PLACE

PLACE Our community maker space allows folks to gain access to the tools they need to create for their communities.

PLACE, located on Huichin Territory, Ohlone Chochenyo Native lands (in North Oakland), is an educational center, maker space and community resource for healing, organizing, regenerative design and affordable housing This sustainability hub allows people to see solutions in practice and gain access to the knowledge and resources to empower them to take action in their own lives, neighborhoods, town

s, cities, and bio-regions. We wish this green center will replicate into communities across the world through the integration with community centers, schools, park & recreation facilities and other local organizations.

Dear PLACE community,With great sadness, we are writing to acknowledge the passing of Marcus Zamani, a long time steward...
07/25/2026

Dear PLACE community,

With great sadness, we are writing to acknowledge the passing of Marcus Zamani, a long time steward and forever friend of PLACE. We are writing to invite you to honor and remember him this Saturday, July 25.

There will be two opportunities to honor Marcus on Saturday:

10am–12pm — Garden gathering at Oakland Peace Center
We’ll gather in the garden to help create and care for it in Marcus’s memory.
RSVP: https://partiful.com/e/bb0nooADB0GCcBRJTbxZ?

1–4pm — Celebration of Life at the Omni Commons Ballroom
A larger gathering for stories, remembrance, and celebrating the life Marcus shared with so many people. RSVP: https://partiful.com/e/yhhvpHA2nQ0MhJGMSwLk?

Whether you knew Marcus from PLACE or from his work at Omni Commons, his storefront community art space or the numerous other community projects that he supported over the years, you are encouraged to attend.

If you have a memory, photo, video, or story to share, please add it to his tribute page:
https://online-tribute.com/marcuszamani

And if you have the means, contributions toward funeral and memorial costs are welcome to me directly or here:
https://gofundme.com/f/funeral-fundraiser-for-marcus-zamani-sickle-cell

Please share this with anyone who loved Marcus or should know he is being remembered.

Hey PLACE community 🏡🌱Many of us have called this space home for gatherings, workshops, and the kind of conversations th...
05/08/2026

Hey PLACE community 🏡🌱

Many of us have called this space home for gatherings, workshops, and the kind of conversations that actually matter. Even though PLACE has closed its doors, the community lives on — and we wanted to make sure you knew about something happening tomorrow, Saturday May 9 that carries that same spirit.

Bay Delta Bioregional Unconference for Regeneration
📍 Oakstop, 2323 Broadway, Oakland | 9am–5pm

Open-format, participant-driven day. No fixed agenda — you propose the sessions, you shape the day. Bioregional resilience, food systems, ecological restoration, mutual aid, housing justice, cooperative community. All the things we used to talk about in this room.

🎟 Sliding scale / work-trade: https://events.humanitix.com/bay-delta-bioregional-unconference-for-regeneration

No one turned away for lack of funds. Come as you are. 🌿
Cohosted with East Bay Permaculture

PS: 🌍 We are a local partner of the Global Earth Repair Convergence. Join them online the day before (Friday May 8) and the day after (Sunday May 10): https://globalearthrepairconvergence.com/online-program

TODAY, February 28th is the Final day to complete our decommissioning of PLACE. Come thru if you can 1121 64th street, O...
02/28/2026

TODAY, February 28th is the Final day to complete our decommissioning of PLACE. Come thru if you can 1121 64th street, Oakland CA 94608. It has been a whirlwind of a couple months as we have successfully donated loads of our equipment to other non-profit organizations, emerging community art spaces, schools, and fellow neighbors. What some experts thought would take 40 to 80 yards of dumpsters, we have managed to dump only 8 yards of unusable things, as we have made every effort to re-home things to mission aligned groups. We will be making a more thorough report of who received pieces of PLACE in the near future, but we just wanted to honor the efforts of all the volunteers who have been showing up to assist in this process. It was certainly more time consuming than tossing in a big dumpster, but in the end, the equipment, tools and resources have a 2nd, 3rd and 4th life, as we have stayed in alignment with our ecological values to reduce, re-use, and recycle. In the golden hour of today, between 4:30pm and 5:30pm, we are going to make a toast to the 15 years of community service and take a final group photo of the cleared space with any volunteers and supporters still around, and to acknowledge those who came by these past 2 months to help us decommission the space. Any drone photo folks out there want to come document?

EVERYTHING MUST GO! THIS WEEKENDPLACE is detransitioning from this space this month. Like the worms, we compost. Everyth...
02/09/2026

EVERYTHING MUST GO! THIS WEEKEND

PLACE is detransitioning from this space this month. Like the worms, we compost. Everything for sale!
All proceeds to go to the next iteration of PLACE.

QTBIPOC/DIY organizations: Message us ASAP - we want to prioritize donating to you!

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email: [email protected]

fri & sat, Feb 14 & 15
during the day
1121 64th st, oakland

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02/06/2026

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01/25/2026

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1121 64th Street
Oakland, CA
94608

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