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Capital Cake Swap
2026-09-27 12:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Drake’s: The Barn, 985 Riverfront St, West Sacramento, CA, United States
Sacramento Cake Lovers Unite!
Come out & join the fun at Drake’s: The Barn for the inaugural Dames Capital Cake Swap. Show off your baking skills or support your favorite local bakery. Walk the array of cakes of all flavors and styles and fill your box with slices of delight!
All proceeds will support the local chapter of Les Dames d’Escoffier International & its mission of advancing women in the fields of food, agriculture, fine beverage, and hospitality through education, mentorship and philanthropy.
Inspired by the wildly popular Cake Picnic events that have captivated dessert lovers across the country, the Capital Cake Swap will bring together 250 cake enthusiasts for an afternoon celebrating creativity, community, and, of course, cake.
Here’s how it works: Each ticket holder brings a cake—either homemade or purchased—to share. After admiring the impressive display of cakes, participants will fill a take-home box with their favorite selections. The event promises a festive atmosphere where bakers and cake
lovers alike can connect over a shared love of dessert.
Capital Cake Swap is more than just an afternoon of cake—it’s an opportunity to bring our community together to celebrate baking, creativity, and the people who make Sacramento’s food scene so special,” said Jami Babcock, a member of Les Dames d’Escoffier Sacramento and lead organizer of the event.
Whether someone bakes an elaborate showpiece or picks up a favorite cake from a local bakery, everyone will leave with a wonderful assortment of cake while helping support the next generation of women in food, beverage, agriculture, and hospitality. Les Dames d’Escoffier International is a worldwide organization of women leaders dedicated to supporting the next generation of professionals through scholarships, grants, mentoring, and community engagement. The Sacramento chapter proudly serves the region by fostering professional excellence while giving back to the local culinary community.

Playwrights' Revolution
2026-09-27 19:00 - 21:00, 2026-09-28 19:00 - 21:00, 2026-09-29 19:00 - 21:00, 2026-09-30 19:00 - 21:00, 2026-10-01 19:00 - 21:00, 2026-10-02 19:00 - 21:00, 2026-10-03 19:00 - 21:00, 2026-10-04 19:00 - 21:00 and 5 more dates | Capital Stage Theatre, 2215 J St, Sacramento, CA, United States
As a part of our mission to contribute to the development of new plays and playwrights, Capital Stage presents its 13th Annual New Play Festival PLAYWRIGHTS’ REVOLUTION. Up to 350 new play submissions were accepted in January 2026. By July Capital Stage chose the 4 finalists for this year’s festival. One-night-only staged readings will be presented August 12-15, 2026. Q&A sessions between the audience and artists immediately to follow each staged reading.

Woodland Farmers Market - Tuesday
2026-09-29 10:00 - 13:00, 2026-10-06 10:00 - 13:00 | Woodland Public Library, 250 1st St, Woodland, CA, United States
Free, weekly Tuesday farmers market featuring locally grown produce, fresh eggs, artisan breads, handcrafts, fresh fish, entertainment and more. All goods sourced within 100 miles of Woodland. CalFresh EBT cards and WIC accepted. Also has a market match program where your EBT dollars are matched up to $15 per market visit. Across from the Woodland Public Library.
More details here.

Wu-Sick’s Wednesdays
2026-09-30 17:00 - 21:00, 2026-10-07 17:00 - 21:00 | Husick’s by Forester, 36510 Riverview Dr, Clarksburg, CA, 95612, United States
From Cultural Capital by Chris Macias:
To paraphrase the classic Wu-Tang Clan song, “C.R.E.A.M” — Clarksburg Rules Everything Around Me. With support from the crew at Twelves Wax record shop in Oak Park, Husick’s By Forester recently launched the hip-hop weekly Wu-Sick’s Wednesdays.
Chow down on eats from chef Matt Brown while throwing your hands in the air to choice cuts from the Wu-Tang Clan. Kung-fu flicks on the restaurant’s TVs help complete the vibe. Watch ya step, kid!
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Domino Night at Lola's Lounge
2026-10-01 17:00 - 21:00, 2026-10-08 17:00 - 21:00 | Lola’s Lounge, 2424 16th Street, Sacramento, CA, 95818, United States
Make Thursdays your game night 🎲
Join us every Thursday at Lola’s Lounge for an evening of dominoes, board games, great food and even better company!
Bring your friends, bring your own dominoes and favorite games, or come solo and meet new people. No sign-ups. No entry fee. Just a welcoming community, friendly competition and a reason to look forward to Thursdays every week.
🎲 Every Thursday, 5-9 p.m.
✅ Free Admission
👥 All Ages Welcome
📍 2424 16th St, Sacramento

PBS KVIE Art Auction
2026-10-02 19:00 - 2026-10-04 20:00 | PBS KVIE, 2030 W. El Camino Ave. , Sacramento, CA, United States
Bid on more than 270 original works of art by the region’s top artistic talent, from California masters to emerging artists! All proceeds help support KVIE, your PBS station.
Preview the collection and place a bid at kvie.org/artauction or in person at PBS KVIE from September 1 – 30. Watch or stream the live auction October 2 – 4.
The PBS KVIE Art Auction is proudly sponsored by Amador Wine Country, Bank of Marin, Krogh & Decker LLP, Murphy Austin, and Weintraub Tobin.

Woodland Farmers Market - Saturday
2026-10-03 09:00 - 12:00, 2026-10-10 09:00 - 12:00 | Woodland Public Library, 250 1st St, Woodland, CA, United States
Free, weekly Saturday farmers market featuring locally grown produce, fresh eggs, artisan breads, handcrafts, fresh fish, entertainment and more. All goods sourced within 100 miles of Woodland. CalFresh EBT cards and WIC are accepted. Also has a market match program where your EBT dollars are matched up to $15 per market visit. Across from the Woodland Public Library.
More details here.

