BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Oakland Asian Cultural Center - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Oakland Asian Cultural Center 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: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:20211118T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211118T190000 DTSTAMP:20260525T221534 CREATED:20211105T214412Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211121T014553Z UID:11627-1637258400-1637262000@oacc.cc SUMMARY:OACC Friendsgiving: "In The Land of My Ancestors" Film Screening & Discussion DESCRIPTION:Longing for Attachment\n \n \n \n \n Exhibition Dates: June 14 – July 27\, 2024 \n \n \n \n ARTogether and Oakland Asian Cultural Center co-present “Longing for Attachment\,” an exhibition curated by Bushra Gill featuring 30+ Bay Area 1st/2nd generation immigrant and refugee artists reflecting on the notion of attachments.    As immigrants\, refugees\, and their descendants\, we make choices on what to hold onto and what to let go of when moving to another country or culture. Being too attached to a place or way of being can make it hard to form connections to anything new. But our connection to a place is also related to our quality of life and well-being– it links us to neighborhoods and communities where we have lived.  Anyone who has migrated from another country or grown up in an immigrant family knows these attachments run deep and true\, not needing to be present to have a prominent place in our hearts.     We invite you to join us in reflection of our relationships to attachment\, and to celebrate these Bay Area refugee\, immigrant\, and children of immigrant artists.   Exhibition Dates: June 14 – July 27\, 2024 Gallery Hours: Wednesdays through Saturdays\, 12 PM – 5 PM  Location: Oakland Asian Cultural Center 388 9th St\, Ste 290\, Oakland\, CA \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Check out the accompanying audio tour for this exhibition\, facilitated by the curator Bushra Gill:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FewN3Nu0o8o \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Curator \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bushra Gill is interested in finding order within the chaos of everyday life through art. She was born in Karachi\, Pakistan\, and emigrated to Houston\, Texas\, with her family as a small child. Drawn to art from a young age\, she graduated from Pratt Institute in 1994\, with a BFA in sculpture. She spent many years of working as a museum educator at various galleries and museums including The Museum of Modern Art\, The Drawing Center and The Rotunda Gallery\, while also working as a studio assistant to various artists including Maya Lin\, Ursula von Rydingsvard and Maria Elena Gonzalez\, as well as a career as a clothing designer and boutique owner in New York. In 2009\, she moved to northern California with her family and returned to making art. In recent years\, Gill has participated in many exhibitions in galleries across the United States. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Exhibiting Artists \n \n \n \n Amanda Messina Gerodias Anita Sulimanovic Bushra Gill Christina Xu Chupis Dion Eva Agus Ezra Mara Fernanda Martinez Glish Group (Timofey Glinin & Anastasia Shubina) Hargun Mahal Mann  Jaide Lin Lark  León Hernandez Leyla Jamil Rzayeva Linah Sofi Lorraine Lawson Mariel Paat Martin Rodriguez Serrano Michelle Lin Narges Valibeigi Ngân Vũ Nhien Le Peter Gee Renacimiento Ria Sharma Russel Arelis Salma Arastu Shooting Within Tatiana Carvalho  Ujjayini Sikha Vreni Michelini Castillo  YouBeen Kim Yuting Wang \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Performing at the Opening Reception \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nadhi Thekkek (@navadancesf) is a dancer\, choreographer\, and the Artistic Director of Nava Dance Theatre. Nadhi uses the south Indian dance form of bharatanatyam to navigate place\, identity\, and politics through the lens of her lived experience as a child of immigrants and an unapologetic South Asian\, diasporic woman. She reimagines how bharatanatyam can serve marginalized narratives that need to occupy space in the US right now. Her latest work “Rogue Gestures/Foreign Bodies” sources community interviews\, historical texts\, and poetry to explore the intersections of labor\, agency\, and belonging in our South Asian ancestry. Through Nava Dance Theatre\, Nadhi also produces and co-facilitates the Unrehearsed Artist Residency Program\, where South Asian dancemakers create art that challenges the status quo.  For more information on Nadhi\, visit www.navadance.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 Roopa Mahadevan (@roopama) is a leading second-generation Indian classical and crossover vocalist in the American diaspora known for her powerful\, emotive voice and collaborative versatility. She leads Roopa in Flux\, an ensemble featuring musicians in jazz\, soul/R&B\, and various global traditions\, directs the innovative choir Navatman Music Collective\, and sings for leading bharathanatyam/contemporary dancers. She is a soloist on Grammy Award-winning Calling All Dawns\, and has been in residence at Banff Center for Arts and Creativity\, Hedgebrook\, MASS MOCA\, and Ryder Farm. FOr more information visit\, www.roopamahadevan.com. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/friendsgiving2021/ LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St. #290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Friendsgiving-2021-Instagram-Post-1.png ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211114T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211114T143000 DTSTAMP:20260525T221534 CREATED:20211004T210829Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211114T225617Z UID:11292-1636894800-1636900200@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Centering Senior Care and Aging During COVID-19 DESCRIPTION:Longing for Attachment\n \n \n \n \n Exhibition Dates: June 14 – July 27\, 2024 \n \n \n \n ARTogether and Oakland Asian Cultural Center co-present “Longing for Attachment\,” an exhibition curated by Bushra Gill featuring 30+ Bay Area 1st/2nd generation immigrant and refugee artists reflecting on the notion of attachments.    As immigrants\, refugees\, and their descendants\, we make choices on what to hold onto and what to let go of when moving to another country or culture. Being too attached to a place or way of being can make it hard to form connections to anything new. But our connection to a place is also related to our quality of life and well-being– it links us to neighborhoods and communities where we have lived.  Anyone who has migrated from another country or grown up in an immigrant family knows these attachments run deep and true\, not needing to be present to have a prominent place in our hearts.     We invite you to join us in reflection of our relationships to attachment\, and to celebrate these Bay Area refugee\, immigrant\, and children of immigrant artists.   Exhibition Dates: June 14 – July 27\, 2024 Gallery Hours: Wednesdays through Saturdays\, 12 PM – 5 PM  Location: Oakland Asian Cultural Center 388 9th St\, Ste 290\, Oakland\, CA \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Check out the accompanying audio tour for this exhibition\, facilitated by the curator Bushra Gill:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FewN3Nu0o8o \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Curator \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bushra Gill is interested in finding order within the chaos of everyday life through art. She was born in Karachi\, Pakistan\, and emigrated to Houston\, Texas\, with her family as a small child. Drawn to art from a young age\, she graduated from Pratt Institute in 1994\, with a BFA in sculpture. She spent many years of working as a museum educator at various galleries and museums including The Museum of Modern Art\, The Drawing Center and The Rotunda Gallery\, while also working as a studio assistant to various artists including Maya Lin\, Ursula von Rydingsvard and Maria Elena Gonzalez\, as well as a career as a clothing designer and boutique owner in New York. In 2009\, she moved to northern California with her family and returned to making art. In recent years\, Gill has participated in many exhibitions in galleries across the United States. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Exhibiting Artists \n \n \n \n Amanda Messina Gerodias Anita Sulimanovic Bushra Gill Christina Xu Chupis Dion Eva Agus Ezra Mara Fernanda Martinez Glish Group (Timofey Glinin & Anastasia Shubina) Hargun Mahal Mann  Jaide Lin Lark  León Hernandez Leyla Jamil Rzayeva Linah Sofi Lorraine Lawson Mariel Paat Martin Rodriguez Serrano Michelle Lin Narges Valibeigi Ngân Vũ Nhien Le Peter Gee Renacimiento Ria Sharma Russel Arelis Salma Arastu Shooting Within Tatiana Carvalho  Ujjayini Sikha Vreni Michelini Castillo  YouBeen Kim Yuting Wang \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Performing at the Opening Reception \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nadhi Thekkek (@navadancesf) is a dancer\, choreographer\, and the Artistic Director of Nava Dance Theatre. Nadhi uses the south Indian dance form of bharatanatyam to navigate place\, identity\, and politics through the lens of her lived experience as a child of immigrants and an unapologetic South Asian\, diasporic woman. She reimagines how bharatanatyam can serve marginalized narratives that need to occupy space in the US right now. Her latest work “Rogue Gestures/Foreign Bodies” sources community interviews\, historical texts\, and poetry to explore the intersections of labor\, agency\, and belonging in our South Asian ancestry. Through Nava Dance Theatre\, Nadhi also produces and co-facilitates the Unrehearsed Artist Residency Program\, where South Asian dancemakers create art that challenges the status quo.  For more information on Nadhi\, visit www.navadance.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 Roopa Mahadevan (@roopama) is a leading second-generation Indian classical and crossover vocalist in the American diaspora known for her powerful\, emotive voice and collaborative versatility. She leads Roopa in Flux\, an ensemble featuring musicians in jazz\, soul/R&B\, and various global traditions\, directs the innovative choir Navatman Music Collective\, and sings for leading bharathanatyam/contemporary dancers. She is a soloist on Grammy Award-winning Calling All Dawns\, and has been in residence at Banff Center for Arts and Creativity\, Hedgebrook\, MASS MOCA\, and Ryder Farm. FOr more information visit\, www.roopamahadevan.com. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/senior-care-aging-covid-19-panel-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/2021/10/20211114SeniorCareThumbnail.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211106T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211106T153000 DTSTAMP:20260525T221534 CREATED:20211012T021851Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211114T225750Z UID:11559-1636207200-1636212600@oacc.cc SUMMARY:ILLUMINATION: Literary Works Imagining New Light DESCRIPTION:Longing for Attachment\n \n \n \n \n Exhibition Dates: June 14 – July 27\, 2024 \n \n \n \n ARTogether and Oakland Asian Cultural Center co-present “Longing for Attachment\,” an exhibition curated by Bushra Gill featuring 30+ Bay Area 1st/2nd generation immigrant and refugee artists reflecting on the notion of attachments.    As immigrants\, refugees\, and their descendants\, we make choices on what to hold onto and what to let go of when moving to another country or culture. Being too attached to a place or way of being can make it hard to form connections to anything new. But our connection to a place is also related to our quality of life and well-being– it links us to neighborhoods and communities where we have lived.  Anyone who has migrated from another country or grown up in an immigrant family knows these attachments run deep and true\, not needing to be present to have a prominent place in our hearts.     We invite you to join us in reflection of our relationships to attachment\, and to celebrate these Bay Area refugee\, immigrant\, and children of immigrant artists.   Exhibition Dates: June 14 – July 27\, 2024 Gallery Hours: Wednesdays through Saturdays\, 12 PM – 5 PM  Location: Oakland Asian Cultural Center 388 9th St\, Ste 290\, Oakland\, CA \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Check out the accompanying audio tour for this exhibition\, facilitated by the curator Bushra Gill:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FewN3Nu0o8o \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Curator \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bushra Gill is interested in finding order within the chaos of everyday life through art. She was born in Karachi\, Pakistan\, and emigrated to Houston\, Texas\, with her family as a small child. Drawn to art from a young age\, she graduated from Pratt Institute in 1994\, with a BFA in sculpture. She spent many years of working as a museum educator at various galleries and museums including The Museum of Modern Art\, The Drawing Center and The Rotunda Gallery\, while also working as a studio assistant to various artists including Maya Lin\, Ursula von Rydingsvard and Maria Elena Gonzalez\, as well as a career as a clothing designer and boutique owner in New York. In 2009\, she moved to northern California with her family and returned to making art. In recent years\, Gill has participated in many exhibitions in galleries across the United States. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Exhibiting Artists \n \n \n \n Amanda Messina Gerodias Anita Sulimanovic Bushra Gill Christina Xu Chupis Dion Eva Agus Ezra Mara Fernanda Martinez Glish Group (Timofey Glinin & Anastasia Shubina) Hargun Mahal Mann  Jaide Lin Lark  León Hernandez Leyla Jamil Rzayeva Linah Sofi Lorraine Lawson Mariel Paat Martin Rodriguez Serrano Michelle Lin Narges Valibeigi Ngân Vũ Nhien Le Peter Gee Renacimiento Ria Sharma Russel Arelis Salma Arastu Shooting Within Tatiana Carvalho  Ujjayini Sikha Vreni Michelini Castillo  YouBeen Kim Yuting Wang \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Performing at the Opening Reception \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nadhi Thekkek (@navadancesf) is a dancer\, choreographer\, and the Artistic Director of Nava Dance Theatre. Nadhi uses the south Indian dance form of bharatanatyam to navigate place\, identity\, and politics through the lens of her lived experience as a child of immigrants and an unapologetic South Asian\, diasporic woman. She reimagines how bharatanatyam can serve marginalized narratives that need to occupy space in the US right now. Her latest work “Rogue Gestures/Foreign Bodies” sources community interviews\, historical texts\, and poetry to explore the intersections of labor\, agency\, and belonging in our South Asian ancestry. Through Nava Dance Theatre\, Nadhi also produces and co-facilitates the Unrehearsed Artist Residency Program\, where South Asian dancemakers create art that challenges the status quo.  For more information on Nadhi\, visit www.navadance.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 Roopa Mahadevan (@roopama) is a leading second-generation Indian classical and crossover vocalist in the American diaspora known for her powerful\, emotive voice and collaborative versatility. She leads Roopa in Flux\, an ensemble featuring musicians in jazz\, soul/R&B\, and various global traditions\, directs the innovative choir Navatman Music Collective\, and sings for leading bharathanatyam/contemporary dancers. She is a soloist on Grammy Award-winning Calling All Dawns\, and has been in residence at Banff Center for Arts and Creativity\, Hedgebrook\, MASS MOCA\, and Ryder Farm. FOr more information visit\, www.roopamahadevan.com. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/illumination/ 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/2021/10/20211106Illumination_Thumbnail.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211105T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211105T190000 DTSTAMP:20260525T221534 CREATED:20210824T232155Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211106T032745Z UID:11209-1636133400-1636138800@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Prints & Protest: The Legacy of Poster Making in Social Justice Movements DESCRIPTION:Longing for Attachment\n \n \n \n \n Exhibition Dates: June 14 – July 27\, 2024 \n \n \n \n ARTogether and Oakland Asian Cultural Center co-present “Longing for Attachment\,” an exhibition curated by Bushra Gill featuring 30+ Bay Area 1st/2nd generation immigrant and refugee artists reflecting on the notion of attachments.    As immigrants\, refugees\, and their descendants\, we make choices on what to hold onto and what to let go of when moving to another country or culture. Being too attached to a place or way of being can make it hard to form connections to anything new. But our connection to a place is also related to our quality of life and well-being– it links us to neighborhoods and communities where we have lived.  Anyone who has migrated from another country or grown up in an immigrant family knows these attachments run deep and true\, not needing to be present to have a prominent place in our hearts.     We invite you to join us in reflection of our relationships to attachment\, and to celebrate these Bay Area refugee\, immigrant\, and children of immigrant artists.   Exhibition Dates: June 14 – July 27\, 2024 Gallery Hours: Wednesdays through Saturdays\, 12 PM – 5 PM  Location: Oakland Asian Cultural Center 388 9th St\, Ste 290\, Oakland\, CA \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Check out the accompanying audio tour for this exhibition\, facilitated by the curator Bushra Gill:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FewN3Nu0o8o \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Curator \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bushra Gill is interested in finding order within the chaos of everyday life through art. She was born in Karachi\, Pakistan\, and emigrated to Houston\, Texas\, with her family as a small child. Drawn to art from a young age\, she graduated from Pratt Institute in 1994\, with a BFA in sculpture. She spent many years of working as a museum educator at various galleries and museums including The Museum of Modern Art\, The Drawing Center and The Rotunda Gallery\, while also working as a studio assistant to various artists including Maya Lin\, Ursula von Rydingsvard and Maria Elena Gonzalez\, as well as a career as a clothing designer and boutique owner in New York. In 2009\, she moved to northern California with her family and returned to making art. In recent years\, Gill has participated in many exhibitions in galleries across the United States. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Exhibiting Artists \n \n \n \n Amanda Messina Gerodias Anita Sulimanovic Bushra Gill Christina Xu Chupis Dion Eva Agus Ezra Mara Fernanda Martinez Glish Group (Timofey Glinin & Anastasia Shubina) Hargun Mahal Mann  Jaide Lin Lark  León Hernandez Leyla Jamil Rzayeva Linah Sofi Lorraine Lawson Mariel Paat Martin Rodriguez Serrano Michelle Lin Narges Valibeigi Ngân Vũ Nhien Le Peter Gee Renacimiento Ria Sharma Russel Arelis Salma Arastu Shooting Within Tatiana Carvalho  Ujjayini Sikha Vreni Michelini Castillo  YouBeen Kim Yuting Wang \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Performing at the Opening Reception \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nadhi Thekkek (@navadancesf) is a dancer\, choreographer\, and the Artistic Director of Nava Dance Theatre. Nadhi uses the south Indian dance form of bharatanatyam to navigate place\, identity\, and politics through the lens of her lived experience as a child of immigrants and an unapologetic South Asian\, diasporic woman. She reimagines how bharatanatyam can serve marginalized narratives that need to occupy space in the US right now. Her latest work “Rogue Gestures/Foreign Bodies” sources community interviews\, historical texts\, and poetry to explore the intersections of labor\, agency\, and belonging in our South Asian ancestry. Through Nava Dance Theatre\, Nadhi also produces and co-facilitates the Unrehearsed Artist Residency Program\, where South Asian dancemakers create art that challenges the status quo.  For more information on Nadhi\, visit www.navadance.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 Roopa Mahadevan (@roopama) is a leading second-generation Indian classical and crossover vocalist in the American diaspora known for her powerful\, emotive voice and collaborative versatility. She leads Roopa in Flux\, an ensemble featuring musicians in jazz\, soul/R&B\, and various global traditions\, directs the innovative choir Navatman Music Collective\, and sings for leading bharathanatyam/contemporary dancers. She is a soloist on Grammy Award-winning Calling All Dawns\, and has been in residence at Banff Center for Arts and Creativity\, Hedgebrook\, MASS MOCA\, and Ryder Farm. FOr more information visit\, www.roopamahadevan.com. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/prints-and-protest-panel-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/2021/08/20211105PrintsAndProtest_Thumbnail.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211027 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211219 DTSTAMP:20260525T221534 CREATED:20210721T185319Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211220T192712Z UID:11059-1635292800-1639871999@oacc.cc SUMMARY:2021 Chuseok Youth Art Contest Gallery DESCRIPTION:Longing for Attachment\n \n \n \n \n Exhibition Dates: June 14 – July 27\, 2024 \n \n \n \n ARTogether and Oakland Asian Cultural Center co-present “Longing for Attachment\,” an exhibition curated by Bushra Gill featuring 30+ Bay Area 1st/2nd generation immigrant and refugee artists reflecting on the notion of attachments.    As immigrants\, refugees\, and their descendants\, we make choices on what to hold onto and what to let go of when moving to another country or culture. Being too attached to a place or way of being can make it hard to form connections to anything new. But our connection to a place is also related to our quality of life and well-being– it links us to neighborhoods and communities where we have lived.  Anyone who has migrated from another country or grown up in an immigrant family knows these attachments run deep and true\, not needing to be present to have a prominent place in our hearts.     We invite you to join us in reflection of our relationships to attachment\, and to celebrate these Bay Area refugee\, immigrant\, and children of immigrant artists.   Exhibition Dates: June 14 – July 27\, 2024 Gallery Hours: Wednesdays through Saturdays\, 12 PM – 5 PM  Location: Oakland Asian Cultural Center 388 9th St\, Ste 290\, Oakland\, CA \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Check out the accompanying audio tour for this exhibition\, facilitated by the curator Bushra Gill:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FewN3Nu0o8o \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Curator \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bushra Gill is interested in finding order within the chaos of everyday life through art. She was born in Karachi\, Pakistan\, and emigrated to Houston\, Texas\, with her family as a small child. Drawn to art from a young age\, she graduated from Pratt Institute in 1994\, with a BFA in sculpture. She spent many years of working as a museum educator at various galleries and museums including The Museum of Modern Art\, The Drawing Center and The Rotunda Gallery\, while also working as a studio assistant to various artists including Maya Lin\, Ursula von Rydingsvard and Maria Elena Gonzalez\, as well as a career as a clothing designer and boutique owner in New York. In 2009\, she moved to northern California with her family and returned to making art. In recent years\, Gill has participated in many exhibitions in galleries across the United States. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Exhibiting Artists \n \n \n \n Amanda Messina Gerodias Anita Sulimanovic Bushra Gill Christina Xu Chupis Dion Eva Agus Ezra Mara Fernanda Martinez Glish Group (Timofey Glinin & Anastasia Shubina) Hargun Mahal Mann  Jaide Lin Lark  León Hernandez Leyla Jamil Rzayeva Linah Sofi Lorraine Lawson Mariel Paat Martin Rodriguez Serrano Michelle Lin Narges Valibeigi Ngân Vũ Nhien Le Peter Gee Renacimiento Ria Sharma Russel Arelis Salma Arastu Shooting Within Tatiana Carvalho  Ujjayini Sikha Vreni Michelini Castillo  YouBeen Kim Yuting Wang \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Performing at the Opening Reception \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nadhi Thekkek (@navadancesf) is a dancer\, choreographer\, and the Artistic Director of Nava Dance Theatre. Nadhi uses the south Indian dance form of bharatanatyam to navigate place\, identity\, and politics through the lens of her lived experience as a child of immigrants and an unapologetic South Asian\, diasporic woman. She reimagines how bharatanatyam can serve marginalized narratives that need to occupy space in the US right now. Her latest work “Rogue Gestures/Foreign Bodies” sources community interviews\, historical texts\, and poetry to explore the intersections of labor\, agency\, and belonging in our South Asian ancestry. Through Nava Dance Theatre\, Nadhi also produces and co-facilitates the Unrehearsed Artist Residency Program\, where South Asian dancemakers create art that challenges the status quo.  For more information on Nadhi\, visit www.navadance.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 Roopa Mahadevan (@roopama) is a leading second-generation Indian classical and crossover vocalist in the American diaspora known for her powerful\, emotive voice and collaborative versatility. She leads Roopa in Flux\, an ensemble featuring musicians in jazz\, soul/R&B\, and various global traditions\, directs the innovative choir Navatman Music Collective\, and sings for leading bharathanatyam/contemporary dancers. She is a soloist on Grammy Award-winning Calling All Dawns\, and has been in residence at Banff Center for Arts and Creativity\, Hedgebrook\, MASS MOCA\, and Ryder Farm. FOr more information visit\, www.roopamahadevan.com. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/2021-chuseok-youth-art-contest/ LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St. #290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States CATEGORIES:Past Events,Past Exhibitions ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/2021ChuseokArtContestGallery_Thumbnail.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Korean Center%2C Inc.":MAILTO:info@koreancentersf.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211023T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211023T140000 DTSTAMP:20260525T221534 CREATED:20210729T192024Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211023T205256Z UID:11103-1634994000-1634997600@oacc.cc SUMMARY:The Case for Cancer Screenings | 癌症篩查的重要性 DESCRIPTION:Longing for Attachment\n \n \n \n \n Exhibition Dates: June 14 – July 27\, 2024 \n \n \n \n ARTogether and Oakland Asian Cultural Center co-present “Longing for Attachment\,” an exhibition curated by Bushra Gill featuring 30+ Bay Area 1st/2nd generation immigrant and refugee artists reflecting on the notion of attachments.    As immigrants\, refugees\, and their descendants\, we make choices on what to hold onto and what to let go of when moving to another country or culture. Being too attached to a place or way of being can make it hard to form connections to anything new. But our connection to a place is also related to our quality of life and well-being– it links us to neighborhoods and communities where we have lived.  Anyone who has migrated from another country or grown up in an immigrant family knows these attachments run deep and true\, not needing to be present to have a prominent place in our hearts.     We invite you to join us in reflection of our relationships to attachment\, and to celebrate these Bay Area refugee\, immigrant\, and children of immigrant artists.   Exhibition Dates: June 14 – July 27\, 2024 Gallery Hours: Wednesdays through Saturdays\, 12 PM – 5 PM  Location: Oakland Asian Cultural Center 388 9th St\, Ste 290\, Oakland\, CA \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Check out the accompanying audio tour for this exhibition\, facilitated by the curator Bushra Gill:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FewN3Nu0o8o \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Curator \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bushra Gill is interested in finding order within the chaos of everyday life through art. She was born in Karachi\, Pakistan\, and emigrated to Houston\, Texas\, with her family as a small child. Drawn to art from a young age\, she graduated from Pratt Institute in 1994\, with a BFA in sculpture. She spent many years of working as a museum educator at various galleries and museums including The Museum of Modern Art\, The Drawing Center and The Rotunda Gallery\, while also working as a studio assistant to various artists including Maya Lin\, Ursula von Rydingsvard and Maria Elena Gonzalez\, as well as a career as a clothing designer and boutique owner in New York. In 2009\, she moved to northern California with her family and returned to making art. In recent years\, Gill has participated in many exhibitions in galleries across the United States. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Exhibiting Artists \n \n \n \n Amanda Messina Gerodias Anita Sulimanovic Bushra Gill Christina Xu Chupis Dion Eva Agus Ezra Mara Fernanda Martinez Glish Group (Timofey Glinin & Anastasia Shubina) Hargun Mahal Mann  Jaide Lin Lark  León Hernandez Leyla Jamil Rzayeva Linah Sofi Lorraine Lawson Mariel Paat Martin Rodriguez Serrano Michelle Lin Narges Valibeigi Ngân Vũ Nhien Le Peter Gee Renacimiento Ria Sharma Russel Arelis Salma Arastu Shooting Within Tatiana Carvalho  Ujjayini Sikha Vreni Michelini Castillo  YouBeen Kim Yuting Wang \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Performing at the Opening Reception \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nadhi Thekkek (@navadancesf) is a dancer\, choreographer\, and the Artistic Director of Nava Dance Theatre. Nadhi uses the south Indian dance form of bharatanatyam to navigate place\, identity\, and politics through the lens of her lived experience as a child of immigrants and an unapologetic South Asian\, diasporic woman. She reimagines how bharatanatyam can serve marginalized narratives that need to occupy space in the US right now. Her latest work “Rogue Gestures/Foreign Bodies” sources community interviews\, historical texts\, and poetry to explore the intersections of labor\, agency\, and belonging in our South Asian ancestry. Through Nava Dance Theatre\, Nadhi also produces and co-facilitates the Unrehearsed Artist Residency Program\, where South Asian dancemakers create art that challenges the status quo.  For more information on Nadhi\, visit www.navadance.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 Roopa Mahadevan (@roopama) is a leading second-generation Indian classical and crossover vocalist in the American diaspora known for her powerful\, emotive voice and collaborative versatility. She leads Roopa in Flux\, an ensemble featuring musicians in jazz\, soul/R&B\, and various global traditions\, directs the innovative choir Navatman Music Collective\, and sings for leading bharathanatyam/contemporary dancers. She is a soloist on Grammy Award-winning Calling All Dawns\, and has been in residence at Banff Center for Arts and Creativity\, Hedgebrook\, MASS MOCA\, and Ryder Farm. FOr more information visit\, www.roopamahadevan.com. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/cancer-screening-panel-talk/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/20211023CancerScreeningThumbnail.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211015T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211015T180000 DTSTAMP:20260525T221534 CREATED:20210806T171717Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211016T175402Z UID:11137-1634320800-1634320800@oacc.cc SUMMARY:25th Anniversary Gala — Lift Up: Change Through Arts & Activism DESCRIPTION:Longing for Attachment\n \n \n \n \n Exhibition Dates: June 14 – July 27\, 2024 \n \n \n \n ARTogether and Oakland Asian Cultural Center co-present “Longing for Attachment\,” an exhibition curated by Bushra Gill featuring 30+ Bay Area 1st/2nd generation immigrant and refugee artists reflecting on the notion of attachments.    As immigrants\, refugees\, and their descendants\, we make choices on what to hold onto and what to let go of when moving to another country or culture. Being too attached to a place or way of being can make it hard to form connections to anything new. But our connection to a place is also related to our quality of life and well-being– it links us to neighborhoods and communities where we have lived.  Anyone who has migrated from another country or grown up in an immigrant family knows these attachments run deep and true\, not needing to be present to have a prominent place in our hearts.     We invite you to join us in reflection of our relationships to attachment\, and to celebrate these Bay Area refugee\, immigrant\, and children of immigrant artists.   Exhibition Dates: June 14 – July 27\, 2024 Gallery Hours: Wednesdays through Saturdays\, 12 PM – 5 PM  Location: Oakland Asian Cultural Center 388 9th St\, Ste 290\, Oakland\, CA \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Check out the accompanying audio tour for this exhibition\, facilitated by the curator Bushra Gill:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FewN3Nu0o8o \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Curator \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bushra Gill is interested in finding order within the chaos of everyday life through art. She was born in Karachi\, Pakistan\, and emigrated to Houston\, Texas\, with her family as a small child. Drawn to art from a young age\, she graduated from Pratt Institute in 1994\, with a BFA in sculpture. She spent many years of working as a museum educator at various galleries and museums including The Museum of Modern Art\, The Drawing Center and The Rotunda Gallery\, while also working as a studio assistant to various artists including Maya Lin\, Ursula von Rydingsvard and Maria Elena Gonzalez\, as well as a career as a clothing designer and boutique owner in New York. In 2009\, she moved to northern California with her family and returned to making art. In recent years\, Gill has participated in many exhibitions in galleries across the United States. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Exhibiting Artists \n \n \n \n Amanda Messina Gerodias Anita Sulimanovic Bushra Gill Christina Xu Chupis Dion Eva Agus Ezra Mara Fernanda Martinez Glish Group (Timofey Glinin & Anastasia Shubina) Hargun Mahal Mann  Jaide Lin Lark  León Hernandez Leyla Jamil Rzayeva Linah Sofi Lorraine Lawson Mariel Paat Martin Rodriguez Serrano Michelle Lin Narges Valibeigi Ngân Vũ Nhien Le Peter Gee Renacimiento Ria Sharma Russel Arelis Salma Arastu Shooting Within Tatiana Carvalho  Ujjayini Sikha Vreni Michelini Castillo  YouBeen Kim Yuting Wang \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Performing at the Opening Reception \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nadhi Thekkek (@navadancesf) is a dancer\, choreographer\, and the Artistic Director of Nava Dance Theatre. Nadhi uses the south Indian dance form of bharatanatyam to navigate place\, identity\, and politics through the lens of her lived experience as a child of immigrants and an unapologetic South Asian\, diasporic woman. She reimagines how bharatanatyam can serve marginalized narratives that need to occupy space in the US right now. Her latest work “Rogue Gestures/Foreign Bodies” sources community interviews\, historical texts\, and poetry to explore the intersections of labor\, agency\, and belonging in our South Asian ancestry. Through Nava Dance Theatre\, Nadhi also produces and co-facilitates the Unrehearsed Artist Residency Program\, where South Asian dancemakers create art that challenges the status quo.  For more information on Nadhi\, visit www.navadance.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 Roopa Mahadevan (@roopama) is a leading second-generation Indian classical and crossover vocalist in the American diaspora known for her powerful\, emotive voice and collaborative versatility. She leads Roopa in Flux\, an ensemble featuring musicians in jazz\, soul/R&B\, and various global traditions\, directs the innovative choir Navatman Music Collective\, and sings for leading bharathanatyam/contemporary dancers. She is a soloist on Grammy Award-winning Calling All Dawns\, and has been in residence at Banff Center for Arts and Creativity\, Hedgebrook\, MASS MOCA\, and Ryder Farm. FOr more information visit\, www.roopamahadevan.com. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/virtual-gala-lift-up/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Instagram-Slide-1.png ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211009T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211009T163000 DTSTAMP:20260525T221534 CREATED:20210817T215141Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211011T212957Z UID:11181-1633791600-1633797000@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Gene Luen Yang and Pornsak Pichetshote Write Heroes in APA History Comics DESCRIPTION:Longing for Attachment\n \n \n \n \n Exhibition Dates: June 14 – July 27\, 2024 \n \n \n \n ARTogether and Oakland Asian Cultural Center co-present “Longing for Attachment\,” an exhibition curated by Bushra Gill featuring 30+ Bay Area 1st/2nd generation immigrant and refugee artists reflecting on the notion of attachments.    As immigrants\, refugees\, and their descendants\, we make choices on what to hold onto and what to let go of when moving to another country or culture. Being too attached to a place or way of being can make it hard to form connections to anything new. But our connection to a place is also related to our quality of life and well-being– it links us to neighborhoods and communities where we have lived.  Anyone who has migrated from another country or grown up in an immigrant family knows these attachments run deep and true\, not needing to be present to have a prominent place in our hearts.     We invite you to join us in reflection of our relationships to attachment\, and to celebrate these Bay Area refugee\, immigrant\, and children of immigrant artists.   