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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  Pre-Conference 


    7:00pm  -  9:00pm

    Play Hard, Play Fair @ Southern Exposure

    2016  Pre-Conference 


    9:00am  -  5:00pm

    Questioning Aesthetics Symposium: Prisons and Art @ CCA

    2016  Pre-Conference 


  • 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  Open House 


    10:00am  -  1:30pm

    CROSS-SECTOR @ UC Berkeley Arts Research Center

    2016  Open House  Pre-Conference 


    10:00am  -  5:00pm

    The Omni Commons Fair

    2016  Open House 


    11:00am  -  12:30pm

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

    2016  Open House 


    1:00pm  -  4:00pm

    Kala Art Institute — Print Public Open House

    2016  Open House 


    1:00pm  -  5:00pm

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

    2016  Open House 


    2:00pm  -  5:00pm

    ​Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive Open House​

    2016  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  Open House 


    2:30pm  -  5:00pm

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

    2016  Open House 


    Various  -  See Schedule

    Southern Exposure — Alternative Exposure San Francisco Open Houses

    2016  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  POWER  Projects  Social 


    7:00pm  -  8:00pm

    POWER HOUR

    2016  POWER  Projects 


    7:30pm  -  9:30pm

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

    2016  POWER  Projects 


    7:45pm

    War Hoop Flash Mob

    2016  POWER  Projects 


    6:00pm  -  10:00pm

    Lawn Care Campaign

    2016  POWER  Projects 


    6:15pm  -  7:15pm

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

    2016  POWER  Projects 


    8:00pm  -  10:00pm

    Politaoke

    2016  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  Open Platform 


    12:20pm  -  12:35pm

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

    2016  Open Platform 


    12:40pm  -  12:55pm

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

    2016  Open Platform 


    1:00pm  -  1:15pm

    The Black Woman is God: Reprogramming That God Code

    2016  Open Platform 


    1:20pm  -  1:35pm

    The Unacknowledged

    2016  Open Platform 


    1:40pm  -  1:55pm

    Apps for Power: a collaboration with day laborers

    2016  Open Platform 


    2:00pm  -  2:15pm

    Mindfulness Meditation for Protest Situations

    2016  Open Platform 


    2:20pm  -  2:35pm

    Conversation objects and spaces investigating youth power & urban displacement

    2016  Open Platform 


    2:40pm  -  2:55pm

    Youth Visions of Resistance

    2016  Open Platform 


    3:00pm  -  3:15pm

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

    2016  Open Platform 


    3:20pm  -  3:35pm

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

    2016  Open Platform 


    3:40pm  -  3:55pm

    The weDub Project: VJing and Making DIY Tech in Uganda

    2016  Open Platform 


    4:00pm  -  4:15pm

    Blobwork: Combating Hierarchy in Educational Space

    2016  Open Platform 


    4:20pm  -  4:35pm

    CONSUMPTION: artistic capital and culinary innovation to shift economic power

    2016  Open Platform 


    4:40pm  -  4:55pm

    Bureau of Linguistical Reality Field Study Power Inequality and the Anthropocene

    2016  Open Platform 


    All Day 
    9:00am  -  5:00pm

    Hidden Curriculum

    2016  POWER  Projects 


    10:00am  -  4:00pm

    The Work Intern Provides Services

    2016  POWER  Projects 


    10:00am  -  4:00pm

    Ancient Cup

    2016  POWER  Projects 


    10:00am  -  6:00pm

    Queering Social Practice: A Kiki

    2016  POWER  Projects 


    Morning 
    10:00am  -  11:30am

    Educational Networks and Artistic Interventions: Mapping Invisible Knowledge

    2016  Continuing OE 


    10:00am  -  10:50am

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

    2016  Conversation Series 


    10:00am  -  11:30am

    Local Power: Activist Groups in the Bay Area

    2016  POWER 


