Calendar

Past Events

Friday, June 8, 2012 10:00am - 5:00pm
On June 8, 2012, the Oakland Standard gathered cultural producers to speak with OMCA staff about creating interdisciplinary content. The earliest museums, called cabinets of curiosity or wunderkammer, existed before disciplinary boundaries were...
Saturday, May 5, 2012 11:00am - 5:00pm
Portraits from the Occupation is a series of sixteen video portraits by artists Alex Abramovich and Lucy Raven. The series will be released online on May 1; on Saturday May 5, the piece will screen all day at OMCA in the entry areas of the Gallery...
Saturday, January 21, 2012 11:00am
Living Concrete is a graffiti event and mural on OMCA's Oak Street Plaza. The Plaza currently houses a giant-size blackboard (480 square feet), that will become a mural for four Oakland graffiti artists: Ras Terms, Safety First, Resta, and...
Thursday, December 1, 2011 11:00am
To commemorate World AIDS Day and Day With(out) Art, OMCA will screen Untitled, a new film by contemporary artists Jim Hodges, Carlos Marques da Cruz, and Encke King. The film will be on view all day in the Media Space of the Gallery of California...
Friday, November 4, 2011 7:00pm
The Oakland Standard commissioned two filmmakers, Les Blank and Courtney Stevens, to make a short documentary about the Oakland Museum Women's Board and their famous White Elephant Sale. The film, White Gloves, is now...
Friday, November 4, 2011 6:00pm
Join our outdoor knitting circle! On November 4, knitters and crocheters are invited to gather from 6–8 pm on Oak Plaza to mark the occasion of a museum-wide yarn bombing project by textile artist Streetcolor. Bring your needles and we'...
Saturday, October 15, 2011 11:00am
Every year on Home Movie Day, amateur films are screened at over fifty venues around the world. This year, Home Movie Day, October 15, will be celebrated at the Oakland Museum of California...
Friday, September 30, 2011 5:00pm
The artist J. Otto Seibold will launch an online project about his "unintended relationship with John Muir" at the OMCA O Zone event September 30, 2011. The artist will build a wood shack in the Museum gardens, modeled after John's...
Sunday, September 18, 2011 1:00pm
The fourth and final Seed Circus event, "Seed" is an agrarian celebration of the bounty of fall harvest in California. Grind corn, thresh wheat, exchange seeds, and eat. The event includes live music, an experimental food project, film...
Sunday, August 14, 2011 1:00pm
"Culture" is about the wonders of cultured milk…with a little ice cream thrown in for good measure. Learn how to make queso fresco at home and ride a bike that churns ice cream. The event features short talks from pillars of the...
Sunday, July 10, 2011 1:00pm
Foraging has provided sustenance to communities of all kinds since the earliest days of California, but the practice has captured new interest as an alternative to the industrial food system. This event begins with a bicycle tour of fruit gleaning...
Sunday, June 19, 2011 1:00pm
Sheep are traditionally sheared in late spring as the warm weather arrives. "Felt" will feature a sheep shearing (live sheep!) by farmer Joe Sanchez; bicycle-powered wool carding by Oakland-based felt artisans Felt the Sun; the making of...
Friday, May 13, 2011 6:30pm
On the evening of May 13, the Oakland Standard hosted Hay Fever, an event about Californians' relationship with the land. The concept for the event, and most of the presenters, hailed from Nevada City, California, an old mining town in the...
Friday, April 1, 2011 6:00pm
April Ful's Night was an outdoor communal meal and conversation centered on Egypt’s 2011 revolution, and the subsequent uprisings throughout the Middle East. Over roasted goat and fava bean 'ful' (Egypt's national dish,...
Friday, February 25, 2011 8:00pm
On February 25, 2011, the Oakland Standard honored the history of political posters and the Museum’s acquisition of the All Of Us Or None (AOUON) collection with an evening of printmaking and conversation. The evening paid homage to the iconic...
Friday, February 4, 2011 8:00pm
On February 4, 2011, we launched the Oakland Standard. It was a dance party, a conversation, a baby shower, and a toast to Oakland. To kick off the night, we’ve invited a few of Oakland’s arts and letters luminaries to give Tag Team...
Friday, February 4, 2011 12:00pm
For three hours, Billy Jam took occupancy at the Museum admission counter for a live broadcast on WFMU. The show discussed the roots and spirit of California DJ culture and its contributions to the national scene, and included performances by...
Friday, November 19, 2010 10:00am
In 2010, the Oakland Museum of California was gifted the All Of Us Or None collection (AOUON), an archive of 24,000 political posters. The posters were collected by Michael Rossman, a Berkeley free speech activist who dedicated his life...