EastSide Arts Alliance (ESAA) is a collective of cultural workers who live and work in East Oakland. Our mission is to unite art with activism to work for community empowerment and cultural development and to build bridges between the disenfranchised, racially divided communities we serve.
EastSide is committed to celebrating, strengthening, and growing Oakland’s cultural legacies. We focus our work on the Black, Indigenous/Raza, and South East Asian working-class communities of East Oakland. Through progressive programming and cultural organizing, EastSide Arts Alliance promotes community sustainability for future generations through self-determination, political and cultural awareness, and leadership development.
EastSide Arts Alliance (ESAA) is a collective of cultural workers who live and work in East Oakland. Our mission is to unite art with activism to work for community empowerment and cultural development and to build bridges between the disenfranchised, racially divided communities we serve.
EastSide is committed to celebrating, strengthening, and growing Oakland’s cultural legacies. We focus our work on the Black, Indigenous/Raza, and South East Asian working-class communities of East Oakland. Through progressive programming and cultural organizing, EastSide Arts Alliance promotes community sustainability for future generations through self-determination, political and cultural awareness, and leadership development.