San Francisco Metro: Sun, Dec 6, 2026 · East Bay · 17 events · data version 20261109-183057
2:00 PM · Jang Journeys: The Music of Jon Jang · Wyldflowr Arts (Oakland) · live_music, jazz · rating 9
viewcy.com · details Jon Jang Album Release Party at Wyldflowr! Choose a $25 ticket if coming alone and you'll receive a copy of the album. Choose a $40 ticket if you're bringing a guest. You'll receive one copy of the album with your ticket.
4:00 PM · The Kelly Park Big Band · The Sound Room (Oakland) · live_music, jazz · rating 9
soundroom.org · details The Kelly Park Big Band was founded in 2014. The band is dedicated to the writing and performance of fresh original music and arrangements, it is designed to be a concert band, not a dance band. Although much of the music is composed and arranged by Kelly, he has created a platform that gives band members and local composers an opportunity to write for a big band with no constraints; an opportunity to be as free and creative as possible.
5:00 PM · Larry Vuckovich · Piedmont Piano Co (Oakland) · live_music, jazz · rating 8
piedmontpiano.com · details Pianist Larry Vuckovich celebrates his 90th birthday! He has worked, toured, and recorded with such greats as Red Norvo, Cab Calloway, Dexter Gordon, Milt Jackson, Jon Hendricks, Vince Guaraldi and many more. A versatile musician, Larry covers a wide range of styles, including Bebop, Afro-Cuban Latin jazz, blues and gospel, funky boogaloo, as well as sounds from the Balkans and Middle East. What has become tradition, he will be joined by Bay Area hottest jazz guitarist Kai Lyons.
1:00 PM · OMCA Architecture Walk and Talk · OMCA (Oakland) · Free · art, workshop · rating 7
museumca.org · details Spotlight Sundays: Alice Street Screening with Malonga Arts Dance and Drums
Walk through OMCA’s landmark building and gardens with members of the Council on Architecture, and learn about the history, design, and evolution of this award-winning structure with guides who are passionate about OMCA and Oakland.
No reservations or tickets are required. Walk and Talk begins near the Mid Level ticketing desk and lasts approximately one hour.
2:00 PM · London · Shapeshifters (Oakland) · Admission: $15 · experimental, live_music · rating 7
buytickets.at · details Bobby drives back and forth on the highway that links Vienna and Salzburg to visit his friend who is in a coma. He picks up other travellers to save money on petrol including the soldier questioning what it means to fight, the supermarket trainee heading to see family, the academic looking at the history of the highway, the queer woman about to get married—different paths, different accents, different stories, most of them true.
2:00 PM · Sing Jam & Irish Session · The Starry Plough (Berkeley) · $15 ADV | $20 ATD · live_music, folk, community · rating 7
thestarryplough.com · details Sing Jam 2-4 PM ($15 ADV | $20 ATD), Irish Session guest leader/advanced session 5:30 PM
7:30 PM · Doors Only in That Open Silence · Temescal Arts Center (Temescal) · Donations at the door are welcomed · experimental, workshop · rating 7
temescalartcenter.org · details Open participation free improvisation non-hierarchical workshop. Bring your instrument or come to listen.
time TBA · A TRIBUTE TO DUKE ELLINGTON · Piedmont CFTA (Piedmont) · Tickets: https://www.ticketsignup.io/DukeE · live_music, jazz · rating 7
ticketsignup.io · details A TRIBUTE TO DUKE ELLINGTON
“IN THE TRADITION” JAZZ & POP PIANO TRIO
Tickets: https://www.ticketsignup.io/DukeE
time TBA · BACH MASTERPIECES with projected art masterpieces · Piedmont CFTA (Piedmont) · Tickets: https://www.ticketsignup.io/triosol · live_music, classical, art · rating 7
ticketsignup.io · details BACH MASTERPIECES with projected art masterpieces
TRIO SOLANO, PRESENTED BY THE BOW & THE BRUSH
Tickets: https://www.ticketsignup.io/triosol
time TBA · Dr. Alexei Filippenko: James Webb Telescope · Piedmont CFTA (Piedmont) · Tickets: https://www.ticketsignup.io/space · workshop · rating 7
ticketsignup.io · details “Exciting Results: NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope”
ILLUSTRATED LECTURE by DR. ALEXEI FILIPPENKO
Tickets: https://www.ticketsignup.io/space
2:00 PM · Exhibition Tour: Some Particular Heaven · Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley) · art, workshop · rating 6
bampfa.org · details Graduate students from the Departments of History of Art and Film & Media Studies offer exhibition tours on select Wednesdays at 12:15 PM and Sundays at 2 PM.
2:30 PM · The Last Temptation of Christ · Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley) · film · rating 6
bampfa.org · details A literal Passion project, Martin Scorsese developed and sought funding for this intimate adaptation of Nikos Kazantzakis’s controversial novel over fifteen years. With quiet, grinning joy and grimacing anguish, Willem Dafoe plays an all-too-human Jesus Christ, touched by divinity. Harvey Keitel portrays a streetwise, Brooklyn-accented Judas, feeding Christ’s already palpable uncertainty about his station in life (and death) and challenging his indecisions: “Every day you have a different plan.”
6:30 PM · The Way Home · Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley) · film · rating 6
bampfa.org · details The way home for Aleksandr Rekhviashvili is not charted in the conventional sense. It takes the viewer along some peculiar roads and across a unique landscape: Georgian history and legend, politics and social stratification, religion and ethics. Allusive, stylized, and allegorical from beginning to end, The Way Home (completed in 1981, released in 1987) is in part a tribute to Rekhviashvili’s favorite director, Pier Paolo Pasolini, especially to The Hawks and the Sparrows .
time TBA · COVENANT · Berkeley Rep (Berkeley) · theater · rating 0 · no longer listed berkeleyrep.org · details York Walker's gripping Southern Gothic thriller centers on a struggling blues guitarist who mysteriously returns to his small Georgia hometown as an overnight sensation. As rumors swirl that his sudden talent came from a deal with the devil, family secrets and community superstitions threaten to tear the town apart.