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.
Malcolm X JazzArts Festival - Part 2!
David Murray at Akoma Market on Sunday July 3
2-4pm Liberation Park - 73rd/Foothill
FREE
EVENTS CALENDAR
EastSide Arts Alliance and Black Cultural Zone presents,
Town Nights
Friday, June 24, July 1st, July 9th
6-10pm
Multiple Locations
Free
Town Nights is a city-wide event that takes place across 9 community sites in Oakland, to create fun and safe spaces for families over the summer and holiday seasons. We are kicking off our first event in honor of Juneteenth, and the movement towards Black liberation, from enslaved Africans to the mass incarceration of Black and Indigenous people in America. Last year for our winter Town Nights series, we had the honor of engaging nearly 2,000 families and this summer we expect to grow even bigger! All events feature live entertainment, kids zone, local vendor marketplace, community resources, and lots of giveaways.
EastSide Arts Alliance and Black Cultural Zone presents,
Malcolm X Jazz Arts Festival Part 2: David Murray at Akoma Market
Sunday, July 3rd
2-4pm
Akoma Market
Liberation Park- 73rd/ Foothill
Free
Community!! Join EastSide Arts Alliance and the Black Cultural Zone Collaborative to welcome David Murray (IG: the officialdavidmurray) to Akoma Market. David Murray- world renowned jazz musician and composer is returning home to the Bay Area for a very rare reunion concert with some Bay Area greats!
Akoma Market is an outdoor marketplace and roller skating rink hosted by The Black Cultural Zone every 1st & 3rd Sunday from noon-5pm. All free!! With vendors, food trucks, yoga, free skating and skate rentals it is the exact perfect thing we all need to be happening in deep East Oakland. All located at Liberation Park - next to Eastmont Mall - 73rd and Foothill. EastSide is always there selling books at our Bandung Books space. We are also working to get folks plugged into the City of Oakland's General Plan - so come let your voices be heard.All while listening to some amazing jazz music!!
Come out. Spread the word. Bring the family!
For more information email: eastsideculturalcenter@gmail.com
Cardboard, Concrete Art Collective, and EastSide presents...
Being Human and Artist Talk
Works by Cardboard and Concrete Art Collective
Friday June 24, 2022
5-7 pm
Eastside Cultural Center Gallery
2277 International Blvd. Oakland, CA
Join us for the closing reception of Being Human, an exhibition by Cardboard and Concrete Art Collective. There will be an artist talk with the collective members, Needa Bee, Ayat Jalal, Toan Nguyen, Yessica Prado and Tim Petty.
Being Human is not a crime. Simply existing is not a crime. Demanding basic human rights is not a crime.
This exhibition presents the artwork of Cardboard and Concrete Collective (CCC), a collective of unhoused artists who use the power of art to assert their right to live and exist with dignity.
Lumpia, drinks and revolutionary art will be served.
EastSide Arts Alliance and AfroPeruvian Fest present...
Afro Peruvian Fest
Saturday, June 4
2pm
EastSide Cultural Center
2277 International Blvd, Oakland, CA
Afro-Peruvian Fest is the first Afro-Peruvian festival organized in the San Francisco Bay Area. Since 2006, it has gathered artists and cultural bearers residing in California to celebrate Afro-Peruvian culture. Every June, the festival offers performances, concerts, workshops, and interviews with Afro-Peruvian culture bearers. Free workshops in the Peruvian cajon (a box-shaped percussion instrument) and zapateo (dance/rhythmic footwork) are offered to children and adults from the local Peruvian, Latino, and African American communities.
Cardboard and Concrete Art Collective presents,
Movie Night: showing excerpts of "Occupy To Decolonize: A Mixed Tape"
Friday, June 3rd
6-8pm
EastSide Cultural Center
2277 International Blvd, Oakland, CA
Join us for a Movie Night with Cardboard and Concrete Art Collective.
We will show excerpts of "Occupy To Decolonize: A Mixed Tape" by Anita “Needa Bee" De Asis Miralle and Frank Sosa; and additional films by Yesica Prado.
