Upcoming Events
See calendar and events below for what’s happening next in your neighborhood! All events are listed here and updated often—stay connected to our events calendar for the latest.
NOW BOOKING TRUCK VISITS!
The HEAR HERE Community Billboard truck is a vehicle for empowerment and understanding, designed to gather stories, share memories, and encourage neighborhood interaction. With a large digital display screen, a sound system, and an eye-catching analog display board, the HEAR HERE truck available! See our Services to read all of the details.
Summer Tour featuring ‘We Are Neighbors Together’
NOW booking for Fall 2024!
Please fill-out our program request form to host HEAR/HERE at your community event!
Elev8te the World Day!
Elev8te the World Day!
Honoring Joshua’s 26th Birthday and Black August for community, family and friends!
How do we use Black August to uplift and elevate the world? Joshua, a longtime member of the HEAR HERE community engagement team, is a singer-song writer, clothing designer who uses his creativity for social change. We are deeply saddened that Joshua is currently incarcerated. We’ll gather to celebrate, honor and send prayers to this creative community activist. We will provide cards for folks to write uplifting birthday messages. You can also purchase some of his merch or listen to his music at www.elev8tedthinking.com
“Black August is an annual commemoration and prison-based holiday to remember Black political prisoners, Black freedom struggles in the United States and beyond, and to highlight Black resistance against racial, colonial and imperialist oppression.”
HEAR HERE will be on deck for the celebration, showcasing Joshua’s inspiring music videos.
We Are Neighbors Together!
We Are Neighbors Together!
Closing ceremony & community meal at the Self Help Hunger Program
Join neighbors and the Self Help Hunger Program as we honor the local storytellers of ‘We Are Neighbors Together’. Sister Katherine Campbell, Black Panther leader and founder of the tremendous Free Breakfast program, will lead us in a spiritual healing circle. This will be our final summer screening of ‘We Are Neighbors Together’ video stories. Everyone is welcome!
We Are Neighbors Together!
Ashby Flea Market
The HEAR HERE Community Billboard will be at the historic Ashby Flea Market, a gathering space for local entrepreneurs, artists and activists!
With support from Berkeley Civic Arts, the HEAR HERE Community Billboard Truck is teaming up with the Self Help Hunger Program to provide voice and visibility to unhoused neighbors’ experiences. We’ve been collaborating with the Self Help Hunger Community for the past several months, recording stories about family, gathering, reparations, sharing, and protecting - themes that invite people’s truth. The HEAR HERE Community Billboard truck will tour these videos throughout Berkeley over the summer.
We Are Neighbors Together!
Ashby Flea Market
The HEAR HERE Community Billboard will be at the historic Ashby Flea Market, a gathering space for local entrepreneurs, artists and activists!
With support from Berkeley Civic Arts, the HEAR HERE Community Billboard Truck is teaming up with the Self Help Hunger Program to provide voice and visibility to unhoused neighbors’ experiences. We’ve been collaborating with the Self Help Hunger Community for the past several months, recording stories about family, gathering, reparations, sharing, and protecting - themes that invite people’s truth. The HEAR HERE Community Billboard truck will tour these videos throughout Berkeley over the summer.
We Are Neighbors Together!
National Night Out for Safety & Liberation
The HEAR HERE Community Billboard will joining evening block parties throughout South Berkeley sparking conversations about neighborhood love and unity!
With support from Berkeley Civic Arts, the HEAR HERE Community Billboard Truck is teaming up with SHHP to provide voice and visibility to unhoused neighbors’ experiences. We’ve been collaborating with the Self Help Hunger Community for the past several months, recording stories about family, gathering, reparations, sharing, and protecting - themes that invite people’s truth. The HEAR HERE Community Billboard truck will tour these videos throughout Berkeley over the summer.
We Are Neighbors Together!
We Are Neighbors Together!
Pull up a picnic blanket and listen to unforgettable neighbor stories about community care, local challenges & future hopes!
With support from Berkeley Civic Arts, the HEAR HERE Community Billboard Truck is teaming up with SHHP to provide voice and visibility to unhoused neighbors’ experiences. We’ve been collaborating with the Self Help Hunger Community for the past several months, recording stories about family, gathering, reparations, sharing, and protecting - themes that invite people’s truth. The HEAR HERE Community Billboard truck will tour these videos throughout Berkeley over the summer.
