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A roving, site-specific play in downtown Oakland that explores, questions and breaks down the nuances of intimacy in queer communities. un•rest, written by CurbAlert artists J Shelley Harrison and Emji Saint Spero in collaboration with queer and trans artists of color, imagines a more just and equitable future on a larger scale, one in which queer and trans people can not only survive, but thrive.

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A reconstructionist companion play to a forgotten 1868 verse play about the Greek poet of Lesbos, offering renewed relevance to a scarcely-produced classic, penned by a woman about one of history’s first queer icons. Playwright Aimee Suzara’s Sappho investigates the evolution of queer identities across generations and the inheritance of queer narratives across centuries.

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A dance-based exploration of the concept of mixed identity as adaptation in the age of climate crisis. Re-Mix will look beyond the binary to cultivate an alternative to the dehumanizing, essentializing and compartmentalizing of identity.

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An hourlong interdisciplinary media project by artist Kevin Seaman exploring queer vulnerability, gentleness and soft power.

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A multi-year collaborative project produced by Dohee Lee Puri Arts in collaboration with Corrina Gould (Lisjan Ohlone) and the Sogorea Te’ Land Trust. When the Land Stands Alone will engage refugee and immigrant communities residing in Oakland and Oakland Indigenous peoples in a collaborative ritual-making process, exchanging knowledge on ritualism, activism and healing.

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A collaboration between Afro-Cuban choreographer Susana Arenas Pedroso and Guinean arts organization, Duniya Dance and Drum Company, illuminating the cultural and political

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To serve over 200 families with their family stability, child development and literacy services.

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To support the New Breath Foundation to address violence in the Asian American communities of the Bay Area.

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To expand the number of SEEDS of Learning classroom tutors and coaches to foster effective practices and leadership skills. They will also provide professional development centered on peer coaching and facilitation of professional learning communities.

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A series of site-specific works presented and produced by Epiphany Dance Theater and Deaf Choreographer Antoine Hunter and directed by Kim Epifano, inspired by Hunter’s Blackfoot heritage. Native Land, Native Hands will feature ASL-choreography, Hand Talk (the first language of Deaf Native Americans), text, original music and other forms of dance to illuminate narratives surrounding displacement and the erasure of Deaf history following the American Revolution.

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A series of live, theatrical, site specific rituals by performance collective For You (Erika Chong Shuch, Ryan Tacata and Rowena Richie), in collaboration with elders from Little Brothers—Friends of the Elderly. The Welcoming will serve as a historic reentry into a distant world in the wake of COVID-19.

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“SEEDS of Learningª is a professional learning framework designed for adults caring for and teaching young children, offering training, coaching, and professional learning communities to develop essential skills in three- to five-year-olds for success in kindergarten and beyond. Tailored for educators, caregivers, and site leaders working with children aged 3Ð5, SEEDS offers flexible training options to accommodate diverse learning communities, whether in-person, virtual, or e-learning formats.

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The Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano is a nonprofit organization dedicated to fighting hunger in California’s Contra Costa and Solano counties by collecting donated food and distributing it to those in need through a network of community-based organizations. They also offer nutrition education programs to promote healthy eating habits and self-sufficiency among their clients.

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To provide general support, in memory of Brian Igoe.

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To support the production and launch of the Climate Storytelling Playbook for Screenwriters, including additional capacity for the production, promotion and distribution of the final product.

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A dance and multidisciplinary storytelling project exploring the continuum of slavery into the post-Civil War convict lease system, and convict labor into modern day mass incarceration.

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Pain is a major component of inflammatory bowel diseases, increasing the suffering of patients and decreasing their quality of life. However, the underlying cellular basis for pain in IBD and the role of pain-mediating neurons in driving gut dysfunction are not well known. Our goal is to characterize the role of neurons that mediate pain in IBD, and to determine whether inhibiting or activating these neurons leads to changes in the gut that can treat pain and inflammation.

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To build the capacity of Family Engagement Action Teams of teachers, parents, administrators, after-school staff and SEEDS of Learning coaches at ten Oakland SEEDS of Learning school sites.

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Accumulating data supports the concept that IBD has a preclinical period that may be amenable to early diagnosis and intervention. Understanding the molecular underpinnings of this preclinical period in disease pathogenesis offers new opportunities in risk prediction and prevention. We have recently reported the first data from a large study using longitudinal pre-diagnostic samples from the US Department of Defense Serum repository, the PREDICTS study, where we assessed the predictive value of a panel of antimicrobial markers and a proteomic panel (>1100 proteins). Additional –omics data including glycan profiles, metabolome and exposome are currently generated on these same samples that span from up to 5 years before diagnosis to first clinical symptoms and confirmed diagnosis. We will integrate these massive multi-omics datasets to develop machine-learning (ML) based models predictive of future progression of CD and UC years before diagnosis, and to discover driver biomarkers and biological processes responsible for disease initiation. This will be achieved by constructing time-varying disease-specific networks capturing the associations across all biomarkers measured at different years before diagnosis available through the PREDICTS initiative. We will make all results publicly available via a user-friendly web-platform to facilitate the easy query, exploration and utilization of these data.