Upcoming Events
Gather. Taste. Discover.
From vermouth tastings and pop-up dinners to artist receptions, there's always something happening at Evergreen. Join us to mix and mingle with food enthusiasts, creatives, neighbors, and friends.
SEPTEMBER
Writers on Wednesdays:
Courage or Complicity? A Book Talk with Suzanne Gordon & Steve Early
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2026
6-8PM, FREE
Join East Bay authors Suzanne Gordon and Steve Early for a discussion of their new book Courage or Complicity? How Labor and Veterans Are Fighting Privatization, Union Busting & Trump (PM Press).
The book reports on how military veterans, their unionized care-givers, and other federal workers — plus vets in private sector unions — are responding to attacks on their jobs, healthcare, workers' rights, undocumented immigrants, democracy, and peace. The conversation will cover the community-labor struggle to prevent the VA and other federal agencies from being defunded, anti-MAGA organizing among military vets within organized labor, and the "Save The VA" coalition building between progressive veterans' groups and healthcare reformers.
About the authors:
Suzanne Gordon is an award-winning journalist who has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Atlantic, the Nation, and many others. She is the cofounder of the Veterans Healthcare Policy Institute and the author, editor, or coauthor of twenty books.
Steve Early has been active in the Communications Workers of America for forty-five years. He lives in Richmond and belongs to the Richmond Progressive Alliance and East Bay DSA.
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Sunday Supper: From Bihar, With Love
Sunday, SEPTEMBER 27, 2026
6-8PM, $85 per person
When most people think of Indian food, they think of the same handful of dishes, the ones that made it onto Western menus decades ago and never left. But India has 28 states and as many distinct food cultures, and most of them are completely invisible here. Bihar is one of them.
Join us for a ticketed 4-course meal prepared by Chef Meghna Agarwal of Crimson Kitchen for this magical evening.
Course 1: Papri Matar
Semolina crisps topped with dried peas and fresh sprouts, finished with sweet and tangy homemade chutneys. A lively, layered Bihari street snack to kick things off.
Course 2: Sarso Jheenga with Rice
Juicy shrimp simmered in a pungent mustard gravy, fragrant with green chili and turmeric. Served over steamed rice. Bold, earthy, and unapologetically punchy.
Vegetarian swap: eggplant in mustard sauce
Course 3: Aloo Chop with Lacha Paratha
Golden, crispy potato cutlets with a warmly spiced interior, paired with flaky layered bread. The ultimate Bihari finish before dessert.
october
Writers on Wednesdays:
Barry Bergman
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2026
6-8PM, FREE
Join East Bay author Barry Bergman in conversation about his debut novel Proles — a darkly comic coming-of-age tale set against the turmoil of the Nixon years.
Bergman's debut, wrote Kirkus Reviews, "draw[s] on Ken Kesey, Thomas Pynchon, and Hunter S. Thompson for its bleak, scorched earth-style depiction of the death of post-'60s American idealism." Inspired by a blacklisted reenactment of a Southwest miners' strike, Proles follows Simon Bussbaum as he flees his middle-class life in Queens for the Arizona desert, eager to join American workers' march to the promised land of liberty and justice for all. His film-fueled summer of hard labor, toxic masculinity, and unrequited love goes wildly off-script — but it shines a revealing light on the power and perils of myth.
About the author:
Barry Bergman is a New York City refugee, long ago replanted in the Bay Area. He's been a newspaper reporter, a magazine writer/editor with bylines in Sierra, California, and Mother Jones, and a communications pro at UC Berkeley and assorted nonprofits. Before earning his journalism degree at SF State he worked in a variety of industrial settings, including two years in an Arizona copper smelter — an experience he'd later reimagine as the fictional backdrop for Proles.
Proles is published by Serving House Books and is available at Bookshop.org, Book Passage, Mrs. Dalloway's, and other independent booksellers.
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