The Case for Cancer Screenings | 癌症篩查的重要性
2021-10-23 13:00 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | CA
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

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.

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ABOUT ANTHONY BROWN

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

ABOUT ANTHONY BROWN'S ASIAN AMERICAN ORCHESTRA

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.

2021 Chuseok Youth Art Contest Gallery
2021-10-27 - 2021-12-18 | Oakland Asian Cultural Center, 388 9th St. #290, Oakland, CA, 94607, United States

Prints & Protest: The Legacy of Poster Making in Social Justice Movements
2021-11-05 17:30 - 19:00 | Oakland Asian Cultural Center, 388 9th St. #290, Oakland, CA, 94607, United States

ILLUMINATION: Literary Works Imagining New Light
2021-11-06 14:00 - 15:30 | Oakland Asian Cultural Center, 388 9th St. #290, Oakland, CA, 94607, United States

Centering Senior Care and Aging During COVID-19
2021-11-14 13:00 - 14:30 | Oakland Asian Cultural Center, 388 9th St. #290, Oakland, CA, 94607, United States

OACC Friendsgiving: "In The Land of My Ancestors" Film Screening & Discussion
2021-11-18 18:00 - 19:00 | Oakland Asian Cultural Center, 388 9th St. #290, Oakland, CA, 94607, United States

"The Shikoku Pilgrimage: Japan's Sacred Trail" Book Talk
2021-11-20 16:00 - 17:30 | Oakland Asian Cultural Center, 388 9th St. #290, Oakland, CA, 94607, United States

Book Talk: The Wake Up with Michelle MiJung Kim
2021-12-10 18:30 - 20:00 | Oakland Asian Cultural Center, 388 9th St. #290, Oakland, CA, 94607, United States

Book Talk: "Auntie Sewing Squad Guide To Mask Making, Radical Care, and Racial Justice"
2022-01-29 15:00 - 16:30 | Oakland Asian Cultural Center, 388 9th St. #290, Oakland, CA, 94607, United States

Black History Month Community Events
2022-02-01 - 2022-02-28 | CA

Lincoln School 2022 Lunar New Year Art Contest Gallery
2022-02-03 - 2022-03-31 | CA

2022 Virtual Community Night Market
2022-02-05 - 2022-04-16 | CA

OACC 2022 Asian Pacific New Year Celebration
2022-02-05 - 2022-04-16 | Oakland Asian Cultural Center, 388 9th St. #290, Oakland, CA, 94607, United States

Book Talk: Chinese Children's Hats with Terri Wong
2022-02-12 13:00 - 14:00 | CA

Book Talk: "We Hereby Refuse": The Bay Area Allies
2022-02-13 15:00 - 16:30 | Oakland Asian Cultural Center, 388 9th St. #290, Oakland, CA, 94607, United States

"Manzanar, Diverted: When Water Becomes Dust" Virtual Screening and Talk
2022-02-18 18:00 - 20:00 | CA

Celebrating Our HeART-filled Heritage: Sri Vidya Dance School
2022-03-19 16:00 - 17:30 | Oakland Asian Cultural Center, 388 9th St. #290, Oakland, CA, 94607, United States

Oakland Ballet's Dancing Moons Festival
2022-03-24 - 2022-03-26 | CA

Textures of Remembrance: Vietnamese Artists and Writers Reflect on the Vietnamese Diaspora
2022-04-15 - 2022-06-10 | Oakland Asian Cultural Center, 388 9th St. #290, Oakland, CA, 94607, United States

Oakland AAPI Small Biz Map Challenge
2022-04-16 - 2022-06-04 | CA

Celebrating Our HeART-filled Heritage: Hip Hop For Change Workshop
2022-04-23 13:30 - 15:00 | Oakland Asian Cultural Center, 388 9th St. #290, Oakland, CA, 94607, United States

KCCEB Community Healing Space
2022-04-28 14:30 - 2022-06-23 16:00 | Oakland Asian Cultural Center, 388 9th St. #290, Oakland, CA, 94607, United States

OACC Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month
2022-04-30 - 2022-05-31 | Oakland Asian Cultural Center, 388 9th Street, Suite 290, Oakland, CA 94607, Oakland, CA, 94607

Lotus Link Up: Tiger's Tap Room Party
2022-04-30 14:00 - 22:00 | Tiger’s Taproom, 308 Jackson Street STE 4, Oakland, CA, 94607, United States

AAPI Heritage Month Fundraiser at Co Nam
2022-05-05 11:30 - 23:00 | Co Nam, 3936 Telegraph Ave, Oakland, 94609

OACC Connex: Community Screen Printing Workshop
2022-05-08 11:00 - 16:00 | Oakland Asian Cultural Center, 388 9th St. #290, Oakland, CA, 94607, United States

Solidarity & Resilience: Narrations through Traditional Vietnamese Music
2022-05-14 19:30 - 21:00 | Oakland Asian Cultural Center, 388 9th St. #290, Oakland, CA, 94607, United States

"Stories of Home" Community Screening
2022-05-15 17:00 - 18:30 | Oakland Asian Cultural Center, 388 9th St. #290, Oakland, CA, 94607, United States

Celebrating Our HeART-filled Heritage: Bochan Huy
2022-05-21 16:00 - 17:30 | Oakland Asian Cultural Center, 388 9th St. #290, Oakland, CA, 94607, United States

Lotus Link Up: Cocktails, Comedy, and Connection for AAPI & ALLIES
2022-05-25 16:00 - 20:00 | Somar Bar & Lounge, 1727 Telegraph Ave, Oakland, CA, 94612, United States
