What we’re about
East Bay Adventures is a group of active, friendly folks interested in socializing with others over 40 at interesting and fun events mostly (but not exclusively) in the East Bay. From dinner to drinks, walking to biking, street fairs to concerts, chances are we're doing it! So join in the festivities, have a great time, and make new friends.
Suggest and Host Events
Have an idea for a good adventure? Contact the organizer with details about a possible event, and we'll see what we can do. Note that business propositions will be ignored.
Members who are outgoing, organized, and punctual are encouraged to host events. Being an event host is an easy, fun responsibility that allows you to reach out and find others who share your interests.
It is recommended that events are limited to 12 or fewer people so people have a chance to talk and get to know one another.
Attendance Policy
Meetup is all about meeting and interacting with people in person or live on zoom. Please RSVP to events ONLY if you plan on attending.
Did your attendance plans change? Update your RSVP!
No shows and last-minute cancellations make hosting events more difficult, and they can be grounds for removal from the group.
Upcoming events (3)
See all- Bite to Eat and the Moth Story SlamFreight & Salvage, Berkeley, CA
Join us for a bite to eat and chat at the food truck outside the Freight and then let’s go inside for the Moth Story Slam.
If you don’t want a bite to eat, but just want to meetup with us for the Story Slam, that is fine too.
THE MOTH STORY SLAM - DIRT
Time: doors open at 6:00, show starts at 7:00
Location: Freight and Salvage, 2020 Addison St, Berkeley, CA 94704
Cost: $20.00 per ticket
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IMPORTANT: You should buy tickets ASAP after they go on sale at 6/11, if you intend to go. These shows have a tendency to sell out.There is a good chance, but no guarantee that if you arrive early you can still get in on standby.
-----------------------------------More about this show and purchasing tickets: The Moth StorySLAM - DIRT | The Freight
From the Freight and Salvage website:
The Moth StorySLAM is an open-mic storytelling competition in which anyone can share a true, personal, 5-minute story on the night's theme. Sign up for a chance to tell a story or sit back and enjoy the show!
Tonight’s theme is…
DIRT: Prepare a five-minute story about what lies beneath. Squalor, smut, muck and mire. Air out your dirty laundry and don't leave out the filthy details. Your time spent in flowerbeds, quicksand, or the pig pen. The spade sinking into gravelly ground. The muddy footprints on the pristine white carpet. X marks the spot. What will you unearth? Buried treasure, lurid gossip, or a big orange carrot. Talk dirty to us!
Doors Open: 6:00 PM
Show Starts: 7:00 PMIf you forget to buy a ticket and they sell out, you can try joining the line for standing room and potential free tickets. About 20 people got into one show this way. But there's no guarantee.
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------------------------------------------- - First Saturday Book Group: Mexican Gothic by Silva Moreno-GarciaMilyar Cafe, Berkeley, CA
On the first Saturday in July, we will discuss Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia.
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Info from Goodreads:Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia | Goodreads
After receiving a frantic letter from her newly-wed cousin begging for someone to save her from a mysterious doom, Noemí Taboada heads to High Place, a distant house in the Mexican countryside. She’s not sure what she will find—her cousin’s husband, a handsome Englishman, is a stranger, and Noemí knows little about the region.
Noemí is also an unlikely rescuer: She’s a glamorous debutante, and her chic gowns and perfect red lipstick are more suited for cocktail parties than amateur sleuthing. But she’s also tough and smart, with an indomitable will, and she is not afraid: Not of her cousin’s new husband, who is both menacing and alluring; not of his father, the ancient patriarch who seems to be fascinated by Noemí; and not even of the house itself, which begins to invade Noemi’s dreams with visions of blood and doom.
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- First Saturday Book Group: The Heaven & Earth Grocery StoreMilyar Cafe, Berkeley, CA
On the first Saturday in August, we will discuss The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride.
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Info from Goodreads:The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store on Goodreads
Chicken Hill was where Moshe and Chona Ludlow lived when Chona ran the Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, which served the neighborhood's quirky collection of blacks and European immigrants, helped by her husband, Moshe, a Romanian-born theater owner who integrated the town's first dance hall. When the state came looking for a deaf black child, claiming that the boy needed to be institutionalized, Chicken Hill's residents—roused by Chona's kindess and the courage of a local black worker named Nate Timblin—banded together to keep the boy safe.
As the novel unfolds, it becomes clear how much the people of Chicken Hill have to struggle to survive at the margins of white Christian America and how damaging bigotry, hypocrisy, and deceit can be to a community. When the truth is revealed about the skeleton, the boy, and the part the town’s establishment played in both, McBride shows that it is love and community—heaven and earth—that ultimately sustain us.
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