Hot Ticket in The Town this week: Oaklash festival<\/p>\n
This year\u2019s queer culture festival will kick off on Thursday with a fundraiser dance party\u00a0 for the organization at Thee Stork Club and continue on Friday with a rave at a laundromat in East Oakland, where Euphemia and DJ Queer Mom will be spinning all night. The headline event is Saturday\u2019s block party in Old Oakland with two stages, 60 performers, seven DJs, 50 food and art vendors, and what organizers say will be \u201cthousands of queer and trans people living their fantasy.\u201d Plus, all the performances will be ASL interpreted. If you still have energy after the block party, there\u2019s an after party at CryBaby. To close out the festival, Oaklash will feature a sonic celebration of the Black diaspora on Sunday at the Night Heron. The organizers want the festival to be accessible to everyone, so no one will be turned away for lack of funds.\u00a0 Merritt College Spring Plant Sale<\/p>\n It is not too late to start a backyard or container garden, and the community college\u2019s horticulture department is here to help. Stop by the campus to pick up a variety of annual veggies, perennial flowers, herbs, native plants, indoor plants, ornamental plants, and succulents. The kiosk\u2019s hours vary every week; check out the department\u2019s Facebook page<\/a> for announcements. Oakland Greek Festival <\/p>\n You have three days to experience everything that Greek culture has to offer, from cooking demonstrations, to dance performances, cold beer, and a food hall featuring morsels like walnut and almond-filled baklava, honey-dipped melomakarona, crunchy koulourakia pastries, and hummus, warm pita bread, and dolmades from various food vendors . Malcolm X JazzArts Festival<\/p>\n The 26-year-old festival honoring the legacy of Malcolm X is once again taking over San Antonio Park in East Oakland for a free day of jazz music, poetry, dance, food and art vendors, and other activities for the whole family. Floetry Presents: \u2018Say Yes The Tour\u2019<\/p>\n Floetry, the duo of Marsha Ambrosius and Natalie \u201cThe Floacist\u201d Stewart are back on their first national run together since 2016. The tour concludes in Oakland for a night blending spoken word and soul, featuring singer-songwriters Raheem DeVaughn and Teedra Moses.\u00a0 Spotlight Sundays with People\u2019s Kitchen Collective and Emory Douglas<\/p>\n This event at the Oakland Museum will kick off with a documentary inspired by science fiction writer Octavia E. Butler\u2019s \u201cParable\u201d series, followed by a conversation with members of the People\u2019s Kitchen Collective<\/a>, an organization dedicated to the idea that \u201ccollectively cooking and sharing food is sanctified and celebrated community work in many cultures\u201d and Emory Douglas, the former minister of culture<\/a> and revolutionary artist for the Black Panther Party. Coming soon to The Town: Juju\u2019s Burlesque at Yoshi\u2019s<\/p>\n This burlesque show was written and directed by performer and Oakland native Jujuana Williams. According to Williams, the show is the city\u2019s first all-Black musical. The show premiered last fall at Yoshi\u2019s to a sold-out crowd and it is expected to sell out again. “*” indicates required fields<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oakland hosts a rich array of festivals where you can experience a wide variety of cultures and cuisines.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144,5499],"class_list":["post-314300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-this-week-in-oakland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314300","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=314300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Thursday, May 14, to Sunday, May 17, see website for times and locations, $22.50 to $112.50<\/a><\/p>\n
Open this week on Monday through Thursday, 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., 12500 Campus Dr.<\/p>\n
Friday, May 15, 4 to 10 p.m., Saturday, May 16, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m., and Sunday, May 17, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., $5 to $12<\/a>, Greek Orthodox Cathedral of the Ascension, 4700 Lincoln Ave.<\/p>\n
Saturday, May 16, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., free<\/a>, San Antonio Park, 1701 E. 19th St.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/a1b-8-1600x1067.jpg\")
Floetry duo, singer Marsha Ambrosius known as \u201cthe songtress\u201d (left), and spoken-word poet Natalie Stewart, known as \u201cthe floacist.\u201d Credit: courtesy of Jake Mulka<\/p>\n
Sunday, May 17, 6 p.m., $94.05 and up<\/a>, Paramount Theatre, 2025 Broadway<\/p>\n
Sunday, May 17, 1 p.m., $1 to $30 sliding scale<\/a>, Oakland Museum, 1000 Oak St.<\/p>\n
Wednesday, June 10, 7 p.m., $45 to $80<\/a>, Yoshi\u2019s, 510 Embarcadero West<\/p>\n