East Side Arts Alliance

EastSide's GirlProject Family!! So lucky to have Ellen Sebastian Chang!!!!! master maker, teacher, artist, sister friend with us for Lemonade Crunchy Ice! Every week she leads our hangout she guides us through inspiration!!! Come make with us!!Safe space prioritizing girl identifying, and non-binary youth ages 11-18. Next meetup is this Wednesday April 7th 4-5:30pm PST via zoom. Email [email protected] for link

A conversation between Zakiya Harris and Amara Tabor-Smith

We are live now with Amara Tabor Smith and brontë velez, this will be a great experience!!!

A virtual performance experiment and conversation between brontë velez and Amara Tabor-Smith

Celebrate EastSide Arts Alliance’s 20th anniversary! contribute to a video collage... Help us celebrate 20 years of EastSide Arts Alliance and the Malcolm X JazzArts Festival by sending your audio, video, writings, drawings to us we will create a collage that will be posted on Malcolm’s birthday. We are asking folks to respond to any or all of the following prompts: ...Continue reading

LiveArts in Resistance (LAIR) Virtual **Ancestral Knowledge, Art and Resistance** Featuring Kiazi Malonga In this time of COVID and amidst powerful calls for racial justice, EastSide Arts Alliance and NAKA Dance Theater are launching a series of 5 presentations in collaboration with World Arts West. On November 3, 2020, join us for a conversation between Anne Huang, Executive Director of World Arts West and Kiazi Malonga.... Kiazi Malonga is a second-generation Congolese American born into a family of artists. He was first introduced to the ngoma at the age of two by his father, Malonga Casquelourd, who was a world-renowned traditional artist from Congo Brazzaville. Casquelourd traveled to the US in 1972 and shortly after, began to build his empire in traditional arts in the US. It was in this setting that Kiazi was trained and learned about his Congolese cultural heritage. Kiazi became the lead drummer of Fua Dia Congo at 16 and began teaching at that age as well. He has taught and performed in the US, Canada, Costa Rica, Europe and Africa. Kiazi currently teaches Congolese traditional music and dance in Oakland. This event will be streamed live on Facebook! Sign Language interpretation by Christine Nakahara and Eboni Gaytan. See more

LiveArts in Resistance (LAIR) Virtual **Ancestral Knowledge, Art and Resistance** Featuring Alleluia Panis... In this time of COVID and amidst powerful calls for racial justice, EastSide Arts Alliance and NAKA Dance Theater have launched a series of 5 presentations in collaboration with World Arts West. On October 20, 2020, join us for a conversation between Anne Huang, Executive Director of World Arts West and Alleluia Panis. Alleluia Panis is an American Pilipino director, choreographer, and non-profit arts leader. She has created over twenty full-length dance theater works that have been presented on stages in the United States, Europe, and Asia. She has received numerous awards, including the inaugural Artistic Legacy Grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission in 2017 and the Wallace Alexander Gerbode Commission for Choreographers for her 2019-2021 dance and film project, ‘In the Belly of the Eagle’. Alleluia is a recipient of the 2021-23 Hewlett 50 Art Commission for Choreography. She is the Artistic and Executive Director of Kularts, the nation’s premiere presenter of contemporary and tribal Pilipino arts. Her dance film, ‘She, Who Can See’ was officially selected and screened at the 2018 CAAMFest formerly known as the SF Asian American International Film Festival. She served as a member of National Performance Network’s Artists Committee, and as a board member of Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center, Brava! For Women in the Arts, Yerba Buena Gardens Festival, and Dance Bay Area. She’s an active member of San Francisco’s SOMA Pilipinas, Filipino Cultural Heritage District. This event will be streamed live on Facebook. Sign Language interpretation by Christine Nakahara and MJ Jones.

