Explore Our New Community Calendar!

We invite you, our community, to have fun and do good with us at one of our upcoming Community Events! Now, addition to Community Open Shop, you can plan to come on bike rides, garden-to-table days, Aquatic Park clean up days, open lagoon boating days and MORE with Waterside Workshops.

Explore upcoming events – from our annual Land and Sea Party to community bike rides and local excursions – on our brand-new Community Calendar!

Sunday, August 31

Bike Ride to Alameda

11:30 AM – 5 PM
Depart from Waterside

Rain Date: Sunday, September 14

Saturday, September 13

Land and Sea Party

5-9 PM
Live Oak Community Center
1301 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley

Join us for our annual fundraising party at Berkeley’s Live Oak Community Center in support of Waterside’s growing program offerings for youth in our community. An awesome team of Chez Panisse alumni chefs will be back to prepare a fantastic feast. We’ll also have family-friendly activities, an auction, prizes, and of course—dessert.

Purchase your tickets today!

Sunday, October 5

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival

Depart at 10:30 AM
Golden Gate Park, San Francisco

Join the Waterside Workshops team at the free Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park! We’ll depart from Waterside at 10:30am.

Sunday, October 12

Sharktober Fest!

1-4 PM
Berkeley Aquatic Park

Join our Aquatic Park Stewards team testing water quality, cleaning up marine debris and helping maintain the lagoon and park. Meet our Friends of Aquatic Park partners and help collect data on this ongoing research and community science project.