Join us at Pro Arts Gallery & COMMONS for Mother Nurture: Ceremonial Closings…Keep the community safe - wear masks and keep a distance. We are all in this together.
Keith Donnell + Gabrielle Daniels. Music: Sholeh Asgary. @Pro Arts + livestream
Presented by Small Press Traffic + Nomadic Press + Dogpark Collective
Join us for a day of experiments in making materials and images as we prepare Mother Nurture for our Grieving/Storytelling Circle on Sunday December 5. We will make natural dyes to soak yarn in, we will harvest kombucha mothers, and…
Curator of exhibition, Maymanah Farhat, will discuss the curatorial theme of the show, the importance of textile and fiber arts, particularly as they are used by artists to express solidarity, love, and advocacy for BIPOC communities, and how whimsy, beauty, and outward joy are equally powerful.
Mother Nurture is a social sculpture that centers process and place, and invites community members to ferment, forage, grow, and dye organic materials (such as kombucha leather, mushrooms, seaweed, silk, wool, and more).
Come get acquainted with Mother Nurture during this launch event. Join the distributed network of growers and nurture a kombucha mother in your home, which we will then dry and add to this portal/chrysalis/shrine at our social sculpture activation event in early December.
As part of Sound Walk September and Sound Walk City · prelude, walk · listen · create, together with Cona, ProArts, and Dérive app, Pro Arts is hosting a workshop on Occupy IP with a Derive!
Join Pro Arts Gallery and Commons in celebration of longtime collaborator, writer José Vadi, and the launch of his debut collection INTER STATE: Essays from California out now on Soft Skull Press!
A debut collection of eight poetic, linked essays, INTER STATE investigates the past and present state of California, its conflicting histories and their impact on a writer’s family and life. Vadi’s writing style has received much advanced praise: Kirkus says that “at a line level, the book is outstanding, filled with long, breathless sentences, innovative syntax,” and Publishers Weekly describes the book as “part love letter, part indictment.”
Join us Saturday, September 18th at 7pm, for a celebration in the plaza outside the gallery and a brief, indoor reading by Vadi from his book. Vadi will also be signing books for sale. PLEASE WEAR A MASK. INDOOR PORTION WILL REQUIRE PROOF OF VACCINATION.
Dulce Soledad Ibarra, Bolsolte (wearable No. 2) (2019)
Andrew Mount, Death Knows No Rank, ink and canvas, 96x54” detail (2021)
Pro Arts in partnership with AGENCY Oakland is excited to invite you to The LOOM, on August 21st, 2021, at 6:00PM for a public site-tuning event, entitled Ebonics Native Land Acknowledgement #1 (ENLA #1), performed by percussionist Marshall Trammell/Music Research Strategies.
Ebonics Native Land Acknowledgement #1 (ENLA #1) is an electro-acoustic, site-tuning event of the internal architecture of the 10,000 square feet AGENCY's space at the LOOM. The event is part of Trammell’s Black Amnesia and Indigenous Justice project series that began as his 2018-19 Intercultural Leadership Institute fellowship and his solo tour, Status Quo Is My Enemy. Ebonics Native Land Acknowledgement series of public site-interventions in Oakland , performed by Marshall Trammell are meant to create a platform for new interpretations of the ethos of native land acknowledgements with the Artist at the center of community empowerment, knowledge production, and solidarity economics.
As part of Ebonics Native Land Acknowledgement #1 (ENLA #1) Marshall Trammell will lead a collective reading of the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples , perform a percussion solo, and discuss the significance of his Black Amnesia and Indigenous Ebonic Native Land Acknowledgement projects, and the Pro Arts’ Performing Pro Arts COMMONS incubator that transgresses art, law, and economics to reframe the value of art and labor in the context of a sharing economy. This collective reading is going to be the foundation for an idiosyncratic, sound-based site-tuning event at the LOOM. It should further be noted that this project is an interpretation of the visual score, Dispatch #2, conceived by Candace Hopkins (Taglish/Yukon) and Raven Chacon (Novajo), with interpretation by Music Research Strategies. “Published in three parts — or ‘Dispatches’ as the artists declare — the work draws from Chacon and Hopkins’ reflections on the fight for cultural preservation and defense of Indigenous sovereignty at the Standing Rock Reservation Water Protector encampment in 2016."