Exhibition Dates: June 14 – July 27\, 2024 Gallery Hours: Wednesdays through Saturdays\, 12 PM – 5 PM  Location: Oakland Asian Cultural Center 388 9th St\, Ste 290\, Oakland\, CA \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Check out the accompanying audio tour for this exhibition\, facilitated by the curator Bushra Gill:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FewN3Nu0o8o \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Curator \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bushra Gill is interested in finding order within the chaos of everyday life through art. She was born in Karachi\, Pakistan\, and emigrated to Houston\, Texas\, with her family as a small child. Drawn to art from a young age\, she graduated from Pratt Institute in 1994\, with a BFA in sculpture. She spent many years of working as a museum educator at various galleries and museums including The Museum of Modern Art\, The Drawing Center and The Rotunda Gallery\, while also working as a studio assistant to various artists including Maya Lin\, Ursula von Rydingsvard and Maria Elena Gonzalez\, as well as a career as a clothing designer and boutique owner in New York. In 2009\, she moved to northern California with her family and returned to making art. In recent years\, Gill has participated in many exhibitions in galleries across the United States. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Exhibiting Artists \n \n \n \n Amanda Messina Gerodias Anita Sulimanovic Bushra Gill Christina Xu Chupis Dion Eva Agus Ezra Mara Fernanda Martinez Glish Group (Timofey Glinin & Anastasia Shubina) Hargun Mahal Mann  Jaide Lin Lark  León Hernandez Leyla Jamil Rzayeva Linah Sofi Lorraine Lawson Mariel Paat Martin Rodriguez Serrano Michelle Lin Narges Valibeigi Ngân Vũ Nhien Le Peter Gee Renacimiento Ria Sharma Russel Arelis Salma Arastu Shooting Within Tatiana Carvalho  Ujjayini Sikha Vreni Michelini Castillo  YouBeen Kim Yuting Wang \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Performing at the Opening Reception \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nadhi Thekkek (@navadancesf) is a dancer\, choreographer\, and the Artistic Director of Nava Dance Theatre. Nadhi uses the south Indian dance form of bharatanatyam to navigate place\, identity\, and politics through the lens of her lived experience as a child of immigrants and an unapologetic South Asian\, diasporic woman. She reimagines how bharatanatyam can serve marginalized narratives that need to occupy space in the US right now. Her latest work “Rogue Gestures/Foreign Bodies” sources community interviews\, historical texts\, and poetry to explore the intersections of labor\, agency\, and belonging in our South Asian ancestry. Through Nava Dance Theatre\, Nadhi also produces and co-facilitates the Unrehearsed Artist Residency Program\, where South Asian dancemakers create art that challenges the status quo.  For more information on Nadhi\, visit www.navadance.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 Roopa Mahadevan (@roopama) is a leading second-generation Indian classical and crossover vocalist in the American diaspora known for her powerful\, emotive voice and collaborative versatility. She leads Roopa in Flux\, an ensemble featuring musicians in jazz\, soul/R&B\, and various global traditions\, directs the innovative choir Navatman Music Collective\, and sings for leading bharathanatyam/contemporary dancers. She is a soloist on Grammy Award-winning Calling All Dawns\, and has been in residence at Banff Center for Arts and Creativity\, Hedgebrook\, MASS MOCA\, and Ryder Farm. FOr more information visit\, www.roopamahadevan.com. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/apa_history_comics/ 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/2021/08/20211009ComicBookTalk.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211002 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211218 DTSTAMP:20260525T221534 CREATED:20210706T234015Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211220T192655Z UID:10999-1633132800-1639785599@oacc.cc SUMMARY:The Art of Protest: 1960s-1970s to Now DESCRIPTION:Longing for Attachment\n \n \n \n \n Exhibition Dates: June 14 – July 27\, 2024 \n \n \n \n ARTogether and Oakland Asian Cultural Center co-present “Longing for Attachment\,” an exhibition curated by Bushra Gill featuring 30+ Bay Area 1st/2nd generation immigrant and refugee artists reflecting on the notion of attachments.    As immigrants\, refugees\, and their descendants\, we make choices on what to hold onto and what to let go of when moving to another country or culture. Being too attached to a place or way of being can make it hard to form connections to anything new. But our connection to a place is also related to our quality of life and well-being– it links us to neighborhoods and communities where we have lived.  Anyone who has migrated from another country or grown up in an immigrant family knows these attachments run deep and true\, not needing to be present to have a prominent place in our hearts.     We invite you to join us in reflection of our relationships to attachment\, and to celebrate these Bay Area refugee\, immigrant\, and children of immigrant artists.   Exhibition Dates: June 14 – July 27\, 2024 Gallery Hours: Wednesdays through Saturdays\, 12 PM – 5 PM  Location: Oakland Asian Cultural Center 388 9th St\, Ste 290\, Oakland\, CA \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Check out the accompanying audio tour for this exhibition\, facilitated by the curator Bushra Gill:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FewN3Nu0o8o \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Curator \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bushra Gill is interested in finding order within the chaos of everyday life through art. She was born in Karachi\, Pakistan\, and emigrated to Houston\, Texas\, with her family as a small child. Drawn to art from a young age\, she graduated from Pratt Institute in 1994\, with a BFA in sculpture. She spent many years of working as a museum educator at various galleries and museums including The Museum of Modern Art\, The Drawing Center and The Rotunda Gallery\, while also working as a studio assistant to various artists including Maya Lin\, Ursula von Rydingsvard and Maria Elena Gonzalez\, as well as a career as a clothing designer and boutique owner in New York. In 2009\, she moved to northern California with her family and returned to making art. In recent years\, Gill has participated in many exhibitions in galleries across the United States. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Exhibiting Artists \n \n \n \n Amanda Messina Gerodias Anita Sulimanovic Bushra Gill Christina Xu Chupis Dion Eva Agus Ezra Mara Fernanda Martinez Glish Group (Timofey Glinin & Anastasia Shubina) Hargun Mahal Mann  Jaide Lin Lark  León Hernandez Leyla Jamil Rzayeva Linah Sofi Lorraine Lawson Mariel Paat Martin Rodriguez Serrano Michelle Lin Narges Valibeigi Ngân Vũ Nhien Le Peter Gee Renacimiento Ria Sharma Russel Arelis Salma Arastu Shooting Within Tatiana Carvalho  Ujjayini Sikha Vreni Michelini Castillo  YouBeen Kim Yuting Wang \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Performing at the Opening Reception \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nadhi Thekkek (@navadancesf) is a dancer\, choreographer\, and the Artistic Director of Nava Dance Theatre. Nadhi uses the south Indian dance form of bharatanatyam to navigate place\, identity\, and politics through the lens of her lived experience as a child of immigrants and an unapologetic South Asian\, diasporic woman. She reimagines how bharatanatyam can serve marginalized narratives that need to occupy space in the US right now. Her latest work “Rogue Gestures/Foreign Bodies” sources community interviews\, historical texts\, and poetry to explore the intersections of labor\, agency\, and belonging in our South Asian ancestry. Through Nava Dance Theatre\, Nadhi also produces and co-facilitates the Unrehearsed Artist Residency Program\, where South Asian dancemakers create art that challenges the status quo.  For more information on Nadhi\, visit www.navadance.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 Roopa Mahadevan (@roopama) is a leading second-generation Indian classical and crossover vocalist in the American diaspora known for her powerful\, emotive voice and collaborative versatility. She leads Roopa in Flux\, an ensemble featuring musicians in jazz\, soul/R&B\, and various global traditions\, directs the innovative choir Navatman Music Collective\, and sings for leading bharathanatyam/contemporary dancers. She is a soloist on Grammy Award-winning Calling All Dawns\, and has been in residence at Banff Center for Arts and Creativity\, Hedgebrook\, MASS MOCA\, and Ryder Farm. FOr more information visit\, www.roopamahadevan.com. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/the-art-of-protest/ LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th Street\, Suite 290\, Oakland\, CA 94607\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607 CATEGORIES:Past Exhibitions ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/20211001ArtofProtest_Thumbnail.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210930T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210930T200000 DTSTAMP:20260525T221534 CREATED:20210817T233316Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211001T225713Z UID:11186-1633028400-1633032000@oacc.cc SUMMARY:"Remembering Shanghai" Book Talk DESCRIPTION:Longing for Attachment\n \n \n \n \n Exhibition Dates: June 14 – July 27\, 2024 \n \n \n \n ARTogether and Oakland Asian Cultural Center co-present “Longing for Attachment\,” an exhibition curated by Bushra Gill featuring 30+ Bay Area 1st/2nd generation immigrant and refugee artists reflecting on the notion of attachments.    As immigrants\, refugees\, and their descendants\, we make choices on what to hold onto and what to let go of when moving to another country or culture. Being too attached to a place or way of being can make it hard to form connections to anything new. But our connection to a place is also related to our quality of life and well-being– it links us to neighborhoods and communities where we have lived.  Anyone who has migrated from another country or grown up in an immigrant family knows these attachments run deep and true\, not needing to be present to have a prominent place in our hearts.     We invite you to join us in reflection of our relationships to attachment\, and to celebrate these Bay Area refugee\, immigrant\, and children of immigrant artists.   Exhibition Dates: June 14 – July 27\, 2024 Gallery Hours: Wednesdays through Saturdays\, 12 PM – 5 PM  Location: Oakland Asian Cultural Center 388 9th St\, Ste 290\, Oakland\, CA \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Check out the accompanying audio tour for this exhibition\, facilitated by the curator Bushra Gill:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FewN3Nu0o8o \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Curator \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bushra Gill is interested in finding order within the chaos of everyday life through art. She was born in Karachi\, Pakistan\, and emigrated to Houston\, Texas\, with her family as a small child. Drawn to art from a young age\, she graduated from Pratt Institute in 1994\, with a BFA in sculpture. She spent many years of working as a museum educator at various galleries and museums including The Museum of Modern Art\, The Drawing Center and The Rotunda Gallery\, while also working as a studio assistant to various artists including Maya Lin\, Ursula von Rydingsvard and Maria Elena Gonzalez\, as well as a career as a clothing designer and boutique owner in New York. In 2009\, she moved to northern California with her family and returned to making art. In recent years\, Gill has participated in many exhibitions in galleries across the United States. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Exhibiting Artists \n \n \n \n Amanda Messina Gerodias Anita Sulimanovic Bushra Gill Christina Xu Chupis Dion Eva Agus Ezra Mara Fernanda Martinez Glish Group (Timofey Glinin & Anastasia Shubina) Hargun Mahal Mann  Jaide Lin Lark  León Hernandez Leyla Jamil Rzayeva Linah Sofi Lorraine Lawson Mariel Paat Martin Rodriguez Serrano Michelle Lin Narges Valibeigi Ngân Vũ Nhien Le Peter Gee Renacimiento Ria Sharma Russel Arelis Salma Arastu Shooting Within Tatiana Carvalho  Ujjayini Sikha Vreni Michelini Castillo  YouBeen Kim Yuting Wang \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Performing at the Opening Reception \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nadhi Thekkek (@navadancesf) is a dancer\, choreographer\, and the Artistic Director of Nava Dance Theatre. Nadhi uses the south Indian dance form of bharatanatyam to navigate place\, identity\, and politics through the lens of her lived experience as a child of immigrants and an unapologetic South Asian\, diasporic woman. She reimagines how bharatanatyam can serve marginalized narratives that need to occupy space in the US right now. Her latest work “Rogue Gestures/Foreign Bodies” sources community interviews\, historical texts\, and poetry to explore the intersections of labor\, agency\, and belonging in our South Asian ancestry. Through Nava Dance Theatre\, Nadhi also produces and co-facilitates the Unrehearsed Artist Residency Program\, where South Asian dancemakers create art that challenges the status quo.  For more information on Nadhi\, visit www.navadance.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 Roopa Mahadevan (@roopama) is a leading second-generation Indian classical and crossover vocalist in the American diaspora known for her powerful\, emotive voice and collaborative versatility. She leads Roopa in Flux\, an ensemble featuring musicians in jazz\, soul/R&B\, and various global traditions\, directs the innovative choir Navatman Music Collective\, and sings for leading bharathanatyam/contemporary dancers. She is a soloist on Grammy Award-winning Calling All Dawns\, and has been in residence at Banff Center for Arts and Creativity\, Hedgebrook\, MASS MOCA\, and Ryder Farm. FOr more information visit\, www.roopamahadevan.com. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/remembering-shanghai-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/2021/08/20210930ShanghaiThumbnail.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210826T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210826T200000 DTSTAMP:20260525T221534 CREATED:20210715T202303Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210929T000131Z UID:11043-1630004400-1630008000@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Agni: Virtual Screening & Talk DESCRIPTION:Longing for Attachment\n \n \n \n \n Exhibition Dates: June 14 – July 27\, 2024 \n \n \n \n ARTogether and Oakland Asian Cultural Center co-present “Longing for Attachment\,” an exhibition curated by Bushra Gill featuring 30+ Bay Area 1st/2nd generation immigrant and refugee artists reflecting on the notion of attachments.    As immigrants\, refugees\, and their descendants\, we make choices on what to hold onto and what to let go of when moving to another country or culture. Being too attached to a place or way of being can make it hard to form connections to anything new. But our connection to a place is also related to our quality of life and well-being– it links us to neighborhoods and communities where we have lived.  Anyone who has migrated from another country or grown up in an immigrant family knows these attachments run deep and true\, not needing to be present to have a prominent place in our hearts.     We invite you to join us in reflection of our relationships to attachment\, and to celebrate these Bay Area refugee\, immigrant\, and children of immigrant artists.   Exhibition Dates: June 14 – July 27\, 2024 Gallery Hours: Wednesdays through Saturdays\, 12 PM – 5 PM  Location: Oakland Asian Cultural Center 388 9th St\, Ste 290\, Oakland\, CA \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Check out the accompanying audio tour for this exhibition\, facilitated by the curator Bushra Gill:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FewN3Nu0o8o \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Curator \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bushra Gill is interested in finding order within the chaos of everyday life through art. She was born in Karachi\, Pakistan\, and emigrated to Houston\, Texas\, with her family as a small child. Drawn to art from a young age\, she graduated from Pratt Institute in 1994\, with a BFA in sculpture. She spent many years of working as a museum educator at various galleries and museums including The Museum of Modern Art\, The Drawing Center and The Rotunda Gallery\, while also working as a studio assistant to various artists including Maya Lin\, Ursula von Rydingsvard and Maria Elena Gonzalez\, as well as a career as a clothing designer and boutique owner in New York. In 2009\, she moved to northern California with her family and returned to making art. In recent years\, Gill has participated in many exhibitions in galleries across the United States. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Exhibiting Artists \n \n \n \n Amanda Messina Gerodias Anita Sulimanovic Bushra Gill Christina Xu Chupis Dion Eva Agus Ezra Mara Fernanda Martinez Glish Group (Timofey Glinin & Anastasia Shubina) Hargun Mahal Mann  Jaide Lin Lark  León Hernandez Leyla Jamil Rzayeva Linah Sofi Lorraine Lawson Mariel Paat Martin Rodriguez Serrano Michelle Lin Narges Valibeigi Ngân Vũ Nhien Le Peter Gee Renacimiento Ria Sharma Russel Arelis Salma Arastu Shooting Within Tatiana Carvalho  Ujjayini Sikha Vreni Michelini Castillo  YouBeen Kim Yuting Wang \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Performing at the Opening Reception \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nadhi Thekkek (@navadancesf) is a dancer\, choreographer\, and the Artistic Director of Nava Dance Theatre. Nadhi uses the south Indian dance form of bharatanatyam to navigate place\, identity\, and politics through the lens of her lived experience as a child of immigrants and an unapologetic South Asian\, diasporic woman. She reimagines how bharatanatyam can serve marginalized narratives that need to occupy space in the US right now. Her latest work “Rogue Gestures/Foreign Bodies” sources community interviews\, historical texts\, and poetry to explore the intersections of labor\, agency\, and belonging in our South Asian ancestry. Through Nava Dance Theatre\, Nadhi also produces and co-facilitates the Unrehearsed Artist Residency Program\, where South Asian dancemakers create art that challenges the status quo.  For more information on Nadhi\, visit www.navadance.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 Roopa Mahadevan (@roopama) is a leading second-generation Indian classical and crossover vocalist in the American diaspora known for her powerful\, emotive voice and collaborative versatility. She leads Roopa in Flux\, an ensemble featuring musicians in jazz\, soul/R&B\, and various global traditions\, directs the innovative choir Navatman Music Collective\, and sings for leading bharathanatyam/contemporary dancers. She is a soloist on Grammy Award-winning Calling All Dawns\, and has been in residence at Banff Center for Arts and Creativity\, Hedgebrook\, MASS MOCA\, and Ryder Farm. FOr more information visit\, www.roopamahadevan.com. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/agni-screening-and-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/2021/07/20210826AgniThumbnail.