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  • Friday Nights at OMCA with Artelia Green & The Bandanas

    OMCA campus

    Friday Nights at OMCA is offering up powerful vibrations with live music performances from Artelia Green & The Bandanas and Let’s Lab w/ Shanté!. Artelia Green & The Bandanas craft an immersive sound experience that brings audiences to a different time and space. Blending together gospel and funk, Artelia Green & The Bandanas invites audiences to contend with grief on the road to transcendence. Let’s Lab w/ Shanté! offers healing tones as Shanté is set to share her warm and cozy blend of Hip Hop, R&B, and rap that is sure to inspire you.

    Free

  • Care-Van: Get Out the Vote Campaign

    Care Van: Get Out the Vote Campaign
    Oak Street Plaza 1000 Oak St, Oakland, California, United States

    After multiple stops across the U.S. the Care Van booth will be stationed in OMCA’s Oak Street Plaza from August 7 to August 18 during which visitors are invited to anonymously record their questions about ballot measures and voter barriers.

  • Care-Van: Get Out the Vote Campaign

    Care Van: Get Out the Vote Campaign
    Oak Street Plaza 1000 Oak St, Oakland, California, United States

    After multiple stops across the U.S. the Care Van booth will be stationed in OMCA’s Oak Street Plaza from August 7 to August 18 during which visitors are invited to anonymously record their questions about ballot measures and voter barriers.

  • Care-Van: Get Out the Vote Campaign

    Care Van: Get Out the Vote Campaign
    Oak Street Plaza 1000 Oak St, Oakland, California, United States

    After multiple stops across the U.S. the Care Van booth will be stationed in OMCA’s Oak Street Plaza from August 7 to August 18 during which visitors are invited to anonymously record their questions about ballot measures and voter barriers.

  • Care-Van: Get Out the Vote Campaign

    Care Van: Get Out the Vote Campaign
    Oak Street Plaza 1000 Oak St, Oakland, California, United States

    After multiple stops across the U.S. the Care Van booth will be stationed in OMCA’s Oak Street Plaza from August 7 to August 18 during which visitors are invited to anonymously record their questions about ballot measures and voter barriers.

  • Care-Van: Get Out the Vote Campaign

    Care Van: Get Out the Vote Campaign
    Oak Street Plaza 1000 Oak St, Oakland, California, United States

    After multiple stops across the U.S. the Care Van booth will be stationed in OMCA’s Oak Street Plaza from August 7 to August 18 during which visitors are invited to anonymously record their questions about ballot measures and voter barriers.

  • Friday Nights at OMCA with Orchestra Gold

    OMCA campus

    Join us for another sensational installation of Friday Nights at OMCA! This Friday, OMCA is honored to welcome Orchestra Gold to the OMCA Garden stage. Spearheaded by the dynamic Mariam Diakite—known for her raw, hypnotic vocals and poetic Bambara lyrics—Orchestra Gold pays homage to Malian musical traditions while crafting a fierce new sound with heavy swinging rhythms, a funky fresh brass section, and cosmic guitar licks. Their most recent album, Medicine, mobilizes dance-inducing music to invoke the spirit and spread healing and community. DJ Teao Sense and their highly eclectic stylings with music from all over the world also celebrate how our diversity can create powerful and groovy waves.

    Free

  • Care-Van: Get Out the Vote Campaign

    Care Van: Get Out the Vote Campaign
    Oak Street Plaza 1000 Oak St, Oakland, California, United States

    After multiple stops across the U.S. the Care Van booth will be stationed in OMCA’s Oak Street Plaza from August 7 to August 18 during which visitors are invited to anonymously record their questions about ballot measures and voter barriers.

  • Care-Van: Get Out the Vote Campaign

    Care Van: Get Out the Vote Campaign
    Oak Street Plaza 1000 Oak St, Oakland, California, United States

    After multiple stops across the U.S. the Care Van booth will be stationed in OMCA’s Oak Street Plaza from August 7 to August 18 during which visitors are invited to anonymously record their questions about ballot measures and voter barriers.

  • Afrobeats Oakland

    Friday Nights at OMCA | Afrobeats Oakland Takeover

    OMCA campus

    Come join us for the Afrobeats Oakland Friday Nights Takeover! Oakland’s most exciting arts and culture brand is partnering with OMCA to host the welcome party for their Annual Afrobeats at the Lake Festival. Afrobeats Oakland shares a taste of their main festival by coloring Friday Nights with a melding of various African cultures, music, and dance. Between the dance tutorials and dance party, the Ethiopian tea ceremony, the live DJ set and the performances from Juan G, KOKO, Christina Alexandria, Asaba, and other special guests, OMCA is set to welcome guests of all ages and backgrounds to a Friday Nights like none other!

    Free
  • Telice Summerfield

    Friday Nights at OMCA | Dance Battle w/ Telice Summerfield

    OMCA campus

    Come through to Friday Nights at OMCA to be a part of a magical moment rooted in Oakland! OMCA is excited to host WHO GOT THE MOVES, a turf dance battle with community leader Telice Summerfield. Featuring not only various competition structures including 1v1 battles, youth battles, and an all style tournament, but also a free prize giveaway with a chance to win free food at some of Oakland’s best restaurants, this event is set to fill the OMCA Garden space with authentic Oakland culture. The second of its kind and once again driven by Telice’s passion for community, the turf battle is also meant to support the exposure, connection, and collaboration of Oakland businesses and organizations. This unforgettable Friday Nights at OMCA will be backdropped with killer beats from DJ Nick Fury who blends Hip Hop, Afro Beats, House, and Bounce to craft a sonic atmosphere where everyone feels the beat and moves as one!

    Free