East Side Arts Alliance

05/27/2026

📣BRWNGRLZ Jewelry Workshop x Fundraiser✊🏾
✨Friday, June 5, 2026
✨6:00 PM  8:00 PM
✨EastSide Cultural Center 
2277 International Boulevard
Oakland, CA

🏵️$35-50 SLIDING SCALE. Spots are limited, so grab your seat now: tinyurl.com/brwngrlz5

🏵️Hosted by Gretchen Carvajal of BRWNGRLZ, This workshop is a creative learning space where we’ll explore the communal and cultural connections of adornment, then move into hands-on creation. Participants will have a choice at different types of findings to craft adornments to keep or gift to others. All tools, acrylic pieces, findings, and packaging are included with registration.

🏵️This workshop will be fundraising to send four community organizers to the Philippines to facilitate connections between our communities in northern California & the communities they support in the Philippines this summer. They will be learning first-hand about the environmental, economic, cultural & political situation of the people of the Philippines. They will bring these experiences through stories & presentations back to our circles, meaning you!
Support the fundraiser directly: tinyurl.com/solidarityph26

05/22/2026

Fruitvale History Project Presents..
📣Jose Barlow Benavidez Panel Discussion
✊🏾Saturday, June 13, 2026
✊🏾2-4 PM
✊🏾EastSide Arts Alliance
✊🏾2277 International Blvd Oakland, CA

🫀Commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the shooting of Barlow Benavidez by the Oakland Police

Have Black and Brown police shootings and police accountability changed since the 1976 OPD murder of Barlow? Panelists will discuss the circumstances of the police shooting and how the community came together in protest. The current status of OPD accountability will also be reviewed.

Panelists Include:
✊🏾Tony Valladolid, Esq.- Attorney who worked closely on the case.
✊🏾Andrea Benavidez - Sister of Barlow and family spokesperson.
✊🏾Mariano Contreras - Former member Barlow Benavidez Committee Against Police Crimes, Coalition for Police Accountability, Oakland Police Commission Ad Hoc

Moderator:
🎤Liam O'Donoghue - Host, East Bay Yesterday

Sponsored by The Fruitvale History Project:
https://www.fruitvalehistoryproject.com/home

[email protected]

05/20/2026

🔔Xochitl Nevel Guerrero: walking with ancestors

✨Poetry Chapbook Release Party
✨Sunday, May 24, 2026 | 2–5 PM
✨EastSide Arts Alliance
Join us for a special afternoon celebrating the release of walking with ancestors, a poetry chapbook by Xochitl Nevel Guerrero. Spanning a lifetime of writing, this collection invites us into Xochitl’s heart—where ancestral energy brings forth the Flor y el Canto.

🫀The afternoon will be a celebration of Xochitl’s legacy and work as an artist for the People! There will be food, poetry and friends.

📚This event takes place in conjunction with Xochitl’s solo exhibition, A Breath of Life to Our Seeds of Resistance, currently on view in EastSide Cultural Center’s Main Gallery.
Walking with Ancestors is edited by arnoldo garcia of Editorial Xingao.
Copies of the poetry chapbook will be available for sale.

05/18/2026

🔔Xochitl Nevel Guerrero: walking with ancestors
✨Poetry Chapbook Release Party
✨Sunday, May 24, 2026 | 2–5 PM
✨EastSide Arts Alliance
Join us for a special afternoon celebrating the release of walking with ancestors, a poetry chapbook by Xochitl Nevel Guerrero. Spanning a lifetime of writing, this collection invites us into Xochitl’s heart—where ancestral energy brings forth the Flor y el Canto. 

🫀The afternoon will be a celebration of Xochitl’s legacy and work as an artist for the People! There will be food, poetry and friends. 

📚This event takes place in conjunction with Xochitl’s solo exhibition, A Breath of Life to Our Seeds of Resistance, currently on view in EastSide Cultural Center’s Main Gallery. 
Walking with Ancestors is edited by arnoldo garcia of Editorial Xingao.  
Copies of the poetry chapbook will be available for sale.

05/11/2026

📣26th Annual Malcolm X JazzArts Festival
🌞San Antonio Park, Oakland 
🌞FREE to the community
🌞Saturday, May 16, 2026
🌞11:00 - 7:00 PM

✨Jazz Stage Featuring
The Futurelics,  Ryan Nicole & Nu Dekades, Daria Nile. YGB, DJKLAV
Bantaba Drum Call: Baba Mosheh

✨MIKE "DREAM" GRAFFITI COURT
Black Book battles, Graffiti Walls and Live Art Custom Caps Workshops.
Teach Them Young! Space for young aspiring artists 
Prizes, Supply Giveaways & more!

