Upcoming Events
EastSide Mosaics and Girl Project presents...
Girl Project Afterschool Art Workshops w/ Susanne Takehara + Angie Lopez
Wednesdays
Sep 18 + 25
Oct 2 + 9
3-5pm
900 E 11th St, Oakland CA
Wednesday Art Sessions w/ Angie Lopez
Oct 16 + 23 + 30
3-5pm
EastSide Arts Alliance
2277 International Blvd, Oakland CA
Free workshop * Supplies and Food provided
Two of Girl Project's all-time favorite mentors Susanne Takehara and Angie Lopez have agreed to teach art workshops with us after school this fall and we are ultra excited to invite GP youth to learn from them.
Susanne is one of the founding members of EastSide Arts Alliance and in her own words "uses the medium of mosaic murals to reflect and celebrate the diverse cultures of our neighborhoods with beauty and depth, honoring our ancestors and imagining the future we can build together."
Angie is a graphic artist and mentor who inspires GP greatly with her skills and deep-rooted commitment to nurturing her communities through art.
During four consecutive Wednesdays, we will meet first with Susanne in her studio and work together to design and create a mosaic piece! Then with Angie for the following three consecutive weeks to create works of art that will become part of EastSide's annual Dia De Los Muertos celebration.
We will make art and friends- snack and be curious about our creativity and power.
We gather in care and invite all female-identifying and gender-expansive youth ages 10-14 to learn from these special artists.
We look forward to creating with y'all this fall!
Eastside Arts Alliance + Bay Area Lesbian Archive presents...
Sister Hold On: Reclaiming Third World Lesbian Imaginaries
Organized by Bay Area Lesbian Archive
September 19 - December 14, 2024
Opening Reception: Friday, September 20
5pm
In partnership with Bay Area Lesbian Archive, EastSide Arts Alliance presents Sister Hold On: Reclaiming Third World Lesbian Imaginaries, an exhibition that celebrates the collective power of third world lesbians and the intersectional struggles they championed in creating a collective future in the Bay Area.
Dewayne Oakley, Mr. B, and EastSide Arts Alliance present…
John Coltrane Tribute
an evening with the Dewayne Oakley Blues Ensemble featuring vocalist Bryant Bolling
Sun, Sept 22
7pm
EastSide Cultural Center
2277 International Blvd
Oakland, Ca 94606
Art Khu, piano
Ralph Nelson, guitar
Randy (Ranzel) Merritt, drums
Chris Ashman, trumpet
Ranzel Merritt, Jr., tenor & soprano sax
Dewayne Oakley, bass violin & vocals
• soul food • mocktails •
Tickets: $30 general admission; $15 seniors and students
Recurring Events
Community Events
Invocations of Amilcar Cabral
on the 100 Anniversary of his Birth September 12, 1924 in Bafatá, Guinea-Bissau
Thur, Sep 12
7-9pm
Medicine for Nightmares
3036 24th Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
Amílcar Cabral, revolutionary anticolonial activist and theorist, led the most effective political and military guerrilla struggle in Africa to liberate Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde from Portuguese domination. He contributed to insurgencies against Portugal throughout Africa as well as to the fall of its fascist military dictatorship. Tragically, he was assassinated in 1973 shortly before Guinea-Bissau’s formal independence. Two-thirds of the country had already been organized by the party he founded into liberated zones in the rural areas where revolutionary democracy was practiced by villagers in local governing councils, schools, hospitals, and people’s stores. At the bookstore Medicine for Nightmares, on the 100th anniversary of his birth, join us in invoking Cabral’s brilliant strategic and theoretical militance through discussion, visual installation and live performances that call him into our midst as an actual force to contend with our living collective nightmares. In Balmy Alley, across the street from the bookstore, Cabral's words, “Culture contains the seed of resistance that blossoms into the flower of liberation”, are painted on one of the iconic murals of Central American wars of liberation and repression that survive there. May they reverberate into our evening of revolutionary remembrance.
Participants
Pheng Cheah: professor of Rhetoric and Geography at the University of California at Berkeley where he has taught since 1999. He is a scholar of anticolonial nationalism and its cultural legacies in contemporary globalization and has written on the work of Amílcar Cabral in that context.
Visual Installation by Mansur Nurullah
Poetry by Tongo Eisen-Martin and Dottie Payne
Sound and Performance: Initiated by Lucky Alley Media
FREE IMPROVISING QUARTET:
Luc Chasse (guitar)
Matias E.A. (guitar),
Zekarias Musele Thompson (alto sax, electronics)
Ivy Woods (drums, broken cornet, toys)
LIBERATED ZONE UNIT, an autonomous sound and gesture making performance group anchored in Cabral’s texts and open to public participation, with drums, saxophone and vocalizing.
Event Organizer and Concluding Performance “Bind me Tightly to Cabral’s Words": Anna Wexler