We Are Neighbors Together!
Berkeley Farmers Market
Come and meet The HEAR HERE Community Billboard at the farmers market to nourish your mind, body and soul.
With support from Berkeley Civic Arts, the HEAR HERE Community Billboard Truck is teaming up with SHHP to provide voice and visibility to unhoused neighbors’ experiences. We’ve been collaborating with the Self Help Hunger Community for the past several months, recording stories about family, gathering, reparations, sharing, and protecting - themes that invite people’s truth. The HEAR HERE Community Billboard truck will tour these videos throughout Berkeley over the summer.
We Are Neighbors Together!
Temescal Street Fair
The HEAR HERE Community Billboard is at the Temescal Street Fair! Come celebrate with your neighbors!
We’re excited to bring Self Help Hunger’s impactful community stories to the Temescal Street Fair! Join the conversation and enjoy live music on two stages, great food from popular Temescal eateries and mobile food vendors, craft beer, and scores of artisans at thisFREE annual Festival! Easily accessible via bike & transit - only a block from MacArthur BART!
We Are Neighbors Together!
We Are Neighbors Together!
Pull up a picnic blanket and listen to unforgettable neighbor stories about community care, local challenges & future hopes!
With support from Berkeley Civic Arts, the HEAR HERE Community Billboard Truck is teaming up with SHHP to provide voice and visibility to unhoused neighbors’ experiences. We’ve been collaborating with the Self Help Hunger Community for the past several months, recording stories about family, gathering, reparations, sharing, and protecting - themes that invite people’s truth. The HEAR HERE Community Billboard truck will tour these videos throughout Berkeley over the summer.
Every Day is Black History Month
Honoring and Celebrating the Unsung Fathers!
Join us for an unforgettable celebration of Black fatherhood at "Everyday is Black History - Honoring and Celebrating the Unsung Fathers" on June 23rd at Jasper P Driver Plaza! This annual Self Help Hunger program annual celebration uplifts the Black communities of Oakland and Berkeley, providing cultural enrichment and essential resources despite systemic challenges. This event will feature performances by local artists, crafts, food vendors and family activities.
With support from Berkeley Civic Arts, the HEAR HERE Community Billboard Truck is teaming up with SHHP to provide voice and visibility to unhoused neighbors’ experiences. We’ve been collaborating with the Self Help Hunger Community for the past several months, recording stories about family, gathering, reparations, sharing, and protecting - themes that invite people’s truth. We’ ll be premiering these powerful video stores on June 23rd. The HEAR HERE Community Billboard truck will tour these videos throughout Berkeley over the summer. Check out our calendar to see when we’ll be out on the streets!
The Center for Art Esteem Open House
Open House & Celebration!
ArtEsteem’s Phase I building at 3111 West Street is constructed, complete, and ready to be filled with ArtEsteem’s foundational energies of love, joy, and creativity. This Open House will serve as a showcase and celebration, demonstrating the building’s design, features, and potential as an arts, healing, and administrative space.
ArtEsteem launched our capital campaign to ensure sustainability in Oakland’s ever-changing cityscape. The establishment of The Center for ArtEsteem at 3111 and 3115 West Street, less than two blocks from our original location on 33rd and West where we formed our identity and made decades of healing, creative, and educational impacts is indicative of a universal pull to maintain our deep-rooted legacy in West Oakland.
HEAR HERE will be on deck for the celebration, showcasing heart-felt videos that document ArtEsteem’s journey.
Learn more & RSVP: ArtEsteem
A Rising Tide: Benefit Screening
Support Housing Justice and the Center for ArtEsteem!
The Center for ArtEsteem invites you to their benefit screening of Cheryl Fabio's A Rising Tide at the New Parkway!
The Center for ArtEsteem (AHC) is hosting a benefit screening of Oakland filmmaker Cheryl Fabio's A Rising Tide to uplift the voices of Alameda County's unhoused residents. This event is in support of housing justice in Alameda County and the Center for ArtEsteem’s Oakland Super Heroes mural project. After the screening, join a lively panel discussion with housing experts to address this local crisis.
Get your ticket on Event Brite
Check out powerful ArtEsteem Super Hero videos on the HEAR HERE Community Billboard before and after the event!
Self-Help Hunger Stone Soup POSTPONED
Come Break Bread With Us!
