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The second Monday of each month, 7:30 PM. The Venue's Website does not mention it.
An open-mic listing site's live schedule, checked Sep 1, 2026, shows this Monday mic with a genuinely upcoming date, matching a second-Monday-of-the-month pattern [s1]. The venue's own homepage, fully read, doesn't mention an open mic, songwriters, or the promoter's name, and its events page returns not-found [s2]. A cross-check against the promoter's own site was blocked.
An open-mic listing site, checked Sept 1, 2026, lists the next event as Sept 2, 2026 [s1]. The Venue's Website lists an 'Open Mic Night ft. Brandeis Rock Bands' dated May 20, 2026 -- about three and a half months earlier, within the roughly six months that would show a weekly mic is still running [s2].
An open-mic listing site, checked Sept 1, 2026, shows this Thursday mic with a genuinely upcoming date, consistent with a second-and-fourth-Thursday pattern [s1]. The Venue's Website names 'Novato Open Mic' with Thursday context and gives its correct sign-up email address [s2]. This corrects a small error in the sign-up email address used before. No specific start time could be found in either source.
3rd Thursday of the month · 7:30 PM · sign-up 7 PM
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The third Thursday of each month, 7:30 PM. Something about this has changed recently — confirm before going.
An open-mic listing site's dedicated page for this venue, last updated Aug 28, 2026, confirms the event is real and currently running on a monthly third-Thursday cadence, with the next instance dated Sept 17, 2026 [s2]. This corrects an earlier listing that had described it as a weekly event [s1].
Weekly on Wednesdays, 7:00 PM. The Venue's Website does not mention it.
An open-mic listing site's full venue database was checked for this cafe and it doesn't appear at all (checked Aug 31, 2026) [s3]. The venue's own homepage doesn't mention an open mic, and its /events page gives a not-found error [s2]. An open-mic listing site lists this event [s1]. It remains the only source ever claiming it.
Weekly on Thursdays, 7:00 PM. The Venue's Website does not mention it.
The Venue's Website was checked again in full, and 'open mic' is absent anywhere on the page (checked Aug 31, 2026) [s2]. This matches an earlier finding. The venue is also absent from an open-mic listing site's full venue database [s3]. A large booked-show venue may simply not advertise a smaller night on its homepage, so this stays unconfirmed rather than closed.
The venue's own ticketing page, checked through instances on Jan 9, Mar 6, Apr 17, and May 29, 2026, shows a real, varying 'Get-Hype Open-Mic' series rather than a repeated template [s1]. The Venue's Website lists the same 'Get Hype Open Mic' repeatedly in its live events feed [s2]. An open-mic listing site lists the next event as Sept 4, 2026 [s3].
Weekly on Tuesdays, 8:00 PM. Only one source reports it.
A 2023 news article, fully re-read, describes karaoke and open-mic nights as a stated future plan as of Nov 2023 [s3]. Nearly three years have passed with no confirmation the plan was realized or still runs. The venue's own current profile page doesn't mention it (checked Aug 31, 2026) [s2]. An open-mic listing site's full venue database was also checked and doesn't list this venue at all [s4].
Weekly on Sundays, 6:00 PM. The Venue's Website does not mention it.
An open-mic listing site's full venue database does not list this venue at all (checked Aug 31, 2026) [s3]. The Venue's Website shows too little text to confirm or rule out an open mic [s2]. Either way, this points to the event being unconfirmed rather than closed.
The Venue's Website lists this night, but may not be current.
Weekly on Thursdays, 8:00 PM. Only one source reports it.
An open-mic listing site (checked Aug 15, 2026) is the original source for a claimed Thursday event [s1]. The venue's own homepage (checked Aug 31, 2026) shows a real 'Jam Session/Open Mic' feature, with dated instances -- including 'Sunday, June 21st' -- falling on Sundays, not Thursdays [s2]. A ticketing site's listing for one such show also shows a Sunday date [s3]. No Thursday claim is corroborated by anything found.
Both sources give the same night and time, but neither confirms recent activity.
The single confirmed instance of this event, dated Aug 14, 2026, is now itself in the past and shows as completed with 33 attendees on the ticketing site that hosted it — a real, one-off or not-yet-repeated hybrid showcase/open-mic night (checked Sep 1, 2026) [s1]. The venue's own calendar listing for it remains up, unchanged [s2]. No second instance or stated recurrence has appeared anywhere checked.
A guessed website domain for this venue failed to resolve, so its real site was never confirmed; this is inconclusive rather than evidence either way (checked Aug 31, 2026). An open-mic listing site's full venue database doesn't list this venue at all [s2]. Both named events found at this address remain sourced only from listing sites and fall on non-Wednesday dates.
A page on eastsideartsalliance.org lists this night, but may not be current.
The second and fourth Thursday of each month, 8:00 PM. Only one source reports it.
The freshest confirmed dated instance of this event is Apr 18, 2024, over two years stale (as of Sep 1, 2026). The organization's own About page confirms its identity [s1]. Its actively updated calendar has been checked repeatedly and has never shown this event [s2]. This is a consistent negative, though not itself proof the series ended.
Fridays, 6:00 PM. How often is unclear. The Venue's Website does not mention it.
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The sources disagree about whether it still runs.
The organization's own events page, fully read, shows no mention of this event across repeated checks (checked Sep 1, 2026) [s1]. The only concrete instance found, dated Dec 19, 2025, traces to a third-party listing blocked both live and in archived copies, some of which an index confirms exist but could not be read [s2]. This is a reachability gap, not evidence the event doesn't run. Recurrence is unknown.
Weekly on Mondays, 6:00 PM. The Venue's Website does not mention it.
