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: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 BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20210314T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20211107T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20220313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20221106T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201012T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201012T193000 DTSTAMP:20260613T162628 CREATED:20200923T225708Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201019T184228Z UID:8701-1602525600-1602531000@oacc.cc SUMMARY:"In the Land of My Ancestors" Film & Conversation 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/in-the-land-of-my-ancestors/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/20201012LandofAncestorsThumbnail.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201016T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201016T190000 DTSTAMP:20260613T162628 CREATED:20200923T200143Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201024T173258Z UID:8683-1602871200-1602874800@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Banchan Cooking Workshop 1 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/banchan-workshop-1/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/20201016Banchan1_Thumbnail.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201017T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201017T140000 DTSTAMP:20260613T162628 CREATED:20200824T203306Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201019T182442Z UID:8617-1602939600-1602943200@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Chinatown Pretty Book Talk 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/chinatown-pretty-book-talk/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/20201017ChinatownPrettyThumbnail-1.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201024T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201024T103000 DTSTAMP:20260613T162628 CREATED:20201002T012455Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201024T173423Z UID:8717-1603533600-1603535400@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Sari-Sari Story Time 1: Amina and the City of Flowers 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/sari-sari-story-time-1/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/20201024SariSariAminaThumbnail.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201024T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201024T143000 DTSTAMP:20260613T162628 CREATED:20200918T225921Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201024T213741Z UID:8663-1603544400-1603549800@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Oakland Chinatown Today\, Oakland Chinatown Tomorrow 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-chinatown-today-tomorrow/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/20201024OCTodayandTomorrowThumbnail.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201030T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201030T190000 DTSTAMP:20260613T162628 CREATED:20200923T200339Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201031T165502Z UID:8687-1604080800-1604084400@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Banchan Cooking Workshop 2 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/banchan-workshop-2/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/20201030Banchan2_Thumbnail.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201031T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201031T103000 DTSTAMP:20260613T162628 CREATED:20201002T013034Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201103T213623Z UID:8721-1604138400-1604140200@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Sari-Sari Story Time 2: Kalipay and the Tiniest Tiktik 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/sari-sari-story-time-2/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/20201031SariSariKalipayThumbnail.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201114T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201114T180000 DTSTAMP:20260613T162628 CREATED:20200718T004830Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201115T021334Z UID:8128-1605369600-1605376800@oacc.cc SUMMARY:140 LBS: How Beauty Killed My Mother Virtual 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/140lbs/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/LOVE-ME-AS-I-AM_.png ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201119T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201119T190000 DTSTAMP:20260613T162628 CREATED:20201019T204943Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201120T031526Z UID:8825-1605808800-1605812400@oacc.cc SUMMARY:San Francisco's Chinatown: Resilience\, Survival\, and 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/sf-chinatown-book-talk/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/20201119SFChinatownThumbnail.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201122T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201122T150000 DTSTAMP:20260613T162628 CREATED:20201019T235654Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201122T230620Z UID:8829-1606050000-1606057200@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Write Now! SF Bay: Claim Ourselves\, Connect with Each Other 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/claim-ourselves-connect-with-each-other/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/11.22-OACC-Stand-Up_thumbnail.jpeg ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201123T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201123T190000 DTSTAMP:20260613T162628 CREATED:20201022T171257Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201221T182832Z UID:8842-1606150800-1606158000@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Quiz For a Cause! Trivia Night with Geeks Who Drink 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/quiz-for-a-cause-trivia-night-with-geeks-who-drink/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/QFAC_Nov.