LIVE

Destani will sing a song she arranged at the FESTAC CULTURAL ARTS FESTIVAL 2018.

WHERE: Old Oakland 9th & Washington Street Corridor  WHEN: September 1st, (12noon-10pm)
Website: www.theoaklandcannery.com
FREE ALL AGE EVENT“OCC”: Oakland Cannery Collective

FESTAC: Festival Of Arts & Culture

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The Oakland Cannery Collective, with Oakland’s independently owned small- business community and arts organizations are working together to preserve Oakland’s authentic, rich culture in the face of gentrification that is displacing the very people and communities that make our city diverse and unique. Together, we are producing a free, all ages one-day music, art and culture festival on Labor Day Weekend, September 1, 2018 in support of community arts from 12noon-10pm.

The festival, “FESTAC”, will celebrate our diversity and pride through live performances, artisan “studios on the streets”, makers fair style and swap meet, chefs and Bay Area artist showcasing their talents. All furniture from Berkeley’s Urban Ore will be for sale and contribute to the fundraising aspect.

In under 4 months, “OCC” had launched a successful media campaign and lobbied lawmakers to protect work-live spaces from displacement, in order to promote co-existence of artists and newly emerging businesses. We received unanimous support from city-council and cannabis commissions while assisted the Mayors office of “city policy for art spaces”. This collaborative community effort led to the rapid development of the “FESTAC” cultural arts festival. Now is the time to work together as unified local artistic communities to enact policies that will protect, engage, and enhance art and cultural activities. With your support we can create a solid foundation to organize all communities and represent these issues.
Featured artist at the FESTAC 2018 Festival are:
MCEE:
• Luis Medina (KPFA)
• Sterling James (KBLX)
• Douglas Stewart (Indigenous House)
• Preston Justice (Oakland Museum)

Music: • Berkeley raised Destani Wolf preparing for her debut as the lead vocalist in the new 2018 creation of Cirque Du Soleil world tour. American actor, direct from Paris France, multi recording artist and international recognized touring musician, Gary Dourdan and DLee, an American singer song-writer, touring musician and actor based in Paris and Oakland local Jacques Ibula from the Republic of Congo Africa. Poets: • Umar Bin Hassan is an African-American poet associated with The Last Poets, Tongo Eisen-Martin originally from San Francisco and Karla F. Brundage Is a poet, essayist, activist, performer and teacher.

Chefs: • Romney Steele of the Cook & Her Farmer, Sarah Kirnon of Miss Ollies, chef Chikara Ono of Delage and Chef David Smith of Kid Creole Soul Food.

Artist: • Arthur Monroe, abstract expressionist and retired chief registrar of the Oakland Museum, Brett Amory of the “Waiting Series and Twenty-Four San Francisco and visual artist Christine Mays who developed a way of expressing the human form through wire architecture.

Makers: • Willie Hampui, born in Berkeley of Medicine Hat, Daniel Wright, self trained leather worker from Oakland and Jules Henry, a mechanical and welding engineer from Big Sur CA and many more…