The 2025 BANDALOOP Gala
Tasting Flight, Performance & Fundraiser
to Amplify Oakland Arts
Saturday, April 5, 2025, 5-9pm
Bring your appetite, imagination, and generosity to
our biggest fundraising event of the year!
Location:
BANDALOOP Studios
1601 18th Street
Oakland, CA
Schedule of Events:
5pm - VIP Entry & Whiskey Tasting
5:30pm - Doors Open
6:30pm - Welcome Remarks
7pm - FLOCK Excerpt Performance, Fund-A-Dream & Live Auction
8pm - Dessert & Drinks
9pm - Thank You & Good Night!
With MC Autumn King, Senior Director Marketing, Communications & Visitor Experience, OMCA.
Performance from BANDALOOP with special musical guests Destani Wolf and Ben Juodvalkis.
Tasting Flight from Cafe Noir, Jo’s Modern Thai, Pomella, and Here & There and Open Bar featuring Brix Factory Brewing.
Fund-a-Dream proceeds directly support BANDALOOP's free community events and artist development programs.
The 2025 BANDALOOP Gala Host Committee
Thomas Cavanagh, Laura Dorman, Joe Ernst, Laura Geist, Owen Modica, Jana Pastena, Tara Pillbrow, Brian Ripley, Amelia Rudolph, Harv Singh
SPONSORS
AUCTION SPONSORS
“BANDALOOP is an arts and cultural anchor that is playing a role in sustaining artists and our place in West Oakland amidst so much change and displacement for our Oakland community.”
ABOUT BANDALOOP
BANDALOOP is an international dance company based in West Oakland, California, specializing in large-scale, publicly accessible vertical performances. Through our perspective-bending storytelling and movement-based art, BANDALOOP honors nature, community, and the human spirit.
Since the founding of the company in Oakland in 1991, BANDALOOP has choreographed and produced over 300 performances in over 30 countries.
BANDALOOP’s social mission is to stretch everyone’s social, physical and moral potential to foster wellness of people and planet.