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201204T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201204T183000 DTSTAMP:20260613T162628 CREATED:20201113T210849Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201221T182920Z UID:8948-1607101200-1607106600@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Quarantini Mixer: Beer Tasting 101 With Trappist 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/quarantini-mixer-beer-tasting-101-with-trappist/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Thumbnail-1.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201219T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201219T183000 DTSTAMP:20260613T162628 CREATED:20201020T211839Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201221T182748Z UID:8834-1608397200-1608402600@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Celebrating Our HeART-filled Heritage: Vanessa Vân-Ánh Võ 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/heart-filled-heritage-series-van-anh-vo/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/20201219VanAnh_thumbnail.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210109T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210109T140000 DTSTAMP:20260613T162628 CREATED:20201102T211410Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210109T223001Z UID:8888-1610197200-1610200800@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Book Talk: Women and the Legacy of Imperialism in the Pacific 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-and-legacy-of-imperialism-in-pacific/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/20210109WomenAndPacificImperialismThumbnail.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210122T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210122T190000 DTSTAMP:20260613T162628 CREATED:20201110T190309Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210123T205612Z UID:8917-1611338400-1611342000@oacc.cc SUMMARY:"Padmavyuha": A Conversation Behind the Scenes 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/padmavyuha-film-talk/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/20210122Thumbnail.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210212 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210220 DTSTAMP:20260613T162628 CREATED:20201223T220618Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210223T225828Z UID:9120-1613088000-1613779199@oacc.cc SUMMARY:OACC 2021 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-lny-2021/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/02_insta_std-1.png ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210219T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210219T200000 DTSTAMP:20260613T162628 CREATED:20210123T021503Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210220T203246Z UID:9703-1613757600-1613764800@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Quarantini Mixer: Celebrating with Food and Drink 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/quarantini-mixer-celebrating-with-food-and-drink/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/q3_thumbnail.png ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210222T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210519T120000 DTSTAMP:20260613T162628 CREATED:20210127T001117Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210524T213825Z UID:9739-1613991600-1621425600@oacc.cc SUMMARY:預防跌倒平衡太極課程 | Fall Prevention Tai Chi: A 12-Week Series DESCRIPTION:Premiere Short Film Documentaries From Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra’s 2018 Performance with Angela Davis and Janice Mirikitani Followed by a Live Performance \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of two short films of Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra performance in 2018\, Go For Broke! and Down By The Riverside\, featuring Janice Mirikitani and Angela Davis. Followed by a live performance by Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra and Voices Of A Dream.   This event is part of OACC’s ongoing initiative to support\, highlight\, and cultivate Black and Asian solidarity within our Oakland and greater Bay Area communities.   Go for Broke! is dedicated to the courageous Japanese American men and women who served and died for their country in World War II while their families were imprisoned. In this film\, Janice Mirikitani shares her mother’s memories of their incarceration and her own testimony. “Go for Broke” was the motto of these brave soldiers in their fight to defend democracy.   Down By The Riverside – Requiem for a King commemorates Dr. Martin Luther King’s life and work\, and the 50th anniversary of his assassination. Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra premiered Down By The Riverside at the 2018 San Francisco International Arts Festival. Featuring spoken word by Dr. Angela Davis\, the documentary includes Spirituals and Gospel songs performed by Voices Of A Dream. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT ANTHONY BROWN \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Composer\, percussionist\, ethnomusicologist\, Guggenheim and Ford Fellow\, Smithsonian Associate Scholar\, and GRAMMY® nominee Dr. Anthony Brown has collaborated with Max Roach\, Cecil Taylor\, Pharoah Sanders\, Zakir Hussain\, Steve Lacy\, Anthony Davis\, and the San Francisco Symphony. Dr. Brown holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in music (ethnomusicology) from UC Berkeley and a Master of Music degree in jazz performance from Rutgers University. He is currently Artistic Director of Fifth Stream Music and the internationally acclaimed Asian American Orchestra.  