BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Oakland Asian Cultural Center - ECPv6.15.20//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:20210314T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20211107T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20220313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20221106T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20230312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20231105T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20240310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20241103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20250309T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20251102T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240511T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240511T123000 DTSTAMP:20260422T102112 CREATED:20240326T235217Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240521T223138Z UID:18196-1715425200-1715430600@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Movement Workshop: Interwoven Stories of Culture\, Belonging\, and Change\, Facilitated by Ishami Dance Company DESCRIPTION:Premiere Short Film Documentaries From Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra’s 2018 Performance with Angela Davis and Janice Mirikitani Followed by a Live Performance \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of two short films of Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra performance in 2018\, Go For Broke! and Down By The Riverside\, featuring Janice Mirikitani and Angela Davis. Followed by a live performance by Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra and Voices Of A Dream.   This event is part of OACC’s ongoing initiative to support\, highlight\, and cultivate Black and Asian solidarity within our Oakland and greater Bay Area communities.   Go for Broke! is dedicated to the courageous Japanese American men and women who served and died for their country in World War II while their families were imprisoned. In this film\, Janice Mirikitani shares her mother’s memories of their incarceration and her own testimony. “Go for Broke” was the motto of these brave soldiers in their fight to defend democracy.   Down By The Riverside – Requiem for a King commemorates Dr. Martin Luther King’s life and work\, and the 50th anniversary of his assassination. Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra premiered Down By The Riverside at the 2018 San Francisco International Arts Festival. Featuring spoken word by Dr. Angela Davis\, the documentary includes Spirituals and Gospel songs performed by Voices Of A Dream. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT ANTHONY BROWN \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Composer\, percussionist\, ethnomusicologist\, Guggenheim and Ford Fellow\, Smithsonian Associate Scholar\, and GRAMMY® nominee Dr. Anthony Brown has collaborated with Max Roach\, Cecil Taylor\, Pharoah Sanders\, Zakir Hussain\, Steve Lacy\, Anthony Davis\, and the San Francisco Symphony. Dr. Brown holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in music (ethnomusicology) from UC Berkeley and a Master of Music degree in jazz performance from Rutgers University. He is currently Artistic Director of Fifth Stream Music and the internationally acclaimed Asian American Orchestra.  fifthstreammusic.org   \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT ANTHONY BROWN'S ASIAN AMERICAN ORCHESTRA \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In the global community of the 21st century\, Anthony Brown’s Orchestra presents music that blends the sonorities and improvisational approaches of the jazz tradition with Asian musical instruments and sensibilities. In 1997\, leaders of San Francisco’s Asian American creative music movement founded the Asian American Jazz Orchestra (AAJO)\, under the auspices of a San Francisco-based\, federally funded multimedia consortium project to provide education nationally about the Japanese American internment experiences of World War II. The AAJO featured critically acclaimed musicians Anthony Brown\, Jon Jang\, Mark Izu\, Hafez Modirzadeh and Francis Wong\, as well as other San Francisco Bay Area jazz and world music artists\, many of whom possessed fluency on a variety of traditional Asian instruments. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/interwovenstoriesworkshop/ LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St. #290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States CATEGORIES:Featured,Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/workshop-thumbnail.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240510T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240510T213000 DTSTAMP:20260422T102112 CREATED:20240321T205611Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240521T223216Z UID:18161-1715371200-1715376600@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Interwoven Stories of Culture\, Belonging\, and Change\, Featuring Ishami Dance Company DESCRIPTION:Premiere Short Film Documentaries From Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra’s 2018 Performance with Angela Davis and Janice Mirikitani Followed by a Live Performance \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of two short films of Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra performance in 2018\, Go For Broke! and Down By The Riverside\, featuring Janice Mirikitani and Angela Davis. Followed by a live performance by Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra and Voices Of A Dream.   This event is part of OACC’s ongoing initiative to support\, highlight\, and cultivate Black and Asian solidarity within our Oakland and greater Bay Area communities.   Go for Broke! is dedicated to the courageous Japanese American men and women who served and died for their country in World War II while their families were imprisoned. In this film\, Janice Mirikitani shares her mother’s memories of their incarceration and her own testimony. “Go for Broke” was the motto of these brave soldiers in their fight to defend democracy.   Down By The Riverside – Requiem for a King commemorates Dr. Martin Luther King’s life and work\, and the 50th anniversary of his assassination. Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra premiered Down By The Riverside at the 2018 San Francisco International Arts Festival. Featuring spoken word by Dr. Angela Davis\, the documentary includes Spirituals and Gospel songs performed by Voices Of A Dream. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT ANTHONY BROWN \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Composer\, percussionist\, ethnomusicologist\, Guggenheim and Ford Fellow\, Smithsonian Associate Scholar\, and GRAMMY® nominee Dr. Anthony Brown has collaborated with Max Roach\, Cecil Taylor\, Pharoah Sanders\, Zakir Hussain\, Steve Lacy\, Anthony Davis\, and the San Francisco Symphony. Dr. Brown holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in music (ethnomusicology) from UC Berkeley and a Master of Music degree in jazz performance from Rutgers University. He is currently Artistic Director of Fifth Stream Music and the internationally acclaimed Asian American Orchestra.  fifthstreammusic.org   \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT ANTHONY BROWN'S ASIAN AMERICAN ORCHESTRA \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In the global community of the 21st century\, Anthony Brown’s Orchestra presents music that blends the sonorities and improvisational approaches of the jazz tradition with Asian musical instruments and sensibilities. In 1997\, leaders of San Francisco’s Asian American creative music movement founded the Asian American Jazz Orchestra (AAJO)\, under the auspices of a San Francisco-based\, federally funded multimedia consortium project to provide education nationally about the Japanese American internment experiences of World War II. The AAJO featured critically acclaimed musicians Anthony Brown\, Jon Jang\, Mark Izu\, Hafez Modirzadeh and Francis Wong\, as well as other San Francisco Bay Area jazz and world music artists\, many of whom possessed fluency on a variety of traditional Asian instruments. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/interwovenstories/ LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St. #290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States CATEGORIES:Featured,Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/1.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240503T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240503T153000 DTSTAMP:20260422T102112 CREATED:20240321T194933Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240521T223247Z UID:18136-1714744800-1714750200@oacc.cc SUMMARY:How K-Dramas Can Transform Your Life: A Fireside Chat with Clinician\, Speaker\, Coach\, and Author Jeanie Y. Chang\, LMFT DESCRIPTION:Premiere Short Film Documentaries From Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra’s 2018 Performance with Angela Davis and Janice Mirikitani Followed by a Live Performance \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of two short films of Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra performance in 2018\, Go For Broke! and Down By The Riverside\, featuring Janice Mirikitani and Angela Davis. Followed by a live performance by Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra and Voices Of A Dream.   This event is part of OACC’s ongoing initiative to support\, highlight\, and cultivate Black and Asian solidarity within our Oakland and greater Bay Area communities.   Go for Broke! is dedicated to the courageous Japanese American men and women who served and died for their country in World War II while their families were imprisoned. In this film\, Janice Mirikitani shares her mother’s memories of their incarceration and her own testimony. “Go for Broke” was the motto of these brave soldiers in their fight to defend democracy.   Down By The Riverside – Requiem for a King commemorates Dr. Martin Luther King’s life and work\, and the 50th anniversary of his assassination. Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra premiered Down By The Riverside at the 2018 San Francisco International Arts Festival. Featuring spoken word by Dr. Angela Davis\, the documentary includes Spirituals and Gospel songs performed by Voices Of A Dream. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT ANTHONY BROWN \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Composer\, percussionist\, ethnomusicologist\, Guggenheim and Ford Fellow\, Smithsonian Associate Scholar\, and GRAMMY® nominee Dr. Anthony Brown has collaborated with Max Roach\, Cecil Taylor\, Pharoah Sanders\, Zakir Hussain\, Steve Lacy\, Anthony Davis\, and the San Francisco Symphony. Dr. Brown holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in music (ethnomusicology) from UC Berkeley and a Master of Music degree in jazz performance from Rutgers University. He is currently Artistic Director of Fifth Stream Music and the internationally acclaimed Asian American Orchestra.  fifthstreammusic.org   \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT ANTHONY BROWN'S ASIAN AMERICAN ORCHESTRA \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In the global community of the 21st century\, Anthony Brown’s Orchestra presents music that blends the sonorities and improvisational approaches of the jazz tradition with Asian musical instruments and sensibilities. In 1997\, leaders of San Francisco’s Asian American creative music movement founded the Asian American Jazz Orchestra (AAJO)\, under the auspices of a San Francisco-based\, federally funded multimedia consortium project to provide education nationally about the Japanese American internment experiences of World War II. The AAJO featured critically acclaimed musicians Anthony Brown\, Jon Jang\, Mark Izu\, Hafez Modirzadeh and Francis Wong\, as well as other San Francisco Bay Area jazz and world music artists\, many of whom possessed fluency on a variety of traditional Asian instruments. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/howkdramascantransformyourlife/ LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St. #290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States CATEGORIES:Featured,Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/thumbnail-2.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240427T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240427T160000 DTSTAMP:20260422T102112 CREATED:20240412T013856Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240508T202556Z UID:18430-1714222800-1714233600@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Philippine Master Culture Bearers of T’boli\, Yakan\, Kalinga People: Weaving Workshop DESCRIPTION:Premiere Short Film Documentaries From Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra’s 2018 Performance with Angela Davis and Janice Mirikitani Followed by a Live Performance \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of two short films of Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra performance in 2018\, Go For Broke! and Down By The Riverside\, featuring Janice Mirikitani and Angela Davis. Followed by a live performance by Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra and Voices Of A Dream.   This event is part of OACC’s ongoing initiative to support\, highlight\, and cultivate Black and Asian solidarity within our Oakland and greater Bay Area communities.   Go for Broke! is dedicated to the courageous Japanese American men and women who served and died for their country in World War II while their families were imprisoned. In this film\, Janice Mirikitani shares her mother’s memories of their incarceration and her own testimony. “Go for Broke” was the motto of these brave soldiers in their fight to defend democracy.   Down By The Riverside – Requiem for a King commemorates Dr. Martin Luther King’s life and work\, and the 50th anniversary of his assassination. Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra premiered Down By The Riverside at the 2018 San Francisco International Arts Festival. Featuring spoken word by Dr. Angela Davis\, the documentary includes Spirituals and Gospel songs performed by Voices Of A Dream. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT ANTHONY BROWN \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Composer\, percussionist\, ethnomusicologist\, Guggenheim and Ford Fellow\, Smithsonian Associate Scholar\, and GRAMMY® nominee Dr. Anthony Brown has collaborated with Max Roach\, Cecil Taylor\, Pharoah Sanders\, Zakir Hussain\, Steve Lacy\, Anthony Davis\, and the San Francisco Symphony. Dr. Brown holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in music (ethnomusicology) from UC Berkeley and a Master of Music degree in jazz performance from Rutgers University. He is currently Artistic Director of Fifth Stream Music and the internationally acclaimed Asian American Orchestra.  fifthstreammusic.org   \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT ANTHONY BROWN'S ASIAN AMERICAN ORCHESTRA \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In the global community of the 21st century\, Anthony Brown’s Orchestra presents music that blends the sonorities and improvisational approaches of the jazz tradition with Asian musical instruments and sensibilities. In 1997\, leaders of San Francisco’s Asian American creative music movement founded the Asian American Jazz Orchestra (AAJO)\, under the auspices of a San Francisco-based\, federally funded multimedia consortium project to provide education nationally about the Japanese American internment experiences of World War II. The AAJO featured critically acclaimed musicians Anthony Brown\, Jon Jang\, Mark Izu\, Hafez Modirzadeh and Francis Wong\, as well as other San Francisco Bay Area jazz and world music artists\, many of whom possessed fluency on a variety of traditional Asian instruments. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/philippinemasterculturebearers/ LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St. #290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States CATEGORIES:Featured,Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/weaving-workshop-thumbnail-1.png ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240420T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240420T150000 DTSTAMP:20260422T102112 CREATED:20240319T220527Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240508T202700Z UID:18090-1713614400-1713625200@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Southeast Asian New Year Celebration DESCRIPTION:Premiere Short Film Documentaries From Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra’s 2018 Performance with Angela Davis and Janice Mirikitani Followed by a Live Performance \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of two short films of Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra performance in 2018\, Go For Broke! and Down By The Riverside\, featuring Janice Mirikitani and Angela Davis. Followed by a live performance by Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra and Voices Of A Dream.   This event is part of OACC’s ongoing initiative to support\, highlight\, and cultivate Black and Asian solidarity within our Oakland and greater Bay Area communities.   Go for Broke! is dedicated to the courageous Japanese American men and women who served and died for their country in World War II while their families were imprisoned. In this film\, Janice Mirikitani shares her mother’s memories of their incarceration and her own testimony. “Go for Broke” was the motto of these brave soldiers in their fight to defend democracy.   Down By The Riverside – Requiem for a King commemorates Dr. Martin Luther King’s life and work\, and the 50th anniversary of his assassination. Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra premiered Down By The Riverside at the 2018 San Francisco International Arts Festival. Featuring spoken word by Dr. Angela Davis\, the documentary includes Spirituals and Gospel songs performed by Voices Of A Dream. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT ANTHONY BROWN \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Composer\, percussionist\, ethnomusicologist\, Guggenheim and Ford Fellow\, Smithsonian Associate Scholar\, and GRAMMY® nominee Dr. Anthony Brown has collaborated with Max Roach\, Cecil Taylor\, Pharoah Sanders\, Zakir Hussain\, Steve Lacy\, Anthony Davis\, and the San Francisco Symphony. Dr. Brown holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in music (ethnomusicology) from UC Berkeley and a Master of Music degree in jazz performance from Rutgers University. He is currently Artistic Director of Fifth Stream Music and the internationally acclaimed Asian American Orchestra.  fifthstreammusic.org   \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT ANTHONY BROWN'S ASIAN AMERICAN ORCHESTRA \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In the global community of the 21st century\, Anthony Brown’s Orchestra presents music that blends the sonorities and improvisational approaches of the jazz tradition with Asian musical instruments and sensibilities. In 1997\, leaders of San Francisco’s Asian American creative music movement founded the Asian American Jazz Orchestra (AAJO)\, under the auspices of a San Francisco-based\, federally funded multimedia consortium project to provide education nationally about the Japanese American internment experiences of World War II. The AAJO featured critically acclaimed musicians Anthony Brown\, Jon Jang\, Mark Izu\, Hafez Modirzadeh and Francis Wong\, as well as other San Francisco Bay Area jazz and world music artists\, many of whom possessed fluency on a variety of traditional Asian instruments. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/southeastasianny/ LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St. #290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States CATEGORIES:Featured,Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Event-flyer.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240324T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240324T140000 DTSTAMP:20260422T102112 CREATED:20240129T232544Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240405T012530Z UID:17635-1711285200-1711288800@oacc.cc SUMMARY:"Sons of Chinatown: A Memoir Rooted in China and America" Book Release Reading with William Gee Wong DESCRIPTION:Premiere Short Film Documentaries From Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra’s 2018 Performance with Angela Davis and Janice Mirikitani Followed by a Live Performance \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of two short films of Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra performance in 2018\, Go For Broke! and Down By The Riverside\, featuring Janice Mirikitani and Angela Davis. Followed by a live performance by Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra and Voices Of A Dream.   This event is part of OACC’s ongoing initiative to support\, highlight\, and cultivate Black and Asian solidarity within our Oakland and greater Bay Area communities.   Go for Broke! is dedicated to the courageous Japanese American men and women who served and died for their country in World War II while their families were imprisoned. In this film\, Janice Mirikitani shares her mother’s memories of their incarceration and her own testimony. “Go for Broke” was the motto of these brave soldiers in their fight to defend democracy.   Down By The Riverside – Requiem for a King commemorates Dr. Martin Luther King’s life and work\, and the 50th anniversary of his assassination. Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra premiered Down By The Riverside at the 2018 San Francisco International Arts Festival. Featuring spoken word by Dr. Angela Davis\, the documentary includes Spirituals and Gospel songs performed by Voices Of A Dream. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT ANTHONY BROWN \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Composer\, percussionist\, ethnomusicologist\, Guggenheim and Ford Fellow\, Smithsonian Associate Scholar\, and GRAMMY® nominee Dr. Anthony Brown has collaborated with Max Roach\, Cecil Taylor\, Pharoah Sanders\, Zakir Hussain\, Steve Lacy\, Anthony Davis\, and the San Francisco Symphony. Dr. Brown holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in music (ethnomusicology) from UC Berkeley and a Master of Music degree in jazz performance from Rutgers University. He is currently Artistic Director of Fifth Stream Music and the internationally acclaimed Asian American Orchestra.  fifthstreammusic.org   \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT ANTHONY BROWN'S ASIAN AMERICAN ORCHESTRA \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In the global community of the 21st century\, Anthony Brown’s Orchestra presents music that blends the sonorities and improvisational approaches of the jazz tradition with Asian musical instruments and sensibilities. In 1997\, leaders of San Francisco’s Asian American creative music movement founded the Asian American Jazz Orchestra (AAJO)\, under the auspices of a San Francisco-based\, federally funded multimedia consortium project to provide education nationally about the Japanese American internment experiences of World War II. The AAJO featured critically acclaimed musicians Anthony Brown\, Jon Jang\, Mark Izu\, Hafez Modirzadeh and Francis Wong\, as well as other San Francisco Bay Area jazz and world music artists\, many of whom possessed fluency on a variety of traditional Asian instruments. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/sonsofchinatown/ LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St. #290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States CATEGORIES:Featured,Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/bill-wong-event-500-x-500-px.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240314T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240316T193000 DTSTAMP:20260422T102112 CREATED:20240201T201236Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240318T172836Z UID:17678-1710444600-1710617400@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Dancing Moons Festival 2024 DESCRIPTION:Premiere Short Film Documentaries From Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra’s 2018 Performance with Angela Davis and Janice Mirikitani Followed by a Live Performance \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of two short films of Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra performance in 2018\, Go For Broke! and Down By The Riverside\, featuring Janice Mirikitani and Angela Davis. Followed by a live performance by Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra and Voices Of A Dream.   This event is part of OACC’s ongoing initiative to support\, highlight\, and cultivate Black and Asian solidarity within our Oakland and greater Bay Area communities.   Go for Broke! is dedicated to the courageous Japanese American men and women who served and died for their country in World War II while their families were imprisoned. In this film\, Janice Mirikitani shares her mother’s memories of their incarceration and her own testimony. “Go for Broke” was the motto of these brave soldiers in their fight to defend democracy.   Down By The Riverside – Requiem for a King commemorates Dr. Martin Luther King’s life and work\, and the 50th anniversary of his assassination. Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra premiered Down By The Riverside at the 2018 San Francisco International Arts Festival. Featuring spoken word by Dr. Angela Davis\, the documentary includes Spirituals and Gospel songs performed by Voices Of A Dream. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT ANTHONY BROWN \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Composer\, percussionist\, ethnomusicologist\, Guggenheim and Ford Fellow\, Smithsonian Associate Scholar\, and GRAMMY® nominee Dr. Anthony Brown has collaborated with Max Roach\, Cecil Taylor\, Pharoah Sanders\, Zakir Hussain\, Steve Lacy\, Anthony Davis\, and the San Francisco Symphony. Dr. Brown holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in music (ethnomusicology) from UC Berkeley and a Master of Music degree in jazz performance from Rutgers University. He is currently Artistic Director of Fifth Stream Music and the internationally acclaimed Asian American Orchestra.  fifthstreammusic.org   \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT ANTHONY BROWN'S ASIAN AMERICAN ORCHESTRA \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In the global community of the 21st century\, Anthony Brown’s Orchestra presents music that blends the sonorities and improvisational approaches of the jazz tradition with Asian musical instruments and sensibilities. In 1997\, leaders of San Francisco’s Asian American creative music movement founded the Asian American Jazz Orchestra (AAJO)\, under the auspices of a San Francisco-based\, federally funded multimedia consortium project to provide education nationally about the Japanese American internment experiences of World War II. The AAJO featured critically acclaimed musicians Anthony Brown\, Jon Jang\, Mark Izu\, Hafez Modirzadeh and Francis Wong\, as well as other San Francisco Bay Area jazz and world music artists\, many of whom possessed fluency on a variety of traditional Asian instruments. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/dancingmoons2024/ LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St. #290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States CATEGORIES:Featured,Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/dancing-moons-jpeg.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240301T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240301T203000 DTSTAMP:20260422T102112 CREATED:20240123T233427Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240318T205738Z UID:17390-1709319600-1709325000@oacc.cc SUMMARY:"Method Sampling: How to Build the Future Together" Documentary Film Premiere Screening & Discussion with Ensemble Mik Nawooj DESCRIPTION:Premiere Short Film Documentaries From Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra’s 2018 Performance with Angela Davis and Janice Mirikitani Followed by a Live Performance \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of two short films of Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra performance in 2018\, Go For Broke! and Down By The Riverside\, featuring Janice Mirikitani and Angela Davis. Followed by a live performance by Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra and Voices Of A Dream.   This event is part of OACC’s ongoing initiative to support\, highlight\, and cultivate Black and Asian solidarity within our Oakland and greater Bay Area communities.   