"Occupy To Decolonize: A Mixed Tape" is a audio/visual production archived and produced by Anita "Needa Bee" De Asis Miralle in collaboration with photographer/videographer Frank Sosa.
October 10, 2010 marked the beginning of Occupy Oakland, arguably the most militant of the occupies that sprang up around the country. Contrary to popular belief, the backbone of the Occupy Oakland movement were unhoused and housed BIPOC brothers and sisters. Between the white gentrifiers masquerading as "anarchists" who hijacked our movement, the corporate media that painted a biased portrayal of the movement, and nonprofit executives who not once went down to Tent City (Ground Zero of Occupy Oakland) but criticized from the sidelines - these voices were drowned out, ignored, and forgotten.
Occupy to Decolonize: A Mixtape is an attempt to resurrect and lift up the voices of some of Oakland's most marginalized communities who held down Ground Zero of Occupy Oakland. It is a commemoration and a critique of a worldwide movement that changed all our lives forever.
Using found footage, archival footage, and recent interviews "Occupy To Decolonize: The Mixed Tape" features the stories, the actions, the performances, the memories of dozens of folks who stood up to the 1%."
This program is part of Cardboard and Concrete Art Collective’s exhibition Being Human at ESAA, on view until June 25.
Closing Reception and Artists Talk - June 24
EastSide Arts Alliance presents,
22nd Annual Malcolm X JazzArts Festival "We Still Here!"
Saturday, May 21
1-4:30pm
San Antonio Park, Foothill Blvd. & 18th Ave.,
Oakland, Ca
Jazz in your ear all day, sun on your backs, our Oakland is here to stay. A community event for the people, made by the people with info booths by your local organizations. EastSide staff is taking our time coming back - it's been a hard couple of years! But we are still here and in order to take care and take it slowly with our MXJF relaunch there will be no food or arts vendors this year. All are encouraged to please support local food vendors and bring their own snacks to the park.
Opening ceremony and welcome by Amara Tabor Smith and Traci Bartlow
ESAA’s Freedom Now! Band, led by Howard Wiley
and featuring Bay Area jazz greats, including:
L.J. Holoman
Martin Luther
Omega
Kev Choice
MJ’s Brass Boppers
Ryan Nicole
Dame Drummer
Chester Thompson
Tongo Eisen Martin
EastSide’s Youth Arts Production
Closing celebration by dana e. fitchett / Movement for Liberation
Kids Court, hosted by Vertical Skillz, will feature an open house with boxing and fitness activities
Sunday, July 3
renowned jazz saxophonist, David Murray
performance 2-4pm
at Black Cultural Zone’s Akoma Market, noon-5pm
Liberation Park, 73rd Ave. at Foothill Blvd, East Oakland
EastSide Arts Alliance is proud to present the legendary artist David Murray. Internationally known and returning to his Oakland roots with a free performance for the people. A reunion like no other, one of the Bay Area’s best taking the stage to bring a day of joy and belonging to the folks at Akoma Market. Come one, come all to see California Arts Council Legacy award-winning jazz saxophonist and composer, David Murray.
Apply to Paid Weekly Internship
Application Deadline Friday May 13, 2022
11:59pm PST
Interviews will be conducted
between May 4th - May 13th
Link to application:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1yT3FtUopDgh2fNOQduuPLwF6dDy5_bfseYyGEhbmtoc/edit
Dear future interns,
Returning the application for EastSide's weekly paid internship is an opportunity to intern at EastSide Arts Alliance, a cultural center while participating in community building and third-world solidarity.
