Join us on Halloween Eve for a fun night with THUGZ (Tribal Hippie Underground Zone)! Enjoy your favorite Grateful Dead and Classic Americana tunes as we dance the night away. Cash prize for best costume! Doors at 6:30 PM. Tickets $20/$15 for members.
Don't miss this special Halloween performance of Sabbath Lives in Occidental.
Bring your instrument down to OCA for our Bluegrass Jam Session!
Led by multi-instrumentalist David Pascoe, our monthly jam session is held on the first Tuesday of each month. We’ll meet in the OCA studio and take turns leading/choosing songs. Guaranteed to be a great time for all! $5 donation requested of participants. BYOB.
Electric Tumbleweed is a psychedelic outlaw country group based in Sonoma County, California. Founded in 2019 by members rooted in bluegrass, country, and psychedelic rock, the music is a hard driving mixture of twangy guitar and psychedelic noise, held together by a steady rhythm section with the cry of pedal steel layered in between it all.
Don't miss this special evening where we’ll take a musical trip to Dublin with some of the Bay Area’s finest musicians and singers! Eamonn Flynn, Darcy Noonan, Hector Bragado and Felim Egan will dazzle us with their traditional and original "Dublinesque" harmonies. OCA favorites through and through, we're just delighted to bring back this spirited, talented group.
Please join us for a special groundbreaking book launch featuring Harmony Village’s own Dennis von Elgg, owner of The Redwood Needle Acupuncture Studio. This is a free event featuring selected readings by the author
Join us for our monthly literary open mic night! Bring an original story to share or come and listen to stories told by your community members.
We celebrate the seasons and their festivals through song and dance, bringing Old World rituals to new light and new generations to revel in the staying power of gratitude for life on Earth.
Occidental Center for the Arts Literary Series presents Autumn Muses, An Afternoon with poets, Marjorie Stein, Kathleen Winter, Claire Drucker and Todd Melicker. Join us for a relaxed Autumn afternoon of poetry from our four esteemed poet friends, with tea and cookies! This free event will include selected readings by each poet, with handpan interludes from Judith Lerner, followed by audience Q&A, book sales & signing.
Join us each month on the third Friday for a fun night of Karaoke! Come and sing or just enjoy the music and our community. Hosted by Jeffrey Seligson and Kevin Murphy.