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21 Grand

21 Grand is a non-profit arts space in Oakland, CA

About Me

21Grand is a volunteer-run interdisciplinary arts space hell-bent on presenting a macrocosmic panoply of emerging and experimental artists, focusing on genre-bending and innovative works of visual arts and live art (i.e. performative and media art presented to a live audience). Events range from the populist to the academic.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 7/11/2005
Band Website: 21grand.org
Band Members: Sarah Lockhart - Programming Director (music/event booking) Darren Jenkins - Exhibitions Director (visual art curator)
Influences: The Kitchen, New Langton Arts, The Lab, AS220
Type of Label: None

My Blog

You are in danger - fire department follies

Two weeks ago, I met with representatives from all the city agencies relevant to our situation: cops, fire, building, planning, city administrator's office, trying to get them to let us have 6-8 shows...
Posted by 21 Grand on Sat, 06 Sep 2008 03:35:00 PST

No, we are not closed ... yet

The latest news: the real challenge, okay challenges, with updating people on what's going on with 21 Grand is translating the bureaucratic issues (and there are multiple bureaucracies at play with di...
Posted by 21 Grand on Wed, 16 Jul 2008 10:16:00 PST

we want documentation ... documentation

So 21 Grand finally has a youtube account and a flickr accounthttp://www.youtube.com/user/sl21gandhttp://www.flickr .com/photos/sarah_21grand/We've been remiss in taking pictures and videotaping shows ...
Posted by 21 Grand on Thu, 17 Apr 2008 01:55:00 PST

The Latest News

The latest news about what's going on with 21 Grand is here.
Posted by 21 Grand on Fri, 11 Jan 2008 11:38:00 PST

thanks and what’s next

This post is up on our blog at our website:http://www.21grand.org/wpress/?p=12
Posted by 21 Grand on Wed, 19 Dec 2007 11:42:00 PST

Current Update on shows, our ability to operate

Okay here's the latest, preceded by a short synopsis of how this came to pass:Saturday night (a week ago) we got visited by the Alcholic Beverage Action Team of the Oakland Police Dept. They have a hi...
Posted by 21 Grand on Sat, 08 Dec 2007 01:22:00 PST

impending San Francisco Magazine article

October's issue of San Francisco Magazine (the one with full page ads for cars, jewelry, and kitchen treatments that cost more than I make in a year) promises to be about Oakland. In its glossy treatm...
Posted by 21 Grand on Tue, 18 Sep 2007 03:08:00 PST

Oakland Magazine Gives Us the Shaft

On the heels of error-riddled coverage of the Oakland Art Murmur in the SF Chronicle and the East Bay Express, comes more fatuosity, this time from Oakland Magazine. The SF Bay Guardian article that ...
Posted by 21 Grand on Mon, 30 Oct 2006 04:40:00 PST

Sonic Youth are not performing tonight

We are finally recovering from 10 shows in 11 days - the recovery process will be more or less complete when the Waste Management folks do their weekly trash pick up. Things will slow down a bit, and ...
Posted by 21 Grand on Tue, 18 Jul 2006 11:05:00 PST

21 Grand at Yerba Buena

21 Grand will be curating two nights of performances at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, In conjunction with an exhibition of Oakland artists this summer. The working title of the exhibition is "Sampl...
Posted by 21 Grand on Thu, 01 Jun 2006 05:39:00 PST