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210814T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210814T173000 DTSTAMP:20260525T221534 CREATED:20210706T235300Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210815T004456Z UID:11005-1628956800-1628962200@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Envision & Enact: Community Thriving DESCRIPTION:Longing for Attachment\n \n \n \n \n Exhibition Dates: June 14 – July 27\, 2024 \n \n \n \n ARTogether and Oakland Asian Cultural Center co-present “Longing for Attachment\,” an exhibition curated by Bushra Gill featuring 30+ Bay Area 1st/2nd generation immigrant and refugee artists reflecting on the notion of attachments.    As immigrants\, refugees\, and their descendants\, we make choices on what to hold onto and what to let go of when moving to another country or culture. Being too attached to a place or way of being can make it hard to form connections to anything new. But our connection to a place is also related to our quality of life and well-being– it links us to neighborhoods and communities where we have lived.  Anyone who has migrated from another country or grown up in an immigrant family knows these attachments run deep and true\, not needing to be present to have a prominent place in our hearts.     We invite you to join us in reflection of our relationships to attachment\, and to celebrate these Bay Area refugee\, immigrant\, and children of immigrant artists.   Exhibition Dates: June 14 – July 27\, 2024 Gallery Hours: Wednesdays through Saturdays\, 12 PM – 5 PM  Location: Oakland Asian Cultural Center 388 9th St\, Ste 290\, Oakland\, CA \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Check out the accompanying audio tour for this exhibition\, facilitated by the curator Bushra Gill:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FewN3Nu0o8o \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Curator \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bushra Gill is interested in finding order within the chaos of everyday life through art. She was born in Karachi\, Pakistan\, and emigrated to Houston\, Texas\, with her family as a small child. Drawn to art from a young age\, she graduated from Pratt Institute in 1994\, with a BFA in sculpture. She spent many years of working as a museum educator at various galleries and museums including The Museum of Modern Art\, The Drawing Center and The Rotunda Gallery\, while also working as a studio assistant to various artists including Maya Lin\, Ursula von Rydingsvard and Maria Elena Gonzalez\, as well as a career as a clothing designer and boutique owner in New York. In 2009\, she moved to northern California with her family and returned to making art. In recent years\, Gill has participated in many exhibitions in galleries across the United States. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Exhibiting Artists \n \n \n \n Amanda Messina Gerodias Anita Sulimanovic Bushra Gill Christina Xu Chupis Dion Eva Agus Ezra Mara Fernanda Martinez Glish Group (Timofey Glinin & Anastasia Shubina) Hargun Mahal Mann  Jaide Lin Lark  León Hernandez Leyla Jamil Rzayeva Linah Sofi Lorraine Lawson Mariel Paat Martin Rodriguez Serrano Michelle Lin Narges Valibeigi Ngân Vũ Nhien Le Peter Gee Renacimiento Ria Sharma Russel Arelis Salma Arastu Shooting Within Tatiana Carvalho  Ujjayini Sikha Vreni Michelini Castillo  YouBeen Kim Yuting Wang \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Performing at the Opening Reception \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nadhi Thekkek (@navadancesf) is a dancer\, choreographer\, and the Artistic Director of Nava Dance Theatre. Nadhi uses the south Indian dance form of bharatanatyam to navigate place\, identity\, and politics through the lens of her lived experience as a child of immigrants and an unapologetic South Asian\, diasporic woman. She reimagines how bharatanatyam can serve marginalized narratives that need to occupy space in the US right now. Her latest work “Rogue Gestures/Foreign Bodies” sources community interviews\, historical texts\, and poetry to explore the intersections of labor\, agency\, and belonging in our South Asian ancestry. Through Nava Dance Theatre\, Nadhi also produces and co-facilitates the Unrehearsed Artist Residency Program\, where South Asian dancemakers create art that challenges the status quo.  For more information on Nadhi\, visit www.navadance.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 Roopa Mahadevan (@roopama) is a leading second-generation Indian classical and crossover vocalist in the American diaspora known for her powerful\, emotive voice and collaborative versatility. She leads Roopa in Flux\, an ensemble featuring musicians in jazz\, soul/R&B\, and various global traditions\, directs the innovative choir Navatman Music Collective\, and sings for leading bharathanatyam/contemporary dancers. She is a soloist on Grammy Award-winning Calling All Dawns\, and has been in residence at Banff Center for Arts and Creativity\, Hedgebrook\, MASS MOCA\, and Ryder Farm. FOr more information visit\, www.roopamahadevan.com. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/envision-enact-community-thriving/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/20210814CommunityThrivingThumbnail.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210725T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210725T130000 DTSTAMP:20260525T221534 CREATED:20210709T194205Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210726T191919Z UID:11014-1627210800-1627218000@oacc.cc SUMMARY:FOODLINE: Mapping Our Diaspora from Culture to Conversation DESCRIPTION:Longing for Attachment\n \n \n \n \n Exhibition Dates: June 14 – July 27\, 2024 \n \n \n \n ARTogether and Oakland Asian Cultural Center co-present “Longing for Attachment\,” an exhibition curated by Bushra Gill featuring 30+ Bay Area 1st/2nd generation immigrant and refugee artists reflecting on the notion of attachments.    As immigrants\, refugees\, and their descendants\, we make choices on what to hold onto and what to let go of when moving to another country or culture. Being too attached to a place or way of being can make it hard to form connections to anything new. But our connection to a place is also related to our quality of life and well-being– it links us to neighborhoods and communities where we have lived.  Anyone who has migrated from another country or grown up in an immigrant family knows these attachments run deep and true\, not needing to be present to have a prominent place in our hearts.     We invite you to join us in reflection of our relationships to attachment\, and to celebrate these Bay Area refugee\, immigrant\, and children of immigrant artists.   Exhibition Dates: June 14 – July 27\, 2024 Gallery Hours: Wednesdays through Saturdays\, 12 PM – 5 PM  Location: Oakland Asian Cultural Center 388 9th St\, Ste 290\, Oakland\, CA \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Check out the accompanying audio tour for this exhibition\, facilitated by the curator Bushra Gill:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FewN3Nu0o8o \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Curator \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bushra Gill is interested in finding order within the chaos of everyday life through art. She was born in Karachi\, Pakistan\, and emigrated to Houston\, Texas\, with her family as a small child. Drawn to art from a young age\, she graduated from Pratt Institute in 1994\, with a BFA in sculpture. She spent many years of working as a museum educator at various galleries and museums including The Museum of Modern Art\, The Drawing Center and The Rotunda Gallery\, while also working as a studio assistant to various artists including Maya Lin\, Ursula von Rydingsvard and Maria Elena Gonzalez\, as well as a career as a clothing designer and boutique owner in New York. In 2009\, she moved to northern California with her family and returned to making art. In recent years\, Gill has participated in many exhibitions in galleries across the United States. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Exhibiting Artists \n \n \n \n Amanda Messina Gerodias Anita Sulimanovic Bushra Gill Christina Xu Chupis Dion Eva Agus Ezra Mara Fernanda Martinez Glish Group (Timofey Glinin & Anastasia Shubina) Hargun Mahal Mann  Jaide Lin Lark  León Hernandez Leyla Jamil Rzayeva Linah Sofi Lorraine Lawson Mariel Paat Martin Rodriguez Serrano Michelle Lin Narges Valibeigi Ngân Vũ Nhien Le Peter Gee Renacimiento Ria Sharma Russel Arelis Salma Arastu Shooting Within Tatiana Carvalho  Ujjayini Sikha Vreni Michelini Castillo  YouBeen Kim Yuting Wang \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Performing at the Opening Reception \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nadhi Thekkek (@navadancesf) is a dancer\, choreographer\, and the Artistic Director of Nava Dance Theatre. Nadhi uses the south Indian dance form of bharatanatyam to navigate place\, identity\, and politics through the lens of her lived experience as a child of immigrants and an unapologetic South Asian\, diasporic woman. She reimagines how bharatanatyam can serve marginalized narratives that need to occupy space in the US right now. Her latest work “Rogue Gestures/Foreign Bodies” sources community interviews\, historical texts\, and poetry to explore the intersections of labor\, agency\, and belonging in our South Asian ancestry. Through Nava Dance Theatre\, Nadhi also produces and co-facilitates the Unrehearsed Artist Residency Program\, where South Asian dancemakers create art that challenges the status quo.  For more information on Nadhi\, visit www.navadance.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 Roopa Mahadevan (@roopama) is a leading second-generation Indian classical and crossover vocalist in the American diaspora known for her powerful\, emotive voice and collaborative versatility. She leads Roopa in Flux\, an ensemble featuring musicians in jazz\, soul/R&B\, and various global traditions\, directs the innovative choir Navatman Music Collective\, and sings for leading bharathanatyam/contemporary dancers. She is a soloist on Grammy Award-winning Calling All Dawns\, and has been in residence at Banff Center for Arts and Creativity\, Hedgebrook\, MASS MOCA\, and Ryder Farm. FOr more information visit\, www.roopamahadevan.com. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/foodline/ LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St. #290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Thumbnail_fullimage_dm.png ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210722T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210722T210000 DTSTAMP:20260525T221534 CREATED:20210603T214453Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210723T041608Z UID:10929-1626980400-1626987600@oacc.cc SUMMARY:ESSENTIAL TRUTHS Anthology Readings - East Bay Showcase DESCRIPTION:Longing for Attachment\n \n \n \n \n Exhibition Dates: June 14 – July 27\, 2024 \n \n \n \n ARTogether and Oakland Asian Cultural Center co-present “Longing for Attachment\,” an exhibition curated by Bushra Gill featuring 30+ Bay Area 1st/2nd generation immigrant and refugee artists reflecting on the notion of attachments.    As immigrants\, refugees\, and their descendants\, we make choices on what to hold onto and what to let go of when moving to another country or culture. Being too attached to a place or way of being can make it hard to form connections to anything new. But our connection to a place is also related to our quality of life and well-being– it links us to neighborhoods and communities where we have lived.  Anyone who has migrated from another country or grown up in an immigrant family knows these attachments run deep and true\, not needing to be present to have a prominent place in our hearts.     We invite you to join us in reflection of our relationships to attachment\, and to celebrate these Bay Area refugee\, immigrant\, and children of immigrant artists.   Exhibition Dates: June 14 – July 27\, 2024 Gallery Hours: Wednesdays through Saturdays\, 12 PM – 5 PM  Location: Oakland Asian Cultural Center 388 9th St\, Ste 290\, Oakland\, CA \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Check out the accompanying audio tour for this exhibition\, facilitated by the curator Bushra Gill:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FewN3Nu0o8o \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Curator \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bushra Gill is interested in finding order within the chaos of everyday life through art. She was born in Karachi\, Pakistan\, and emigrated to Houston\, Texas\, with her family as a small child. Drawn to art from a young age\, she graduated from Pratt Institute in 1994\, with a BFA in sculpture. She spent many years of working as a museum educator at various galleries and museums including The Museum of Modern Art\, The Drawing Center and The Rotunda Gallery\, while also working as a studio assistant to various artists including Maya Lin\, Ursula von Rydingsvard and Maria Elena Gonzalez\, as well as a career as a clothing designer and boutique owner in New York. In 2009\, she moved to northern California with her family and returned to making art. In recent years\, Gill has participated in many exhibitions in galleries across the United States. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Exhibiting Artists \n \n \n \n Amanda Messina Gerodias Anita Sulimanovic Bushra Gill Christina Xu Chupis Dion Eva Agus Ezra Mara Fernanda Martinez Glish Group (Timofey Glinin & Anastasia Shubina) Hargun Mahal Mann  Jaide Lin Lark  León Hernandez Leyla Jamil Rzayeva Linah Sofi Lorraine Lawson Mariel Paat Martin Rodriguez Serrano Michelle Lin Narges Valibeigi Ngân Vũ Nhien Le Peter Gee Renacimiento Ria Sharma Russel Arelis Salma Arastu Shooting Within Tatiana Carvalho  Ujjayini Sikha Vreni Michelini Castillo  YouBeen Kim Yuting Wang \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Performing at the Opening Reception \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nadhi Thekkek (@navadancesf) is a dancer\, choreographer\, and the Artistic Director of Nava Dance Theatre. Nadhi uses the south Indian dance form of bharatanatyam to navigate place\, identity\, and politics through the lens of her lived experience as a child of immigrants and an unapologetic South Asian\, diasporic woman. She reimagines how bharatanatyam can serve marginalized narratives that need to occupy space in the US right now. Her latest work “Rogue Gestures/Foreign Bodies” sources community interviews\, historical texts\, and poetry to explore the intersections of labor\, agency\, and belonging in our South Asian ancestry. Through Nava Dance Theatre\, Nadhi also produces and co-facilitates the Unrehearsed Artist Residency Program\, where South Asian dancemakers create art that challenges the status quo.  For more information on Nadhi\, visit www.navadance.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 Roopa Mahadevan (@roopama) is a leading second-generation Indian classical and crossover vocalist in the American diaspora known for her powerful\, emotive voice and collaborative versatility. She leads Roopa in Flux\, an ensemble featuring musicians in jazz\, soul/R&B\, and various global traditions\, directs the innovative choir Navatman Music Collective\, and sings for leading bharathanatyam/contemporary dancers. She is a soloist on Grammy Award-winning Calling All Dawns\, and has been in residence at Banff Center for Arts and Creativity\, Hedgebrook\, MASS MOCA\, and Ryder Farm. FOr more information visit\, www.roopamahadevan.com. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/essential-truths-east-bay/ 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/2021/06/20210722Thumbnail.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210709T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210710T143000 DTSTAMP:20260525T221534 CREATED:20210503T192550Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210710T214709Z UID:10822-1625850000-1625927400@oacc.cc SUMMARY:MINARI: Virtual Screening & Community Talk DESCRIPTION:Longing for Attachment\n \n \n \n \n Exhibition Dates: June 14 – July 27\, 2024 \n \n \n \n ARTogether and Oakland Asian Cultural Center co-present “Longing for Attachment\,” an exhibition curated by Bushra Gill featuring 30+ Bay Area 1st/2nd generation immigrant and refugee artists reflecting on the notion of attachments.    As immigrants\, refugees\, and their descendants\, we make choices on what to hold onto and what to let go of when moving to another country or culture. Being too attached to a place or way of being can make it hard to form connections to anything new. But our connection to a place is also related to our quality of life and well-being– it links us to neighborhoods and communities where we have lived.  Anyone who has migrated from another country or grown up in an immigrant family knows these attachments run deep and true\, not needing to be present to have a prominent place in our hearts.     We invite you to join us in reflection of our relationships to attachment\, and to celebrate these Bay Area refugee\, immigrant\, and children of immigrant artists.   Exhibition Dates: June 14 – July 27\, 2024 Gallery Hours: Wednesdays through Saturdays\, 12 PM – 5 PM  Location: Oakland Asian Cultural Center 388 9th St\, Ste 290\, Oakland\, CA \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Check out the accompanying audio tour for this exhibition\, facilitated by the curator Bushra Gill:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FewN3Nu0o8o \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Curator \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bushra Gill is interested in finding order within the chaos of everyday life through art. She was born in Karachi\, Pakistan\, and emigrated to Houston\, Texas\, with her family as a small child. Drawn to art from a young age\, she graduated from Pratt Institute in 1994\, with a BFA in sculpture. She spent many years of working as a museum educator at various galleries and museums including The Museum of Modern Art\, The Drawing Center and The Rotunda Gallery\, while also working as a studio assistant to various artists including Maya Lin\, Ursula von Rydingsvard and Maria Elena Gonzalez\, as well as a career as a clothing designer and boutique owner in New York. In 2009\, she moved to northern California with her family and returned to making art. In recent years\, Gill has participated in many exhibitions in galleries across the United States. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Exhibiting Artists \n \n \n \n Amanda Messina Gerodias Anita Sulimanovic Bushra Gill Christina Xu Chupis Dion Eva Agus Ezra Mara Fernanda Martinez Glish Group (Timofey Glinin & Anastasia Shubina) Hargun Mahal Mann  Jaide Lin Lark  León Hernandez Leyla Jamil Rzayeva Linah Sofi Lorraine Lawson Mariel Paat Martin Rodriguez Serrano Michelle Lin Narges Valibeigi Ngân Vũ Nhien Le Peter Gee Renacimiento Ria Sharma Russel Arelis Salma Arastu Shooting Within Tatiana Carvalho  Ujjayini Sikha Vreni Michelini Castillo  YouBeen Kim Yuting Wang \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Performing at the Opening Reception \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nadhi Thekkek (@navadancesf) is a dancer\, choreographer\, and the Artistic Director of Nava Dance Theatre. Nadhi uses the south Indian dance form of bharatanatyam to navigate place\, identity\, and politics through the lens of her lived experience as a child of immigrants and an unapologetic South Asian\, diasporic woman. She reimagines how bharatanatyam can serve marginalized narratives that need to occupy space in the US right now. Her latest work “Rogue Gestures/Foreign Bodies” sources community interviews\, historical texts\, and poetry to explore the intersections of labor\, agency\, and belonging in our South Asian ancestry. Through Nava Dance Theatre\, Nadhi also produces and co-facilitates the Unrehearsed Artist Residency Program\, where South Asian dancemakers create art that challenges the status quo.  