Oakland’s Starline Social Club is Closing
Photo from Starline Social Club’s Instagram
One of Oakland’s coolest venues has announced that it is closing down.
On Saturday, Starline Social Club posted to its 21,000 Instagram followers that January 1st would be its final day. As they said in the post,”We are sad to announce that Starline Social Club is going up for sale and will cease current operations Jan 1st. We have had an amazing run but it is time for new operators to take over the space and create something new for Oakland.”
The closure is so sudden, that Starline won’t even be hosting many of the shows they already had booked for the new year. On the Instagram post they explained, “For all shows currently on sale, we are moving them to other independent venues around the bay area. Many of these moves have already been announced and tix are available for sale at the new venues. All tickets bought for these shows will be honored at the new venue either as direct scans or on a will call list.”
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This is a major bummer for the arts and nightlife community in Oakland. Housed in a three story historic victorian Oddfellows Hall built in 1893, the Starline Social Club has been an important space for a wide range of events for nearly a decade. They are a bar, restaurant, and music venue, amongst other things.
As their website states, “The Starline operates as a multi-use space that facilitates artists, musicians, activists and community based entrepreneurs in the exhibition of music, performance, literary, social, culinary and visual media.”
I’m crossing my fingers and my toes that an equally amazing business takes over the space and continues the magic that Starline started.
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