    10:00am  -  11:30am

    The Permeable Space: Socially Engaged Institutions

    2016  POWER 


    10:00am  -  11:30am

    Giving Birth to Power: Birthing Justice and Womanist Theater

    2016  POWER 


    10:00am  -  11:30am

    New American Representations of Power from Muralists of Color

    2016  POWER 


    10:00am  -  11:30am

    I Got a Recognition! Centering Youth Voice in Museums

    2016  POWER 


    10:00am  -  11:30am

    Teens at the Helm

    2016  POWER 


    11:00am  -  11:50am

    A Mindful Dialogue on Power

    2016  Conversation Series  POWER 


    11:30am  -  12:20pm

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

    2016  Conversation Series  POWER 


    9:30am  -  9:50am

    OE 101

    2016  POWER 


    Lunchtime 
    12:00pm  -  1:30pm

    FIELDWORKS: Open Engagement

    2016  Continuing OE 


    12:00pm  -  1:30pm

    The Liberation Of Our People: Angela Davis 1969/2008

    2016  POWER 


    12:00pm  -  1:30pm

    Nongkrong and Non-Work: An Open Hangout and Dialogue

    2016  POWER  Projects 


    12:00pm  -  1:30pm

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

    2016  POWER  Projects 


    12:00pm  -  1:30pm

    Play the Way: Come Make a Game

    2016  POWER  Projects 


    12:30pm  -  1:30pm

    Casual Social Power: Speed Networking

    2016  Conversation Series  POWER  Social 


    1:00pm  -  2:00pm

    Black Salt Collective

    2016  POWER 


    Afternoon 
    2:00pm  -  2:50pm

    Programming for Power Sharing

    2016  Conversation Series  POWER 


    2:30pm  -  4:00pm

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

    2016  POWER 


    2:30pm  -  4:00pm

    Dunham Technique: Corporeality of Etiquette and Ritual

    2016  POWER 


    2:30pm  -  4:00pm

    White Privilege in Social Practice: White and POC Artists Share

    2016  POWER 


    2:30pm  -  4:00pm

    Allies or Aliens? Collaborating Across Cultures

    2016  POWER 


    3:00pm  -  3:50pm

    Domestic Disturbances: Ramiro Gomez in conversation with Lawrence Weschler

    2016  Conversation Series 


    4:00pm  -  4:50pm

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

    2016  Conversation Series  POWER 


    Evening 
    5:00pm  -  6:30pm

    NAMING NAMES: Feminist Revisionism & Socially Engaged Art Criticism

    2016  Continuing OE 


    5:00pm  -  6:30pm

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

    2016  Continuing OE 


    5:00pm  -  6:30pm

    Radical Relationships in Art & Science

    2016  Continuing OE 


    5:00pm  -  6:30pm

    Commanding Presence: disabled artists / curators on infiltrating the social

    2016  POWER 


    5:00pm  -  6:30pm

    Performing Blackness

    2016  POWER 


    5:03pm  -  5:48pm

    Queering Social Practice: A Kiki Conversation

    2016  POWER  Projects 


    Keynote 
    7:30pm  -  9:00pm

    Suzanne Lacy Keynote

    2016  Keynote 


    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  Open Platform 


    12:20pm  -  12:35pm

    An Army of Lovers: Queer Power

    2016  Open Platform 


    12:40pm  -  12:55pm

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

    2016  Open Platform 


    1:00pm  -  1:15pm

    Disruption

    2016  Open Platform 


    1:20pm  -  1:35pm

    The Longest Revolution: Defining Feminist Social Practice

    2016  Open Platform 


    1:40pm  -  1:55pm

    The Power of Love

    2016  Open Platform 


    2:00pm  -  2:15pm

    Assembling the Affect Archive

    2016  Open Platform 


    2:20pm  -  2:35pm

    Participation in Practice; Authorship, Authority, Methods and Ethics

    2016  Open Platform 


    2:40pm  -  2:55pm

    SPORTSTREETCAPP

    2016  Open Platform 


    3:00pm  -  3:15pm

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

    2016  Open Platform 


    3:20pm  -  3:35pm

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

    2016  Open Platform 


    3:40pm  -  3:55pm

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

    2016  Open Platform 


    4:00pm  -  4:15pm

    Representing vision and voice; negotiating photographic authorship.

