Over the years Oaklandish has produced over 100 free public events: from film screenings to art exhibits, underground parties and more. We're the inventors of the "Liberation Drive-In" (pirate movie theater) as well as "Urban Capture The Flag", which have both become global phenomena. Our annual Summer parties include the Lake Merritt Radio Regatta and Salsa by the Lake, and each year at the Art & Soul Festival we host the "Local Love Screening Tent", featuring short film & video from community youth programs. Check back often for future happenings, or join our mailing list.
The Mobile Ops rig is at the Grand Lake farmer's market on Saturdays from 9am-2pm and at the Temescal farmer's market on Sundays from 9am-1pm. Please click here for a list of retailers.
Oaklandish Salsa by the Lake
Our Third Annual Salsa by the Lake last Sunday was a huge success, with over 400 people enjoying the live Salsa music from Rumbache and free dance classes from Isaac Kos-Read. It was such a success we might put on another Salsa by the Lake this summer... stay tuned. And we are just getting started - this is the first of several fun, free summertime events put on by Oaklandish. To see pictures from Salsa by the Lake, check out these blogs:
oaklandishtownlove.blogspot.com
sfgate.com
Cabeza
Oakland Art Murmur, RAW ART GALLERY @ The Uptown, 20th & Telegraph. It's time for Art Murmur's First Fridays again. Come check out Keith "K-Dub" Williams' Cabeza project, one of the 2009 Oakland Innovators Award winners. Hood Games x Oaklandish screen-printed posters will also be available, with proceeds supporting "Town Park" at DeFremery Park.
ABCO Art Fair
Saturday, June 6th, 12-8. ABCO Art Space 1st Saturday's Craft Fair 3135 Filbert St. Oakland. Vendors will be selling their hand crafted wares at wholesale prices, and there will be live music, DJ's, and food.
West Oakland's Green Scene
Saturday, June 6th: This celebration of both the new park and the many organizations that are creating healthy and sustainable communities in Oakland will be held at Middle Harbor Shoreline Park from 11:00am-4:00pm. There will also be local entertainment, music and crafts to create a festive family celebration.
ebparks.org/GreenScene2009
Temescal Street Fair
Sunday, June 7th: Come enjoy live music, local artists, a culinary stage, children's activities, an Oaklandish booth and much more at the 6th annual Temescal Street Fair. This event will take place on Telegraph between 45th and 51st St.
temescaldistrict.org
BAM/PFA Community Day
Localize! Environmental Activism at the Grassroots. Sunday, June 7 from 11am-3pm. Engaging the need and desire for community-based responses to ecological and economic realities, Localize! offers hands-on activities, demonstrations, performance, and information-sharing with representatives from urban neighborhood-based art and ecology projects and similar student-organized efforts. Plus enjoy refreshments and Human/Nature tours with UC Berkeley grad students!
bampfa.berkeley.edu
Kung Fu Grocery Arts Performance
June 13th: This event is a benefit for the Kung Fu Grocery summer camp. It will take place from 11:00am-1:00pm at 6401 San Pablo Ave. Tickets are $5 with no one turned away for lack of funds.
Upgtown Unveiled
Free Street Fair with live music to celebrate downtown Oakland's arts and entertainment scene. 19th Street at Telegraph Ave. June 18, 5-10pm.
Temescal Street Cinema
This film series returns to 49th and Telegraph this summer for another year of free, locally made films! There'll be live music and free popcorn at every show, with events getting started at 8 PM every Thursday from June 11-July 16. Movies will start when it gets dark, no sooner than 8:30 PM.
temescaldistrict.org
Waterfront Flicks
Free outdoor movies at Jack London Square, East Lawn, Thursday Evenings @ 7:30
jacklondonsquare.com
2009 Oaklandish Innovators Award
Oakland has historically been a hotbed of renegade activity, where boundaries are redefined and trends are created rather than followed. To help encourage the continuation of this "trailblazers' legacy," Oaklandish has created the Oaklandish Innovators Award, a fund that offers annual grants to those organizations and individuals who are doing pioneering work in our community. The total award fund equals $25,000 annually, which we hope will grow with your support! Our winners for 2009 are:
KUNG FU GROCERY The Kung Fu school Kajunekbo Kwoon was opened in North Oakland in 2006. The Oaklandish Innovators Award grant of $5,000 will help fund the Kung Fu Grocery Summer Camp. The goal of this neighborhood-based project is to give kids ages 6-16 the opportunity to practice Kung Fu and learn practical skills to earn their own money. The program includes Kung Fu workouts and other sports activities, math practice, and cooking healthy snacks to sell at the student-run store. The grant will provide stipends for youth leaders and scholarships for students. Contact sifukate.hobbs@gmail.com for more information.
BAY AREA GIRLS ROCK CAMP This project, started in 2008, exists to celebrate women and girls' voices and empower more women and girls through music. The Camp includes instrument and voice lessons, self-defense classes, other aspects of music production, and Image and Identity workshops. The Bay Area Girls Rock Camp also plans to implement an instrument lending program and is committed to remaining a long-term fixture in the Oakland Arts Community. The Innovators Award grant of $2,500 will go toward defraying tuition costs for the 2009 summer session.
bayareagirlsrockcamp.org
TOWN PARK Town Park was created by a group of conscientious Oakland residents who recognized the need to provide Oakland youth with a safe and legal place to skate. Spearheaded by Keith "K-Dub" Williams, their goal is to legitimize the popularity of skateboarding among urban youth by creating a skate park within Oakland, allowing the youth to stay in the community and not be criminalized for skating in public places. In addition to providing free skate access to all skill levels and age groups, Town Park will host special community events, such as the Hood Games, as well as provide skate camps, clinics, professional demos and amateur to professional competitions. The Oaklandish Innovators Award of $5,000 will help fund the "Cabeza Project" in which selected local artists will paint/decorate thirty skateboard helmets for an art exhibition. Afterward, the helmets will be worn in competition at Town Park.
myspace.com/hoodgamestownpark
CYCLES OF CHANGE This 10-year-old grassroots organization works for social and environmental justice through bicycle, environmental, nutrition education, community gardening programs, and just resource allocation. The Oaklandish Innovators Award will help fund an Earn-A-Bike program at Edna Brewer Middle School Bike Club and a project of creating and selling "bike art" to raise money for an overnight bike/camping trip. The Innovators Award grant of $2,500 will help equip Cycles of Change to give away 40 bikes, helmets, and locks.
cyclesofchange.org
JUST CAUSE OAKLAND This membership-based community organization has been building a powerful voice for Oakland's low-income tenants and workers since 1999. Just Cause Oakland works to develop leadership skills in Oakland residents to advocate for housing and jobs as human rights, and to mobilize for policies that produce social and economic justice. The Oaklandish Innovators Award grant of $2,500 will help fund Just Cause Oakland's bilingual community newspaper "Just Causes." The purpose of this publication is to bring new people from specific neighborhoods into the grassroots movement for social justice, and provide working-class Oaklanders with updated information about housing issues and other local resources.
justcauseoakland.org
YOUTH SPIRIT ARTWORKS This is an interfaith youth education and jobs program whose mission is to empower and transform the lives of homeless and low-income youth. The Oaklandish Innovators Award grant of $2,500 will help fund the project "Healthy Bollards, Benches, and Turn-A-Rounds," in which homeless and low-income youth will work with Bay Area artists to create permanent outdoor art benches focused on the theme of health. This is a key historical and social issue that references the health-related outreach done by the Black Panthers in the communities where the art benches will be created. The benches will be exhibited at the Oakland Airport before being put at their permanent sites in North Oakland.
youthspiritartworks.org/
SCRAPER BIKES Founded by Tyrone Stevenson Jr., this grassroots movement seeks to empower youth through the artistic re-creation of bicycles. The Scraper Bike movement gives East Oakland youth a positive outlet that is fun, educational, and promotes healthy lifestyles. The goal is to support youth entrepreneurship and cultural innovation. True to its legacy as an origin of pioneering movements, Oakland is the one and only birthplace of the Scraper Bikes. The Scraper Bike movement could have only been founded in Oakland -- where the everyday and the discarded is rendered beautiful and uplifting through the creative hustle of its citizens.
scraperbikes.net
Read about previous Oaklandish Innovators Award winners...
4 Square of the East Bay
9pm Thursday nights at the Rockridge Bart parking lot. Just show up, play some square, talk to people and leave with a good summery feeling.
More info:myspace.com/4squareeastbay
Urban Capture The Flag
Capture the Flag at Frank Ogawa Plaza (14th and Broadway) is making a comeback this summer!! Every first and third Tuesday of the month. 7:30pm show up/meet&greet 8:00pm rules/teams/game on! More info: myspace.com/oaklandctf
Oakland Art Murmur
First Fridays of the month.
www.oaklandartmurmur.com
Other Ongoing Hoo-Rides
Oakland Capture the Flag
4 Square of the East Bay
Free Lawn-Bowling Lessons every Tuesday & Thursday
Oakland Yellowjackets Bicycle Rides
Historic Downtown Walking Tour
Black Panther Legacy Tour
PICTURES FROM PAST EVENTS
Lake Merritt Radio Regatta
Salsa by the Lake
Liberation Drive-In
Urban Capture the Flag
Video Fest @ The Parkway
Oaklandish Gallery Openings
