Photos from Mesoamerica Meet-up #1 – a monthly meet-up sponsored by Mesoamerica Institute and Oakland Digital Arts & Literacy Center. The purpose of the meet-up is to bring together artists from different backgrounds to collaborate and strengthen the community through complimentary mediums: dance, education, mixed-media, photography, technology, and video.

The Oakland Housing Authority, The John Stewart Company, Oakland Digital Arts & Literacy Center (ODALC) and the Craigslist Foundation held the 2010 West Oakland National Night Out (NNO) on 8th Street & Mandela in Oakland, California.

Oakland Digital Arts & Literacy Center (ODALC) provided the community with a Digital Photography booth with cool activities and an innovative approach for West Oakland youth to pick-up new skills.

Come celebrate with Our Oakland’s Contest winners, finalists and participants, and all the partners and volunteers who helped make the contest possible! Oakland Public Library Associate Director Gerry Garzon will present awards.

The Oakland Housing Authority, The John Stewart Company, Oakland Digital Arts & Literacy Center (ODALC) and the Craigslist Foundation held the 2010 West Oakland National Night Out (NNO) on 8th Street & Mandela in Oakland, California.

Oakland Digital Arts & Literacy Center (ODALC) provided the community with a Digital Photography booth with cool activities and an innovative approach for West Oakland youth to pick-up new skills.

NATIONAL NIGHT OUT is designed to:

- Heighten crime and drug prevention awareness;
- Generate support for, and participation in, local anticrime programs;
- Strengthen neighborhood spirit and police-community partnerships; and
- Send a message to criminals letting them know that neighborhoods are organized and fighting back.

For more information about Oakland Digital Arts and Literacy Center (ODALC), please visit www.odalc.org and www.inspireoakland.com.

In one short year, Oakland Digital Arts & Literacy Center has made a bold first step into the technology nonprofit world. During that time, the City of Oakland has witnessed a number of new ideas and community projects from this ambitious and quickly growing source of philanthropy.

ODALC supports NNO! National Night Out is a nationwide annual event designed to raise crime prevention awareness, strengthen neighborhood spirit and unity, and foster community-police partnerships!

Remember Jinghong Kang | “If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.” – Mother Teresa

Art is everywhere; art is in the street; technology can help capture it. This workshop will help participants discover the artist in themselves and the hidden beauty all around us. Includes a hands-on digital photography exercise and quick introduction to Adobe Photoshop.

Want to learn how to make a rap/hip-hop beat? This workshop will introduce Reason, a music software program developed by Propellerhead Software. It emulates a rack of hardware synthesizers, samplers, signal processors, sequencers and mixers, all of which can be interconnected. Reason can be used either as a complete virtual music studio, or as a collection of virtual instruments to be played live or used with other sequencing software.

Upcoming July 2010 Workshops @ 1224 Harrison Street, Oakland: 7/15 (Marketing That Matters), 7/16 (What is SEO?)