Welcome to the EastSide Arts Alliance & Cultural Center!
We are an organization of Third World artists, cultural workers, and community organizers of color committed to working in the San Antonio and other Oakland neighborhoods to support a creative environment that improves the quality of life for our communities and advocates for progressive, systemic social change.

THANK YOU COMMUNITY FOR GATHERING IN HONOR OF MALCOLM'S LEGACY AT THIS YEARS'
23rd ANNUAL JAZZ & ART FESTIVAL!
PLEASE CHECK OUT THE DIGITAL ZINE CELEBRATING BROTHER MALCOLM
Authored by Nehanda Imara and Designed By Ndidi Love.
EVENTS CALENDAR
Friends of San Antonio Park invite you to celebrate..
San Antonio Park, San Antonio Strong!
Friday, June 2nd, 2023
4:30pm-6:30pm
SanAntonio Tennis Courts
18th Ave & Foothill Blvd, Oakland CA
Dinner will be provided!
Please bring the whole family to meet your neighbors and build on our collective vision for SanAntonio Park. With the guiding star of a center and a library in the park we will discuss what comes next.
Join us as we celebrate the 2021 community engagement process, and breath life into our togetherness, our park and our community.
Afro-Peruvian Fest presents…
Huellas
Saturday, June 3rd, 2023
7:30pm
EastSide Cultural Center
2277 International Blvd
Oakland, CA 94606
The first Afro-Peruvian festival held in the San Francisco Bay Area, Afro-Peruvian Fest is an annual event that takes place every June with the aim of celebrating Afro-Peruvian culture month. Afro-Peruvian Fest brings together local SF Bay Area and California based artists and culture bearers and creates a bridge with other Afro-Peruvian culture bearers based in Peru.
Tickets are $25 via Eventbrite


Afro-Peruvian Fest presents…
Afro Peruvian Festival
Sunday, June 4, 2023
3pm - 6pm
EastSide Cultural Center
2277 International Blvd
Oakland, CA 94606
Free event!
3:00 pm Cunamcué Family Show
4:00 pm Radio Café
5:00 pm Marina Lavalle
The first Afro-Peruvian festival held in the San Francisco Bay Area, Afro-Peruvian Fest is an annual event that takes place every June with the aim of celebrating Afro-Peruvian culture month. Afro-Peruvian Fest brings together local SF Bay Area and California based artists and culture bearers and creates a bridge with other Afro-Peruvian culture bearers based in Peru. It is a time to celebrate Afro Peruvian culture.
Nodutdol presents...
2023 Bay Area KEEP Fundraiser!
Saturday, June 10, 2023
3pm - 5pm
EastSide Cultural Center
2277 International Blvd
Oakland, CA 94606
Tickets and to reserve homemade kimchi:
https://givebutter.com/baykeep
Join us for Nodutdol’s first in-person event in the Bay Area! This event will support our upcoming Korea Education & Exposure Program (KEEP) trip in August, where we’ll gain on-the-ground experience with liberation struggles in south Korea!
Hear from KEEP alums about their transformative experiences visiting north and south Korea, play traditional Korean games, AND grab jars of homemade vegan kimchi, spiced with our fiery love and revolutionary optimism. Most importantly, come learn how you can fight for peace in Korea!
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COVID Policy: Masks will be required except when eating or drinking.
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Accessibility: The venue is wheelchair accessible and has gender neutral bathrooms. Share any specific access needs at yyungsu@protonmail.com, and we will do our best to accommodate.
Your attendance and support will be instrumental to the success of KEEP, the growth of Nodutdol, and a liberated Korean peninsula. We invite you to make a donation through our general Givebutter campaign to support the whole delegation!
Nodutdol is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Your donation is 100% tax-deductible!

Friends of San Antonio Park invite you to celebrate..
San Antonio Park, San Antonio Strong!
Friday, June 2nd, 2023
4:30pm-6:30pm
SanAntonio Tennis Courts
18th Ave & Foothill Blvd, Oakland CA
Dinner will be provided!
Please bring the whole family to meet your neighbors and build on our collective vision for SanAntonio Park. With the guiding star of a center and a library in the park we will discuss what comes next.
Join us as we celebrate the 2021 community engagement process, and breath life into our togetherness, our park and our community.

23rd Annual Malcolm X Jazz Arts Festival
Saturday, May 20, 2023
11am-7pm
SanAntonio Park
18thAve & Foothill, Oakland, CA 94606
FREE ALL DAY EVENT
Community!! We are back at it, ready to recharge our batteries and celebrate our power and our struggles through jazz, art, and love.
Malcolm X Jazz Arts Festival is a time to radiate and bask in the connective power of our creativity, and EastSide Arts Alliance is honored to welcome folks back to the park to enjoy each other company.
The event is free and there will be zones for healing, with practitioners from ATPT providing a healing portal. Family from Afro Play and Oakland Public Library getting silly in the Harry Belafonte Kids Zone. Creating all day by talented young artist on the Graff Courts. Dance Performances, Local vendors, Poetry on the Javad Jahi Soapbox Stage plenty of literature at the Bandung Books tent, transportive Jazz and so much more. Come join, be apart of the chilling, the vibing, the loving, and the get right. We can't wait to see your faces.
ENVISIONING THE YARD - THE ANGOLA 3 COMMUNITY CULTURAL CENTER
Sunday April 23, 2023
4pm-6pm
Eastside Arts Alliance Cultural Center
2277 International Blvd. Oakland, CA 94606
Please join us this Sunday, April 23rd, at 4:00 PM as we welcome Robert King, sole surviving member of the Angola 3, and fellow Louisiana Black Panther Malik Rahim to East Side Arts Alliance - where they will be joined by San Francisco poet laureate Tongo Eisen-Martin, choreographer/performance maker amara tabor-smith and visual artist Rigo 23.
The conversation at East Side Arts Alliance will center on Robert King’s plans for a community cultural center, in Algiers, New Orleans, dedicated to continuing the legacy of the Angola 3.
The Angola 3 are a group of three formerly incarcerated Black men who were held in solitary confinement at the Louisiana State Prison of Angola, in retribution for their successful in-prison organizing and for their Black Panther Party membership. Herman Wallace (1941-2013), Albert Woodbox (1947-2022) and Robert King (1942) survived a combined 114 years of solitary confinement at the infamous penitentiary, commonly referred to as “The Farm” or “The Last Slave Plantation”. One by one they triumphed and walked out of the front gates of that anachronistic monument to systemic racism and inhumanity, as vindicated free men.
This talk will touch on the shared experiences and struggles for liberation that connect Oakland to New Orleans while uplifting the important role cultural centers play in keeping these histories alive during times where erasure of these memories are rampant.

A SHORT STATEMENT FROM EASTSIDE ARTS ALLIANCE ADDRESSING SECURITY & SAFETY IN OUR COMMUNITIES
We are a Third World Cultural Center in the Fruitvale/San Antonio District in the East Oakland community– meaning we serve the diverse Black, Brown & Asian neighborhoods that populate our city.
One of our priorities involves SECURITY and SAFETY for People of Color in our underserved, poor & struggling communities which we know they are all under pressure to survive.
Sometimes survival means committing fratricide in our desperate communities (like the spike of violence especially in east Oakland); Sometimes it overflows into other ethnic neighborhoods, like the recent muggings in Chinatown. We need a bold and smart solution to address this repeating history that cannot be solved by increasing the number of the repressive police forces. Oakland has been “investigated” for nearly 20 years from the Feds for corrupt rampant police brutality and “rogue” cops. But we understand the source and role of policing since the history of slavery!
Defunding the Police is first step to protect our communities with intelligent policies that understand the source of our oppression – We need active intervention with community voices, progressive cultural consciousness, mental health dialogue, and better social services that address our concerns and needs ... for a start ...
We need more cooperation between our communities to build solidarity because that is the only way we can truly solve this crisis and ultimately empower our community. As third world people we continue to fight and struggle collectively to end oppression and violence against all of us in our communities and the world.