The Flight Deck acquisition and development of the Oakland Cultural Space Cooperative

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. Through PianoFight’s “Reimagining Business Models in the Arts” research project, they are developing an Oakland Cultural Space Cooperative. This business will network, preserve and activate cultural spaces, with the goal of sustaining culture makers of color who are facing displacement.