For more information on Nadhi\, visit www.navadance.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 Roopa Mahadevan (@roopama) is a leading second-generation Indian classical and crossover vocalist in the American diaspora known for her powerful\, emotive voice and collaborative versatility. She leads Roopa in Flux\, an ensemble featuring musicians in jazz\, soul/R&B\, and various global traditions\, directs the innovative choir Navatman Music Collective\, and sings for leading bharathanatyam/contemporary dancers. She is a soloist on Grammy Award-winning Calling All Dawns\, and has been in residence at Banff Center for Arts and Creativity\, Hedgebrook\, MASS MOCA\, and Ryder Farm. FOr more information visit\, www.roopamahadevan.com. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/minari-screening-and-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/2021/05/20210709MinariThumbnail-1.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210701 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210901 DTSTAMP:20260525T221534 CREATED:20210603T172918Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211018T174621Z UID:10920-1625097600-1630454399@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Political Inheritance: An Exploration of AAPI Political Agency & Identities DESCRIPTION:Longing for Attachment\n \n \n \n \n Exhibition Dates: June 14 – July 27\, 2024 \n \n \n \n ARTogether and Oakland Asian Cultural Center co-present “Longing for Attachment\,” an exhibition curated by Bushra Gill featuring 30+ Bay Area 1st/2nd generation immigrant and refugee artists reflecting on the notion of attachments.    As immigrants\, refugees\, and their descendants\, we make choices on what to hold onto and what to let go of when moving to another country or culture. Being too attached to a place or way of being can make it hard to form connections to anything new. But our connection to a place is also related to our quality of life and well-being– it links us to neighborhoods and communities where we have lived.  Anyone who has migrated from another country or grown up in an immigrant family knows these attachments run deep and true\, not needing to be present to have a prominent place in our hearts.     We invite you to join us in reflection of our relationships to attachment\, and to celebrate these Bay Area refugee\, immigrant\, and children of immigrant artists.   Exhibition Dates: June 14 – July 27\, 2024 Gallery Hours: Wednesdays through Saturdays\, 12 PM – 5 PM  Location: Oakland Asian Cultural Center 388 9th St\, Ste 290\, Oakland\, CA \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Check out the accompanying audio tour for this exhibition\, facilitated by the curator Bushra Gill:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FewN3Nu0o8o \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Curator \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bushra Gill is interested in finding order within the chaos of everyday life through art. She was born in Karachi\, Pakistan\, and emigrated to Houston\, Texas\, with her family as a small child. Drawn to art from a young age\, she graduated from Pratt Institute in 1994\, with a BFA in sculpture. She spent many years of working as a museum educator at various galleries and museums including The Museum of Modern Art\, The Drawing Center and The Rotunda Gallery\, while also working as a studio assistant to various artists including Maya Lin\, Ursula von Rydingsvard and Maria Elena Gonzalez\, as well as a career as a clothing designer and boutique owner in New York. In 2009\, she moved to northern California with her family and returned to making art. In recent years\, Gill has participated in many exhibitions in galleries across the United States. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Exhibiting Artists \n \n \n \n Amanda Messina Gerodias Anita Sulimanovic Bushra Gill Christina Xu Chupis Dion Eva Agus Ezra Mara Fernanda Martinez Glish Group (Timofey Glinin & Anastasia Shubina) Hargun Mahal Mann  Jaide Lin Lark  León Hernandez Leyla Jamil Rzayeva Linah Sofi Lorraine Lawson Mariel Paat Martin Rodriguez Serrano Michelle Lin Narges Valibeigi Ngân Vũ Nhien Le Peter Gee Renacimiento Ria Sharma Russel Arelis Salma Arastu Shooting Within Tatiana Carvalho  Ujjayini Sikha Vreni Michelini Castillo  YouBeen Kim Yuting Wang \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Performing at the Opening Reception \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nadhi Thekkek (@navadancesf) is a dancer\, choreographer\, and the Artistic Director of Nava Dance Theatre. Nadhi uses the south Indian dance form of bharatanatyam to navigate place\, identity\, and politics through the lens of her lived experience as a child of immigrants and an unapologetic South Asian\, diasporic woman. She reimagines how bharatanatyam can serve marginalized narratives that need to occupy space in the US right now. Her latest work “Rogue Gestures/Foreign Bodies” sources community interviews\, historical texts\, and poetry to explore the intersections of labor\, agency\, and belonging in our South Asian ancestry. Through Nava Dance Theatre\, Nadhi also produces and co-facilitates the Unrehearsed Artist Residency Program\, where South Asian dancemakers create art that challenges the status quo.  For more information on Nadhi\, visit www.navadance.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 Roopa Mahadevan (@roopama) is a leading second-generation Indian classical and crossover vocalist in the American diaspora known for her powerful\, emotive voice and collaborative versatility. She leads Roopa in Flux\, an ensemble featuring musicians in jazz\, soul/R&B\, and various global traditions\, directs the innovative choir Navatman Music Collective\, and sings for leading bharathanatyam/contemporary dancers. She is a soloist on Grammy Award-winning Calling All Dawns\, and has been in residence at Banff Center for Arts and Creativity\, Hedgebrook\, MASS MOCA\, and Ryder Farm. FOr more information visit\, www.roopamahadevan.com. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/political-inheritance/ LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th Street\, Suite 290\, Oakland\, CA 94607\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607 CATEGORIES:Past Exhibitions ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Instapost.png ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210626T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210626T170000 DTSTAMP:20260525T221534 CREATED:20210512T220829Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210628T193346Z UID:10867-1624723200-1624726800@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Celebrating Our HeART-filled Heritage: Queer Taiko DESCRIPTION:Longing for Attachment\n \n \n \n \n Exhibition Dates: June 14 – July 27\, 2024 \n \n \n \n ARTogether and Oakland Asian Cultural Center co-present “Longing for Attachment\,” an exhibition curated by Bushra Gill featuring 30+ Bay Area 1st/2nd generation immigrant and refugee artists reflecting on the notion of attachments.    As immigrants\, refugees\, and their descendants\, we make choices on what to hold onto and what to let go of when moving to another country or culture. Being too attached to a place or way of being can make it hard to form connections to anything new. But our connection to a place is also related to our quality of life and well-being– it links us to neighborhoods and communities where we have lived.  Anyone who has migrated from another country or grown up in an immigrant family knows these attachments run deep and true\, not needing to be present to have a prominent place in our hearts.     We invite you to join us in reflection of our relationships to attachment\, and to celebrate these Bay Area refugee\, immigrant\, and children of immigrant artists.   Exhibition Dates: June 14 – July 27\, 2024 Gallery Hours: Wednesdays through Saturdays\, 12 PM – 5 PM  Location: Oakland Asian Cultural Center 388 9th St\, Ste 290\, Oakland\, CA \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Check out the accompanying audio tour for this exhibition\, facilitated by the curator Bushra Gill:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FewN3Nu0o8o \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Curator \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bushra Gill is interested in finding order within the chaos of everyday life through art. She was born in Karachi\, Pakistan\, and emigrated to Houston\, Texas\, with her family as a small child. Drawn to art from a young age\, she graduated from Pratt Institute in 1994\, with a BFA in sculpture. She spent many years of working as a museum educator at various galleries and museums including The Museum of Modern Art\, The Drawing Center and The Rotunda Gallery\, while also working as a studio assistant to various artists including Maya Lin\, Ursula von Rydingsvard and Maria Elena Gonzalez\, as well as a career as a clothing designer and boutique owner in New York. In 2009\, she moved to northern California with her family and returned to making art. In recent years\, Gill has participated in many exhibitions in galleries across the United States. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Exhibiting Artists \n \n \n \n Amanda Messina Gerodias Anita Sulimanovic Bushra Gill Christina Xu Chupis Dion Eva Agus Ezra Mara Fernanda Martinez Glish Group (Timofey Glinin & Anastasia Shubina) Hargun Mahal Mann  Jaide Lin Lark  León Hernandez Leyla Jamil Rzayeva Linah Sofi Lorraine Lawson Mariel Paat Martin Rodriguez Serrano Michelle Lin Narges Valibeigi Ngân Vũ Nhien Le Peter Gee Renacimiento Ria Sharma Russel Arelis Salma Arastu Shooting Within Tatiana Carvalho  Ujjayini Sikha Vreni Michelini Castillo  YouBeen Kim Yuting Wang \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Performing at the Opening Reception \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nadhi Thekkek (@navadancesf) is a dancer\, choreographer\, and the Artistic Director of Nava Dance Theatre. Nadhi uses the south Indian dance form of bharatanatyam to navigate place\, identity\, and politics through the lens of her lived experience as a child of immigrants and an unapologetic South Asian\, diasporic woman. She reimagines how bharatanatyam can serve marginalized narratives that need to occupy space in the US right now. Her latest work “Rogue Gestures/Foreign Bodies” sources community interviews\, historical texts\, and poetry to explore the intersections of labor\, agency\, and belonging in our South Asian ancestry. Through Nava Dance Theatre\, Nadhi also produces and co-facilitates the Unrehearsed Artist Residency Program\, where South Asian dancemakers create art that challenges the status quo.  For more information on Nadhi\, visit www.navadance.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 Roopa Mahadevan (@roopama) is a leading second-generation Indian classical and crossover vocalist in the American diaspora known for her powerful\, emotive voice and collaborative versatility. She leads Roopa in Flux\, an ensemble featuring musicians in jazz\, soul/R&B\, and various global traditions\, directs the innovative choir Navatman Music Collective\, and sings for leading bharathanatyam/contemporary dancers. She is a soloist on Grammy Award-winning Calling All Dawns\, and has been in residence at Banff Center for Arts and Creativity\, Hedgebrook\, MASS MOCA\, and Ryder Farm. FOr more information visit\, www.roopamahadevan.com. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/heart-filled-heritage-series-queer-taiko/ 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/2021/05/20210626Thumbnail_QueerTaiko-1.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210625T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210625T190000 DTSTAMP:20260525T221534 CREATED:20210527T180408Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210628T192924Z UID:10914-1624644000-1624647600@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Community Rising DESCRIPTION:Longing for Attachment\n \n \n \n \n Exhibition Dates: June 14 – July 27\, 2024 \n \n \n \n ARTogether and Oakland Asian Cultural Center co-present “Longing for Attachment\,” an exhibition curated by Bushra Gill featuring 30+ Bay Area 1st/2nd generation immigrant and refugee artists reflecting on the notion of attachments.    As immigrants\, refugees\, and their descendants\, we make choices on what to hold onto and what to let go of when moving to another country or culture. Being too attached to a place or way of being can make it hard to form connections to anything new. But our connection to a place is also related to our quality of life and well-being– it links us to neighborhoods and communities where we have lived.  Anyone who has migrated from another country or grown up in an immigrant family knows these attachments run deep and true\, not needing to be present to have a prominent place in our hearts.     We invite you to join us in reflection of our relationships to attachment\, and to celebrate these Bay Area refugee\, immigrant\, and children of immigrant artists.   Exhibition Dates: June 14 – July 27\, 2024 Gallery Hours: Wednesdays through Saturdays\, 12 PM – 5 PM  Location: Oakland Asian Cultural Center 388 9th St\, Ste 290\, Oakland\, CA \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Check out the accompanying audio tour for this exhibition\, facilitated by the curator Bushra Gill:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FewN3Nu0o8o \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Curator \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bushra Gill is interested in finding order within the chaos of everyday life through art. She was born in Karachi\, Pakistan\, and emigrated to Houston\, Texas\, with her family as a small child. Drawn to art from a young age\, she graduated from Pratt Institute in 1994\, with a BFA in sculpture. She spent many years of working as a museum educator at various galleries and museums including The Museum of Modern Art\, The Drawing Center and The Rotunda Gallery\, while also working as a studio assistant to various artists including Maya Lin\, Ursula von Rydingsvard and Maria Elena Gonzalez\, as well as a career as a clothing designer and boutique owner in New York. In 2009\, she moved to northern California with her family and returned to making art. In recent years\, Gill has participated in many exhibitions in galleries across the United States. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Exhibiting Artists \n \n \n \n Amanda Messina Gerodias Anita Sulimanovic Bushra Gill Christina Xu Chupis Dion Eva Agus Ezra Mara Fernanda Martinez Glish Group (Timofey Glinin & Anastasia Shubina) Hargun Mahal Mann  Jaide Lin Lark  León Hernandez Leyla Jamil Rzayeva Linah Sofi Lorraine Lawson Mariel Paat Martin Rodriguez Serrano Michelle Lin Narges Valibeigi Ngân Vũ Nhien Le Peter Gee Renacimiento Ria Sharma Russel Arelis Salma Arastu Shooting Within Tatiana Carvalho  Ujjayini Sikha Vreni Michelini Castillo  YouBeen Kim Yuting Wang \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Performing at the Opening Reception \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nadhi Thekkek (@navadancesf) is a dancer\, choreographer\, and the Artistic Director of Nava Dance Theatre. Nadhi uses the south Indian dance form of bharatanatyam to navigate place\, identity\, and politics through the lens of her lived experience as a child of immigrants and an unapologetic South Asian\, diasporic woman. She reimagines how bharatanatyam can serve marginalized narratives that need to occupy space in the US right now. Her latest work “Rogue Gestures/Foreign Bodies” sources community interviews\, historical texts\, and poetry to explore the intersections of labor\, agency\, and belonging in our South Asian ancestry. Through Nava Dance Theatre\, Nadhi also produces and co-facilitates the Unrehearsed Artist Residency Program\, where South Asian dancemakers create art that challenges the status quo.  For more information on Nadhi\, visit www.navadance.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 Roopa Mahadevan (@roopama) is a leading second-generation Indian classical and crossover vocalist in the American diaspora known for her powerful\, emotive voice and collaborative versatility. She leads Roopa in Flux\, an ensemble featuring musicians in jazz\, soul/R&B\, and various global traditions\, directs the innovative choir Navatman Music Collective\, and sings for leading bharathanatyam/contemporary dancers. She is a soloist on Grammy Award-winning Calling All Dawns\, and has been in residence at Banff Center for Arts and Creativity\, Hedgebrook\, MASS MOCA\, and Ryder Farm. FOr more information visit\, www.roopamahadevan.com. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/community-rising/ 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/2021/05/06252021Thumbnail.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:20260525T221534 CREATED:20210414T012809Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210613T003158Z UID:10738-1623502800-1623506400@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Swimming to Freedom Book Talk with Kent and Freddie Wong DESCRIPTION:Longing for Attachment\n \n \n \n \n Exhibition Dates: June 14 – July 27\, 2024 \n \n \n \n ARTogether and Oakland Asian Cultural Center co-present “Longing for Attachment\,” an exhibition curated by Bushra Gill featuring 30+ Bay Area 1st/2nd generation immigrant and refugee artists reflecting on the notion of attachments.    As immigrants\, refugees\, and their descendants\, we make choices on what to hold onto and what to let go of when moving to another country or culture. Being too attached to a place or way of being can make it hard to form connections to anything new. But our connection to a place is also related to our quality of life and well-being– it links us to neighborhoods and communities where we have lived.  Anyone who has migrated from another country or grown up in an immigrant family knows these attachments run deep and true\, not needing to be present to have a prominent place in our hearts.     We invite you to join us in reflection of our relationships to attachment\, and to celebrate these Bay Area refugee\, immigrant\, and children of immigrant artists.   Exhibition Dates: June 14 – July 27\, 2024 Gallery Hours: Wednesdays through Saturdays\, 12 PM – 5 PM  Location: Oakland Asian Cultural Center 388 9th St\, Ste 290\, Oakland\, CA \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Check out the accompanying audio tour for this exhibition\, facilitated by the curator Bushra Gill:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FewN3Nu0o8o \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Curator \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bushra Gill is interested in finding order within the chaos of everyday life through art. She was born in Karachi\, Pakistan\, and emigrated to Houston\, Texas\, with her family as a small child. Drawn to art from a young age\, she graduated from Pratt Institute in 1994\, with a BFA in sculpture. She spent many years of working as a museum educator at various galleries and museums including The Museum of Modern Art\, The Drawing Center and The Rotunda Gallery\, while also working as a studio assistant to various artists including Maya Lin\, Ursula von Rydingsvard and Maria Elena Gonzalez\, as well as a career as a clothing designer and boutique owner in New York. In 2009\, she moved to northern California with her family and returned to making art. In recent years\, Gill has participated in many exhibitions in galleries across the United States. