Culture
Oakland is the right location for a marijuana exhibition, because it is a “cannabis-friendly city,” says curator Sarah Seiter.
Guests could hear music and laughter the moment they walked through the entrance of Building L at Merritt College one chilly March evening. They were here for the community open house for the new Africana Studies Community Research Center and Curriculum, which focuses on educating the public on African-American Studies and history. Every inch of the room was occupied by excited attendees, trays of soul food, decorations and detailed pamphlets that explained how the interactive curriculum in the center’s computer…
“Ghost Town to Havana,” screened in Berkeley on Saturday, tells the stories behind the youth baseball team the Oakland Royals and its visit to Cuba’s capital.
In the window display of Vivian Truong’s studio there are rose petals as soft as a newborn’s hair, tulips as vibrantly colored as wild birds, and daffodils as bright as the early morning sun. It may appear that Truong has finally found the trick for keeping fresh-cut plants alive longer than a week. But a closer look reveals that these flowers are actually carefully handcrafted out of felt and fabric—Truong is a “fiber florist.”
On March 23, members of the Pandora team held a music day at Roots International Academy, a middle school in East Oakland. This is a continuation of their Little Kids Rock program, which works to bring music education to schools serving a low-income student population.
Entrepreneurs from other industries are moving into the space and creating a social bubble that excludes the “underground” group.
This startup’s goal is to ensure the future of home-cooking, connecting local chefs to a hungry community.
Death is an uncomfortable topic for millions of people. However, there is a regular meeting every month in Oakland at the Chapel of the Chimes to make the topic easier for people to discuss: the death café.
Watercolor illustrator Pamela Baron has set out to capture Oakland’s unique neighborhoods through her hand-painted images of people’s homes, a project she calls “The House Portrait Commission.”