Go for Broke! is dedicated to the courageous Japanese American men and women who served and died for their country in World War II while their families were imprisoned. In this film\, Janice Mirikitani shares her mother’s memories of their incarceration and her own testimony. “Go for Broke” was the motto of these brave soldiers in their fight to defend democracy.   Down By The Riverside – Requiem for a King commemorates Dr. Martin Luther King’s life and work\, and the 50th anniversary of his assassination. Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra premiered Down By The Riverside at the 2018 San Francisco International Arts Festival. Featuring spoken word by Dr. Angela Davis\, the documentary includes Spirituals and Gospel songs performed by Voices Of A Dream. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT ANTHONY BROWN \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Composer\, percussionist\, ethnomusicologist\, Guggenheim and Ford Fellow\, Smithsonian Associate Scholar\, and GRAMMY® nominee Dr. Anthony Brown has collaborated with Max Roach\, Cecil Taylor\, Pharoah Sanders\, Zakir Hussain\, Steve Lacy\, Anthony Davis\, and the San Francisco Symphony. Dr. Brown holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in music (ethnomusicology) from UC Berkeley and a Master of Music degree in jazz performance from Rutgers University. He is currently Artistic Director of Fifth Stream Music and the internationally acclaimed Asian American Orchestra.  fifthstreammusic.org   \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT ANTHONY BROWN'S ASIAN AMERICAN ORCHESTRA \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In the global community of the 21st century\, Anthony Brown’s Orchestra presents music that blends the sonorities and improvisational approaches of the jazz tradition with Asian musical instruments and sensibilities. In 1997\, leaders of San Francisco’s Asian American creative music movement founded the Asian American Jazz Orchestra (AAJO)\, under the auspices of a San Francisco-based\, federally funded multimedia consortium project to provide education nationally about the Japanese American internment experiences of World War II. The AAJO featured critically acclaimed musicians Anthony Brown\, Jon Jang\, Mark Izu\, Hafez Modirzadeh and Francis Wong\, as well as other San Francisco Bay Area jazz and world music artists\, many of whom possessed fluency on a variety of traditional Asian instruments. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/methodsampling/ LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St. #290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States CATEGORIES:Featured,Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/method-sampling-jpeg.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240229T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240229T190000 DTSTAMP:20260422T102112 CREATED:20240209T225744Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240318T213955Z UID:17865-1709222400-1709233200@oacc.cc SUMMARY:"Love & Protect" Mural Series Closing Reception and AR Workshop DESCRIPTION:Premiere Short Film Documentaries From Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra’s 2018 Performance with Angela Davis and Janice Mirikitani Followed by a Live Performance \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of two short films of Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra performance in 2018\, Go For Broke! and Down By The Riverside\, featuring Janice Mirikitani and Angela Davis. Followed by a live performance by Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra and Voices Of A Dream.   This event is part of OACC’s ongoing initiative to support\, highlight\, and cultivate Black and Asian solidarity within our Oakland and greater Bay Area communities.   Go for Broke! is dedicated to the courageous Japanese American men and women who served and died for their country in World War II while their families were imprisoned. In this film\, Janice Mirikitani shares her mother’s memories of their incarceration and her own testimony. “Go for Broke” was the motto of these brave soldiers in their fight to defend democracy.   Down By The Riverside – Requiem for a King commemorates Dr. Martin Luther King’s life and work\, and the 50th anniversary of his assassination. Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra premiered Down By The Riverside at the 2018 San Francisco International Arts Festival. Featuring spoken word by Dr. Angela Davis\, the documentary includes Spirituals and Gospel songs performed by Voices Of A Dream. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT ANTHONY BROWN \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Composer\, percussionist\, ethnomusicologist\, Guggenheim and Ford Fellow\, Smithsonian Associate Scholar\, and GRAMMY® nominee Dr. Anthony Brown has collaborated with Max Roach\, Cecil Taylor\, Pharoah Sanders\, Zakir Hussain\, Steve Lacy\, Anthony Davis\, and the San Francisco Symphony. Dr. Brown holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in music (ethnomusicology) from UC Berkeley and a Master of Music degree in jazz performance from Rutgers University. He is currently Artistic Director of Fifth Stream Music and the internationally acclaimed Asian American Orchestra.  fifthstreammusic.org   \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT ANTHONY BROWN'S ASIAN AMERICAN ORCHESTRA \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In the global community of the 21st century\, Anthony Brown’s Orchestra presents music that blends the sonorities and improvisational approaches of the jazz tradition with Asian musical instruments and sensibilities. In 1997\, leaders of San Francisco’s Asian American creative music movement founded the Asian American Jazz Orchestra (AAJO)\, under the auspices of a San Francisco-based\, federally funded multimedia consortium project to provide education nationally about the Japanese American internment experiences of World War II. The AAJO featured critically acclaimed musicians Anthony Brown\, Jon Jang\, Mark Izu\, Hafez Modirzadeh and Francis Wong\, as well as other San Francisco Bay Area jazz and world music artists\, many of whom possessed fluency on a variety of traditional Asian instruments. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/loveprotectclosingreception/ LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St. #290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States CATEGORIES:Featured,Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/reception.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240215T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240215T203000 DTSTAMP:20260422T102113 CREATED:20240103T201419Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240318T210038Z UID:16970-1708023600-1708029000@oacc.cc SUMMARY:ALTERNATIVE FACTS: The Lies of Executive Order 9066 DESCRIPTION:Premiere Short Film Documentaries From Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra’s 2018 Performance with Angela Davis and Janice Mirikitani Followed by a Live Performance \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of two short films of Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra performance in 2018\, Go For Broke! and Down By The Riverside\, featuring Janice Mirikitani and Angela Davis. Followed by a live performance by Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra and Voices Of A Dream.   This event is part of OACC’s ongoing initiative to support\, highlight\, and cultivate Black and Asian solidarity within our Oakland and greater Bay Area communities.   Go for Broke! is dedicated to the courageous Japanese American men and women who served and died for their country in World War II while their families were imprisoned. In this film\, Janice Mirikitani shares her mother’s memories of their incarceration and her own testimony. “Go for Broke” was the motto of these brave soldiers in their fight to defend democracy.   Down By The Riverside – Requiem for a King commemorates Dr. Martin Luther King’s life and work\, and the 50th anniversary of his assassination. Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra premiered Down By The Riverside at the 2018 San Francisco International Arts Festival. Featuring spoken word by Dr. Angela Davis\, the documentary includes Spirituals and Gospel songs performed by Voices Of A Dream. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT ANTHONY BROWN \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Composer\, percussionist\, ethnomusicologist\, Guggenheim and Ford Fellow\, Smithsonian Associate Scholar\, and GRAMMY® nominee Dr. Anthony Brown has collaborated with Max Roach\, Cecil Taylor\, Pharoah Sanders\, Zakir Hussain\, Steve Lacy\, Anthony Davis\, and the San Francisco Symphony. Dr. Brown holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in music (ethnomusicology) from UC Berkeley and a Master of Music degree in jazz performance from Rutgers University. He is currently Artistic Director of Fifth Stream Music and the internationally acclaimed Asian American Orchestra.  fifthstreammusic.org   \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT ANTHONY BROWN'S ASIAN AMERICAN ORCHESTRA \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In the global community of the 21st century\, Anthony Brown’s Orchestra presents music that blends the sonorities and improvisational approaches of the jazz tradition with Asian musical instruments and sensibilities. In 1997\, leaders of San Francisco’s Asian American creative music movement founded the Asian American Jazz Orchestra (AAJO)\, under the auspices of a San Francisco-based\, federally funded multimedia consortium project to provide education nationally about the Japanese American internment experiences of World War II. The AAJO featured critically acclaimed musicians Anthony Brown\, Jon Jang\, Mark Izu\, Hafez Modirzadeh and Francis Wong\, as well as other San Francisco Bay Area jazz and world music artists\, many of whom possessed fluency on a variety of traditional Asian instruments. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/alternative-facts/ LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St. #290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States CATEGORIES:Featured,Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/alternative-facts.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240203T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240203T160000 DTSTAMP:20260422T102113 CREATED:20240103T205142Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240318T210731Z UID:16991-1706958000-1706976000@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Lunar New Year x Black History Month 2024: Celebrating Asian & African-American Solidarity DESCRIPTION:Premiere Short Film Documentaries From Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra’s 2018 Performance with Angela Davis and Janice Mirikitani Followed by a Live Performance \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of two short films of Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra performance in 2018\, Go For Broke! and Down By The Riverside\, featuring Janice Mirikitani and Angela Davis. Followed by a live performance by Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra and Voices Of A Dream.   This event is part of OACC’s ongoing initiative to support\, highlight\, and cultivate Black and Asian solidarity within our Oakland and greater Bay Area communities.   Go for Broke! is dedicated to the courageous Japanese American men and women who served and died for their country in World War II while their families were imprisoned. In this film\, Janice Mirikitani shares her mother’s memories of their incarceration and her own testimony. “Go for Broke” was the motto of these brave soldiers in their fight to defend democracy.   Down By The Riverside – Requiem for a King commemorates Dr. Martin Luther King’s life and work\, and the 50th anniversary of his assassination. Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra premiered Down By The Riverside at the 2018 San Francisco International Arts Festival. Featuring spoken word by Dr. Angela Davis\, the documentary includes Spirituals and Gospel songs performed by Voices Of A Dream. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT ANTHONY BROWN \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Composer\, percussionist\, ethnomusicologist\, Guggenheim and Ford Fellow\, Smithsonian Associate Scholar\, and GRAMMY® nominee Dr. Anthony Brown has collaborated with Max Roach\, Cecil Taylor\, Pharoah Sanders\, Zakir Hussain\, Steve Lacy\, Anthony Davis\, and the San Francisco Symphony. Dr. Brown holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in music (ethnomusicology) from UC Berkeley and a Master of Music degree in jazz performance from Rutgers University. He is currently Artistic Director of Fifth Stream Music and the internationally acclaimed Asian American Orchestra.  fifthstreammusic.org   \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT ANTHONY BROWN'S ASIAN AMERICAN ORCHESTRA \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In the global community of the 21st century\, Anthony Brown’s Orchestra presents music that blends the sonorities and improvisational approaches of the jazz tradition with Asian musical instruments and sensibilities. In 1997\, leaders of San Francisco’s Asian American creative music movement founded the Asian American Jazz Orchestra (AAJO)\, under the auspices of a San Francisco-based\, federally funded multimedia consortium project to provide education nationally about the Japanese American internment experiences of World War II. The AAJO featured critically acclaimed musicians Anthony Brown\, Jon Jang\, Mark Izu\, Hafez Modirzadeh and Francis Wong\, as well as other San Francisco Bay Area jazz and world music artists\, many of whom possessed fluency on a variety of traditional Asian instruments. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/lnybhm2024/ LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St. #290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States CATEGORIES:Featured,Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Screen-Shot-2023-12-19-at-12.17.04-PM-1-1022x1024-1.png ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240126T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240126T210000 DTSTAMP:20260422T102113 CREATED:20231220T003936Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240318T211426Z UID:16907-1706295600-1706302800@oacc.cc SUMMARY:"The Six: The Untold Story of RMS Titanic’s Chinese Passengers" Film Screening & Discussion with Research Team Members DESCRIPTION:Premiere Short Film Documentaries From Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra’s 2018 Performance with Angela Davis and Janice Mirikitani Followed by a Live Performance \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of two short films of Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra performance in 2018\, Go For Broke! and Down By The Riverside\, featuring Janice Mirikitani and Angela Davis. Followed by a live performance by Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra and Voices Of A Dream.   This event is part of OACC’s ongoing initiative to support\, highlight\, and cultivate Black and Asian solidarity within our Oakland and greater Bay Area communities.   Go for Broke! is dedicated to the courageous Japanese American men and women who served and died for their country in World War II while their families were imprisoned. In this film\, Janice Mirikitani shares her mother’s memories of their incarceration and her own testimony. “Go for Broke” was the motto of these brave soldiers in their fight to defend democracy.   Down By The Riverside – Requiem for a King commemorates Dr. Martin Luther King’s life and work\, and the 50th anniversary of his assassination. Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra premiered Down By The Riverside at the 2018 San Francisco International Arts Festival. Featuring spoken word by Dr. Angela Davis\, the documentary includes Spirituals and Gospel songs performed by Voices Of A Dream. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT ANTHONY BROWN \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Composer\, percussionist\, ethnomusicologist\, Guggenheim and Ford Fellow\, Smithsonian Associate Scholar\, and GRAMMY® nominee Dr. Anthony Brown has collaborated with Max Roach\, Cecil Taylor\, Pharoah Sanders\, Zakir Hussain\, Steve Lacy\, Anthony Davis\, and the San Francisco Symphony. Dr. Brown holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in music (ethnomusicology) from UC Berkeley and a Master of Music degree in jazz performance from Rutgers University. He is currently Artistic Director of Fifth Stream Music and the internationally acclaimed Asian American Orchestra.  fifthstreammusic.org   \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT ANTHONY BROWN'S ASIAN AMERICAN ORCHESTRA \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In the global community of the 21st century\, Anthony Brown’s Orchestra presents music that blends the sonorities and improvisational approaches of the jazz tradition with Asian musical instruments and sensibilities. In 1997\, leaders of San Francisco’s Asian American creative music movement founded the Asian American Jazz Orchestra (AAJO)\, under the auspices of a San Francisco-based\, federally funded multimedia consortium project to provide education nationally about the Japanese American internment experiences of World War II. The AAJO featured critically acclaimed musicians Anthony Brown\, Jon Jang\, Mark Izu\, Hafez Modirzadeh and Francis Wong\, as well as other San Francisco Bay Area jazz and world music artists\, many of whom possessed fluency on a variety of traditional Asian instruments. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/thesix/ LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St. #290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States CATEGORIES:Featured,Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/thumbnail-1.png ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231117T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231117T153000 DTSTAMP:20260422T102113 CREATED:20230915T222835Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240318T212013Z UID:15919-1700229600-1700235000@oacc.cc SUMMARY:“Everything I Learned\, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant: A Memoir” Book Launch with Curtis Chin DESCRIPTION:Premiere Short Film Documentaries From Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra’s 2018 Performance with Angela Davis and Janice Mirikitani Followed by a Live Performance \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of two short films of Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra performance in 2018\, Go For Broke! and Down By The Riverside\, featuring Janice Mirikitani and Angela Davis. Followed by a live performance by Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra and Voices Of A Dream.   This event is part of OACC’s ongoing initiative to support\, highlight\, and cultivate Black and Asian solidarity within our Oakland and greater Bay Area communities.   Go for Broke! is dedicated to the courageous Japanese American men and women who served and died for their country in World War II while their families were imprisoned. In this film\, Janice Mirikitani shares her mother’s memories of their incarceration and her own testimony. “Go for Broke” was the motto of these brave soldiers in their fight to defend democracy.   Down By The Riverside – Requiem for a King commemorates Dr. Martin Luther King’s life and work\, and the 50th anniversary of his assassination. Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra premiered Down By The Riverside at the 2018 San Francisco International Arts Festival. Featuring spoken word by Dr. Angela Davis\, the documentary includes Spirituals and Gospel songs performed by Voices Of A Dream. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT ANTHONY BROWN \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Composer\, percussionist\, ethnomusicologist\, Guggenheim and Ford Fellow\, Smithsonian Associate Scholar\, and GRAMMY® nominee Dr. Anthony Brown has collaborated with Max Roach\, Cecil Taylor\, Pharoah Sanders\, Zakir Hussain\, Steve Lacy\, Anthony Davis\, and the San Francisco Symphony. Dr. Brown holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in music (ethnomusicology) from UC Berkeley and a Master of Music degree in jazz performance from Rutgers University. He is currently Artistic Director of Fifth Stream Music and the internationally acclaimed Asian American Orchestra.  fifthstreammusic.org   \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT ANTHONY BROWN'S ASIAN AMERICAN ORCHESTRA \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In the global community of the 21st century\, Anthony Brown’s Orchestra presents music that blends the sonorities and improvisational approaches of the jazz tradition with Asian musical instruments and sensibilities. In 1997\, leaders of San Francisco’s Asian American creative music movement founded the Asian American Jazz Orchestra (AAJO)\, under the auspices of a San Francisco-based\, federally funded multimedia consortium project to provide education nationally about the Japanese American internment experiences of World War II. The AAJO featured critically acclaimed musicians Anthony Brown\, Jon Jang\, Mark Izu\, Hafez Modirzadeh and Francis Wong\, as well as other San Francisco Bay Area jazz and world music artists\, many of whom possessed fluency on a variety of traditional Asian instruments. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/everything-i-learned-i-learned/ LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St. #290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States CATEGORIES:Featured,Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/thumbnail-5-1024x1024-1.png ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230913T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230913T170000 DTSTAMP:20260422T102113 CREATED:20230620T201251Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240318T212333Z UID:14037-1694617200-1694624400@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Book Reading with Grace Lin DESCRIPTION:Premiere Short Film Documentaries From Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra’s 2018 Performance with Angela Davis and Janice Mirikitani Followed by a Live Performance \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of two short films of Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra performance in 2018\, Go For Broke! and Down By The Riverside\, featuring Janice Mirikitani and Angela Davis. Followed by a live performance by Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra and Voices Of A Dream.   This event is part of OACC’s ongoing initiative to support\, highlight\, and cultivate Black and Asian solidarity within our Oakland and greater Bay Area communities.   Go for Broke! is dedicated to the courageous Japanese American men and women who served and died for their country in World War II while their families were imprisoned. In this film\, Janice Mirikitani shares her mother’s memories of their incarceration and her own testimony. “Go for Broke” was the motto of these brave soldiers in their fight to defend democracy.   Down By The Riverside – Requiem for a King commemorates Dr. Martin Luther King’s life and work\, and the 50th anniversary of his assassination. Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra premiered Down By The Riverside at the 2018 San Francisco International Arts Festival. Featuring spoken word by Dr. Angela Davis\, the documentary includes Spirituals and Gospel songs performed by Voices Of A Dream. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT ANTHONY BROWN \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Composer\, percussionist\, ethnomusicologist\, Guggenheim and Ford Fellow\, Smithsonian Associate Scholar\, and GRAMMY® nominee Dr. Anthony Brown has collaborated with Max Roach\, Cecil Taylor\, Pharoah Sanders\, Zakir Hussain\, Steve Lacy\, Anthony Davis\, and the San Francisco Symphony. Dr. Brown holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in music (ethnomusicology) from UC Berkeley and a Master of Music degree in jazz performance from Rutgers University. He is currently Artistic Director of Fifth Stream Music and the internationally acclaimed Asian American Orchestra.  fifthstreammusic.org   \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT ANTHONY BROWN'S ASIAN AMERICAN ORCHESTRA \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In the global community of the 21st century\, Anthony Brown’s Orchestra presents music that blends the sonorities and improvisational approaches of the jazz tradition with Asian musical instruments and sensibilities. In 1997\, leaders of San Francisco’s Asian American creative music movement founded the Asian American Jazz Orchestra (AAJO)\, under the auspices of a San Francisco-based\, federally funded multimedia consortium project to provide education nationally about the Japanese American internment experiences of World War II. The AAJO featured critically acclaimed musicians Anthony Brown\, Jon Jang\, Mark Izu\, Hafez Modirzadeh and Francis Wong\, as well as other San Francisco Bay Area jazz and world music artists\, many of whom possessed fluency on a variety of traditional Asian instruments. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/chinesemenu/ LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St. #290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States CATEGORIES:Featured,Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Grace-Lin-thumbnail-3.png ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230720T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230720T170000 DTSTAMP:20260422T102113 CREATED:20230720T080740Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230915T213445Z UID:14540-1689840000-1689872400@oacc.cc SUMMARY:"Celebrating Our HeART-filled Heritage" Performing Arts Series DESCRIPTION:Premiere Short Film Documentaries From Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra’s 2018 Performance with Angela Davis and Janice Mirikitani Followed by a Live Performance \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of two short films of Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra performance in 2018\, Go For Broke! and Down By The Riverside\, featuring Janice Mirikitani and Angela Davis. Followed by a live performance by Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra and Voices Of A Dream.   This event is part of OACC’s ongoing initiative to support\, highlight\, and cultivate Black and Asian solidarity within our Oakland and greater Bay Area communities.   Go for Broke! is dedicated to the courageous Japanese American men and women who served and died for their country in World War II while their families were imprisoned. In this film\, Janice Mirikitani shares her mother’s memories of their incarceration and her own testimony. “Go for Broke” was the motto of these brave soldiers in their fight to defend democracy.   Down By The Riverside – Requiem for a King commemorates Dr. Martin Luther King’s life and work\, and the 50th anniversary of his assassination. Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra premiered Down By The Riverside at the 2018 San Francisco International Arts Festival. Featuring spoken word by Dr. Angela Davis\, the documentary includes Spirituals and Gospel songs performed by Voices Of A Dream. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT ANTHONY BROWN \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Composer\, percussionist\, ethnomusicologist\, Guggenheim and Ford Fellow\, Smithsonian Associate Scholar\, and GRAMMY® nominee Dr. Anthony Brown has collaborated with Max Roach\, Cecil Taylor\, Pharoah Sanders\, Zakir Hussain\, Steve Lacy\, Anthony Davis\, and the San Francisco Symphony. Dr. Brown holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in music (ethnomusicology) from UC Berkeley and a Master of Music degree in jazz performance from Rutgers University. He is currently Artistic Director of Fifth Stream Music and the internationally acclaimed Asian American Orchestra.  fifthstreammusic.org   \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT ANTHONY BROWN'S ASIAN AMERICAN ORCHESTRA \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In the global community of the 21st century\, Anthony Brown’s Orchestra presents music that blends the sonorities and improvisational approaches of the jazz tradition with Asian musical instruments and sensibilities. In 1997\, leaders of San Francisco’s Asian American creative music movement founded the Asian American Jazz Orchestra (AAJO)\, under the auspices of a San Francisco-based\, federally funded multimedia consortium project to provide education nationally about the Japanese American internment experiences of World War II. The AAJO featured critically acclaimed musicians Anthony Brown\, Jon Jang\, Mark Izu\, Hafez Modirzadeh and Francis Wong\, as well as other San Francisco Bay Area jazz and world music artists\, many of whom possessed fluency on a variety of traditional Asian instruments. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/celebrating-our-heart-filled-heritage-performing-arts-series/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Screenshot-2023-07-05-at-6.11-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230610T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230610T160000 DTSTAMP:20260422T102113 CREATED:20230427T054910Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230726T131908Z UID:13908-1686398400-1686412800@oacc.cc SUMMARY:AAPI Mental Health and Wellness Jam DESCRIPTION:Premiere Short Film Documentaries From Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra’s 2018 Performance with Angela Davis and Janice Mirikitani Followed by a Live Performance \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of two short films of Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra performance in 2018\, Go For Broke! and Down By The Riverside\, featuring Janice Mirikitani and Angela Davis. Followed by a live performance by Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra and Voices Of A Dream.   This event is part of OACC’s ongoing initiative to support\, highlight\, and cultivate Black and Asian solidarity within our Oakland and greater Bay Area communities.   Go for Broke! is dedicated to the courageous Japanese American men and women who served and died for their country in World War II while their families were imprisoned. In this film\, Janice Mirikitani shares her mother’s memories of their incarceration and her own testimony. “Go for Broke” was the motto of these brave soldiers in their fight to defend democracy.   Down By The Riverside – Requiem for a King commemorates Dr. Martin Luther King’s life and work\, and the 50th anniversary of his assassination. Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra premiered Down By The Riverside at the 2018 San Francisco International Arts Festival. Featuring spoken word by Dr. Angela Davis\, the documentary includes Spirituals and Gospel songs performed by Voices Of A Dream. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT ANTHONY BROWN \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Composer\, percussionist\, ethnomusicologist\, Guggenheim and Ford Fellow\, Smithsonian Associate Scholar\, and GRAMMY® nominee Dr. Anthony Brown has collaborated with Max Roach\, Cecil Taylor\, Pharoah Sanders\, Zakir Hussain\, Steve Lacy\, Anthony Davis\, and the San Francisco Symphony. Dr. Brown holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in music (ethnomusicology) from UC Berkeley and a Master of Music degree in jazz performance from Rutgers University. He is currently Artistic Director of Fifth Stream Music and the internationally acclaimed Asian American Orchestra.  fifthstreammusic.org   \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT ANTHONY BROWN'S ASIAN AMERICAN ORCHESTRA \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In the global community of the 21st century\, Anthony Brown’s Orchestra presents music that blends the sonorities and improvisational approaches of the jazz tradition with Asian musical instruments and sensibilities. In 1997\, leaders of San Francisco’s Asian American creative music movement founded the Asian American Jazz Orchestra (AAJO)\, under the auspices of a San Francisco-based\, federally funded multimedia consortium project to provide education nationally about the Japanese American internment experiences of World War II. The AAJO featured critically acclaimed musicians Anthony Brown\, Jon Jang\, Mark Izu\, Hafez Modirzadeh and Francis Wong\, as well as other San Francisco Bay Area jazz and world music artists\, many of whom possessed fluency on a variety of traditional Asian instruments. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/aapi-wellness-jam/ LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St. #290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States CATEGORIES:Featured,Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/PEERS-Mental-Health-Instagram-Post-Square-2.png ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230602T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230602T213000 DTSTAMP:20260422T102113 CREATED:20230329T223404Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230606T200648Z UID:13551-1685734200-1685741400@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Celebrating Our HeART-filled Heritage: Pasifika Futurism\, the SPULU Experience DESCRIPTION:Premiere Short Film Documentaries From Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra’s 2018 Performance with Angela Davis and Janice Mirikitani Followed by a Live Performance \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of two short films of Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra performance in 2018\, Go For Broke! and Down By The Riverside\, featuring Janice Mirikitani and Angela Davis. Followed by a live performance by Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra and Voices Of A Dream.   This event is part of OACC’s ongoing initiative to support\, highlight\, and cultivate Black and Asian solidarity within our Oakland and greater Bay Area communities.   Go for Broke! is dedicated to the courageous Japanese American men and women who served and died for their country in World War II while their families were imprisoned. In this film\, Janice Mirikitani shares her mother’s memories of their incarceration and her own testimony. “Go for Broke” was the motto of these brave soldiers in their fight to defend democracy.   Down By The Riverside – Requiem for a King commemorates Dr. Martin Luther King’s life and work\, and the 50th anniversary of his assassination. Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra premiered Down By The Riverside at the 2018 San Francisco International Arts Festival. Featuring spoken word by Dr. Angela Davis\, the documentary includes Spirituals and Gospel songs performed by Voices Of A Dream. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT ANTHONY BROWN \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Composer\, percussionist\, ethnomusicologist\, Guggenheim and Ford Fellow\, Smithsonian Associate Scholar\, and GRAMMY® nominee Dr. Anthony Brown has collaborated with Max Roach\, Cecil Taylor\, Pharoah Sanders\, Zakir Hussain\, Steve Lacy\, Anthony Davis\, and the San Francisco Symphony. Dr. Brown holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in music (ethnomusicology) from UC Berkeley and a Master of Music degree in jazz performance from Rutgers University. He is currently Artistic Director of Fifth Stream Music and the internationally acclaimed Asian American Orchestra.  fifthstreammusic.org   \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT ANTHONY BROWN'S ASIAN AMERICAN ORCHESTRA \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In the global community of the 21st century\, Anthony Brown’s Orchestra presents music that blends the sonorities and improvisational approaches of the jazz tradition with Asian musical instruments and sensibilities. In 1997\, leaders of San Francisco’s Asian American creative music movement founded the Asian American Jazz Orchestra (AAJO)\, under the auspices of a San Francisco-based\, federally funded multimedia consortium project to provide education nationally about the Japanese American internment experiences of World War II. The AAJO featured critically acclaimed musicians Anthony Brown\, Jon Jang\, Mark Izu\, Hafez Modirzadeh and Francis Wong\, as well as other San Francisco Bay Area jazz and world music artists\, many of whom possessed fluency on a variety of traditional Asian instruments. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/cohh-spulu/ LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St. #290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States CATEGORIES:Featured,Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/the-spulu-experience-11-square-1.png ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230528T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230528T170000 DTSTAMP:20260422T102113 CREATED:20230419T205257Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230530T172120Z UID:13547-1685282400-1685293200@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Strong Like Bamboo: Stories of Resilience for Healing in the Era of Anti-AAPI Violence DESCRIPTION:Premiere Short Film Documentaries From Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra’s 2018 Performance with Angela Davis and Janice Mirikitani Followed by a Live Performance \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of two short films of Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra performance in 2018\, Go For Broke! and Down By The Riverside\, featuring Janice Mirikitani and Angela Davis. Followed by a live performance by Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra and Voices Of A Dream.   This event is part of OACC’s ongoing initiative to support\, highlight\, and cultivate Black and Asian solidarity within our Oakland and greater Bay Area communities.   Go for Broke! is dedicated to the courageous Japanese American men and women who served and died for their country in World War II while their families were imprisoned. In this film\, Janice Mirikitani shares her mother’s memories of their incarceration and her own testimony. “Go for Broke” was the motto of these brave soldiers in their fight to defend democracy.   Down By The Riverside – Requiem for a King commemorates Dr. Martin Luther King’s life and work\, and the 50th anniversary of his assassination. Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra premiered Down By The Riverside at the 2018 San Francisco International Arts Festival. Featuring spoken word by Dr. Angela Davis\, the documentary includes Spirituals and Gospel songs performed by Voices Of A Dream. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT ANTHONY BROWN \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Composer\, percussionist\, ethnomusicologist\, Guggenheim and Ford Fellow\, Smithsonian Associate Scholar\, and GRAMMY® nominee Dr. Anthony Brown has collaborated with Max Roach\, Cecil Taylor\, Pharoah Sanders\, Zakir Hussain\, Steve Lacy\, Anthony Davis\, and the San Francisco Symphony. Dr. Brown holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in music (ethnomusicology) from UC Berkeley and a Master of Music degree in jazz performance from Rutgers University. He is currently Artistic Director of Fifth Stream Music and the internationally acclaimed Asian American Orchestra.  fifthstreammusic.org   \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT ANTHONY BROWN'S ASIAN AMERICAN ORCHESTRA \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In the global community of the 21st century\, Anthony Brown’s Orchestra presents music that blends the sonorities and improvisational approaches of the jazz tradition with Asian musical instruments and sensibilities. In 1997\, leaders of San Francisco’s Asian American creative music movement founded the Asian American Jazz Orchestra (AAJO)\, under the auspices of a San Francisco-based\, federally funded multimedia consortium project to provide education nationally about the Japanese American internment experiences of World War II. The AAJO featured critically acclaimed musicians Anthony Brown\, Jon Jang\, Mark Izu\, Hafez Modirzadeh and Francis Wong\, as well as other San Francisco Bay Area jazz and world music artists\, many of whom possessed fluency on a variety of traditional Asian instruments. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/strong-like-bamboo/ LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St. #290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States CATEGORIES:Featured,Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Sunday-May-28-2023-200pm-1-1.png ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230519T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230519T200000 DTSTAMP:20260422T102113 CREATED:20230406T221701Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230522T191245Z UID:13557-1684519200-1684526400@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Find Your Crew: Connecting Bay Area Filmmakers and Content Creators DESCRIPTION:Premiere Short Film Documentaries From Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra’s 2018 Performance with Angela Davis and Janice Mirikitani Followed by a Live Performance \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of two short films of Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra performance in 2018\, Go For Broke! and Down By The Riverside\, featuring Janice Mirikitani and Angela Davis. Followed by a live performance by Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra and Voices Of A Dream.   This event is part of OACC’s ongoing initiative to support\, highlight\, and cultivate Black and Asian solidarity within our Oakland and greater Bay Area communities.   Go for Broke! is dedicated to the courageous Japanese American men and women who served and died for their country in World War II while their families were imprisoned. In this film\, Janice Mirikitani shares her mother’s memories of their incarceration and her own testimony. “Go for Broke” was the motto of these brave soldiers in their fight to defend democracy.   Down By The Riverside – Requiem for a King commemorates Dr. Martin Luther King’s life and work\, and the 50th anniversary of his assassination. Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra premiered Down By The Riverside at the 2018 San Francisco International Arts Festival. Featuring spoken word by Dr. Angela Davis\, the documentary includes Spirituals and Gospel songs performed by Voices Of A Dream. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT ANTHONY BROWN \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Composer\, percussionist\, ethnomusicologist\, Guggenheim and Ford Fellow\, Smithsonian Associate Scholar\, and GRAMMY® nominee Dr. Anthony Brown has collaborated with Max Roach\, Cecil Taylor\, Pharoah Sanders\, Zakir Hussain\, Steve Lacy\, Anthony Davis\, and the San Francisco Symphony. Dr. Brown holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in music (ethnomusicology) from UC Berkeley and a Master of Music degree in jazz performance from Rutgers University. He is currently Artistic Director of Fifth Stream Music and the internationally acclaimed Asian American Orchestra.  fifthstreammusic.org   \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT ANTHONY BROWN'S ASIAN AMERICAN ORCHESTRA \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In the global community of the 21st century\, Anthony Brown’s Orchestra presents music that blends the sonorities and improvisational approaches of the jazz tradition with Asian musical instruments and sensibilities. In 1997\, leaders of San Francisco’s Asian American creative music movement founded the Asian American Jazz Orchestra (AAJO)\, under the auspices of a San Francisco-based\, federally funded multimedia consortium project to provide education nationally about the Japanese American internment experiences of World War II. The AAJO featured critically acclaimed musicians Anthony Brown\, Jon Jang\, Mark Izu\, Hafez Modirzadeh and Francis Wong\, as well as other San Francisco Bay Area jazz and world music artists\, many of whom possessed fluency on a variety of traditional Asian instruments. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/findyourcrew/ LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St. #290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States CATEGORIES:Featured,Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/6.png ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230513T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230513T200000 DTSTAMP:20260422T102113 CREATED:20230329T222814Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230516T184739Z UID:13553-1684000800-1684008000@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Celebrating Our HeART-filled Heritage: Son of Paper DESCRIPTION:Premiere Short Film Documentaries From Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra’s 2018 Performance with Angela Davis and Janice Mirikitani Followed by a Live Performance \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of two short films of Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra performance in 2018\, Go For Broke! and Down By The Riverside\, featuring Janice Mirikitani and Angela Davis. Followed by a live performance by Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra and Voices Of A Dream.   This event is part of OACC’s ongoing initiative to support\, highlight\, and cultivate Black and Asian solidarity within our Oakland and greater Bay Area communities.   Go for Broke! is dedicated to the courageous Japanese American men and women who served and died for their country in World War II while their families were imprisoned. In this film\, Janice Mirikitani shares her mother’s memories of their incarceration and her own testimony. “Go for Broke” was the motto of these brave soldiers in their fight to defend democracy.   Down By The Riverside – Requiem for a King commemorates Dr. Martin Luther King’s life and work\, and the 50th anniversary of his assassination. Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra premiered Down By The Riverside at the 2018 San Francisco International Arts Festival. Featuring spoken word by Dr. Angela Davis\, the documentary includes Spirituals and Gospel songs performed by Voices Of A Dream. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT ANTHONY BROWN \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Composer\, percussionist\, ethnomusicologist\, Guggenheim and Ford Fellow\, Smithsonian Associate Scholar\, and GRAMMY® nominee Dr. Anthony Brown has collaborated with Max Roach\, Cecil Taylor\, Pharoah Sanders\, Zakir Hussain\, Steve Lacy\, Anthony Davis\, and the San Francisco Symphony. Dr. Brown holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in music (ethnomusicology) from UC Berkeley and a Master of Music degree in jazz performance from Rutgers University. He is currently Artistic Director of Fifth Stream Music and the internationally acclaimed Asian American Orchestra.  fifthstreammusic.org   \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT ANTHONY BROWN'S ASIAN AMERICAN ORCHESTRA \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In the global community of the 21st century\, Anthony Brown’s Orchestra presents music that blends the sonorities and improvisational approaches of the jazz tradition with Asian musical instruments and sensibilities. In 1997\, leaders of San Francisco’s Asian American creative music movement founded the Asian American Jazz Orchestra (AAJO)\, under the auspices of a San Francisco-based\, federally funded multimedia consortium project to provide education nationally about the Japanese American internment experiences of World War II. The AAJO featured critically acclaimed musicians Anthony Brown\, Jon Jang\, Mark Izu\, Hafez Modirzadeh and Francis Wong\, as well as other San Francisco Bay Area jazz and world music artists\, many of whom possessed fluency on a variety of traditional Asian instruments. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/cohh-sop/ LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St. #290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States CATEGORIES:Featured,Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/05132023-COHH-SOP-2.png ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230422T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230422T213000 DTSTAMP:20260422T102113 CREATED:20230221T192837Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230424T194501Z UID:13420-1682191800-1682199000@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Celebrating Our HeART-filled Heritage: Joe Kye\, SURRIJA\, and Nikbo DESCRIPTION:Premiere Short Film Documentaries From Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra’s 2018 Performance with Angela Davis and Janice Mirikitani Followed by a Live Performance \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of two short films of Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra performance in 2018\, Go For Broke! and Down By The Riverside\, featuring Janice Mirikitani and Angela Davis. Followed by a live performance by Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra and Voices Of A Dream.   This event is part of OACC’s ongoing initiative to support\, highlight\, and cultivate Black and Asian solidarity within our Oakland and greater Bay Area communities.   Go for Broke! is dedicated to the courageous Japanese American men and women who served and died for their country in World War II while their families were imprisoned. In this film\, Janice Mirikitani shares her mother’s memories of their incarceration and her own testimony. “Go for Broke” was the motto of these brave soldiers in their fight to defend democracy.   Down By The Riverside – Requiem for a King commemorates Dr. Martin Luther King’s life and work\, and the 50th anniversary of his assassination. Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra premiered Down By The Riverside at the 2018 San Francisco International Arts Festival. Featuring spoken word by Dr. Angela Davis\, the documentary includes Spirituals and Gospel songs performed by Voices Of A Dream. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT ANTHONY BROWN \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Composer\, percussionist\, ethnomusicologist\, Guggenheim and Ford Fellow\, Smithsonian Associate Scholar\, and GRAMMY® nominee Dr. Anthony Brown has collaborated with Max Roach\, Cecil Taylor\, Pharoah Sanders\, Zakir Hussain\, Steve Lacy\, Anthony Davis\, and the San Francisco Symphony. Dr. Brown holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in music (ethnomusicology) from UC Berkeley and a Master of Music degree in jazz performance from Rutgers University. He is currently Artistic Director of Fifth Stream Music and the internationally acclaimed Asian American Orchestra.  fifthstreammusic.org   \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT ANTHONY BROWN'S ASIAN AMERICAN ORCHESTRA \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In the global community of the 21st century\, Anthony Brown’s Orchestra presents music that blends the sonorities and improvisational approaches of the jazz tradition with Asian musical instruments and sensibilities. In 1997\, leaders of San Francisco’s Asian American creative music movement founded the Asian American Jazz Orchestra (AAJO)\, under the auspices of a San Francisco-based\, federally funded multimedia consortium project to provide education nationally about the Japanese American internment experiences of World War II. The AAJO featured critically acclaimed musicians Anthony Brown\, Jon Jang\, Mark Izu\, Hafez Modirzadeh and Francis Wong\, as well as other San Francisco Bay Area jazz and world music artists\, many of whom possessed fluency on a variety of traditional Asian instruments. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/cohh-rootingself/ LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St. #290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States CATEGORIES:Featured,Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/04222023-COHH-Rooting-Self-IG-flyers-1.png ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230402T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230402T160000 DTSTAMP:20260422T102113 CREATED:20230302T012100Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230406T231937Z UID:13525-1680444000-1680451200@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Have You Eaten Yet? A Conversation with Cheuk Kwan & Martin Yan on Food and the Chinese Diaspora DESCRIPTION:Premiere Short Film Documentaries From Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra’s 2018 Performance with Angela Davis and Janice Mirikitani Followed by a Live Performance \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of two short films of Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra performance in 2018\, Go For Broke! and Down By The Riverside\, featuring Janice Mirikitani and Angela Davis. Followed by a live performance by Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra and Voices Of A Dream.   This event is part of OACC’s ongoing initiative to support\, highlight\, and cultivate Black and Asian solidarity within our Oakland and greater Bay Area communities.   Go for Broke! is dedicated to the courageous Japanese American men and women who served and died for their country in World War II while their families were imprisoned. In this film\, Janice Mirikitani shares her mother’s memories of their incarceration and her own testimony. “Go for Broke” was the motto of these brave soldiers in their fight to defend democracy.   Down By The Riverside – Requiem for a King commemorates Dr. Martin Luther King’s life and work\, and the 50th anniversary of his assassination. Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra premiered Down By The Riverside at the 2018 San Francisco International Arts Festival. Featuring spoken word by Dr. Angela Davis\, the documentary includes Spirituals and Gospel songs performed by Voices Of A Dream. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT ANTHONY BROWN \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Composer\, percussionist\, ethnomusicologist\, Guggenheim and Ford Fellow\, Smithsonian Associate Scholar\, and GRAMMY® nominee Dr. Anthony Brown has collaborated with Max Roach\, Cecil Taylor\, Pharoah Sanders\, Zakir Hussain\, Steve Lacy\, Anthony Davis\, and the San Francisco Symphony. Dr. Brown holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in music (ethnomusicology) from UC Berkeley and a Master of Music degree in jazz performance from Rutgers University. He is currently Artistic Director of Fifth Stream Music and the internationally acclaimed Asian American Orchestra.  fifthstreammusic.org   \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT ANTHONY BROWN'S ASIAN AMERICAN ORCHESTRA \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In the global community of the 21st century\, Anthony Brown’s Orchestra presents music that blends the sonorities and improvisational approaches of the jazz tradition with Asian musical instruments and sensibilities. In 1997\, leaders of San Francisco’s Asian American creative music movement founded the Asian American Jazz Orchestra (AAJO)\, under the auspices of a San Francisco-based\, federally funded multimedia consortium project to provide education nationally about the Japanese American internment experiences of World War II. The AAJO featured critically acclaimed musicians Anthony Brown\, Jon Jang\, Mark Izu\, Hafez Modirzadeh and Francis Wong\, as well as other San Francisco Bay Area jazz and world music artists\, many of whom possessed fluency on a variety of traditional Asian instruments. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/have-you-eaten-yet/ LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St. #290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Have-You-Eaten-Yet-IG-2.png ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230324T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230324T193000 DTSTAMP:20260422T102113 CREATED:20230106T184132Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230327T145813Z UID:13211-1679680800-1679686200@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Singles Oakferno: 21+ Singles Mixer for Young Professionals DESCRIPTION:Premiere Short Film Documentaries From Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra’s 2018 Performance with Angela Davis and Janice Mirikitani Followed by a Live Performance \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of two short films of Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra performance in 2018\, Go For Broke! and Down By The Riverside\, featuring Janice Mirikitani and Angela Davis. Followed by a live performance by Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra and Voices Of A Dream.   This event is part of OACC’s ongoing initiative to support\, highlight\, and cultivate Black and Asian solidarity within our Oakland and greater Bay Area communities.   Go for Broke! is dedicated to the courageous Japanese American men and women who served and died for their country in World War II while their families were imprisoned. In this film\, Janice Mirikitani shares her mother’s memories of their incarceration and her own testimony. “Go for Broke” was the motto of these brave soldiers in their fight to defend democracy.   