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• Avenue Adventure Immersive Entertainment Game

  • Start
    06/07/2019
  • End
    06/20/2019
  • Location
    Solano Avenue and Albany

  Beginning June 7, 2019, Solano Avenue and the surrounding area will host a new reality. If you are inquisitive and attuned to your environment, you will uncover a call to adventure. Answering the call will spark a series of events, interactions, and quests across the physical and digital landscapes that are unlike anything else in the East Bay.

  This is your story. YOU are the protagonist.

  The Chamber is excited to support this new type of game. The game is free, and free enrollment runs from June 6 through June 20th. The game then continues.

  Free signup online: AvenueAdventure.com

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• Belmont Village Longest Day Family Carnival

  • When
    06/21/2019
  •  
    11:00 AM - 5:00 PM
  • Location
    Belmont Village, 1100 San Pablo Avenue, Albany

  Come one, come all to help support a great cause. Join us for fun, games and treats as we host our Family Carnival on the longest day of the year! Your admission includes refreshments and carnival fare. For a suggested donation of $5, you will also have the opportunity to plant a pinwheel flower in our memory garden to honor a loved one affected by memory loss. All proceeds benefit the Alzheimer's Association.
  

  Admission fee: $20 for adults, $10 for children under 12 years.

  Carnival fare will be served.
  RSVP to Community Relations at 510-525-4554

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• Bike About Town

  • When
    06/21/2019
  •  
    6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
  • Location
    Bikes on Solano, 1554 Solano Avenue Albany, California 94706

  Pump up your tubes, grab your helmet and join us for a leisurely ride around Albany. Riders of all ages will meet at Bikes on Solano at 6:30 pm for a quick safety review and then head out for a ride. We will highlight some of the bike-friendly features available to the community and will emphasize bike road rules along the way. Stay for the raffle prizes and local discounts to Solano Avenue businesses. In case of inclement weather, check our Facebook page (facebook.com/albanyrec) for event status updates.
  

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• Friends of Albany Parks Clean-Up Day - Dartmouth Tot Lot

  • When
    06/22/2019
  •  
    9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    Dartmouth Tot Lot, Talbot & Dartmouth Albany, California 94706

  The Friends of Albany Parks program encourages community members to get involved with the care, maintenance and beautification of their favorite neighborhood park.

  The Clean-up (Beginning at 9am)

  Friends of Albany Parks members will meet for a Clean-Up Day at the Dartmouth Tot Lot. Each member who attends the Clean-Up Day will receive a coffee and bagel breakfast plus an official Friends of Albany Parks T-shirt. For more information contact Brennen Brown or visit www.albanyca.org/volunteer. 

  Community Discussion (Beginning at 11am)

  Once the clean-up is complete, we gather together for a community discussion geared toward developing ideas for further park improvement and getting residents consistently involved in the maintenance. The Community Discussion helps foster a better sense of community and build social capital as neighbors meet and work together.

  
  

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• Juneteenth Celebration

  • When
    06/22/2019
  •  
    6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
  • Location
    Albany Senior Center, 846 Masonic Avenue Albany, California 94706

  Join us for an informative discussion about H.R. 1242 which establishes the 400 Years of African-American History Commission to develop and carry out activities throughout the United States to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the involuntary arrival of Africans in the English colonies at Point Comfort, Virginia in 1619.

  Guest Speakers

  Howard Moore Jr.

  Civil Rights Attorney

  Robert Braugher

  Chief of Staff to Ronald Dellums

  Moderator

  Vorriece Cooper

  Parks, Recreation &
  Open Space Commissioner

  Juneteenth is the oldest celebration commemorating the ending of slavery in the United States. Though President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, declaring “all persons held as slaves” free, slavery continued in Texas. It wasn’t until June 19, 1865 that the last known slaves were emancipated, thus the ending of slavery is celebrated annually on this date.

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• @theCenter - Perception and Deception in the Age of Globalization with Joe Lurie

  • When
    06/28/2019
  •  
    7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
  • Location
    Albany Community Center, 1249 Marin Avenue Albany, California 94706

  Based on his recently released, expanded edition of the award-winning Perception and Deception: A Mind-Opening Journey Across Cultures, Joe Lurie, Executive Director Emeritus, UC Berkeley International House, will present a spirited and insightful exploration of cross-cultural miscommunications in an increasingly globalized, polarizing world. With YouTube, tweets, refugees and fake news rapidly crossing cultures without context, Lurie shares a timely, intriguing and consequential array of intercultural encounters gone wrong because of cultural misperceptions across the globe, in the worlds of migration, religion, language, commerce and technology. David Lennon, former managing editor of the Financial Times, called Lurie's book “brilliant!” According to Lennon, the book offers: “Terrific and timely insights and tools for understanding culture clashes in a hyper-connecting world.” Book signing at the conclusion of the presentation.   
  

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