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Oakland’s Life Is Living Festival Offers Music, Free Breakfast and Healing
“For People’s Kitchen Collective and Life Is Living co-producers Joan Osato and YaVette Holt, the Black Panther Party’s survival programs are a guiding light as they use art and culture to get neighbors together, strengthen relationships and inspire a culture of collective care.”
— KQED
Life is Living Festival celebrates Black Panther legacy in Oakland
“Life is Living reminds us that resistance can look like dancing barefoot, feeding neighbors, or raising a fist to the sky. The festival remembers the past and insists that joy itself is a form of freedom.”
— Oakland voices
dispatches from defremery
“A welcoming, warm event brimming with genuine excitement to be in community, Oakland showed up ready to engage and enjoy.”