e4e Arts is part of a national coaltion callled Arts for Everybody. At a moment when Americans face acute challenges to their individual and collective wellbeing, the audacious new campaign from One Nation/One Project titled Arts For EveryBody is about to prove how the arts can lead to healthier people and healthier communities. Inspired by the 1936 Federal Theatre Project where 18 cities and towns presented their own interpretations of the anti-fascist play “It Can't Happen Here,” Arts For EveryBody will bring together people and communities.

On July 27, 2024, artists, civic leaders, and community health providers in 18 cities and towns across America will simultaneously premiere an array of large-scale participatory art projects which will draw on the sounds, styles, and stories of their communities to answer the prompt “No place like home.” Edutainment for Equity will lead the charge for Oakland, Ca.

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Exhibit A Oakland is an interactive data exhibition highlighting institutional Anti Blackness in the city. The project has engaged visual Artists from Oakland producing over 30 Data Visualizations that illustrate outcomes in various domains including, housing, criminal justice, environment, health, education. gun violence, and education. The project includes a companion Album XA Oakland vol 1, Produced by Mama Candice and featuring artists from Oakland. Each song on the album is an audioization that corresponds to specific data points, and some can be accessed through individual visualizations via Augmented Reality, or in the cinematic version of the Exhibition.

Exhibit A Oakland is produced in collaboration with the Department of Race and Equity in the city of Oakland and a number of co conspirators including Alena Museum, Black Terminus AR, Life is Living, Town Futurist Media, and several other organizations and funders.

Diamond and Bullets is a project of Edutainment for Equity that was initiated in 2018 and severely delayed and altered by the Pandemic.  Inspired by the State sanctioned murder of Philando Castile, this piece of musical theater is an all vocal experience written by Hodari and Candice Davis principals of e4e, and Cat Brooks legendary activist and theater artist who is also featured as a lead actress in the play.  D&B features music from acapella beatbox group Antique Naked Soul and their 2020 album of the same name.  

Diamond and Bullets is intended to provide an empathetic pathway for understanding the rallying cry “Black Lives Matter”, and the sentiment it engenders in the lives of the victims of police violence.  Though the play is based on a true story, it does not intend to be an accurate account of anyones life or love, rather it is a fictional narrative artistically composed as a tool to teach about the impact of interpersonal and institutional racism on the lives and loves of Black people.  

Young Gifted and Black teaches and learns Black History through poetry, rap and freedom songs. Our group is made up of Black children grades 2 - 8 who are interested in performing on stage, learning Black History, becoming Black heroes and representing our ancestors as teachers for future generations. YGB has been active in the Bay area since 2010 using Pride Education and Arts Training to build self esteem, confidence, public speaking, oral literacy and knowledge of Black history. It is informed by seasoned Black teachers whose lineage as educators extends all the way to the Honorable Mary McCleod Bethune.

YGB rehearsals are held on Tuesdays and Thursdays in Berkeley, Ca from 4pm-6pm.

Young Gifted and Black is accepting new members beginning January 2024. If your child would like to join our program, please fill out an application at proud2beblack.org or click the yellow button.

For 16 Years the principals at Edutainment for Equity have been involved in the production of the Life is Living Festival. On October 12, 2023 E4E took the lead and produced the 16th Annual Life is Living Festival at Little Bobby Hutton Park in West Oakland. The event featured a celebration of 50 years of Hip Hop and 50 years of the Black Panther Party Survival Conference at this same park in Oakland. Life is Living brought back some of its staples, like the Exhibit A Grafitti Invitational, Africa in Oakland Dance Classes, Free Breakfast and Karl Watson Skate Day. We also added some new partners like Panther Skate, Ase Arts, The Village Oakland, Baobob Marketplace and a host of health and wellness providers.

Life is Living is a partnership with Youth Speaks in collaboration with the One Nation One Project, and local artists, activists and organizations in Oakland.

Mama Candice aka Candice Antique is an international recording artist and anti racist activist who writes and produces original songs and albums that are tools to interrupt internalized, interpersonal and institutional racism. Her work includes four volumes of recordings with artists from around East and West Africa called Lessons from the Road. She led tours in countries throughout Africa and in the diaspora including Tanzania, Ghana, Kenya, Uganda, and Trinidad. She has also written and recorded two albums with her acapella hip hop band Antique Naked Soul, featuring Grammy Award winning artist MC Soulati, Antique Naked Soul, and Diamond and Bullets. Her latest project scheduled to be released in 2024 is XA Oakland Vol 1 which features original songs and collaborative work with musicians, poets, mcs and producers from Oakland.