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  • Thursday
    Pre-conference Intensives 

    Pre-conference programming is planned and hosted by select OE local partners.

    10:00am  -  6:00pm

    CROSS-SECTOR @ UC Berkeley Arts Research Center

    2016 — Oakland  Pre-Conference 


    7:00pm  -  9:00pm

    Play Hard, Play Fair @ Southern Exposure

    2016 — Oakland  Pre-Conference 


    9:00am  -  5:00pm

    Questioning Aesthetics Symposium: Prisons and Art @ CCA

    2016 — Oakland  Pre-Conference 


    10:00am  -  7:30pm

    Museum Education: A Radical Practice

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Pre-Conference 


    3:00pm  -  5:00pm

    Accessible Outdoor Events

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Pre-Conference 


    3:00  -  8:00

    Field Notes: On Justice & Practice

    2018 


    6:00  -  8:00

    Storytelling Slam at La Austral

    2018 


  • Friday
    Open Houses 

    Open House Tours are programmed by local partners and will highlight the work being done by local artists and organizations in the Bay Area through a variety of dynamic off-site programming.

    10:00am  -  12:00pm

    The Exploratorium — Museum as Field Station: Public Platforms and Collective Knowledge

    2016 — Oakland  Open House 


    10:00am  -  1:30pm

    CROSS-SECTOR @ UC Berkeley Arts Research Center

    2016 — Oakland  Open House  Pre-Conference 


    10:00am  -  5:00pm

    The Omni Commons Fair

    2016 — Oakland  Open House 


    11:00am  -  12:30pm

    Policy Link — What’s Wrong with this Picture “Walkshop”

    2016 — Oakland  Open House 


    1:00pm  -  4:00pm

    Kala Art Institute — Print Public Open House

    2016 — Oakland  Open House 


    1:00pm  -  5:00pm

    SFAI — Spring 2016 Collaborative Project (as facilitated by Will Brown)

    2016 — Oakland  Open House 


    2:00pm  -  5:00pm

    ​Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive Open House​

    2016 — Oakland  Open House 


    2:00pm  -  3:00pm

    YBCA — Curator Christian L. Frock led tour of “Take This Hammer: Art + Media Activism from the Bay Area”

    2016 — Oakland  Open House 


    2:30pm  -  5:00pm

    23rd & Telegraph: Exploring Oakland at the Intersection of Art + Social Justice

    2016 — Oakland  Open House 


    Various  -  See Schedule

    Southern Exposure — Alternative Exposure San Francisco Open Houses

    2016 — Oakland  Open House 


    10:00am  -  12:00pm

    Practicing Utopia Over Breakfast

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Open House 


    10:00am  -  12:00pm

    The Mushroom at the End of the World: A Student-led Conversation on Eco-Justice Now

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Open House  Teen Track 


    10:00am  -  2:00pm

    If You Remember, I’ll Remember  

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Open House 


    10:00am  -  12:00pm

    Arts Spaces and Placekeeping as Resistance

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Open House 


    10:00am  -  7:00pm

    Propeller Fund Open Houses

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Open House 


    10:30am  -  12:00pm

    Race and Place: Some Chicago Girls on Art and Architecture + The Protest Banner Lending Library

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Open House 


    1:00pm  -  3:00pm

    Weinberg/Newton Gallery: In Acts

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Open House 


    1:00pm  -  3:00pm

    Artists’ Cooperative Residency and Exhibition Projects (ACRE)

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Open House 


    1:00pm  -  6:00pm

    Revolution at Point Zero: Feminist Social Practice Symposium and Reception

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Open House 


    1:00pm  -  3:00pm

    Open House at Roots & Culture

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Open House 


    1:00pm  -  3:00pm

    A National Museum in the Heart of the Mexican Community

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Open House 


    3:00pm  -  4:00pm

    Move Me Soul with Damon Locks at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Open House  Teen Track 


    4:00pm  -  6:00pm

    PUBLIC SCHOOL: Open House with Project Fielding

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Open House 


    4:00pm  -  6:00pm

    On Stewardship

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Open House 


    4:00pm  -  5:00pm

    Art in Our Times

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Open House 


    4:00pm  -  6:00pm

    School of the Art Institute of Chicago at Homan Square

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Open House  Teen Track 


    5:30pm  -  7:00pm

    Party Noire Presents: Black Joy Kickback

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Open House Tour 


    9:00  -  10:00

    In Honor of Ted Purves

    2018  Open House 


    10:00  -  1:00

    Interference Archive Tour

    2018  Open House 


    10:00  -  1:00

    A Blade of Grass presents Inhale, Exhale: the Arts of Healing and Learning

    2018  Open House 


    10:00  -  4:00

    Swale – A Floating Food Forest

    2018  Open House 


    10:00  -  11:30

    Brooklyn Free Speech: Community Media at BRIC

    2018  Open House 


    10:00  -  2:00

    Eyebeam presents Inside the Studio of Artists Inventing Our Shared Future

    2018 


    11:00  -  1:00

    Social Justice Tours presents Williamsburg Gentrification Tour

    2018  Open House 


    11:30  -  4:30

    Defend Puerto Rico Exhibition—Public Self-Guided Tours at Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute

    2018  Open House 


    12:00  -  6:00

    El Recreo Open House at Recess

    2018  Open House 


    1:00  -  3:00

    The NYC Department of Cultural Affairs presents Office Hours with the Commissioner: Public Artists in Residence

    2018  Open House 


    1:00  -  4:00

    Community Access Paint Fest

    2018  Open House 


    1:00  -  6:00

    The American Folk Art Museum presents “Vestiges & Verse: Notes from the Newfangled Epic”

