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Climate change + El Niño + low-lying neighborhood = high risk of flooding this winter. It’s time to work on making our shoreline more resilient: rehabilitating toxic sites, protecting essential infrastructure like the Bay Bridge, and using the natural power of wetlands and marshes to absorb stormwater.

On Wednesday, October 28, you have not one but TWO chances to shape the future of our shoreline and protect West Oakland from sea level rise:

🌊10 am to 12 pm: Join Caltrans at a site visit to the Bay Bridge touchdown at the end of Burma Road. Caltrans is doing a study on how to protect the Bay Bridge from sea level rise, and this is a great chance to see areas threatened by rising seas up close and personal. 🔗RSVP: bit.ly/baybridgesealevelrise

🌊 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm: Join @greenbeltalliance and the Oakland Alameda Adaptation Committee at the West Oakland Waterfront Voices Workshop to work with the Port of Oakland on shoreline protection strategies. 🔗RSVP: oaacadapt.org/events

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WORKSHOP: It’s time for our community to plan for the impacts of sea level rise. Join @caltransdistrict4 on Wednesday, September 30th from 5:30 to 7:30 pm at Willie Keyes Recreation Center.

WOEIP isn’t putting on this workshop, but we’re jazzed to see this conversation happening: climate change will have huge impacts on West Oakland, and this is a chance for community members to advocate for nature-based solutions like habitat restoration to protect our community from climate disasters.

Caltrans is doing a study on the area around the Bay Bridge touchdown in West Oakland and Emeryville, including Crescent Marsh and parts of the Bay Trail. They have lots of workshops on this study coming up, so if you can’t make it on Wednesday, you can still join the conversation.

🔗RSVP: bit.ly/baybridgesealevelrise (link in bio).

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Last month @rbacreative and @evoakcreativity generously invited @blacksupport_network to lead a focus group discussion about building cooperative economics in East Oakland.

It was an honor and a privilege to spend quality time with legacy Oakland residents — asking tough questions, learning from each other, and building toward a future where we can all thrive economically. 🌳

Thank you to all 28 people who participated. Your voice carries the work forward!! Special thank you to @veronicadangerfield & @thecityeats ✨

#culture #financialliteracy #community #cooperativeeconomics #oakland

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This Weekend in the Laurel 🎶🩷🎨

From free live music at @raizplants to a neighborhood clean up with @highstreetcoalition to a Last Sip celebration of @cafesantana to a very special film screening at @rbacreative to an Album Art Tribute Show at @faultline_gallery to some new classes at @suprememma (and MORE!) …. we’ve got you covered with weekend JOY and some chances to be with community.

Good vibes all around. ⬅️

#LaurelDistrict
#Oakland
#LaurelOakland

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THIS WEEKEND #INTHETOWN 📍✨

📆 Aug 20-23

August is STILL going strong, so don’t sit down just yet! 😮‍💨

We’ve got more Oakland Pride celebrations, block parties, festivals, community connections and plenty of reasons to EXPERIENCE THE TOWN.

You know the drill:

Swipe. Pick an experience. Get outside. Repeat. 🔁

Oakland is always BETTER IN PERSON. 💜

Follow the tagged organizers for event details + ticket info.

📣 Want to promote your upcoming event with The Town Experience? DM us for promo rates + opportunities.

#TheTownExperience #ExperienceTheTown #OaklandIsBetterInPerson

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Join us for ArtistSpeak! as we celebrate the Harlem Renaissance with a screening of From These Roots (1974), William Greaves’ award-winning documentary.

Following the film, Carol Belle-Thomas Moss and co-host Latisha Baker will lead a conversation highlighting four remarkable women artists whose contributions are often overlooked: Laura Wheeler Waring, Lois Mailou Jones, Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller, and Selma Burke.

Come enjoy an afternoon of film, art, history, and conversation celebrating the lasting influence of the Harlem Renaissance.

📅 Saturday, August 22, 2026
⏰ 2:00–5:00 PM
📍 RBA Creative
3718 MacArthur Blvd., Oakland, CA 94619

Hosted by The Black Women’s Art Collective, EVOAK! & RBA Creative
@rbacreative
@randolphbelle
@evoakcreativity
@imjustsayingtoo

#ArtistSpeak #HarlemRenaissance #EVOAK #Oakland #BlackArt

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Thank you @jordanpotier25 for all the photos. The laurel st fair keeps getting better. had a great time i look forward to the next one. Thanks to @randolphbelle for the booth . i look forward to the things to come

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Let's make magic in the Laurel District

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We had a great time yesterday evening for “Everybody is a Collector” With Paul Henderson and hosted by Patrick Banks of the Californien. We will continue to have discussions on a range of topics at RBA Creative and hope to see you there.

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This Saturday,
a 24 minute documentary about Augusta Savage, a pioneering Harlem Renaissance artist. A discussion will follow with educator and resident expert
Carol Belle Thomas Moss. Set the date and time and bring a friend!

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Today we turn the spotlight towards local Visual Artist, Author and Professor, @ajuanmance. 🎨❤️

A lifelong Artist & Writer, @ajuanmance’s work celebrates the deep roots and rich cultures of African American communities, and uses humor and bright colors to explore race, gender, power, and the people and places in which they intersect.

Check out Mance’s visual art this Saturday, March 14th at @rbacreative for their “Celebrating Women’s History Month” event that kicks off at 12pm and is free to attend.

This event also features extraordinary work by Brianna Mills, Latisha Baker, Renata Gray, Keana Dollar - Dickerson and Ajuan Mance.

Info at RBACREATIVE.COM ⬅️

#LaurelOakland
#InternationalWomensMonth
#AjuanMance

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How do you measure the value of a human life? What about a community?

Back in the 60s and 70s, Interstate 980 displaced thousands of people and divided a thriving Black neighborhood. Now, Caltrans is considering removing or capping part of the freeway–but if we’re going to break the cycle of development and displacement, we have to understand the original harm.

Caltrans and partners (including WOEIP and Randolph’s consulting firm @rbacreative ) just released their first report on potentially removing the freeway. But their study didn’t go far enough to calculate the true cost of the freeway–so the nonprofit @evoakcreativity started its own parallel, community-driven process.

EVOAK! is tracking health impacts, environmental damage, and the generational costs borne by displaced families. They spent two years interviewing dozens of legacy residents and people displaced by I-980’s construction. Now they’re combining research and oral histories to calculate the compounding and cumulative harm.

Learn more at 980blockparty.org, or check out our January newsletter (link in bio) for more background on the project.

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