decisions to determine a path forward.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oakland&#8217;s First Fridays street festival is at risk of ending after several sponsors pulled their support, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308376,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144,923,1692],"class_list":["post-308375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-sfgculture","tag-sfgnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}