Paid Weekly Internship:
TUESDAY 4-7 PM meetings +
assignments, rehearsals, check-ins
This is a direct link to the application:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1yT3FtUopDgh2fNOQduuPLwF6dDy5_bfseYyGEhbmtoc/edit
Approximately $300/month
Open to ages 14-24 years old
Interviews will be conducted
between May 4th - May 13th
APPLICATION DEADLINE:
Friday May 13, 2022 11:59PM
Freedom Archives presents…
Conversation with Addameer
Thursday, May 12
6:30pm
EastSide Cultural Center
2277 International Blvd, Oakland, CA
Join us for an in-depth look at imprisonment and prisoner resistance in Palestine with Milena Ansari of Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, an organization that supports Palestinian political prisoners held in Israeli and Palestinian prisons.
art by: Mohammed Hassouna
NAKA Dance Theater + Mujeres Unidas y Activas
Y Basta Ya!
Tu'mixtzin ja'la!
(Enough!)
Sabado 6 de Mayo, 5pm PT
Sábado 7 de Mayo, 2pm PT (Interpretación en Mam)
Sábado 7 de Mayo, 5pm PT
Las funciones serán en Español.
Donación surgerida: $10-$30. Nadie es rechazado por falta de fondos.
EastSide Cultural Center
2277 International Blvd, Oakland, CA
Mujeres Unidas y Activas y NAKA te invitan a un proyecto de danza, teatro y música donde el cuerpo y la palabra de la mujer se visibilizan ante tanta injusticia sistemática, contando y bailando sus historias. Mujeres Unidas y Activas son poder, arte y sanación.
Música por David Molina
Con la participación de miembras de Mujeres Unidas y Activas.
Artistas Facilitadores (Comodines): Agustina Amiconi, Luciana Rodriguez, Cristina López Suárez, Jubilee July.
Fotografia: Scott Tsuchitani
Diseño: Ernesto Sopprani
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Mojb’ab’il chib’ xuj ex list ete’, NAKA ncha txoqin tun tpona tuj
jun aq’untl te b’ixb’il, yek’b’il ex b’ib’itz jatum nchaj etz q’incha’lin
txumlal ex tyol xuj tun tni nti no’k chq’on chipin xuj (injusticia), ntzaj
chq’aman ex nchab’ixin jun che o che-ex tuj. Mujeres Unidas y Activas, yek’bil
jaj b’an tb’ant qu’n ex nchab’ant qe tu’n.
Sabado 6 de Mayo, 5pm PT
**Sábado 7 de Mayo, 2pm PT (Interpretación en Mam)**
Sábado 7 de Mayo, 5pm PT
Tuj chyol am ch-o’qil qa yek’b’il.
East Side Cultural Center
2277 International Blvd, Oakland, CA
B’ib’itz tun: David Molina
Ex chaktel qe txjali Mujeres Unidas y Activas.
Qa aj yek’il: Agustin Amicon, Luciana Rodriguez, Cristina Lopez Suarez, Jubilee July.
Jun tib’lal tu’n: Scott Tsuchitani
B’inchalta: Ernesto Sopprani
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Mujeres Unidas y Activas and NAKA invite you to an interdisciplinary and multi-lingual performance where the bodies and the words of Latinx and Indigenous women are featured centerstage. In the face of so much systemic injustice, they speak and dance their stories out loud. Mujeres Unidas y Activas is power, art and healing.
Friday, May 6, 5pm PT
Saturday, May 7, 2pm PT (Interpretation in Mam available)
Saturday, May 7, 5pm PT
All performances will be in Spanish. All are welcome!
Suggested donation: $10-$30. No one turned away.
EastSide Cultural Center
2277 International Blvd, Oakland, CA
Featuring Music by David Molina
Performed by members of Mujeres Unidas y Activas.
Artist Facilitators: Agustina Amiconi, Luciana Rodriguez, Cristina López Suárez, Jubilee July.
Photography: Scott Tsuchitani
Design: Ernesto Sopprani
EastSide Arts Alliance and NOMADIC PRESS present…
Book Reading and signing of Painting the Streets: Oakland Uprising in the Time of Rebellion
Saturday April 30, 2022
2-4pm PST
Bandung Books
2289 International Blvd
Join us to celebrate the official book reading and signing of Painting the Streets: Oakland Uprising in the Time of Rebellion!
