PAST HAPPENINGS

Temescal Works is a place to experience community and engage in meaningful social connections. Monthly socials, Member Q&A’s and pop-up retail events are just some of the ways we bring members and the extended community together.

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PAST EVENTS

Q&A: Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

Date: July 24, 2025
Time: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Member Event
A Year of Compassion

Please join us for a lunchtime Q&A with local legend Colleen Patrick-Goudreau, the author of  A Year of Compassion: 52 Weeks of Living Zero-Waste, Plant-Based, and Cruelty-FreeColleen is an acclaimed speaker, a regular contributor to National Public Radio, and the host of all-inclusive luxury sustainable, vegan, animal-friendly trips around the world, as well as the host/producer of Food for Thought Podcast.

Workshop: Midday Nervous System Reset

Date: July 23, 2025
Time: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Member Event
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Take a mindful pause in the middle of your day to reset your nervous system and return to a calm, grounded state, in a class led by Mind-Body coach and educator Brandy Benton from Heal More. Love More.

Experience Acupuncture: Intro & Demo

Date: July 21, 2025
Time: 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Member Event
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Please join us for an informative workshop with Dr. Tyler Anderson, a licensed acupuncturist who specializes in both sports and neurological acupuncture and is the team acupuncturist for the Oakland Roots Soccer Club and Oakland Ballers baseball team. Dr. Anderson will provide ear acupuncture and discounted treatment cards for full length acupuncture sessions.

** Introduction at 1:00 pm followed by demo and treatments 1:30-4:00 pm

Floral Workshop

Date: July 17, 2025
Time: 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Member Event
Floral illustration

Join Temescal Works cofounder (and former wedding floral designer) Ellen Kim for a hands-on flower party. We’ll do a quick demo, then you’ll make your own bouquet to take home. Leave with flowers, fun, and a few tips to keep your stems happy longer!

Waffle Wednesday

Date: July 16, 2025
Time: 10:00 am
Member Event
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Join us for a Temescal Works favorite: waffles made by cofounders Roy and Judith! This beloved tradition brings the community together over hot griddles and good vibes. Don’t miss this sweet start to your day!

Member Spotlight Q&A: Gabriel Edwards

Date: June 5, 2025
Time: 12:00 pm
Member Event
Gabriel Edwards
Please join us for an exciting Q&A with our member Gabriel Edwards (Associate Project Scientist, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA). Gabriel directs research that focuses on how people at risk of HIV and related harms such as substance use, sexually transmitted infections (STIs), and criminal justice-involvement access (or don’t access) services meant to prevent various harms.

Workshop—The Stock Market: Starting, Succeeding, Navigating Recent Volatility

Date: June 4, 2025
Time: 12:00 pm
Member Event
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Join us for an educational and necessary workshop that dives right into the stock market. Gaurav Kumar is managing partner of Tilden Path Capital, a boutique investment management firm that focuses on discovering long term winners among smaller technology companies.

At the workshop, he will share some tips and empirical strategies on starting out, and—if you already invest—on how to protect your portfolio in uncertain times.

Opening Reception—“Meditations on Growth”

Date: May 29, 2025
Time: 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Community Event
Amy Copperman

Please join us for the opening reception of Meditations on Growth, a solo exhibition by Amy Copperman; a multidisciplinary artist, award-winning writer, and creative strategist based in Oakland. Amy stewards a communal artist home, Arrowhead Art House, in the Oakland Hills and is co-host of Free*Party, speakeasy art salons showcasing local artists and healers. Her visual work explores the mythic in the mundane by blending archetypes, surrealist landscapes, flora, and the human form to reflect the spiritual and emotional dimensions of transformation.

Town Hall—Friends of Oakland Animal Services (FOAS)

Date: May 27, 2025
Time: 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Community Event
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You are invited to join a Friends of Oakland Animal Services (FOAS) town hall meeting!

Want to learn more about the work FOAS is doing and where we’re headed next? Join us for an upcoming FOAS Town Hall with Executive Director Ann Dunn. You’ll hear about our vision, the challenges we’re facing, and how you can help.

Whether you’re a long-time supporter or just curious to learn more, we’d love to see you there. Bring your questions, bring a friend, and bring your passion for making a difference for Oakland’s animals!

Budget Forum with Councilmember Unger

Date: May 22, 2025
Time: 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Budget Forum with Councilmember Unger

Join Councilmember Unger, City staff, and neighbors for a District 1 budget forum. You’ll hear a short presentation on the proposed budget, learn how the process works, and take part in interactive activities to share your priorities.

Your voice helps shape how Oakland invests in services, programs, and neighborhoods—and informs your Councilmember’s decisions.

RSVP encouraged. You may submit questions in advance!

Member Spotlight Q&A: Architecture and Landscape Design

Date: May 21, 2025
Time: 12:00 pm
Member Event
Sung and Laura

Join us for a fascinating spring panel on architecture and landscape design with our members Hyunch Sung and Laura Boutelle. Hyunch is a landscape designer, lecturer and artist, and the founder of Studio Moonya. Laura has been working in architecture (Laura Boutelle Architecture) in the Bay Area for over 20 years, and her specialty is residential remodel and additions. Inspiration guaranteed.

