Events & Activities

Adrian first appeared on the guitar-world radar when he toured with Frank Zappa who later said, "Adrian reinvented electric guitar." Adrian's signature tones, unique use of effects and whammy bar remains completely different, and his techniques continue to be a huge influence on today's guitarists. He was guitarist, songwriter and frontman Progressive Rock Powerhouse King Crimson for over 30 years. "Discipline," Adrian's first record with King Crimson, is listed among the most important rock records ever made.

Adrian describes the show as, "a more complete picture of most things I've done. More songs, new songs from the award-winning FLUX app, King Crimson material I haven't played for years, and a dose of classic Power Trio. It's my intention to make this the best Adrian Belew show ever!

Take a journey through the animal kingdom as the wild creatures of the world find sanctuary in Kennedy Gallery during the month of September. Come visit on Second Saturday with real life animals searching for their furever homes courtesy of the Sacramento SPCA.

This exhibit features works from over 20 resident artists and three floors of open studios in the heart of Midtown’s entertainment district. Second Saturday will feature a full-service no-host bar.

In September, Viewpoint Photographic Art Center hosts two exhibits. In the main gallery, "Déjà Vu as Never Before Seen" exhibits the work of Hal Wilson who utilizes the millions of photographs available online through the Library of Congress to create a new composition.

In the Step Up Gallery, "Collected Memories" is the work of Cecilia Clark who has photographed her travels while living in Republic of Georgia, Egypt, Tajikistan, Macedonia, Ukraine, Moldova, Serbia, Kyrgyzstan, and a short return to North Macedonia.

The Midtown Association and Yoga Moves Us are pleased to offer a one hour free yoga class each Tuesday and Thursday evening, April through September on the north lawn of Fremont Park. Rotating Yoga professionals will guide you through an hour long class where you can build your yoga skills.

Midtown’s yoga classes are free and open to guests of all ages and ability levels. Attendees are encouraged to bring yoga mats, water bottles and a friend or two if they choose.

In his seven one-man shows that have graced the B Street Theatre stage, Jack Gallagher has explored his childhood home, fatherhood, concussions from bicycling, and his fleeting dream-come-true moment of a network sitcom. His shows are widely known and critically praised for their personal, yet comedic examination of his life. But, Jack has never delved into the career that gave him the chops to deliver these one-man shows: stand-up comedy. Until now!

A Stand-Up Guy is Jack (with writing help from son Declan Gallagher) telling his entertainment origin story, from open mics at The Improv in Los Angeles to his first Late Night with Johnny Carson appearance. In the 1980s The Improv was a club that made careers. Gallagher would be vying for stage time with future greats like Jay Leno, Dennis Miller, Dana Carvey, Kevin Nealon, Adam Sandler, and occasionally Jerry Seinfeld. David Letterman once drew the analogy that if you got The Tonight Show it meant you could hit the curveball. It took him five auditions, but Gallagher’s big break came in November of 1985 when Carson announced his name.

Ex-cop and recent widower Walter “Pops” Washington and his newly paroled son Junior have spent a lifetime living between Riverside Drive and crazy. But now, the NYPD is demanding his signature to close an outstanding lawsuit, the landlord wants him out, the liquor store is closed -- and the church won’t leave him alone. When the struggle to keep one of New York City’s last great rent-stabilized apartments collides with old wounds, sketchy new houseguests, and a final ultimatum, it seems that the old days may be dead and gone.

This event will also feature CapChats, which expand on your theatre-going experience with stimulating conversations with Capital Stage staff and the production’s artists. This free event is offered after select performances of each production.

The Midtown Association is partnering with Humani Pilates Studio to offer free Pilates classes to the public on the 3rd Wednesday of the month on the north lawn of Fremont Park. The classes will feature an instructor who will guide a class through various Pilates movements. This event is open to members of the community of all skill and experience levels.

The Sacramento Film and Music Festival is proud to present their opening night Feature Around the Sun by Oliver Krimpas and writer Jonathan Kiefer.

Bernard, a film location scout, tours a repossessed and crumbling French chateau. Over the course of the afternoon, he slowly falls for both the place and its owner’s flirtatious representative, Maggie, who recounts the story of an influential popular-science book written and set there. But is their present-tense connection for real, or just a projection of the book’s 17th-century characters?

