Tag: cultural festivals

Our primary audience is the Bayview Hunters Point community, but we serve the entire city. We center Black and Brown artists, youth and families. Programming ranges from live music, theater and cultural festivals to workforce development, artist residencies, film screenings and community forums. It’s intentionally multi-use — art, culture and civic engagement all under one roof.

Prosperity Movement, an Oakland-based group of artists and activists, is using its platform to promote peace and prosperity in a changing Oakland landscape. The group’s founder and front man, Adimu Madyun, makes it his mission to use art as a way of educating local youth and adults, who he says are bearing the brunt of gentrification in their native city.