Clubs and Groups
The Shed is a community space. Meet members of your community who share your interests, or explore something new.
Let's share this third place and build community together.
Culture Club
3rd Tuesday each month @ 6pmFrench Club
3rd Wednesday each month @ 5:30 pmDnD For Kids
3rd Saturday each month @ 2pmSpanish Club
4th Wednesday each month @ 6pmForagers’ Food Swap and Processing Potluck
4th Thursday each month @ 6pmCrafternoon
4th Sunday each month @ 3pm
Queer Coloring Group
1st & 3rd Monday each month @ 6pmNeighbors and Novels Book Club
1st Tuesday each month @ 6pmGardening Club
1st Wednesday each month @ 5:30pmCommunity Projects and Skill Share Meetup
1st Thursday each month @ 6:30pmJournal & Planner Meetup
1st Sunday each month @ 3pmWriters Group
2nd Tuesday each month @ 6:30pmResilience Club
2nd Thursday each month @ 6:30pm
Crafternoon (4th Suns 3-4pm)
Crafternoon is a relaxed craft club on the fourth Sunday of each month for anyone who wants to make things and meet new people. This is an unstructured, bring-your-own-project kind of gathering or you can use some of our supplies. Drawing, knitting, collage, mending, writing, painting, and similar crafts are all welcome. There’s no class or instruction, just a comfortable space to work on something creative and connect with others. Come on your own or with friends!
Free to attend. Some Supplies are available. Optional donations help support the space.
Dnd For Kids (3rd Sats 2-5pm)
Come join our Dungeons and Dragons group for a fun and exciting time! The class is led by our one and only Lee Gorton, who has mastered the craft of being a dungeon master to facilitate an incredible adventure for kids and adults of all ages! If your child enjoys using their imagination and going on thrilling adventures, this is the perfect group for them! We promise a welcoming environment where everyone, regardless of their experience level, can come together to explore fantastic worlds and create unforgettable stories. In our sessions, participants will have the opportunity to roll dice, embark on quests, and make new friends, all while exercising their creativity in a safe and supportive setting. Bring your enthusiasm and let the adventure begin!
Parent or Guardian of younger kids are required to be present during the session for liability reasons, as we want to ensure a safe and enjoyable experience for all participants. We encourage a collaborative spirit among all players, ensuring everyone feels included. Your involvement is invaluable, and together we can help foster the next generation of imaginative storytellers!
Culture Club (3rd Tues @ 6pm)
Registration required. Register at bottom of page!
If you're passionate about growing mushrooms, brewing kombucha, making vinegar, baking sourdough, or fermenting everything from natto to kimchi, then you won’t want to miss our new Culture Club! If you have something to share, you are invited to help with this community based club where we can all learn from each other.
Foragers’ Food Swap and Processing Potluck(4th Thurs 6 pm)
Come every fourth Thursday to share and trade abundance, ask for help processing anything from jam to acorn flour or organize with the group to help harvest on your land.
Wouldn’t it be fantastic if we could have a consistent location to process and trade all that we have harvested? To learn from each other better ways to harvest, cook, store or share food? What if you could trade wild harvested mushrooms, home grown potatoes, homemade sauerkraut or bay nut truffles for freshly caught salmon, rock fish, venison, turkey?
Let’s start it here at The Shed!
No experience necessary. Donations welcome, cash preferred, QR code available at location. No registration required.
French Club (3rd Weds @ 5:30 pm)
French Club is for anyone wishing to practice their french. We welcome people of all skill levels.
In French Club we learn collaboratively through music, story and exercises. We share stories from our lives or dreams we have and we support each other through this learning experience.
No Payment or registration required. Suggested donation between $5-40
Gardening Club (1st Weds @ 5:30pm)
Come join the fun and get your Green Thumbs activated! Gardening Enthusiasts are invited to join us for our Gardening Club meeting! It will be led by our gardening mentor, Wonder. We will discuss topics related to the gardening season and address any questions about gardening. We can do plant and seed exchanges and introduce our favorite gardening tools or products! Together, we'll learn from the experiences of the group. Special Classes may emerge from specific gardening topics and needs.