fifthstreammusic.org   \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT ANTHONY BROWN'S ASIAN AMERICAN ORCHESTRA \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In the global community of the 21st century\, Anthony Brown’s Orchestra presents music that blends the sonorities and improvisational approaches of the jazz tradition with Asian musical instruments and sensibilities. In 1997\, leaders of San Francisco’s Asian American creative music movement founded the Asian American Jazz Orchestra (AAJO)\, under the auspices of a San Francisco-based\, federally funded multimedia consortium project to provide education nationally about the Japanese American internment experiences of World War II. The AAJO featured critically acclaimed musicians Anthony Brown\, Jon Jang\, Mark Izu\, Hafez Modirzadeh and Francis Wong\, as well as other San Francisco Bay Area jazz and world music artists\, many of whom possessed fluency on a variety of traditional Asian instruments. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/fall-prevention-tai-chi-series-2021/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/20210122KCCEBThumbnail-1.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210313T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210313T143000 DTSTAMP:20260613T162628 CREATED:20210211T211035Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210313T224224Z UID:10192-1615640400-1615645800@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Three Coins: A True Story of Kidnappings\, Slavery\, and Romance in San Francisco's Chinatown 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/three-coins-book-talk/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/20210313ThreeCoinsThumbnail.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210320T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210320T173000 DTSTAMP:20260613T162628 CREATED:20201219T235951Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210518T225916Z UID:9136-1616256000-1616261400@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Celebrating Our HeART-filled Heritage: Parangal Dance Company DESCRIPTION:Premiere Short Film Documentaries From Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra’s 2018 Performance with Angela Davis and Janice Mirikitani Followed by a Live Performance \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of two short films of Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra performance in 2018\, Go For Broke! and Down By The Riverside\, featuring Janice Mirikitani and Angela Davis. Followed by a live performance by Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra and Voices Of A Dream.   This event is part of OACC’s ongoing initiative to support\, highlight\, and cultivate Black and Asian solidarity within our Oakland and greater Bay Area communities.   Go for Broke! is dedicated to the courageous Japanese American men and women who served and died for their country in World War II while their families were imprisoned. In this film\, Janice Mirikitani shares her mother’s memories of their incarceration and her own testimony. “Go for Broke” was the motto of these brave soldiers in their fight to defend democracy.   Down By The Riverside – Requiem for a King commemorates Dr. Martin Luther King’s life and work\, and the 50th anniversary of his assassination. Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra premiered Down By The Riverside at the 2018 San Francisco International Arts Festival. Featuring spoken word by Dr. Angela Davis\, the documentary includes Spirituals and Gospel songs performed by Voices Of A Dream. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT ANTHONY BROWN \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Composer\, percussionist\, ethnomusicologist\, Guggenheim and Ford Fellow\, Smithsonian Associate Scholar\, and GRAMMY® nominee Dr. Anthony Brown has collaborated with Max Roach\, Cecil Taylor\, Pharoah Sanders\, Zakir Hussain\, Steve Lacy\, Anthony Davis\, and the San Francisco Symphony. Dr. Brown holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in music (ethnomusicology) from UC Berkeley and a Master of Music degree in jazz performance from Rutgers University. He is currently Artistic Director of Fifth Stream Music and the internationally acclaimed Asian American Orchestra.  fifthstreammusic.org   \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT ANTHONY BROWN'S ASIAN AMERICAN ORCHESTRA \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In the global community of the 21st century\, Anthony Brown’s Orchestra presents music that blends the sonorities and improvisational approaches of the jazz tradition with Asian musical instruments and sensibilities. In 1997\, leaders of San Francisco’s Asian American creative music movement founded the Asian American Jazz Orchestra (AAJO)\, under the auspices of a San Francisco-based\, federally funded multimedia consortium project to provide education nationally about the Japanese American internment experiences of World War II. The AAJO featured critically acclaimed musicians Anthony Brown\, Jon Jang\, Mark Izu\, Hafez Modirzadeh and Francis Wong\, as well as other San Francisco Bay Area jazz and world music artists\, many of whom possessed fluency on a variety of traditional Asian instruments. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/heart-filled-heritage-series-parangal-dance-co/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/20210320ParangalThumbnail.