For RSVP @ Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/166109302395
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AGENCY Oakland is a newly established collective that creates and holds community-centered space for artistic and creative production and knowledge in Oakland, CA.
Pro Arts is one of the longest running alternative art spaces in Oakland, CA. Established as a 501 (c ) (3) organization in 1974, over the years Pro Arts has supported more than 20,000 artists and cultural workers by providing them the opportunity to create in a non-traditional context and connect with new audiences.
Marshall Trammell/Music Research Strategies is an Oakland-based, experimental archivist, percussionist, conductor, and composer performing political education through the production and reproduction of tactical media manifested in sonic, social and political cooperative aesthetics. His work is centered in social change interventions and embraces improvisation as a collective, movement-building tool in the creation of post-capitalist imaginaries.
The LOOM is an urban village in Oakland, California, where tenants, visitors, artists and neighbors are all vital parts of a collective vision: creating a self-powered and regenerative community where how we live, work and play is intertwined.
EVENT DETAILS:
August 21, 2021 @ 6:00pm
Ebonics Native Land Acknowledgement #1 (ENLA #1) by Marshall Trammell/Music Research Strategies
AGENCY @ the LOOM, 2150 Livingston Street, Oakland, CA 94606
RSVP Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/166109302395
Event Program
6:00/6:30pm Native Land Acknowledgement & Solo Percussion Performance by Marshall Trammell
7:00pm Ebonics Native Land Acknowledgement #1 (ENLA #1)
7:30pm Performing Pro Arts COMMONS & The Moral Clause (presentation)
8:00pm – Site-Tuning & Documentation
**This is an in-door public event and all attendees will be required to wear masks.
Pro Arts is one of the oldest alternative art institutions in Oakland. Founded in 1974, Pro Arts has supported more than 20,000+ artists with space, material and immaterial resources, and the community to share their work, artistic knowledge, and create a change in and through the Arts.
On Saturday, July 2021, from 2 to 8pm our comrades from the15th Street block are throwing us a fundraising bash and a street party. Because this is how we do. This is how we survive. Together.
When: Saturday, July 2021 2 to 8pm
Where: 15th Street block (between Webster & Harrison)
Participating Venues: Brunt Oak Gallery, 8Ball Oakland, Dream Farm Commons, Beauty Botanica, Memory Sign co., Foodz Oakland, Botanical Sorcerer Gallery, Pro Arts.
ART AUCTION: 6pm @ Dream Farm Commons
PERFORMANCES & DJs from 4 to 8pm: Kristian Dahlbom, Chris Brown, Marshall Trammell, mutantdreams, Ish/Izmyla, and more surprise "pull through" acts
COMMUNITY CANVAS & LIVE ART starting at 3pm: FYE Collective (AB, Akili, Yosef +) will be providing & hosting Live Art + Community Canvas/Walls.
TABLES: books, zines, prints, posters, fashion, jewelry, music, art, gifts...
FOOD: Pig Roast
and more....;)
* All proceeds raised at this event will benefit Pro Arts, a 501 (c) (3) art institution, located at Frank H. Ogawa Plaza, Oakland, CA.
purchase tickets below:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/art-auction-pig-roastblock-party-july-31-2-8pm-benefit-for-pro-arts-tickets-164693347235
~~ join us for an experimental community-based marketplace, featuring very special & unique vendors with exclusive works to share.
This is outdoor event with limited access to open gallery & gift shop (limited capacity inside)
**MASKS REQUIRED INSIDE
; optional/encouraged outdoors
***this market benefits our host/sponsor @proartsoakland’s
active fundraising initiatives - learn more: proartscommons.org 📡
🌈Flyer by @sophiayauweeks
PLEASE SHARE IF YOU CAN OR CANNOT ATTEND!!!
***OUTDOOR EVENT***
When: Friday, July 2021 - 3 to 9pm
Where: Pro Arts Gallery & Commons + Plaza
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Mizna promotes contemporary expressions of Arab American culture. We publish the literary journal Mizna: Prose, Poetry and Art Exploring Arab America, produce the Twin Cities Arab Film Festival, and support an exceptionally talented and diverse range of local, national, and international Arab American artists.
This screening is courtesy of Video Project, brought to you by Drunken Film Festival Oakland
Of Land and Bread is a series of vignettes about the daily life of Palestinians in the West Bank. It is a story of constant vulnerability where one's life is lived under the specter of state violence and the whims of settlers, and a camera is one's only defense.
In 2005, human rights organization B'Tselem established a video department, seeking to amplify the impact and power of their written reports on human rights violations in the Occupied Territories with visual documentation. Two years later, they launched the Camera Project, providing video cameras and training to Palestinian volunteers in the West Bank to document their own lives under Israeli occupation. Since the project launched, the real-time images taken by these amateur photographers have become a staple of B’Tselem’s reporting. Raw material captured by staff and volunteers over the past decade have been carefully catalogued into an extensively unique video archive. Of Land and Bread consists entirely of footage from this archive, showing first hand the lived experiences of Palestinians.
The film shows the regular injustices enacted upon Palestinians under occupation from uniformed soldiers and police, as well as from Israeli settlers who are acting under their protection. The Palestinians have neither political rights nor the right to protest, and lie on the receiving end of a project of dispossession of land, resources, and culture. Of Land and Bread challenges prevailing narratives regarding settlements and offers an opportunity for expression and empathy.
Mariee Sioux, “Black Snakes” music video; Karen Finley, Vote Like Your Life Depends On It; Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Dreamocracy In America; Linda Montano, Passing Through (version 1); April Bey, You About To Lose Yo Job ‘Cause You Are Detaining Me, For Nothing; Merritt Johnson, DIY: NoDAPL; Penny Slinger, Heavy Lifting-2; Charles Schneider director, music video for “Animals Eat The Sky” written and performed by Christine Shields.
INVOCATION DEMOCRACY a Political and Mystical Virtual Exhibition
Presented by Pro Arts Commons, Curated by Monet Clark
October 30, 2020 - January 20, 2021, Inauguration Day
This exhibition is accessed through multiple 3D virtual galleries which will be embedded into the Pro Arts website, making it available to audiences globally.
Art provides us with a liminal space wherein momentary suspensions from our patterned thoughts and identities can be experienced, allowing for us to align with new states of awareness. Art can reveal cultural biases and their impacts, function as a catalyst for change, and it builds culture. As we nationally and globally navigate through this time of political, social, environmental and health crises the voice of the artist is needed now more than ever. With a nod to Holistic Theory and Intersectional Feminism or what I like to refer to as Holistic Intersectionality, and through the synergy of the sum of its parts, INVOCATION DEMOCRACY provides a virtual space to reflect on and envision the preservation and repair of our democracy. Joining together performance artists, video artists, recording artists, painters, and interdisciplinary artists from across the nation, INVOCATION DEMOCRACY provides an interstice for grief, a necessary step for action, and suggests that all of our intentions, actions and our votes matter, especially during this time of transitioning power structures.
INVOCATION DEMOCRACY proposes that a healthy democracy protects not only all of the people within its borders, but also the land within its boundaries, through policies which promote proper land stewardship and management, which includes protections of animals with respect to local and global ecosystems. It maintains that healthy regional democracies engage in practices which contribute healthfully to the global climate both socially, politically and environmentally. It explores the links between Climate Change and misogyny, empire, white supremacy and cultural biases that are dismissive of indigenous perspectives globally, the mystic, the intuitive, the feminine, and the sentience of animals and nature. INVOCATION DEMOCRACY contemplates the impacts of all of these on our ailing democracy, and just what it may take to transform it. — Monet Clark, curator
Featuring works by: April Bey, Karen Finley, Edgar Fabián Frías, Frightwig and Timothy Crandle, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, John Dileva Halpern, Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds, Jamil Hellu, Dale Hoyt, Merritt Johnson, Minnette Lehmann, Sang Chi Liu, Jennifer Locke, Darrin Martin, Ann McCoy, Lady Monster, Linda Montano, Shalo P, Charles Schneider, Christine Shields, John Sims, Mariee Sioux, Penny Slinger, Emily Harris and Dano Wall, Liz Walsh, West Facing Shadows / Lydia Greer and Caryl Kientz, Monet Clark