    2016  Open Platform 


    4:20pm  -  4:35pm

    The Power of the Object

    2016  Open Platform 


    4:40PM  -  4:55PM

    A Seat at the Table: The Last Supper

    2016  Open Platform 


    All Day 
    9:00am  -  5:00pm

    Hidden Curriculum

    2016  POWER  Projects 


    10:00am  -  4:00pm

    The Work Intern Provides Services

    2016  POWER  Projects 


    10:00am  -  6:00pm

    Queering Social Practice: A Kiki

    2016  POWER  Projects 


    8:00am  -  6:00pm

    Real Time and Space Parking Lot Oasis

    2016  POWER  Projects 


    Morning 
    10:00am  -  11:30am

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

    2016  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  Conversation Series  POWER 


    10:00am  -  11:30am

    Power of Socially Engaged Design

    2016  POWER 


    10:00am  -  11:30am

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

    2016  POWER 


    10:00am  -  11:30pm

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

    2016  POWER 


    10:00am  -  11:30am

    Freestyle: Creative Youth Development through Hip Hop

    2016  Continuing OE 


    11:30am  -  12:20pm

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

    2016  Conversation Series  POWER 


    Lunchtime 
    12:00pm  -  1:30pm

    And in this corner…

    2016  POWER 


    12:00pm  -  1:30pm

    Nongkrong and Non-Work: An Open Hangout and Dialogue

    2016  POWER  Projects 


    12:00pm  -  1:30pm

    The Liberation Of Our People: Angela Davis 1969/2008

    2016  POWER 


    12:00pm  -  1:30pm

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

    2016  POWER  Projects 


    12:30pm  -  1:30pm

    Theory of Change: Writing New Stories

    2016  Conversation Series 


    12:30pm  -  1:30pm

    Value Propositions for Socially Engaged Projects

    2016  Conversation Series 


    Afternoon 
    2:00pm  -  2:50pm

    Action Into Being: Growing as An Ally

    2016  Conversation Series 


    2:30pm  -  4:00pm

    The Politics of Place: Privilege and Power in Placemaking

    2016  POWER 


    2:30pm  -  4:00pm

    San Quentin Prison Arts Project

    2016  POWER 


    2:30pm  -  4:00pm

    Introduction to Latinx Artist Retreat

    2016  Continuing OE 


    2:30pm  -  4:30pm

    Collaboration Across Research Platforms in Socially-Engaged Art

    2016  Continuing OE 


    3:00pm  -  3:50pm

    Building Dialogs, Question Bridge: Black Males

    2016  Conversation Series 


    4:00pm  -  4:50pm

    Digester: responding to The Politics of Place

    2016  Conversation Series  POWER 


    Evening 
    5:00pm  -  6:30pm

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

    2016  Continuing OE 


    5:00pm  -  6:00pm

    Closing Circle Conversation

    2016  Conversation Series  POWER 


    5:00pm  -  6:30pm

    Cities in Transition: Anti-Gentrification Tools and Art Projects

    2016  POWER 


    5:00pm  -  6:30pm

    Ka ora!

    2016  POWER 


    5:00pm  -  6:30pm

    Strange Bedfellows: Artists Working with/in Government

    2016  POWER 


    5:03pm  -  5:48pm

    Queering Social Practice: A Kiki Conversation

    2016  POWER  Projects 


    Keynote 
    7:30pm  -  9:00pm

    Angela Davis Keynote

    2016  Keynote  POWER 


    After Hours 
    9:00pm  -  2:00am

    May Day Closing Party and Mixer

    2016  POWER  Social 


  • 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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