FOODLINE: Mapping Our Diaspora from Culture to Conversation

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

    On Sunday, July 25th, join us as our special guests at this special soft-reopening event! We are excited to welcome you back to our center as you get to know our staff, enjoy an insightful program, learn taichi, and meet other OACC community members!  As part of this program, we will screen BLOODLINE followed by

    $5

    Envision & Enact: Community Thriving

    WATCH THE EVENT LIVESTREAM: OACC YouTube: https://youtu.be/LzIzLaro39Y BAMBDFEST Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BAMBDFEST2019/videos/296000932318842 UPDATE (7/30/21): In consideration of our presenters' and audience members' health and safety, we have decided to pivot this event to a VIRTUAL ONLY format and cancel all in-person components. We will notify attendees how you can access our event remotely. Please RSVP to receive

    Free

    Agni: Virtual Screening & Talk

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

    Enjoy a virtual screening of acclaimed short dance film "Agni." The virtual screening will be followed by a discussion about creation in India's kathak dance and the next generation. Featured guests for this event include Chitresh Das Institute Artistic Director Charlotte Moraga and dancers Mayuka Sarukkai, Krtika Sharma, Gauri Bhatnagar, and Shruti Pai. About the

    Free

    “Remembering Shanghai” Book Talk

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

    True stories of glamour, drama, and tragedy told through five generations of a Shanghai family, from the last days of imperial rule to the Cultural Revolution. A high position bestowed by China’s empress dowager grants power and wealth to the Sun family. For Isabel, growing up in glamorous 1930s and ’40s Shanghai, it is a

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    Gene Luen Yang and Pornsak Pichetshote Write Heroes in APA History Comics

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

    Looking back at APA History in 1940's , the Exclusion Laws, racism and the KKK has graphically come alive with comic artists and writers Gene Luen Yang and Pornsak Pichetshote's new graphic novels. Pichetshote's The Good Asian and Yang's Shadow Hero and Superman Smashes the Klan have been treasures to comic lovers searching for adventure,

    Free

    25th Anniversary Gala — Lift Up: Change Through Arts & Activism

    Online

    As an Oakland, CA-born first-generation Vietnamese-American, food justice comes naturally to Chef Tu David Phu, who finds opportunities to use the medium of food as a vessel for meaningful work. From cooking with incarcerated men in San Quentin; to his role as a co-executive producer for First Kitchen Media that involves storytelling, and speaking about

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