Friday, May 8, 2026
3:00 PM – 5:00 PM
81st Ave. Library Branch
1021 81st Avenue
Oakland California 94621
It’s always time for chocolate! Join us for a live presentation on Oaxacan chocolate with Rufi & Connie, mom and daughter duo with their small business Rufi’s Cacao. Come learn about the Oaxacan chocolate tradition and hear how Rufi nourishes their communities with chocolate, culture, and love.
¡Siempre es hora de chocolate! Únanse a nosotros para una presentación en vivo sobre el chocolate oaxaqueño con Rufi y Connie, madre e hija con su pequeño negocio Rufi’s Cacao. Venga a aprender sobre la tradición del chocolate oaxaqueño y escuchen cómo Rufi nutre a sus comunidades con chocolate, cultura y amor.
Tuesday, May 12, 2026
5:00P – 7:00P
Dimond Library Branch
3565 Fruitvale Avenue
Oakland California 94602
Join us for a live fermentation workshop with Chef Alia of Turnip That Beet. With over two decades of culinary experience, Chef Alia is passionate about creating small, locally sourced, seasonal, and organic meals as a healing medium for themselves and their community.
This program is in partnership with Oakland Bloom. Oakland Bloom’s mission is to advance economic equity in the food industry. It aims to support poor and working-class refugee, immigrant, and BIPOC chefs to launch their own food businesses, and to reenvision and reshape what a healthy and just food service industry could look like. It pursues these aims by enabling pathways for individual & collective ownership and neighborhood resilience with working class migrant/BIPOC chefs and communities.