Repurpose II : Heart Art for those in Healing

Schedule

Fri, 27 Feb, 2026 at 07:00 pm to Sat, 28 Feb, 2026 at 04:00 pm

UTC-08:00

Location

Eastside Cultural Center | Oakland, CA

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Holding our pain with empathy- Repurpose II is an invitation to compost grief into fertile energy.
About this Event

EastSide Arts Alliance / Live Arts in Resistance presents

Repurpose – Heart Art for Those in Healing 

Shaunnah Ray, Laila Shabazz, dana fitchett + Movement for Liberation company

written by Shaunnah Ray + Laila Shabazz

Directed by Shaunnah Ray

Choreography by dana fitchett

Fri Feb 27 @ 7pm 

Sat Feb 28 @ 2pm 

EastSide Cultural Center

2277 International Blvd. •  Oakland

Audio Description on Sat Feb 28 only, Haptic Tour begins 1pm

TICKETS: 

$20 general admission 

$10 Students and Seniors

no one turned away for lack of funds

Repurpose II is a community embrace toward healing. The invitation is to collectively integrate the practices of spoken word, immersive art installations, chanting, movement, and community to shift toward transforming the ache of grief into fertile energy.


The call is to find ways into the cracked spaces of our broken hearts and fill them with sounds and vibrations that open us up to our mind-body-spirit connection. Using tones and chanting as a vehicle for our healing will be one way in. Massaging our sweet hearts with words as well will be another path inward. Using poetry and storytelling as guidance to help us locate what is tender and harvesting the hard feelings to make room for something regenerative.

The Live Arts in Resistance series is supported in part by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and our generous individual donors.

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Eastside Cultural Center, 2277 International Boulevard, Oakland, United States

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