Oakland's monthly block party style community festival has canceled its January event due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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This month's "Oakland First Friday" was scheduled for Friday, Jan. 7, however organizers announced that the festival has been canceled because of the "rapid increase of COVID-19 cases throughout these past weeks."
The free festival is held in the Town the first Friday of every month along Telegraph Avenue between West Grand and 27th Street from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. First Friday features local performers, mobile food and arts-and-crafts vendors, and serves as an "inclusive gathering of all of Oakland’s communities."
With the January event canceled, the next First Friday is scheduled for February 4.
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