BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Oakland Museum of California (OMCA) - ECPv6.16.3//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://museumca.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Oakland Museum of California (OMCA) REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20240310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20241103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20250309T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20251102T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20260308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20261101T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251106T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251106T163000 DTSTAMP:20260617T133437 CREATED:20251006T204127Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251006T204552Z UID:10002220-1762426800-1762446600@museumca.org SUMMARY:Member Preview for Good Fire: Tending Native Lands DESCRIPTION:Mutiny at Port Chicago: Black Resistance and Redemption\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMember Preview Hours\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYou’re invited to the Member Opening for OMCA’s newest exhibition! Good Fire: Tending Native Lands explores the past\, present\, and future of fire in California through Native practices. For centuries\, Native communities have used intentional\, low-intensity fires to renew the land and support biodiversity. This tradition was disrupted by colonial laws and fire suppression\, leading to today’s destructive megafires. Good Fire shows how Native communities are reviving these vital practices to cultivate more resilient landscapes and uphold traditions. Reserved tickets are highly encouraged but not required for Member Preview Hours. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRESERVE MEMBER TICKETS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDon’t miss the opening celebration on Thursday\, November 6\, 6-9 pm. Join us for an evening of celebration with live music\, delicious bites\, and festive refreshments—an inspiring preview honoring the vital knowledge of Native California communities that you won’t want to miss! RSVP required. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nReturn to Events\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSponsors\n\n\n\nMajor support for Good Fire: Tending Native Lands is provided by The Oakland Museum Women’s Board. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n*Header image: Steven Saiz (Hupa) uses liquid fuel from a drip torch to spread fire. Photo by Maddy Rifka. URL:https://museumca.org/event/member-preview-for-good-fire-tending-native-lands/ LOCATION:California CATEGORIES:Ticketed,Opening,Members ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://museumca.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/unnamed-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251106T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251106T210000 DTSTAMP:20260617T133437 CREATED:20251006T204103Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251029T201027Z UID:10002219-1762452000-1762462800@museumca.org SUMMARY:Member Preview Evening Celebration for Good Fire: Tending Native Lands DESCRIPTION:Mutiny at Port Chicago: Black Resistance and Redemption\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMember Preview Evening Celebration\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDue to popular demand\, our evening celebration is at capacity. We are thankful for the overwhelming support and excitement around this new exhibition. We still have availability for the Daytime Preview Hours from 11–5 pm. \n\n\n\nBe among the first to experience this powerful exhibition alongside the curators\, collaborators\, and community members who brought it to life. Join us for an evening of celebration with live music\, delicious bites\, and festive refreshments—an inspiring preview honoring the vital knowledge of Native California communities that you won’t want to miss! \n\n\n\nGood Fire: Tending Native Lands explores the past\, present\, and future of fire in California through Native practices. For centuries\, Native communities have used intentional\, low-intensity fires to renew the land and support biodiversity. This tradition was disrupted by colonial laws and fire suppression\, leading to today’s destructive megafires. Good Fire shows how Native communities are reviving these vital practices to cultivate more resilient landscapes and uphold traditions. \n\n\n\nRSVP required for the evening celebration. Capacity is limited. QUESTIONS? Email membership@museumca.org or call 510-318-8520. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAT CAPACITY\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCan’t make the Member Preview Evening celebration?Join us for our Daytime Preview Hours from 11–5 pm and experience OMCA’s newest exhibition before it opens to the public! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nReturn to Events\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSponsors\n\n\n\nMajor support for Good Fire: Tending Native Lands is provided by The Oakland Museum Women’s Board. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n*Header image: Steven Saiz (Hupa) uses liquid fuel from a drip torch to spread fire. Photo by Maddy Rifka. URL:https://museumca.org/event/member-preview-evening-celebration-for-good-fire-tending-native-lands/ LOCATION:California CATEGORIES:Ticketed,Opening,Members ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://museumca.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/unnamed-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251108T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251108T130000 DTSTAMP:20260617T133437 CREATED:20251015T014511Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251015T214457Z UID:10002221-1762603200-1762606800@museumca.org SUMMARY:Member Chats with East Bay Regional Park Naturalists DESCRIPTION:Mutiny at Port Chicago: Black Resistance and Redemption\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMember Chats with East Bay Regional Park Naturalists\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin Naturalists from the East Bay Regional Park District for a hands-on exploration of local wildlife—right here at OMCA! Become a wildlife detective as you examine real animal skulls; ask “Whose skull is this?”; and discover what these clues tell us about the mammals that call our regional parks home. \n\n\n\nPerfect for curious minds of all ages\, this interactive experience offers a fun introduction to basic skull anatomy\, local ecology\, and the East Bay’s incredible natural landscapes. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBECOME A MEMBER\n\n\n\n\nPlease note that tour spots are limited. A sign up sheet will be available at the Ticketing Desk when checking in so get here early to grab your spot! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout The East Bay Regional Park District\n\n\n\nThe East Bay Regional Park District is a system of beautiful parklands in Alameda and Contra Costa counties that includes 73 parks spanning across 126\,809 acres\, 1\,330 miles of trails and 55 miles of shoreline. The Park District manages and preserves natural and cultural resources for all to enjoy and protect and are ideal for healthful recreation and environmental education. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAccessibility\n\n\n\nOakland Museum of California (OMCA) is committed to providing programs that are accessible\, welcoming\, and inclusive of our community. Wheelchairs\, sensory inclusive devices\, and additional amenities are available for checkout on a first come\, first served basis at the Ticketing Desk. To request other accommodations\, like American Sign Language (ASL)\, Cantonese\, Spanish or another language interpreter\, please email visitor@museumca.org at least three weeks before the event. Learn more about our accessibility options. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nReturn to Events URL:https://museumca.org/event/member-tours-with-east-bay-regional-park-naturalists/ LOCATION:Gallery of California Natural Sciences\, 1000 Oak St\,\, Oakland\, California\, 94607\, United States CATEGORIES:Gallery Chats at OMCA,Family,Members ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://museumca.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/IMG_3600-1-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251116T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251116T150000 DTSTAMP:20260617T133437 CREATED:20251015T014915Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251031T200947Z UID:10002222-1763298000-1763305200@museumca.org SUMMARY:Spotlight Sundays: Cultural Fire Storytelling and Film Screening DESCRIPTION:Your browser does not support the video tag.\n \n \n \n \n\n Your browser does not support the video tag.\n \n \n \n\n \n \n \nMutiny at Port Chicago: Black Resistance and Redemption\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpotlight Sundays: Cultural Fire Storytelling and Film Screening with Margo Robbins\, Elizabeth Azzuz\, Roni Jo Draper\, and hosted by Tiśina Ta-till-ium Parker\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease join us for an afternoon of storytelling centering Native fire practices from four visionary Native Californian memory keepers. The program will begin with a film screening of Fire Tender\, co-directed by Roni Jo Draper\, PhD (Yurok) and Marissa Lila Kongao\, which shares context on settler colonial fire suppression\, highlights the work of Yurok firelighters to reclaim and pass on traditional eco-cultural knowledge\, and meditates on the power of fire to heal land and communities.  \n\n\n\nThe film will be followed by heart-to-heart storytelling\, as the spirit of fire inspires. Margo Robbins and Elizabeth Azzuz\, two Yurok fire practitioners who lead the Cultural Fire Management Council\, will each share about the medicine of fire\, as guided by prayer\, before being joined by Tiśina Ta-till-ium Parker (Southern Sierra Miwuk/Kutzadika’a Mono Lake Paiute and Kashia Pomo/Coast Miwuk) and Draper for a group conversation. Drawing from their varied experiences as fire-women\, grandmothers\, filmmakers\, basketweavers\, and artists\, they will explore the possibilities of fire as the center of the home\, as well as the intergenerational abundance fire offers across time and space.  \n\n\n\nThis Spotlight Sundays is a part of our exhibition programming for Good Fire: Tending Native Lands on view through May 31\, 2026. \n\n\n\n\nGET TICKETS\n\n\n\nMEMBER TICKETS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPanelist Bios\n\n\n\n\n\nElizabeth Azzuz is a Yurok Tribal member from the village of Weitchpus in Northern CA\, and a Karuk descendant from Katamiin. She is the Director of Traditional fire\, family burns\, and Treasurer to the board of Cultural Fire Management Council. She is also Treasurer to the Indigenous Stewardship Network\, and is a member of the Indigenous Peoples Burning Network with the Nature Conservancy. \n\n\n\nElizabeth is a cultural practitioner\, who burns for basket materials\, traditional foods and medicines. She has been burning since the age of four\, when her grandfather caught her playing with matches and decided to teach her about her responsibility to Mother Earth. She was taught that fire is a tool\, not a toy. \n\n\n\nCFMC provides training and jobs on the Yurok reservation\, they have training exchanges to train future fire lighters in prescribed and cultural burns\, giving them the needed skills to work with fire safely. \n\n\n\n\n\nMargo Robbins comes from the traditional Yurok village of Morek\, and is an enrolled member of the Yurok Tribe.  She is the co-founder and Executive Director of the Cultural Fire Management Council and co-lead of the Indigenous People’s Burn Network. She graduated from Humboldt State University and resides on the Yurok reservation in far northern California. She gathers and prepares traditional food and medicine\, is a cultural fire practitioner\, a basket weaver\, and regalia maker. She previously served as the Indian Education Director for the Klamath-Trinity Joint Unified School district. She is a mom\, and a grandma.  \n\n\n\nRoni Jo Draper Ph.D. (Yurok | she.her)\, is an enrolled member of the Yurok tribe\, from the village of Weispus (Weitchpec) at the fork of the Klamath and Trinity Rivers in what is now considered Northern California. Her experience as a queer\, Yurok woman\, and the realities and acute pain of discriminatory practices and policies enacted in school settings\, has influenced her writing and work as an educator\, scholar\, and artist. As a former high school mathematics/science teacher and university professor\, Roni has now turned her attention to storytelling practices outside of traditional academia—including poetry making\, traditional basket weaving\, and other art forms—as a way to explore the human experience and share stories of healing and thrivance. Roni produced SCENES FROM THE GLITTERING WORLD\, stories of three Diné adolescents living on the fringes of the Navajo Nation. She also produced\, directed\, and wrote FIRE TENDER\, a short film highlighting the work of Margo Robbins and Yurok cultural fire practices. Roni is currently in production on the feature-length documentary WE ARRIVE WITH FIRE | NE-KAH NUUE’M MEHL MECH. Roni’s work has been supported by the National Geographic Society\, Vision Maker Media\, Women Make Movies\, Sundance\, the Redford Center\, Firelight Media\, and other organizations interested in highlighting the stories of Indigenous women working to protect the environment and cultural lifeways. \n\n\n\nTiśina Ta-till-ium Parker is a California Indigenous textile designer\, regalia maker and community cultural art activist. Tiśina is the granddaughter of Ralph and Julia F. Parker\, daughter of Louis and Patricia Parker. Her people are Yosemite Southern Sierra Miwuk/Kutzadika’a Mono Lake Paiute from her Grandfather’s lineage and Kashia Pomo/Coast Miwuk from her Grandmother’s lineage. Tiśina was born and raised in her sacred tribal homeland of Mariposa/Yosemite. Born into a strong Indigenous lineage\, Tiśina has practiced ceremony with her Southern Sierra Miwuk Nation (SSMN) & Yosemite Paiute tribal communities since birth. She descends from a powerful matriarchy of notable California basketmakers including her Grandfather’s Grandmother\, Lucy Telles and her Grandmother Julia Parker. \n\n\n\nTiśina holds a BA in Community Studies from UC Santa Cruz with an emphasis in Art Education and a BFA in Sustainable Fashion/Textile Design from California College of the Arts in San Francisco where she graduated with honors as “Emerging Talent.” She is an active member of Southern Sierra Miwuk Nation. In 2018 Tiśina represented SSMN\, alongside tribal leaders\, in Washington D.C. to petition for Federal Recognition\, an ongoing 30+ year battle with the U.S. government for tribal sovereignty. In her lifeway\, Tiśina designs\, creates and collaborates within Native community and works deeply within regenerative design practices to create cultural art and textile work that is in balance with Indigenous ways of being. Tiśina’s life work is dedicated to community building and Indigenous cultural regeneration through the mediums of traditional regalia making\, textiles\, and community cultural arts activism. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAccessibility\n\n\n\nOakland Museum of California (OMCA) is committed to providing programs that are accessible\, welcoming\, and inclusive of our community. Wheelchairs\, sensory inclusive devices\, and additional amenities are available for checkout on a first come\, first served basis at the Ticketing Desk. To request other accommodations\, like American Sign Language (ASL)\, Cantonese\, Spanish or another language interpreter\, please email visitor@museumca.org at least three weeks before the event. Learn more about our accessibility options. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nReturn to Events URL:https://museumca.org/event/spotlight-sundays-cultural-fire-storytelling-and-film-screening/ LOCATION:James Moore Theater\, 1000 Oak St\,\, Oakland\, California\, 94607\, United States CATEGORIES:Spotlight Sundays,Members ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://museumca.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/WAWF-Margo-with-Smoke-1.jpeg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR