{"id":408913,"date":"2026-07-23T02:48:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T02:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/408913\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T02:48:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T02:48:21","slug":"the-future-of-the-henry-j-kaiser-center-for-the-arts-after-being-closed-for-two-decades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/408913\/","title":{"rendered":"The future of the Henry J. Kaiser Center for the Arts after being closed for two decades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Oakland entertainment venue has, in a way, been reborn. In 2005, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehenryj.org\/\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Henry J. Kaiser Center for the Arts<\/a> closed for two decades . If you\u2019re a long time Oakland resident, you likely went to Henry J. Kaiser Center for high school graduations, concerts and rallies. Renowned people have been on the venue\u2019s stage including Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Tina Turner and the Grateful Dead. Since it\u2019s reopening this January, after a $100 million renovation, the center hasn\u2019t missed a beat with the big names. Former Vice President Kamala Harris and comedian Jamie Foxx were on this year\u2019s events calendar. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/terri-trotter-63506a48\/\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Terri Trotter<\/a> is the CEO of the Henry J. Kaiser Center for the Arts. She and Host Jene\u00e9 Darden talk about the future plans for the historic venue. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Oakland entertainment venue has, in a way, been reborn. In 2005, the Henry J. Kaiser Center for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-408913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}