🧵🪡📍👚 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: classes@oacc.cc

#OACC #Free #Mending #Sewing #Community

On our 40th Anniversary, artist Umi Vaughan speaks on the importance of space and opportunity to learn about other cultures.

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On our 40th Anniversary, poet Mush Lee speaks on how spaces like OACC serve as immigrant frontlines in times of crisis.

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On our 40th Anniversary, former OACC E.D. Francis Wong speaks on the need for spaces that celebrate Asians in the arts.

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🐲📕TOMORROW! Don't miss out on hearing Jeff Chang @zentronix.bsky.social and Ursula Liang @ursulaliang.bsky.social in conversation on Bruce Lee at OACC!

Eastwind Books will have copies of WATER MIRROR ECHO for sale.

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CERI (Center for Empowering Refugees & Immigrants) youth close our TAKING ROOT film screening last Saturday with a dance. Thanks to the community for coming out! #AsianOakland #CERI #OACC #AANHPI

From Saturday's TAKING ROOT film screening, these young dancers from CERI (Center for Empowering
Refugees & Immigrants) East Bay opened the event with a blessing. #AsianOakland #CERI #OACC #AANHPI

Do you have clothes to mend? Join us at our next free community mending circle. You bring items to mend, we'll provide thread, needles, a sewing machine & patches.

Fri, July 11, 12 noon
388 9th St. Suite 290, Oakland CA
Questions? 📧 Email: classes@oacc.cc

#OACC #Free #Mending #Sewing #Community

Article screenshot from the Highwire blog, with an orange and red border. Headline says "Culture, Community, Connection: What We Learned from the Oakland Asian Cultural Center (OACC)"

Quote from OACC Board Member Faye Saechao says: "For those of us from immigrant families, art and expression also serve as a healing experience, and to me, this is key [to] building healthier communities."

Thank you to our community partner, Highwire, for amplifying OACC's stories! In this post, OACC board member Faye Saechao speaks to how spaces like OACC foster solidarity, challenge inequalities, and strengthen community bonds.

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