There will be festival introductions and a Q & A with individuals from the production.

A legendary trumpet player, Alpert's extraordinary musicianship has earned him five #1 hits, nine GRAMMY® Awards, the latest from his 2014 album, Steppin' Out, fifteen Gold albums, fourteen Platinum albums and has sold over 72 million records. In 1966, they achieved the since-unmatched feat of simultaneously having four albums in the Top 10 -- and five in the Top 20. Herb Alpert also has the distinction of being the only artist who has had a #1 instrumental and vocal single.

Some of Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass' fourteen Top 40 singles include: "The Lonely Bull," "Mexican Shuffle," "Spanish Flea" and the GRAMMY®-winners "A Taste Of Honey" and "What Now My Love," and the #1 hits "This Guy's In Love With You" and "Rise." Shout! Factory recently released deluxe re-masters of the entire TJB catalogue plus Lost Treasures, a compilation of vintage rarities, and Rewhipped, featuring hot remixes of every track from Whipped Cream & Other Delights. In all, Alpert has recorded over thirty albums and produced for many other artists, including Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66, Stan Getz, Michel Colombier, Gato Barbieri, and Alpert's wife, GRAMMY winning vocalist Lani Hall, to name a few.

Friends of Sutter’s Fort and the Sacramento Pioneer Association invite you to experience the extraordinary musical talents of the New World Strings Project within the walls of one of Sacramento’s oldest settings. These four highly skilled and well-known multi-instrumentalists -- two veteran duo acts -- recently joined forces to create an exciting weave of traditional world music blending Celtic, Nordic, and American roots.

Hear the ancient and modern sounds of the nyckelharpa, harp, fiddle, guitar, cittern, bouzouki, and other instruments mingle freely with singing from Stuart Mason as he shares his unique arrangements of ballads as old as the hills where he was born.

Two Blind Bitches follows charming inmates Peach and Roller Baby on a thrilling ride of unexpected twists that will make you laugh, cry, and grip your seat with anticipation. This show checks all the boxes for a gritty night of damn good theatre. Plus, it's a brand new show written by local Sacramento playwright Leah Finity.

Thistle Dew Theater highly recommends you dive into this show with a blank slate, knowing nothing about what's ahead! If you're strong enough to resist, skip the summary and come to the show!

When Peach, a bright-eyed hopeless romantic, is thrown in prison on attempted robbery charges, she lands in a cell with brash, violent, ex-addict Roller Baby. When sparks ignite, Peach flings herself into a headstrong romance. With Peach's parole fast-approaching and Roller Baby's life-sentence looming, Peach digs in her heels and wages a battle to exonerate Roller Baby. But Peach soon discovers that prison is far more complicated than right or wrong and that love may bring out the worst in her.

Peach is played by Leah Finity, and Roller Baby by Angela Barber. Directed by Jesse Janzen.

Note: This play is rated "R" for language and adult scenarios.

PARK(ing) Day is an international annual event in which activists and citizens transform metered parking spaces into temporary public parks and other social spaces. PARK(ing) Day was invented in 2005 by Rebar, a San Francisco-based art and design studio, to encourage people to rethink the way streets are used. Since then, PARK(ing) Day has grown into an international event taking place in over 160 cities on 6 continents.

Over the years, the ASLA California Sierra Chapter has organized a multidisciplinary event with allied professions to showcase a broad vision of how to re-imagine Sacramento’s streets, expose the general public to parklets, and encourage local policy makers to improve current parklet standards.

Comedy Exchange is the perfect blend of stand-up and improv. Comedy Exchange invites favorite stand-up comedians to perform 5-minute sets, and then a cast of improvisers perform comedy scenes inspired by the comedians’ jokes.

The Friday Show is a high-energy, smart, and sometimes crazy blend of sketch comedy and improv. Along with original sketches and characters created by TFS cast members, it features interactive improv and games that make you feel like part of the show. The Friday Show is fueled by the mantra “anything goes”.

Expand your possibilities of wellbeing and achieve balance through ancient healing sciences and spiritual traditions to new thought and holistic modalities. The Healing Arts Festival is the area's only festival that does an interview reading with our potential readers before they are allowed to exhibit with us to ensure you receive a quality reading from a verified professional.