An open-mic listing site's full venue database doesn't list this venue at all (checked Aug 31, 2026) [s4]. The Venue's Website confirms it is real and active, but its /events page gives a not-found error and its front page doesn't name a specific recurring open mic [s3]. An open-mic listing site's state page remains the source for this claim [s1]. Its per-venue detail page repeats it [s2].
No venue-run website exists for this venue (checked Aug 31, 2026). An open-mic listing site's full venue database doesn't list it either [s3]. The event's type correction rests on other unconfirmed information rather than a fully read page. An open-mic listing site remains the original claim [s1]. A local district association's page adds nothing further [s2]. This stays a low-confidence flag rather than a confirmed detail.
2nd Thursday of the month · 8 PM · sign-up 7:30 PM
Venue website no longer online
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A ticket page on eventbrite.com lists this night, but may not be current.
The second Thursday of each month, 8:00 PM. The Venue's Website has gone offline since we found this.
A ticketing site's category page, checked again, corroborates that this venue address cluster is genuinely active, but a specific 'Oakland Slam @ Awaken Cafe' instance with its own forward date was not found (checked Sep 1, 2026) [s1]. This venue's own domain remains unreachable. Confidence was not raised on the category page alone.
The Venue's Website, checked Aug 31, 2026, currently states this comedy open mic 'occurs every Wednesday at 8 PM,' hosted by Hayden GreifNell [s2]. This confirms the 8 PM start time an open-mic listing site had also given [s1]. It also adds the host's name.
A page on bayareacreative.org lists this night, but may not be current.
The first Sunday of each month, 5:00 PM. Only one source reports it.
The organizer's own site, checked again, confirms 'Oakland Poetry Slam: 1st Sundays @Nomadic,' resolving the frequency to monthly on the first Sunday (checked Sep 1, 2026) [s1]. A street address listed on that same site appears to be the organizer's own business-registration address rather than necessarily this bookshop's storefront, so the address was left unconfirmed rather than guessed.
The organizer's own live calendar, checked Sept 1, 2026, lists two separately dated forward instances: a 'Second Mondays' event on Sept 14, 2026, 6-9 PM, and an anniversary edition on Oct 12, 2026, both located in Oakland [s1]. This confirms the event has a fixed location rather than moving around; the specific street address still comes only from an older 2021 news article, not this calendar.
Weekly on Thursdays, 7:30 PM. The Venue's Website does not mention it.
The Venue's Website (re-checked Aug 31, 2026, in a full read) makes no mention of 'open mic' anywhere [s2]. The venue is also absent from an open-mic listing site's full curated database [s3]. The one concrete dated instance found for this event fell on a Friday, not the claimed Thursday -- an unresolved day discrepancy [s1].
One source says Saturday, others disagree; nothing we could verify settles it. Only one source reports it.
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The sources disagree on the night.
An open-mic listing site lists 'The Alchemy Open Mic' at this address [s1]. Another listing site carries the same entry (checked Aug 31, 2026) [s2]. That site commonly copies entries from a ticketing site rather than reporting on its own, so it adds nothing new. No page run by the venue was found to check. The most recent dated instance is Jun 6, 2026, about three months old.
A ticket page on eventbrite.com lists this night, but may not be current.
The first Saturday of each month, 8:30 PM. Only one source reports it.
A ticketing site's category page, checked again, confirms this venue's address is genuinely active with real spoken-word programming, including another named event listed among its current shows (checked Sep 1, 2026) [s1]. A specific 'Alchemy Open Mic' instance with its own forward date could not be found, so confidence was not raised on the strength of the category page alone.
This address could not be matched to the venue; the location is unclear.
Call to confirm current schedule
A listing on badslava.com lists this night, but may not be current.
Weekly on Wednesdays, 8:00 PM. Only one source reports it.
The Venue's Website domain currently shows unrelated spam content, as it did before, suggesting the domain has lapsed (checked Aug 31, 2026) [s2]. A review site lists the business as closed, though that alone does not confirm the open mic itself has ended. Whether the open mic still runs is unresolved.
Weekly on Sundays, 7:00 PM. The Venue's Website does not mention it.
A listing site is the original source for this Sunday music claim [s1]. This venue is absent entirely from an open-mic listing site's full curated database, checked Aug 31, 2026 [s3]. The venue's own confirmed recurring open-mic-format show, a storytelling slam, runs on Wednesday rather than the claimed Sunday, and is a distinct event from this one [s2]. The Sunday claim remains uncorroborated.
Billed as 'Storking Comedy' standup open mic on Thursdays by two listings, but the venue's current calendar shows a DJ/dance night instead, so it may no longer run as comedy.
Weekly on Thursdays, 8:00 PM. The Venue's Website does not mention it.
The Venue's Website was checked again in full, and 'open mic' is absent anywhere on the page (checked Aug 31, 2026) [s2]. This matches an earlier finding. It's also absent from an open-mic listing site's full venue database [s3]. An open-mic listing site lists this event [s1]. It remains the only source ever claiming it.
1st Saturday of the month · 6 PM · sign-up 5:30 PM
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An open-mic listing site, checked Aug 31, 2026, confirms 'First Saturday of the month at 6pm' for this exact venue [s1]. The venue's own dedicated page for this location does not itself mention the event, but this is not treated as outweighing the listing site's specific confirmation.
Monthly on a Thursday, 5:00 PM; no source says which week.
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The event's own host publishes a multi-year appearance schedule (checked Sept 1, 2026), listing 23 dates from 2023 through 2026, every one confirmed to fall on a Thursday, with upcoming 2026 dates on Sept 17, Oct 15, Nov 19, and Dec 10 [s1]. A featured poet's own event page confirms the exact venue address and room [s2]. A separate featured poet's own event page agrees [s3].