Sunday Studio Time
Join us 2nd and 4th Sundays from 1-4 pm for studio time. Come with your creative project, ideas, or just come to play. There is no fee for studio time. 730 29th St. in Oakland. When you arrive, call 510-593-4221 to be let in. RSVP and questions to kim@braidedbridge.org.
Free Poster, Flyer, and Online Graphics
If you would like to use the artwork below to advocate for immigrants and refugees, you are welcome to share, print, and display the image below. The image must be used for compassionate purposes and may not be sold. All Rights Reserved. It is provided in three formats. Please download the file or files that correspond to your purposes. If you would like a file for larger scale printing, please contact us.
Small file for online media sharing and messaging:
Medium file sized for printing on 8.5×11″ paper:
Large file sized for 11×17″ poster printing:
Artists in our Community
As we continue building this site, we intend to add a gallery section that showcases the artists in the Braided Bridge Community.
Witnessing Wood Street
The Witnessing Wood Street posters are an important advocacy project in development.
From a Housed Person Witnessing the Wood St. Community
to Housed People Who Have Not (yet)
We have driven up the cost of housing
We have said “The poor cannot have housing near me!”
We have overconsumed and dumped our garbage here
We have denied garbage collection to the people we have unhoused
We have denied safety and stability to the people we have unhoused
We have dehumanized the unhoused, and looked here, and only saw garbage
A resilient and loving community lived here
They were family to each other
They gave each other healing
They kept each other alive
They were home for each other
They did everything they could to stay together
Their homes here were destroyed
Their fragile stability was destroyed
Their lives were scattered
What they wanted was to work with the whole community
to make something better
to make a new and beautiful way of life
that everyone, the whole community, could value
They had beautiful ideas
But many drove past and only saw garbage
And they were afraid and so they never stopped to listen
We must accept our own responsibility
in order to live better in our community
Everyone is needed, everyone belongs
There must not be an income litmus test
For who may live among us, for who may belong
Work together Be together
The value of one’s offering is not hinged on income
Together we have enough to care for everyone
Together we have enough to care for each other
We have enough home to go around
The only real law is love
