Name: “The Empathizer” A Documentary About Vietnam Screening and Discussion
Start: 2025-12-05T19:00:00-08:00
End: 2025-12-05T21:00:00-08:00
Location: Oakland Asian Cultural Center

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September 2025
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
December 2025
December 5
12:00 pm1:00 pm

December Mending Circle

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

Friday, December 5 12 noon–1 pm FREE Do you have socks that need repair? Are you curious about visible mending? Do you like keeping clothing out of landfills? If you answered yes to any of these, or just want company while you sew, join us for our next Mending Circle at OACC on Friday, Dec […]

Free
December 5
7:00 pm9:00 pm

“The Empathizer” A Documentary About Vietnam Screening and Discussion

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

Friday, December 57-9 pmFREE Stand-up comedian Fred Le hears the stories of a diverse range of young overseas-born Vietnamese who made their way back to the land that their parents left following the end of the Vietnam War. Le, who himself spent three years in Vietnam, conducts a series of interviews with these overseas-born Vietnamese […]

Free