#equalitynight

Friday

Some Fear None, Cemetery Sun + others: Cesar Chavez Plaza hosts Concerts In the Park for just a few more weeks! Come enjoy food, drinks, music + friends. 5-9PM. Free. 

River Cats Equality Night: For the second year running, enjoy baseball, celebrate equality and LGBTQ inclusion while benefiting local LGBTQ service organizations. Also receive a VIP card to Badlands sports-themed afterparty. 530-930PM. $30. 

Summer Soiree: Support homeless youth services organization WInd Youth Services at their annual Summer Soiree. Food, beverages, music, entertainment and interesting people at the home of Scott Gregory. Tickets are available at the door for $120. 7PM. Contact [email protected] with questions. 

Justin Farren + Brian Rogers: The duo play in tandem at Luna’s Cafe with Devin Farren and Kevin Costa. 8-11PM. 

The Joy Formidable: Harlows hosts this fun show. 21+ 9PM. $18. 

Saturday

Multicultural Mental Health Fair: Head to Hagginwood Park for NAMI Sacramento’s fair to help connect people with mental health resources in obsevance of National Minority Mental Health Month. 10AM-2PM. Free. 

Sip & Shop: Capsity offers this casual bazaar - enjoy wine, cheese, coffee, cookies, tea and Buffalo Pizza while you shop. Featuring Sacramento-based makers: All Gente Fine Art and Apparel, Earthlinh Plants & Home Decor, Forget Me Not Jewelry, That Girl Jewelry, and Violet & Jane’s Handmade Gifts. 2 4PM. 

Sacratomato Festival: Sutter’s Fort is the platform for the Sutter District’s celebration of all things tomato. Sacratomato is a free, large-scale family-friendly festival that includes an on-stage salsa making competition, a tomato tasting garden, lawn games, a hands-on “Tomato Patch” area for kids – with face painting, balloon creations and a grow-your-own tomato activity – tasty foods for sampling and/or sale by Midtown restaurants and bars, cooking demonstrations by the area’s top chefs, Midtown Farmers Market vendors, entertaining live music — by Skyler’s Pool (featuring the husband/wife team of Paragary Restaurant Group’s Executive Chef Kurt Spataro and KFBK’s Kitty O’Neal), Element Brass Band and Conjunto Liberacion (salsa band) — plus even a beer, craft and Bloody Mary cocktail area for adults. 4-8PM. Free.   

Elevate: An Art Exhibition Reveal Party:  Be in the company of Sacramento's notable artists, creatives, and art enthusiasts at Arden Fair's Elevate Reveal Party. Celebrate all the finalists as esteemed judges announce the winners of the contest. Entertainment will be provided, along with the chance to mix and mingle with some of the region’s best artists. 5-7PM at Center Court. Free. 

Anti-Cooperation League: Kaitlin Bruce: Sacramento Comedy Spot will good-naturedly roast Sacramento’s self-proclaimed dumpster socialite on stage in an interview-driven, improv show. 9PM. $12.  

Sunday

Pints for Pits: In honor of the Oak Park Brewing Company pittie mascot, Citra, support pit bull rescue organization Pit Crew Rescue Sac, partake of the puppy kissing booth, and compete for prizes. 15% of proceeds support pit bull rescue and rehabilitation. 12-6PM.  

Tiny Book Show & Workshop: Brick House Art Gallery hosts this inventive show and workshop.  The Tiny Book Show is a mobile exhbition of minature books housed inside a 1965 Covered Wagon travel trailer and curated by The Creativity Caravan. The mobile arts, and education centered organization, headquartered in Northern, NJ, will be bringing its collection of books on a summer long cross country tour. Poets and educators Maya Stein and Amy Tingle, founders of The Creativity Caravan, will be offering a unique, hands on book making workshop as part of the exhibit stop. 1-5PM.