Hey, is Density from Valencia in the Mission moving over here? Hmmmm?
Hey, south side of Lake Merritt! PERFECT for the occult. Or elves. or BOTH.
Diamond Shining Art collective will be showing artwork for the whole month of November starting at OAKLAND ART WALK this Friday the 5th. Artist Ras Terms, Deadeyes, Safety First, Ashrose, and Antjuan Telepathic Jones coming together taking you through afro-galactic fine street art and invocations.
2318 Telegraph Avenue Oakland, CA 94612
From: http://www.deepoakland.org/about?page=100
DEEP OAKLAND CALL FOR PROPOSALS
We are currently seeking proposals for intermedia projects to be presented online in 2009-10. We will be offering small start up grants (no more than $250 each) for proposals that need funding for materials.
We will consider both new creative works and archival projects. We are especially interested in work that examines the social, cultural, economic, historical and political conditions into and out of which Oakland residents live, relate and make (make art, text, family, video, buildings, clothing, etc.) We are also interested in collaborative and multi-disciplinary projects.
Some examples of proposed projects and/or projects currently underway:
• Studio visits / interviews with local artists.
• Scene reports from performance sites (music, theater, reenactments, readings, etc.)
• A piece that focuses on sound recordings from farmer’s markets in several different Oakland neighborhoods.
• A photography series of Oakland taco trucks documenting the customers at these locations at particular times, such as noon and midnight.
• A photography series of houses and institutions meaningful in the history of the Hell’s Angels, and a photography series of houses and institutions meaningful in the history of the Black Panthers.
• Video works: an hour-long visual & sonic exploration of east bay tides/shoreline.
• Mass observation of a location or event in Oakland and Miami, FL, and/or another city.
• Short interviews with longtime Oakland residents and then presentations of an older photo from their personal album, along with a current photo of the same location.
• A collection of photographs, zines and other materials from private archives of materials around the Weather Underground.
• Walking tours.
We encourage those interested to take a look at the website. Proposals should include a short description of the project, budget and material needs if any, and some sort of work sample.
Please email proposals to deep.oakland@gmail.com. Consideration of proposals will begin on November 1 and continue until we run out of funds.
Endless Canvas adds original street art and graffiti photos to the site daily along with interviews and events. All the pics are taken by our own team of photographers.
Cities are more than the people, buildings and geographical areas that define them. They are a nexus of connections creating active, vital communities. The size and shape of these connections may be invisible, even to the residents of a given city. And the location where one thing in the city connects to another thing is often on the move. Points of connectivity may be small, short-lived, visible only on a one-block radius. Connections mutate. Yet the way a city ‘looks’ from the outside (media) can remain proportionately static with the actual generation and re-generation of communities over time, the transit and intersections of people, water, money, memory, ballots, animals, concrete, water, labor, food and information.
Affiliated with neither the tourism nor better business bureaus, Deep Oakland seeks to create a compendium of inter-linked images, text and sound that represent the complications and vitality of Oakland’s current moment.
Uptown: Sole/Astronautalis/Sahib - $10
The Fox Theater: Monsters of Folk - $40
Cafe Van Kleef: Musashi Trio - $5
The Stork Club: Tennis Pro, The Enigmatics, The Mopes, Sam Uptown - $5
924 Gilman: Schlong, Social Unrest, Classics of Love, Druglords of the Ave, Dr. Frank (acoustic), Fugitive Kind
