The Occidental Arts and Ecology Center is pleased to announce the first-ever Clown Café, a one-night-only pop-up restaurant staffed completely by clowns on June 28th, 2025 from 5:30PM – 9PM in the OAEC Barn.
This evening of gastronomic irreverency is a benefit for organizations that are supporting our local immigrant populations. While the cause is serious business, we’ll do our best to keep things on just this side of pandemonium. The waiters, cooks, bartenders, and a very snooty hostess will see to all your needs. What could possibly go wrong? The menu is long, though what’s actually available is not. One waiter is perhaps a bit too excited about her job while another may not hear your order amidst the tears. The maître d’ makes no sense, the busboy is a kleptomaniac, and order gluten free at your own risk (consider yourself warned!).
The Clown Café will take place in OAEC’s barn, at long tables where everyone will be sharing in the fun together. Along with a stage show of music, mirth, and magic, hosted by the inimitable Wysteria McBrylcream, your “staff” will make sure the evening is nothing if not memorable.
The beneficiaries of all proceeds from the Clown Café include the Raizes Collective, a Santa Rosa based organization that effects change through the arts, culture, and environmental education, and Undocufund, a Sonoma County project that redistributes donated funds directly to undocumented individuals and families that are otherwise unable to access the benefits of a social safety net due to their status.
We are pleased to put on the Clown Café as an expression of our gratitude and support for our Sonoma County neighbors who have come to this country and are working hard to make a better life for themselves and their communities.
We hope to see you there!
