Workshops
Ongoing
From hands-on art making to storytelling and performance, our workshops will inspire your creativity, engage your senses, and expand your ideas.
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Personal Flag Generator Workshop
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Holding Space Workshop
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35mm Needlework Workshop
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Films - Past
Films - Past
Events
Upcoming Events
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Sunday, June 30, 2 PMWorkshop: Painting as a Healing Tool
Dana Dart-McLean shares experiential exercises designed to increase mindfulness and a sense of flow, encouraging new relationships to painting as a process rather than an outcome.
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Saturday, July 27, 11 AM35mm Needlework Workshop
Join filmmakers Linda Scobie and Courtney Fellion to create manipulated textural images with found 35mm slides.
Programmed by Alix Blevins
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Sunday, July 28, 3 PMEast Asian Calligraphy Workshop
Master calligrapher and painter Kazuaki Tanahashi presents a lecture-demonstration on the history and techniques of brush calligraphy, followed by a hands-on workshop.
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Sunday, August 4, 2 PMVisual Poem Workshop
Explore the intersections of language, image, and identity by creating a visual translation of a poem.
Past Events
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Saturday, May 25, 1 PMHolding Space Workshop
This weaving workshop with artists Angie Wilson and Rashidi Omari offers a place to connect with the experience of embodied art making while working through social justice issues in community.
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Saturday, May 18, 11 AMPersonal Flag Generator Workshop
Work with CCA graphic design professors Jon Sueda and Christopher Hamamoto to construct your own personal flag poster to print on the Art Lab Risograph.
Programmed by Denis Kan
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Sunday, April 21, 1 PMUnity Day
Hang out with members of the Unity Queer Skateboarding crew for a day of zine making, skateboard painting, and clothing decorating, plus a DJ set and broadcast workshop by Lower Grand Radio.
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Sunday, March 24, 12 PMCollage Cinema Workshop
In this workshop led by members of Oakland’s Low Light/Black Hole darkroom collective, learn to use constructive and destructive processes to create a collaborative work directly on 16mm film.
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Sunday, March 3, 2 PMPrompts for Inclusion Workshop
Join writer, curator, and public scholar Christian L. Frock and friends for a reading and dialogue about how we can foster greater inclusion in public life.
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Sunday, February 17, 1 PMDream Fields with Nkiruka Oparah
Explore the use of dreams to illuminate alternative nonlinear timelines, access collective and ancestral knowledge, and map inner landscapes.
Programmed by Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo
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Saturday, January 5, 6 PMDecolonize the Imagination: Future Landscapes with Tosha Stimage
This collage and weaving workshop focuses on imagining the reconstruction of historical, social, and geographic inequity.
Programmed by Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo