Oakland Asian Cultural Center

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Oakland Asian Cultural Center OACC builds vibrant communities through Asian and Pacific Islander American (APIA) arts and culture

Dance Classes:
Chinese Folk
Mongolian Folk

Music Classes:
Chinese Zither (GuZheng)
Japanese Taiko Drumming

Martial Arts Classes:
Qi-Gong
Kung Fu
Taiji

Language Arts Classes:
Mongolian
Mandarin
English
Spanish

Visual Arts Classes:
Chinese Painting & Drawing
Japanese Ikebana (Flower Arranging)

10/21/2026

🌟Did you know OACC has a DEIB committee? Join DEIB members Andie, Pam, and Marvin at their upcoming program, "Becoming Leaderful," on fighting racism the unique leadership within YOU. Kim Tran will moderate a panel with experienced community organizers Claudia Leung from New Breath, Tash Nguyen from Restore Oakland, and Krishna Desai, Esq. of Desai Tran on how to meet this moment with models for lasting community change.

This event is free to attend with registration at the link in bio. Food and childcare will be provided (please request childcare when signing up).

🌟Becoming Leaderful: A Panel Discussion on Building the Communities We Want
⏰️ Tuesday, October 27, 2026,
6:30-8 pm
📍 Oakland Asian Cultural Center
388 9th St Suite 290, Oakland
🎟️ FREE tickets at link in bio or at oacc.cc/event/leaderful

10/17/2026

🤔❓What does the statement "we are the ones we've been waiting for" mean to you? Chinatown community members Jessica Chen of Metropolitan Bank and Gary Xie of the Oakland Chinatown Chamber of Commerce share how they find leadership within themselves and their community.

How about you? What do you think "we are the ones we've been waiting for" means? Drop a comment below ⬇️ and register for our free panel on leadership and community building on Tuesday, October 27.

🌟Becoming Leaderful: A Panel Discussion on Building the Communities We Want
⏰️ Tuesday, October 27, 2026,
6:30-8 pm
📍 Oakland Asian Cultural Center
388 9th St Suite 290, Oakland
🎟️ FREE tickets at link in bio or at oacc.cc/event/leaderful

10/16/2026

❓What do you think are good leadership skills? Chinatown community members Stanley Pun of AYPAL and Manyi Leung of the Oakland Chinatown Chamber of Commerce share what qualities they appreciate in leaders.

What do you think are good leadership traits? Drop a comment below ⬇️ and register for our free panel on Tuesday, October 27!

🌟Becoming Leaderful: A Panel Discussion on Building the Communities We Want
⏰️ Tuesday, October 27, 2026,
6:30-8 pm
📍 Oakland Asian Cultural Center
388 9th St Suite 290, Oakland
🎟️ FREE tickets at link in bio or at oacc.cc/event/leaderful

👀 Spotlight on this year's OACC gala raffle prizes! Don't miss the chance to win fabulous prizes from your favorite Bay ...
10/15/2026

👀 Spotlight on this year's OACC gala raffle prizes!

Don't miss the chance to win fabulous prizes from your favorite Bay Area restaurants, bakeries, yoga studios, museums, and experiences, all while supporting our community of artists.

Prizes include premium 2027 Oakland Ballers season tickets, Aburaya Japanese Fried Chicken gift cards, In-n-Out Burger gift cards and swag, pottery class at Kollektiv Clay Studio, Mother Tongue Coffee beans and mugs, tickets to SFMOMA, offers from the Chabot Space and Science Center, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland Zoo, Nest Yoga, Starter Bakery, the Cheese Board, doña restaurant, and much more.

🎟️ Tickets are available at the link in bio, or at oacc.cc/gala2026

🌳 2026 OACC Gala: Holding Place, Holding Space
🗓️ October 24, 2026, 5:30-8:30 pm
📍 Oakland Asian Cultural Center
388 9th Street, Ste 290, Oakland

📽️ One Fighting Irishman: A Film Screening and Panel Discussion⏱️Thursday, November 5, 2026, 6-8 pm📍Oakland Asian Cultur...
10/13/2026

📽️ One Fighting Irishman: A Film Screening and Panel Discussion
⏱️Thursday, November 5, 2026, 6-8 pm
📍Oakland Asian Cultural Center
388 9th St Suite 290, Oakland
🎟️ Free tix at oacc.cc/event/fighting-irishman

Join us for a screening of "One Fighting Irishman", a film by Sharon Yamato and Evan Kodani, followed by a panel discussion around immigrant rights, Japanese American history, and allyship.

Narrated by George Takei, this 30-minute documentary tells the story of Wayne M. Collins, the San Francisco civil rights attorney who prevented more than 5,500 Japanese Americans from being deported after imprisonment at the Tule Lake Segregation Center, considered the worst of America’s ten WWII concentration camps.

The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Sharon Yamato, Dale Minami, Karen Korematsu, Wayne Collins, moderated by Justice Tracie Brown. Light refreshments will be served. Register for free tickets at oacc.cc/event/fighting-irishman

This event is sponsored by the Oakland Asian Cultural Center, Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee and Campaign for Justice, the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society, the Northern District Historical Society and the Federal Bar Association, Northern District of California Chapter.

Deepest gratitute to Changemaker Sponsor Asian Health Services (AHS), a pillar of the Oakland Chinatown community! Thank...
10/08/2026

Deepest gratitute to Changemaker Sponsor Asian Health Services (AHS), a pillar of the Oakland Chinatown community! Thank you for supporting OACC's vital work by sponsoring our 2026 Gala: Holding Place, Holding Space.

