{"id":478027,"date":"2026-09-28T06:10:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T06:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/478027\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T06:10:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T06:10:12","slug":"blacspace-cooperative-invites-bay-area-to-experience-oaklands-black-cultural-ecosystem-through-a-blac-map-tour-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/478027\/","title":{"rendered":"BLACspace Cooperative Invites Bay Area to Experience Oakland\u2019s Black Cultural Ecosystem Through a BLAC Map Tour + Party"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Ad\u00e9nik\u00e9 Amin Special to The Post<\/p>\n

Presented as part of MoAD\u2019s Nexus: SF\/Bay Area Black Art Week, the October 2 experience takes guests inside the spaces, practices, and relationships that keep Black arts and culture rooted in Oakland<\/p>\n

What does Oakland\u2019s Black cultural ecosystem look like from the inside?\n<\/p>\n

On Friday, October 2, BLACspace Cooperative will bring its BLAC Map to life with The BLAC Map Tour + Party, a two-part experience connecting artists, cultural workers, community partners, funders, and arts lovers with the people and places shaping Black arts and culture across Oakland and the greater Bay Area.\n<\/p>\n

Presented as part of the Museum of the African Diaspora\u2019s Nexus: SF\/Bay Area Black Art Week, the day begins at MoAD at 685 Mission St. at 12 noon with a guided field trip through creative and cultural spaces connected to the BLACspace ecosystem.\n<\/p>\n

Guests will travel together by bus from San Francisco to Oakland, stepping inside studios, cultural hubs, creative businesses, and gathering places while experiencing artist talks, exhibitions, film, music, movement, ancestral practice, and opportunities for conversation.\n<\/p>\n

The Tour is an extension of The BLAC Map of Oakland, BLACspace\u2019s interactive guide to creative and cultural spaces stewarded by members of its ecosystem. The map makes visible a network of people and places working to keep Black culture rooted in a city where displacement, rising costs, and shrinking arts funding continue to threaten cultural permanence.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe call this work Cultural Reforestation,\u201d said Zakiya Harris, Vision and Leadership steward of BLACspace Cooperative. \u201cIt\u2019s about repairing, replenishing, and rooting Black arts and culture where it has been displaced, and creating the conditions for our cultural ecosystem to remain for generations to come.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

The Tour will move through several Bay Area cultural spaces, including Minnesota Street Project, The Barn, B-Love\u2019s Guest House, Koo Labs Production & Design Center, BAM House, and BlaQyard, with experiences featuring members and collaborators across the BLACspace ecosystem.\n<\/p>\n

At 5 p.m., the field trip gives way to The BLAC Map Party, a celebration of the ecosystem the Tour spent the day exploring. The evening invites the wider community to gather for music, food, art, cultural activations, an opening Ring Shout ceremony, and connection among Black artists, cultural workers, organizations, and the people who support their work.\n<\/p>\n

The experience reflects BLACspace\u2019s larger belief that the future of Black arts and culture requires cooperation.\n<\/p>\n

As a Black arts and culture-promoting cooperative, BLACspace brings together artists, cultural workers, creative businesses, and organizations to share resources, relationships, knowledge, and stewardship.\n<\/p>\n

Through membership, holistic business coaching, mutual aid, consulting, storytelling, and advocacy for cultural spaces, the cooperative is building infrastructure intended to strengthen Oakland\u2019s Black cultural economy for the long term.\n<\/p>\n

EVENT INFORMATION\n<\/p>\n

The BLAC Map Tour + Party
Friday, Oct. 2\n<\/p>\n

BLAC Map Tour: 12\u20135 p.m.
Begins at the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD)
685 Mission St., San Francisco<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

BLAC Map Party: 5\u20138 p.m.
Oakland, California
Party location provided to confirmed RSVP guests.\n<\/p>\n

Tickets, RSVP information, and additional event details are available through BLACspace Cooperative at ABOUT BLACSPACE COOPERATIVE<\/p>\n

About BLACspace Cooperative:\n<\/p>\n

BLACspace Cooperative connects and cultivates an ecosystem of artists, cultural workers, creative businesses, and organizations shaping Black arts and culture. Through holistic business coaching, values-aligned consulting, shared stewardship, and advocacy for cultural spaces, BLACspace works to create the conditions for its ecosystem to remain rooted and thrive.\n<\/p>\n

Its work is grounded in Cultural Reforestation: strengthening what is here, restoring what has been displaced, and building toward cultural permanence in Oakland and beyond for the next 100 years.\n<\/p>\n

Ad\u00e9nik\u00e9 Amin is the storytelling steward for BLACspace Cooperative. For media and other information, please reach out to adenike@blacspace.coop<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

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