Thursday, March 6th, 2014
Sure, we have our share of meetings this week, but what a lot of celebrations, too! Anniversaries, homages to bacon and beer, art openings… spring may not quite have sprung yet, but that urge to celebrates definitely there. Enjoy! Friday, March 7 Sam W. Grant’s “Double Vision” Opens 6 – 10 p.m. Loakal Art Gallery,
Thursday, March 6th, 2014
from the folks at KONO: A break in the much-needed storms allows the Bay Area community to gather for music, art and food at the open-air street festival in downtown Oakland known as Oakland First Fridays from 5:00...
Wednesday, March 5th, 2014
Last Friday, Oakland held its very first CreativeMornings breakfast. Since 2008, artists have been meeting up over coffee and breakfast for inspiring talks by creative leaders and to connect with like-minded individuals. This free monthly event has...
Wednesday, March 5th, 2014
“This is a more living, authentic Chinatown,” says Oakland Mayor Jean Quan. “It’s a real, living Pan-Asian community.” Chinatown “honors everything that’s trendy now,” says Roy Chan of the Oakland Oakland Chinatown Oral History Project, noting that...
Tuesday, March 4th, 2014
I was tickled when Margo Dunlap, the inspired leader of the Pro Arts organization, asked me to be a judge for Oakland’s 2014 “Re-Create” art competition for K-12 students. Pro Arts is celebrating its 40th anniversary this...
Tuesday, March 4th, 2014
The Coup may just be Oakland’s greatest hip-hop group. Active since the mid-‘90s, they’ve amassed an enviable catalog of five very good-to-excellent albums, while growing musically and creatively during their progression from the sample-and-loop aesthetics of early...
Saturday, March 1st, 2014
By Ashley Chambers Diallo Mwathi Jeffery’s exhibit “Views of Oakland” – currently on display at City Hall until Feb. 28 – has an uncanny ability to capture those intangible “fleeting moments” that show the true beauty of...
Tuesday, February 25th, 2014
A traveling version of the popular exhibit, The Griots of Oakland – Voices from the African American Oral History Project, will be shown at McClymonds Youth & Family Center (Alternatives in Action), Alliance Academy and Elmhurst Middle...
Friday, February 21st, 2014
By Erica Wheeler-Dubin Attitudinal Healing Connection, Inc. (AHC) is a local, West Oakland nonprofit whose mission is to eliminate violence by offering creative and educational programs that transform the human spirit and build peaceful loving communities for...
Thursday, February 20th, 2014
What’s unusual about this crazy amount of things to do this week? We’re glad you asked! A lot of them are really kinda… serious: meetings about serious topics, scientific research and documentation, historical events, symphonies, bicycle movies...
