SFF celebrates the launch of The Culture Keepers—a storytelling & media platform bringing visibility, resources, & care to Bay Area artists & culture makers. The project features SFF grantee Galería de la Raza. Watch the documentary: https://theculturekeepers.org/culture-hubs/galeria-de-la-raza/

🎶👧🏻👦🏽👦🏼👧🏾🎶Tomorrow at OACC! Join us for Echoes of Eureka: A Youth Opera Bridging History and Hope FREE tix at oacc.cc/event/echoes... 🗓️ Sat, Apr 18, 4-6 pm 📍Oakland Asian Cultural Center 388 9th St, Ste 290, Oakland This multimedia explores history, immigration, and reparations.

🪷☀️ This Saturday! Celebrate the SE Asian New Year at OACC. Featuring the Khmer Amathak Dance Troupe, Traditional Lao Culture Performers, vendor market & more! 🗓️ Sat, April 11, 2026 12 noon-3 pm 📍Oakland Asian Cultural Center 388 9th St Suite 290, Oakland 🎟️ FREE tix at oacc.cc/event/sea-ny-2026

🪷☀️ This Saturday! Celebrate the SE Asian New Year at OACC. Featuring the Khmer Amathak Dance Troupe, Traditional Lao Culture Performers, vendor market & more! 🗓️ Sat, April 11, 2026 12 noon-3 pm 📍Oakland Asian Cultural Center 388 9th St Suite 290, Oakland 🎟️ FREE tix at oacc.cc/event/sea-ny-2026

Tomorrow! Support our Iranian American vendors at the OACC Nowruz mini market! Market opens at 6:30 pm. 🪕✨ Celebrating Our HeART-filled Heritage: Nowruz with the Persian Classical Trio 🗓️ Fri, Mar 20, 2026, 7-9 pm 📍OACC, 388 9th St Suite 290, Oakland 🎟️ FREE tix at oacc.cc/event/persian-classical/

On display at the Main Library TeenZone are a beautiful variety of books for teens about Muslim families and their stories. 📚 Pick up a book in person or place a hold for you to pick up at your local library branch. ➡️ https://bit.ly/47BoKXW Ramadan Kareem! 🌙

🖌️ Spotlight on ARASH SHIRINBAB, award-winning Arabic and Persian calligrapher. Join us at 6:45 this Friday night for his demo. 🪕✨ Nowruz w/ the Persian Classical Trio + Pezhham Tombak Ensemble Mar 20, 7-9 pm (doors at 6:30 pm) Oakland Asian Cultural Center 🎟️ FREE tix at oacc.cc/event/persia...

Taxes are hard. Find help at your library! Free basic tax help is available at select library branches until April 15th. Sign up ➡️ https://oaklandlibrary.org/tax-help/

Join the Oakland Dept of Transportation an 8th Street Corridor Improvements Workshop at OACC, and share your feedback on public safety. Thurs, Mar 19, 4:30-6:30 pm. Oakland Asian Cultural Center 388 9th St, Ste 290, Oakland RSVP by Mar 17 at us.openforms.com/Form/638b51c...

Applications are open for our Nowruz mini-market on Fri, Mar 20, 6:30-9 pm. SWANA (Southwest Asia and North Africa) vendors are especially encouraged to apply. There are no fees to vend. 👉🏼 Apply by Sun, Mar 15 at forms.gle/EpS84uGYuD3m... #SWANA #Nowruz #SmallBusiness

Join The Oaklandside on March 19 for a lively discussion with local authors Jasmine Guillory and Carolina Ixta, and Nomadic Bookshop founder J.K. Fowler.

I held my community congressional swearing-in here last January. It was the only right choice. Cultural institutions don’t fail because people stop loving them. They fail because love without commitment is not enough. The Grand Lake doesn’t need our nostalgia. It deserves our partnership.

Enjoy the moves from the Lincoln Square Rec seniors! We love the energy our community brings through the doors 🔥🪩🕺🏽 #LincolnParkRec #Oakland #OaklandChinatown #OaklandAsianCulturalCenter

Summer 2026 internship applications for my district & D.C. offices are now open. If you are a college student, grad student, or recent grad with a passion for public service & social justice work, we would love to have you on Team Simon! Head to simon.house.gov/services/int... for info & to apply.

Happening today at noon!