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Exhibiting Artists \n \n \n \n Amanda Messina Gerodias Anita Sulimanovic Bushra Gill Christina Xu Chupis Dion Eva Agus Ezra Mara Fernanda Martinez Glish Group (Timofey Glinin & Anastasia Shubina) Hargun Mahal Mann  Jaide Lin Lark  León Hernandez Leyla Jamil Rzayeva Linah Sofi Lorraine Lawson Mariel Paat Martin Rodriguez Serrano Michelle Lin Narges Valibeigi Ngân Vũ Nhien Le Peter Gee Renacimiento Ria Sharma Russel Arelis Salma Arastu Shooting Within Tatiana Carvalho  Ujjayini Sikha Vreni Michelini Castillo  YouBeen Kim Yuting Wang \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Performing at the Opening Reception \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nadhi Thekkek (@navadancesf) is a dancer\, choreographer\, and the Artistic Director of Nava Dance Theatre. Nadhi uses the south Indian dance form of bharatanatyam to navigate place\, identity\, and politics through the lens of her lived experience as a child of immigrants and an unapologetic South Asian\, diasporic woman. She reimagines how bharatanatyam can serve marginalized narratives that need to occupy space in the US right now. Her latest work “Rogue Gestures/Foreign Bodies” sources community interviews\, historical texts\, and poetry to explore the intersections of labor\, agency\, and belonging in our South Asian ancestry. Through Nava Dance Theatre\, Nadhi also produces and co-facilitates the Unrehearsed Artist Residency Program\, where South Asian dancemakers create art that challenges the status quo.  For more information on Nadhi\, visit www.navadance.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 Roopa Mahadevan (@roopama) is a leading second-generation Indian classical and crossover vocalist in the American diaspora known for her powerful\, emotive voice and collaborative versatility. She leads Roopa in Flux\, an ensemble featuring musicians in jazz\, soul/R&B\, and various global traditions\, directs the innovative choir Navatman Music Collective\, and sings for leading bharathanatyam/contemporary dancers. She is a soloist on Grammy Award-winning Calling All Dawns\, and has been in residence at Banff Center for Arts and Creativity\, Hedgebrook\, MASS MOCA\, and Ryder Farm. FOr more information visit\, www.roopamahadevan.com. 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 BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210606T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210606T140000 DTSTAMP:20260525T221534 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:Longing for Attachment\n \n \n \n \n Exhibition Dates: June 14 – July 27\, 2024 \n \n \n \n ARTogether and Oakland Asian Cultural Center co-present “Longing for Attachment\,” an exhibition curated by Bushra Gill featuring 30+ Bay Area 1st/2nd generation immigrant and refugee artists reflecting on the notion of attachments.    As immigrants\, refugees\, and their descendants\, we make choices on what to hold onto and what to let go of when moving to another country or culture. Being too attached to a place or way of being can make it hard to form connections to anything new. But our connection to a place is also related to our quality of life and well-being– it links us to neighborhoods and communities where we have lived.  Anyone who has migrated from another country or grown up in an immigrant family knows these attachments run deep and true\, not needing to be present to have a prominent place in our hearts.     We invite you to join us in reflection of our relationships to attachment\, and to celebrate these Bay Area refugee\, immigrant\, and children of immigrant artists.   Exhibition Dates: June 14 – July 27\, 2024 Gallery Hours: Wednesdays through Saturdays\, 12 PM – 5 PM  Location: Oakland Asian Cultural Center 388 9th St\, Ste 290\, Oakland\, CA \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Check out the accompanying audio tour for this exhibition\, facilitated by the curator Bushra Gill:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FewN3Nu0o8o \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Curator \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bushra Gill is interested in finding order within the chaos of everyday life through art. She was born in Karachi\, Pakistan\, and emigrated to Houston\, Texas\, with her family as a small child. Drawn to art from a young age\, she graduated from Pratt Institute in 1994\, with a BFA in sculpture. She spent many years of working as a museum educator at various galleries and museums including The Museum of Modern Art\, The Drawing Center and The Rotunda Gallery\, while also working as a studio assistant to various artists including Maya Lin\, Ursula von Rydingsvard and Maria Elena Gonzalez\, as well as a career as a clothing designer and boutique owner in New York. In 2009\, she moved to northern California with her family and returned to making art. In recent years\, Gill has participated in many exhibitions in galleries across the United States. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Exhibiting Artists \n \n \n \n Amanda Messina Gerodias Anita Sulimanovic Bushra Gill Christina Xu Chupis Dion Eva Agus Ezra Mara Fernanda Martinez Glish Group (Timofey Glinin & Anastasia Shubina) Hargun Mahal Mann  Jaide Lin Lark  León Hernandez Leyla Jamil Rzayeva Linah Sofi Lorraine Lawson Mariel Paat Martin Rodriguez Serrano Michelle Lin Narges Valibeigi Ngân Vũ Nhien Le Peter Gee Renacimiento Ria Sharma Russel Arelis Salma Arastu Shooting Within Tatiana Carvalho  Ujjayini Sikha Vreni Michelini Castillo  YouBeen Kim Yuting Wang \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Performing at the Opening Reception \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nadhi Thekkek (@navadancesf) is a dancer\, choreographer\, and the Artistic Director of Nava Dance Theatre. Nadhi uses the south Indian dance form of bharatanatyam to navigate place\, identity\, and politics through the lens of her lived experience as a child of immigrants and an unapologetic South Asian\, diasporic woman. She reimagines how bharatanatyam can serve marginalized narratives that need to occupy space in the US right now. Her latest work “Rogue Gestures/Foreign Bodies” sources community interviews\, historical texts\, and poetry to explore the intersections of labor\, agency\, and belonging in our South Asian ancestry. Through Nava Dance Theatre\, Nadhi also produces and co-facilitates the Unrehearsed Artist Residency Program\, where South Asian dancemakers create art that challenges the status quo.  For more information on Nadhi\, visit www.navadance.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 Roopa Mahadevan (@roopama) is a leading second-generation Indian classical and crossover vocalist in the American diaspora known for her powerful\, emotive voice and collaborative versatility. She leads Roopa in Flux\, an ensemble featuring musicians in jazz\, soul/R&B\, and various global traditions\, directs the innovative choir Navatman Music Collective\, and sings for leading bharathanatyam/contemporary dancers. She is a soloist on Grammy Award-winning Calling All Dawns\, and has been in residence at Banff Center for Arts and Creativity\, Hedgebrook\, MASS MOCA\, and Ryder Farm. FOr more information visit\, www.roopamahadevan.com. 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:20210522T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210522T160000 DTSTAMP:20260525T221534 CREATED:20210409T190934Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210527T003715Z UID:10685-1621695600-1621699200@oacc.cc SUMMARY:"Instant Pot Asian Pressure Cooker Meals" Book Talk & Cooking Demo DESCRIPTION:Longing for Attachment\n \n \n \n \n Exhibition Dates: June 14 – July 27\, 2024 \n \n \n \n ARTogether and Oakland Asian Cultural Center co-present “Longing for Attachment\,” an exhibition curated by Bushra Gill featuring 30+ Bay Area 1st/2nd generation immigrant and refugee artists reflecting on the notion of attachments.    As immigrants\, refugees\, and their descendants\, we make choices on what to hold onto and what to let go of when moving to another country or culture. Being too attached to a place or way of being can make it hard to form connections to anything new. But our connection to a place is also related to our quality of life and well-being– it links us to neighborhoods and communities where we have lived.  Anyone who has migrated from another country or grown up in an immigrant family knows these attachments run deep and true\, not needing to be present to have a prominent place in our hearts.     We invite you to join us in reflection of our relationships to attachment\, and to celebrate these Bay Area refugee\, immigrant\, and children of immigrant artists.   Exhibition Dates: June 14 – July 27\, 2024 Gallery Hours: Wednesdays through Saturdays\, 12 PM – 5 PM  Location: Oakland Asian Cultural Center 388 9th St\, Ste 290\, Oakland\, CA \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Check out the accompanying audio tour for this exhibition\, facilitated by the curator Bushra Gill:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FewN3Nu0o8o \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Curator \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bushra Gill is interested in finding order within the chaos of everyday life through art. She was born in Karachi\, Pakistan\, and emigrated to Houston\, Texas\, with her family as a small child. Drawn to art from a young age\, she graduated from Pratt Institute in 1994\, with a BFA in sculpture. She spent many years of working as a museum educator at various galleries and museums including The Museum of Modern Art\, The Drawing Center and The Rotunda Gallery\, while also working as a studio assistant to various artists including Maya Lin\, Ursula von Rydingsvard and Maria Elena Gonzalez\, as well as a career as a clothing designer and boutique owner in New York. In 2009\, she moved to northern California with her family and returned to making art. In recent years\, Gill has participated in many exhibitions in galleries across the United States. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Exhibiting Artists \n \n \n \n Amanda Messina Gerodias Anita Sulimanovic Bushra Gill Christina Xu Chupis Dion Eva Agus Ezra Mara Fernanda Martinez Glish Group (Timofey Glinin & Anastasia Shubina) Hargun Mahal Mann  Jaide Lin Lark  León Hernandez Leyla Jamil Rzayeva Linah Sofi Lorraine Lawson Mariel Paat Martin Rodriguez Serrano Michelle Lin Narges Valibeigi Ngân Vũ Nhien Le Peter Gee Renacimiento Ria Sharma Russel Arelis Salma Arastu Shooting Within Tatiana Carvalho  Ujjayini Sikha Vreni Michelini Castillo  YouBeen Kim Yuting Wang \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Performing at the Opening Reception \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nadhi Thekkek (@navadancesf) is a dancer\, choreographer\, and the Artistic Director of Nava Dance Theatre. Nadhi uses the south Indian dance form of bharatanatyam to navigate place\, identity\, and politics through the lens of her lived experience as a child of immigrants and an unapologetic South Asian\, diasporic woman. She reimagines how bharatanatyam can serve marginalized narratives that need to occupy space in the US right now. Her latest work “Rogue Gestures/Foreign Bodies” sources community interviews\, historical texts\, and poetry to explore the intersections of labor\, agency\, and belonging in our South Asian ancestry. Through Nava Dance Theatre\, Nadhi also produces and co-facilitates the Unrehearsed Artist Residency Program\, where South Asian dancemakers create art that challenges the status quo.  For more information on Nadhi\, visit www.navadance.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 Roopa Mahadevan (@roopama) is a leading second-generation Indian classical and crossover vocalist in the American diaspora known for her powerful\, emotive voice and collaborative versatility. She leads Roopa in Flux\, an ensemble featuring musicians in jazz\, soul/R&B\, and various global traditions\, directs the innovative choir Navatman Music Collective\, and sings for leading bharathanatyam/contemporary dancers. She is a soloist on Grammy Award-winning Calling All Dawns\, and has been in residence at Banff Center for Arts and Creativity\, Hedgebrook\, MASS MOCA\, and Ryder Farm. FOr more information visit\, www.roopamahadevan.com. 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:20210515T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210515T173000 DTSTAMP:20260525T221534 CREATED:20210323T173009Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210527T005410Z UID:10567-1621094400-1621099800@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Celebrating Our HeART-filled Heritage: Leela Dance Collective DESCRIPTION:Longing for Attachment\n \n \n \n \n Exhibition Dates: June 14 – July 27\, 2024 \n \n \n \n ARTogether and Oakland Asian Cultural Center co-present “Longing for Attachment\,” an exhibition curated by Bushra Gill featuring 30+ Bay Area 1st/2nd generation immigrant and refugee artists reflecting on the notion of attachments.    As immigrants\, refugees\, and their descendants\, we make choices on what to hold onto and what to let go of when moving to another country or culture. Being too attached to a place or way of being can make it hard to form connections to anything new. But our connection to a place is also related to our quality of life and well-being– it links us to neighborhoods and communities where we have lived.  Anyone who has migrated from another country or grown up in an immigrant family knows these attachments run deep and true\, not needing to be present to have a prominent place in our hearts.     We invite you to join us in reflection of our relationships to attachment\, and to celebrate these Bay Area refugee\, immigrant\, and children of immigrant artists.   Exhibition Dates: June 14 – July 27\, 2024 Gallery Hours: Wednesdays through Saturdays\, 12 PM – 5 PM  Location: Oakland Asian Cultural Center 388 9th St\, Ste 290\, Oakland\, CA \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Check out the accompanying audio tour for this exhibition\, facilitated by the curator Bushra Gill:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FewN3Nu0o8o \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Curator \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bushra Gill is interested in finding order within the chaos of everyday life through art. She was born in Karachi\, Pakistan\, and emigrated to Houston\, Texas\, with her family as a small child. Drawn to art from a young age\, she graduated from Pratt Institute in 1994\, with a BFA in sculpture. She spent many years of working as a museum educator at various galleries and museums including The Museum of Modern Art\, The Drawing Center and The Rotunda Gallery\, while also working as a studio assistant to various artists including Maya Lin\, Ursula von Rydingsvard and Maria Elena Gonzalez\, as well as a career as a clothing designer and boutique owner in New York. In 2009\, she moved to northern California with her family and returned to making art. In recent years\, Gill has participated in many exhibitions in galleries across the United States. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Exhibiting Artists \n \n \n \n Amanda Messina Gerodias Anita Sulimanovic Bushra Gill Christina Xu Chupis Dion Eva Agus Ezra Mara Fernanda Martinez Glish Group (Timofey Glinin & Anastasia Shubina) Hargun Mahal Mann  Jaide Lin Lark  León Hernandez Leyla Jamil Rzayeva Linah Sofi Lorraine Lawson Mariel Paat Martin Rodriguez Serrano Michelle Lin Narges Valibeigi Ngân Vũ Nhien Le Peter Gee Renacimiento Ria Sharma Russel Arelis Salma Arastu Shooting Within Tatiana Carvalho  Ujjayini Sikha Vreni Michelini Castillo  YouBeen Kim Yuting Wang \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Performing at the Opening Reception \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nadhi Thekkek (@navadancesf) is a dancer\, choreographer\, and the Artistic Director of Nava Dance Theatre. Nadhi uses the south Indian dance form of bharatanatyam to navigate place\, identity\, and politics through the lens of her lived experience as a child of immigrants and an unapologetic South Asian\, diasporic woman. She reimagines how bharatanatyam can serve marginalized narratives that need to occupy space in the US right now. Her latest work “Rogue Gestures/Foreign Bodies” sources community interviews\, historical texts\, and poetry to explore the intersections of labor\, agency\, and belonging in our South Asian ancestry. Through Nava Dance Theatre\, Nadhi also produces and co-facilitates the Unrehearsed Artist Residency Program\, where South Asian dancemakers create art that challenges the status quo.  For more information on Nadhi\, visit www.navadance.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 Roopa Mahadevan (@roopama) is a leading second-generation Indian classical and crossover vocalist in the American diaspora known for her powerful\, emotive voice and collaborative versatility. She leads Roopa in Flux\, an ensemble featuring musicians in jazz\, soul/R&B\, and various global traditions\, directs the innovative choir Navatman Music Collective\, and sings for leading bharathanatyam/contemporary dancers. She is a soloist on Grammy Award-winning Calling All Dawns\, and has been in residence at Banff Center for Arts and Creativity\, Hedgebrook\, MASS MOCA\, and Ryder Farm. FOr more information visit\, www.roopamahadevan.com. 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:20210507T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210509T193000 DTSTAMP:20260525T221534 CREATED:20210322T205843Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210527T005711Z UID:10570-1620410400-1620588600@oacc.cc SUMMARY:140 LBS + OVER 140 LBS: A Virtual Double-Feature DESCRIPTION:Longing for Attachment\n \n \n \n \n Exhibition Dates: June 14 – July 27\, 2024 \n \n \n \n ARTogether and Oakland Asian Cultural Center co-present “Longing for Attachment\,” an exhibition curated by Bushra Gill featuring 30+ Bay Area 1st/2nd generation immigrant and refugee artists reflecting on the notion of attachments.    As immigrants\, refugees\, and their descendants\, we make choices on what to hold onto and what to let go of when moving to another country or culture. Being too attached to a place or way of being can make it hard to form connections to anything new. But our connection to a place is also related to our quality of life and well-being– it links us to neighborhoods and communities where we have lived.  Anyone who has migrated from another country or grown up in an immigrant family knows these attachments run deep and true\, not needing to be present to have a prominent place in our hearts.     We invite you to join us in reflection of our relationships to attachment\, and to celebrate these Bay Area refugee\, immigrant\, and children of immigrant artists.   