<aside> 🍺 Culture! Costume! Couture! The Dirndl Diaspora, a true Oakland original, with support from the Dimond Improvement Association, is adding some extra fun to Oaktoberfest this year! Join us for a celebration of dirndls at the 3 events sponsored by this show at this year’s Oaktoberfest in the Dimond on
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👉 Volunteer, enter the show, practice your polka
👉 Say you're coming on Facebook!
🍻DD on Facebook
The Dirndl Diaspora is a play written by Kristen Caven for Oakland’s Oaktobefest in the Dimond District. Learn more here.
The animated film premiered in 2020 at the world’s first “online Oktoberfest!” and received an honorable mention in the 2023 LA Underground Film Forum.
Savannah James is racing against time. Orders are rushing in for her custom couture diversity dirndls. Friends, customers, and a reporter from Germany crowd into her basement studio—but her husband really wants have a talk about starting a family. Really?
Business has been booming since Zendaya wore her dress in Teen Vogue. Suddenly, Savannah’s idea of making ethnic mashups of traditional German party clothes is getting inner cities everywhere excited about Oktoberfest. But she knows more about pleats than business—and now she has to help fight Nazis, too?
Kristen Caven’s hilarious new “spiel show” is about work and creativity, language and secrets, horror stories and fashion fantasies, building positive futures out of complicated pasts, and the beauty of a circle of women.
https://youtu.be/twsZxyfzRGs?si=0oHK02ZeIpiH4UnC
The movie will run several times with opportunities to discuss its themes with the creator.
Oh, and beer. Lots of beer.
<aside> 🍺 Although alcoholic beverages are not permitted on Library premises, this movie features drinking and discusses beer.
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Here’s the Facebook event for the fashion show!