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The MilkBar has moved to Richmond! The Milkbar is still an artist curated salon series, established in 2004 at our old space in the Sunshine Biscuit Factory in Oakland, as an environment for the intersection of innovative, contemporary and experimental dance, music, theater and film. The MilkBar's co curators are: Mary Armentrout, Merlin Coleman and Ian Winters. Their shared curatorial aesthetic produces The MilkBar salons in their vibrant, intimate forty seat venue. The Milkbar actively supports site-specific work in and around their studio and the vast industrial complex of the adjoining Bridge Storage and Art Center. These salons host a dynamic and diverse range of artists, creating a unique collage effect of mixed disciplines such as local butoh, experimental Russian and Turkish film, mixed media photo installations, rooftop performance art with audience participation, and singer/songwriters. Over the past 15 years the MilkBar has evolved into a site of dialogue between artist and artist, artist and audience, and audience and the new.


For more information, please visit milkbar.org.






The MilkBar has moved to Richmond! After 13 years at The Sunshine Biscuit Factory in East Oakland, we were firmly shown the door, no longer welcome as an artist studio in an aging post-industrial factory complex increasingly turning into living quarters rather than live-work spaces. we landed in Richmond! The Milkbar Salons remain an artist curated salon series, established in 2004 as an environment for the intersection of innovative, contemporary and experimental dance, music, theater and film.  The MilkBar’s co curators are: Mary Armentrout, Merlin Coleman and Ian Winters. Their shared curatorial aesthetic produces The MilkBar salons in their vibrant, intimate forty seat venue. The Milkbar actively supports site-specific work in and around the Sunshine Biscuit Factory's