2022
- Thu20Jan2022
Palomacy Zoom Parlor
7 - 8:30 PM PT
Palomacy people are invited to our first (totally optional) monthly Zoom Parlor meeting Monday, January 24th 7 – 8:30 PM PT.Our first agenda will include introductions, prioritizing goals & topics & setting up how we want to proceed. (Different interests- social, educational, operational? Different time zones? Future hosts? Etc.)To join us, please use this Zoom link https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83558702268 Monday 1/24 at 7 PM PT. Look forward to seeing you! - Sat05Feb2022
Palomacy IN STORE at San Francisco Pet Food Express!
11 AM - 4 PM1975 Market Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
Finally! We’re back! COME MEET PIGEONS & get your Palomacy on!
- Mon28Feb2022
Palomacy Zoom Parlor
6 - 7:30 PM PTYou’re invited to our next Palomacy Zoom Parlor 6 PM PT on Monday, February 28th. It will be hosted by Aileen & include a presentation by Tiffany on self-care, stress management & burnout. We’ll also be pre-planning for Palomacy’s 2022 party! First thing we will need is our theme! What will it be? We need your help coming up with our next big thing! In past years we’ve had: We Can Be Heroes, Flocktoberfest, COO-CHELLA, Mascoorade & Pijama Party… There are so many clever possibilities! Please come with ideas. Look forward to seeing you! - Mon04Apr2022Fri08Apr2022
Little by Little Bonus Match!
9 PM PT - 9 PM PTOnline at Global Giving for Palomacy Pigeon & Dove Adoptions
Together we help each other to help the pigeons & doves who too often are turned away or overlooked. Little by little, we are making a big difference! Right now, donations to Palomacy via @globalgiving will be doubled!! (Limit $50, 1/donor) The campaign ends Friday 4/8 at 9 PM PT. If you donate $50, the birds get $100! Please & thank you! Watch our progress on the leaderboard. - Sat16Apr2022
Palomacy @ Earth Day 2018 Oakland Zoo
10AM - 4PM9777 Golf Links Road
(off Highway 580)
Oakland, CA
Celebrate Earth Day & 100 years with the Oakland Zoo! Palomacy volunteers will bring pigeons and doves for you to meet and answer all your questions about these sweet, smart, amazing birds! (We need helpers- please volunteer with us!)
- Sat23Apr2022
Palomacy @ UC Davis Picnic Day!
10AM - 4PMHutchison Field (between La Rue Road & Dairy Road)
UC Davis
We love participating in this BIG fun event at UC Davis! There will be 100K visitors! Please help make LOTS of new friends for pigeons & doves! (Volunteer ambassadors needed! Please contact Elizabeth to help out. Newbies welcome!) 
- Sun24Apr2022
Palomacy @ San Damiano Earth Day Celebration
2-5 PMSan Damiano Retreat 710 Highland Drive, Danville, CA 94526
San Damiano’s rescued pigeons
Palomacy ambassadors
Palomacy will be tabling with beautiful, adoptable rescued pigeons & doves. Volunteers welcome. Please RSVP to Elizabeth@PigeonRescue.org to join us.
- Sat30Apr2022
Palomacy @ Lakeshore Elementary Community Superhero Day
1 PM - 4 PMLakeshore Elementary Playground 220 Middlefield Drive, San Francisco, CA 94132
Palomacy will be bringing avian superheroes to win all the hearts & minds!
- Sun22May2022
Palomacy @ MHS Woofstock Adoptathon & Concert
10 AM - 5 PMMarin Humane Society
151 Bel Marin Keys Blvd
Novato, CA
This is a wonderful event in primo pigeon & dove adoption territory! Please come help! Outreach volunteers needed (human & avian), newbies are welcome! Please email Elizabeth to sign up. - Sun22May2022
Palomacy @ Animals on Broadway with Tony LaRussa's ARF
10 AM - 2 PMBroadway Plaza, Walnut Creek CA
Palomacy is excited to represent for the pigeons & doves at this epic annual event! We’ll have a booth & be introducing our amazing birds! Outreach volunteers needed (human & avian), newbies are welcome! Please email Elizabeth to sign up. - Wed01Jun2022Thu30Jun2022
Palomacy's 2023 Calendars Photo & Art Contest & Fundraiser
9 AM - 5 PMOnline here
Palomacy 2023 Calendars Contest & Fundraiser
Help birds with your photos & art in Palomacy’s 2023 Calendars!
Submit your best images!
Vote for favorites ($1/vote)!
Share for votes!
Pre-order calendarsSubmit your original artwork too!
Together we are creating a better future for everybirdy!
Help Create a Better Future for Pigeons & Doves! Enter your best photos of pigeons & doves (wild & rescued) & vote for your favorites! There will be 378 winning photos!
