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🌞 Summer Specials! Featuring locally-grown yellow corn and heirloom tomatoes.  🌽 Summer Caesar Salad with roasted corn, ...
06/17/2026

🌞 Summer Specials! Featuring locally-grown yellow corn and heirloom tomatoes.

🌽 Summer Caesar Salad with roasted corn, heirloom tomatoes, cucumbers, chopped romaine, shaved parm, and a spicy chipotle caesar dressing or a pesto vinaigrette, with your choice of roasted chicken breast or sliced avocados from California.

🍅 Heirloom Tomato Caprese with slices of heirloom tomatoes, fresh basil, fresh mozzarella and our house-made pesto (*no nuts) on a torpedo roll.

📽️ We'll see you here this week *and* this weekend, Saturday 4-7pm before the screening and Sunday 11-2 before the matinée on the Summer Solstice! 🌞🌿

This weekend come in and grab a bite to eat and enjoy our delicious hand-crafted beers or wine, lemonade, and more befor...
06/16/2026

This weekend come in and grab a bite to eat and enjoy our delicious hand-crafted beers or wine, lemonade, and more before the shows. We'll be open on Saturday afternoon at 4pm and early Sunday at 11am for the matinée!

⭐️ Two shows coming up this weekend! ⭐️

Gravitational Lensing: Feminist Film Dialogues
Program 16: Q***r Joy, Friendship & Community
Presented in association with San Francisco Cinematheque
Saturday, June 20, 2026, 7pm, $15

Dovetailing off the history, legacy and celebrations of Pride month, Program 16: Q***r Joy, Friendship & Community magnifies the spaces and relationships established, cultivated and celebrated by the LGBTQIA+ community.

Screening: Sisters! (1973, 16mm film) by Barbara Hammer, Swing, Swish, Sway (2026, 16mm film + DV, shown on DV) by TT Takemoto, A Spell for a Q***r Home (2023, DV) by A. Madden, The Neighbour (2021, DV) by Cedoy, nakładamy się (2022, 16mm film shown on DV) by ewelina węgiel and How to Carry Water (2023, DV) by Sasha Wortzel

Revelations of Divine Love
with director Caroline Golum in person
Sunday, June 21, 2026, 2pm, $15

An irreverent biopic vividly realized through fantastic psychedelia and handmade sets with an ever-topical feminist approach, Revelations of Divine Love, by Caroline Golum is inspired by and adapted from the memoir of 14th-century mystic and philosopher Julian of Norwich—an account of religious ecstasy, plague, and revolt considered to be the first English-language book to be authored by a woman. Running time: 73 minutes. In English and Latin with English subtitles.

Vital Signs is a new film series organized by Bay Area filmmaker and curator Jonathan Kiefer to showcase new and recently-released, feature-length, contemporary, independent and artist-made films that have shown around the international film festival circuit but may or may not have been picked up by distributors and are otherwise hard to find. Films may feature obscure themes, unusual perspectives or eccentric material, but they have all been sifted through the Vital Signs filter so you can be sure they are all films worth leaving your home to see in community with like-minded art film/film art appreciators.

New Hours! Shapeshifters Café is now open before every show! Grab a bite to eat and enjoy our delicious hand-crafted bee...
06/11/2026

New Hours! Shapeshifters Café is now open before every show! Grab a bite to eat and enjoy our delicious hand-crafted beers or wine, lemonade, and more. We'll be open at least two hours before the show, even for our Sunday matinees.

⭐️ Two shows coming up this weekend! ⭐️

😺 Catnapped! by Takashi Nakamura
Presented with an introduction by werring yuli
Screening and Fundraiser for Shapeshifters Cinema
Friday, June 12, 2026
Two screenings! 6pm (dubbed version) & 8:15pm (subtitled version)
$12-20, sliding scale (all proceeds will support Shapeshifters Cinema)
🍺🍷🍪 Café Open from 4:00-8:00PM

Created by Takashi Nakamura and released in 1995, this obscure, feature-length anime film tells the story of siblings Toriyasu and Meeko whose dog is stolen away and taken to a phantasmagoric, otherworldly place ruled by cat-people to be used as a weapon. Toriyasu and Meeko face off against the evil Princess Bubulina, whose touch can turn almost anything into a balloon, in order to save their pet and also the cat world. The film is being presented (with permission from the director) by local artist and anime aficionado werring yuli, along with a short presentation about the film, the director and the significance of both to the world of anime.