    2018  Open House 


    1:00  -  4:00

    Open House at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division

    2018  Open House 


    1:00  -  3:30

    International Center of Photography presents The Image & Social Change

    2018  Open House 


    1:00  -  6:00

    Visual AIDS Open House

    2018  Open House 


    2:00  -  3:00

    Fourth Arts Block presents The Making of a Community-based Cultural District

    2018  Open House 


    2:30  -  4:00

    The 8th Floor presents “The Schoolhouse and the Bus” Exhibition Tour

    2018  Open House 


    4:00  -  7:00

    The Bronx Museum of the Arts Guided Tours: Oded Halahmy & Moses Ros

    2018  Open House 


    4:00  -  6:00

    The Studio Museum in Harlem presents inHarlem Open House: Mindful Monuments

    2018  Open House 


    OMCA Friday Night 

    Every Friday night OMCA hosts a family-friendly take on a festive night market, featuring live music, food trucks, local beer and wine, and more! On April 29th "Friday Nights @ OMCA" will feature projects by OE 2016 presenters, and serve as the kick-off event for the conference.

    5:00pm  -  11:00pm

    Friday Nights @ OMCA

    2016 — Oakland  POWER  Projects  Social 


    7:00pm  -  8:00pm

    POWER HOUR

    2016 — Oakland  POWER  Projects 


    7:30pm  -  9:30pm

    Drop the Mic! Poets, Rappers, Spoken Word Artists, Squeaky Wheels – Unite!

    2016 — Oakland  POWER  Projects 


    7:45pm

    War Hoop Flash Mob

    2016 — Oakland  POWER  Projects 


    6:00pm  -  10:00pm

    Lawn Care Campaign

    2016 — Oakland  POWER  Projects 


    6:15pm  -  7:15pm

    CareForce One: A mobile studio powering America’s fastest growing workforce

    2016 — Oakland  POWER  Projects 


    8:00pm  -  10:00pm

    Politaoke

    2016 — Oakland  POWER  Projects 


  • Saturday

    OE 2016 opens at 9am Saturday and Sunday, with panels, workshops, discussions, projects, and more throughout the day. Keynote lectures will start at 7:30pm.

    Open Platform 
    12:00pm  -  12:15pm

    Stop Telling Women to Smile: Challenging Gender Oppression Through Street Art

    2016 — Oakland  Open Platform 


    12:20pm  -  12:35pm

    THE BATTLE OF OAK STREET: #J28 and the fight for Oakland (a re-enactment)

    2016 — Oakland  Open Platform 


    12:40pm  -  12:55pm

    Listings Project Forum: Empowering Creatives to Find Live and Work Space

    2016 — Oakland  Open Platform 


    1:00pm  -  1:15pm

    The Black Woman is God: Reprogramming That God Code

    2016 — Oakland  Open Platform 


    1:20pm  -  1:35pm

    The Unacknowledged

    2016 — Oakland  Open Platform 


    1:40pm  -  1:55pm

    Apps for Power: a collaboration with day laborers

    2016 — Oakland  Open Platform 


    2:00pm  -  2:15pm

    Mindfulness Meditation for Protest Situations

    2016 — Oakland  Open Platform 


    2:20pm  -  2:35pm

    Conversation objects and spaces investigating youth power & urban displacement

    2016 — Oakland  Open Platform 


    2:40pm  -  2:55pm

    Youth Visions of Resistance

    2016 — Oakland  Open Platform 


    3:00pm  -  3:15pm

    A Guide to Upsetting Rape Culture (Activist Toolkit For Creating a Culture Jam)

    2016 — Oakland  Open Platform 


    3:20pm  -  3:35pm

    Who Empowers Whom? The Powers at Play in a Participatory Photography Practice

    2016 — Oakland  Open Platform 


    3:40pm  -  3:55pm

    The weDub Project: VJing and Making DIY Tech in Uganda

    2016 — Oakland  Open Platform 


    4:00pm  -  4:15pm

    Blobwork: Combating Hierarchy in Educational Space

    2016 — Oakland  Open Platform 


    4:20pm  -  4:35pm

    CONSUMPTION: artistic capital and culinary innovation to shift economic power

    2016 — Oakland  Open Platform 


    4:40pm  -  4:55pm

    Bureau of Linguistical Reality Field Study Power Inequality and the Anthropocene

    2016 — Oakland  Open Platform 


    12:00pm  -  12:15pm

    Welcome to Camp America: Looking for Common Ground

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Open Platform 


    12:20pm  -  12:35pm

    Weinberg/Newton Gallery: At the corner of art and activism in Chicago

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Open Platform 


    12:40pm  -  12:55pm

    Street Talk – How the arts interface between communities and police in post-conflict Northern Ireland.

