The Flight Deck

11/19/2020

From 2014-2020, The Flight Deck was a home for multidisciplinary artists to present work, share resources and practice radical acts of imagination in the heart of downtown Oakland. Created and managed by Ragged Wing Ensemble, The Flight Deck supported hundreds of artists and thousands of audiences annually. As Oakland’s only shared Black Box theater, The Flight Deck served up a unique mix of arts and culture events, and the community around it was rich and vibrant.

In 2020, Ragged Wing did not renew the lease on the building. The venue is now operated by PianoFight. To book the space, please contact [email protected]. To follow Ragged Wing’s current story, visit www.raggedwing.org

09/24/2020

Happening tonight 5-7PM at Oscar Grant Plaza. The Flight Deck / Pianofight Oakland (1540 Broadway) will be open to support those attending who need supplies or the bathroom.

Tonight: Thurs, 9/24, 5 - 7 PM at Oscar Grant Plaza, . Come and show love to Breonna Taylor’s family and in defense of Black women and girls. Honor those lives lost to police violence here in the Bay Area and demand Justice from our poli-tricks for systematic change.

09/17/2020

Beloved: An Insistence is today! Folks will be gathering to decorate the four corners of E14 (International Blvd) and 23rd, 3pm-9pm. Organizers are seeking volunteers to help create altars and donations of flowers, plants, chairs, tea cups & saucers, food, hand sanitizer, masks, and any other offerings.
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Beloved: An Insistence is a cascading flow of love, care, artistry, and creative inspiration. We exist to bequeath and present visual be to the Beloved who are currently being seared by the brutalizing grip of child s*x trafficking. In doing so, we utilize city streets and sidewalks as our foundation to install garden altars, lighting design, street pole art, poster art, sidewalk art, and murals. Within our installations we embed resources, food, water, etc. During this time of COVID we also embed PPE such as masks, gloves and hand sanitizers. To exist together, in a healthy and loving world, requires us to heed the call of deep compassion with the fullness of our hands, feet, hearts and spirits. Without barriers, bounds or transactions. This is the simplicity of love. To join our Insistence, please contact Regina Y. Evans at [email protected]
We are OAKLAND. 🌻🌿🙏🏿🌸

09/11/2020

Build from Here: The Future of Ensemble Theater is tomorrow! Check out the full schedule below and join us at this national convening of ensemble theater makers.

Produced with The Network of Ensemble Theaters, Theatre Bay Area, Calling Up Justice, and Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas |FoolsFURY Theater Company presents its national convening of ensemble theater makers BUILD from Here: The Future of Ensemble Theater livestreaming on the global...

09/10/2020

“We thought this was going to be our retirement home, our homestead, our legacy for our children and we’ve been in the process of building a farm for a long time and now we don’t know.” - Noor Adabachi (https://www.kron4.com/wildfires/healdsburg-couple-among-dozens-who-lost-home-in-lnu-lightning-complex-fires/)

Please consider donating to our fellow artists in community, Noor and Deborah Adabachi, who lost their home to fire last month.

See News Story of Noor and Deborah On August 18, 2020, Sonoma County a… Hagar Ben-Eliezer needs your support for Noor and Deborah Adabachi - Fire Survivors

09/03/2020

“I did not know,” Billingslea says now, “that when you say you’re raising funds for Black theater, you’re opening the door to hate.”

BLACK THEATRE MATTERS. Donate now and and send some positive support to the Black artists and voices in our communitty: https://gf.me/u/yj65d2

Fund for Black Theatre attracts donors—and haters

08/31/2020

Driving The Girls: A Live Reading of A New Play by Cat Brooks is tonight! Register now for a free ticket at

Driving the Girls is a new play by actress, advocate and playwright Cat Brooks.

08/27/2020

The Flight Deck will be open from 7:30PM tonight for the Justice for Jacob Blake rally at Oscar Grant Plaza. All protestors welcome to use the bathroom and pick up free PPE, water, snacks, medical supplies

08/21/2020

If you missed BAMB Fest's Spell #7 by Ntozake Shange, they will be rebroadcasting this weekend and next. Go to www.bambfest.com to see the full schedule of events happening all month!

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