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flies she founded one of the first recre ational modern dance depart ments in the United States offering thousands of Oakland youth the opportunity to ex press themselves through dance during tlie course of her 20 year career there At least 19 of her students now LIVERMORE 2259 las Positas Rd covered in the archives of the city's African American Mu seum and Library where Thompson and Deterville spent long hours the Bcck ford photograph became their 1 choipe for the cover mo ment we saw it" says Deter ville Born in Oakland in 1925 to A NEW BOOK Artists in will be featured at a book signing at the Oakland Museum of California on riday TODAY 1 JULY 29 Summer The Golden Gate Li brary presents Summer Jazz with featured artist Chester Smith free 3 to 4 pm the History of Jazz with Randy Moore will follow 4:30 to 5 pm open Jam Session 5 to 6 pm Golden Gate Library 5606 San Pablp Ave Oakland 597 5023 wwwoak landlibraryorg Outdoor Music Concert The Oak land Municipal Band performs a series of Sunday concerts which includes jazz contemporary pop big band interna tional classical marches and show tunes free 1 pm at the bandstand in Lakeside Park on the shores of Lake Merritt Oak land 339 2818 pp Portable Power Tools The Building Education Center hosts a hands on port able power tools workshop for beginners taught by carpenter Donpa Mori $110 9 30 am to 4 30 pm Building Education i a Center 812 Page St West Berkeley 525 7610 Animal Adoption The East Bay SPCA hosts an adoptathon with cats kit a tens puppies and dogs available for viewing and adoption 1 1 am to 4 pm East Bay SPCA 8323 Baldwin St Oak A land 569 0702 for 925 371 8388 MILPITAS i4a12 Ranch Drive (Ranch Dr McCarthy Blvd) 408 9567900 NOVATO 1 208 Vintage Way 415 878 0355 OAKLAND 1221 510452 1130 PALO ALTO 499 University Avenue (at Cowper) 650614 9140 a PITTSBURG 4297 century Blvd 925 776 1000 PLEASANT HILL 1420 Contra Costa 925 521 9440 i' hiinuiiihi speed it id snapping pix in a heartbeat teenieicT push die natuial limits of speed Plus the whole pii'h cel mint calling starting at 7 pm forming artists Everybody's Creative Art Center Citiccnter Dance and the Dimensions Dance The ater as well as the Oakland Ballet and tlie Oakland En semble Theater are among the performing companies headquartered there A photograph of the founder of Dimensions Dance Theater Ruth Beckford is the cover image for the book Un Recreation Department I tKCANTnM 6010 Johnson Dr (at Pleasanton Square) 925 251 8100 SAN BRUNO 1 7 1252 El Camino Real 650 827 8640 SAN RANCISCO 843 Mission St 1 415 371 1334 i 3435 Geary Blvd 2 415666 1700 388 Market St (at Pine and Davis) 415677 0190 928 Van Ness Ave 415 346 7727 410 Castro St (at Market St) I 415 252 1730 Stdnestown Galleria 415566 0209 SAN JOSE 5194 Stevens Creek Blvdgat Lawrence Expwy) 408345 0300 925 Blossom Hill Rd (Oakridge Mall) 408 3606800 2080TullvRd (atOuimbySt) I 408 223 5030 SAN LEANDRO fA 1263 Marina Ivdfjat Marina Sq Shopping Ctr) 5103474510 "SANMATEO El Camino Promenade Shopping Center 650 3786350 El Camino Real 408 992 1020 UNION CITY 4 31000 Courthouse Dr (at Union Landing) 5104295100 WALNUT CREEK 1406 Broadway (at Cypress) '925 9741430 I Comm unity Calendar center for the so called Oak land African diasporic cultural: arts scene with its 400 seat theater and dance rehearsal studios Currently tlie five Morc recently the landmark story complex there are three Malonga Casquelourd Center floors of affordable residential for tlie Arts 1428 Alice St apartments rented to per eet tlie authors of I Artists in I the JL latest volume in the Images of America series by Arcadia Publishing at the Oakland Museum of Califor irst ridays After ive event riday starting at 5:30 pm Jerry Thompson and Duane Deterville will be on hand to sign copies of their book which arrived in stores" July 16 Both Thompson and Deter ville are originally from other places but have made Oak land home for the past several years Thompson traces his interest in Oakland as an unique place where artistic ex pressions thrive backjo the early 1970s when as a 12 year old in Trenton NJ he heaid the Pointer Sisters for the first time They often sang of Oakland and so I drought I want to go there I want to know the place these amazing women grew up" As a young man Thompson traveled quite a bit throughout tlie US on Greyhound buses before finally settling in the Bay Area He is an accom plished violinist playwright and poet and he currently works in book sales Co author Deterville has lived in Oakland since 1979 and is a graduate of the Cali fornia College