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Get a little cozier with our neighborhood next month by attending one or more of these very Oak Cliff events.

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Bar Politics, our neighborhood’s hyperlocal version of “The Daily Show,” returns to the Wild Detectives on Thursday, Sept. 3, at 8 p.m. It will be the housing and development edition. No one wants to miss that.

The annual Adamson vs. Sunset pep rally in the Bishop Arts District starts at 6 p.m. Friday, Sept. 4. The North Oak Cliff Library hosts an after-school craft hour starting at 4 p.m. that day; kids and their parents can make pennants and signs to help them cheer on their favorite team.

Play Pride, the Bishop Arts Theater Center’s annual LGBTQ play-writing competition, is Sept. 10-20. Six one-act plays from different local writers and directors are presented, and audience members get to vote for their favorites. One winner receives $1,000.

The Oak Cliff Coalition for the Arts and DART celebrate Fiestas Patrias at the Latino Cultural Center in Deep Ellum on Saturday, Sept. 12. The celebration, from noon-10:30 p.m., includes an outdoor stage with live music as well as food and craft vendors. A “grito de Dolores,” the traditional celebration of Mexican Independence Day, starts at 8:30 p.m.

The Oak Cliff Society of Fine Arts hosts its Rising Star fundraiser Sept. 26-27. The society asks galleries in the Dallas area to invite artists who they think are promising but are not yet represented by a gallery to show their work. Last year, they sold 14 pieces, with 70 percent of the sales going to the artists. Tickets to a reception and gallery talk on Saturday night cost $50 for OCSFA members and $85 otherwise. A reception on Sunday afternoon is free and open to the public.