Register today for "In the Hights" on 10/12/25!
They showed Lin Manuel Miranda's brilliant "In The Heights" musical at Woodminster Amphitheater this summer...and I couldn't resist the opportunity to clap back with an invitation to "In the Hights," a curated cabaret of characters who cavorted in creativity some hundred years ago, and created the Cascade. Please share this information in your newsletter! At the turn of the last century, Joaquin Miller held “bandit barbecues” at his artist’s retreat known as “The Hights” — now known as Joaquin Miller Park. Miller and other writers in the 1890s “Oakland gang” called their readings and skits “jinks.” Join us for a community-sourced meal orchestrated by James Farais of Indigenous Edibles and get to know the Friends of Joaquin Miller Park, an organization of dedicated park volunteers. Stay for a short “lojinks festival” featuring local personalities and literary lights speaking California’s founding voices back into life. Writers/artists l-r: Yone Noguchi, Ambro...