Palomacy 2021 Calendar Photo Contest
Welcome to Palomacy’s 5th Annual Calendar Photo Contest Fundraiser! Your entries and votes support Palomacy and count you among an amazingly caring network of people committed to our life-saving, culture-changing work. Please join us in celebrating these incredible birds every day of the year! We know how special pigeons and doves are and we are showing the world!Submit your very best photos!
Vote for your favorite photos ($1/vote)!
Share so family, friends & fans can vote!Your help inspires ever-growing appreciation for pigeons and doves and raises life-saving funds for the birds! Please join us in making 2021 a truly wonderful year for these very special birds!
Voting ends 8/21/20 & winners will be announced immediately.
- Sat16Jul2022
Palomacy @ SF STEM Saturday
11-4953 De Haro Street, Potrero Hill, San Francisco CA
Come meet Palomacy pigeons & people at The Potrero Hill STEM Festival this Saturday from 11am-4pm! #stemsaturdaySF is a free, OUTDOOR block-party at The Potrero Hill Neighborhood House! There will be food and drink for purchase and an open-air, outdoor STEM corridor with hands-on activities, demos and fun local resources, including us! - Wed20Jul2022
Major Donations Bonus Match!
6 AM till Bonus Match Funds Run OutOnly online at GlobalGiving for Palomacy Pigeon & Dove Adoptions
Early moring on Wednesday 7/20 at 6 AM PT, donations of $100 to $1000 made to Palomacy through GlobalGiving will earn a sliding scale 30-50% Bonus Match until funds run out (possibly in the first hour). Please mark your calendar & set your alarm!
You can see our progress on the leaderboard.
- Sun11Sep2022
Palomacy @ The Solano Stroll
10 AM - 5 PM1714 Solano Avenue, Albany CA (Between Tulare & Ensenada))
Be a part of our Pigeon Diplomacy Team! This is one of our biggest events! We need volunteers & birds, for all or part of the day. It’s fun! Please RSVP here. (Check out our photo album and see the event website.)
The Solano Stroll is back! An annual street fair held every September, a week after Labor Day, on the Solano Avenue shopping district of Albany and Berkeley, California stretching close to 2 miles long and bringing between 250,000 and 300,000 attendees in a single day, it has been called the oldest and largest street festival in the San Francisco Bay Area and the “world’s biggest block party”!
Solano Stroll through Berkeley & Albany
Over five hundred vendors, non-profit organizations, food booths and entertainers. Begins at 10 am with the opening of Solano Avenue businesses and Stroll booths and you can visit one of 50 entertainers, 50 food booths, 150 juried arts and crafters, state of the art mechanical rides, and 150 community non-profit and government organizations, not to mention the unique and popular professional services, restaurants, and shops already here on Solano Avenue. You will hear the best in local music, dance and other performances and absolutely stunning costumes from all over the globe! This is a family event featuring a special area set aside just for kids that offer giant slides, carnival games, clowns, jugglers, stilt walkers, face painters, magicians and more!
- Sun11Sep2022Fri16Sep2022
Little by Little Bonus Match!
9 PM PT - 9 PM PTOnline at Global Giving for Palomacy Pigeon & Dove Adoptions
Together we help each other to help the pigeons & doves who too often are turned away or overlooked. Little by little, we are making a big difference! Starting at 9 PM PT on Sunday, 9/11, donations to Palomacy via @globalgiving will be 50% matched! (Limit $50, 1/donor) The campaign ends Friday 9/16 at 9 PM PT. If you donate $50, the birds get $75! Please & thank you! Watch our progress on the leaderboard.
- Sat24Sep2022
Palomacy IN STORE at Alameda Pet Food Express!
11 AM - 3 PM2661 Blanding Avenue #F
Alameda, CA 94501
COME MEET PIGEONS & DOVES & get your Palomacy on! (Saturday & Sunday)
- Sun25Sep2022
Palomacy @ the Sonoma County VegFest
10AM - 4PM
We need volunteers & birds, for all or part of the day. It’s fun! Please RSVP here.The Sonoma County VegFest was conceived by a small group of compassionate SoCo vegans that wanted to share with their beloved county how wonderful living free of animal products can be. The VegFest will bring together vendors, natural foods stores, restaurants, nutritionists, professional cooks, and other knowledgeable people — including Palomacy volunteers with pigeons in pants! — to share their expertise with us. Come and learn, eat, share and have fun!
For more information, visit the VegFest website.
- Sun25Sep2022
Palomacy IN STORE at Alameda Pet Food Express!
11 AM - 3 PM2661 Blanding Avenue #F
Alameda, CA 94501COME MEET PIGEONS & DOVES & get your Palomacy on!
- Sat01Oct2022
Palomacy @ San Damiano Blessing of the Animals
1-2 PMSan Damiano Retreat 710 Highland Drive, Danville, CA 94526
Christiana
Palomacy will be tabling with beautiful, adoptable rescued pigeons & doves. Volunteers welcome. Please RSVP to Elizabeth@PigeonRescue.org to join us.