🧵🪡📍👚 It's Mending Circle this Friday at OACC! As always, it's free to attend, no RSVP necessary. Bring items to repair. Basic sewing equipment provided. Friday, March 6, 12 noon-1 pm 388 9th St. Suite 290, Oakland Questions? 📧 Email: [email protected] #OACC #Free #Mending #Sewing #Community

🪕✨ Celebrating Our HeART-filled Heritage: Nowruz with the Persian Classical Trio (Pezhham Akhavass, Aryan Rahmanian, Ashkan Ghafouri) + the Pezhham Tombak Ensemble 🗓️ Fri, Mar 20, 2026 7-9 pm 📍Oakland Asian Cultural Center 388 9th St Suite 290, Oakland 🎟️ FREE tix at oacc.cc/event/persian-classical

Join us for a new exhibition uplifting immigrant voices and languages at OACC. 🌸 OUR LANGUAGE, OUR STORY: PHOTOS BY JOYCE XI 🗓️ Artist reception: Sat, April 4, 4-6pm On view: Mar 18-May 23 (Wed-Sat, 12 noon–5 pm) 📍Oakland Asian Cultural Center 388 9th St, Ste 290, Oakland oacc.cc/event/joyce-...

See you there! 🍿❤️

Save the date for March 15, with artist Flo Oy Wong, Roy Chan, and Andi Wong! 🍿 and light refreshments will be served. 🎞️ TALES OF THE TOFU GODDESS 🗓️ Sunday, March 15, 1-3 pm 📍Oakland Asian Cultural Center 388 9th St, Ste 290, Oakland 🎟️ FREE tix at oacc.cc/event/tofu-goddess/

My city, Oakland, has roughly the same population (a bit more, actually) as the entire country of Iceland. IMAGINE, if you will, what we could dream up and design and see with this level of arts funding -- instead of funding our carceral state.

🎉 BUILDING BELONGING IN THE BAY TOGETHER 🎉 We're thrilled to announce that we've been selected as an inaugural awardee of the brand-new Walter & Elise Haas Fund WE Initiative—a $12M investment to fuel ongoing efforts to strengthen community bonds and foster connection across the Bay Area.

Our own Dr. Ayumi Nagase helped create this new exhibit at the Oakland Asian Cultural Center. Check it out now through March 14th, noon to 5pm. There will be a panel discussion and reception on 2/22 at 2pm. oacc.cc/event/topaz-... @Sonoma State University @oaklandasiancc.bsky.social

🚴🏽‍♀️ New to bike commuting? Curious about making your ride smoother? This welcoming bilingual workshop (Cantonese/English) will build confidence, teach skills, + share joy in biking. Presented by @bikeeastbay.bsky.social Sat, Feb 28, 12-1 pm Oakland Asian Cultural Center 388 9th St, Ste 290, Oakland

✨PERFORMER HIGHLIGHT: Urisawe Korean Dance and Drumming performs at 3 pm! 🎟️ Free tix at oacc.cc/event/LNY-BHM-2026 🎉 Lunar New Year x Black History Month Celebration 🗓️ Sat, Feb 7, 11 am-4 pm 📍Oakland Asian Cultural Center, 388 9th St, Ste 290, Oakland Art by Valerie Liu #Korean #Free #LNY #BHM

Day 2 of Oakland Chinatown Lunar New Year! More events next week - combined Black History Month & Lunar New Year celebration Sat 2/7, Oakland Asian Cultural Center. @oaklandasiancc.bsky.social oacc.cc/event/lny-bhm-2026/ There's also a Solano Ave event on 2/7 www.solanoavenueassn.org/events/lunar...

✨🦁PERFORMER HIGHLIGHT: Comrade Lover Lion Dancers at 1:15 pm! 🎟️ Free tix at oacc.cc/event/LNY-BHM-2026 🎉 Lunar New Year x Black History Month Celebration 🗓️ Sat, Feb 7, 11 am-4 pm 📍Oakland Asian Cultural Center, 388 9th St, Ste 290, Oakland Art by Valerie Liu

✨🪘🥁 PERFORMER HIGHLIGHT: Bantaba Drum Call at 1:15 pm! 🎟️ Free tix at oacc.cc/event/LNY-BHM-2026 🎉 Lunar New Year x Black History Month Celebration 🗓️ Sat, Feb 7, 11 am-4 pm 📍Oakland Asian Cultural Center, 388 9th St, Ste 290, Oakland Art by Valerie Liu

✨🦁 PERFORMER HIGHLIGHT: Toishan Lion Dancers opening cermony at 11 am! 🎟️ Free tix at oacc.cc/event/LNY-BHM-2026 🎉 Lunar New Year x Black History Month Celebration 🗓️ Sat, Feb 7, 11 am-4 pm 📍Oakland Asian Cultural Center, 388 9th St, Ste 290, Oakland Art by Valerie Liu

✨PERFORMER HIGHLIGHT: Patty Chu's Chinese Dance Troupe performs at 1 pm! 🎟️ Free tix at oacc.cc/event/LNY-BHM-2026 🎉 Lunar New Year x Black History Month Celebration 🗓️ Sat, Feb 7, 11 am-4 pm 📍Oakland Asian Cultural Center, 388 9th St, Ste 290, Oakland Art by Valerie Liu