Explore the unique gifts, services, and offerings from over 65 exhibitors, including crystals, healers, psychics, tarot readers, jewelry and more.

Discover new information and insight for your journey of personal growth through our free presentations and workshops, including learning self-healing techniques, developing psychic abilities, yoga and more.

Be inspired to live to your full potential, share your light, and lives in harmony with the Universe.

Celebrate Heart of Travel's three year anniversary at Zócalo's gorgeous midtown space. Enjoy Latin American food, drinks, music, and a silent auction as you catch up with Chelsea, Ana, and many fellow travelers and friends!

All proceeds from the event will be split between Sacramento non-profit, Changing the Streets and Heart of Travel's volcano relief efforts in Guatemala, Fundación Fénix. Tickets include cocktails, appetizers, and our taco bar!

Changing the Streets is a Sacramento-based 501(c)(3) non-profit whose mission is to help underserved communities through innovative programs in the spirit of the One Health initiative. They are a new organization in the process of developing programs locally and in Guatemala to provide much needed medical care and other services for people and their animals together. By providing services for both, they will be directly helping individuals, animals and strengthening the community.

On June 3rd of 2018, the Fuego Volcano erupted just outside of Antigua, Guatemala less than 15 miles away from Heart of Travel’s Guatemala office. All Heart staff members voluntarily began to crowdfund and volunteer to help in the immediate aftermath of the tragedy. Changing the Streets is happy to partner with the Heart of Travel to help their newly established Guatemalan based nonprofit organization, Fundación Fénix, to offer quality, long term assistance to those affected by the eruption, specifically women and children who were victims of the tragedy. By working together, we can accomplish much more to help the people of Guatemala.

The Midtown Mini includes at least nine miniature golf holes, each hosted at excellent Midtown locations with food, drinks, music, hospitality and themes. All attendees are encouraged to compete at mini golf, to vote on the best themed mini golf holes, to dress in their “best” golf attire which might include clashing plaid or stacks of golf sweaters, and are automatically entered to win a private suite for sixteen people at an upcoming Sacramento Kings game, courtesy of Sutter Health. Raffle tickets are also available for sale to enter to win additional prizes.

Each attendee receives one opportunity to participate in the Turton Commercial Real Estate "19th Hole," which is a challenging long putt with an opportunity to win a day-trip on a private jet!

All the proceeds benefit Midtown Parks, a 501(c)(3) organization that is increasing health and community engagement by investing in Midtown Parks.

Lady Business, Sacramento’s longest-running all-female improv troupe, uses true stories from the cast to create a long-form improv show with smart humor, unexpected characters, and guaranteed laughs. After the ladies tell true stories on a monthly theme, the cast does a series of improvised scenes inspired by the stories. None of these stories are shared with each other prior to the show.

Anti-Cooperation League is a crazy, weird, high-energy, fast-paced improv show. Each week, the cast interviews a special guest and then creates scenes inspired by the interview. Guests range from Hollywood players to our friend Emily, who is just damn interesting. Join them for the longest-running comedy show in Sacramento, entertaining the masses since 2007!

The Sacramento Film and Music Festival is proud to present the documentary 17 Blocks.

In 1999, nine-year-old Emmanuel Durant and his family began filming their daily lives in America’s most dangerous neighborhood -- just 17 blocks behind the U.S. Capitol. They've been filming ever since. Spanning two decades, 17 Blocks illuminates a nation's ongoing crisis through one family's raw, stirring, and deeply personal saga.

The Sacramento Film and Music Festival present a selection of films from around the world.

Films include:
-A Shadow of Himself directed by Steven ADA - France
-Italy & (This is) Water directed by I. Gavriel and A. F. Plaschg
-Finn Andrews "One By The Venom" directed by Alexander Gandar (New Zealand)
-Mojo Juju "Native Tongue" directed by Claudia Sangiorgi Dalimore (Australia)
-The Snow Above the Earth "Requiem For the Tunes Unplayed" directed by Ilya Belov (Russia)
-Christmas on the Moon directed by Lado Kvataniya (Russia)
-ATHENA directed by Christian Stahl (Germany)
-Sucker for Love directed by Nathalie Kraemer (Germany)
-Coco Bottle directed by Jungsu Lee (Korea)
-Adina E "I Couldn’t Help Myself" (Israel)