Copyleft Cultivars
Copyleft Cultivars is an emerging nonprofit organization with a mission to protect, publish, and preserve vulnerable plants using copyleft, research, and education. Copyleft Cultivars creates open source tools which ensure community freedom and open collaboration for the preservation and development of vulnerable plants. We have two major projects in progress. In the Copyleft Cannabis Project we are creating the first truly open source public genetic database for hemp with integrated open source tools for collaboration and freedom-of-use protections, in the emerging legal cannabis space. Most recently we are launching a project to collaboratively address the unprecedented threats of climate-based extinction to over one million species within the coming decades, cultivating an open source preservation and protection system for climate-vulnerable plants as a public good.
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Dream Farm Commons
Dream Farm Commons is a small, artist run exhibition and project space in Downtown Oakland. We are committed to an ongoing engagement with the visual, the poetic, the neighborhood and the future. Our work aspires to social practice and site specific projects, deep visual narratives and crafted making, the performative, re-imagination of economic systems and justice, and thoughtful discourse. We are opening our doors to all forms of creative production–we see ourselves as building a small hive of activity rather than a white cube. We are building a fall program of monthly exhibition and artists talks, discourse, meals. We’re currently seeking a few new collaborators to join in shared space, with potential for joining in responsibility, decision making and creative production.
Drunken Film Festival
Drunken Film Fest brings pop-up film screenings and discussions to bars. It's our aim to make a unique film festival experience available to everyone without sacrificing any of the quality of major festival programming. We might have some drinks, but we're more about getting drunk on film!
Endeavors
Endeavors Black and Brown small business is in Oakland and serves the creative community with projects and events. Endeavors' goal is to work with Oakland artists by helping facilitate their projects by finding locations, providing coverage for the time, equipment, and supplies.
Irrelevant Press
Irrelevant Press is a zine collective and internet shop creating, printing, publishing, and distributing zines and art of all sorts in Oakland, Brooklyn, and on the world wide web. The press was founded in 2014 with the intention of creating a space for the four women co-founders to collaborate on producing and distributing their own work, and has since expanded to be a community-focused press and publisher. IP's own work centers around the internet and contemporary culture, but external collaborations are not limited by genre and we always prioritize producing work from QTPOC creators. As a collective creating work in the DIY world we think a lot about how to build systems outside of the restrictions of capitalism and sustainably support mutual aid and organizing efforts in our communities.
Oakland Summer School
Oakland Summer School amplifies connections among community members and uplifts radical projects that activate community engagement and empowerment. Driven by commitment to the abolition of oppressive systems and the flourishing of QTBIPOC art, activism, learning, and life, we foster free gatherings characterized by warmth and welcome; attention to body, spirit, and mind; and, often, food. It’s our hope that people showing up will realize they can do stuff like this, too!
Queers United in Community Care “QUICC”
Queers United in Community Care is a queer-led mutual aid and street medic collective. Based in Oakland, we work together to provide first aid, food, and supplies to communities in the Bay Area. We stand in solidarity with movements working to liberate and center oppressed lives and voices.
QUICC's goal is simple, but the path to get there is incredibly difficult. The world we live in today isn't fair, and for folks that don't fit into the boxes of whiteness, wealth, and cis-heteronormativity, the societal norms we're expected to follow are incredibly harmful. Our mission is to help create a better world by helping those around us.
Neighbor Aid
NeighborAid is a mutual aid group serving houseless neighbors and communities throughout Richmond and Oakland (CA). NeighborAid is dedicated to ensuring the communities they are working with have access to food, warmth, first aid and sanitation.
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Studio 1.6
Studio 1.6 is an independent art school in Alameda that offers art classes with a rich academic curriculum for all ages and skill levels. Studio 1.6 nurtures talent in the visual arts and teaches drawing, painting, and sculpture for children that love to express themselves through the arts, adults who are looking for more methodical art instruction, or a youth preparing for various professions in the creative fields. We are currently launching a Young Artist Scholarship program, to support students who might not otherwise be able to afford extracurricular art education.
The Hindsight Institute
The Hindsight Institute is a non-governmental agency exploring biotic-tech futures. We offer an experimental laboratory, risk analysis, publications, events, and more.