The Creative Mind

Ballard Craftworks

Address ONLINE, Berkeley CA

Phone (510) 846-1045

Business Description Welcome to Ballard Craftworks! Thank you for the visit and we hope you will find something to fall in love with.

We make and sell Jewelry of all kinds. We also sell mid to high end mineral specimens as well as hand crafted cutlery.

Berkeley Patients Group

Address 2366 San Pablo Ave, Berkeley CA 94702

Phone (510) 540-6013

Business Description Since 1999, BPG has been a national leader in cannabis, offering only California’s most effective products. Their highly trained staff provides personalized consultations in person or over the phone with a focus on pain, sleep, senior health, anxiety, depression, and serious medical conditions so you can confidently give the gift of plant-based wellness to yourself or a loved one. Clients love their curbside pickup service because it’s quick and convenient with their private parking lot off San Pablo Ave.

Holiday Promotion Give yourself or a loved one the gift of Happier, Higher Holidays. From now through the end of the year, BPG is running huge discounts on their entire store including best-selling products for sleep, pain, pleasure, and more. Visit their website to see current offers.

Berkeley Symphony

Address 1942 University Ave. Suite 104, Berkeley CA 94704

Phone (510) 841-2800

Business Description Recognized nationally for its innovative programming, Berkeley Symphony has established a reputation for presenting major new works for orchestra alongside fresh interpretations of classic repertoire. Our milestone 50th year marked a return to joy— now, as we embark on our next chapter, we invite you to experience orchestra music in a variety of genres for the 22/23 Season: Find Your Frequency. 

The season features 8 extraordinary concerts—three concerts in the Symphonic Series and five in the Chamber Series.

Holiday Promotion Flex Pass
New this season — choose your own journey! Purchase a Berkeley Symphony Flex Pass and redeem for Symphonic and/or Chamber concert tickets at the subscription price, a savings of up to 20% per ticket! Buy in multiples of $100 to create the season that works for you.

Gift Certificates
Available in increments of $10

Berkeley’s Northside Travel

Address 1824 Euclid Ave, Berkeley CA 94709

Phone 510-843-100

Business Description Dear Friends and Neighbors,
Truthful and Friendly Travel Advice.
Berkeley’s Northside Travel is a local storefront travel agency, half a block from UC Berkeley’s North Gate.
For 42 years our loyal customers have valued and trusted our travel knowledge, our honesty, and friendship.
A full service travel agency, we sell the total travel product: air and rail tickets, car rentals, travel insurance, business and vacation travel, cruises and yachts, independent and group tours, and more.
We are the only travel agency member of the Berkeley Chamber of Commerce.
The Personal Touch.
Collectively we have visited 7 continents and 144+ countries. We share our individual skills and travel knowledge with each other in order to better serve you. In previous good and bad times, our customers know that they can trust Berkeley’s Northside Travel to tell the truth.
Our customers appreciate our “joy of travel” Arearea.
Stay safe and enjoy life,
Terry, David, Michael, Nancy Smart, Peggy, Karen, and Nancy Singer.
Your friends at Berkeley’s Northside Travel

Ecology Center Store

Address 2530 San Pablo Ave, Berkeley CA 94702

Phone (510) 548-3402

Business Description The Ecology Center Store provides products that encourage environmentally and socially responsible lifestyle practices and sustainable gift giving. We stock books, housewares, green gifts, organic gardening supplies, toys, games, recycled paper products and glassware, organic fibers, and much more. We have carefully considered the quality, sustainability, and origins of the products we carry in our store. When you shop locally, you support the local economy that enriches our local communities. We’re here to affirm that you can shop and honor sustainability at the same time.

Great Diamond Press, LLC

Address ONLINE, Berkeley CA 94707

Business Description Independently written and published children’s books by a local animator.

Hotel Shattuck Plaza

Address 2086 Allston Way, Berkeley CA 94703

Phone (510) 845-7300

Business Description Located in a historic, Mission-style structure, the Hotel Shattuck Plaza embodies the phrase ‘history re-imagined’ and is Berkeley’s top hotel. Its name pays homage to Francis K. Shattuck, a prominent figure in Berkeley’s early history. Our 199-room hotel is the place for meetings, events, and unforgettable stays in Berkeley. It occupies a spot on the National Register of Historic Places, and anchors Downtown Berkeley, much like it did over a century ago. And with its proximity to two international airports and a Bay Area Rapid Transit station, it serves as an excellent base from which to explore the city that grew up around it.

Holiday Promotion A Season of Celebration!
Celebrate the Season and stay two-nights now through March 2023 and receive $25 off room rates, plus a $25 credit at ZINO. Offer expires 1/15/23. Book early for best availability.
*Offer subject to availability at the time of booking. Two-night minimum required stay, not available on groups of 10 or more rooms. Cannot be combined with any other discount. Offer expires 1/15/23 and is valid on stays through 3/31/23.

Booking link: https://reservations.travelclick.com/17233?RatePlanId=6946510

Ignite > Academic

Address ONLINE, Berkeley CA

Phone (802) 793-4459

Business Description Get the student in your life access to a global team of real-world subject-matter experts who practice what we teach IRL. Teachers teach academics. We teach our subjects as they are found “in the wild.” We’re novelists, engineers, researchers, economists, planners… oh yeah, and tutors. We’re more than academic, because the questions that matter aren’t on the test.

Holiday Promotion Use code BERKELEY-HOLIDAYS to gift your student a Firewood Bundle or Olympic Peak Membership (4 to 32 sessions, up to 15% off retail), and get an additional 1-hour session FREE with our Berkeley-based founder, plus an extra 10% off your order for a total of up to 25% off retail rates. There’s no gift like the spark of true intellectual mentorship and contagious curiosity! Help your favorite student ignite their learning in the New Year!

Kitchen on Fire

Address 1509 Shattuck Avenue #A, Berkeley CA 94709

Phone (510) 548-2665

Business Description Founded in 2005, Kitchen on Fire is a family-owned cooking school with kitchen classrooms located in Oakland and Berkeley.

Our mission is to help you discover and prepare food that tastes good and is good for you. When we succeed, you are better equipped to appreciate and prepare beautiful food for the rest of your life. We’re proud to offer a variety of classes (100+) featuring cuisines and techniques spanning the world — Italian, French, Spanish, Mediterranean, Indian, Japanese, Moroccan, Baking & Sweets…

Love and Live Wellness

Address ONLINE, Berkeley CA 94703

Business Description Love & Live Wellness guides women and non-binary folx out from the shadows so they can embrace their true selves, feel confident in their decisions, and define their purpose through Yoga and Life Coaching Services.

Kerstin Phillips, Founder of Love & Live Wellness, is a Catalyst Coach. She uses gentle nudges, relentless encouragement, and reflective questions to help her clients uncover what is holding them back so that they can take the simple steps to emerge as their true selves.

Help the humans in your life that hide their true selves shine more brilliantly this holiday season with one of these gifts. (and if they resonate with you, I’m all about encouraging self-gifting. You deserve to be seen and heard)

Give the gift of an:

Intention Setting Session: an online coaching session designed for a new season or new moon to get clear on what matters most to you, so that you can stay focused and feel good about it.

Mindful Movement: an online Yoga and Journaling Mini-Course to take you from worried overwhelm to relaxation bliss!

CommuniTea Yoga: an online live yoga and journaling class to feel grounded, heard, and understood in a safe space for introverts.

Holiday Promotion Use code BERKHOL2022 to Save 18% on all services offered through Love & Live Wellness’s Holiday Listing.

