OakTown Hall is located in West Oakland in a six acre industrial arts warehouse called American Steel. American Steel regularly produces a lot of the art that goes to the Burning Man event in Black Rock City each year!
The creators of the Dustfish Bordello at Anarchitectural and the creator of The Front Porch are teaming up to build
an exciting new venture to Establish OakTown Hall as a project development center which focuses on developing and creating projects that localize our industrial arts energy into the West Oakland community.
At OakTown Hall, we are asking what can happen when we develop Burning Man style art projects and experiences right here where these opportunities are needed! We are reaching out to our community for support as we
develop the funding and resources to tackle these exciting projects in our local community and extend what is happening beyond the playa into the lives of our neighbors!
Our first project is a collaborative build and design project at the
Town Park Sk8 Gallery at Defremery Park in West Oakland to provide a mezzanine level with a ramp and a giant arched sign for the park!
We hope to complete it in time for Tha Hood Games at The Life is Living Festival on October 12, 2013,
hosted at Town Park.
Town Park was an empty parking lot at Defremery Park until Keith “K-Dub Williams” came along and
recognized the need for a recreational park in West Oakland. K-Dub rallied the energy and the support necessary to build a series of ramps and to create a living canvas for local artists to display their work.
People throughout the diverse community of West Oakland flock to the Park during the week.
We will also be raising funding for the Broaklyn Film & Theater Co. to bring an exciting
documentary film series and discussion forum, hosted by Michael Orange, to American Steel in the Poplar warehouse!
Broaklyn Film & Theater Co. and Filmwax (Brooklyn) most recently presented the BROOKLYN RECONSTRUCTED series; six feature films which highlight the social impact of a
so-called renaissance. Gentrification, eminent domain, public subsidies for luxury developments, political corruption, rising rePoster for the movie "Battle for Brooklyn"nts and neighborhood revitalization are underlying themes in most
Brooklynites day-to-day lives. With that in mind, the series tapped into the borough's zeitgeist, its wealth of local filmmakers and their recent output of documentaries that address these issues.
