Upcoming Events

Name: Arabesque: A Middle Eastern Dance and Music Concert
Start: 2025-11-08T19:00:00-08:00
End: 2025-11-08T20:30:00-08:00
Location: Oakland Asian Cultural Center

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August 2025
Featured August 16
12:00 pm5:00 pm

Celebrating Our HeART-filled Heritage: Hawaiian Arts and Culture Day

Oakland Asian Cultural Center 388 9th St. #290, Oakland, CA, United States

Saturday, August 1612 pm-5 pmFREE Photo Credit: Photo by William Lee Join us for a rich celebration of Hawaiian culture with the Kaululehua Hawaiian Cultural Center. Learn about Hawaiian culture through performances, lectures/demonstrations, and a vendor marketplace. Featured performers will include Kumu Kawika Alfiche, Steven Kanahe Espaniola, and Hālau o Keikiali`i. SCHEDULE 12 pm: Vendor Marketplace opens12:45-1 […]

Free
September 2025
Featured September 6
7:30 pm9:00 pm

Celebrating Our HeART-filled Heritage: Ragas in Conversation

Oakland Asian Cultural Center 388 9th St. #290, Oakland, CA, United States

With Arjun K. Verma, Anirudh Bharadwaj, Rohan Krishnamurthy Saturday, September 67:30-9 pmFREE Indian classical luminaries Arjun K. Verma, Anirudh Bharadwaj, and Rohan Krishnamurthy come together in a new collaboration of Carnatic and Hindustani traditions. As Bay Area-based ambassadors of Indian music, the trio represents ancient Indian lineages at the frontiers of contemporary experimentation. Performer Bios Dr. Rohan Krishnamurthy […]

Free
Featured September 20
2:00 pm4:00 pm

Panel Discussion: A History of Chinese Life Under American Racial Law (1850s-1960s)

Oakland Asian Cultural Center 388 9th St. #290, Oakland, CA, United States

Saturday, September 202-4 pmFREE Join us for life stories of Chinese and Chinese Americans who endured racial violence and discrimination as second-class citizens during the 1850s to 1960s. Ground-breaking authors Michael Luo* and Fae Myenne Ng*, and Wong Kim Ark's great-grandson Norman Wong, share the stories of Chinese lives under American racial laws enacted to […]

Free
October 2025
Featured October 4
3:00 pm4:30 pm

Oakland Ilokana Film Premiere

Oakland Asian Cultural Center 388 9th St. #290, Oakland, CA, United States

Part of the "Rooted in Chinatown" Series Saturday, October 43-5 pmFREE Celebrate Filipino American History Month at OACC! Join us for the premiere of Oakland Ilokana, an intergenerational documentary about legacy, ancestral memory, and the search for connection. Guided by the stories of her aging grandmother—who was one of the first Filipino American children born in […]

Free
November 2025
November 5
7:00 pm8:30 pm

“Water Mirror Echo: Bruce Lee and the Making of Asian America” book talk with Jeff Chang

Oakland Asian Cultural Center 388 9th St. #290, Oakland, CA, United States

Wednesday, November 57-8:30 pmFREE Join us for a conversation and book signing with award-winning writer, critic, and cultural observer Jeff Chang as he brings fresh insight and humanity to the legendary Bruce Lee in Water Mirror Echo: Bruce Lee and the Making of Asian America. Jeff will be in conversation with filmmaker Ursula Liang. His new […]

Free
November 8
7:00 pm8:30 pm

Arabesque: A Middle Eastern Dance and Music Concert

Oakland Asian Cultural Center 388 9th St. #290, Oakland, CA, United States

Saturday, November 87-8:30 pmFREE Join critically acclaimed belly dancer Shabnam as she celebrates 20 years of her creative practice with a concert at OACC. She specializes in Orientale Bellydance, which blends ballet and Middle Eastern Dance. This dynamic approach is contemporary, yet honors the traditional roots of Middle Eastern Dance—a lineage that is thousands of […]

Free