In one week! Mark your calendars and get free tickets now at oacc.cc/event/LNY-BHM-2026/

✨PERFORMER HIGHLIGHT: MPWRD Collective 🎟️ Free tix at oacc.cc/event/LNY-BHM-2026 We are thrilled to welcome MPWRD on Sat, Feb 7, at 11:30 am! 🎉 Lunar New Year x Black History Month Celebration 🗓️ Sat, Feb 7, 11 am-4 pm 📍Oakland Asian Cultural Center, 388 9th St, Ste 290, Oakland Art by Valerie Liu

🪷 OACC Board applications are open. We have particular interest in candidates with: - Nonprofit finance/law background - Experience/expertise in S Asian, SE Asian, Native Hawaiian, or Pacific Islander arts + culture - Arts, culture, identity + belonging intersectionality Apply at bit.ly/oaccboard

Join us in honoring the Japanese American Day of Remembrance. 🎨 "Topaz Todders: Children's Art from an American Concentration Camp" 🗓️ Feb 4-Mar 14, Wed-Sat 12 noon-5 pm 📍Oakland Asian Cultural Center 388 9th St, Ste 290, Oakland #DayofRemembrance #JapaneseAmerican #AsianAmerican #History

Calling all teen poets who have pride in their city. Applications are due Feb. 1.

🎥 Join us for "Reparations" by Jon Osaki this Sunday, followed by a panel discussion with Osaki, attorney Donald Tamaki & Pastor Michael McBride. 🎞️ REPARATIONS 🗓️ Sun, Jan 25, 2026, 2-4 pm 📍Oakland Asian Cultural Center 388 9th St Suite 290, Oakland 🎟️ Free tickets at oacc.cc/event/reparations-film

The weekend birthday bash will include 1950s trivia and a costume contest.

Looking for stuff to do this week? Why not a water-themed rave, an anti-🧊 party, or a talk all about SPAM? Most events are FREE or under $60. Stop doomscrolling, start participating 🌿 Full lineup at www.coyotemedia.org/coyote-calen...

Join us for a FREE workshop at OACC on taking action to protect each other, presented by Kim Tran. 🙌🏼 From Ally to Activated: Breaking Barriers to Community Action 🗓️ Sun, Jan 11, 1-2:30 pm 📍OACC, 388 9th St, Ste 290, Oakland Registration is required at oacc.cc/event/activated #Immigrant #Ally

✨🐲🪘🥁 OACC's biggest event returns—join us for a joyous convergence of Asian + African American solidarity and art! 🎉 Lunar New Year x Black History Month Celebration 🗓️ Sat, Feb 7, 11 am-4 pm 📍Oakland Asian Cultural Center, 388 9th St, Ste 290, Oakland 🎟️ FREE tix at oacc.cc/event/LNY-BHM-2026/

The Point-in-Time Count determines how much money Oakland gets for shelters and services, and helps policymakers and community groups understand the scale of the crisis.

As we close 2025, here are a few measures of OACC's impact over our FY2024-2025. Download the full report at bit.ly/4jjnA89 If you want to support the next year of our pan-Asian arts programs in Oakland, visit bit.ly/48GIavL by midnight on Dec 31 to make a tax-deductible donation.

Mark your calendars for OACC's biggest event of the year! Event and registration info to come. 🎉 Lunar New Year x Black History Month Celebration 🗓️ Sat, Feb 7, 11 am-4 pm 📍OACC, 388 9th St, Ste 290, Oakland FREE Artwork by Valerie Liu #LunarNewYear #BlackHistoryMonth #OaklandAsianCulturalCenter

On our 40th Anniversary, artist Umi Vaughan speaks on the importance of space and opportunity to learn about other cultures. Help us reach our $10,000 EOY goal and support OACC's mission and future with a tax-deductible donation today! Donate at bit.ly/48GIavL #OACC #AsianArts #AANHPI #AAPI #Asian

A few winter-themed works by WPA designer Dorothy Waugh, 1930s #peoplesGDArchive #GDArchive #WomanDesigner

Join us for a FREE workshop at OACC on taking action to protect each other, presented by Kim Tran. 🙌🏼 From Ally to Activated: Breaking Barriers to Community Action 🗓️ Sun, Jan 11, 1-2:30 pm 📍OACC, 388 9th St, Ste 290, Oakland Registration is required at oacc.cc/event/activated #Immigrant #Ally

On our 40th Anniversary, poet Mush Lee speaks on how spaces like OACC serve as immigrant frontlines in times of crisis. Help us reach our $10,000 EOY goal and support OACC's mission and future with a tax-deductible donation today! Donate at bit.ly/48GIavL #OACC #AsianArts #AANHPI #AAPI #Asian