BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Oakland Asian Cultural Center - ECPv6.16.3//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH 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:20170312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20171105T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20180311T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20181104T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20190310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20191103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20200308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20201101T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180930T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180930T160000 DTSTAMP:20260615T010932 CREATED:20180906T231650Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190404T152857Z UID:4769-1538312400-1538323200@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Mountain Spirits MUSIC & DANCE PERFORMANCE / FILM SCREENING / TRUNK SHOW 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/mountain-spirits-music-dance-performance-film-screening-trunk-show/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181013T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181013T220000 DTSTAMP:20260615T010932 CREATED:20181001T220038Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190429T224144Z UID:4820-1539457200-1539468000@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Silindro Pilipino Project 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/silindro-pilipino-project/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/CZ-Silindro-Pilipino-May-5th-small-web-card.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181014T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181014T170000 DTSTAMP:20260615T010932 CREATED:20181001T220326Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190404T152704Z UID:4825-1539504000-1539536400@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Free Kidney Disease Screening 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/free-kidney-disease-screening/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181014T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181014T200000 DTSTAMP:20260615T010932 CREATED:20181001T222004Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190429T223723Z UID:4841-1539540000-1539547200@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Women of World Dance Show 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/women-of-world-dance-show/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/OACC-Lataniashowflyer1-1-791x1024-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181024T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181024T203000 DTSTAMP:20260615T010932 CREATED:20181001T221353Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190429T224040Z UID:4835-1540405800-1540413000@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Book Talk: America is Not the Heart 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/america-is-not-the-heart/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/elaine.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181102T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181102T210000 DTSTAMP:20260615T010932 CREATED:20181023T195436Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190404T152544Z UID:4889-1541181600-1541192400@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Kusinang Pilipino Culinary 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/kusinang-pilipino-culinary-experience/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181118T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181118T200000 DTSTAMP:20260615T010932 CREATED:20181101T211231Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190404T151616Z UID:4985-1542556800-1542571200@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Oakland Asian Cultural Center Friendsgiving Potluck 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/oakland-asian-cultural-center-friendsgiving-potluck/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181130T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181130T200000 DTSTAMP:20260615T010932 CREATED:20181115T231101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190404T151558Z UID:5043-1543600800-1543608000@oacc.cc SUMMARY:"Hapa Tales and Other Lies" at Oakland Asian Cultural Center 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/hapa-tales-and-other-lies-at-oakland-asian-cultural-center/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181130T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181130T183000 DTSTAMP:20260615T010932 CREATED:20181101T211610Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190429T224930Z UID:4987-1543602600-1543602600@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Crossing Boundaries - An Evening of Cuisine\, Calligraphy and Ceramics 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/crossing-boundaries-an-evening-of-cuisine-calligraphy-and-ceramics/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Dinner-1-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190112T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190112T180000 DTSTAMP:20260615T010932 CREATED:20181209T202811Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190404T151518Z UID:5131-1547283600-1547316000@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Imagine Talks 2019 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/5131/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190115T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190115T200000 DTSTAMP:20260615T010932 CREATED:20190108T194607Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190404T151423Z UID:5275-1547575200-1547582400@oacc.cc SUMMARY:The Art of Sho - Calligraphy 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/5275/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190120T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190120T130000 DTSTAMP:20260615T010932 CREATED:20190115T222925Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190404T151404Z UID:5311-1547985600-1547989200@oacc.cc SUMMARY:San Francisco Chamber Orchestra Music of the Americas 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/san-francisco-chamber-orchestra-music-of-the-americas/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events ORGANIZER;CN="San Francisco Chamber Orchestra":MAILTO:Info@TheSFCO.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190120T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190120T170000 DTSTAMP:20260615T010932 CREATED:20181210T183839Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190404T151344Z UID:5064-1547992800-1548003600@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Documentary Film 'My Odyssey – Between Two Worlds' 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/documentary-film-my-odyssey-between-two-worlds/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190127T043000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190127T183000 DTSTAMP:20260615T010932 CREATED:20181211T234933Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190404T151324Z UID:5179-1548563400-1548613800@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Book Launch: ‘Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution’ 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/book-launch-last-boat-out-of-shanghai-the-epic-story-of-the-chinese-who-fled-maos-revolution/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190206T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190206T200000 DTSTAMP:20260615T010932 CREATED:20190130T001133Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190404T163739Z UID:5630-1549476000-1549483200@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Story Circle with Bonnie Kwong 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/story-circle-with-bonnie-kwong-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/2019/03/headshot-FTRD.