Metalsouls

Address ONLINE STORE, Berkeley CA

Phone (510) 402-6166

Business Description Metalsouls was founded in 1999. Our group currently has several people working on each specific design. Each individual specializes in one aspect of each sculpture. This combination of our talented artists results in our unique beautiful and functional sculptures. We try to lend our creative talents to the current popular action figures of the day, building a diverse and unique line of metal sculptures. For over 10 years, we have explored the exciting venue of the high-tech animation world. We hope to continue on for many years to come. We’ve made and sold metal sculptures such as Scifi, Animals, Insects, Sports, and etc. We also sell metal dice.

Polo Promotions

Address ONLINE by Appointment, Berkeley CA

Phone (415) 956-7656

Business Description When your business or organization needs custom branded merchandise that will enhance the brand experience — Polo Promotions is the one stop source for endless possibilities and options.
We are woman owned/operated small minority business — celebrating our 22 years in business. With every project we work with passion and creativity to enhance our clients message with their branding and marketing.
Polo Promotions provides:
* Apparel (jackets, hats, tshirts)
* Event essentials — Tents, Banners, Flags, Balloons, Table Covers, Trade Show, Logo Walls
* Corporate gifts
* Awards
* Name Tags
* Lapel Pins
* Packaging — Bags, Ribbons, Tissue, Gift Bags
* SWAG
* Trade Show Giveaways
* And more –-

Shannon Kelli Pictures

Address ONLINE, Berkeley CA

Phone (510) 501-5743

Business Description Shannon Kelli Pictures is a Berkeley based picture studio that specializes in crafting authentically compelling branding collections for your brand, business and beautiful self.

What’s a branding collection you ask? A branding collection is a sharp set of pictures - both still and moving - that enhance the online presence of your brand, business and beautiful self. All pictures delivered are formatted for print and platform ready (IG, LinkedIn, FB, website). Making it super easy for you to tell a rich, cohesive visual story. Essentially, they are the why and how of what you do, but in pictures.

Holiday Promotion Any branding collection booked before December 15th will receive a 20% adjustment. Book now and schedule anytime in the next 12 months. Also, any professional portraits/still pictures/product and food picture sessions will receive 10% adjustment when booked before December 15th. Book now and schedule anytime in the next 12 months.

Snoring Orange Studio

Address ONLINE & By Appointment, Berkeley CA

Business Description Stained Glass mosaics for your home and garden! Work focused on local native flora, fauna and landscapes. Glass windchimes and suncatchers to brighten your garden and patio~

Uchi

Address 1325 San Pablo Ave, Berkeley CA 94702

Phone (510) 775-7580

Business Description Uchi is a Berkeley native owned Teak Furniture and home goods store. We import our well crafted, sustainable teak furniture directly from Indonesia to offer you the best market pricing. We have carefully curated a selection of unique and beautiful home goods and accessories made by local and global artisans for all of your gifting needs.

Holiday Promotion Please check our website or follow us on Instagram or Facebook for upcoming specials and events leading up to the holidays.

WorkBistro, Inc.

Address 2043 San Pablo Ave, Berkeley CA 94702

Business Description WorkBistro is the perfect holiday gift to elevate your loved one’s remote work experience.

Holiday Promotion *A one month coworking membership for $49.99 (Usually $99) - activates whenever you want
*10% off event rentals when booked before 12/31
*10% off business consulting services - Packages start at $99
*One month of Yoga classes for $10 (Usually $50)

Visit Berkeley

Address 2030 Addison St. Suite 102, Berkeley CA 94704

Business Description Give the Gift of a Berkeley Bucks eGift Card this Holiday Season, and beyond! With over 80 Berkeley Based merchants accepting the Gift Card, Berkeley Bucks is the easiest way to keep cash in the community. With the current BOGO Offer, purchase a $100 or more Gift Card and receive a Bonus $25 Gift Card!

Holiday Promotion Buy Berkeley Bucks today at www.BerkeleyBucks.com or at the Holiday Gift Fair on December 9th. Free “I Heart Berkeley” Face Mask with Gift Card purchases over $50 at Holiday Gift Fair (while supplies last)!