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210412 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210418 DTSTAMP:20260613T162628 CREATED:20210305T202927Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210420T201157Z UID:10405-1618185600-1618703999@oacc.cc SUMMARY:New Year Celebration: South and Southeast Asia 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-spring-ny-2021/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Spring-New-Year-Thumbnail-1.png ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210417T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210417T160000 DTSTAMP:20260613T162628 CREATED:20210305T195735Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210420T200659Z UID:10494-1618671600-1618675200@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Quarantini Mixer: Afternoon Tea with Malaya Tea Room 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/quarantini-mixer-afternoon-tea/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/QM4-Thumbnail.png ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210424T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210424T143000 DTSTAMP:20260613T162628 CREATED:20210311T235912Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210425T014653Z UID:10516-1619269200-1619274600@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Fighting for Immigrant and Refugee Rights: Perspectives from Asian American Community Organizing 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/fighting-for-immigrant-and-refugee-rights-panel/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/20210424ImmigrationThumbnail.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210501T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210501T184500 DTSTAMP:20260613T162628 CREATED:20191226T213710Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210502T022806Z UID:7433-1619890200-1619894700@oacc.cc SUMMARY:46 Years After the End of the Vietnam War: A Conversation About Empathy & Healing DESCRIPTION:Premiere Short Film Documentaries From Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra’s 2018 Performance with Angela Davis and Janice Mirikitani Followed by a Live Performance \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of two short films of Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra performance in 2018\, Go For Broke! and Down By The Riverside\, featuring Janice Mirikitani and Angela Davis. Followed by a live performance by Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra and Voices Of A Dream.   This event is part of OACC’s ongoing initiative to support\, highlight\, and cultivate Black and Asian solidarity within our Oakland and greater Bay Area communities.   Go for Broke! is dedicated to the courageous Japanese American men and women who served and died for their country in World War II while their families were imprisoned. In this film\, Janice Mirikitani shares her mother’s memories of their incarceration and her own testimony. “Go for Broke” was the motto of these brave soldiers in their fight to defend democracy.   Down By The Riverside – Requiem for a King commemorates Dr. Martin Luther King’s life and work\, and the 50th anniversary of his assassination. Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra premiered Down By The Riverside at the 2018 San Francisco International Arts Festival. Featuring spoken word by Dr. Angela Davis\, the documentary includes Spirituals and Gospel songs performed by Voices Of A Dream. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT ANTHONY BROWN \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Composer\, percussionist\, ethnomusicologist\, Guggenheim and Ford Fellow\, Smithsonian Associate Scholar\, and GRAMMY® nominee Dr. Anthony Brown has collaborated with Max Roach\, Cecil Taylor\, Pharoah Sanders\, Zakir Hussain\, Steve Lacy\, Anthony Davis\, and the San Francisco Symphony. Dr. Brown holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in music (ethnomusicology) from UC Berkeley and a Master of Music degree in jazz performance from Rutgers University. He is currently Artistic Director of Fifth Stream Music and the internationally acclaimed Asian American Orchestra.  fifthstreammusic.org   \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT ANTHONY BROWN'S ASIAN AMERICAN ORCHESTRA \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In the global community of the 21st century\, Anthony Brown’s Orchestra presents music that blends the sonorities and improvisational approaches of the jazz tradition with Asian musical instruments and sensibilities. In 1997\, leaders of San Francisco’s Asian American creative music movement founded the Asian American Jazz Orchestra (AAJO)\, under the auspices of a San Francisco-based\, federally funded multimedia consortium project to provide education nationally about the Japanese American internment experiences of World War II. The AAJO featured critically acclaimed musicians Anthony Brown\, Jon Jang\, Mark Izu\, Hafez Modirzadeh and Francis Wong\, as well as other San Francisco Bay Area jazz and world music artists\, many of whom possessed fluency on a variety of traditional Asian instruments. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/the-mountains-sing-book-talk/ 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/2019/12/2021050146YrsPostVietnamWarThumbnail.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210504T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210504T130000 DTSTAMP:20260613T162628 CREATED:20210419T190503Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210504T225450Z UID:10764-1620129600-1620133200@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Panel Discussion: The AAPI Experience — Listen\, Learn\, Act! 