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Open Platform 


    1:00pm  -  1:15pm

    Artist Working: A Year-Long Durational Performance on Art, Caregiving, and Value

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Open Platform 


    1:20pm  -  1:35pm

    Terms of Art: How Visual Communication is Transforming Legal Advocacy

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Open Platform 


    1:40pm  -  1:55pm

    Ecstatic Nudes : Reclaiming, Black Joy, Radical Love & Representation

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Open Platform  Open Platform 


    2:00pm  -  2:15pm

    A Dictionary of the Revolution: Documenting Public Political Speech in Egypt

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Open Platform  Open Platform 


    2:20pm  -  2:35pm

    Organize: A Commemoration and Celebration of the Biloxi Wade-Ins of 1959-1960

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Open Platform 


    2:40pm  -  2:55pm

    Abundance: Ancestral crops as resilience and research

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Open Platform  Open Platform 


    3:00pm  -  3:15pm

    Towards a philosophy of socially-engaged photography

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Open Platform 


    3:20pm  -  3:35pm

    I Move Hearts and Large Objects

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Open Platform  Open Platform 


    3:40pm  -  3:55pm

    PIE-Q: A poetic reframing for arts & culture campaigning

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Open Platform 


    4:00pm  -  4:15pm

    Algorithms, Big Data & Social Justice

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Open Platform  Open Platform 


    4:20pm  -  4:35pm

    Stories of Solidarity

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Open Platform  Open Platform 


    12:30  -  12:45

    Outdoor School: Artist Talk by Diane Borsato

    2018  Open Platform 


    12:50  -  1:05

    Amazonas Riverine Program

    2018  Open Platform 


    1:10  -  1:25

    Sculptures That Talk

    2018  Open Platform 


    1:30  -  1:45

    How Far: Prison & Land Use Workshop

    2018  Open Platform 


    1:50  -  2:05

    Project HEARD: Research, Tech, & Art for Endangered Environmental Activists

    2018  Open Platform 


    2:10  -  2:45

    The Power Move

    2018  Open Platform 


    2:30  -  2:45

    El Recreo: A Place to Treat Restaurant Workers.

    2018  Open Platform 


    2:50  -  3:05

    Digital Activism: Black Bodies Reclaiming Public Spaces

    2018  Open Platform 


    3:10  -  3:25

    Bending the River Back Into the City

    2018  Open Platform 


    3:30  -  3:45

    Fruit Futures Initiative Gary- Civic Experiments in Long Time

    2018  Open Platform 


    3:50  -  4:05

    Social Impact Art & Design

    2018  Open Platform 


    4:10  -  4:25

    Where You At? Art, Ecology and Restoring Connection to Place

    2018  Open Platform 


    4:30  -  4:45

    Maker Park Radio

    2018  Open Platform 


    4:50  -  5:05

    This Lane Doesn’t Exist

    2018  Open Platform 


    All Day 
    9:00am  -  5:00pm

    Hidden Curriculum

    2016 — Oakland  POWER  Projects 


    10:00am  -  4:00pm

    The Work Intern Provides Services

    2016 — Oakland  POWER  Projects 


    10:00am  -  4:00pm

    Ancient Cup

    2016 — Oakland  POWER  Projects 


    10:00am  -  6:00pm

    Queering Social Practice: A Kiki

    2016 — Oakland  POWER  Projects 


    10:00am  -  6:00pm

    Present Futures: Strategies Toward Emancipation

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Ongoing Project 


    10:00am  -  6:00pm

    From the INside

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Ongoing Project 


    10:00am  -  6:00pm

    Open Engagement: Homegrown Justice Stand

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Ongoing Project 


    Ongoing

    The Abortion Herb Garden

    2018  Projects 


    Ongoing

    Bad at Sports Live @ OE

    2018  Projects 


    Morning 
    10:00am  -  11:30am

    Educational Networks and Artistic Interventions: Mapping Invisible Knowledge

    2016 — Oakland  Continuing OE 


    10:00am  -  10:50am

    In it together: Making the connections between Environmental Art and Social Practice

    2016 — Oakland  Conversation Series 


    10:00am  -  11:30am

    Local Power: Activist Groups in the Bay Area

    2016 — Oakland  POWER 


    10:00am  -  11:30am

    The Permeable Space: Socially Engaged Institutions

    2016 — Oakland  POWER 


    10:00am  -  11:30am

    Giving Birth to Power: Birthing Justice and Womanist Theater

    2016 — Oakland  POWER 


    10:00am  -  11:30am

    New American Representations of Power from Muralists of Color

    2016 — Oakland  POWER 


    10:00am  -  11:30am

    I Got a Recognition! Centering Youth Voice in Museums

    2016 — Oakland  POWER 


    10:00am  -  11:30am

    Teens at the Helm

    2016 — Oakland  POWER 


    11:00am  -  11:50am

    A Mindful Dialogue on Power

    2016 — Oakland  Conversation Series  POWER 


    11:30am  -  12:20pm

    Digester: Responding to Local Power: Activist Communities in the Bay Area

    2016 — Oakland  Conversation Series  POWER 


    9:30am  -  11:30am

    Understanding Adultism & Building Partnerships with Youth

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Training 


    10:00am  -  11:30am

    California State University Dominguez Hills & Big City Forum: Praxis Studio

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Panel  Teen Track 


    10:00am  -  11:30am

    Together A BEAUTIFUL RESISTANCE: North Lawndale voices, art and activism

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Panel 


    10:00am  -  11:30am

    Funding Social Justice

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Panel 


    10:00am  -  11:30am

    Restorative Visual Justice: Artists & Culture Workers Reimaging Englewood

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Panel 


    10:00am  -  11:30am

    I Can’t Breathe

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Workshop 


    10:00am  -  5:00pm

    The Coalition of Docile and Agreeable Femmes of Color for the Continuation and Propagation of White Fragility

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Ongoing Project 


    10:00am  -  11:30am

    Maintenance, Justice, and Self-Determination: Connections and tensions between sustained social practice and its archives

