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Art + Race is a creative convergence of provocation, strategy and beauty where designers, visual artists, writers,
musicians, dancers, and filmmakers who are also community organizers, academics, politicians, philanthropists, entrepreneurs and others, come together to reimagine the role and impact that race plays in every aspect of our creative lives.  As part of the ongoing social practice at Impact Hub Oakland, participants of this conference investigate the complicated and difficult realities of society and institutions such as education, transportation, housing, media and beyond to imagine and construct realities that are rooted in intersectional equity.  Art + Race is a project of Omi Gallery curated and produced by Ashara Ekundayo. 

SPEAKERS & PRESENTERS

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SHALINI AGRAWAL // Director of the Center for Art + Public Life at the California College of the Arts
MARY-CLAIRE AMABLE // Poet
IZZA ANWAR // Artist
JONATHAN AXTELL // Artist | Small Business Owner | Community Builder
ANYKA BARBER // Founder, Betti Ono Gallery
MICAH BAZANT // Artist-in-Residence, Forward Together
ROBERTO BEDOYA // Cultural Affairs Manager, City of Oakland
KATHERIN CANTON // Co-Director, Emerging Arts Professionals SF/BA
ANGELA N. CARROLL // Artist | Archivist
JEFF CHANG // Executive Director, Institute for Diversity in the Arts at Stanford University
DEBORAH CULLINAN // CEO, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
DAVE "DAVEY D" COOK // Iconic Pioneer
KIM COOK // Director of Art and Civic Engagement, Burning Man
ASHARA EKUNDAYO // Co-Founder & Chief Creative Officer, Impact Hub Oakland | Director, OMI Gallery
REGINA EVANS // Owner, Regina's Door
CHRISTIAN L. FROCK // Independent Curator | Writer | Educator
WENDY LEVY // Executive Director, The Alliance for Media Arts and Culture
NDUBUISI MADU // Creative Director, UMOJA African Festival
RUE MAPP // Founder, Outdoor Afro
GEORGE MCCALMAN // Creative Director, McCalman.Co
SIAN MORSON // Founder, Kollective Mobile
HOLLY MURCHISON // Founder & CEO, Oratory Glory
LISA NIEDERMEYER // Fractured Atlas
MIKE NICHOLLS // Founder, Umber Magazine
ERI OURA // Magical Sea Turtle | Collective Member, Oakland SOL
MYAH OVERSTREET // Producer of Youth Engagement, The Alliance for Media Arts and Culture
DEVI PEACOCK // Artistic and Executive Director, Peacock Rebellion
FAVIANNA RODRIGUEZ // Executive Director, CultureStrike | Transdisciplinary Artist | Cultural Strategist | Organizer
LAUREN RUFFIN // Fractured Atals
ZOE SAMUDZI // Writer
DOROTHY SANTOS // Writer | Editor | Curator | Educator
NAIMA SHALHOUB // Artist | Musician
KAMAL SINCLAIR // Director, Sundance Institute's New Frontiers Lab Program
JEWELS SMITH // Creator | Writer, (H)afrocentric
DAVINA STEWART // Cultural Worker
AMARA TABOR-SMITH // Artistic Director, Deep Waters Dance Theater | Co-Founder, Headmistress
LEA TUPILI ARELLANO // Mexican/Indigenous Two Spirit Urban Medicine Healer
ANGELA M. WELLMAN // Trombonist | Scholar | Educator | Activist
MARVIN K. WHITE // Public Theologian | Co-Facilitator "Faith Leaders Roundtable" at The Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society
JASON WYMAN // Artist | Writer | Performer | Curator | Educator | Mystic

SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE

FULL SCHEDULE CLICK HERE.
SATURDAY, JUNE 3, 2017 // 9AM to 8:30PM
OPENING BLESSING CEREMONY
with Elder Lea Tupili Arellano

