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The Month Ahead in Oakland Art
BY Theo Konrad Auer
This month brings us portals into our inner landscapes, an art show slash Barbecue slash group bike, and a large scale show of art that explores issues of race, identity, and cultural hybridity. In other words, there is more than enough for everyone – whatever type of art you gravitate to. Without any further adieu, on with the July art picks.
 

 
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Stories from Jamaica and Beyond
Opal Palmer Adisa has spent a lifetime telling stories. She connects with the griot tradition, an African tradition where poets and musicians act as keepers of history, to involve audiences in her story telling. Adisa, who now lives in Oakland, is a literary critic, renowned storyteller, author of thirteen books, an...
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The Power of Small on Display
Charlotte Schulz’s series of large charcoal drawings entitled An insufficiency in our screens are strange and unnerving works of art that quickly draw the viewer into a world of puzzling objects left discarded in a somber world of billowing darkness and piercing light. These are at once stark, literal, black and wh...
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The Oakland Police Department is advancing a plan to convert  an empty jail in the Eastmont police station into a high-tech command center where specialists will monitor video and audio from surveillance equipment scattered throughout the city....
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