✨Belafonte KidZone
Activities offered by Afro Play, Oakland Public Library, and MOCHA.

✨Javad Jahi Soapbox Stage
Bay Area poets, organizers, and culture workers speak out on local and international issues and campaigns

✨Zumbi Court
Dj's • emcees • dance cyphers • battles 

✨Katherine Dunham Dance Stage
Curated by José Ome Navarrete Mazatl.
Featuring Diamano Coura West African Dance Company,
Cultura y Tradición Afro-Puerto Rican Traditions,
Hip-Hop Final Battle: Winners of the Zumbi Court Cyphers,
SambaFunk! w/ King Theo

✨Vendors & Organizations
Artisan Gallery featuring local artists and craftfolk

✨Local community organizations

✨Wellness Zone
Practitioners provided by APTP, Freedom Community Clinic and other trusted community healers providing wellness modalities for free to our community.

✨Food Court 
International flavors of the Town! 

🖤🤎💛❤️*We deliberately gather our respective communities to celebrate Black Liberation as a compass toward a unified Third World Community- at the 26th annual Malcolm X JazzArts Festival at San Antonio Park. Together we celebrate the teachings and strength of Brother Malcolm and the tradition spawned twenty six years ago when EastSide Arts Alliance set out to create a Third World Cultural Center to serve and unite the Black, Brown, Asian & Indigenous communities that compose East Oakland and internationally

Save The Date!
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05/08/2026

📣26th Annual Malcolm X JazzArts Festival
🌞San Antonio Park, Oakland 
🌞FREE to the community
🌞Saturday, May 16, 2026
🌞11:00 - 7:00 PM

✨Jazz Stage Featuring
The Futurelics,  Ryan Nicole & Nu Dekades, Daria Nile. YGB, DJKLAV
Bantaba Drum Call: Baba Mosheh

✨MIKE "DREAM" GRAFFITI COURT
Black Book battles, Graffiti Walls and Live Art Custom Caps Workshops.
Teach Them Young! Space for young aspiring artists 
Prizes, Supply Giveaways & more!

✨Belafonte KidZone
Activities offered by Afro Play, Oakland Public Library, and MOCHA.

✨Javad Jahi Soapbox Stage
Bay Area poets, organizers, and culture workers speak out on local and international issues and campaigns

✨Zumbi Court
Dj's • emcees • dance cyphers • battles 

✨Katherine Dunham Dance Stage
Curated by José Ome Navarrete Mazatl.
Featuring Diamano Coura West African Dance Company,
Cultura y Tradición Afro-Puerto Rican Traditions,
Hip-Hop Final Battle: Winners of the Zumbi Court Cyphers,
SambaFunk! w/ King Theo

✨Vendors & Organizations
Artisan Gallery featuring local artists and craftfolk

✨Local community organizations

✨Wellness Zone
Practitioners provided by APTP, Freedom Community Clinic and other trusted community healers providing wellness modalities for free to our community.

✨Food Court 
International flavors of the Town! 

🖤🤎💛❤️*We deliberately gather our respective communities to celebrate Black Liberation as a compass toward a unified Third World Community- at the 26th annual Malcolm X JazzArts Festival at San Antonio Park. Together we celebrate the teachings and strength of Brother Malcolm and the tradition spawned twenty six years ago when EastSide Arts Alliance set out to create a Third World Cultural Center to serve and unite the Black, Brown, Asian & Indigenous communities that compose East Oakland and internationally

Save The Date!
la.v

05/04/2026

📣All African People's Revolutionary Party presents...📣
✊🏾African Liberation Day
✊🏾May 23, 2026
✊🏾1-4pm
✊🏾EastSide Arts Alliance + Cultural Center
2277 International Blvd, Oakland Ca

Today African Liberation Day operates as a significant institution within the global Pan-African Movement.
African Liberation Day is a dedication to political education and organization.
Revolutionary Pan-Africanism fights in solidarity with oppressed people everywhere; our struggle is one!
Come through and join in on the pursuit of freedom and the reaffirmation of the commitment to Pan-Africanism and advocating for the complete liberation and unification of Africa under scientific socialism.

05/04/2026

📣26th Annual Malcolm X JazzArts Festival📣
🌞San Antonio Park, Oakland 
🌞FREE to the community
🌞Saturday, May 16, 2026
🌞11:00 - 7:00 PM

✨Jazz Stage Featuring
The Futurelics,  Ryan Nicole & Nu Dekades, Daria Nile. YGB, DJKLAV
Bantaba Drum Call: Baba Mosheh

✨MIKE "DREAM" GRAFFITI COURT
Black Book battles, Graffiti Walls and Live Art Custom Caps Workshops.
Teach Them Young! Space for young aspiring artists 
Prizes, Supply Giveaways & more!

✨Belafonte KidZone
Activities offered by Afro Play, Oakland Public Library, and MOCHA.

✨Javad Jahi Soapbox Stage
Bay Area poets, organizers, and culture workers speak out on local and international issues and campaigns

✨Zumbi Court
Dj's • emcees • dance cyphers • battles 

✨Katherine Dunham Dance Stage
Curated by José Ome Navarrete Mazatl.
Featuring Diamano Coura West African Dance Company,
Cultura y Tradición Afro-Puerto Rican Traditions,
Hip-Hop Final Battle: Winners of the Zumbi Court Cyphers,
SambaFunk! w/ King Theo

✨Vendors & Organizations
Artisan Gallery featuring local artists and craftfolk

✨Local community organizations

✨Wellness Zone
Practitioners provided by APTP, Freedom Community Clinic and other trusted community healers providing wellness modalities for free to our community.

✨Food Court 
International flavors of the Town! 

🖤🤎💛❤️*We deliberately gather our respective communities to celebrate Black Liberation as a compass toward a unified Third World Community- at the 26th annual Malcolm X JazzArts Festival at San Antonio Park. Together we celebrate the teachings and strength of Brother Malcolm and the tradition spawned twenty six years ago when EastSide Arts Alliance set out to create a Third World Cultural Center to serve and unite the Black, Brown, Asian & Indigenous communities that compose East Oakland and internationally

Save The Date!

05/04/2026

📣26th Annual Malcolm X JazzArts Festival📣
🌞San Antonio Park, Oakland 
🌞FREE to the community
🌞Saturday, May 16, 2026
🌞11:00 - 7:00 PM

✨Jazz Stage Featuring
The Futurelics,  Ryan Nicole & Nu Dekades, Daria Nile. YGB, DJKLAV
Bantaba Drum Call: Baba Mosheh

✨MIKE "DREAM" GRAFFITI COURT
Black Book battles, Graffiti Walls and Live Art Custom Caps Workshops.
Teach Them Young! Space for young aspiring artists 
Prizes, Supply Giveaways & more!

✨Belafonte KidZone
Activities offered by Afro Play, Oakland Public Library, and MOCHA.

✨Javad Jahi Soapbox Stage
Bay Area poets, organizers, and culture workers speak out on local and international issues and campaigns

✨Zumbi Court
Dj's • emcees • dance cyphers • battles 

✨Katherine Dunham Dance Stage
Curated by José Ome Navarrete Mazatl.
Featuring Diamano Coura West African Dance Company,
Cultura y Tradición Afro-Puerto Rican Traditions,
Hip-Hop Final Battle: Winners of the Zumbi Court Cyphers,
SambaFunk! w/ King Theo

✨Vendors & Organizations
Artisan Gallery featuring local artists and craftfolk

✨Local community organizations

✨Wellness Zone
Practitioners provided by APTP, Freedom Community Clinic and other trusted community healers providing wellness modalities for free to our community.

✨Food Court 
International flavors of the Town! 

🖤🤎💛❤️*We deliberately gather our respective communities to celebrate Black Liberation as a compass toward a unified Third World Community- at the 26th annual Malcolm X JazzArts Festival at San Antonio Park. Together we celebrate the teachings and strength of Brother Malcolm and the tradition spawned twenty six years ago when EastSide Arts Alliance set out to create a Third World Cultural Center to serve and unite the Black, Brown, Asian & Indigenous communities that compose East Oakland and internationally

Save The Date! Let's Educate and Celebrate!

04/17/2026

Sound Healing and Collective Art Making with Xochitl Nevel Guerrero

🗓️ Saturday, April 25, 2026
⏱️1pm-4pm
📍EastSide Gallery, 2285 International Blvd Oakland, CA

Join us for an afternoon of art making and sound healing.

Sound Bath led by sound healer Nekia Wright .listic and a collective art making session with artist, Xochitl Nevel Guerrero

Through a collective art making session, Xochitl will share about her experience in using art as a form of healing, introspection and connecting to our spiritual strength. Sound Healer Nekia Wright will guide us through an interactive sound bath that will help us connect with our inner spiritual strength.

During these turbulent times, we invite community to come together to heal and create collectively. We got each other!

What to expect: Bring comfortable clothes, bring your creativity and be ready to be in community, connecting and sharing ideas, experiences and energies.

This program is part of A Breath of Life to Our Seeds of Resistance: the Artwork of Xochitl Nevel Guerrero.

04/14/2026