POSTPONED DUE TO WEATHER!
Check back soon for the new date!
Join us for STONE SOUP, a collective meal to knit community and support the Self-Help Hunger Program!
We invite our housed neighbors to make a difference in our community. Come with fresh vegetables and canned goods for our neighborhood soup and an open heart to hear powerful stories of resilience.
Stone Soup is a fundraiser. Your $50 donation sustains the Self Help Hunger pantry, providing fresh produce and warm meals to over 500 people weekly. 80% of our clients are elders and 40% are unhoused or at risk.
No one turned away for lack of funds.
Learn more: selfhelphunger.org
Self-Help Hunger Stone Soup Tour POSTPONED
Join us for STONE SOUP, a collective meal to knit community and support the Self-Help Hunger Program!
We’ll tour neighborhood streets surrounding Driver Plaza to invite neighbors to Sunday’s Stone Soup.
Stone Soup is a fundraiser. Your $50 donation sustains the Self Help Hunger pantry, providing fresh produce and warm meals to over 500 people weekly. 80% of our clients are elders and 40% are unhoused or at risk.
No one turned away for lack of funds.
Learn more: selfhelphunger.org
Self Help Hunger Program Tour
Over the next year, HEAR HERE is partnering with The Self-Help Hunger Program, based at Driver’s Plaza (61st Street @ Adeline Avenue), to gather & amplify unheard community stories.
Throughout December and January, HEAR HERE will be touring Berkeley neighborhoods sharing powerful testimonial videos from the community about the impact of the Self-Help Hunger Program.
SHHP, started in 2009 by ‘Aunti’ Frances Moore, a Black Panther Party member and neighbor, nurtures the community with hot meals, fresh produce, transitional housing, job training and well-being services. Aunti Frances see unity through food justice. SHHP serves 500 weekly meals.
SHHP is turning to the generous people of Oakland and Berkeley, to help us continue this collective effort of supporting our neighbors in need. Your contributions will ensure that we can maintain and expand our programs, providing essential support right at our doorstep. Donate to their GO FUND ME campaign today!
Learn more about this vital program: selfhelphunger.org
Self Help Hunger Program Tour
Over the next year, HEAR HERE is partnering with The Self-Help Hunger Program, based at Driver’s Plaza (61st Street @ Adeline Avenue), to gather & amplify unheard community stories.
Throughout December and January, HEAR HERE will be touring Berkeley neighborhoods sharing powerful testimonial videos from the community about the impact of the Self-Help Hunger Program.
SHHP, started in 2009 by ‘Aunti’ Frances Moore, a Black Panther Party member and neighbor, nurtures the community with hot meals, fresh produce, transitional housing, job training and well-being services. Aunti Frances see unity through food justice. SHHP serves 500 weekly meals.
SHHP is turning to the generous people of Oakland and Berkeley, to help us continue this collective effort of supporting our neighbors in need. Your contributions will ensure that we can maintain and expand our programs, providing essential support right at our doorstep. Donate to their GO FUND ME campaign today!
Learn more about this vital program: selfhelphunger.org
Self Help Hunger Program Tour (Copy)
Over the next year, HEAR HERE is partnering with The Self-Help Hunger Program, based at Driver’s Plaza (61st Street @ Adeline Avenue), to gather & amplify unheard community stories.
Throughout December and January, HEAR HERE will be touring Berkeley neighborhoods sharing powerful testimonial videos from the community about the impact of the Self-Help Hunger Program.
SHHP, started in 2009 by ‘Aunti’ Frances Moore, a Black Panther Party member and neighbor, nurtures the community with hot meals, fresh produce, transitional housing, job training and well-being services. Aunti Frances see unity through food justice. SHHP serves 500 weekly meals.
SHHP is turning to the generous people of Oakland and Berkeley, to help us continue this collective effort of supporting our neighbors in need. Your contributions will ensure that we can maintain and expand our programs, providing essential support right at our doorstep. Donate to their GO FUND ME campaign today!
Learn more about this vital program: selfhelphunger.org
Self Help Hunger Program Tour
Over the next year, HEAR HERE is partnering with The Self-Help Hunger Program, based at Driver’s Plaza (61st Street @ Adeline Avenue), to gather & amplify unheard community stories.