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Panel 


    10:00am  -  11:30am

    Observing Power: A History of Imagery and Agency

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Presentation 


    9:30  -  10:00

    OE 101

    2018  Parallel Session 


    Lunchtime 
    12:00pm  -  1:30pm

    FIELDWORKS: Open Engagement

    2016 — Oakland  Continuing OE 


    12:00pm  -  1:30pm

    The Liberation Of Our People: Angela Davis 1969/2008

    2016 — Oakland  POWER 


    12:00pm  -  1:30pm

    Nongkrong and Non-Work: An Open Hangout and Dialogue

    2016 — Oakland  POWER  Projects 


    12:00pm  -  1:30pm

    In between Here and There: Picnic and Conversation for Mixed Race Women

    2016 — Oakland  POWER  Projects 


    12:00pm  -  1:30pm

    Play the Way: Come Make a Game

    2016 — Oakland  POWER  Projects 


    12:30pm  -  1:30pm

    Casual Social Power: Speed Networking

    2016 — Oakland  Conversation Series  POWER  Social 


    1:00pm  -  2:00pm

    Black Salt Collective

    2016 — Oakland  POWER 


    12:00pm  -  1:30pm

    Walk in Our Shoes

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Teen Track 


    12:00pm  -  1:30pm

    Photography & Social Practice Workshop: Critical Questions and Resources

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Lunchtime 


    12:00pm  -  1:00pm

    ManyHands/LightWork

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Lunchtime 


    11:30  -  12:30

    Meet the Artists of the Queens Museum Studio Program

    2018  Projects 


    Afternoon 
    2:00pm  -  2:50pm

    Programming for Power Sharing

    2016 — Oakland  Conversation Series  POWER 


    2:30pm  -  4:00pm

    From Houdini to Snowden: What Magic Can Teach Us about Power

    2016 — Oakland  POWER 


    2:30pm  -  4:00pm

    Dunham Technique: Corporeality of Etiquette and Ritual

    2016 — Oakland  POWER 


    2:30pm  -  4:00pm

    White Privilege in Social Practice: White and POC Artists Share

    2016 — Oakland  POWER 


    2:30pm  -  4:00pm

    Allies or Aliens? Collaborating Across Cultures

    2016 — Oakland  POWER 


    3:00pm  -  3:50pm

    Domestic Disturbances: Ramiro Gomez in conversation with Lawrence Weschler

    2016 — Oakland  Conversation Series 


    4:00pm  -  4:50pm

    Digester: responding to White Privilege in Social Practice: White and POC Artists Share

    2016 — Oakland  Conversation Series  POWER 


    2:00pm  -  4:00pm

    Identity, Power and Oppression

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Teen Track  Training 


    2:00pm  -  3:00pm

    Education in Crisis: Student Debt and School Privatization

    2017  2017 — Chicago  Conversation Series  JUSTICE 


    2:00pm  -  4:00pm

    TRAP House Chicago: Streetwear × Art × Radical Restorative Justice

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Teen Track  Training 


    2:00pm  -  4:00pm

    Creating Access

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Training 


    2:30pm  -  4:00pm

    Should I Do This Project? Developing Ethics Guidelines Together.

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Workshop 


    2:30pm  -  4:00pm

    Curating Justice: Institutional & Independent Perspectives on Social Change

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Panel 


    2:30pm  -  4:00pm

    Party Noire: Black Joy through creativity, resistance, and community

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Presentation 


    2:30pm  -  4:00pm

    Word!

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Teen Track  Workshop 


    2:30pm  -  4:00pm

    Working Through A Wall

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Panel 


    2:30pm  -  4:00pm

    A Living Chance: Storytelling to End Life Without Parole

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Workshop 


    3:00pm  -  4:00pm

    What is a Feminist Social Practice?

    2017  2017 — Chicago  Conversation Series  JUSTICE 


    4:00pm  -  5:00pm

    Sappho and Sweat: queerfeminist experimental movement seminar/dance party

    2017  2017 — Chicago  Conversation Series  JUSTICE 


    4:00pm  -  5:00pm

    Prison-Museum-Zoo

    2017  2017 — Chicago  Conversation Series  JUSTICE 


    12:00  -  5:00

    TEEN RAPID RESPONSE COLLECTING TASKFORCE in real time

    2018  Projects 


    12:00  -  4:00

    Civic Art Lab: Sustainable Futures Field Station

    2018  Projects 


    12:00  -  4:00

    ArtSit: Assistive device for use by families and caregivers in museums.

    2018  Projects 


    12:00  -  5:00

    Trees of Tomorrow: A Speculative Tour and Workstation

    2018  Projects 


    12:00  -  4:00

    Tote Bag Intervention with Mobile Print Power

    2018  Projects 


    12:30  -  2:00

    Know Admin, Know Art: Resource Sharing Through Fiscal Sponsorship

    2018  Parallel Session 


    12:30  -  2:00

    RAGE IS SUSTAINABLE ONLY WHEN SHARED: a workshop for the angry, and the hopeful!

    2018  Parallel Session 


    12:30  -  2:00

    Wild Panorama Walk

    2018  Parallel Session 


    12:30  -  2:00

    People:Power:Place: a cultural plan for Chinatown North/Callowhill + Look at Art. Get Paid. — Sustaining Socially Engaged Art under Capitalism + How can we reframe cultural production working one-on-one with different people?

