BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Oakland Asian Cultural Center - ECPv6.17.5//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Oakland Asian Cultural Center X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://oacc.cc X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Oakland Asian Cultural Center REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20250309T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20251102T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20260308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20261101T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20270314T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20271107T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261027T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261027T200000 DTSTAMP:20261007T145237Z CREATED:20261001T212417Z LAST-MODIFIED:20261007T145237Z UID:23767-1793125800-1793131200@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Becoming Leaderful: Building the Communities We Want DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, October 27\, 2026\n6:30-8 pm\nFREE\n \nJoin a discussion among local activists and leaders on how to unlock and amplify our capabilities in a moment which calls for leadership from every community member. As our community and our structures come under attack\, this is the time for deep reflection and action\, to ask ourselves who we are\, who we can be\, and how to become the people we have been waiting for. Our panelists will share their processes of refuting the model minority myth\, our own learned powerlessness\, and what it looks like to take an active part in ongoing social change. Attendees will leave the session with new models and inspiration to build lasting change in their communities. \n  \nThe panelists are Claudia Leung from New Breath\, Tash Nguyen from Restore Oakland\, and Krishna Desai\, Esq. of Desai Tran\, with moderator Kim Tran. \n  \nThis event is free to attend with registration at the link below. Light refreshments will be provided. Childcare is available if needed—please select this option when you register. \n \n Reserve Tickets\n \nABOUT THE PANELISTS\n \nClaudia Leung (she/they) is a queer\, disabled\, mixed-race second-generation Chinese American born and raised in the Bay Area. At New Breath Foundation\, she serves as the Director of Programs\, leading in strategic grantmaking\, capacity building\, evaluation\, and learning. Throughout her career\, Claudia has consistently focused on centering marginalized communities to effect intersectional cultural and social change. Her career spans more than a decade in roles from grantmaking to communications to fundraising at organizations working on racial justice\, gender justice\, arts\, and education. Her organizing work and background as a liberatory coach inform her approach to philanthropy. \n \nTash Nguyen (she/they) is a queer\, gender-nonconforming\, community organizer and circlekeeper working to build racial and economic justice. Born and raised in the Bay\, they are the child of Vietnamese refugees\, and communities ties fuel their drive to dismantle systems of domination. For over 10 years\, they’ve been organizing to reduce jail populations\, stop jail expansions\, and redirect resources out of carceral budgets and into life-affirming solutions. Tash is trained in restorative justice\, mediation\, and various conflict resolution techniques. They believe that we must build cultures and practices that move beyond punishment if we are to meaningfully break cycles of violence and create a world rooted in shared prosperity. \n  \nPrior to joining Restore Oakland in 2019\, Tash served as a Senior Organizer and Advocate at the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights\, a founding partner of Restore Oakland. They proudly serve on the board of the REAL Peoples Fund. \n \nKrishna Desai\, Esq. (they/them) works as an employment attorney\, facilitator\, and consultant to create just and equitable workplaces. Early in their career Krishna worked in gender-based harm prevention and published a book advising LGBTQIA+ youth of their rights. As an attorney\, they have helped employees facing discrimination and harassment secure robust settlements and policy changes from Fortune 500 companies and national non-profits. For over a decade\, Krishna has coupled that same proactive mindset with their legal background to counsel organizations seeking to align their practices with their values. \n  \nTheir past consulting clients include values aligned multinational corporations\, national non-profits and community based organizations. Committed to real-world application\, Krishna fosters productive partnerships between community coalitions and local governments. They also provide deescalation support at protests nationwide. \n \nKim Tran (she/her) believes imagination is the engine of change. With over ten years of experience in anti-racist and LGBTQIA+ initiatives\, she takes a multidimensional approach to organizational work. \n  \nKim’s holistic approach to assessments\, management training\, facilitated sessions\, and implementation are highly effective and have been utilized by national non-profits\, purpose-driven companies\, community-based organizations\, premier academic institutions\, and healthcare providers. Her research and community organizing experience have also been featured in NPR\, Slate\, Politico\, PBS NewHour\, and the New York Times. Her commitment to advocacy with trans communities was featured in a TEDx talk. In 2021\, the California Legislative LGBTQ Caucus honored Kim with its Outstanding Community Member award. Her first book\, After Diversity\, is forthcoming from Haymarket Books. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/leaderful/ LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St. #290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States CATEGORIES:Featured,Upcoming Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Becoming-Leaderful-FB-1080-x-1080-px-2.png ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261105T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261105T200000 DTSTAMP:20261012T213149Z CREATED:20261012T210157Z LAST-MODIFIED:20261012T213149Z UID:23857-1793901600-1793908800@oacc.cc SUMMARY:One Fighting Irishman: A Film Screening and Panel Discussion DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 5\, 2026\n6-8 pm\nFREE\n \nJoin us for a screening of One Fighting Irishman\, a film by Sharon Yamato and Evan Kodani\, followed by a panel discussion around immigrant rights\, Japanese American history\, and allyship. Narrated by George Takei\, this 30-minute documentary tells the story of Wayne M. Collins\, the San Francisco civil rights attorney who prevented more than 5\,500 Japanese Americans from being deported after imprisonment at the Tule Lake Segregation Center\, considered the worst of America’s ten WWII concentration camps.  \n  \nThe screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Sharon Yamato\, Dale Minami\, Karen Korematsu\, Wayne Collins\, moderated by Justice Tracie Brown. Light refreshments will be served. Register for free tickets at the link below. \n  \nThis event is sponsored by the Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee and Campaign for Justice\, the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society\, the San Francisco Irish Consulate\, the Northern District Historical Society and the Federal Bar Association\, Northern District of California Chapter. \n \n Reserve Tickets\n \nABOUT THE PANELISTS\n \nSharon Yamato is a writer/journalist\, TV producer\, and independent filmmaker whose latest film\, One Fighting Irishman\, tells the story of attorney Wayne Collins and his fight to restore American citizenship for more than 5\,000 renunciants held at the Tule Lake Segregation Center. Her other films include Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn\, A Flicker in Eternity\, and Moving Walls\, for which she wrote an accompanying book\, Moving Walls: The Barracks of America’s Concentration Camps. She has written articles for the Los Angeles Times and is a columnist for the Los Angeles daily newspaper\, The Rafu Shimpo \n \nPresiding Justice Tracie L. Brown was appointed to California’s First District Court of Appeal in 2018 and elevated to the position of Presiding Justice of Division Four in 2023.  She had previously served for five years on the San Francisco Superior Court.  \n  \nJustice Brown graduated from Harvard University and received her J.D. from the U.C. Berkeley School of Law.  She clerked for Judge M. Margaret McKeown on the Ninth Circuit and was an associate at Morrison & Foerster and Cooley LLP.  She then joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office\, where she tried civil and criminal cases and argued before the Ninth Circuit.  \n  \nJustice Brown received the Asian American Bar Association’s Joe Morozumi Award and the California State Bar’s Jack Berman Award for her work on a pro bono case representing San Francisco’s Japanese American community.  She was honored with a U.S. Department of Justice Director’s Award for prosecuting three defendants who distributed millions of doses of controlled substances through an online “pill mill.”    \n  \nJustice Brown taught trial advocacy at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law for approximately ten years\, and frequently guest-teaches at Stanford Law School\, University of San Francisco Law School\, and U.C. Law San Francisco (formerly known as Hastings).  Justice Brown is actively involved with numerous organizations\, including the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area\, the California Asian Pacific American Judges Association\, the American Law Institute\, California Women Lawyers\, California Women Judges\, and the Bar Association of San Francisco. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/fighting-irishman/ LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St. #290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States CATEGORIES:Featured,Upcoming Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/One-Fighting-Irishman-FB-1080-x-1080-px1.png ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261115T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261115T140000 DTSTAMP:20261005T163057Z CREATED:20260916T014142Z LAST-MODIFIED:20261005T163057Z UID:23656-1794744000-1794751200@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Ecologies of Resistance: A Conversation with Authors Umi Vaughan\, Tiffany Yap and Robert Liu-Trujillo DESCRIPTION:Closing performance by SambaFunk! \n— \nSunday\, November 15\, 2026\n12-2 pm\nFREE\n \nJoin us for a conversation with Umi Vaughan\, Tiffany Yap\, and Robert Liu-Trujillo\, three writers and artists whose work sits at the intersection of culture\, nature\, and resistance. Their work positions human creativity as an expansive response to attacks on land\, memory\, and cultural ecosystems. Together they will discuss how authors can craft inclusive work that holds history\, ecology\, and lived experience simultaneously. After the conversation\, the audience is invited to boogie down to a closing performance by SambaFunk! \n  \nThis event is free to attend\, but registration is requested at the link below. Books will be available for sale and signing. \n \n Reserve Tickets\n \nABOUT THE ARTISTS\n \nRobert Liu-Trujillo is an author\, illustrator\, and lifelong artist from Oakland California. He started his professional career in the early 2000s\, working with murals\, arts education\, public art\, merchandise\, illustration and kids books. He is a co-founder of the Social Justice Children’s Book Fair and the illustrator of over 10 children’s books including I Am Sausal Creek\, which discusses the ecology\, history\, and conservation of a historic creek in Oakland. Learn more at work.robdontstop.com. \n \nUmi Vaughan is an artist-scholar who reimagines life and celebrates culture through a Black diasporic lens with photo-based visual art\, music and dance\, ethnographic research\, and writing that harness empathy and funk as creative tools. He is the co-author of Silencing the Drum: Religious Racism and Afro-Brazilian Sacred Music and author of Carlos Aldama’s Life in Batá: Cuba\, Diaspora\, and the Drum and Rebel Dance\, Renegade Stance: Timba Music and Black Identity in Cuba. Learn more at www.umiart.art. Author photo by Eesuu Orundide. \n \nTiffany Yap is a conservation scientist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is the urban wildlands science director at the Center for Biological Diversity and author of the graphic novel Tales of the Urban Wild: A Puma’s Journey\, illustrated by Meital Smith. She holds a doctorate in environmental science and engineering and works to protect sensitive and endangered species and landscapes through land use planning and policy. Her work has been featured in the New York Times\, LA Times\, San Francisco Chronicle\, NPR and more. Learn more at tiffanyyap.com. \n \nSambaFunk! is a collective of dancers\, musicians\, artists and community members\, bringing to life the essence of Carnaval. Through African Diaspora infused artistic techniques\, SambaFunk! provide opportunities for dancers to grow\, connect with themselves and learn the core elements of Brazilian dance. Learn more at sambafunk.com. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/ecologies-resist/ LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St. #290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States CATEGORIES:Featured,Upcoming Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Ecologies-of-Resistance-Authors-in-Convo-FB-1080-x-1080-px.png ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR