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  • Spotlight Sundays: Roadsongs for Dorothea Lange

    Spotlight Sundays: Roadsongs for Dorothea Lange
    James Moore Theater 1000 Oak St,, Oakland, California, United States

    For this month’s Spotlight Sunday join us for a live production of Last West: Roadsongs for Dorothea Lange, an immersive one-hour play written by Tess Taylor and directed by Ciera Eis. Last West was born from OMCA’s archive of Lange’s images and notebooks and returns to bring this legendary Bay Area photographer’s stories to life. We will travel with Lange as actors perform the journey outlined in her road journals and oral histories, and witness again the California we experience today. Set against a stunning projected backdrop of Lange’s photographs, this offering is a meditation on witness, migration, and time. 

    $10

  • Closing of Mildred Howard: Poetics of Memory

    OMCA Great Hall 1000 Oak, Oakland, California

    This October marks the final weeks for guests to experience Mildred Howard: Poetics of Memory before it closes on October 18, 2026. The exhibition’s closing weeks coincide with programming that celebrates Howard’s work and legacy as part of a broader moment of Black art and cultural history across the Bay Area.

    Admission ticket required

  • Friday Nights at OMCA with DATANAGAN

    OMCA campus

    Friday Nights at OMCA brings a fresh, genre-fluid sound to the Garden Stage as Bay Area singer-songwriter Victoria Datanagan leads DATANAGAN in an electric live performance of all-original music. Blending raw, melodic storytelling with a massive, danceable sound, the Filipina artist creates a communal and deeply alive experience that invites audiences to connect, move, and let loose.

    Free

  • 32nd Annual Día de los Muertos Community Celebration

    OMCA Campus 1000 Oak St,, Oakland, California, United States

    This fall, OMCA welcomes the community back for its 32nd annual Día de los Muertos Community Celebration, a vibrant day honoring the people, traditions, and stories that connect us across generations. Join the Día de los Muertos Committee for a procession that opens the celebration with music, movement, and a collective act of remembrance.

    $10

  • Special Guest Gallery Chat with Traditional Medicine Practitioner Batul True Heart

    Gallery of California Natural Sciences 1000 Oak St,, Oakland, California, United States

    Come sit with Batul True Heart (they/them) in OMCA’s Gallery of Natural Science as they share their personal experience of practicing traditional medicine in times of mourning. In this 30-minute talk, Batul will speak about what has brought them to the path of earth-based ancestral medicine, and what has been most supportive for them during times of deep emotional pain. You will learn about feelings from an Indigenous perspective and gain practical ways to connect with emotions, the earth and all the elements. Honoring the traditions and practices of Día de los Muertos, Batul will also introduce their favorite flower, cempoalxóchitl, and how to work with it when grieving.

    $10

  • Friday Nights at OMCA with LA GENTE SF

    OMCA campus

    Friday Night at OMCA brings an infectious global sound to the Garden Stage as San Francisco’s LA GENTE SF delivers a high-energy live performance blending Cumbia, Salsa, and Reggaeton. Led by singer-songwriter Rafa Sarria Bustamante, the group fuses rhythms and cultural influences from across Latin America and the Caribbean with a distinct San Francisco flavor, creating a joyful dance party that brings audiences together.

    Free

  • Closing of Fairyland @ 75: A Legacy of Magic

    OMCA Great Hall 1000 Oak, Oakland, California

    With just a few weeks left to experience it, OMCA welcomes you to explore Fairyland’s rich history and impact on Oakland’s cultural landscape with Fairyland @ 75: A Legacy of Magic.

    Admission ticket required

  • Spotlight Sundays: Japanese American Legacies of Resistance

    James Moore Theater 1000 Oak St,, Oakland, California, United States

    This Sunday, we are stepping into the historical legacy that inspired OMCA’s latest special exhibition, BeHere / 1942: A New Lens on the Japanese American Incarceration. With opening remarks by OMCA Executive Director Lori Fogarty, we will engage with this present moment in American history with the clarity and learnings of the past.

    $10