Alameda Night Out
Recap

Alameda x Valkyries Family Night

Sunday, August 2 2026. The Rake at Admiral Maltings, then Chase Center.

Around forty Alameda neighbours, adults and kids, gathered behind the Alameda Night Out banner on the shoreline at Alameda Point, the bay and the old shipyard cranes behind them.
38
families
128
seats at Chase Center
67
on the bus off the island

Have a good time, do some good.

That first $400 was $275 given straight through the link by you, and $125 from us: $50 out of the Trabocco Kitchen & Cocktails sponsorship, $50 out of shirt sales, and $25 more since. Every dollar the food bank gets turns into about $7 of groceries.

The page is still open. Every dollar still turns into about seven.

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Hear about the next one

One email when a night goes up, nothing else. That is how most people find out.

How the day went

I'd been working on this one since June. We started at The Rake at Admiral Maltings out on Alameda Point at 1:30, took the malthouse tour, and the double decker pulled out at 3:45 with 67 of us on it.

Inside the lower deck of the double decker, families settling into their seats before the bus pulls out, the stairs to the upper deck at the back. The upper deck of the double decker on the road, the whole aisle turned around to face the camera, traffic visible out the windows below.

128 seats at Chase Center for the Valkyries. For a lot of these families it was their first WNBA game, and for some of the kids it was their first pro game of anything.

The Valkyries beat the Toronto Tempo 96 to 79. Janelle Salaun came off the bench for 24, and Veronica Burton put up 17 with six assists. It was close into the third and then it wasn't.

Who made it happen

Ron and Gregg at The Rake at Admiral Maltings. Ron said yes to the whole idea and worked out the tour and the pricing. Gregg ran it on the day and gave us the beer garden, the tour and the parking lot on a Sunday.
Christine at Trabocco Kitchen & Cocktails. Our first sponsor ever, and she said yes to putting part of it straight into the food bank.
Ali at the Alameda Food Bank. Turned around the donation link, the logo and the QR code with a few days notice. We are excited to keep working with them.
Rene at Valkyries group sales. Two months of seat requests and never once made it hard.
Issac at Collab on Park Street. Printed all 43 VALKAMEDA shirts and had them ready the morning of.

What should the next one be?

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Run a business on the island?

Trabocco Kitchen & Cocktails sponsored this one, and $50 of it went straight to the food bank. A night costs real money to put on, and a sponsor is what keeps a seat affordable for a family of five.

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What Alameda Night Out is

Big nights out for Alameda families, put together by neighbors. A bus off the island, a block of seats together, and a reason to meet the people who live around you. Aug 2 was the first one.

There is no next date on the calendar yet. The fastest way to hear about one is the group chat.

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