“Roots and Resilience: The Japanese Farm Families of Clarksburg”
2026-10-03 11:00 - 15:00, 2026-10-04 11:00 - 15:00, 2026-10-10 11:00 - 15:00 | 1883 Clarksburg Schoolhouse, 36446 Riverview Drive, Clarksburg, CA, 95612, United States
From Cultural Capital by Chris Macias:
One of the highlights of Sacramento summers is the Buddhist Church of Sacramento’s Japanese Food & Cultural Bazaar, which celebrated its 80th anniversary last weekend. To dig deeper into the history and culture of the local Japanese American community, head to the 1883 Clarksburg Schoolhouse.
Its ongoing exhibit, “Roots and Resilience: The Japanese Farm Families of Clarksburg,” features a wealth of archival materials from the early and mid-20th century that depict this immigrant community through its challenges and triumphs. The exhibit is open Saturdays and Sundays through the end of the year.
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California Capital Airshow 2026
2026-10-10 - 2026-10-11 | Mather Airport, 10425 Norden Ave., Mather, CA, 95655, United States
A family-friendly event at Mather Airport. More info here!

Free Art Play @ the Atelier!
2026-10-10 14:00 - 16:00 | the Atelier, 2118 19th St, Sacramento, CA, 95817, United States
Join us every second Saturday from 2-4pm in the Play Atelier for an open house. Children ages 1-12 and their responsible grown person, are invited to come play and make some creative magic together!
All materials are provided. No registration required.

S'moresfest 2026
2026-10-10 17:30 - 20:30 | Sacramento Central YMCA, 2021 W Street, Sacramento, CA, 95818, United States
Grab your flannel, gather your camp crew, and join us for S’moresfest 2026- an evening of community, campfire fun, and delicious s’mores, all in support of the YMCA’s mission.
On Saturday, October 10 at 5:30 PM, the YMCA will host one of the most anticipated traditions of the evening: the S’mores Competition. Local chefs, bakers, and businesses will share their creative takes on the classic campfire treat, and guests will sample each creation before voting to crown the “S’more of the Year.”
While the s’mores may bring everyone together, the purpose behind the event is what truly matters. Every ticket purchased and every dollar raised helps ensure that children, families, and older adults throughout our community have access to YMCA programs that build confidence, improve health, create belonging, and provide opportunities regardless of financial circumstances.
S’moresfest is a chance to celebrate the incredible businesses and community members who come together to support the Y, reconnect with friends, make new memories, and invest in a stronger Sacramento for all.
We hope you’ll join us around the campfire and be part of something that makes a lasting difference.

A Child’s-Eye Memoir of the Hippie Trail: Caleb Dardick in Conversation with Former California Department of Rehabilitation Director Tony Sauer
2026-10-10 18:00 - 19:30 | Capital Books on K, 1011 K Street, Sacramento, CA, 95814, United States
Join author Caleb Dardick for a vivid reading and conversation celebrating his forthcoming memoir, The Adventures of Superfreak: My Childhood on the Hippie Trail (Running Wild Press, September 21, 2026). Caleb will be in conversation with Tony Sauer, former Director of the California Department of Rehabilitation, longtime disability leader, and close family friend.
The Adventures of Superfreak offers a child’s-eye view of the counterculture — not as nostalgia, but as lived family reality, with all its longing, idealism, danger, and contradiction. In 1970, Caleb’s family set out from Amsterdam to India in a VW bus: three young children traveling with disabled parents — his father using a wheelchair, his mother living with undiagnosed bipolar disorder — on a 20,000-mile journey through Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India. Along the way: psychedelics, free love, tense border crossings, spiritual seekers, and a childhood shaped as much by wonder as by instability.
Told through the eyes of the child he was, the memoir explores attachment and abandonment, disability and independence, family resilience, spiritual seeking, and the costs of adult freedom. To make sense of the upheaval around him, Caleb becomes “Superfreak,” a self-invented superhero trying to understand love, danger, and belonging inside an extraordinary family journey.
This Sacramento event offers a rare conversation between an author and a statewide disability leader whose life and work later intersected closely with the family at the heart of the book. Tony Sauer played wheelchair basketball and tennis with Caleb’s father, Sam Dardick, and later succeeded Sam as Executive Director of FREED Center for Independent Living, when Sam was elected to the Nevada County Board of Supervisors.
Although the memoir takes place before the Dardick family’s later involvement in the independent-living and disability-rights movements, Caleb and Tony will explore how the experiences in the book foreshadow questions that would later shape Sam’s public work: access, interdependence, independence, family support, and the meaning of freedom. Tony’s former role as Director of the California Department of Rehabilitation gives the conversation a strong Sacramento connection, linking the book’s intimate family story to California’s broader disability-rights and independent-living history.
Tony also brings a personal connection to the memoir. After reading an advance copy, he wrote to Caleb that the book left him “with tears in my eyes,” calling it a vivid and moving story of a journey that was “uniquely Dardick.”
Caleb’s professional life has spanned public service, nonprofit leadership, environmental advocacy, disability-related community work, and local government. A graduate of UC Santa Cruz, he is also a storyteller and leadership coach. He lives in Nevada City, California, with his wife.
Tony Sauer is the former Director of the California Department of Rehabilitation, the Sacramento-based state agency serving Californians with disabilities. He was first appointed Deputy Director by Governor Gray Davis, later promoted to Director by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, and reappointed by Governor Jerry Brown. Earlier in his career, he served as Executive Director of FREED, Center for Independent Living, succeeding Caleb’s father, Sam Dardick. A lifelong Nevada County resident, Sauer is now retired and remains a respected voice in California’s disability community.