Journal & Planner Meetup (1st Suns @ 3pm)
Love stationery, journaling, or planning? Come hang out with us! Bring your journals, planners, pens, washi, stickers, or whatever you're into. All skill levels and aesthetics welcome. Whether you're a seasoned collector or just discovering the hobby, there's a spot at the table for you. Hang out with other analog loving locals for a low key early afternoon.
Hosted by Cristalle Stutrud
Suggested Donation $5-$10, but No One Turned Away for Lack of Funds.
Resilience Club (2nd Thurs @ 6:30pm)
A Community Discussion Group
No Payment or registration required. Suggested donation between $5-40
Potluck will be from 6:30 - 7 pm
The resilience club is a community discussion group for El Sobrante and residents of Richmond, San Pablo and surrounding localities. We are here to discuss resilience not as a means only of survival, but as a way we can come to thrive in the places we inhabit.
The purpose of this meeting is not to virtue signal, pose as an expert or pretend we know what is ‘right.’ It is to discuss, as members of a community, what we think resilience means, how we can help each other achieve this and how we can turn preparedness into a better way of being in the world.
This gathering invites open, grounded conversation about what resilience can look like in our local context.
Topics may include:
Psychological resilience
Food systems and local food security
Shelter and housing
Materials (construction, textiles, food storage, tools)
Skills (building, farming, medicine, ecological stewardship, emergency response, critical thinking)
Personal wellness
Self-defense
Wildfire preparedness, natural disasters, and defensible space
Spanish Club (4th Weds @ 6pm)
Come practice your Spanish and English at The Shed’s monthly Spanish Club, every 4th Wednesday. We will listen to and translate Spanish and English songs and help each other gain confidence and skill in both English and Spanish.
We will be here every Fourth Wednesday between 6 and 8pm!
Ven a practicar español e inglés en el intercambio mensual de The Shed, que se celebra cada cuarto miércoles. Escucharemos y traduciremos canciones en español e inglés, y nos ayudaremos mutuamente a ganar confianza y destreza en ambos idiomas.
¡Estaremos aquí cada cuarto miércoles, de 6:00 p. m. a 8:00 p. m.!
Queer Coloring Group
(1st & 3rd Mons @ 6pm)
Join us for coloring, conversation, and queer community at this bi-weekly coloring night. This LGBTQ+ Adult Coloring Group is for all who identify as members of the queer community.
Free to attend. Some Supplies are available. Optional donations help support the space.
Save this monthly club meeting on your Google Calendar:
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Neighbors and Novels Book Club (1st Tues 6-8pm)
Join us for Neighbors & Novels, a book club where community and conversation take center stage. Each month, we'll gather to dig into a shared read with thoughtful, engaging discussion — just genuine curiosity and good company. Can't find time to read? No problem — listen along on audiobook and join the conversation anyway. Best of all, you have a say in what we read next: members recommend and vote on upcoming picks, so this club grows and shifts with the people in the room. Come as you are, bring your perspective, and help build a community worth showing up for.
Writers Group (2nd Tues 6:30-8pm)
A generative writers group focused on writing in community. Together we’ll write from guided prompts, explore short craft readings, and create space for sharing our work through listening, curiosity, and supportive reflection. Whether you’re just a beginner or have been writing for years, you’re welcome.
Community Projects and Skill Share Meetup (1st Thurs 6:30-8pm)
Come to learn and share skills of all shapes and forms! Furniture making? Mechanics? Fixing computers? Horse care? Coding? Basketry?
In this meetup we will begin exploring what the community knows and what they want to know and hopefully we can build a basis for future classes and workshops.
This time can function as a minimalist open studio time for you to come use basic tools, or dream with us of how we can build the space into something much bigger!
Have a local project that you are looking for help with? This can also be a space to meet handy people and see if they would be willing to help!
Or if you just want to come and hang out, someone will be here.
Connect with us
(510) 290-3669
5166A Sobrante Ave. (at Valley View) El Sobrante, California
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