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Streetcar Named Desire

Ubuntu Theater Project, Oakland

Emily S. Mendel Theater February 10, 2018 Oakland,

The vital, welcoming, multicultural Ubuntu Theater Project, founded in Oakland in 2012, is currently performing one of Tennessee William's best written and most iconic plays, "Streetcar Named Desire." It's the drama set in 1947 New Orleans in which the ...

The Dorothea Lange Collection, Oakland Museum of California. Digitized by the Oakland Museum of California.

Dorothea Lange: Politics of Seeing

Emily S. Mendel Art & Architecture May 23, 2017 Oakland,

“Five years earlier, I would have thought it enough to take a picture of a man, no more. But now, I wanted to take a picture of a man as he stood in his world.” — Dorothea Lange ...

Dimensions Dance Theater, Project Panther. Photo: Ed MIller

Black Choreographers Festival

Works by Marc Bamuthi Joseph,
Ibrahima Diouf, Phylicia Stroud and Deborah Vaughan

Joanna G. Harris Dance February 15, 2017 Oakland,

The Black Choreographers Festival celebrated its 13th year by returning to the Malonga Casquelourd Center where it was performed in 2005. As Kendra Barnes, BCF co-producer suggests, ‘”it is like returning home.” The unique program featured the special talents of ...