The Ruckus Revival: F*** Valentine's Day Spectacular! - Thurs Feb 12, Oakland 2026 at Continental Club

F*** Valentine’s Day is our annual, no holds barred send up of the holiday, a wild romp through the battlefields of love where heartbreak gets hilarious and romance turns up a notch. Featuring the notorious “Worst Sex Ever” showcase, where audience members submit their most disastrous experiences to be retold live through interpretive dance, plus many other surprises. Come celebrate all that's erotic, neurotic, and psychotic!

You don’t want to miss this: the East Bay Express calls The Ruckus Revival “the most consistently spectacular event Oakland has ever seen,” and every month brings a brand new lineup and a different flavor of chaos. No reruns, no repeat acts.

Every act for F* Valentine’s Day** is a duet, and this year Ruckus is unleashing a dazzling mix of aerial stunts, spicy burlesque, smoking-hot fire play, dangerous pole battles, riotous comedy, wild clown romance, raw slam poetry, and jaw-dropping sideshow spectacle. From the spectacularly sensual to the heartbreakingly funny to the absolutely insane, this night is for everyone: the cynical singles, the brokenhearted, and the wildly in love.

Featuring the wildest variety of acts you’ll see anywhere:

• Uncensored circus
• Stand up comedy
• Burlesque
• Pole performance
• Freestyle rap battles
• Aerial artistry
• Beat-boxing
• Slam poetry & Dirty Haiku Bouts
• Shocking sideshow
• Breakdancing
• Full-throttle audience mayhem

Fast, loud and absolutely alive.

The Huffington Post called us “one of the best underground performance art shows in America.”

Both the freestyle rap battle and the slam have open sign-ups with $400 in cash prizes, judged by YOU, the audience. Every show is a one-night riot, and once it’s done, it’s gone.

Hosted by Jamie DeWolf (HBO’s Def Poetry Jam, NPR’s Snap Judgment) and Wonder Dave (Mental Health Comedy Hour, Castro Comedy Cabaret), with masters of mayhem DizzyfromEarlier and Little Glitter Bomb, and our very special stage crew the Wu Tang of Weird, The Misfit Mob!

Time:  20:00 -  23:00