Exhibition Dates: June 14 – July 27\, 2024 Gallery Hours: Wednesdays through Saturdays\, 12 PM – 5 PM  Location: Oakland Asian Cultural Center 388 9th St\, Ste 290\, Oakland\, CA \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Check out the accompanying audio tour for this exhibition\, facilitated by the curator Bushra Gill:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FewN3Nu0o8o \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Curator \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bushra Gill is interested in finding order within the chaos of everyday life through art. She was born in Karachi\, Pakistan\, and emigrated to Houston\, Texas\, with her family as a small child. Drawn to art from a young age\, she graduated from Pratt Institute in 1994\, with a BFA in sculpture. She spent many years of working as a museum educator at various galleries and museums including The Museum of Modern Art\, The Drawing Center and The Rotunda Gallery\, while also working as a studio assistant to various artists including Maya Lin\, Ursula von Rydingsvard and Maria Elena Gonzalez\, as well as a career as a clothing designer and boutique owner in New York. In 2009\, she moved to northern California with her family and returned to making art. In recent years\, Gill has participated in many exhibitions in galleries across the United States. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Exhibiting Artists \n \n \n \n Amanda Messina Gerodias Anita Sulimanovic Bushra Gill Christina Xu Chupis Dion Eva Agus Ezra Mara Fernanda Martinez Glish Group (Timofey Glinin & Anastasia Shubina) Hargun Mahal Mann  Jaide Lin Lark  León Hernandez Leyla Jamil Rzayeva Linah Sofi Lorraine Lawson Mariel Paat Martin Rodriguez Serrano Michelle Lin Narges Valibeigi Ngân Vũ Nhien Le Peter Gee Renacimiento Ria Sharma Russel Arelis Salma Arastu Shooting Within Tatiana Carvalho  Ujjayini Sikha Vreni Michelini Castillo  YouBeen Kim Yuting Wang \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Performing at the Opening Reception \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nadhi Thekkek (@navadancesf) is a dancer\, choreographer\, and the Artistic Director of Nava Dance Theatre. Nadhi uses the south Indian dance form of bharatanatyam to navigate place\, identity\, and politics through the lens of her lived experience as a child of immigrants and an unapologetic South Asian\, diasporic woman. She reimagines how bharatanatyam can serve marginalized narratives that need to occupy space in the US right now. Her latest work “Rogue Gestures/Foreign Bodies” sources community interviews\, historical texts\, and poetry to explore the intersections of labor\, agency\, and belonging in our South Asian ancestry. Through Nava Dance Theatre\, Nadhi also produces and co-facilitates the Unrehearsed Artist Residency Program\, where South Asian dancemakers create art that challenges the status quo.  For more information on Nadhi\, visit www.navadance.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 Roopa Mahadevan (@roopama) is a leading second-generation Indian classical and crossover vocalist in the American diaspora known for her powerful\, emotive voice and collaborative versatility. She leads Roopa in Flux\, an ensemble featuring musicians in jazz\, soul/R&B\, and various global traditions\, directs the innovative choir Navatman Music Collective\, and sings for leading bharathanatyam/contemporary dancers. She is a soloist on Grammy Award-winning Calling All Dawns\, and has been in residence at Banff Center for Arts and Creativity\, Hedgebrook\, MASS MOCA\, and Ryder Farm. FOr more information visit\, www.roopamahadevan.com. 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:20210504T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210504T130000 DTSTAMP:20260525T221534 CREATED:20210419T190503Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210504T225450Z UID:10764-1620129600-1620133200@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Panel Discussion: The AAPI Experience — Listen\, Learn\, Act! DESCRIPTION:Longing for Attachment\n \n \n \n \n Exhibition Dates: June 14 – July 27\, 2024 \n \n \n \n ARTogether and Oakland Asian Cultural Center co-present “Longing for Attachment\,” an exhibition curated by Bushra Gill featuring 30+ Bay Area 1st/2nd generation immigrant and refugee artists reflecting on the notion of attachments.    As immigrants\, refugees\, and their descendants\, we make choices on what to hold onto and what to let go of when moving to another country or culture. Being too attached to a place or way of being can make it hard to form connections to anything new. But our connection to a place is also related to our quality of life and well-being– it links us to neighborhoods and communities where we have lived.  Anyone who has migrated from another country or grown up in an immigrant family knows these attachments run deep and true\, not needing to be present to have a prominent place in our hearts.     We invite you to join us in reflection of our relationships to attachment\, and to celebrate these Bay Area refugee\, immigrant\, and children of immigrant artists.   Exhibition Dates: June 14 – July 27\, 2024 Gallery Hours: Wednesdays through Saturdays\, 12 PM – 5 PM  Location: Oakland Asian Cultural Center 388 9th St\, Ste 290\, Oakland\, CA \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Check out the accompanying audio tour for this exhibition\, facilitated by the curator Bushra Gill:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FewN3Nu0o8o \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Curator \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bushra Gill is interested in finding order within the chaos of everyday life through art. She was born in Karachi\, Pakistan\, and emigrated to Houston\, Texas\, with her family as a small child. Drawn to art from a young age\, she graduated from Pratt Institute in 1994\, with a BFA in sculpture. She spent many years of working as a museum educator at various galleries and museums including The Museum of Modern Art\, The Drawing Center and The Rotunda Gallery\, while also working as a studio assistant to various artists including Maya Lin\, Ursula von Rydingsvard and Maria Elena Gonzalez\, as well as a career as a clothing designer and boutique owner in New York. In 2009\, she moved to northern California with her family and returned to making art. In recent years\, Gill has participated in many exhibitions in galleries across the United States. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Exhibiting Artists \n \n \n \n Amanda Messina Gerodias Anita Sulimanovic Bushra Gill Christina Xu Chupis Dion Eva Agus Ezra Mara Fernanda Martinez Glish Group (Timofey Glinin & Anastasia Shubina) Hargun Mahal Mann  Jaide Lin Lark  León Hernandez Leyla Jamil Rzayeva Linah Sofi Lorraine Lawson Mariel Paat Martin Rodriguez Serrano Michelle Lin Narges Valibeigi Ngân Vũ Nhien Le Peter Gee Renacimiento Ria Sharma Russel Arelis Salma Arastu Shooting Within Tatiana Carvalho  Ujjayini Sikha Vreni Michelini Castillo  YouBeen Kim Yuting Wang \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Performing at the Opening Reception \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nadhi Thekkek (@navadancesf) is a dancer\, choreographer\, and the Artistic Director of Nava Dance Theatre. Nadhi uses the south Indian dance form of bharatanatyam to navigate place\, identity\, and politics through the lens of her lived experience as a child of immigrants and an unapologetic South Asian\, diasporic woman. She reimagines how bharatanatyam can serve marginalized narratives that need to occupy space in the US right now. Her latest work “Rogue Gestures/Foreign Bodies” sources community interviews\, historical texts\, and poetry to explore the intersections of labor\, agency\, and belonging in our South Asian ancestry. Through Nava Dance Theatre\, Nadhi also produces and co-facilitates the Unrehearsed Artist Residency Program\, where South Asian dancemakers create art that challenges the status quo.  For more information on Nadhi\, visit www.navadance.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 Roopa Mahadevan (@roopama) is a leading second-generation Indian classical and crossover vocalist in the American diaspora known for her powerful\, emotive voice and collaborative versatility. She leads Roopa in Flux\, an ensemble featuring musicians in jazz\, soul/R&B\, and various global traditions\, directs the innovative choir Navatman Music Collective\, and sings for leading bharathanatyam/contemporary dancers. She is a soloist on Grammy Award-winning Calling All Dawns\, and has been in residence at Banff Center for Arts and Creativity\, Hedgebrook\, MASS MOCA\, and Ryder Farm. FOr more information visit\, www.roopamahadevan.com. 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:20210501T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210501T184500 DTSTAMP:20260525T221534 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:Longing for Attachment\n \n \n \n \n Exhibition Dates: June 14 – July 27\, 2024 \n \n \n \n ARTogether and Oakland Asian Cultural Center co-present “Longing for Attachment\,” an exhibition curated by Bushra Gill featuring 30+ Bay Area 1st/2nd generation immigrant and refugee artists reflecting on the notion of attachments.    As immigrants\, refugees\, and their descendants\, we make choices on what to hold onto and what to let go of when moving to another country or culture. Being too attached to a place or way of being can make it hard to form connections to anything new. But our connection to a place is also related to our quality of life and well-being– it links us to neighborhoods and communities where we have lived.  Anyone who has migrated from another country or grown up in an immigrant family knows these attachments run deep and true\, not needing to be present to have a prominent place in our hearts.     We invite you to join us in reflection of our relationships to attachment\, and to celebrate these Bay Area refugee\, immigrant\, and children of immigrant artists.   Exhibition Dates: June 14 – July 27\, 2024 Gallery Hours: Wednesdays through Saturdays\, 12 PM – 5 PM  Location: Oakland Asian Cultural Center 388 9th St\, Ste 290\, Oakland\, CA \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Check out the accompanying audio tour for this exhibition\, facilitated by the curator Bushra Gill:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FewN3Nu0o8o \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Curator \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bushra Gill is interested in finding order within the chaos of everyday life through art. She was born in Karachi\, Pakistan\, and emigrated to Houston\, Texas\, with her family as a small child. Drawn to art from a young age\, she graduated from Pratt Institute in 1994\, with a BFA in sculpture. She spent many years of working as a museum educator at various galleries and museums including The Museum of Modern Art\, The Drawing Center and The Rotunda Gallery\, while also working as a studio assistant to various artists including Maya Lin\, Ursula von Rydingsvard and Maria Elena Gonzalez\, as well as a career as a clothing designer and boutique owner in New York. In 2009\, she moved to northern California with her family and returned to making art. In recent years\, Gill has participated in many exhibitions in galleries across the United States. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Exhibiting Artists \n \n \n \n Amanda Messina Gerodias Anita Sulimanovic Bushra Gill Christina Xu Chupis Dion Eva Agus Ezra Mara Fernanda Martinez Glish Group (Timofey Glinin & Anastasia Shubina) Hargun Mahal Mann  Jaide Lin Lark  León Hernandez Leyla Jamil Rzayeva Linah Sofi Lorraine Lawson Mariel Paat Martin Rodriguez Serrano Michelle Lin Narges Valibeigi Ngân Vũ Nhien Le Peter Gee Renacimiento Ria Sharma Russel Arelis Salma Arastu Shooting Within Tatiana Carvalho  Ujjayini Sikha Vreni Michelini Castillo  YouBeen Kim Yuting Wang \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Performing at the Opening Reception \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nadhi Thekkek (@navadancesf) is a dancer\, choreographer\, and the Artistic Director of Nava Dance Theatre. Nadhi uses the south Indian dance form of bharatanatyam to navigate place\, identity\, and politics through the lens of her lived experience as a child of immigrants and an unapologetic South Asian\, diasporic woman. She reimagines how bharatanatyam can serve marginalized narratives that need to occupy space in the US right now. Her latest work “Rogue Gestures/Foreign Bodies” sources community interviews\, historical texts\, and poetry to explore the intersections of labor\, agency\, and belonging in our South Asian ancestry. Through Nava Dance Theatre\, Nadhi also produces and co-facilitates the Unrehearsed Artist Residency Program\, where South Asian dancemakers create art that challenges the status quo.  For more information on Nadhi\, visit www.navadance.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 Roopa Mahadevan (@roopama) is a leading second-generation Indian classical and crossover vocalist in the American diaspora known for her powerful\, emotive voice and collaborative versatility. She leads Roopa in Flux\, an ensemble featuring musicians in jazz\, soul/R&B\, and various global traditions\, directs the innovative choir Navatman Music Collective\, and sings for leading bharathanatyam/contemporary dancers. She is a soloist on Grammy Award-winning Calling All Dawns\, and has been in residence at Banff Center for Arts and Creativity\, Hedgebrook\, MASS MOCA\, and Ryder Farm. FOr more information visit\, www.roopamahadevan.com. 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;VALUE=DATE:20210501 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210621 DTSTAMP:20260525T221534 CREATED:20210303T205247Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210620T232547Z UID:10481-1619827200-1624233599@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Moments of Expression DESCRIPTION:Longing for Attachment\n \n \n \n \n Exhibition Dates: June 14 – July 27\, 2024 \n \n \n \n ARTogether and Oakland Asian Cultural Center co-present “Longing for Attachment\,” an exhibition curated by Bushra Gill featuring 30+ Bay Area 1st/2nd generation immigrant and refugee artists reflecting on the notion of attachments.    As immigrants\, refugees\, and their descendants\, we make choices on what to hold onto and what to let go of when moving to another country or culture. Being too attached to a place or way of being can make it hard to form connections to anything new. But our connection to a place is also related to our quality of life and well-being– it links us to neighborhoods and communities where we have lived.  Anyone who has migrated from another country or grown up in an immigrant family knows these attachments run deep and true\, not needing to be present to have a prominent place in our hearts.     We invite you to join us in reflection of our relationships to attachment\, and to celebrate these Bay Area refugee\, immigrant\, and children of immigrant artists.   Exhibition Dates: June 14 – July 27\, 2024 Gallery Hours: Wednesdays through Saturdays\, 12 PM – 5 PM  Location: Oakland Asian Cultural Center 388 9th St\, Ste 290\, Oakland\, CA \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Check out the accompanying audio tour for this exhibition\, facilitated by the curator Bushra Gill:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FewN3Nu0o8o \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Curator \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bushra Gill is interested in finding order within the chaos of everyday life through art. She was born in Karachi\, Pakistan\, and emigrated to Houston\, Texas\, with her family as a small child. Drawn to art from a young age\, she graduated from Pratt Institute in 1994\, with a BFA in sculpture. She spent many years of working as a museum educator at various galleries and museums including The Museum of Modern Art\, The Drawing Center and The Rotunda Gallery\, while also working as a studio assistant to various artists including Maya Lin\, Ursula von Rydingsvard and Maria Elena Gonzalez\, as well as a career as a clothing designer and boutique owner in New York. In 2009\, she moved to northern California with her family and returned to making art. In recent years\, Gill has participated in many exhibitions in galleries across the United States. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Exhibiting Artists \n \n \n \n Amanda Messina Gerodias Anita Sulimanovic Bushra Gill Christina Xu Chupis Dion Eva Agus Ezra Mara Fernanda Martinez Glish Group (Timofey Glinin & Anastasia Shubina) Hargun Mahal Mann  Jaide Lin Lark  León Hernandez Leyla Jamil Rzayeva Linah Sofi Lorraine Lawson Mariel Paat Martin Rodriguez Serrano Michelle Lin Narges Valibeigi Ngân Vũ Nhien Le Peter Gee Renacimiento Ria Sharma Russel Arelis Salma Arastu Shooting Within Tatiana Carvalho  Ujjayini Sikha Vreni Michelini Castillo  YouBeen Kim Yuting Wang \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Performing at the Opening Reception \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nadhi Thekkek (@navadancesf) is a dancer\, choreographer\, and the Artistic Director of Nava Dance Theatre. Nadhi uses the south Indian dance form of bharatanatyam to navigate place\, identity\, and politics through the lens of her lived experience as a child of immigrants and an unapologetic South Asian\, diasporic woman. She reimagines how bharatanatyam can serve marginalized narratives that need to occupy space in the US right now. Her latest work “Rogue Gestures/Foreign Bodies” sources community interviews\, historical texts\, and poetry to explore the intersections of labor\, agency\, and belonging in our South Asian ancestry. Through Nava Dance Theatre\, Nadhi also produces and co-facilitates the Unrehearsed Artist Residency Program\, where South Asian dancemakers create art that challenges the status quo.  For more information on Nadhi\, visit www.navadance.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 Roopa Mahadevan (@roopama) is a leading second-generation Indian classical and crossover vocalist in the American diaspora known for her powerful\, emotive voice and collaborative versatility. She leads Roopa in Flux\, an ensemble featuring musicians in jazz\, soul/R&B\, and various global traditions\, directs the innovative choir Navatman Music Collective\, and sings for leading bharathanatyam/contemporary dancers. She is a soloist on Grammy Award-winning Calling All Dawns\, and has been in residence at Banff Center for Arts and Creativity\, Hedgebrook\, MASS MOCA\, and Ryder Farm. FOr more information visit\, www.roopamahadevan.com. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/moments-of-expression/ LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th Street\, Suite 290\, Oakland\, CA 94607\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607 CATEGORIES:Past Exhibitions ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/20210501MomentsThumbnail_v3.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210424T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210424T143000 DTSTAMP:20260525T221534 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:Longing for Attachment\n \n \n \n \n Exhibition Dates: June 14 – July 27\, 2024 \n \n \n \n ARTogether and Oakland Asian Cultural Center co-present “Longing for Attachment\,” an exhibition curated by Bushra Gill featuring 30+ Bay Area 1st/2nd generation immigrant and refugee artists reflecting on the notion of attachments.    As immigrants\, refugees\, and their descendants\, we make choices on what to hold onto and what to let go of when moving to another country or culture. Being too attached to a place or way of being can make it hard to form connections to anything new. But our connection to a place is also related to our quality of life and well-being– it links us to neighborhoods and communities where we have lived.  