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190209T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190209T160000 DTSTAMP:20260615T010932 CREATED:20190123T024156Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190404T151151Z UID:5401-1549720800-1549728000@oacc.cc SUMMARY:"442" Booktalk with Authors 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/442-booktalk/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190210T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190210T150000 DTSTAMP:20260615T010932 CREATED:20181115T220700Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190404T151131Z UID:5025-1549796400-1549810800@oacc.cc SUMMARY:OACC Annual Lunar 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/oacc-annual-lunar-new-year-celebration/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190210T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190210T150000 DTSTAMP:20260615T010932 CREATED:20190115T214643Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190429T230818Z UID:5303-1549796400-1549810800@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Family Reading 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/family-reading-celebration/ LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St. #290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/FamilyReadingCelebEngWebCCheng-1024x791-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190224T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190224T170000 DTSTAMP:20260615T010932 CREATED:20190122T235516Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190404T150359Z UID:5371-1551020400-1551027600@oacc.cc SUMMARY:“Hidden Legacy” with Shirley Muramoto 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/hidden-legacy-with-shirley-muramoto/ LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St. #290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States CATEGORIES:Past Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190317T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190317T183000 DTSTAMP:20260615T010932 CREATED:20190129T024813Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190404T165100Z UID:5600-1552838400-1552847400@oacc.cc SUMMARY:CHOPIN & CHINA Concert with Pianist Eileen Huang 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/chopin-china-concert-with-pianist-eileen-huang/ 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/2019/01/image-holder-logo.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190419T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190419T200000 DTSTAMP:20260615T010932 CREATED:20190403T140600Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190423T234224Z UID:6317-1555698600-1555704000@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Defend & Defy: A Community Panel Discussion 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/defend-defy-a-community-panel-discussion/ 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/2019/04/FTRDin_defence_panel_banner_small-1-1024x450.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190429T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190429T210000 DTSTAMP:20260615T010932 CREATED:20190403T135607Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190430T201949Z UID:6309-1556564400-1556571600@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Bonnie Kwong’s Intersectional Theater Project Table Read 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/bonnie-kwongs-intersectional-theater-project-table-read/ 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/2019/04/Escapery_Oakland-Home-2-1-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190503T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190503T193000 DTSTAMP:20260615T010932 CREATED:20190403T142749Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190515T171848Z UID:6326-1556906400-1556911800@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Bonnie Kwong Workshop: ZINE Making 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/bonnie-kwong-workshop-zine-making/ 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/2019/03/headshot-FTRD.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190504T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190504T160000 DTSTAMP:20260615T010932 CREATED:20190423T004944Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190508T003724Z UID:6477-1556985600-1556985600@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Gongster's Paradise 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/6477/ LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St. #290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Gongsters2019-Official-Poster-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190505T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190505T160000 DTSTAMP:20260615T010932 CREATED:20190403T143026Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190508T003714Z UID:6328-1557064800-1557072000@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Panel Discussion Featuring Viet Thanh Nguyen and Other Refugee Writers 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/panel-with-viet-thanh-nguyen-author-of-the-displaced-refugee-writers-on-refugee-lives/ LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St. #290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/displaced.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190505T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190505T200000 DTSTAMP:20260615T010932 CREATED:20190422T235802Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190508T003719Z UID:6473-1557079200-1557086400@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Carlos Zialcita and the Silindro Pilipino Project 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/carlos-zialcita-and-the-silindro-pilipino-project/ LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St. #290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/CZ-Silindro-Pilipino-May-5th-small-web-card.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190511T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190511T163000 DTSTAMP:20260615T010932 CREATED:20190403T141923Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190515T171854Z UID:6321-1557577800-1557592200@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Future Culture Summit 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/future-culture-summit/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/FCS-cloud-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190517T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190517T200000 DTSTAMP:20260615T010932 CREATED:20190403T141027Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190518T014921Z UID:6319-1558117800-1558123200@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Mining Gold: Finding the Treasures in Family Stories 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/mining-gold-finding-the-treasures-in-family-stories/ 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/2019/03/GoldRush-1024x420FTRD.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190518T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190518T193000 DTSTAMP:20260615T010932 CREATED:20190417T001622Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190522T191104Z UID:6440-1558202400-1558207800@oacc.cc SUMMARY:CAAMFest: Self Evident: Asian America’s Stories 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/caamfest-self-evident-asian-americas-stories/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Self_Evident_01ftrd.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190525T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190525T160000 DTSTAMP:20260615T010932 CREATED:20190415T184650Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190528T204502Z UID:6421-1558789200-1558800000@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Lecture by Chef David Soohoo & Book Talk With Author Professor Gordon H. Chang 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/book-talk-ghosts-of-gold-mountain/ 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/2019/04/Ghost-of-Gold-Mountains-FlyerFTRD.png END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR