Join us on the 1st Friday of every month. We'll learn simple dances from around the world (Turkey, Serbia, Russia, Israel, Scotland, etc) hear beautiful music, eat tasty snacks,& enjoy company of dancing friends of all ages. No prior dance experience necessary. Comfortable clothes, festive or casual. Live Oak Park, 1301 Shattuck St. Berkeley, CA 7:00pm-8:15p.m. For more information contact Mel Mann 510 527 2177 or meldancing@aol.com

Hoop dance is all about fun, fitness, and connecting with others. Get your hoop on every Monday night, make new friends, and be part of the East Bay hoop community. Whether you’re an experienced hooper looking to practice (and share) new moves, or a beginning hooper wanting a little help with the basics, this event is for you. You don’t need any experience, or even a hoop to join us! We provide special, non-marking hoops for use inside the yoga studio, and music to get you moving. Hoops also ava …

This is a group for amateurs, professionals, or brand-new belly dancers in the East Bay Area. All skill levels, class postings, questions, discussion and performance postings definitely welcome! Let's get together and help each other delve in deeper to our belly dance journeys as a community. Looking forward to shimmying with everyone!

A dance group for lesbians (and those who love them) who dance or want to learn to dance to Latin music -- Salsa, Rhumba, Cha Cha, Merengue and more!!!!!!!!!!!

Founded in 2011, our group now has over 150 members, and this is SOME of what they do: making collaborative sculpture, making music, crafting, making video and film, making art in the environment, dancing, contact improvisation dancing, creating dances, being a bodyworker, creating collages, creating 3D illustration, writing plays, writing poetry, writing screenplays, cooking, making ceramics, , knitting , painting, drawing, tinkering, being silly, playing, making music, making rhythm, drumming, …

Dance for Healing, Dance for Joy is a meet up group for passionate, creative, heartfelt women practicing Nia Technique movement in the East Bay. Never heart of Nia?? Nia draws from DANCE, MARTIAL ARTS, and healing arts like YOGA to create safe, enjoyable movement that engages your body, mind and spirit. Done BAREFOOT to diverse and inspiring music, Nia is a transformational movement practice. Still don't get it? Well if "Dance for Healing, Dance for Joy" sounds good to you, come give it a try. N …

If you like live music, like to dance and have food to boot, then this is the meetup for you. We will meet monthly in the Albany/Berkeley Area. To sum it up, it's all about the music, food, meeting new people and having a good time.

Feeling Arranging is a primitive form of Shamanism, which is nature based and very ancient. It’s about finding our original self through arranging our feelings. This group is for the adventurous and the fearless. Feeling Arranging is uniquely different from the shamanism and healing methods we know such as journeying, soul retrieval and meditation. We use darkness as a positive force to heal ourselves and to connect with our ancestors and nature. Like a seed needs a dark place to incubate before …

Meeting other fabulous and fun girlfriends to hang out with! New in town, make new friends. Happy Oakland/East Bay girlfriends, women's social. Girls just wanna have fun. Join our circle of genuine 20s and 30s females, and let's have a good time! We are fun loving girlfriends. We have big hearts filled with passion and love! We are ladies who enjoy cocktails, girls night out, dancing, music, happy hour, and having fun in life! We are professional women with substance Who are willing to make a di …

Meeting other fabulous and fun girlfriends to hang out with! New in town, make new friends. Happy Berkeley/East Bay girlfriends, women's social. Girls just wanna have fun. Join our circle of genuine 20s and 30s females, and let's have a good time! We are fun loving girlfriends. We have big hearts filled with passion and love! We are ladies who enjoy cocktails, girls night out, dancing, music, happy hour, and having fun in life! We are professional women with substance Who are willing to make a d …

About Electro-Bhakti Sangha We get together to dance to electro-bhakti beats, kirtronica, bhangra, devotional, and other positive music to uplift mind/body/soul. Bhakti is all about expanding the heart and consciousness, to become one with universal, unconditional loving-kindness. Etiquette Please arrive on time. The music at the start of our dance is purposefully selected to help get you into the right groove. Begin by tuning-in with yourself and your body first. Stretch, dance to the medit …

Oakland Zumba is ZUMBA with an Oakland flair - like usual ZUMBA classes, it combines high energy and motivating music with unique moves and combinations that are based on the principle that a workout should be "FUN AND EASY TO DO". In other words, no experience required. The routines feature a combination of fast and slow rhythms that tone and sculpt the body. ZUMBA fuses the principles of interval training with easy to follow dance steps to maximize caloric output and fat burning. It is a mixtu …

Like you, I'm a parent who is always on the look out for fun, healthy and empowering social activities that allow the whole family to participate. Kinderfolkz works with theaters, museums, galleries, festivals, concert venues and more to identify free and low-cost high quality events for us to create playdates within. For example, we've partnered with The New Parkway Theater in Oakland, CA to present a quarterly family film festival and dance celebration honoring children's educational media: Se …

Zumba, Zumba, Zumba. What is this Zumba and what's the big craze? Zumba Fitness is the latin-inspired, international music, cardio-dance fitness workout. It's fun. It's easy. It allows you to DITCH the Traditional Workout and just enjoy yourself...join the party while toning and strengthening your body. Plus your exposed to various flares of latin and ethnic music and dance. Why should you choose to learn Zumba Fitness with instructor Nadine? Well.. Nadine's a licensed Zumba instructor whose cla …