    2018  Parallel Session 


    12:30  -  2:00

    Writing the Social: a participatory workshop

    2018  Parallel Session 


    12:30  -  2:00

    Strengthening Communities: Native American Artists, Social Engagement and Museums

    2018  Parallel Session 


    12:30  -  2:00

    Mirror / Echo / Tilt Curriculum Presentation

    2018  Parallel Session 


    12:30  -  2:00

    Performing Infrastructure: NYC’s Water Supply

    2018  Parallel Session 


    12:30  -  2:00

    Carbon Sponge

    2018  Parallel Session 


    2:00  -  3:00

    PulpMobile

    2018  Parallel Session 


    2:00  -  4:00

    Becoming an Access Ambassador: Fostering Anti-Oppressive Communities

    2018  Training 


    2:00  -  4:00

    Collaborating Across Age Groups — A Training with Duke Social Practice Lab & Usdan Summer Camp for the Arts

    2018  Training 


    3:00  -  4:30

    The Value of the Long Haul: Fundred

    2018  Parallel Session 


    3:00  -  4:30

    Lakou NOU – OUR Yard: Artist-led Community Sustainability and Social Engagement + Cultivating DC through Permacounterculture

    2018  Parallel Session 


    3:00  -  4:30

    In the Same Room without Screaming: Power, Art, and Learning at the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area

    2018  Parallel Session 


    3:00  -  4:30

    Ways of Being: Support Workshop

    2018  Parallel Session 


    3:00  -  4:30

    YOUTH CURATE WITH OPINIONS! Youth Rapid Response Collecting and Curation

    2018  Parallel Session 


    Evening 
    5:00pm  -  6:30pm

    NAMING NAMES: Feminist Revisionism & Socially Engaged Art Criticism

    2016 — Oakland  Continuing OE 


    5:00pm  -  6:30pm

    Queers in the Spotlight: Field Notes from 4 Years of The News

    2016 — Oakland  Continuing OE 


    5:00pm  -  6:30pm

    Radical Relationships in Art & Science

    2016 — Oakland  Continuing OE 


    5:00pm  -  6:30pm

    Commanding Presence: disabled artists / curators on infiltrating the social

    2016 — Oakland  POWER 


    5:00pm  -  6:30pm

    Performing Blackness

    2016 — Oakland  POWER 


    5:03pm  -  5:48pm

    Queering Social Practice: A Kiki Conversation

    2016 — Oakland  POWER  Projects 


    5:00pm  -  6:30pm

    Can I Get a Witness?: Legal Observing and Know Your Rights for Community Safety

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Teen Track  Workshop 


    5:00pm  -  6:30pm

    The Official Unofficial Voting Station: Voting for All Who Legally Can’t

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Presentation  Teen Track 


    5:00pm  -  6:30pm

    Time, Memory, and Justice in Marginalized Communities

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Workshop 


    5:00pm  -  6:30pm

    Urban Futures Lab: A Model for Creative Civic Leadership

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Panel  Teen Track 


    5:00pm  -  6:30pm

    Refugee Activism as informant for new urban collectives and just environments

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Presentation 


    5:00pm  -  6:30pm

    34,000 Pillows

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Presentation  Teen Track 


    5:00pm  -  6:30pm

    Whose Museum? Our Museum. How contemporary art museums can create justice

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Panel 


    5:00pm  -  6:30pm

    Developing Artistic TV

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Workshop 


    7:00  -  8:30

    Relaxing into our Downward Mobility

    2018  Dinner Conversation 


    7:00  -  8:30

    The Commons: Environmental Sustainability based on Economic & Social Justice

    2018  Dinner Conversation 


    7:00  -  8:30

    Singing to the Choir: Dedications to Ursula K. Le Guin

    2018  Dinner Conversation 


    7:00  -  8:30

    Sustaining Our Movements

    2018  Dinner Conversation 


    7:00  -  8:30

    Our Time: Sustaining the Movement for Equity in the Arts

    2018  Dinner Conversation 


    7:00  -  8:30

    Thriving Beyond the Metropolis

    2018  Dinner Conversation 


    7:00  -  8:30

    Black, Queer + Joyful: Funding Black Womyn

    2018  Dinner Conversation 


    7:00  -  8:30

    Shapeshifting Practices in Uncertain NYC

    2018  Dinner Conversation 


    7:00  -  8:30

    Economic Censorship

    2018  Dinner Conversation 


    7:00  -  8:30

    Invisible Sustenance

    2018  Dinner Conversation 


    Keynote 
    After Hours 
    9:00pm  -  9:20pm

    Utopic Monster Theory: On Democracy

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Project 


    9:20pm  -  9:50pm

    Arts of Life Band

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE 


    9:50pm  -  10:20pm

    Rebirth Garments Presents Radical Visibility: A QueerCrip Dress Reform Movement

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Project 


    10:30pm  -  1:00am

    ¡JUST DANCE!

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE 


    9:00

    Knockdown Center x Open Engagement: Discwoman Showcase with BEARCAT and Riobamba and a live performance by Lykanthea

    2018  After Hours 


  • Sunday

    OE 2016 opens at 9am Saturday and Sunday, with panels, workshops, discussions, projects, and more throughout the day. Keynote lectures will start at 7:30pm.

    Open Platform 
    12:00pm  -  12:15pm

    Photography at San Quentin Prison: finding a personal narrative

    2016 — Oakland  Open Platform 


    12:20pm  -  12:35pm

    An Army of Lovers: Queer Power

    2016 — Oakland  Open Platform 


    12:40pm  -  12:55pm

    Finding our Way: Building Networks Across a Multi-layered Landscape Michael Cristiano