Throughout December and January, HEAR HERE will be touring Berkeley neighborhoods sharing powerful testimonial videos from the community about the impact of the Self Help Hunger Program.
SHHP, started in 2009 by ‘Aunti’ Frances Moore, a Black Panther Party member and neighbor, nurtures the community with hot meals, fresh produce, transitional housing, job training and well-being services. Aunti Frances see unity through food justice. SHHP serves 500 weekly meals.
SHHP is turning to the generous people of Oakland and Berkeley, to help us continue this collective effort of supporting our neighbors in need. Your contributions will ensure that we can maintain and expand our programs, providing essential support right at our doorstep. Donate to their GO FUND ME campaign today!
Learn more about this vital program: selfhelphunger.org
Oral Historians in the East Bay
Oral Historians in the East Bay, moderated by Liam O’Donoghue of East Bay Yesterday!
We’re honored to be part of a powerful roster of history keepers for an evening of stories and exploration for many facets of local Bay Area history! We’re looking forward to sharing the stage with GEMS Oral Histories & Audio Storytelling, Oakland Chinatown Oral History Project , and the Oral History Center.
Dr. Saturu Ned, Black Panther Party Alumni Legacy Network co-director and Commons Archive advisor will join Sue Mark, Commons Archive founder/director to inspire future history-makers!
Read full event details and panelists’ information on the Oakland Public Library website.
Love our PARK!
Let’s show F.M. Smith Park some LOVE!
Join us for a fun-filled afternoon neighbor togetherness at F.M. Smith Park! Family-friendly activities including spoken word poetry, library book give-away, arts, gardening, and games in the park. Neighbor volunteers will be on hand to answer questions and organize future park clean-ups and game days. HEAR HERE Community engagers want to know: “How do you want this neighborhood to feel?”
Neighbor Block Party
We’re thrilled to support a North Oakland evening street-side gathering to support neighborly togetherness!
Joyce Gordon Gallery Anniversary Celebration
Stop by the Joyce Gordon Gallery to celebrate 20 years of artistic excellence in Oakland!
Golden Gate Summer Thing
What: Neighborhood Summer Thing
When: Friday June 9th 4:30-6:30pm
Where: 1075 62nd St. (Golden Gate Rec Center)
Why: Neighborhood Togetherness and Summertime!
Free neighborhood event with food, field games, bounce house, music, cotton candy and so much more!
No need to bring anything other than yourselves. The event is very kid friendly, so bring the whole family!
Feel free to pass the invitation along to anyone you like.
Self Help Hunger Program: Mothers of The Struggle 2023
In collaboration with Self Help Hunger Program, we are celebrating both Mother’s Day and ‘Everyday is Black History Month' in a community event - Mothers of the Struggle.
Date: Saturday, May 14, 2023
Time: 1PM to 4PM
The event will feature Resources for families in need, gift card for unhoused mothers, free (or sliding scale) food, a community flea market, speakers, open mic, performances and more!
Join us, celebrate the mothers of our community, and engage with the HEAR/HERE truck team!
Black Joy Parade
We are participating this year in the Black Joy Parade, in support for the Black Panther Party Alumni Legacy Network!
Interested to walk with us? Email us here for more info on how to walk in solidarity with the Black Panther Party original members, in Oakland’s most joyful parade !
Love 4 Our Unhoused Neighbors: Princess Beverly Day of Service
Love 4 Our Unhoused Neighbors: Princess Beverly Day of Service
Hosted by Self-Help Hunger Program, Oakland Youth for Restorative Justice, and North Oakland Restorative Justice Council, join us to collect much needed resources and support our unhoused neighbors - in memory of our lifelong North Oakland Freedom Fight Princess Beverly Williams. The event will feature a neighborhood pop-up holiday meal, music, and a care village at the 45th St Encampment.
For a detailed list of required donations, please view the Facebook event page!
To donate directly: https://gofund.me/477515ad
Donation Block Drive
Look out for the HEAR HERE community billboard cruising the streets of North Oakland!
We’re spreading the word to collect donations for the upcoming ‘Love 4 Unhoused Neighbors’ event!
Feel free to interact with our team, we’d love to hear from you!
Engage in your community!
Want to know your community better, and work alongside dynamic, friendly individuals, leaders, and activists in Oakland? We are always on a lookout for socially-conscious people for our events and activity team.