WELCOME 
by Ashara Ekundayo and Holley Murchison

OPENING PLENARY: FOR COLORED BOYS WHEN BEING TALENTED & CAPABLE ARTISTS IS NOT ENOUGH
with George McCalman

PANEL: "CULTIVATING EMERGENT STRATEGIES FOR COURAGEOUS PHILANTHROPY"
with Anyka Barber, Roberto Bedoya, and Kim Cook; Deborah Cullinan, moderator

KEYNOTE: "THE REVOLUTION OF BEING AND SEEING"
by Jeff Chang

WHOLLY HOLY: A THEOPOETICS ON DECOLONIZATION, INTERSECTIONALITY, FAITH, ART, BEAUTY, EQUITY, JOY, & LOVE 
with Marvin K. White

LUNCHTIME TEACH-INS
"USDAC: Platforms For Organizing" with Katherin Canton
"People of Color-Led Cultural Strategies to Fight Displacement" with Eri Oura + Devi Peacock
"Creating across Age & Identity: The Ethics of Intergenerational Development" with Mary Claire Amable, Izza Anwar, Myah Overstreet, and Jason Wyman

PANEL: "ART, RACE + VIRTUAL REALITIES: CAN EMMERSIVE STORYTELLING SOLVE INEQUALITY"
with Wendy Levy and Kamal Sinclair

BREAK OUT SESSIONS
BREAKOUT ONE: "What Happened to the Marching Band?: The Impact of Desegregation on Black Cultural Production" with Angela Wellman
BREAKOUT TWO: Umber Magazine : "Vulnerability and Race: The Very Act of Making & Publishing" with Davina Stewart, Jewels Smith, Ndubuisi Madu, Naima Shalhoub, and Angela N. Carroll; Mike Nicholls, moderator
BREAKOUT THREE: "Intersectional Artivists / Fractured Atlas" with Lauren Ruffin & Lisa Niedermeyer - 
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FRONT PORCH TALK: "CHOREOGRAPHING FREEDOM: CASE STUDIES IN SITE-SPECIFIC PERFORMANCE"
with Amara Tabor Smith and Regina Evans; Ashara Ekundayo, moderator

20X20 TALKS
with Sian Morson, Micah Bazant, Shalini Agrawal

WRAP PANEL: "WATER & FIRE: RACE POLITICS FROM STANDING ROCK TO GHOSTSHIP TO SAN PABLO" 
with Dorothy Santos, Favianna Rodriguez, Christian Frock, and Jonathan Axtell; Davey D, moderator

RELEASING THE ANCESTORS
by Zoe Samudzi

MINDBLOWN: IMPACT M/R SALON  
hosted by AECreative, Variable Labs, Impact Hub Spirit Society IHO, Kapor Center for Social Impact, Fractured Atlas, and The Alliance for Media Arts & Culture
(Wine down reception Meets VR headset technology)


UMBER MAGAZINE LAUNCH PARTY 
offsite

SUNDAY, JUNE 4, 2017 // 11AM to 1:30PM
REMEMBERING OUR GARDENS: HEALING HIKE
with Outdoor Afro


Art + Race joins Outdoor Afro Founder and California Parks & Recreation Commissioner, Rue Mapp  for a nature immersion aimed at helping community heal, breathe, and connect amidst the beautiful flora and fauna of the Botanical Gardens and Lake Merritt.  Together, we’ll have a chance to positively release the complex feelings and emotions we all share about the state of our world’s affairs, and find connectivity and healing needed now more than ever.  Expect positive heartfelt fellowship, stunning beauty, and the reminder of the resiliency we can learn from nature.  Meet-up at 11:00am on the Patio at Impact Hub Oakland, 2323 Broadway. Bring a Water Bottle & Snacks

Every Body Welcome.

(Limited Registration - Required)

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Impact Hub Oakland would like to Thank Our Partners
The Alliance for Media Arts & Culture
Bryant-Terry.com
Center For Art & Public Life at California College of the Arts
Emerging Arts Professionals San Francisco/Bay Area
Fractured Atlas
Institute for Diversity in the Arts at Stanford
Kapor Center for Social Impact
Outdoor Afro
Umber Magazine
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