Monthly Video Screenings

Or, share a holiday message with Oakland? Now is your chance! The Great Wall is accepting photos, short videos and short text wishes from the Oakland public, and we want to hear from you!

All you need to do is email us (hello@greatwallofoakland.org) one of the following by Nov. 22:

- A video of you or your friends sharing a wish for the holidays (1 minute or less; iPhone quality is fine)

- A photo of you or your family or your pet or…(higher resolution the better but we can accept almost anything)

- A holiday card with a photo (higher resolution the better but we can accept almost anything)

- A short wish for Oakland in 2014 (30 words or less)

If you can email it, we can accept it! Dropbox is fine too.

Email all submissions to hello@greatwallofoakland.org and include your name and Oakland Neighborhood.

For the third year in a row, the Great Wall presents”About Oakland, By Oakland,” a juried screening of the best short films made my our talented neighbors. Here are the finalists:

Kate Klingbeil – “Osaka”
Nicholas Carter – “Fos”
Jason Jakaitis – “Limitations”
Trevor Parham – “Town Business: Gregorio de Masi”
Chaz Hubbard – “Artist Creates Exhibit In The Midst Of Public Housing Demolition”
aaron de la cruz – “west oakland”
Jason Jakaitis – “Stay the Course”
Kevin Kunze – “Electric Sleep”
Gwendoline Pouchoulin – “Squares versus Circles”
Kit Young – “Gater-E-Later”
Tristan Evans – “Suffused”

For the October first Friday, the Great Wall, in collaboration with Chabot Space and Science Center, is bringing you the most exciting videos of Outer Space ever created. It will be like a visit to Chabot’s planetarium, but outdoors on a 100×100′ urban canvas. 

Come be mesmerized!

Have you ever wanted to see your art on the 100′ urban canvas that is the Great Wall of Oakland? Now is your chance!

The Great Wall has partnered with the Oakland Museum of California with generous support from the Black Rock Arts Foundation to bring you the Oakland Rover, a tricked out mobile museum complete with all the technology needed to create your very own stop-motion animation.

From 4-7pm, the public is invited to learn about stop-motion while creating one their own by coming to the Rover, parked on W. Grand and Valley, below the Great Wall.  No experience in animation or any serious technical skills are needed to participated in this amazingly creative and FREE opportunity available for all ages!

Beginning at 8pm, all of these animations will be projected onto the Great Wall during Oakland’s Art Murmur.

Not sure what stop-motion animation is? Check this out.

Don’t miss this freakishly cool opportunity to create public art in Oakland! Be there.