Anyone who has migrated from another country or grown up in an immigrant family knows these attachments run deep and true\, not needing to be present to have a prominent place in our hearts.     We invite you to join us in reflection of our relationships to attachment\, and to celebrate these Bay Area refugee\, immigrant\, and children of immigrant artists.   Exhibition Dates: June 14 – July 27\, 2024 Gallery Hours: Wednesdays through Saturdays\, 12 PM – 5 PM  Location: Oakland Asian Cultural Center 388 9th St\, Ste 290\, Oakland\, CA \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Check out the accompanying audio tour for this exhibition\, facilitated by the curator Bushra Gill:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FewN3Nu0o8o \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Curator \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bushra Gill is interested in finding order within the chaos of everyday life through art. She was born in Karachi\, Pakistan\, and emigrated to Houston\, Texas\, with her family as a small child. Drawn to art from a young age\, she graduated from Pratt Institute in 1994\, with a BFA in sculpture. She spent many years of working as a museum educator at various galleries and museums including The Museum of Modern Art\, The Drawing Center and The Rotunda Gallery\, while also working as a studio assistant to various artists including Maya Lin\, Ursula von Rydingsvard and Maria Elena Gonzalez\, as well as a career as a clothing designer and boutique owner in New York. In 2009\, she moved to northern California with her family and returned to making art. In recent years\, Gill has participated in many exhibitions in galleries across the United States. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Exhibiting Artists \n \n \n \n Amanda Messina Gerodias Anita Sulimanovic Bushra Gill Christina Xu Chupis Dion Eva Agus Ezra Mara Fernanda Martinez Glish Group (Timofey Glinin & Anastasia Shubina) Hargun Mahal Mann  Jaide Lin Lark  León Hernandez Leyla Jamil Rzayeva Linah Sofi Lorraine Lawson Mariel Paat Martin Rodriguez Serrano Michelle Lin Narges Valibeigi Ngân Vũ Nhien Le Peter Gee Renacimiento Ria Sharma Russel Arelis Salma Arastu Shooting Within Tatiana Carvalho  Ujjayini Sikha Vreni Michelini Castillo  YouBeen Kim Yuting Wang \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Performing at the Opening Reception \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nadhi Thekkek (@navadancesf) is a dancer\, choreographer\, and the Artistic Director of Nava Dance Theatre. Nadhi uses the south Indian dance form of bharatanatyam to navigate place\, identity\, and politics through the lens of her lived experience as a child of immigrants and an unapologetic South Asian\, diasporic woman. She reimagines how bharatanatyam can serve marginalized narratives that need to occupy space in the US right now. Her latest work “Rogue Gestures/Foreign Bodies” sources community interviews\, historical texts\, and poetry to explore the intersections of labor\, agency\, and belonging in our South Asian ancestry. Through Nava Dance Theatre\, Nadhi also produces and co-facilitates the Unrehearsed Artist Residency Program\, where South Asian dancemakers create art that challenges the status quo.  For more information on Nadhi\, visit www.navadance.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 Roopa Mahadevan (@roopama) is a leading second-generation Indian classical and crossover vocalist in the American diaspora known for her powerful\, emotive voice and collaborative versatility. She leads Roopa in Flux\, an ensemble featuring musicians in jazz\, soul/R&B\, and various global traditions\, directs the innovative choir Navatman Music Collective\, and sings for leading bharathanatyam/contemporary dancers. She is a soloist on Grammy Award-winning Calling All Dawns\, and has been in residence at Banff Center for Arts and Creativity\, Hedgebrook\, MASS MOCA\, and Ryder Farm. FOr more information visit\, www.roopamahadevan.com. 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:20210417T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210417T160000 DTSTAMP:20260525T221534 CREATED:20210305T195735Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210420T200659Z UID:10494-1618671600-1618675200@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Quarantini Mixer: Afternoon Tea with Malaya Tea Room DESCRIPTION:Longing for Attachment\n \n \n \n \n Exhibition Dates: June 14 – July 27\, 2024 \n \n \n \n ARTogether and Oakland Asian Cultural Center co-present “Longing for Attachment\,” an exhibition curated by Bushra Gill featuring 30+ Bay Area 1st/2nd generation immigrant and refugee artists reflecting on the notion of attachments.    As immigrants\, refugees\, and their descendants\, we make choices on what to hold onto and what to let go of when moving to another country or culture. Being too attached to a place or way of being can make it hard to form connections to anything new. But our connection to a place is also related to our quality of life and well-being– it links us to neighborhoods and communities where we have lived.  Anyone who has migrated from another country or grown up in an immigrant family knows these attachments run deep and true\, not needing to be present to have a prominent place in our hearts.     We invite you to join us in reflection of our relationships to attachment\, and to celebrate these Bay Area refugee\, immigrant\, and children of immigrant artists.   Exhibition Dates: June 14 – July 27\, 2024 Gallery Hours: Wednesdays through Saturdays\, 12 PM – 5 PM  Location: Oakland Asian Cultural Center 388 9th St\, Ste 290\, Oakland\, CA \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Check out the accompanying audio tour for this exhibition\, facilitated by the curator Bushra Gill:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FewN3Nu0o8o \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Curator \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bushra Gill is interested in finding order within the chaos of everyday life through art. She was born in Karachi\, Pakistan\, and emigrated to Houston\, Texas\, with her family as a small child. Drawn to art from a young age\, she graduated from Pratt Institute in 1994\, with a BFA in sculpture. She spent many years of working as a museum educator at various galleries and museums including The Museum of Modern Art\, The Drawing Center and The Rotunda Gallery\, while also working as a studio assistant to various artists including Maya Lin\, Ursula von Rydingsvard and Maria Elena Gonzalez\, as well as a career as a clothing designer and boutique owner in New York. In 2009\, she moved to northern California with her family and returned to making art. In recent years\, Gill has participated in many exhibitions in galleries across the United States. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Exhibiting Artists \n \n \n \n Amanda Messina Gerodias Anita Sulimanovic Bushra Gill Christina Xu Chupis Dion Eva Agus Ezra Mara Fernanda Martinez Glish Group (Timofey Glinin & Anastasia Shubina) Hargun Mahal Mann  Jaide Lin Lark  León Hernandez Leyla Jamil Rzayeva Linah Sofi Lorraine Lawson Mariel Paat Martin Rodriguez Serrano Michelle Lin Narges Valibeigi Ngân Vũ Nhien Le Peter Gee Renacimiento Ria Sharma Russel Arelis Salma Arastu Shooting Within Tatiana Carvalho  Ujjayini Sikha Vreni Michelini Castillo  YouBeen Kim Yuting Wang \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Performing at the Opening Reception \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nadhi Thekkek (@navadancesf) is a dancer\, choreographer\, and the Artistic Director of Nava Dance Theatre. Nadhi uses the south Indian dance form of bharatanatyam to navigate place\, identity\, and politics through the lens of her lived experience as a child of immigrants and an unapologetic South Asian\, diasporic woman. She reimagines how bharatanatyam can serve marginalized narratives that need to occupy space in the US right now. Her latest work “Rogue Gestures/Foreign Bodies” sources community interviews\, historical texts\, and poetry to explore the intersections of labor\, agency\, and belonging in our South Asian ancestry. Through Nava Dance Theatre\, Nadhi also produces and co-facilitates the Unrehearsed Artist Residency Program\, where South Asian dancemakers create art that challenges the status quo.  For more information on Nadhi\, visit www.navadance.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 Roopa Mahadevan (@roopama) is a leading second-generation Indian classical and crossover vocalist in the American diaspora known for her powerful\, emotive voice and collaborative versatility. She leads Roopa in Flux\, an ensemble featuring musicians in jazz\, soul/R&B\, and various global traditions\, directs the innovative choir Navatman Music Collective\, and sings for leading bharathanatyam/contemporary dancers. She is a soloist on Grammy Award-winning Calling All Dawns\, and has been in residence at Banff Center for Arts and Creativity\, Hedgebrook\, MASS MOCA\, and Ryder Farm. FOr more information visit\, www.roopamahadevan.com. 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;VALUE=DATE:20210412 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210418 DTSTAMP:20260525T221534 CREATED:20210305T202927Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210420T201157Z UID:10405-1618185600-1618703999@oacc.cc SUMMARY:New Year Celebration: South and Southeast Asia DESCRIPTION:Longing for Attachment\n \n \n \n \n Exhibition Dates: June 14 – July 27\, 2024 \n \n \n \n ARTogether and Oakland Asian Cultural Center co-present “Longing for Attachment\,” an exhibition curated by Bushra Gill featuring 30+ Bay Area 1st/2nd generation immigrant and refugee artists reflecting on the notion of attachments.    As immigrants\, refugees\, and their descendants\, we make choices on what to hold onto and what to let go of when moving to another country or culture. Being too attached to a place or way of being can make it hard to form connections to anything new. But our connection to a place is also related to our quality of life and well-being– it links us to neighborhoods and communities where we have lived.  Anyone who has migrated from another country or grown up in an immigrant family knows these attachments run deep and true\, not needing to be present to have a prominent place in our hearts.     We invite you to join us in reflection of our relationships to attachment\, and to celebrate these Bay Area refugee\, immigrant\, and children of immigrant artists.   Exhibition Dates: June 14 – July 27\, 2024 Gallery Hours: Wednesdays through Saturdays\, 12 PM – 5 PM  Location: Oakland Asian Cultural Center 388 9th St\, Ste 290\, Oakland\, CA \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Check out the accompanying audio tour for this exhibition\, facilitated by the curator Bushra Gill:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FewN3Nu0o8o \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Curator \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bushra Gill is interested in finding order within the chaos of everyday life through art. She was born in Karachi\, Pakistan\, and emigrated to Houston\, Texas\, with her family as a small child. Drawn to art from a young age\, she graduated from Pratt Institute in 1994\, with a BFA in sculpture. She spent many years of working as a museum educator at various galleries and museums including The Museum of Modern Art\, The Drawing Center and The Rotunda Gallery\, while also working as a studio assistant to various artists including Maya Lin\, Ursula von Rydingsvard and Maria Elena Gonzalez\, as well as a career as a clothing designer and boutique owner in New York. In 2009\, she moved to northern California with her family and returned to making art. In recent years\, Gill has participated in many exhibitions in galleries across the United States. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Exhibiting Artists \n \n \n \n Amanda Messina Gerodias Anita Sulimanovic Bushra Gill Christina Xu Chupis Dion Eva Agus Ezra Mara Fernanda Martinez Glish Group (Timofey Glinin & Anastasia Shubina) Hargun Mahal Mann  Jaide Lin Lark  León Hernandez Leyla Jamil Rzayeva Linah Sofi Lorraine Lawson Mariel Paat Martin Rodriguez Serrano Michelle Lin Narges Valibeigi Ngân Vũ Nhien Le Peter Gee Renacimiento Ria Sharma Russel Arelis Salma Arastu Shooting Within Tatiana Carvalho  Ujjayini Sikha Vreni Michelini Castillo  YouBeen Kim Yuting Wang \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Performing at the Opening Reception \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nadhi Thekkek (@navadancesf) is a dancer\, choreographer\, and the Artistic Director of Nava Dance Theatre. Nadhi uses the south Indian dance form of bharatanatyam to navigate place\, identity\, and politics through the lens of her lived experience as a child of immigrants and an unapologetic South Asian\, diasporic woman. She reimagines how bharatanatyam can serve marginalized narratives that need to occupy space in the US right now. Her latest work “Rogue Gestures/Foreign Bodies” sources community interviews\, historical texts\, and poetry to explore the intersections of labor\, agency\, and belonging in our South Asian ancestry. Through Nava Dance Theatre\, Nadhi also produces and co-facilitates the Unrehearsed Artist Residency Program\, where South Asian dancemakers create art that challenges the status quo.  For more information on Nadhi\, visit www.navadance.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 Roopa Mahadevan (@roopama) is a leading second-generation Indian classical and crossover vocalist in the American diaspora known for her powerful\, emotive voice and collaborative versatility. She leads Roopa in Flux\, an ensemble featuring musicians in jazz\, soul/R&B\, and various global traditions\, directs the innovative choir Navatman Music Collective\, and sings for leading bharathanatyam/contemporary dancers. She is a soloist on Grammy Award-winning Calling All Dawns\, and has been in residence at Banff Center for Arts and Creativity\, Hedgebrook\, MASS MOCA\, and Ryder Farm. FOr more information visit\, www.roopamahadevan.com. 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:20210320T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210320T173000 DTSTAMP:20260525T221534 CREATED:20201219T235951Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210518T225916Z UID:9136-1616256000-1616261400@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Celebrating Our HeART-filled Heritage: Parangal Dance Company DESCRIPTION:Longing for Attachment\n \n \n \n \n Exhibition Dates: June 14 – July 27\, 2024 \n \n \n \n ARTogether and Oakland Asian Cultural Center co-present “Longing for Attachment\,” an exhibition curated by Bushra Gill featuring 30+ Bay Area 1st/2nd generation immigrant and refugee artists reflecting on the notion of attachments.    As immigrants\, refugees\, and their descendants\, we make choices on what to hold onto and what to let go of when moving to another country or culture. Being too attached to a place or way of being can make it hard to form connections to anything new. But our connection to a place is also related to our quality of life and well-being– it links us to neighborhoods and communities where we have lived.  Anyone who has migrated from another country or grown up in an immigrant family knows these attachments run deep and true\, not needing to be present to have a prominent place in our hearts.     We invite you to join us in reflection of our relationships to attachment\, and to celebrate these Bay Area refugee\, immigrant\, and children of immigrant artists.   Exhibition Dates: June 14 – July 27\, 2024 Gallery Hours: Wednesdays through Saturdays\, 12 PM – 5 PM  Location: Oakland Asian Cultural Center 388 9th St\, Ste 290\, Oakland\, CA \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Check out the accompanying audio tour for this exhibition\, facilitated by the curator Bushra Gill:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FewN3Nu0o8o \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Curator \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bushra Gill is interested in finding order within the chaos of everyday life through art. She was born in Karachi\, Pakistan\, and emigrated to Houston\, Texas\, with her family as a small child. Drawn to art from a young age\, she graduated from Pratt Institute in 1994\, with a BFA in sculpture. She spent many years of working as a museum educator at various galleries and museums including The Museum of Modern Art\, The Drawing Center and The Rotunda Gallery\, while also working as a studio assistant to various artists including Maya Lin\, Ursula von Rydingsvard and Maria Elena Gonzalez\, as well as a career as a clothing designer and boutique owner in New York. In 2009\, she moved to northern California with her family and returned to making art. In recent years\, Gill has participated in many exhibitions in galleries across the United States. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Exhibiting Artists \n \n \n \n Amanda Messina Gerodias Anita Sulimanovic Bushra Gill Christina Xu Chupis Dion Eva Agus Ezra Mara Fernanda Martinez Glish Group (Timofey Glinin & Anastasia Shubina) Hargun Mahal Mann  Jaide Lin Lark  León Hernandez Leyla Jamil Rzayeva Linah Sofi Lorraine Lawson Mariel Paat Martin Rodriguez Serrano Michelle Lin Narges Valibeigi Ngân Vũ Nhien Le Peter Gee Renacimiento Ria Sharma Russel Arelis Salma Arastu Shooting Within Tatiana Carvalho  Ujjayini Sikha Vreni Michelini Castillo  YouBeen Kim Yuting Wang \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Performing at the Opening Reception \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nadhi Thekkek (@navadancesf) is a dancer\, choreographer\, and the Artistic Director of Nava Dance Theatre. Nadhi uses the south Indian dance form of bharatanatyam to navigate place\, identity\, and politics through the lens of her lived experience as a child of immigrants and an unapologetic South Asian\, diasporic woman. She reimagines how bharatanatyam can serve marginalized narratives that need to occupy space in the US right now. Her latest work “Rogue Gestures/Foreign Bodies” sources community interviews\, historical texts\, and poetry to explore the intersections of labor\, agency\, and belonging in our South Asian ancestry. Through Nava Dance Theatre\, Nadhi also produces and co-facilitates the Unrehearsed Artist Residency Program\, where South Asian dancemakers create art that challenges the status quo.  For more information on Nadhi\, visit www.navadance.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 Roopa Mahadevan (@roopama) is a leading second-generation Indian classical and crossover vocalist in the American diaspora known for her powerful\, emotive voice and collaborative versatility. She leads Roopa in Flux\, an ensemble featuring musicians in jazz\, soul/R&B\, and various global traditions\, directs the innovative choir Navatman Music Collective\, and sings for leading bharathanatyam/contemporary dancers. She is a soloist on Grammy Award-winning Calling All Dawns\, and has been in residence at Banff Center for Arts and Creativity\, Hedgebrook\, MASS MOCA\, and Ryder Farm. FOr more information visit\, www.roopamahadevan.com. 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 END:VCALENDAR