Scroll down for series content. What is "Open E.A.R.S. for Change" about? “E.A.R.S.” stands for Engage. Activate. Rise-up. Series. This series is an on-going initiative that aims to build stronger allyship and co-conspiratorship among our API audiences with local Black communities. Our goal is to foster a more diverse and inclusive culture that is anti-racist […]
Here are some of the larger events happening this month that can be accessed remotely. Please check in with your local arts & cultural organizations to see what they are planning to present for Black History Month! Want to add missing events? Send us the details at programs@oacc.cc. Black History Month (Visit Oakland) Black History […]
Please enjoy the art submissions to Lincoln School's 2022 Lunar New Year student art contest presented by Wa Sung Service Club, Golden Dragon Project, Lincoln School, and Oakland Asian Cultural Center. About Lincoln Elementary School About Wa Sung Service Club Submitted Entries
Click this banner to enter a virtual “one-stop-shop” marketplace, in the form of an online directory features, Oakland/Bay Area-based and Oakland values-inspired businesses and creatives from AAPI-owned and AAPI-ally restaurants and small businesses, including BIPOC businesses and artists. The directory is open from February 5, 2022 - April 16, 2022. About the Virtual Community Night […]
In recognition of the diversity of new year’s festivities across the Asian Pacific region, OACC presents a hybrid celebration of Asian Pacific New Year traditions featuring in-person and virtual content for audiences of all ages during February and April 2022. In February, OACC celebrated Lunar New Year, the Year of the Tiger, with 3 days […]
Enjoy a colorful, festive virtual talk with multi-talented Chinese American artist Terri Wong. Seven years ago, she started restoring, collecting and actually wearing antique Chinese clothing. From an estate sale, she purchased 10 Chinese children’s hats and was so enamored with them that she started collecting them. She currently owns 161 of them and recently […]
For this year’s Day of Remembrance, Frank Abe, writer of WE HEREBY REFUSE: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration, will be joined in conversation with Kathleen Purcell, daughter of Mitsuye Endo’s attorney James Purcell; Wayne Collins Jr., the son of Hiroshi Kashiwagi’s attorney Wayne Collins; and Sadako Kashiwagi, Hiroshi Kashiwagi’s wife. Our moderator, Darren Murata of the Oakland Asian Cultural Center, […]
Join us on the eve of the 80th anniversary of Day of Remembrance for a virtual screening of acclaimed documentary, MANZANAR, DIVERTED: WHEN WATER BECOMES DUST, followed by a live dialogue with the filmmaker and special guests. From the majestic peaks of the snow-capped Sierras to the parched valley of Payahuunadü, “the land of flowing […]