🎞️ Short Film Festival – Presented by HFP International
Saturday, June 13, 2026, 6pm, $12
🍺🍷🍪 Café Open from 4:00-6:00PM

The 7th edition of the Oakland Short Film Festival invites you to experience the world through a radically different lens. Spanning two distinctive screening programs, our 2026 selection brings together 9 short films from 8 countries - bridging independent voices from Europe, Asia, South America, and the United States. This year's curation is a vibrant tapestry of cinematic forms: from the quiet truth of documentary and the boundless imagination of animation to the raw emotion of student works and avant-garde experimental film. Each piece stands as a testament to the power of short-form storytelling to collapse distances and reveal deep, shared truths.

Open today from 10AM-5PM! Mexican-French Toast, Breakfast Burritos, Mimosas from 10AM-2PM. Then at 1PM we'll be hosting ...
05/09/2026

Open today from 10AM-5PM! Mexican-French Toast, Breakfast Burritos, Mimosas from 10AM-2PM. Then at 1PM we'll be hosting Mr. B's Chili Cook-off! Special chilis by Mario Benjamin, plus a house-made vegan chili. Sounds by DJ SPooN and E-Solo. Beer on Tap: Saison with Lavender and Honey and Session IPA with Simcoe, Mosaic, Nelson.

📸: Photo of Gilbert and Mario by Sara M Guerrero-Herrera

🌶️🥖Mexican-French Toast! Croissant Pullman bread, battered in eggs, milk, sugar, and vanilla, pan-toasted until crisp, t...
05/05/2026

🌶️🥖Mexican-French Toast! Croissant Pullman bread, battered in eggs, milk, sugar, and vanilla, pan-toasted until crisp, then rolled in cinnamon sugar. Served with a Mexican chocolate sauce for dipping. ¡Buen Provecho! Bon Appétit!

¡Happy Cinco de Mayo! 🇲🇽💥🇫🇷

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Beer Braised Brisket Sandwich! Slow cooked for over 3 hours in our seasonal Stout beer made with California grown Capay ...
04/08/2026

Beer Braised Brisket Sandwich! Slow cooked for over 3 hours in our seasonal Stout beer made with California grown Capay Rye from . In a toasted French torpedo roll from , with a cabbage and apple slaw, pickled red onions, and mayo. Treat yourself! For a limited time! Until the Stout runs out!



Special Hours Tonight! We’ll be open from 6-9pm with a limited menu and Shapeshifters beer on tap. Can’t wait to see you...
03/26/2026

Special Hours Tonight! We’ll be open from 6-9pm with a limited menu and Shapeshifters beer on tap. Can’t wait to see you here!

567 5th St, Oakland 😺

On the menu today - beer braised beef brisket on freshly baked buns with cabbage slaw. These are made with our Streetcar...
03/14/2026

On the menu today - beer braised beef brisket on freshly baked buns with cabbage slaw. These are made with our Streetcar rye stout and are available for a limited time only.

Great with a freshly-squeezed sparkling lemonade or blood orange mimosa!

We are open today from 10-2 for brunch.

Summer is finally here! 😎 To celebrate we’re pouring a special Sparkling Lemonade! 🍋🫧 Made with a zesty lemon simple syr...
03/10/2026

Summer is finally here! 😎 To celebrate we’re pouring a special Sparkling Lemonade! 🍋🫧 Made with a zesty lemon simple syrup, fresh lemon juice, and sparkling water. And try our Matcha Cooler. A shot of matcha in our Sparkling Lemonade. 🍵👍

🌞We’ll see you here at Shapeshifters Café!

We can’t continue, as it stands now. The short of it is that we will have to increase prices, but we will try not all at...
03/02/2026

We can’t continue, as it stands now.

The short of it is that we will have to increase prices, but we will try not all at once, until we can, and if we can, meet our costs.

We appreciate your patience, understanding, and support. ❤️

Address

571 5th Street
Oakland, CA
94607

Opening Hours

Monday 6am - 3pm
Tuesday 6am - 3pm
Wednesday 6am - 3pm
Thursday 6am - 3pm
Friday 6am - 3pm

Telephone

+15108361234

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