This group is for everyone in the San Francisco Bay Area interested in Brazilian Samba dance, Brazilian music, Brazilian culture and all classes and events related to that. This is the network bringing the Brazilian and American dance and music communities together for one common purpose - to enjoy Brazilian dance, music and culture! Let's share the joy (alegria) and passion of Samba with each other and our communities. People who should join this meetup are those interested in: Samba, Dance, Br …

We (Mireya and Rosy) are artists and creative arts therapists living in the Bay Area. What began as a longing to create a freeing arts practice for ourselves became a deep desire to provide an authentically enlivening experience for others. For over a year, we explored the questions, "What kind of conditions would just naturally, organically nurture the creative process in people? And, what kind of structure and container could safely hold and guide a diversity of experiences?" Once we found ans …

Are you interested in Morris dancing? Have you ever heard of Morris dancing? "Morris" is a general term used to label several distinct forms of seasonal folk dance: the springtime dance of the Cotswold with its intricate foot and handwork (that's what we tend to do), the raucous winter stick dances of the Welsh Borderlands, longsword dances with Germanic origins, and the antics of the cross-dressing Molly dancers from East Anglia.  Shakespeare was making fun of Morris dancing before it was the t …

Join us on yoga inspired adventures leaving from the San Francisco Area. Our group is for anyone craving to get out of the city into nature with the goal of inviting more sweetness into every day. We've created and found the best day trips, urban adventures and international retreats, all inspired by yoga, dance, nature and all those things that invite us to move with more grace. You're invited! No matter what brings you, the yoga, the hot springs, the food, the nature, the people. You're invite …

An expressive arts group that combines dance movement with collage making. The movement is used to free up the mind so that the creative impulse is not encumbered by the mental process. This has been proven to assist creativity. Collage Experience is for EVERYONE. Whether you consider yourself an artist, writer, or are someone not so comfortable with creative expression, this approach is friendly, fun, noncompetitive, and is designed to stimulate creativity from a deeper source.

Do you live in Oakland and realize how baddass it is but yet have very few people to enjoy that with? ME TOO! I'm looking for people in the Oakland area primarily in their late 20's to late 30's, to go out eat, hike, dance, drink, sing, skip and party with! Whether it be the farmer's market on Grand on Saturday mornings, or the art walk on Friday evenings, or Van Kleef's amazing grapefruit goodness, let's get out and explore Oakland! I, myself, am very new to this amazing cultural mecca and coul …

East Bay Black Professionals is a diverse and dynamic group of professional people living in the East Bay but we welcome black professionals from all over the Bay Area. Join us! It’s is a great way to network with professionals in a social setting. We'll do everything from rock climbing and concerts to seminars and casual networking. We hold social networking events such as dinners, dancing, lounges, bowling, outdoor events, wine trips, and much more! We are professionals and we understand the v …

East Bay LGBTQQ Fun Group rocks! We're all about making amazing friends, doing awesome, queer-centric stuff in the Bay Area, exploring and having fun! Come one, come all, if you're a member, friend or ally of the LGBTQQ community! Our mission is to find queer-friendly stuff to do that's relatively close to public transit. Ideas include, but are not limited to, restaurants, festivals, music shows, comedy, volunteering, museums, hiking/camping/backpacking, dance parties, clubs, sports, game nights …

Work hard during the week. Play even harder during the weekend! Bay Area Weekenders will explore all that this amazing area has to offer with a group of really fun and friendly people. Your favorite musician is coming to town...let's go! Hiking anyone? Want to visit the new bar, restaurant and lounge in the neighborhood... let's do it! Here is a sample of the kinds of events to expect in Bay Area Weekends: Cocktail Parties and Mixers Concerts and Other Music Events Competitive Events for Grou …

A place to share and find out about concerts, find people to go to shows with, and share your love of great live music from all the world's traditions. This is a member-led meetup, no more mine than yours. Anyone who wants to organize a world music meetup is welcome to do so. Just email me to let me know you want to organize one, and I'll give you the keys to the castle. I love acoustic music from Africa and India, plus contemporary jazz and roots music built on those foundations. What music of …

We are a social and arts community of Asian Pacific Islander queer women and transfolks in the South Bay. We come together as Lesbian, Bi/Multi, Queer women, Trans & Gender Non-Conforming folks of Asian Pacific Islander ethnicities and have FUN. We go hiking, watch movies, have potlucks, go out to eat, go dancing, paddling/kayaking, visit museums, etc. If you are of mixed/West/South/East/Southeast Asian and/or Pacific Islander heritage AND are Trans/Queer woman/Lesbian, come up to one of our mee …

I am looking for East Bay singles over 50 who would like to get together to expand their social network, and are interested in engaging in various types of activities such as dining, concerts (especially jazz, classical, folk, soul, reggae, rhythm and blues), dance performances, exploring San Francisco, political forums with intelligent and articulate leftist-oriented thinkers, flea markets, beading, sightseeing and day trips in and around the SF area. The group is open to all singles, especial …

The purpose this group is for all of us singles who are also progressive to find kindred spirits. “Progressives” spans the whole spectrum of the left and many topics – so whether you’re interested in the environment, sustainable energy, peace and social justice, international or local community issues, or animal rights, this can be a home for you. Sometimes we will gather at events (e.g., lectures, movies), participate in an activity, or sometimes just kick back and schmooze or dance - but we ca …

Welcome to ABE. The Albany/Berkeley/Emeryville Happy Hour Group. There's allot of great bars with great bargain happy hours in the area. Little gems to be collected. So let's get together and meet at some of these great neighborhood bars. We'll do the research and scout the locations. If anyone has ideas...let'em fly.