 

Member Social: Earth Day Lunch

Date: April 24, 2025
Time: 12:00 pm
Member Event
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Join us for an environmentally friendly, locally sourced community lunch to celebrate Earth Month! Meet fellow members and nourish yourself.

Member Spotlight Q&A: Warren Sakey

Date: April 23, 2025
Time: 12:00 pm
Member Event
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Join us in the sofa area for an illuminating Earth Day Q&A with Warren Sakey, Renewable Development Director at  Invenergy, North America’s largest privately owned developer of renewable energy projects. Invenergy does both onshore and offshore wind, solar, battery storage, green hydrogen, and transmission projects. 

Pop-Up: Shop Earth Month with the Filling Station

Start date: April 1, 2025
End date: April 30, 2025
Time: 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Community Event
Pop-up shop

To celebrate Earth Day, we have curated an environmentally friendly pop-up with our friends and neighbors at the Filling Station in Berkeley. Stop by to shop sustainable beauty and home products for the entire month of April!

*Shop open during business hours, Monday-Friday 9AM-5PM

Member Social: March Madness

Date: March 20, 2025
Time: 4:00 pm
Member Event
March Madness

Join us for big-screen college basketball and themed nibbles for this fun and engaging social! Root for a team and meet fellow members.

Members Workshop: Focus, Relax, Heal: Acupressure for Stress & Pain Relief

Date: March 12, 2025
Time: 3:00 pm
Member Event
Maya Joshua

Come learn concrete tools for helping your body navigate the stresses of modern life by applying gentle pressure to specific points on our bodies that allow for pain relief and increased internal calm, with local Acupuncturist and East Asian Medicine practitioner Maya Joshua. We’ll learn how to call up our own existing healing resources to improve our quality of life.

Parlar Series: Passion

Date: February 12, 2025
Time: 6:00 pm
Community Event

Please join us for a conversation on the timely and versatile topic of PASSION. Hosted in small groups, each Parlar conversation is designed by the participants in real time, following an original and exhilarating format. Parlar Series is a project of focused, thoughtful conversations on topics from our daily lives that anyone can relate to, curated by culture writer Flora Tsapovsky.

SIGN UP by emailing fl***@***********ks.com

Member Social: Cheesy Valentine’s

Date: February 12, 2025
Time: 4:00 pm
Member Event
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It’s everyone’s favorite holiday! Please join us for a cheesy, lighthearted social featuring surprise foods and drinks – plus a guest appearance by Temescal Works’ very own member couples!

Member Spotlight Q&A: Trish Tierney and Emily Berlin

Date: January 23, 2025
Time: 12:00 pm
Member Event
Women's Alliance for Knowledge Exchange (WAKE)

Join us in the sofa area for an illuminating Q&A with the Executive Director and Director of Strategic Partnerships of Women’s Alliance for Knowledge Exchange (WAKE), a nonprofit working both locally and globally to uplift women social entrepreneurs. WAKE drives social impact through technology and collaboration, matching volunteer Advisors from the tech industry with social entrepreneurs who are driving change in their communities. In 2025, WAKE will undertake impact projects in Phnom Penh, Cambodia and Vilnius, Lithuania, supporting Ukrainian women entrepreneurs as they rebuild their businesses in their new community.

Art Opening: Alex Chand

Date: January 16, 2025
Time: 4:00 pm
Community Event
Alex Chand painting
Join us to celebrate All the Colors of Nature, an exhibition by Alex Chand, a Bay Area artist whose landscape paintings transcend the traditional boundaries of representation, inviting viewers to engage with the emotional and sensory essence of nature rather than its literal forms. Born in 1982 in Worcester, Massachusetts, Alex’s artistic journey began when he first encountered Bob Ross’s “The Joy of Painting” series as a child.

Temescal Works Holiday Party

Date: December 11, 2024
Time: 4:00 pm
Member Event
Winter Holiday
It’s time to get festive together! Food, drinks, White Elephant gifts and merriment to be expected.

Member Spotlight Q&A: Sunil Rajaraman

Date: December 4, 2024
Time: 12:00 pm
Member Event
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Sunil is the Founder of Hamlet, a company that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to make public information easier to understand. Prior to Hamlet, Sunil co-founded Scripted.com, a marketplace for businesses to hire freelance writers. Sunil also owned and operated The Bold Italic, a local San Francisco publication, which he sold to Medium in 2019. Sunil’s writing has appeared in ForbesFortuneThe Information Techcrunch and others. He once ran one of the top 200 podcasts in the US.

Trader Joe’s Pumpkin Spice Everything Extravaganza

Date: November 20, 2024
Time: 4:00 pm
Member Event
Pumpkin spice

It’s time for our annual November members’ social, which is just an excuse to sample all the seasonal goodies from Trader Joe’s. Not to be missed!

Member Spotlight Q&A: Bianca Kaprielian

Date: November 14, 2024
Time: 12:00 pm
Member Event
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Join us for a fun Q&A with member Bianca Kaprielian, the founder of Fruit World, one of California’s most prominent fruit growers and sellers! During the Q&A, we’ll hold a raffle for some Fruit World merch!

Member Social: Healthy lunch

Date: October 30, 2024
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Join us for a nutritious and sustainable lunch courtesy of the local duo The Table Catering. Vegan options are available!