NO PLACE LIKE THE TOWN

Edutainment for Equity is hosting an event at the center of our city to collectively grieve, to imagine a future, to acknowledge both our pain and our power.  We are calling all of the artists and spritualists, all of the activists and healers, producers and conveners to join us in Frank Ogawa Plaza at noon to make art, demand more from our city, and collectively plead with any who listen that art is for everybody.  This is not a protest against anything or anyone, this is a call to the creative forces that have truly built this city and those who continue to make lasting contributions to come together and collectively affirm that we deserve more.  The agenda is simple:  Collective Strategic Dreaming,  Live Poetry Performances, and ceremony to call on our ancestors.   We need you creatives to be there with us, and to bring your imagination to set a course for the future.

On July 27, 2024, artists, civic leaders, and community health providers in 18 cities and towns across America will simultaneously premiere an array of large-scale participatory art projects which will draw on the sounds, styles, and stories of their communities to answer the prompt “No place like home.”

In big cities and rural counties, hundreds of actors, muralists, poets, folk dancers, circus clowns, farmers, flower artists, skaters, cooks, architects, DJs, puppeteers, nurses, mariachi players, bamboo weavers and more will create new works that show the world where they come from. The result will be a celebration of American pluralism–of unity through diversity. From Seattle to Gainesville, from Providence to Honolulu, it will be an outpouring of local joy. In Oakland our contribution is No Place Like The Town.

NO PLACE LIKE THE TOWN, BROUGHT TOGETHER WITH SUPPORT FROM BAOBOB