The Annual Alameda Library Peeps Diorama contest is back! For this annual contest, participants design and construct a diorama featuring Peeps marshmallows as the characters.

"You're muted," she says
and I look at the Zoom screen
and, sure enough, I am muted
and as the stormy frown takes over my face
I demand to know, "Who muted me?!!"
I mean, there I was, speaking,
sharing my pearls of wisdom,

The Alameda High School (AHS) Drama Club will be performing renditions of the Tony Award winning musical The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee at the Fred Chacon Little Theater this month.

The City of Alameda has launched a website that details where public art pieces are located throughout the city.

Aria Rose was born a princess in twenty-fourteen
A beautiful dark-haired baby with a smile
The prettiest baby Princess you have ever seen
There, then and now for a country mile

A new batch of artwork from students as part of the Art Across the Island program is on display at different city locations.

Live events continue this winter at Rhythmix, and community favorite Pete Elman returns with a new music history course followed almost immediately by CHELLE! & Friends’ Mardi Gras party! Elman brings eight weeks of music history magic to the Rhythmix theater from February through April.

The City of Alameda will soon be launching a public art website to publicize the artworks of Alameda artists.

On December 9-10, the Encinal Drama Department put on its anticipated production of The Wolves, a play following a girls soccer team through a single season, and the various successes and hardships they experience along the way.

Friday, Dec. 9
AHS Winter Concert — In person, 6:30 p.m.; AHS Kofman Auditorium (2200 Central Ave.)
All ages. The annual winter concert will feature Jazz Band, guitar ensemble, concert band, string orchestra and symphonic band. $10 donation ($5 students) are appreciated.