Down By The Riverside – Requiem for a King commemorates Dr. Martin Luther King’s life and work\, and the 50th anniversary of his assassination. Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra premiered Down By The Riverside at the 2018 San Francisco International Arts Festival. Featuring spoken word by Dr. Angela Davis\, the documentary includes Spirituals and Gospel songs performed by Voices Of A Dream. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT ANTHONY BROWN \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Composer\, percussionist\, ethnomusicologist\, Guggenheim and Ford Fellow\, Smithsonian Associate Scholar\, and GRAMMY® nominee Dr. Anthony Brown has collaborated with Max Roach\, Cecil Taylor\, Pharoah Sanders\, Zakir Hussain\, Steve Lacy\, Anthony Davis\, and the San Francisco Symphony. Dr. Brown holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in music (ethnomusicology) from UC Berkeley and a Master of Music degree in jazz performance from Rutgers University. He is currently Artistic Director of Fifth Stream Music and the internationally acclaimed Asian American Orchestra.  fifthstreammusic.org   \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT ANTHONY BROWN'S ASIAN AMERICAN ORCHESTRA \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In the global community of the 21st century\, Anthony Brown’s Orchestra presents music that blends the sonorities and improvisational approaches of the jazz tradition with Asian musical instruments and sensibilities. In 1997\, leaders of San Francisco’s Asian American creative music movement founded the Asian American Jazz Orchestra (AAJO)\, under the auspices of a San Francisco-based\, federally funded multimedia consortium project to provide education nationally about the Japanese American internment experiences of World War II. The AAJO featured critically acclaimed musicians Anthony Brown\, Jon Jang\, Mark Izu\, Hafez Modirzadeh and Francis Wong\, as well as other San Francisco Bay Area jazz and world music artists\, many of whom possessed fluency on a variety of traditional Asian instruments. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/singlesoakferno/ LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St. #290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/singles-oakferno-updated-website-thumbnail.png ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230317T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230317T200000 DTSTAMP:20260422T102113 CREATED:20230131T064746Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230321T001816Z UID:13345-1679076000-1679083200@oacc.cc SUMMARY:SOLD OUT: 48 Years After the End of the Vietnam War: A Continued Conversation About Empathy & Healing DESCRIPTION:Premiere Short Film Documentaries From Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra’s 2018 Performance with Angela Davis and Janice Mirikitani Followed by a Live Performance \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of two short films of Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra performance in 2018\, Go For Broke! and Down By The Riverside\, featuring Janice Mirikitani and Angela Davis. Followed by a live performance by Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra and Voices Of A Dream.   This event is part of OACC’s ongoing initiative to support\, highlight\, and cultivate Black and Asian solidarity within our Oakland and greater Bay Area communities.   Go for Broke! is dedicated to the courageous Japanese American men and women who served and died for their country in World War II while their families were imprisoned. In this film\, Janice Mirikitani shares her mother’s memories of their incarceration and her own testimony. “Go for Broke” was the motto of these brave soldiers in their fight to defend democracy.   Down By The Riverside – Requiem for a King commemorates Dr. Martin Luther King’s life and work\, and the 50th anniversary of his assassination. Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra premiered Down By The Riverside at the 2018 San Francisco International Arts Festival. Featuring spoken word by Dr. Angela Davis\, the documentary includes Spirituals and Gospel songs performed by Voices Of A Dream. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT ANTHONY BROWN \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Composer\, percussionist\, ethnomusicologist\, Guggenheim and Ford Fellow\, Smithsonian Associate Scholar\, and GRAMMY® nominee Dr. Anthony Brown has collaborated with Max Roach\, Cecil Taylor\, Pharoah Sanders\, Zakir Hussain\, Steve Lacy\, Anthony Davis\, and the San Francisco Symphony. Dr. Brown holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in music (ethnomusicology) from UC Berkeley and a Master of Music degree in jazz performance from Rutgers University. He is currently Artistic Director of Fifth Stream Music and the internationally acclaimed Asian American Orchestra.  fifthstreammusic.org   \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT ANTHONY BROWN'S ASIAN AMERICAN ORCHESTRA \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In the global community of the 21st century\, Anthony Brown’s Orchestra presents music that blends the sonorities and improvisational approaches of the jazz tradition with Asian musical instruments and sensibilities. In 1997\, leaders of San Francisco’s Asian American creative music movement founded the Asian American Jazz Orchestra (AAJO)\, under the auspices of a San Francisco-based\, federally funded multimedia consortium project to provide education nationally about the Japanese American internment experiences of World War II. The AAJO featured critically acclaimed musicians Anthony Brown\, Jon Jang\, Mark Izu\, Hafez Modirzadeh and Francis Wong\, as well as other San Francisco Bay Area jazz and world music artists\, many of whom possessed fluency on a variety of traditional Asian instruments. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/dustchild/ LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St. #290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/03172023-Dust-Child-IG-Flyer-4.png ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230316T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230318T213000 DTSTAMP:20260422T102113 CREATED:20230302T184843Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230321T001907Z UID:13530-1678995000-1679175000@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Dancing Moons Festival with Oakland Ballet Company DESCRIPTION:Premiere Short Film Documentaries From Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra’s 2018 Performance with Angela Davis and Janice Mirikitani Followed by a Live Performance \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of two short films of Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra performance in 2018\, Go For Broke! and Down By The Riverside\, featuring Janice Mirikitani and Angela Davis. Followed by a live performance by Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra and Voices Of A Dream.   This event is part of OACC’s ongoing initiative to support\, highlight\, and cultivate Black and Asian solidarity within our Oakland and greater Bay Area communities.   Go for Broke! is dedicated to the courageous Japanese American men and women who served and died for their country in World War II while their families were imprisoned. In this film\, Janice Mirikitani shares her mother’s memories of their incarceration and her own testimony. “Go for Broke” was the motto of these brave soldiers in their fight to defend democracy.   Down By The Riverside – Requiem for a King commemorates Dr. Martin Luther King’s life and work\, and the 50th anniversary of his assassination. Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra premiered Down By The Riverside at the 2018 San Francisco International Arts Festival. Featuring spoken word by Dr. Angela Davis\, the documentary includes Spirituals and Gospel songs performed by Voices Of A Dream. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT ANTHONY BROWN \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Composer\, percussionist\, ethnomusicologist\, Guggenheim and Ford Fellow\, Smithsonian Associate Scholar\, and GRAMMY® nominee Dr. Anthony Brown has collaborated with Max Roach\, Cecil Taylor\, Pharoah Sanders\, Zakir Hussain\, Steve Lacy\, Anthony Davis\, and the San Francisco Symphony. Dr. Brown holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in music (ethnomusicology) from UC Berkeley and a Master of Music degree in jazz performance from Rutgers University. He is currently Artistic Director of Fifth Stream Music and the internationally acclaimed Asian American Orchestra.  fifthstreammusic.org   \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT ANTHONY BROWN'S ASIAN AMERICAN ORCHESTRA \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In the global community of the 21st century\, Anthony Brown’s Orchestra presents music that blends the sonorities and improvisational approaches of the jazz tradition with Asian musical instruments and sensibilities. In 1997\, leaders of San Francisco’s Asian American creative music movement founded the Asian American Jazz Orchestra (AAJO)\, under the auspices of a San Francisco-based\, federally funded multimedia consortium project to provide education nationally about the Japanese American internment experiences of World War II. The AAJO featured critically acclaimed musicians Anthony Brown\, Jon Jang\, Mark Izu\, Hafez Modirzadeh and Francis Wong\, as well as other San Francisco Bay Area jazz and world music artists\, many of whom possessed fluency on a variety of traditional Asian instruments. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/dancing-moons-festival/ LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St. #290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Dancing-Moons-Festival-IG-Square.png ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230218T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230501T120000 DTSTAMP:20260422T102113 CREATED:20230105T225516Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230402T214941Z UID:13235-1676721600-1682942400@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Day of Remembrance Community Map Project (Ongoing) DESCRIPTION:Premiere Short Film Documentaries From Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra’s 2018 Performance with Angela Davis and Janice Mirikitani Followed by a Live Performance \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of two short films of Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra performance in 2018\, Go For Broke! and Down By The Riverside\, featuring Janice Mirikitani and Angela Davis. Followed by a live performance by Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra and Voices Of A Dream.   This event is part of OACC’s ongoing initiative to support\, highlight\, and cultivate Black and Asian solidarity within our Oakland and greater Bay Area communities.   Go for Broke! is dedicated to the courageous Japanese American men and women who served and died for their country in World War II while their families were imprisoned. In this film\, Janice Mirikitani shares her mother’s memories of their incarceration and her own testimony. “Go for Broke” was the motto of these brave soldiers in their fight to defend democracy.   Down By The Riverside – Requiem for a King commemorates Dr. Martin Luther King’s life and work\, and the 50th anniversary of his assassination. Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra premiered Down By The Riverside at the 2018 San Francisco International Arts Festival. Featuring spoken word by Dr. Angela Davis\, the documentary includes Spirituals and Gospel songs performed by Voices Of A Dream. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT ANTHONY BROWN \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Composer\, percussionist\, ethnomusicologist\, Guggenheim and Ford Fellow\, Smithsonian Associate Scholar\, and GRAMMY® nominee Dr. Anthony Brown has collaborated with Max Roach\, Cecil Taylor\, Pharoah Sanders\, Zakir Hussain\, Steve Lacy\, Anthony Davis\, and the San Francisco Symphony. Dr. Brown holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in music (ethnomusicology) from UC Berkeley and a Master of Music degree in jazz performance from Rutgers University. He is currently Artistic Director of Fifth Stream Music and the internationally acclaimed Asian American Orchestra.  fifthstreammusic.org   \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT ANTHONY BROWN'S ASIAN AMERICAN ORCHESTRA \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In the global community of the 21st century\, Anthony Brown’s Orchestra presents music that blends the sonorities and improvisational approaches of the jazz tradition with Asian musical instruments and sensibilities. In 1997\, leaders of San Francisco’s Asian American creative music movement founded the Asian American Jazz Orchestra (AAJO)\, under the auspices of a San Francisco-based\, federally funded multimedia consortium project to provide education nationally about the Japanese American internment experiences of World War II. The AAJO featured critically acclaimed musicians Anthony Brown\, Jon Jang\, Mark Izu\, Hafez Modirzadeh and Francis Wong\, as well as other San Francisco Bay Area jazz and world music artists\, many of whom possessed fluency on a variety of traditional Asian instruments. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/dor-community-map-project-2/ LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St. #290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Day-of-Remembrance-1.png ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230217T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230217T193000 DTSTAMP:20260422T102113 CREATED:20230111T192311Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230301T071903Z UID:13229-1676653200-1676662200@oacc.cc SUMMARY:MY BOYFRIEND APOCALYPSE: Chapbook Reading and Writing Workshop with antmen pimentel mendoza DESCRIPTION:Premiere Short Film Documentaries From Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra’s 2018 Performance with Angela Davis and Janice Mirikitani Followed by a Live Performance \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of two short films of Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra performance in 2018\, Go For Broke! and Down By The Riverside\, featuring Janice Mirikitani and Angela Davis. Followed by a live performance by Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra and Voices Of A Dream.   