Oakland Appoints Cultural Affairs Commissioners After Nine-Year Hiatus
The commission, inactive since 2011, will advise city officials on policy affecting the arts, and advocate for the Cultural Funding Program (CFP), which awards $1 million to local artists and nonprofits annually. Its revival marks another step in the city’s fitful efforts to buoy the arts.
In 2018 more than ever, it’s important to remember that mental health, mindfulness, and intention should be tended to just as much as your winter skin, or your beach body. And we’re lucky to have a wealth of new books to help focus the mind and bring some peace, clarity, and wisdom to our daily routines.
BC2 2019 speaker profile: Michelle “Mush” Lee on the deeper connections across our lives.
“Stories can break the dignity of a people. But stories can also repair that broken dignity.” ― Chimamanda Adichie
I am a storyteller. I am a poet. I am a stepmother and birthmother. I am a cultural movement worker and healing-informed activist, whose commitment is to an embodied ethic of justice and joy, wherever I am invited in.
It was probably only a matter of time before someone made a movie about First Fridays — the monthly event is, after all, a deeply cinematic affair, a fairly perfect encapsulation all of Oakland's contradictions…