Grab a copy in person at the bookstore or order the book at Bandungs online bookstore or at https://www.nomadicpress.org/store/paintingthestreets
About the book: Painting the Streets: Oakland Uprising in the Time of Rebellion expresses solidarity with the national and international protests against the police brutality/murder of Black people and systemic-institutional racism in the US with Oakland murals as a local reflection of this historic moment.
This oversized art book will impress this through an introduction by Alicia Garza; essays by Robin D. G, Kelley, Mizan Alkebulan and the Black Cultural Zone team, Greg Morozumi and Leslie Lopez, and Cat Brooks; an interview with Emory Douglas by Tongo Eisen-Martin, mural art (full list of participating artists coming soon!), photos by myriad photographers (including JJ Harris and Rohan DaCosta), and poetry expressing self-determination and the continuum of the Black liberation struggle by Umar Bin Hassan, from The Last Poets, Tureeda Mikell, Ayodele Nzinga (Oakland's first Poet Laureate), James Cagney, Tongo Eisen-Martin, Arnoldo Garcia, Sizwe, Miasha Quint, Nia McAllister, and Amiri Baraka.
All proceeds from the book will go into a separate bank account overseen by 5 community members and proceeds will go toward visual arts programs in Oakland flatlands’ schools.
Black Lives Matter! Black Power Matters!
All proceeds from the book will go into a separate bank account overseen by 5 community members and proceeds will go toward visual arts programs in Oakland flatlands’ schools.
Black Lives Matter! Black Power Matters!
Books Available Here!!
Eastside Arts Alliance and House/full of Blackwomen present:
Porch Chat #7 -
Discussion topic: How can we all breathe and be well in a stable home?
B Love’s Guest House
1131 Center St, Oakland, CA 94607
3-5pm
Saturday, April 23
Capacity : 25
The porch chats are a series of informal, physical distancing gatherings where we will discuss topics and questions that are relevant to this moment we are in. There will be no lead speakers, just folks interested in listening and sharing thoughts and perspectives on a given topic. Wear a mask, and bring your fan, a notebook, and your folk wisdom! Physical distancing protocols will be in effect. Each gathering will have a capacity limit.
Oakland 2045 - The City of Oakland is working on the General Plan that will decide where housing gets built, environmental justice, and transportation. This is the opportunity for everyone to weigh in. Help Shape Oakland’s Future!
Eastside Arts Alliance and House/full of Blackwomen present:
Vibration of Grace™ with Gina Breedlove A sound healing ritual that supports the movement of grief.
Saturday, April 16
6pm (doors open at 5:30)11:59pm PST
Eastside Arts Alliance
2277 International Blvd,
Oakland
Donations/Pay What you Can at the Door.
Space is limited, please arrive on time
Please wear a mask
Bring a Journal
EastSide Arts Alliance present…
Beloved Home
The Artwork of Amado Khaya a descendant of Bandung
On view: March 19, 2022 - April 22, 2022
Eastside Cultural Center Gallery
2277 International Blvd. Oakland, CA 94606
gallery hours: Wed. and Thur. noon-5pm (ring doorbell)
Saturdays by appointment btn 1-5pm, call 510 479-3399
or stop in at Bandung Books to make an appt.
The Eastside Arts Alliance is happy to present Beloved Home the artwork of Amado Khaya alongside the current exhibition on the historic Bandung Conference of 1955.
Amado, born in Oakland, was a beloved student, activist, and community organizer. Through his artwork we get a glimpse into the love he had for Oakland, as well as his unwavering determination to continue in the struggles for freedom, so deeply rooted in his ancestral power.
Amado’s work, both as an artist and a freedom fighter, were directly rooted in the Afro-Asian solidarity movements that sprouted from the Bandung Conference.
In 2020, Amado lost his life unexpectedly while learning and living with the Mangyan Indigenous communities in Mindoro Island in the Philippines; as he stood alongside them in their fight for their lands, livelihood and ancestral domain.
This exhibition celebrates Amado’s life and honors his connection to the legacy of the Bandung Conference.
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.
