Sunrise Salutations & Sunset Valedictories

September 26 & 27 and October 3 & 4, 2026
Presented with BAM House
Times and Oakland locations to come

Sunrise Salutations & Sunset Valedictories is a series of site-specific performances reflecting on Oakland—its people, places, memories, migrations, losses, transformations, and futures. Across Oakland locations, artists will create performances and installations using music, movement, poetry, meditation, sound, augmented reality, and physical and digital artifacts.

Oakland Holds Many Stories. Add Yours.

Your story is part of the performance. Share your relationship to Oakland—its places, people, memories, changes, and communities. Your responses will help create a living archive of the many ways Oakland is experienced, remembered, and imagined. These responses will inform the performances. Click on the Image below and add your voice now to inform the production. Come to the performance Sept 26/27 Oct 3/4 and response to the last question to become a part of the archive!