Friday, July 29, Saturday, July 30
City Swim Meet — In person, all day; Encinal Swim Center (230 Central Ave.)

Rhythmix Cultural Works is celebrating its 15th anniversary and sending long-time Executive Director Tina “Bean” Blaine off with a bang next Saturday, July 30th, with the Pour Your HeART Out dance party and fundraiser. The event will support RCW’s youth arts education programs.

The show in the backroom of the Frank Bette Center of the Arts could be prefaced by ‘visual bouquet, vistas and vignettes of poetic tranquility, inherent beauty in the everyday.’

On Friday, July 15, the Tomorrow Youth Repertory (TYR) held its opening night of Heathers The Musical at The Academy of Alameda Auditorium. Five students from Encinal High School (EHS), two actors and three on tech crew, participated in the show.

Bay Farm Island recently received a beautification upgrade from a sculpture named the Tidal Arch. The art piece, made of concrete and steel, is 70 feet long and 15 feet high.

The Alameda Unified School District (AUSD) LGBTQ+ Roundtable announced the winners of the annual Everyone Belongs Here Poster and Poetry Contest on May 30.

Friday, Jun. 10

June 2 & 14
Lawyers in the Library, 5:00 p.m. Phone Appointments with previous registration. Adults. Contact reference desk; refdesk@alamedaca.gov or call 510-747-7713.

On May 20-22 at Alameda Point, about 2,100 people experienced the talents of Uprooted, the third in the “Island City Waterways” series of free public cultural productions by Alameda’s Rhythmix Cultural Works.

The nationally acclaimed theatrical production company, We Players, will premiere its newest play, The Keeper, Friday, May 27 at Alameda Point in the courtyard of Building 16 at the corner of West Essex Drive and Saratoga Street.