#BelovedAnInsistence #Aug13 #LoveArt Just a few pics from yesterday! I forgot to take pics until night time. It was a busy and an amazing day. Thank you t...o everyone who has supported this effort to bring some love to the Beloved. Beyond grateful! ART is a lasting and beautiful love messenger. #GodsHand It is a spirit miracle that births many things including Joy, Rest, Nourishment, Tenderness. And this is why we will continue. For The Beloved. For The Beloved. For The Beloved. #SACRED Thank you to the Artists (please forgive me if I leave someone out): Amara Tabor Smith, Stephanie Johnson, Alexa Burrell, Nicia DeLovely, Keneda Gibson, Alexandria Jones, Carla Dartis, Cathy Leonard, Jasmine Williams, Esther Pearl, Ruby Esther, Valerie Gutwirth, Triple S, Kyle Kamau, Graig Brooks, Keneda Gibson, Anisah Abdullah, Leigh Rondon Davis, Unique Holland, Jenee Darden, Matthew Evearitt, Graham Lustig, Claudine Naganuma, Sharan Dhanoa, Ummra Hang, Sarai Mazariegos, Fenner, Sango Tajimi, Linda Winter, Amba Johnson, Isha Rosamond, Mel Lidman, Ashara Ekundayo, Namiko Uno, Sarah Melek, Kazoo, Alex Kort, Elandis Brooks (and Jazz Quartet), Omi Bahari, Remi Rucker, Hope Baltys, Denice Simpson, Janine Kovac, Navdeep Jassal, Nola Brantley, Maya Babow, Jose Navarrete, Celeste Futch, Destiny Webster, Jennifer Lyle, and the one random guy who rocked up and played his ancestral drum Props up to all of the partnering and supportive organizations: Conjure And Mend, Liberated Culture/Regina’s Door, SHADE, MISSSEY, DreamCatcher Youth Services, Covenant House, House Full of Black Women, BAWAR, Adamika Village, Oakland Frontline Healers, Dream Youth Clinic, Rockstar Organizer, Reel Stories, HEATWatch, Southbay Coalition Against Human Trafficking, EastSide Arts Alliance, Lower Bottom Playaz, BAMBDfest, Owning My Own Truth, Rock Star Organizer, Ragged Wing Ensemble, Akonadi Foundation, BAMBD CDC, DA Nancy OMalley Office, Rockstar Organizer, Oakland Symphony, Team Annie Strain/Mollie Blustein, Team Elsie Phillips, Oakland Ballet Company, Danspace, The GIRL Project, Team Brooke Elise Axtell Logo Design: Francis Mead We give thanks. All day long. Whew. Time to chill. Keep loving, y’all. #Beloved #anInsistence #No2ChildSexTrafficking #OAKLAND #allpraiseUP

Reposting this from Regina Evans: #TODAY #BelovedAnInsistence From 3pm-9pm we will install our third perfect storm of creativity on The Track (Internatio...nal Blvd at 21st #fourcorners) in Oakland, Ca. We will set the following intentions: joy, rest, nourishment, and tenderness as we create. #lovefortress #forthebeloved At 7pm we will pause our work to engage in a ceremony designed to lift up not only the Beloved but also Survivor/Thrivers (who are our greatest warriors in this fight). Please send up some love for them. During this time we will also dedicate the Beloved: An Insistence mural project created by CeCe Carpio, Dime, Franceska Gamez, and Priya Hond. #projectsarai #Important When you arrive please check in with our #BelovedGreeter at the check in table (will be a small table on the corner covered in yellow cloth). We will also have Beloved: An Insistence masks and tee shirts available! Created by Kazoo Studio East. #grateful Please wear your masks! And we will have some if you don’t have one. We also have hand sanitizers and gloves! #weready Thank you to all of the artists, activists, survivor leaders and abolitionists who continue to come together to create something deeply beautiful for the Beloved! #AllPraisesUP #GodsHand #GivingThanks #OaklandLove #FORTHEBELOVED Logo Design: Francis Mead Video by Alexa Christine Burrell See more

Paint like a girl. @ladimeuna Franceska Julianna Priya Handa Amara T. Smith Regina Evans #muralseason #protectthesacred #summerblues #beloved #spillover #magic

This is happening next Saturday 8/15, safely, deeply. The Black Cultural Zone is activating it's new space in East Oakland called, Liberation Park with a commun...ity event in honor of Black August. Wear a mask and come on out. Social distancing protocols will be in effect. 2-6pm! Ashara Ekundayo Monica Hastings-Smith Amber McZeal MamaNke OraChi Chris Evans Rami Margron Karen Smith See more