Arcata Co-Op
/ 9 a.m.-2 p.m.
No music. Different location due to Kinetics. Featuring the freshest locally grown fruits, vegetables, plants, meats and other wonderful products.
441-9999 /
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Arcata Playhouse
/ 7 p.m.
/ $12
/ $10 kids
Sweet Can uses everyday objects to transform our world into a place where anything is possible and the mundane is made magic. Defying gravity, walking on their hands, creating poetry with movement – you are guaranteed to be enchanted. Saturday matinee at 2 p.m.
822-1575 /
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The Shanty
/ 8 p.m.
/ Free
/ 21+
Unofficial Kinetic afterparty with four bands. Ahhhh!
444-2053 /
jensenrufe@gmail.com /
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Arcata Theatre Lounge
/ 8-11 p.m.
/ $25
/ $30 at the door
/ $20 students
This fashion showcase is the culminating event for Arcata Arts Institute’s fashion design students. Original wearable designs are conceived of and constructed by AAI students.
613-3030 /
arcataartsinstitute@gmail.com /
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Dell'Arte
/ 8 p.m.
"The international theatre-makers of Dell’Arte’s Professional Training Program will devise and perform an evening of 10-minute plays born out of their passionate engagement with the work of ensemble theatre-making."
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Alibi
/ 11 p.m.-1 a.m.
/ $5
/ 21+
Tucson band returns to share a stage with Humboldt's least definable band.
822-3731 /
strixvega@hotmail.com /
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Arcata Plaza
/ 10 a.m.
Day 1 of the Kinetic Grand Championship starts on the Plaza in Arcata, California at the noon whistle every Memorial Day weekend. The racers take off to the Manila dunes, where they race through miles of sand to the great and inevitable "Deadman's Drop". Then on to Eureka's downtown gazebo.
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Arcata Community Forest
/ 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
/ $40
The City of Arcata Recreation Division’s Challenge Course, located in the beautiful Arcata Community Forest, is a fun-filled outdoor adventure focusing on team building, skill development and environmental education.
822-7091 /
rec@cityofarcata.org /
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Redwood Curtain Brewing Company, Arcata
/ noon-midnight
/ Free
The McKinleyville Lions club will receive $1 from every pint sold. This money may go to provide vision screenings to help early diagnoses for children with vision impairments.
826-7222 /
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The Miniplex at Richards' Goat Tavern
/ 4 p.m.
Russian director Alexander Sokurov, best known for his single-take history of the Hermitage Museum, RUSSIAN ARK, turns his attention to The Louvre for this magisterial, centuries-spanning reflection on the relation between art, culture and power.
630-5000 /
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North Coast Repertory Theatre
/ 8-11 p.m.
/ $18
/ $18 general
/ 18+
"Inspired by the original 1936 propaganda film of the same name, this raucous musical comedy takes a tongue-in-cheek look at the hysteria caused when clean-cut kids fall prey to marihuana, leading them on a hysterical downward spiral filled with evil jazz music, sex and violence."
442-6278 /
ncrt@humboldt1.com /
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Brass Rail Bar
/ 9 p.m.
This is the most hardcore karaoke in Humboldt.
923-3188 /
Ocean Grove Lodge
/ 9 p.m.
/ 21+
Cliff Dallas & The Death Valley Troubadours (Mojave Outlaw Country) rock Trinidad with The Good Time Rounders (Outlaw Country Grass).
677-3543 /
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Bear River Casino Resort
/ 9 p.m.-1 a.m.
/ Free
MHP delivers a mash-up of energetic funk and slinky soul with a psychedelic twist and a chili salt rim.
800-761-2327 /
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