- Thu06Oct2022
Palomacy @ CalAcademy Nightlife: Flocktoberfest
6 PM -10 PMCalifornia Academy of Sciences55 Music Concourse Dr, San Francisco, CA 94118(JFK Dr. is closed to cars in Golden Gate Park. Access the Music Concourse parking garage via the Fulton St./10th Ave. entrance or the Music Concourse Dr./MLK Dr. entrance. Free street parking is also available on MLK Dr., Nancy Pelosi Dr., and Stow Lake Dr.)
Bird is the word! Flock over to NightLife for flights of beers and birds in honor of this Oktoberfest tradition.
Get all the CalAcademy details here.
Bird is the word! Flock over to NightLife for flights of beers and birds in honor of this Oktoberfest tradition.
A few don’t-miss NightLife details:
- Effective September 16, NightLife guests will no longer be required to provide proof of full vaccination or a recent negative test. We still strongly encourage all guests to stay up-to-date on their vaccinations, and to mask up indoors. As always, if you’re feeling under the weather, please NightLife another time. View health and safety information here.
- Last entry into the rainforest exhibit is 7:30 pm—our animals need their sleep.
- Morrison Planetarium is now open at NightLife with 4 showtimes. To maximize staff and guest safety, planetarium passes are required and capacity is limited. Passes are available online in advance for an additional $5 while supplies last to reserve a seat at a 6:30, 7:30, 8:30, or 9:30 pm planetarium show. Please see our FAQs for more details. (Please note: A limited number of standby seats will be available for all showtimes as space allows on a first-come, first-served basis. Food and drink are not permitted inside the planetarium.)
- Beverages are available at various bars throughout the building, but food must enjoyed outdoors or in the Academy Cafe only.
- Effective September 16, NightLife guests will no longer be required to provide proof of full vaccination or a recent negative test. We still strongly encourage all guests to stay up-to-date on their vaccinations, and to mask up indoors. As always, if you’re feeling under the weather, please NightLife another time. View health and safety information here.
- Sun09Oct2022
Palomacy @ NatureFest 2022!
10 AM - 3 PMThe Nature Center is located inside Ancil Hoffman Park 2850 San Lorenzo Way (off Tarshes Drive) Carmichael CA 95608
Come see Palomacy at Naturefest!
For the first time in two years, NatureFest is back! This family-friendly event includes live animal presentations, hands-on activities, demonstrations, guided hikes and educational exhibits. NatureFest draws more than 1,000 attendees, including nature enthusiast, families, scout groups and other youth organizations. Promoting science & nature education and safe outdoor recreation, NatureFest is an excellent opportunity for local businesses and organizations to interact with our community.
Meet Palomacy Care Coordinator & Legend Jill McMurchy!
- Sun16Oct2022
Palomacy @ Berkeley Bird Festival
12 Noon - 5 PMTabling in the Green outside The Museum of Vertebrate Zoology University of California, Campanile Way, Berkeley CA 94720
Come out & meet Palomacy people- human & avian!
- Sun16Oct2022
Palomacy @ Family Fall Festival
12 Noon - 4 PMStirling Park Drive & Rod Beaudry Drive near the entrance of River Bend Park, Sacramento.
Palomacy will be at the Fall Family Fest this Sunday. If you live near Sacramento, come say Hi!
12pm to 4pm at Stirling Park Drive & Rod Beaudry Drive near the entrance of River Bend Park, Sacramento.
- Sat22Oct2022
Palomacy's Summer of Dove Party!
1-5 PM PTSports Basement Presidio Community Room
610 Old Mason St. San Francisco, CA 94129
Or join us online!
This year everybirdy can party at Palomacy’s Summer of Dove Party (in real life or online)! YOU & your birbs, chonks, puffs, smooshes, frems, bois & coos are all invited to our Summer of Dove! And we need YOU to make it special! Volunteers needed for Vegan Food & Bev, Raffle & Auction, Set Up, Check In, Virtual Platform, Merch & More. Email Aileen & we’ll hook you up! Get all the info & RSVP!
- Mon28Nov2022Tue29Nov2022
GivingTuesday Bonus Event!
9 PM PT 11/28 - 9 PM PT 11/29
All donations made to Palomacy here during GivingTuesday (up to $2500) will earn bonus match funds!
For 24 hours (9 PM PT 11/28 – 9 PM PT 11/29) GlobalGiving, in recognition of GivingTuesday, is awarding $1,200,000 in bonus money to projects like ours. The more you give, the more they’ll match.
#GivingTuesday is a global day of giving celebrated by nonprofits, corporations, and donors alike. As a founding partner of #GivingTuesday, GlobalGiving has championed this day of fundraising since its inception in 2012 to help our nonprofit community make the most of every giving season!
Please donate here 9 PM PT Monday 11/28 – 9 PM PT Tuesday 11/29 & watch our progress on the leaderboard.
