Oakland Ballet Presents Dancing Moons Festival Oakland Ballet Company’s 2021-22 Season continues next month with its first-ever celebration of Asian American Pacific Islander choreographers, the Dancing Moons Festival in collaboration with the Oakland Asian Cultural Center. The company will premiere new works by Phil Chan, Megan and Shannon Kurashige, Michael Lowe, and Caili Quan. The […]
In partnership with the Class Conscious Photographers and A Working Lens, the Oakland Asian Cultural Center will display the 2022 edition of “Housing!” featuring Bay Area photographers in our front windows. Community Reception: in-person at OACC on Sunday, April 3, 2022 from 4-6pm Pacific In summer 2021, the Class Conscious Photographers, an activist photographer group, […]
Curated by the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network (DVAN), "Textures of Remembrance: Vietnamese Artists and Writers Reflect on the Vietnamese Diaspora" presents an intimate perspective of this diasporic experience. The creative pieces showcased here reflect our community’s range of thoughts and emotions. These narratives texturize the Vietnamese diasporic experience, in which refugees are not objects of […]
In celebration of the first statewide Queer and Transgender Asian and Pacific Islander (QTAPI) Week, we are extending our Map Challenge redemption period thru Saturday, June 4th! Schedule of QTAPI Week events HERE. Oakland, have you eaten yet? We've partnered with Cut Fruit Collective (CFC) and Vibemap to create an Oakland AAPI Small Food Business collectible […]
Using Hip Hop as a lens for solidarity, this interdisciplinary workshop will go through the history of Afro-Asian solidarity, exploring historical examples of cross cultural unity from the Cold War to the 2020 #BlackLivesMatter Movement and #StopAsianHate protests. Part two of the workshop will focus on Diversity & Inclusion, with interactive Hip Hop activities such […]
Since March 2020, OACC has struggled with serious financial challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The 22-month (and counting) disruption in public programming and rental revenue has delayed our three-year strategic goals (completed in FY19-20) to advance as a premier cultural hub for our community. We are reaching out to our beloved community, our donors, […]