    2016 — Oakland  Open Platform 


    1:00pm  -  1:15pm

    Disruption

    2016 — Oakland  Open Platform 


    1:20pm  -  1:35pm

    The Longest Revolution: Defining Feminist Social Practice

    2016 — Oakland  Open Platform 


    1:40pm  -  1:55pm

    The Power of Love

    2016 — Oakland  Open Platform 


    2:00pm  -  2:15pm

    Assembling the Affect Archive

    2016 — Oakland  Open Platform 


    2:20pm  -  2:35pm

    Participation in Practice; Authorship, Authority, Methods and Ethics

    2016 — Oakland  Open Platform 


    2:40pm  -  2:55pm

    SPORTSTREETCAPP

    2016 — Oakland  Open Platform 


    3:00pm  -  3:15pm

    Building Power in Parks: Notes from the World’s Park Community Design School

    2016 — Oakland  Open Platform 


    3:20pm  -  3:35pm

    Rancho Grande: A Bus Tour for Coping, Surviving, Overcoming and Re-Seeding

    2016 — Oakland  Open Platform 


    3:40pm  -  3:55pm

    Can the Token Speak? Towards a Theory & Strategy of the Trojan Token

    2016 — Oakland  Open Platform 


    4:00pm  -  4:15pm

    Representing vision and voice; negotiating photographic authorship.

    2016 — Oakland  Open Platform 


    4:20pm  -  4:35pm

    The Power of the Object

    2016 — Oakland  Open Platform 


    4:40PM  -  4:55PM

    A Seat at the Table: The Last Supper

    2016 — Oakland  Open Platform 


    12:00pm  -  12:15pm

    Making A Way Out Of No Way

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Open Platform  Open Platform 


    12:20pm  -  12:35pm

    Working at Navajo Mountain. The Implications of Social Practice.

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Open Platform  Open Platform 


    12:40pm  -  12:55pm

    Draw From Life

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Open Platform 


    1:00pm  -  1:15pm

    Art and Human Rights: Creativity for Social Change

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Open Platform  Open Platform 


    1:20pm  -  1:35pm

    #NEWGLOBALMATRIARCHY

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Open Platform  Open Platform 


    1:40pm  -  1:55pm

    Bonerkill’s guide to alternative resource extraction (formally known as “How to Steal”). A work in progress.

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Open Platform  Open Platform 


    2:00pm  -  2:15pm

    Performing Inequality: Self-Organised Protest and the Politics of the Maternal

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Open Platform 


    2:20pm  -  2:35pm

    Research in the midst of Decolonization: Cape Town, South Africa

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Open Platform  Open Platform 


    2:40pm  -  2:55pm

    Incarceration: A New Narrative Through the Arts

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Open Platform  Open Platform 


    3:00pm  -  3:15pm

    Network Anxieties Design Packets

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Open Platform  Open Platform 


    3:20pm  -  3:35pm

    Art Revolution: Social Engagement in the K-12 Environment

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Open Platform 


    3:40pm  -  3:55pm

    ways of knowing

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Open Platform  Open Platform 


    4:00pm  -  4:15pm

    The Jumpsuit Project

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Open Platform 


    4:20pm  -  4:35pm

    Deeply Rooted: Excavating Individual & Institutional Racism

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Open Platform 


    12:30  -  12:45

    CONSUME(s) ME

    2018  Open Platform 


    12:50  -  1:05

    Human Hotel

    2018  Open Platform 


    1:10  -  1:25

    Between the Earth and the Sky: Intergenerational Interactions of Visibility

    2018  Open Platform 


    1:30  -  1:45

    Environmental Harassment Training Collaboration with t.e.j.a.s.

    2018  Open Platform 


    1:50  -  2:05

    Energy Well Spent: Complexity and Complicity in Ecologic Production

    2018  Open Platform 


    2:10  -  2:25

    Swale: Workarounds and Coalition Building for Public Food

    2018  Open Platform 


    2:30  -  2:45

    Gaza (a)live – Live Streaming and Interaction

    2018  Open Platform 


    2:50  -  3:05

    We the News

    2018  Open Platform 


    3:10  -  3:25

    Bearded Flamingos: on ‘Passing’, ‘Migration’ and ‘Camouflage’

    2018  Open Platform 


    3:30  -  3:45

    SOIL SERIES: A Social Drawing – A Year in Appalachia

    2018  Open Platform 


    3:50  -  4:05

    Failure? Art Schools Working in Creative Communities

    2018  Open Platform 


    4:10  -  4:25

    How Can Artists Be Friends of Recovery?

    2018  Open Platform 


    4:30  -  4:45

    Toast Ale: Fighting Food Waste One Beer at A Time

    2018  Open Platform 


    All Day 
    9:00am  -  5:00pm

    Hidden Curriculum

    2016 — Oakland  POWER  Projects 


    10:00am  -  4:00pm

    The Work Intern Provides Services

    2016 — Oakland  POWER  Projects 


    10:00am  -  6:00pm

    Queering Social Practice: A Kiki

    2016 — Oakland  POWER  Projects 


    8:00am  -  6:00pm

    Real Time and Space Parking Lot Oasis

    2016 — Oakland  POWER  Projects 


    10:00am  -  5:00pm

    The Coalition of Docile and Agreeable Femmes of Color for the Continuation and Propagation of White Fragility

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Ongoing Project 


    10:00am  -  6:00pm

    Present Futures: Strategies Toward Emancipation (Part Two)

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Ongoing Project 


    10:00am  -  6:00pm

    From the INside

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Ongoing Project 


    10:00am  -  6:00pm

    Open Engagement: Homegrown Justice Stand

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Ongoing Project 


    Ongoing

    The Abortion Herb Garden

    2018 


    Ongoing

    Bad at Sports Live @ OE

    2018  Projects 


    Morning 
    10:00am  -  11:30am

    “Shoot back”: the game changing action of recording police encounters

    2016 — Oakland  POWER 


    10:00am  -  10:50am

    Power, Mimicry, and the Institutional ‘Frame’: Is there a way to think outside the institution while being embedded within it?

