Art
On Thursday night, over 200 well-dressed guests piled into a small ballroom at the Venue Event Center in Oakland waiting for a special fashion show to begin.
Community members and leaders gathered at Impact Hub Oakland Tuesday night for a discussion about the future of Oakland and the idea of cultural prosperity. The event is a part of Co-Creating the Future of Our Cities, a week-long Impact Hub series in 15 cities across the country that began on September 26.
City council to consider naming Uptown a Cultural Arts District, but some artists fear it may be too little too late.
Oakland and Berkeley Public Libraries co-hosted Dioram-Off, a book-themed diorama competition, at Actual Cafe in North Oakland on Wednesday.
Romeo Must Die. Fruitvale Station. Moneyball—or in other words, Oakland, Oakland, Oakland. For the first time, The New Parkway Theater is dedicating a full week to showing movies that are hella Oakland, from the actors to the locations and filmmakers.
At Safe Passages for Women in Oakland, participants used found objects to build models of a safer city.
Dr. Beau Kilmer, 39, sits on the “Ask an Expert” desk at the “Altered State: Marijuana in California” exhibition, answering questions about legalization of marijuana at the Oakland Museum of California on Friday, September 9, 2016.
Warehouses and industrial parks became the backdrop for some 35,000 hip-hop fans in West Oakland on Monday when a section of 3rd Street was blocked off for the 5th annual Hiero Day music and arts festival.
The third-annual Black-Eyed Pea Festival, a daylong celebration of African-American history and culture, took place at Oakland’s Mosswood Park on Saturday.