Our purpose
is to use basketball
as a tool to teach
youth skills that
will lead to greater opportunity and more fulfilling lives

 
 
 

Learn
how to
become
an Oakland Partner

 
 
 
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Programming

 
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VIRTUAL PROGRAM

 
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SOCIAL DISTANCE PROGRAM

 
 
 
 
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Learn how to become an Oakland Partner

 

Our purpose is to use basketball as a tool to teach youth skills that will lead to greater opportunity
and more fulfilling
lives.

 
 

Partner

Learn how to become an Oakland Partner



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BALL FOR LIFE VIRTUAL PROGRAM

 
 

BALL FOR LIFE SOCIAL DISTANCE PROGRAM


 
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Learn how to become an Oakland Partner

 

Our purpose
is to use basketball as a tool to teach youth skills that will lead to greater opportunity

 

Our purpose
is to use basketball as a tool to teach youth skills that will lead to greater opportunity

 

Our purpose is to use basketball as a tool to teach youth skills that will lead to greater opportunity and more fulfilling lives.

 
 

Our purpose is to use basketball as a tool to teach youth skills that will lead to greater opportunity and more fulfilling lives.

 

Partners

Learn how to become an Oakland partner

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Carmine is a new event for designers who think like artists.

10—12 August 2019

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We went to hundreds of design conferences, were inspired by countless speakers and made tons of new connections and friends… but always walked away feeling like we were only talking about a fraction of what designers can do. This is an event dedicated to the rest of it.

Learn how to become an Oakland Partner

Ball for Life Oakland partners with schools

and organizations

 
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We were always taught that art creates problems and design solves them. Is that an overly limiting way to think of our practice? Are we closing ourselves off to interesting opportunities by not embracing the role of troublemakers?

 
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Speakers include Mark Novo, Sofia Pazari, Sandra Cami, Kevin Matsuya, Chase Nevins, Ida Kester, Helen Gates and more.

 

Enjoy live demonstrations of papermaking, Japanese calligraphy, screenprinting and other craft traditions with applications to both art and design.