    2016 — Oakland  Conversation Series  POWER 


    10:00am  -  11:30am

    Power of Socially Engaged Design

    2016 — Oakland  POWER 


    10:00am  -  11:30am

    Power to Engage: What are Artists and Art Museums Learning from One Another?

    2016 — Oakland  POWER 


    10:00am  -  11:30pm

    Who benefits? Partnering with “Big Tech” to make real social change.

    2016 — Oakland  POWER 


    10:00am  -  11:30am

    Freestyle: Creative Youth Development through Hip Hop

    2016 — Oakland  Continuing OE 


    11:30am  -  12:20pm

    Digester: responding to Who Benefits? Partnering with Big Tech to make social change

    2016 — Oakland  Conversation Series  POWER 


    9:00am  -  9:45am

    Golden Class Language Breakfast

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Project 


    9:30am  -  11:30am

    TRAP House Chicago: Streetwear × Art × Radical Restorative Justice

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Teen Track  Training 


    9:30am  -  11:30am

    Fighting Adultism Within and Outside Organizations

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Training 


    10:00am  -  11:30am

    #FirstWorldProblems: Building international and inter-cultural solidarity

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Presentation 


    10:00am  -  11:30am

    What’s the Plan? Artists, Planners and New Models for Civic Decision-Making

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Presentation 


    10:00am  -  11:30am

    The “art” of resource development: supporting We Are Here in post-crisis NL

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Presentation 


    10:00am  -  11:30am

    From Calais Jungle to a Dagenham housing estate: sparking community cohesion through the arts

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Presentation 


    10:00am  -  11:30am

    Performing Racial and Reproductive Justice: a play and workshop

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Teen Track  Workshop 


    10:00am  -  11:30am

    Building MASS Action: Museum As Site for Social Action

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Panel 


    Lunchtime 
    12:00pm  -  1:30pm

    And in this corner…

    2016 — Oakland  POWER 


    12:00pm  -  1:30pm

    Nongkrong and Non-Work: An Open Hangout and Dialogue

    2016 — Oakland  POWER  Projects 


    12:00pm  -  1:30pm

    The Liberation Of Our People: Angela Davis 1969/2008

    2016 — Oakland  POWER 


    12:00pm  -  1:30pm

    The Evolution of Power in Oakland: A Stairwell’s Field Trip

    2016 — Oakland  POWER  Projects 


    12:30pm  -  1:30pm

    Theory of Change: Writing New Stories

    2016 — Oakland  Conversation Series 


    12:30pm  -  1:30pm

    Value Propositions for Socially Engaged Projects

    2016 — Oakland  Conversation Series 


    12:00pm  -  1:30pm

    FIELDWORKS: Open Engagement

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Lunchtime 


    12:00pm  -  1:30pm

    ALTour UIC

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Lunchtime 


    12:00pm  -  2:00pm

    We are WITCH: A Ritual Performance for the Fundamental Right of Education

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Ongoing Project 


    12:00pm  -  1:30pm

    Jane Addams Hull-House Museum and CareForce One, Tours and Public Disco

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE 


    11:30  -  12:30

    Meet the Artists of the Queens Museum Studio Program

    2018  Projects 


    Afternoon 
    2:00pm  -  2:50pm

    Action Into Being: Growing as An Ally

    2016 — Oakland  Conversation Series 


    2:30pm  -  4:00pm

    The Politics of Place: Privilege and Power in Placemaking

    2016 — Oakland  POWER 


    2:30pm  -  4:00pm

    San Quentin Prison Arts Project

    2016 — Oakland  POWER 


    2:30pm  -  4:00pm

    Introduction to Latinx Artist Retreat

    2016 — Oakland  Continuing OE 


    2:30pm  -  4:30pm

    Collaboration Across Research Platforms in Socially-Engaged Art

    2016 — Oakland  Continuing OE 


    3:00pm  -  3:50pm

    Building Dialogs, Question Bridge: Black Males

    2016 — Oakland  Conversation Series 


    4:00pm  -  4:50pm

    Digester: responding to The Politics of Place

    2016 — Oakland  Conversation Series  POWER 


    2:00pm  -  3:00pm

    Response: Funding Social Justice

    2017  2017 — Chicago  Conversation Series  JUSTICE 


    2:30pm  -  4:00pm

    Luz del Día: Copyrighting the Light of Day

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Presentation 


    2:00pm  -  4:00pm

    Creating Access

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Training 


    2:00pm  -  4:00pm

    Working at the Intersections: Reproductive Justice Includes Racial Justice

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Teen Track  Training 


    2:30pm  -  4:00pm

    Inverting Expertise: Creative strategies to challenge the Criminal Justice System

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Presentation 


    2:30pm  -  4:00pm

    Black Spatial Relics: Justice as a Regional Identity

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Workshop 


    2:30pm  -  4:00pm

    No Admin, No Art: The Power of Management Commons on Artist Flourishing

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Presentation 


    2:30pm  -  4:00pm

    The Rural Model: Community Engagement with an Under-Represented Population

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Panel 


    2:30pm  -  4:00pm

    Public Art and Justice, Fast and Slow

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Panel 


    2:30pm  -  4:00pm

    #FreeTheYouth: Art as an Incarceration Alternative

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Presentation  Teen Track 


    3:00pm  -  4:00pm

    Assembling and Reassembling: Decolonizing the (media) archive

    2017  2017 — Chicago  Conversation Series  JUSTICE 


    4:00pm  -  5:00pm

    Beyond Narrative: Journalism as an Organizing Tool

    2017  2017 — Chicago  Conversation Series  JUSTICE 


    12:00  -  4:00

    Civic Art Lab: Sustainable Futures Field Station

    2018  Projects 


    12:00  -  4:00

    Tote Bag Intervention with Mobile Print Power

    2018  Projects 


    12:00  -  1:00

    IMI Corona: The Monstritx Justicierx

    2018  Parallel Session 


    12:30  -  2:00

    Mentoring Immigrant Artists Through the Stories of Five Immigrants – New New Yorkers Mentoring Program + All That You Touch You Change: creating a community-led AIR program