This event is part of OACC’s ongoing initiative to support\, highlight\, and cultivate Black and Asian solidarity within our Oakland and greater Bay Area communities.   Go for Broke! is dedicated to the courageous Japanese American men and women who served and died for their country in World War II while their families were imprisoned. In this film\, Janice Mirikitani shares her mother’s memories of their incarceration and her own testimony. “Go for Broke” was the motto of these brave soldiers in their fight to defend democracy.   Down By The Riverside – Requiem for a King commemorates Dr. Martin Luther King’s life and work\, and the 50th anniversary of his assassination. Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra premiered Down By The Riverside at the 2018 San Francisco International Arts Festival. Featuring spoken word by Dr. Angela Davis\, the documentary includes Spirituals and Gospel songs performed by Voices Of A Dream. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT ANTHONY BROWN \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Composer\, percussionist\, ethnomusicologist\, Guggenheim and Ford Fellow\, Smithsonian Associate Scholar\, and GRAMMY® nominee Dr. Anthony Brown has collaborated with Max Roach\, Cecil Taylor\, Pharoah Sanders\, Zakir Hussain\, Steve Lacy\, Anthony Davis\, and the San Francisco Symphony. Dr. Brown holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in music (ethnomusicology) from UC Berkeley and a Master of Music degree in jazz performance from Rutgers University. He is currently Artistic Director of Fifth Stream Music and the internationally acclaimed Asian American Orchestra.  fifthstreammusic.org   \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT ANTHONY BROWN'S ASIAN AMERICAN ORCHESTRA \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In the global community of the 21st century\, Anthony Brown’s Orchestra presents music that blends the sonorities and improvisational approaches of the jazz tradition with Asian musical instruments and sensibilities. In 1997\, leaders of San Francisco’s Asian American creative music movement founded the Asian American Jazz Orchestra (AAJO)\, under the auspices of a San Francisco-based\, federally funded multimedia consortium project to provide education nationally about the Japanese American internment experiences of World War II. The AAJO featured critically acclaimed musicians Anthony Brown\, Jon Jang\, Mark Izu\, Hafez Modirzadeh and Francis Wong\, as well as other San Francisco Bay Area jazz and world music artists\, many of whom possessed fluency on a variety of traditional Asian instruments. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/my-bf-apocalypse/ LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St. #290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/MY-BOYFRIEND-APOCALYPSE-instagram.png ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230211T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230211T150000 DTSTAMP:20260422T102113 CREATED:20230105T231744Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230321T001956Z UID:13222-1676122200-1676127600@oacc.cc SUMMARY:PEONY AMOUR - Sultry Ecstasy and Frosty Agony: Book Talk with Raymond Chong DESCRIPTION:Premiere Short Film Documentaries From Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra’s 2018 Performance with Angela Davis and Janice Mirikitani Followed by a Live Performance \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of two short films of Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra performance in 2018\, Go For Broke! and Down By The Riverside\, featuring Janice Mirikitani and Angela Davis. Followed by a live performance by Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra and Voices Of A Dream.   This event is part of OACC’s ongoing initiative to support\, highlight\, and cultivate Black and Asian solidarity within our Oakland and greater Bay Area communities.   Go for Broke! is dedicated to the courageous Japanese American men and women who served and died for their country in World War II while their families were imprisoned. In this film\, Janice Mirikitani shares her mother’s memories of their incarceration and her own testimony. “Go for Broke” was the motto of these brave soldiers in their fight to defend democracy.   Down By The Riverside – Requiem for a King commemorates Dr. Martin Luther King’s life and work\, and the 50th anniversary of his assassination. Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra premiered Down By The Riverside at the 2018 San Francisco International Arts Festival. Featuring spoken word by Dr. Angela Davis\, the documentary includes Spirituals and Gospel songs performed by Voices Of A Dream. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT ANTHONY BROWN \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Composer\, percussionist\, ethnomusicologist\, Guggenheim and Ford Fellow\, Smithsonian Associate Scholar\, and GRAMMY® nominee Dr. Anthony Brown has collaborated with Max Roach\, Cecil Taylor\, Pharoah Sanders\, Zakir Hussain\, Steve Lacy\, Anthony Davis\, and the San Francisco Symphony. Dr. Brown holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in music (ethnomusicology) from UC Berkeley and a Master of Music degree in jazz performance from Rutgers University. He is currently Artistic Director of Fifth Stream Music and the internationally acclaimed Asian American Orchestra.  fifthstreammusic.org   \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT ANTHONY BROWN'S ASIAN AMERICAN ORCHESTRA \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In the global community of the 21st century\, Anthony Brown’s Orchestra presents music that blends the sonorities and improvisational approaches of the jazz tradition with Asian musical instruments and sensibilities. In 1997\, leaders of San Francisco’s Asian American creative music movement founded the Asian American Jazz Orchestra (AAJO)\, under the auspices of a San Francisco-based\, federally funded multimedia consortium project to provide education nationally about the Japanese American internment experiences of World War II. The AAJO featured critically acclaimed musicians Anthony Brown\, Jon Jang\, Mark Izu\, Hafez Modirzadeh and Francis Wong\, as well as other San Francisco Bay Area jazz and world music artists\, many of whom possessed fluency on a variety of traditional Asian instruments. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/peonyamour/ LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St. #290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/20230211Peony-Amour-BookTalk_Thumbnail-3.png ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230204T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230204T160000 DTSTAMP:20260422T102113 CREATED:20221207T214608Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230406T231330Z UID:13160-1675508400-1675526400@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Lunar New Year x Black History Month: Celebration of Black & Asian Solidarity DESCRIPTION:Premiere Short Film Documentaries From Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra’s 2018 Performance with Angela Davis and Janice Mirikitani Followed by a Live Performance \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of two short films of Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra performance in 2018\, Go For Broke! and Down By The Riverside\, featuring Janice Mirikitani and Angela Davis. Followed by a live performance by Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra and Voices Of A Dream.   This event is part of OACC’s ongoing initiative to support\, highlight\, and cultivate Black and Asian solidarity within our Oakland and greater Bay Area communities.   Go for Broke! is dedicated to the courageous Japanese American men and women who served and died for their country in World War II while their families were imprisoned. In this film\, Janice Mirikitani shares her mother’s memories of their incarceration and her own testimony. “Go for Broke” was the motto of these brave soldiers in their fight to defend democracy.   Down By The Riverside – Requiem for a King commemorates Dr. Martin Luther King’s life and work\, and the 50th anniversary of his assassination. Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra premiered Down By The Riverside at the 2018 San Francisco International Arts Festival. Featuring spoken word by Dr. Angela Davis\, the documentary includes Spirituals and Gospel songs performed by Voices Of A Dream. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT ANTHONY BROWN \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Composer\, percussionist\, ethnomusicologist\, Guggenheim and Ford Fellow\, Smithsonian Associate Scholar\, and GRAMMY® nominee Dr. Anthony Brown has collaborated with Max Roach\, Cecil Taylor\, Pharoah Sanders\, Zakir Hussain\, Steve Lacy\, Anthony Davis\, and the San Francisco Symphony. Dr. Brown holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in music (ethnomusicology) from UC Berkeley and a Master of Music degree in jazz performance from Rutgers University. He is currently Artistic Director of Fifth Stream Music and the internationally acclaimed Asian American Orchestra.  fifthstreammusic.org   \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT ANTHONY BROWN'S ASIAN AMERICAN ORCHESTRA \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In the global community of the 21st century\, Anthony Brown’s Orchestra presents music that blends the sonorities and improvisational approaches of the jazz tradition with Asian musical instruments and sensibilities. In 1997\, leaders of San Francisco’s Asian American creative music movement founded the Asian American Jazz Orchestra (AAJO)\, under the auspices of a San Francisco-based\, federally funded multimedia consortium project to provide education nationally about the Japanese American internment experiences of World War II. The AAJO featured critically acclaimed musicians Anthony Brown\, Jon Jang\, Mark Izu\, Hafez Modirzadeh and Francis Wong\, as well as other San Francisco Bay Area jazz and world music artists\, many of whom possessed fluency on a variety of traditional Asian instruments. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/lnyxbhm/ LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St. #290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/CO-PRESENTED-BY-Instagram-Post-Square.png ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221203T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221203T153000 DTSTAMP:20260422T102113 CREATED:20221117T010720Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221214T195553Z UID:13136-1670076000-1670081400@oacc.cc SUMMARY:CRESCENCIANA Book Talk: Connecting with our Ancestors’ Narratives DESCRIPTION:Premiere Short Film Documentaries From Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra’s 2018 Performance with Angela Davis and Janice Mirikitani Followed by a Live Performance \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of two short films of Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra performance in 2018\, Go For Broke! and Down By The Riverside\, featuring Janice Mirikitani and Angela Davis. Followed by a live performance by Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra and Voices Of A Dream.   This event is part of OACC’s ongoing initiative to support\, highlight\, and cultivate Black and Asian solidarity within our Oakland and greater Bay Area communities.   Go for Broke! is dedicated to the courageous Japanese American men and women who served and died for their country in World War II while their families were imprisoned. In this film\, Janice Mirikitani shares her mother’s memories of their incarceration and her own testimony. “Go for Broke” was the motto of these brave soldiers in their fight to defend democracy.   Down By The Riverside – Requiem for a King commemorates Dr. Martin Luther King’s life and work\, and the 50th anniversary of his assassination. Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra premiered Down By The Riverside at the 2018 San Francisco International Arts Festival. Featuring spoken word by Dr. Angela Davis\, the documentary includes Spirituals and Gospel songs performed by Voices Of A Dream. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT ANTHONY BROWN \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Composer\, percussionist\, ethnomusicologist\, Guggenheim and Ford Fellow\, Smithsonian Associate Scholar\, and GRAMMY® nominee Dr. Anthony Brown has collaborated with Max Roach\, Cecil Taylor\, Pharoah Sanders\, Zakir Hussain\, Steve Lacy\, Anthony Davis\, and the San Francisco Symphony. Dr. Brown holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in music (ethnomusicology) from UC Berkeley and a Master of Music degree in jazz performance from Rutgers University. He is currently Artistic Director of Fifth Stream Music and the internationally acclaimed Asian American Orchestra.  fifthstreammusic.org   \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT ANTHONY BROWN'S ASIAN AMERICAN ORCHESTRA \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In the global community of the 21st century\, Anthony Brown’s Orchestra presents music that blends the sonorities and improvisational approaches of the jazz tradition with Asian musical instruments and sensibilities. In 1997\, leaders of San Francisco’s Asian American creative music movement founded the Asian American Jazz Orchestra (AAJO)\, under the auspices of a San Francisco-based\, federally funded multimedia consortium project to provide education nationally about the Japanese American internment experiences of World War II. The AAJO featured critically acclaimed musicians Anthony Brown\, Jon Jang\, Mark Izu\, Hafez Modirzadeh and Francis Wong\, as well as other San Francisco Bay Area jazz and world music artists\, many of whom possessed fluency on a variety of traditional Asian instruments. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/crescenciana/ LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St. #290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/20221203CrescencianaBookTalk_Thumbnail.png ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR