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📚 Sistah Scifi is asking for your nomination for the @jamespattersonbooks Holiday Bookstore Bonus.

In the video, our founder Isis Asare shares what we would do with the bonus: restock our online shop, restock the Sistah Scifi Book Vending Machines in Seattle and Oakland, and bring A is for Afrofuturism to libraries across the country.

Swipe to watch James Patterson's announcement.

👉🏾 Nominate Sistah Scifi by October 29, 11:59 PM ET:
form.jotform.com/262385106292154

Thank you for your support! 🤎

#SistahScifi #JamesPattersonBookstoreBonus #IndieBookstore #BlackOwnedBookstore #BlackSpeculativeFiction #SupportBlackAuthors #Library

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Calling all teens, educators and families! Take a breather between the busy school week and the weekend ahead at our whimsical center for creative writing.

As part of our Write, Speak, Heal collaborative with Youth Speaks and Divine Radiance, join poet, playwright, organizer, and educator Mahogany L. Browne for an afternoon celebrating young people’s self-expression, resilience, and wellness.

An Afternoon with Mahogany Browne 💐
Location: 546 9th St, Oakland, CA 94607
Date: October 9th, 2026
Time: 4:30pm-5:30pm. Doors open at 4pm.

https://www.chapter510.org/events/chapter-510-anafternoonwithmahoganybrowne

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Where i’ll be this month 🍂

🎙️ @floatingtoshore at @nightheron1780
📚@litquake with @mobrowne at @chapter510
🦋 Take Up Space Open mic at @csumb_library
🌊 Waking up Woman by @nijla1 at @nomadicbookshop
🎤 Lit Crawl Phase 1 at @medicinefornightmares

🗓️ Mark your calendars!
I’ll be featuring at @berkeleyslam on 11/11

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¡Felicitaciones a Chapter 510, ganador de la subvención Becas de Impacto de NBCUniversal 2026!⁠
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NBC Bay Area y Telemundo 48 esperan con entusiasmo ver los próximos pasos de Chapter 510 mientras conectan a los jóvenes con el poder de sus propias historias.⁠
Conozca más sobre los ocho beneficiarios de la subvención en el Área de la Bahía en el link de nuestra bio.⁠
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#LocalImpactGrants #BecasDeImpacto

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When women gather, magic always happens. This past Saturday @thepaschalhuntergallery hosted @blackfeministbookclub for their book club meetup.
#beautiful #black #women #oakland #supportwomen

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Youth Speaks is back in Oakland with after-school writing workshops at Chapter 510!  
Calling all young writers, poets, performers, and storytellers ages 13–19. Join us to sharpen your writing and performance skills, craft your voice, and explore how your stories can shape the way people see themselves, their communities, and the world around them.

Write new work, share your perspective, and connect with other young artists in Oakland.

*$200 Stipends Available for participants who attend all 3rd Wednesday workshops this fall. Stipends are limited.

1st and 3rd Wednesdays 5pm-7pm
September 16-December 16
 Register using the link in our bio!

#WritingWorkshop #AfterSchcool #Oakland #poetry #YouthSPeaks

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“The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution.” - Dr. Huey P. Newton

As we celebrate 60 years of the Black Panthers, it is more important than ever to pass on the legacy, strategy, and community-care models of the Party to a new generation.

That’s why we’re bringing in 1,000 high school students into the convening, to participate and provide their insight in a constantly changing world.

This means:
✊🏾 Removing financial barriers
✊🏾 Full access to all panels, workshops, and political education sessions.
✊🏾 Passing the torch directly: Building connections across generations with elders, organizers, and each other.

The revolution doesn’t end with us. It continues with them.

Submit the form on our website to request access.

#blackpantherparty #blackpower #allpowertothepeople #bpp60 #youthmovement

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We’re thrilled to announce Shreya Shankar as our #CMCurrent speaker 🌊

🎤 Guest host: Jeneé Darden @jenee.darden
🎟️Registration is open now!
🗓️ Friday September 11
☕️ Doors at 8:30, talk starts at 9
📍 @chapter510

Shreya Shankar’s practice is where ancestral forms and futurisms meet across the mediums of design, organizing, policy, worldbuilding, place-keeping, myth-making and meaning-making.
Their work engages collective memory, place, and the radical imagination, prototyping across systems and forms.

They have degrees in Environmental Policy, Urban Planning, and Architecture from UC Berkeley and CCA. Informed by spiritual ecology, folklore, and foresight, Shreya Shankar’s practice explores the space between ancestral cosmologies and liberatory near-futures.

📸 by @aminayasmin_

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Ecology Center’s poet in residence Gabriel Cortez’s “Student Movement Abecedarian” recaptures the fierce spirit of student activism, including from the 1964–65 Free Speech Movement at UC Berkeley. If you were there, it’s etched into your memory. If you weren’t, it’s still part of your DNA.

This month, students head back to campus, where from the Mario Savio Steps at UC Berkeley to the Freedom Riders Monument at Tennessee State University, we are reminded of the vital contribution of student activists to justice and equity.

In Fall 2023, an intergenerational cohort of twenty Bay Area poets gathered for a six week writing workshop intensive led by the Ecology Center’s (@ecology.center) inaugural poet in residence, Gabriel Cortez (@gabrielmcortez), to create new original poems uplifting environmental justice, food sovereignty, land sovereignty, and local lineages of resistance. Select poems were toured throughout Berkeley schools, farmers markets, book fairs, and more. A handful of poems by CieraJevae (@ms.missing_my_bed), Erzsabet Gonzalez (@erzsa.g), Maya Zeff (@eco.poetry), Zara Jamshed (@zeejamz) were turned into short films to be shared online.

Filmmaker: @yoram.savion
Editor: @xi.arel
Special thanks to @chapter510 for letting us film in their Old Oakland location
This project was funded by the @calartscouncil and @ybca.

📼More poetry videos dropping each Friday in September.

#fyp #poetry #spokenword #poetryslam #activism

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Hey Youth + Community!! 👋🏽👋🏾👋🏿 Pull up to our planting day at the #GardenofDreams this Saturday 8/29 - EVERYONE IS WELCOME! 11am-2pm for another community planting day as we gather in our little (but mighty!) backyard and plant together in the #GardenOfDreams! ALL YOUTH ages 13-25 get a cash stipend for gardening!! Break out your sun hats and SPF - we are there to vibe! 👏🏾🌱☀️💕

#GardenofDreams #youthgardens #dreamyouthclinic

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For nine months, 14 seventh graders at Westlake Middle School met weekly with teaching artists from Chapter 510 — pairing creative writing with hands-on book arts to turn memoir and poetry into their own hand-made zines. Their work honored six different home languages represented in the classroom, and the year closed with students reading their finalized projects aloud.

This partnership was made possible through PVF's Visiting Artist in the Classroom Resource Grant Program.

This year also marks Chapter 510's 10th anniversary — a decade of connecting over 6,500 young people in Oakland to the power of their stories, and publishing more than 100 youth-penned books.

PVF is proud to help support schools and programs that create space for young people to learn and express themselves.

Read more in our August Progress Newsletter — link in our bio!

#YouthVoices #CreativeWriting #OaklandNonprofits #PhilanthropicVenturesFoundation #Chapter510 #BookArts #YouthEmpowerment #OaklandYouth #MiddleSchoolArts #MemoirWriting #PoetryInSchools #ArtsEducation

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🦋DIVINE RADIANCE 🦋

💐Creative mentorship program designed for Black girls & gender expansive youth in Oakland

🗣️Registration is OPEN!

🌊Thursdays 4:30pm-6:30pm
🗓️ September 17-December 17, 2026
📍 @chapter510

This program is for:
✨Black girls (girls, femmes, nonbinary)
✨In High School (9th-12th grade)
✨In Oakland

📓Selected youth will receive a $500 stipend + a free copy of Pride by Ibi Zoboi 💞

Link in a @divineradianceoakland bio & QR code 🔗

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