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‘Comrade Sisters’ elevates the women of the Black Panther Party
More than 65% of the members of the Black Panther Party were women. Women of all ages, many of them young—teenagers, even. They taught at community schools, registering voters, handing out free food and running free medical...
West Edge Opera illuminates forgotten histories
As Oakland’s always-innovative West Edge Opera gears up for the 2026 season in August, two of its choices this year look back in time to spotlight the lives of people who defied society’s rigid sexual categories—and were,...
Cece Carpio transforms memory into community art
For as long as memory serves, visual art has been a means of connection, adaptation and survival for Cece Carpio. Expressed through paper, pencil, ink, acrylic and aerosol paint, or installations that might include sticks, fabric, shoes,...
Pragati Sharma Mohanty reimagines the ‘Ramayana’ through Sita’s story
When Pragati Sharma Mohanty was a little girl growing up in India, the nation was riveted to a television show telling the epic tale of the Ramayana. But as an adult, she said in a phone interview,...
Jack London Square adds hopscotch murals that turn sidewalks into public art
A woman talks on the phone as she walks along Jack London Square’s Third Street. Suddenly she looks down, then up again, then down. She starts hopping. One foot, then two, then one and two, until she...
Mylo Cardona uses theater to build queer community and resistance
To Oakland’s Mylo Cardona, theater is a space of community and belonging. For them, artistic expression is an extension of both the personal and the political—creation as an act of resistance against hierarchical structures of the status...
Maren Hassinger turns trash into art at BAMPFA
Watch for a scramble in September, when Cal undergraduates will line up to help scatter—and then reclaim—trash. As part of the ongoing retrospective at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), “Maren Hassinger: Living Moving...
