2023 EVENTS

(un)belong(ed)

Saturday's in August

Watch Live on facebook

Nomadic Fundraiser

August 2

7-9pm 
On Zoom

BAMBDCDC  |  BAM Family

BAR B Que Cook Out

August 4th  -  12noon - 2:30pm

Lowell Park
1180 14th St., Oakland

Music, Food, Games & Prizes
and community information

FREE

AAMLO Presents

Oakland Grown

reading by Dr. Ayodele "Wordslanger" Nzinga

August 5, 2023

2pm -3pm

659 14th Street, Oakland, CA 94612

Join us for an afternoon with Dr. Nzinga the first poet laureate of the city of Oakland. Discover words of power from her collection INCANDESCENT.

Black & Green

A youth-led panel on Environmentalism

8/6/2023 on Zoom
12pm - 2pm

Government Housing

A collaborative Work In Development 
By Ayodele Nzinga & Nkeiruka Oruche 
Featuring work by KimberLee Webber and Gbedu Town Radio: Kanukai Chigamba, Jamie Carter, Roshonda Parker, and Carmu

Aug 7, 2023
8:30pm

BAM House
1540 Broadway, Oakland, CA

Leelee Jackson’s

COMB Your Hair
or you’ll Look like a SLAVE

Directed by Cat Brooks

August 7. 2023  -  7pm

BAM House
1540 Broadway, Oakland

Lower Bottom Playaz presents August Wilson’s

Radio Golf

August 10-27, 2023

1540 Broadway Ave
Oakland, CA 94612

Price: $30 - $150
for info call 510-332-1319, lowerbottomplayaz.com

Preview 8/10/23 - 7:00 pm
Friday & Saturday - 7:00 pm
Sunday Matinee - 2:00 pm

Full/Fledged/Free

August 11, 2023

OLU8 Film & Culture Present

BAMBD Film Festival

I AM HOPE

August 13, 2023

@6pm

BAM House
1540 Broadway, Oakland, CA

BAMDFEST 2023 International (un)belong(ed) presents an excerpt of Biko Eisen-Martin’s

PAC & BiGGIE are Dead

Directed by Cat Brooks

August 14. 2023
7-10 pm

BAM House
1540 Broadway, Oakland

OLU8 Film & Culture Present

BAMBD Film Festival

DOPE IS DEATH

August 15, 2023
@6pm

BAM House
1540 Broadway, Oakland, CA

OLU8 Film & Culture Present

BAMBD Film Festival

TUPAC SHAKUR: A LIFE IN TEN PICTURES

August 16, 2023
@6pm

BAM House
1540 Broadway, Oakland, CA

(un)ground(ed)

8/20/23 ~ 1pm - 3pm

Oakland Museum of California
1000 Oak Street, Oakland (in the garden)

Mimi Temptestt (poet), Zouhair Mussa (poet), David Boyce (musician), Rudi Mwongzi (musician, pianist), ayodele nzinga (poet laureate)

$50 - $1000 (sliding scale)

A fundraiser for BAMDFEST 2023 International

A celebration of the town anthology

August 23, 2023
7-9pm
On Zoom

Journey of Names

by William Crossman
Directed by Ayodele

August 28 & August 30

7pm-10pm

Belong

September 1, 2023

a black carpet ribbon cutting and a fundraiser for BAM House
featuring Dizzy Jenkins, Jay Rich, Epitome and the Poet Laureate of Oakland in a night of entertainment and celebration

BAMBDFEST 2023 International (un)belong(ed)
presents Lower Bottom Playaz in a staged theatrical reading of

Rag Doll Lullaby

by William Crossman

September 28
7-9pm

BAM House
1540 Broadway
Oakland

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