Frank Bette Center for the Arts

The Experience:

Vodka Tasting Flights Are Back!

On their outdoor patio with views of SF Bay, enjoy six (6) of Hangar 1’s flavored and straight vodka expressions while learning how to fully taste and appreciate the subtleties of vodka. Their vodka flights include both their fundamental expressions and their distillery exclusives, which can only be found at this Alameda distillery.

For example, their Core Tasting Flight includes Rosé vodka, Hangar 1 Straight, Makrut Lime, Mandarin Blossom, Buddha’s Hand Citron, and Bentwing Brandy.

Hangar 1 experts will help guide you through the tasting, answer questions, and provide ideas for new cocktail recipes. And you get to learn about the craft of making Vodka the California Way with grapes and grains in an old WWII era Hangar at Alameda Point. While visiting you’ll immerse yourself in the fresh produce and botanicals locally sourced as you learn about the distillation process in the old WWII era hangar on Alameda Point. You may want to stay and soak in the beautiful sunsets over the Golden Gate and Bay Bridges!

Where:

2505 Monarch St.
Alameda

http://hangarone.com

The Experience:

The Egret. Making Contact. You Can Too!

From Friday June 4 – Friday August 6, 2021, you can learn about the striking personalities of egrets at home around the San Francisco Bay. With his lens, Gerry Traucht captures egrets standing gracefully at city entrances, by freeways, lagoons, and parks. At surprise moments they perform their courting displays as mating rituals. He has taken special notice of Egrets in Alameda.

They are grace. They are otherworldly. In Alameda this colony of egrets intimately shares their way of life. Their courting, nesting, mating, and a cacophony of chicks. You can hear their clack clack clatter from Leydecker Park if you arrive at feeding times. It is a short stroll from car to their colony by the lagoon. You can observe all phases of their life and their mysteries often over six months from March through August.

“I love being at Harbor Bay Isle,” says photographer Gerry Traucht. “For years I have watched until their rangy Monterey pine finished its life span and was taken down. Would they come back? They surprised us. We thought they would claim a new tree, but they didn’t. They took all the trees in a grove of pines. They are fewer in number, but they offer a chance to watch them build over the next dozen years.”

Traucht’s photographs reveal movement that looks like dance, close-up images of individual birds looking into the camera, and wild feathers caught in a frenzied fraction of a second. The Frank Bette Center for the Arts is now open Friday – Sunday 11am – 5pm. Check their website for updates.

Where:

1601 Paru St.
Alameda

https://www.frankbettecenter.org/