.Weekender: Top Things to Do Over the Next Three Days in the East Bay

At press posting (!?) time, you have 259,200 seconds between now and Monday morning. Here’s how to use ’em wisely:

PARK(ing) Day
Looking for parking can be stressful, but looking for parks will be a breeze during worldwide PARK(ing) Day on Friday, Sept. 16, when various metered parking spaces will be transformed into public “parklets” that offer a bit of greenery while challenging conceptions of urban space. Businesses and organizations across the East Bay will take part throughout the day and entire weekend. Actual Cafe (6334 San Pablo Ave., Oakland), which opened a now-defunct parklet in May, will host a new park with a DJ and happy hour, and Oaklandish (1444 Broadway, Oakland) will roll out a park in front of its downtown Oakland storefront. Times vary by location, free. Click here for full participant list. — Cassie Harwood

Project Bandaloop: Boundless
Site-specific and aerial dance are all the rage these days, and Project Bandaloop still leads the charge after two decades of dancing on skyscraper walls, across the face of El Capitan in Yosemite, and (every so often) in theaters. On Thursday through Saturday, September 15-17, Bandaloop celebrates its twentieth anniversary with premiere performances of Bound(less), a large-scale, multimedia vertical dance performed on (and between) buildings at the Great Wall of Oakland (Grand Ave. and Broadway). Electro-jazz musician and composer Dana Leong and his band accompany the supremely acrobatic, and evidently fearless dancers as they fly through the air, bending minds and altering perspectives. Arrive as early as 6 p.m. to secure your view, and bring a folding chair or blanket for a comfortable seat. 8:30 p.m., free (limited reserved seating available for $35 for Saturday night’s show). 415-421-5667 or ProjectBandaloop.org. — Claudia Bauer

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