Tens of thousnads of years ago, in the time of our Bernal ancestors, a joyous community of elves lived on Bernal Hill. Each year, during the winter equinox, these proto-Bernalese would gather on the land we now call Cortlandia to celebrate the arrival of the rains and the season of lights.
Today, the Bernal Business Alliance has revived this ancient ritual, in the form of the glamorous Cortland Holiday Stroll. The 2014 Stroll happens this Thursday, December 4, from 6 to 9 pm, and it is incumbent upon you to partake of the many spectacles.
Bernalwood is told:
This Thursday, Bernal neighbors and guests will have the perfect opportunity to kick off the holiday shopping season! There will be fantastic drinks, deals, art, live music, and more!
The Bernal Business Alliance, this year teaming up with The Bold Italic, is hosting the Bernal Heights Microhood Holiday Stroll on December 4th, 6pm-9pm.
Here are some highlights of what you’ll find throughout the event:
The Holiday Marketplace is open again in the Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center. Come enjoy festive decorations, holiday music, and free cookies and punch.
You’ll meet:
Sandy Owens Massage and Healing
CLIMB Real Estate
Legal Shield
Bernal Bucks
Bernal Business Alliance
TownSquared
SF Custom Chiropractic
The Levia Project
Pelindaba Lavender SF
12 Small Things
Cortland Businesses and ART WALKWhile visiting local businesses, mix and mingle with talented Bernal based artists. See what our neighborhood artists have been working on. Now is the perfect time to pick up some home grown art for the holidays!
The New Wheel will have oodles of Holiday cheer, a Christmas tree, and fabulous warm eggnog.
Vinorosso will host artist Todd Berman in their parklet.
Kingmond Young Photography will be serving drinks and snacks during the event. They’re also offering a special ALL DAY: free mat boards (from selected styles) on any frame order 32″ x 40″ or smaller (square or rectangle cuts only).
Bernal Star will be hosting artist Notty Bumbo.
Pinhole Coffee will be showcasing Recycled Glassworks.
Integral Body will have a holiday feel-good herbal elixir, 5 minute massage demos, 10 minute ear acupuncture demos, visiting relatives cancellation feature acu-ear seeds, and a meet your local doctor Q&A.
Vega Pizzeria will have half-off bottles of wine.
Inclusions Gallery will be celebrating it’s 7 year anniversary with the opening of their annual Retrospective show, featuring artists Sawyer Rose, Josie Iselin, Quinn Scheibal, Kim Smith, Aaron Zube, Sarah M. Newton, Peter Arvidson, Jenny Phillips and Natasha Juelicher.
They’ll also feature live music by Bernal’s own talented jazz duo, Gary Zellerbech & Carl Herder.More art and holiday cheer at Bernal Branch Library, Chloe’s Closet, fit BERNAL fit, Good Life Grocery, Heartfelt, Little Bee Baking, Lucky Horseshoe, State Farm Insurance, Succulence, Wild Side West!
Also, a reminder: SFPD Capt. McFadden and Ingleside officers will be attending the Stroll as well.
PHOTO: Top, Holiday Stroll 2011, by Telstar Logistics
Bernalwood 
Next they’ll be making a satiric TV show about the ‘hood. Can’t bring back the past, but the smugness ratio now is getting out of hand.
Hey Todd,
Is the Capt from SFPD Ingleside still planning on attending?
Yes, he is! I will add that as an update above. Thanks for the reminder.
Janet – he will be there about 6-6:45 and will be between the Good Life and Progressive Grounds during that time, I expect.
Wow. All the holiday cheer you can get into that little poster, eh? All the charm of an invitation to a HR industry networking event.
I guess that’s what happens when the Bold Italic gets involved…
Haha – so true re: Bold Italic. Yeesh.
so agree re poster…. but I did hire the Mariachi band that we had at the summer solstice stroll -sure hope it does not rain! Sorry I hope it rains a ton and then lets up between 7pm and 9pm!
Thanks Darcy, that sounds like it will add to the fun! Thanks
The poster implies more of a somber march than a festive holiday stroll. Glad to hear there will be Mariachi to liven up this dreary poster.