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Public and Private Events
The Pardee Home Museum hosts both private and public events. Private events include tea parties, private home tours, and customized events held in our garden spaces—teas, lunches, community gatherings, weddings, receptions, etc. Our public events include a home tours on the second and third Saturdays of each month, and occasional events such as lectures, celebrations and community gatherings. See the Events Calendar below for a complete listing of current events. Please reach out via our Contact page, to inquire about event sign-up, site rental, membership, volunteering, or simply ask a question.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Sunday, February 23, 2025 – 3 – 5pm PDT
PARDEE HOME MUSEUM MUSICALE: MOONGLOW TRIO
Location: Pardee Home Museum, 672 11th Street Oakland, CA 94607 (Please enter by gate on Castro Street)
Cost: $25.00 (all proceeds go to the museum)
About this event:
Back by Popular Demand! Enjoy a lovely afternoon in the garden under our magnificent oak trees and blooming flowers, in our Carriage House or even in our house depending on weather, featuring the music of: MOONGLOW TRIO. The program will feature Acoustic jazz, the Great American Songbook, Gypsy Jazz, Soul, Rhythm & Blue and Continental salon. A champagne reception with sweets & savories will follow.
MOONGLOW TRIO
Richard Chon, violin, vocals
John Nichols, guitar
Bing Nathan, bass
Reservation are a must. Eventbrite or call Richelle Lieberman (510-381-1973) for more details.
Sunday, March 16, 2025 at 3-5pm
PARDEE HOME MUSEUM LECTURE: The Man Who Lit Lady Liberty: The Extraordinary Rise and Fall of Actor M.B. Curtis
Location: Pardee Home Museum, 672 11th Street Oakland, CA 94607 (Please enter by gate on Castro Street)
Cost: $25.00 (all proceeds go to the museum)
About this event:
As the Statue of Liberty stood unlit and unloved by American politicians in 1886, one of her saviors was creating a theatrical sensation at New York’s Fourteenth Street Theatre. Actor M. B. Curtis. He had achieved overnight success in “Sam’l of Posen”, a groundbreaking play that transcended the common stereotypes of Jewish characters current at the time, was basking in public accolades at every curtain call when he came to Lady Liberty’s aid. Curtis’s rise to the top of his profession and his resulting fall from grace is a dramatic arc that rivals anything created for the stage. Actor, producer, real estate developer, promoter, hotelier, benefactor, and murder suspect, Curtis reached the highs of celebrity and fame as well as the lows of failure, illness, and a faltering career. Richard Schwartz’s book “The Man Who Lit Lady Liberty” rescues his story from the dusty archives of forgotten history and reexamines an actor whose creativity and cultural influence still resonate today.
“In this outstanding new biography of that remarkable immigrant thespian M.B. Curtis, Richard Schwartz gives readers a lost episode in the story of the Statue of Liberty and her torch―that it was none other than Curtis himself who helped pay for Miss Liberty’s first electric lighting bills in November 1886. This is just one of the many absorbing episodes in this biography of one of the most talented character actors of his time.” — Barry Moreno – Historian and author, the Bob Hope Memorial Library at Ellis Island, Statue of Liberty National Monument
Richard Schwartz is an historian and the author of “Eccentrics, Heroes, and Cutthroats of Old Berkeley”; “Earthquake Exodus, 1906”; “Berkeley 1900”; and “The Circle of Stones”. The Man Who Lit Lady Liberty (April 2017) is his fifth book and was selected by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Margaret Herrick Library to be included in their collection. The book was also recently awarded the bronze medal in the 2018 Independent Publisher Book Awards.
The lecture will be followed by a question and answer period and a Champagne reception with savory hors d’oeuvres and delicious sweets. Please reserve a place as soon as possible by calling Richelle Lieberman 510.381.1973 or booking on Eventbrite
$25 (all proceeds go to the museum)
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
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