It’s happening! 🤩😺 We are thrilled to welcome the legendary Peven Everett on Saturday, August 8 at Open Doors in Berkeley.

This is an all-day, 3-part event bringing together soul, house, community, conversation, and live music from morning until late night. The event is FREE to attend (NOTAFLOF - No One Turned Away For Lack Of Funds), and all contributions go directly towards supporting Peven and our 5 beneficiary organizations!

🎉 5x MATCHING GRANT — ALL DONATIONS & TICKETS MATCHED 100%!

Every dollar you donate or spend on tickets is matched 100% individually to 5 participating organizations through a generous matching grant provided by the Schwartz Foundation (an East Bay private foundation focused in music and civics education)!

The 5 Beneficiary Organizations:

✸ Home Bass (keeping our community space thriving)

✸ BandWith Chicago

✸ Berkeley Public Library

✸ 2 Organizations TBD (selected by attendee votes on event day!)

01 / Schedule

📅 Event Schedule (3-Part Party)

Part I: 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM | Brunch, Vinyl & Q&A

Indoors ☕

We’re kicking off at 10:00 AM with brunch served (with vegetarian options available). This is a small, intimate gathering, so come ready to connect, ask questions, and soak in some history from someone who has helped define a sound. Grab your seat, bring your appetite, and get ready for a morning of good food, good music talk, and good company with Peven Everett.

Moderators: Nina Sol & Patrick Wilson (ELEMENTS Oakland) + B Dukes / Blu Moon (Slow Burn Social).

RSVP for Brunch ↗

Part II: 1:00 PM – 6:00 PM | Outdoor Driveway Disco 🪩

Outdoors 🌞

The open-air driveway disco pre-party kicks into high gear in the afternoon sun starting at 1:00 PM! Dance under the open sky to warm house grooves, soul, and Chicago-inspired rhythms brought to you by local heavyweights: ELEMENTS Oakland (Nina Sol, Patrick Wilson), Homero Espinosa, and David Harness.

🌭 Chicago-inspired bites served from 2:30 PM – 5:30 PM (vegetarian options available!).

RSVP for Outdoor Driveway Disco ↗

Part III: 6:00 PM – Late | Peven Everett LIVE & After Party 🎤🎷

Separate Luma Ticket Required

Doors 6:30 PM | Show at Sunset: Peven Everett performs LIVE with full band indoors! Indoor capacity is strictly limited. (Note: Day Party Partiful RSVP does NOT include Peven's live indoor show). Outdoor overflow & broadcast will also be available.

🍕 9:00 PM – Late | Tea House After Party: Following Peven's set, we keep the energy going with late night tea house vibes + pizza served 9:00 PM til late + sets by Coflo, Cecil, and more surprises!

🎫 Get Peven Everett Live Show Ticket on Luma ↗

02 / Logistics

🚗 Parking, Recording & Volunteer Info

Parking: Street parking available, but rideshare/carpool recommended. A limited number of day parking passes are available. You can also park West of Telegraph Ave in ZONE J to avoid moving your car every 2 hours. Filming & Consent: Attending Peven’s Live performance indoors means you may appear in live recordings and consent to being filmed in the audience. Volunteer: Want to be a piece of the puzzle? Fill out the volunteer form here →

03 / Nominees

🗳️ Beneficiary Nominees (Vote on Event Day)

At the event on Saturday, August 8, attendees will vote to select two organizations from the five nominees below to join Home Bass, BandWith Chicago, and the Berkeley Public Library as the final beneficiaries of our 5x matching grant!

Oaklash Disability Fund

oaklash.com ↗

A critical support grant providing mutual aid and micro-grants to chronically ill and disabled queer and trans performance makers in the Bay Area, prioritizing BIPOC artists.

BlaQyard

blaqyard.com ↗

An Oakland-based housing, land, and community sanctuary project functioning as an ashram and ritual space for the healing, growth, and creative transformation of Black queer and trans ritualists and artists.

Shuumi Land Tax (Sogorea Te’)

sogoreate-landtrust.org ↗

A voluntary annual contribution for non-Indigenous people living in the East Bay to support the indigenous women-led land trust's work of rematriation—returning land to indigenous stewardship and building urban gardens and ceremonial spaces.

Soledad Arts Project (Embodiment Project)

embodimentproject.org ↗

An initiative bringing street dance, storytelling, and healing-centered engagement directly to incarcerated participants at Soledad State Prison to foster trauma healing, accountability, and personal growth.

ARTogether

artogether.org ↗

An Oakland-based non-profit offering workshops, mentorship, and mini-grants to build compassionate community spaces where refugees, immigrants, and diasporic creatives can connect, heal, and express themselves.

Support 24 Hours at a Time

Every donation is matched 100% across 5 organizations by the Schwartz Foundation!

Donate via Venmo

04 / Community

About the Host Spaces

About Home Bass

Home Bass is a community space in Oakland built by and for artists, dancers, and friends. Starting from a shared vision in the fall of 2024, Home Bass has evolved into a living room for the community, hosting dance classes, concerts, co-working, rehearsals, and parties.

Together with our members, we’ve built a sprung dance floor by hand, hosted visiting artists from around the world, and created a weekly home for House and Hustle dancers who now have a consistent space to practice and grow together.

From the beginning, we've operated on a gift economy. We don't charge organizers rent, we don't sell tickets, and no one is ever turned away for lack of funds. Keeping our space accessible, especially for working artists, is deeply important to us.

We've seen what’s possible when people can just show up and be themselves without worrying about cost, and our community has shown up in kind: members have contributed art for the walls, organized clean-up days, sourced materials and furniture, helped with construction projects, and stepped up to organize their own events. We feel honored and grateful for all the ways people show up in collaboration.

Stay connected:

Event calendar:

Home Bass on Luma

Instagram:

@homebass.oakland

About Open Doors

It’s also a quest to connect with & learn from community, to try to understand what makes it durable, and to act in alignment with those values.

We try to hold both room to stretch & room to rest to serve as an engine & container for heart offerings to invite a breadth of culture & leave the doors open.

Stay connected:

Events calendar:

opendoors.house

Instagram:

@opendoors.home