We are excited to announce our 2nd AfroPortals Community Archiving Day co-presented by AAFR, EastSide Cultural’s Community Archival Resource Project (CARP), and Bay Area Lesbian Archives (BALA). This archive day centers Black Queer Folks and Families in Oakland and the San Francisco Bay Area.

AAFR founder and Curator Ashara Ekundayo is excited to return to the Oakland Creative Mornings platform as Co-Host for June’s convening featuring Creative Director and DJ Jena Dominique!

Join Prana to the People this May for a special edition of Revolutionary Rest, hosted by Ietef “DJ CAVEM” Vita and presented by the Alameda County Behavioral Health Department with support from Artist as First Responder, Oakland ReCAST, and the Huey P. Newton Foundation.

Join us in Oakland for our monthly Men’s Wellness Fellowship, an evening dedicated to community building, wellness, and collective care for Men of Color of all ages.

Free vinyasa flow and healing sound bath! Join us for the one year anniversary!

A guided movement ritual/meditation/ divination/writing/ storytelling practice for collective liberation and wellbeing stewarded by amara tabor-smith.

Do you have materials and memories related to your family’s history and legacy in Deep East Oakland? Dust them off, bring them over, and share them with the community!

A documentary on the life and legacy of Toni Cade Bambara and her impact on Black Feminist Through and organizing. Free screening featuring a q&a with director Louis Massiah.

Calling all mothers, daughters, sisters, aunties, and nieces, of color.

Free community vinyasa flow and healing sound bath!

Join us for a collard greens cook off and film screening of They’re Trying to Kill Us (2021) by co-directors John Lewis and Keegan Kuhn.

Join us under the moonlight for a sacred evening of movement, breath, and sound.

We invite you to a Special Community Fellowship Experience Specifically for “Men Of Color”. All Ages: Fathers, Brothers, Uncles, & Sons.

Join Artist As First Responder & the Black Women In Mourning & Joy Collective for "We (re)MEMBER Us" - A guided, interactive, multi-channel vocal and rhythmic ceremony to witness and transmute grief from state-sanctioned violence, displacement, and death.

DJ Cavem touches down in Cuba as part of Jazz Plaza Festival, bringing eco-hip hop, rhythm, and deep diasporic exchange to Havana. Catch him featuring Ayana Amorim and Lauren Von Der Pool on Friday, January 30th at Amadeo Roldán Music Conservatory with the student music academy, and again Saturday, January 31 at Pabellón Cuba with The Producer Night Band.

DJ Cavem touches down in Cuba as part of Jazz Plaza Festival, bringing eco-hip hop, rhythm, and deep diasporic exchange to Havana. Catch him featuring Ayana Amorim and Lauren Von Der Pool on Friday, January 30th at Amadeo Roldán Music Conservatory with the student music academy, and again Saturday, January 31 at Pabellón Cuba with The Producer Night Band.

Revolutionary Rest returns to the Black Panther Party Museum this month, offering an evening of collective care through yoga and sound healing.

Calling all brothers, sons, fathers, and uncles of color. Men’s Wellness Fellowship kicks off again this year on January 27th with speacial guest BLEAF in Fatherhood, entrepreneur and author of “Father Yourself First.” Join us for what will be a powerful community exchange. Free and open to all ages!

Join us at Kinfolx on MLK day in support of our urban agriculture comrades ReglaSOUL in Havana. We’re calling in donations of holistic health supplies, natural hair products, socks, hard drive, old cell phones, routers, and anything placed on your spirit to share.

Revolutionary Rest returns to the Black Panther Party Museum this month, offering an evening of collective care through yoga and sound healing.

Get Ready to Move and Grow! Join Grammy-nominated music educator and eco-hip-hop artist Dr. Ietef “DJ Cavem” Vita for an immersive, interactive experience that fuses climate justice, ancestral food sovereignty, music, and youth empowerment.

On October 31, the Château de La Napoule hosted the Open Studio of the Mirabello Family Residency, featuring Dr. Ietef Vita.

Revolutionary Rest returns to the Black Panther Party Museum this month, offering an evening of collective care through yoga and sound healing.

Hear from curators and experts on Detroit’s role as a nexus for diaspora and African art, and how it can expand the conversation on the international stage.

Join Ayana V. Jackson for a deep dive presentation into her interdisciplinary practice with an AAFR-backed artist talk moderated by Dr. Courtney Desiree Morris.

From ritual and research to transnational collaboration, Ashara Ekundayo and Ayana V. Jackson will reflect on their longstanding relationship and the ways in which Black feminist thought has shaped their work across photography, performance, and curatorial practice.

Men’s Wellness Fellowship is back at the Black Panther Party Museum this month, holding space for men of color to gather. Pull up for community, shared wisdom, food and drink, and heartfelt conversations related to wellness.

The sidewalk libraries will continue the celebration of the late American writer and civil rights activist that began last September with Nelson’s landmark exhibition Frontline Prophet: James Baldwin at the Wright  Museum. The exhibit celebrated the author’s 100th birthday. In the last three years Nelson’s “Frontline Prophet:  James Baldwin” has been exhibited in Detroit, Chicago, Harlem and Long Island New York, New Orleans,  Oakland. CA, and Paris, France.  

Revolutionary Rest returns to the Black Panther Party Museum this month, offering an evening of collective care through yoga and sound healing.