oakland garden club

Cactus Breeding in Oakland

Our first OGC meeting is October 9 at Local Economy and you can RSVP now

Sep 13, 2025 • Alexis Madrigal

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August 2025

The Memory Clerk

A one-time only research performance (??) at Fort Mason next Friday

Aug 29, 2025 • Alexis Madrigal

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I've been a bad gardener this season

And yet, things are still growing ... plus more on Local Economy, the Bathers Summer Symposium, and a crazy night at Fort Mason you can get in on

Aug 18, 2025 • Alexis Madrigal

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July 2025

Simple beauty

MOON. WATER. GREEN.

Jul 15, 2025 • Alexis Madrigal

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My parents planted a forest

We just could not imagine life functioning at tree-scale time.

Jul 7, 2025 • Alexis Madrigal

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June 2025

Living rivers, poetry, urban space, clouds of flies, and flocks of butterflies

A to-go bag for your early summer

Jun 3, 2025 • Alexis Madrigal

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May 2025

The literary underground is teeming with life right now

Come support the brilliant Transit Books this Saturday in Oakland with me

May 22, 2025 • Alexis Madrigal

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March 2025

Come chat about The Pacific Circuit, writing, books, seeing the real world

A space for us to connect

Mar 18, 2025 • Alexis Madrigal

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The Narrows of the Book

On the compression of a project and its re-expansion IRL (also contained herein: my March book tour dates)

Mar 12, 2025 • Alexis Madrigal

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February 2025

Notes on My Book, The Pacific Circuit, in the Present Moment

an intricate tableau of the city of Oakland that is at once a groundbreaking big-idea book, a deeply researched work of social and political history…

Feb 26, 2025 • Alexis Madrigal

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January 2025

A life project, a simple conversation

"every person on this earth is a monstrously huge landscape, and yet, we can drop into any of it with a simple incantation, the right string of words…

Jan 2, 2025 • Alexis Madrigal

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November 2024

The Overlooked Lesson of The Parable of the Sower

On the power of the big dream in Octavia Butler's prescient novel

Nov 16, 2024 • Alexis Madrigal

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