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The Oakland Museum of California recently opened an exhibit that explores John Muir and “what makes the man and what are the primary aspects of his life, and work, and personality.”
Gardening has been added to the Oakland summer camp list of activities for the first time this year, and kids between the ages of 5 and 12 all over town are learning the basics of how to care for a garden.
Known for its long history of fostering basketball stars, including legendary National Basketball Association guards like Gary Payton and Jason Kidd, the East Oakland Youth Development Center’s latest basketball camp has attracted more than 100 students.
Parents at the Peralta Elementary School in North Oakland are raising money to keep a $100,000 art program, run by two artists-in residence, alive after the program lost half its funding for next school year.
More than 200 people flocked to the Jack London Square Aquatic Center on Wednesday evening to show support for Oakland’s bid to host the expansion project of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, a massive scientific research institute run by UC Berkeley on behalf of Department of Energy.
The top youth slam poets from around the country performed in a competition in Oakland this past weekend.
Leaders from Oakland’s Youth Radio program announced on Monday that the group is launching a new digital media workforce program, which will provide young people in the Bay Area with free media skills training courses, which vary from online journalism to mobile application development.
Oakland activist group Genesis is campaigning for the creation of a free bus pass for students in Alameda County. During a town hall meeting the group organized at the First Congregational Church on Thursday evening, hundreds of supporters showed up and chanted “Get on the bus!” to a rolling video camera, urging elected officials to invest in the bus pass program.
Youth Greening Oakland (YGO) is an eight-week “earn and learn” summer program that hires teenagers to work in urban gardening projects while also learning about environmental justice and food sustainability issues.