    2018  Parallel Session 


    12:30  -  2:00

    The Power of Time: Social Practice Eco Artists of a Certain Age

    2018  Parallel Session 


    12:30  -  2:00

    Walking Tour: Art, Ecology, & Spatial Justice in Flushing Meadows Corona Park

    2018 


    12:30  -  2:00

    Plant Talk Human Talk: An EPA Training for the Beginning of the World

    2018  Parallel Session 


    12:30  -  2:00

    The Power of Three: Timelines for Sustainable Community-Engaged Projects

    2018  Parallel Session 


    12:30  -  2:00

    The Attention Economy & Cultural Capitalism of the White Savior Art Market + No Way to Do This Right

    2018  Parallel Session 


    12:30  -  2:00

    A Story of Sustenance – The Ceramic Object as Conduit for Engagement + From Here to There: Picture Stories of Refugee Women’s Lives

    2018  Parallel Session 


    12:30  -  2:00

    Artistic Intervention in the Legal Contract + The Sylvia Rivera Law Project and the intersections of trans justice & prison justice

    2018  Parallel Session 


    2:00  -  4:00

    Decolonization and Cultural Institutions

    2018  Training 


    2:10  -  2:55

    WE ARE FAMILY FC

    2018  Parallel Session 


    3:00  -  4:30

    The Development of Creek College; Notes from the Field + Radicle Engagement: Seeds, Art and Storytelling

    2018  Parallel Session 


    3:00  -  4:30

    Collective Futures Workshop

    2018  Parallel Session 


    3:00  -  4:30

    Centering Community and Voices: Art Against Erasure and Displacement

    2018  Parallel Session 


    3:00  -  4:30

    Transforming Wastescape into Landscape: A Framework for Art

    2018  Parallel Session 


    3:00  -  4:30

    Part of the Solution + Symphony for a Broken Orchestra + Plantón Móvil: Moving-With to Practice Community

    2018  Parallel Session 


    3:00  -  4:30

    Beyond the Walls: Developing Agency

    2018  Parallel Session 


    Evening 
    5:00pm  -  6:30pm

    Enter the Dragon: Bringing socially-engaged art into advocacy groups and schools

    2016 — Oakland  Continuing OE 


    5:00pm  -  6:00pm

    Closing Circle Conversation

    2016 — Oakland  Conversation Series  POWER 


    5:00pm  -  6:30pm

    Cities in Transition: Anti-Gentrification Tools and Art Projects

    2016 — Oakland  POWER 


    5:00pm  -  6:30pm

    Ka ora!

    2016 — Oakland  POWER 


    5:00pm  -  6:30pm

    Strange Bedfellows: Artists Working with/in Government

    2016 — Oakland  POWER 


    5:03pm  -  5:48pm

    Queering Social Practice: A Kiki Conversation

    2016 — Oakland  POWER  Projects 


    5:00pm  -  6:30pm

    STREETWORK: Engaging Education Outside the Classroom

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Panel 


    5:00pm  -  6:30pm

    Mirror Casket–Ferguson Protest Art and Beyond

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Presentation 


    5:00pm  -  6:30pm

    Beauty Breaks: On Tender Resistance

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Workshop 


    5:00pm  -  6:30pm

    Bridging the Rural / Urban Divide

    2017  2017 — Chicago  Workshop 


    5:00pm  -  6:30pm

    Traveling Minds: The Power of Youth and Contemporary Art

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Presentation  Teen Track 


    5:00pm  -  6:30pm

    The Space in Be-Tween: Teens, Institutions, and Social Practice

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Presentation 


    5:00pm  -  6:30pm

    Party Out of Bounds: Crafting Queer Art Economies and Ways of (Night) Life

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Presentation 


    5:00pm  -  6:30pm

    How Art Making Gave Birth to a Reparations Campaign (#RahmRepNow) for Chicago Police Torture Survivors

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE  Panel 


    7:00  -  8:30

    At The Table

    2018 


    6:30  -  7:30

    Signal Re-dedication

    2018 


    Keynote 
    After Hours 
    9:00pm  -  2:00am

    May Day Closing Party and Mixer

    2016 — Oakland  POWER  Social 


    9:00pm  -  11:00pm

    Open Engagement Closing Event with Slo ‘Mo Party

    2017  2017 — Chicago  JUSTICE 


    7:00  -  Midnight

    Sunday Night Wrap Party at Flux Factory with Party Noire, Xhoir and DJ Latham

    2018  After Hours 


  • OEHQ

    When you arrive at OE 2016, make your first stop the Open Engagement Headquarters OEHQ! OEHQ is the one-stop shop for checking in, picking up OE 2016 merchandise, and getting the most up-to-date information about the conference throughout the weekend. OEHQ is located at the main entrance to OMCA, in the Oak Street Plaza on level 3

    Registration Hours are:
    Friday 9:00am – 9:00pm
    Saturday 9:00am – 5:00pm
    Sunday 9:00am – 5:00pm

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