The Crucible is having their annual Gifty Art Sale this weekend (December 13th -14th) from 10AM to 4PM.
The Crucible is an industrial arts school in West Oakland where you can take classes in welding, machine shop, neon sign construction, glassblowing, beads, and fire performance. I took the machine shop class there last year and absolutely loved it.
The Crucible also puts on an event every year called the Fire Arts Festival which is part carnival, part outdoor theater, part Burning Man, and part fiery, burning chaos. Check it out next year if you haven’t seen it before, it is definitely one of the Bay Area’s top ten events of the year.