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-discussion-the-aapi-experience-listen-learn-act/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/5_4-Event-Thumbnail.png ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210507T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210509T193000 DTSTAMP:20260613T162628 CREATED:20210322T205843Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210527T005711Z UID:10570-1620410400-1620588600@oacc.cc SUMMARY:140 LBS + OVER 140 LBS: A Virtual Double-Feature 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/140lbs-double-feature/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/140LBS_Oakland_thumbnail.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210515T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210515T173000 DTSTAMP:20260613T162628 CREATED:20210323T173009Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210527T005410Z UID:10567-1621094400-1621099800@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Celebrating Our HeART-filled Heritage: Leela Dance Collective 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/heart-filled-heritage-series-leela-dance-collective/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/20210515Thumbnail_LDC.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210522T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210522T160000 DTSTAMP:20260613T162628 CREATED:20210409T190934Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210527T003715Z UID:10685-1621695600-1621699200@oacc.cc SUMMARY:"Instant Pot Asian Pressure Cooker Meals" Book Talk & Cooking Demo 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/instant-pot-book-talk-cooking-demo/ 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/2021/04/20210522Thumbnail.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210606T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210606T140000 DTSTAMP:20260613T162628 CREATED:20210514T181753Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210607T182833Z UID:10851-1622984400-1622988000@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Kids Storytime: "Wishes" by Mượn Thị Văn & "When Lola Visits" by Michelle Sterling 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/kids-storytime-wishes-when-lola-visits/ 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/2021/05/20210606Thumbnail.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210612T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210612T140000 DTSTAMP:20260613T162628 CREATED:20210414T012809Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210613T003158Z UID:10738-1623502800-1623506400@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Swimming to Freedom Book Talk with Kent and Freddie Wong DESCRIPTION:Premiere Short Film Documentaries From Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra’s 2018 Performance with Angela Davis and Janice Mirikitani Followed by a Live Performance \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of two short films of Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra performance in 2018\, Go For Broke! and Down By The Riverside\, featuring Janice Mirikitani and Angela Davis. Followed by a live performance by Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra and Voices Of A Dream.   This event is part of OACC’s ongoing initiative to support\, highlight\, and cultivate Black and Asian solidarity within our Oakland and greater Bay Area communities.   Go for Broke! is dedicated to the courageous Japanese American men and women who served and died for their country in World War II while their families were imprisoned. In this film\, Janice Mirikitani shares her mother’s memories of their incarceration and her own testimony. “Go for Broke” was the motto of these brave soldiers in their fight to defend democracy.   Down By The Riverside – Requiem for a King commemorates Dr. Martin Luther King’s life and work\, and the 50th anniversary of his assassination. Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra premiered Down By The Riverside at the 2018 San Francisco International Arts Festival. Featuring spoken word by Dr. Angela Davis\, the documentary includes Spirituals and Gospel songs performed by Voices Of A Dream. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT ANTHONY BROWN \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Composer\, percussionist\, ethnomusicologist\, Guggenheim and Ford Fellow\, Smithsonian Associate Scholar\, and GRAMMY® nominee Dr. Anthony Brown has collaborated with Max Roach\, Cecil Taylor\, Pharoah Sanders\, Zakir Hussain\, Steve Lacy\, Anthony Davis\, and the San Francisco Symphony. Dr. Brown holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in music (ethnomusicology) from UC Berkeley and a Master of Music degree in jazz performance from Rutgers University. He is currently Artistic Director of Fifth Stream Music and the internationally acclaimed Asian American Orchestra.  fifthstreammusic.org   \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT ANTHONY BROWN'S ASIAN AMERICAN ORCHESTRA \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In the global community of the 21st century\, Anthony Brown’s Orchestra presents music that blends the sonorities and improvisational approaches of the jazz tradition with Asian musical instruments and sensibilities. In 1997\, leaders of San Francisco’s Asian American creative music movement founded the Asian American Jazz Orchestra (AAJO)\, under the auspices of a San Francisco-based\, federally funded multimedia consortium project to provide education nationally about the Japanese American internment experiences of World War II. The AAJO featured critically acclaimed musicians Anthony Brown\, Jon Jang\, Mark Izu\, Hafez Modirzadeh and Francis Wong\, as well as other San Francisco Bay Area jazz and world music artists\, many of whom possessed fluency on a variety of traditional Asian instruments. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/swimming-to-freedom-book-talk/ 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/2021/04/20210612SwimmingThumbnail.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR