Weekly Bonfire Potluck Series: Wednesday Evenings at REAP
Every Wednesday evening, REAP Climate Center opens its Alameda campus for the Weekly Bonfire Potluck Series: a free, donation-based gathering for food, conversation, local climate culture, and community connection.
The idea is simple: bring yourself, bring a friend, and bring something to share if you can. Some food is provided, and potluck contributions are always welcome. Come early to help cook, stay late to sit by the fire, or drop in for the part that fits your evening. The series runs after our Wednesday Open House and Volunteer Hours, creating a natural rhythm: hands-on work in the afternoon, shared food and programming in the evening.
Each week looks a little different, rotating in monthly live music, movies, workshops, and partner-led conversations.
Weekly Bonfire Potlucks for 5/20 to 6/10
That variety is the point. REAP is a place where people can enter climate community from many directions. Some people arrive through gardening, compost, oysters, food, music, or curiosity. Others come through workforce training, volunteering, science, education, or organizing. The Weekly Bonfire Potluck Series gives all of those entry points a shared home.
REAP empowers communities to grow earth-conscious industries. We increase access to climate change mitigation by providing ecological experiences and climate job pathways. The Bonfire Potluck Series is one of the most accessible ways to experience that mission in real time: it’s a group of people who care about building something useful together.
Community is not a side benefit of climate work. It is part of the infrastructure. To build regenerative systems, we need places where people can meet across interests, disciplines, and backgrounds. We need low-pressure ways to learn what others are working on, find collaborators, ask questions, and imagine new projects. A Wednesday evening potluck may look casual, but it helps create the trust and belonging that make deeper work possible.
The series also supports REAP’s broader role as a home for nature-positive work. Our campus brings together ecological restoration, community programming, workforce development, youth opportunities, and partner projects. The Bonfire Potluck Series invites people into that ecosystem, whether they are longtime volunteers, first-time visitors, local neighbors, potential partners, artists, educators, students, or people simply looking for climate-minded community in the Bay Area.
These events are free to attend, and donations are appreciated. Please sign in when you arrive, complete the required waiver, and help us keep the space welcoming and safe for everyone. If you bring alcohol, please do so responsibly and plan a safe way home.
Join us on Wednesday evenings at REAP Climate Center, 2133 Tynan Avenue in Alameda. Come for the food, the fire, the programming, or the people. Stay for the sense that climate action can be local, practical, joyful, and shared.