A view of Oakland’s Lake Merritt. (Pendarvis Harshaw)
By Sarah Hotchkiss Jun 24
Oakland’s Cultural Affairs Division, the Akonadi Foundation and the East Bay Community Foundation have launched “Belonging in Oakland: A Just City Cultural Fund,” a new multi-year program that will bestow grants on cultural practitioners of color to “radically imagine a racially just city.”
The grant defines cultural practitioners expansively, including “artists, artist-activists, traditional culture bearers/keepers, griots/storytellers, craftspeople, creative placemakers and -keepers, cultural strategists, community historians/elders, or other visionaries.” Among other requirements, grantees must be based or rooted in Oakland and have either 501(c)3 status or fiscal sponsorship. Read More