Founded in 1974, AHS provides medical, dental, and behavioral health services to more than 50,000 patients. Their approach to well-being focuses on “whole patient health” for all. AHS goes beyond clinic walls and invests in our community’s overall health. They know that income, housing, and environmental struggles lie at the heart of poor health, and also address food insecurity, youth leadership, and culturally competent care while working towards supporting safer streets and vibrant communities. Learn more at asianhealthservices.org.

If you'd like join in supporting OACC's work of social transformation through the arts, the deadline for OACC Gala sponsorship commitment is tomorrow, Friday, October 9. Please contact Dharma Galang, Development Manager, at [email protected] to learn more about sponsorship levels and benefits.

🌳 💪 Ecologies of Resistance: A Conversation with Authors Umi Vaughan, Tiffany Yap and Robert Liu-Trujillo💃 Closing perfo...
10/08/2026

🌳 💪 Ecologies of Resistance: A Conversation with Authors Umi Vaughan, Tiffany Yap and Robert Liu-Trujillo
💃 Closing performance by SambaFunk!
⏰ Sunday, November 15, 2026, 12 noon-2 pm
📍 Oakland Asian Cultural Center
388 9th St Suite 290, Oakland
🎟️ FREE tickets at oacc.cc/event/ecologies-resist

Join us for a conversation with Umi Vaughan, Tiffany Yap, and Robert Liu-Trujillo, three writers and artists whose work sits at the intersection of culture, nature, and resistance. Their work positions human creativity as an expansive response to attacks on land, memory, and cultural ecosystems. Together they will discuss how authors can craft inclusive work that holds history, ecology, and lived experience simultaneously. After the conversation, the audience is invited to boogie down to a closing performance by SambaFunk!

This event is free to attend, but registration is requested at oacc.cc/event/ecologies-resist. Books will be available for sale and signing.

🇲🇳 Gala Performer Highlight: Ger Mongolian Youth 🇲🇳 We are excited to welcome Ger to the OACC 2026 Gala stage! Ger Mongo...
10/08/2026

🇲🇳 Gala Performer Highlight: Ger Mongolian Youth 🇲🇳

We are excited to welcome Ger to the OACC 2026 Gala stage! Ger Mongolian Youth Center was founded in April 2009 by Mongolian immigrants living in the San Francisco Bay Area. Ger is devoted to preserving and promoting the traditional arts, culture and the heritage language among the younger generations of the Mongolian community in the United States. Through intergenerational cultural education, they shape the future of Mongolian heritage in diaspora. Photo by David Flores at OACC's 2024 Lunar New Year x Black History Month Celebration.

Early bird ticket pricing ends on October 10. Secure your tickets at the link in bio, or at oacc.cc/gala2026 now.

🌳 2026 OACC Gala: Holding Place, Holding Space
🗓️ October 24, 2026, 5:30-8:30 pm
📍 Oakland Asian Cultural Center
388 9th Street, Ste 290, Oakland

🐲 Gala Performer Highlight: Comrade Lover Lion Dancers 🐲We are thrilled to welcome Comrade Lover to the OACC 2026 Gala s...
10/07/2026

🐲 Gala Performer Highlight: Comrade Lover Lion Dancers 🐲

We are thrilled to welcome Comrade Lover to the OACC 2026 Gala stage. Comrade Lover began as a lion dancing collective oriented around art, love and justice. So named after “Comrade Lover”, a term for an LGBTQ+ person across many sinophone communities, LGBTQ+ Asian Americans across the Bay Area drum and dance at political actions, celebrations, and festivals to scare away the evil spirits of colonialism, imperialism, racism, transphobia and injustice. Photo by Joyce Xi at OACC's 2026 Lunar New Year x Black History Month Celebration.

Early bird ticket pricing ends on October 10. Secure your tickets at the link in bio, or at oacc.cc/gala2026 now.

🌳 2026 OACC Gala: Holding Place, Holding Space
🗓️ October 24, 2026, 5:30-8:30 pm
📍 Oakland Asian Cultural Center
388 9th Street, Ste 290, Oakland

✨️ Gala Performer Highlight: the Khmer Amathak Dance Ensemble ✨️We are thrilled to welcome these luminous youth to the O...
10/07/2026

✨️ Gala Performer Highlight: the Khmer Amathak Dance Ensemble ✨️

We are thrilled to welcome these luminous youth to the OACC 2026 Gala stage. The Khmer Amathak Dance Ensemble is a vibrant, youth-led ensemble dedicated to honoring and carrying forward the rich tradition of Cambodian classical dance. The dancers bring to life the elegance and beauty of the Apsaras, celestial dancers of the gods. Guided by Moragaut Souet-Samonn, the troupe embodies youth leadership, artistic expression, and community healing. Through the intricate, graceful movements passed down for generations, youth dancers build confidence, strengthen cultural pride, and pay tribute to the artist ancestors whose lives were lost during the Khmer Rouge genocide. Photo by Kenneth Wong.

Early bird ticket pricing ends on October 10. Secure your tickets at the link in bio, or at oacc.cc/gala2026 now.

🌳 2026 OACC Gala: Holding Place, Holding Space
🗓️ October 24, 2026, 5:30-8:30 pm
📍 Oakland Asian Cultural Center
388 9th Street, Ste 290, Oakland

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388 9th Street , Suite 290
Oakland, CA
94607

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Wednesday 12pm - 5pm
Thursday 12pm - 5pm
Friday 12pm - 5pm
Saturday 12pm - 5pm

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+15106370455

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