> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.grandviewindependent.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Eight Great things to do in Richmond: holiday events, Sip & Sketch art event, Richmond history, and more - URL: https://www.grandviewindependent.com/eight-great-things-to-do-in-richmond-holiday-festivities-library-celebration-and-more-2/ - Published: 2024-12-11T23:24:22.000Z - Updated: 2024-12-12T22:28:01.000Z - Author: Linda Hemmila - Tags: Entertainment, Events ◾ Check out Grandview Independent's top picks of this week's art, music, and great events in Richmond you won't want to miss! ## Downtown Holiday Festival @ East Bay Center for the Performing Arts ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/53/c7/53c7637d-655b-417c-b207-9b692de9e67f/content/images/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-11-at-2.39.50-PM.png) Join us for the *Downtown Holiday Festival* 2024 in Richmond, CA! 🎅🏽🎁 Presented by [@richmondmainstreetca](https://www.instagram.com/richmondmainstreetca/?ref=grandviewindependent.com) and East Bay Center for the Performing Arts, this magical evening is packed with holiday cheer: 🎁 Gift Bag Giveaway 📸 Photos with Santa 🎭 Performances of a Richmond Nutcracker by the Center’s youth artists Nutcracker Showtimes: 5 PM & 6 PM (first come, first serve!) 📍 339 11th St, Richmond, CA 94801 🗓️ Thursday, December 8, 2024 *Bring your family and friends to celebrate the season with us. See you there!* 🎄❤️ ## Supervisor Gioia's Holiday Party ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/53/c7/53c7637d-655b-417c-b207-9b692de9e67f/content/images/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-11-at-2.31.35-PM.png) We are so excited to welcome YOU to my office this **Thursday**! 🎄 We will celebrate the holidays and the coming new year, eat delicious foods from some of the best restaurants in our community, and support the children of North Richmond’s Verde K8 School! See you Thursday 🥰. Just drop in anytime between **5:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.**, and good times will ensue. 🙌 ## Childhood and Children in the US Home Front in World War II @ Rosie the Riveter Visitor Center ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/53/c7/53c7637d-655b-417c-b207-9b692de9e67f/content/images/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-11-at-2.47.20-PM.png) **Thursday, 12 December, 2:30 p.m.** Historian Jim Davis will be giving a brand new talk on children in World War II. The smallest people to experience the war, they endured, and suffered, and contributed in surprising ways to American home front history during the war. Please join us as we explore ways in which children experienced the war, both in Richmond and in the nation at large. *1414 Harbour Way South in the old Ford Building Oil House in Richmond, CA 94804* ## [ghostown gospel + MOLLY JAMES band + rosewater](https://www.baltickiss.com/events/molly-james?ref=grandviewindependent.com) @ Baltic Kiss ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/53/c7/53c7637d-655b-417c-b207-9b692de9e67f/content/images/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-10-at-5.54.42-PM-1.png) **Thursday, December 12, 2024 8:00 PM 10:30 PM** **Ghost Town Gospel** is straight out of Oakland Ca, blending traditional American folk influences with elements of punk, pop, and protest music driven by to create a candid portrait of life in a broken America. **Molly James Band**\-Molly is a minstrel for the modern heart. Her velvety vocals and soulful lyrics speak to the dynamism of the human experience. Joy, grief, family, violence, love, patriarchy; nothing is off limits. She created and lead the Bay Area’s feminist-driven 9 Lives Music Collective. She lead the minimalist folk band Tooth and Talon, and then the jazz-dipped Molly James Band. Rosewater-Dreamy folk music meets vibrant, femme-forward pop - with a touch of sass. rosewater is the musical project of singer-songwriter Antonia Miran, featuring lush and haunting harmonies by singer Ellen Chamberlin. Antonia's raw and poetic songwriting weaves her lived experiences of beauty, heartbreak, nature and love with a luminosity that reawakens our shared humanity. Get these two sirens' voices together and pure magic ensues...hushed rooms, brimming eyes, open hearts. **135 PARK PLACE POINT RICHMOND, CA 94801** ## MIDNIGHT KITCHEN @ Rigger's Loft ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/53/c7/53c7637d-655b-417c-b207-9b692de9e67f/content/images/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-11-at-2.28.29-PM.png) **Friday, December 13th, 6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.** Elevate your spirit and nourish your soul with Midnight Kitchen. This band serves up a mix of Chicago, New Orleans & West Coast Blues and R&B, with tasty sides of Jump and Swing. Featuring Jeanne Schuman’s sultry vocals, Tim Port’s penetrating guitar lines, Barbara Miercke’s evocative violin, and drummer Nancy Geimer and bassist Rich Nosek, holding down the groove. Midnight Kitchen provides the blues you can use to elevate your spirit and nourish your soul! Support Live Music - $5 Music Cover Charge. [RESERVE A TABLE](https://eatapp.co/reserve/r-b-cellars-80d1ec?ref=grandviewindependent.com) ## Winter Storytime and Hot Chocolate Party @ Main Library ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/53/c7/53c7637d-655b-417c-b207-9b692de9e67f/content/images/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-11-at-2.54.36-PM.png) ### Saturday, December 14, 2024 Winter Storytime and Hot Chocolate Party: stories, songs, crafts, cookies, and iceless ice skating! December 14, 2024 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Madeline F. Whittlesey Community *Room 325 Civic Center Plaza* *Richmond, CA 94804 (510) 620-6557* ## Sip & Sketch @ Point Richmond Gallery ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/53/c7/53c7637d-655b-417c-b207-9b692de9e67f/content/images/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-11-at-2.34.35-PM.png) **FREE EVENT!** Sip & Sketch Join artists Larraine Seiden and Judith Williams for bubbly sips and casual gesture drawing with a live, clothed model. Event is FREE and supplies provided! \* \* \* Saturday, December 14 3 p.m. \* \* \* **Point Richmond Gallery** 145 West Richmond Avenue, Point Richmond *Please RSVP to sullivanmargi@gmail.com* ## Lemur Holiday Vendor Fair @ Parchester Village ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/53/c7/53c7637d-655b-417c-b207-9b692de9e67f/content/images/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-11-at-2.44.16-PM.png) Save The Date! Next Saturday From 11 a.m. 4 p.m.! [@lemurinternationalinc](https://www.instagram.com/lemurinternationalinc/?ref=grandviewindependent.com) [@lemurloft](https://www.instagram.com/lemurloft/?ref=grandviewindependent.com) is hosting an Holiday Vendor Fair! Crafts, gifts, food, music, and drinks by The Factory Bar. ***3701 Collins Ave.*** [***#2***](https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/2/?ref=grandviewindependent.com) ***Richmond, CA, in Parchester Village*** --- ## Thanks to our subscribers, who help make this coverage possible. *If you are not a subscriber, please consider supporting local journalism with a* Grandview Independent *subscription. Here are our* [*monthly*](https://www.grandviewindependent.com/#/portal/signup/6387e9f831b2f10031d27adc/monthly) *and* [*annual*](https://www.grandviewindependent.com/#/portal/signup/6387e9f831b2f10031d27adc/yearly) *subscription plans.* *Copyright © 2024* Grandview Independent*, all rights reserved.*