East Bay Queer Arts Center
About East Bay Queer Arts Center
The EAST BAY LGBTQ+ HEALING ARTS CENTER aka The QUEER ARTS CENTER is a grassroots, interdisciplinary collaborative of Oakland, California-based disabled, Black, Indigenous + Brown LGBTQ+ identified artists and wellness practitioners serving a global community. We are diverse across gender, sexual orientation, and relationship spectrums as well as ancestral heritage and spiritual orientations. We each are rooted in healing-justice values and maintain adherence to professional standards by continually expanding inquiry into our respective fields of practice.
OUR MISSION
To offer creative opportunities for health equity through culturally competent, financially accessible, interdisciplinary art innovation and through marginalized LGBTQIA rights advocacy; and, to promote the well-being of the QTPOC artist community.
OUR VISION
Oakland is home to one of the most innovative and respected queer arts communities in the world.
We are also home to one of the nation's largest groups per capita of disenfranchised LGBTQ+ artists. Founded by Spectrum Queer Media (a QTPOC led organization est. 2009), The East Bay LGBTQ+ Healing Arts Center (est. in 2020) and led by Black Queer + Black Trans artists and healers, offers Oakland's LGBTQ+ artists of all ethnicities + all areas of creative genius (dance, visual art, music, film, sculptural art, theater, spoken word, literature, zines, etc.) a safe place to heal, build + support their art throughout the year.
Locations
Primary Office Location
3411 Lakeshore Ave Oakland CA 94610
(510) 239-7197