of the Arts where he is currently pursuing graduate studies Deterville is co founder of Sankofa Cul tural Institute where he has organized and presented sym posiums on Jazz held writh scholars musicians and 'writers' In a joint interview issued by Arcadia in advance of the release Thompson and Deterville described their re search methods to assemble this sampling of Oakland based artists musicians au thors and dancers "rom a very long list of au thor and artist connections Duane and I put together an artistic map based on various Ibcations in Oakland visiting their kitchens and basements and their living rooms with spread out photo albums and scrapbooks We listened as each person uploaded their take on this amazing town as an artist and neighbor spent hours in mu seums researching the ar chives based on categories' that were created before us peeling away many of the ini tial layers to at last discover who our subjects were before and after finding their creative As tliey progressed with their research the authors also put out the call to various community outlets seeking sources with insights into tlie folk creating art in Oakland and tlie East Bay dating back to 19tli century roots The duo sought to focus on the elder rx i Artists of a chronicle without end hope Artists In Oakland' will serve as a starting point for more in depth primary and secondary' research on the topic of tlie black experience in Oakland" said Deterville documents the con tinuum of black artistic achievement here and in so doing we hope it inspires new young artists to think about their place and responsibility in nernetuatinU that artistic continuum" The authors are looking forward to more events con nected to the release of the book as a way to bring to gether all of tlie disparate Indi viduals of cross disciplinary community whether they be visual arusis musicians performing arts or story tellers PREERRED DEALERS REMONT PCSMart 4079 MOWRY AVE 510 795 9995 HAYWARD Rite Cellular 22400 oothill HablamosEspancl Nextel Store with Sprint products BERKELEY 2307 Telegraph Ave 510 849 3400 DALY CITY 320 Gellert Blvd: (off 1 280 at Alto Serramonte) 650 301 1730 EMERYVILLE 5739 Christie Ave (off the Powel St Exit) ftfes 510696 0930 HAYWARD Southland Mall 510266 3687 24363 Southland Dr 5107806550 Today government program ming on KTOP TV (cable Channel 10) includes: 8:30 Legislative Re cess Info Recess UV1H 111 IrJZvU LU 7" a family committed to tlie arts head dance departments or according the history flies companies across the United Ruth Beckford started dancing States at age 3 learning tap classical ballet and acrobatics' Her mother's family was originally Regional Park in 1961 irom Atlanta her lather ehx came from Jamaica Both mother and father were fol lowers of Marcus Garvey and attended functions of the local chapter of tlie Universal Negro Improvement Association he founded held in the historic Jubilee West Building on 8th Street Beckford graduated from Oakland Tech in 1944 and tnurod wifhk'tthnrinpi LUltlVU YULll JIULIIVIU Dunham a trained anthropol ogist as well as a dancer who was among the first to present African and Caribbean dance movements to American audi ences Beckford later wrote i tlie definitive biography of1 Dunham a dance book classic that is still in print today After attending University of California Berkeley where she trained with dance legends Anna Halprin and Wellend Lathrop Beckford went to work for Oakland Parks and 'Jv? Rates exdude taxes and Sprint ees (induding US charge of up to 3039b that varies quarterly ixst recovery fees up to $155 per line and statelocal fees that varybv area) Sprint ees are not taxes or government required charges perhaps lesser known grass roots artists for what they term an introductory overview limited by necessity to just 200 images I An rx i nrn rv iiu iiiLGiiuuii wao iu paj writes Deterville intlie book's Afterword some individuals that are less known outside the community but have legendary status within Well known artists such as Raymond Saunders Alice mm Walker Ishmael Reed and of course the Pointer Sisters are featured as well The authors were also seeking to document those public places that served and in some cases still serve as showcases for creative talent Places such as the legendary Slim nightclub opened in 1 933 on the corner of Wood St between Seventh opment agency has become a and Eighth Streets and Es Orbit Room which opened in 1963 where tlie main post office complex in West Oakland stands today JI I py: i A i' I '6 Biilf 1 I ll 'I I 1 tl a I I HE Raton hv i'rn'O iirm NOW OUN MOW OPEN MOW OPEN.