Join People's Kitchen Collective for our annual tradition inspired by the Black Panther Party for Self Defense and their Survival Programs. This year, keeping in mind the health and safety of our community, we will be doing two distributions, a Beloved Community Bag to unhoused community members in West and East Oakland and a Cook-A-Long bag to people who RSVP for our online event 10am-12pm Saturday, October 10th.

To register for the online Cook-A-Long and be eligible to pick up your free bag of community gifts including select ingredients and a full list of recipes, RSVP here.

Join People's Kitchen Collective for our annual tradition inspired by the Black Panther Party for Self Defense and their Survival Programs. This year we celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Black Panther Party’s Free Breakfast Program with music, dance, and special guests. We'll be serving a hot, delicious, and nutritious breakfast of grits and greens, free to the community.

• 10am-12pm Breakfast at the 18 & Magnolia corner of the Little Bobby Hutton Park (aka deFremery Park)

• 12-4pm Exhibition of the Free Breakfast Program at the West Oakland Library (on the corner)

• 12-7pm  Life is Living festival presented by Youth Speaks! The festival is free and open to the public.

Many thanks to Panther Legacy Historian Billy X. Jennings of It’s About Time and Camille Safiya.

See the video from the 2016 Life is Living.

Join the People's Kitchen Collective for our annual tradition inspired by the Black Panther Party for Self Defense and their Survival Programs. We'll be serving a hot, delicious, and nutritious breakfast of grits and greens, free to the community. This meal is a part of the annual Life is Living festival presented by Youth Speaks!

Video from 2016 Life is Living

People's Kitchen Collective is taking it to the STREETS with a historic FREE community meal for 500 people through the streets of West Oakland.

Free community tickets here will be made available to the public here on a first-come basis. You currently need a code to RSVP. *Advance ticket is required to attend this free event.

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Read here for more background on STREETS!

In observance of Ramadan, tables will be available for those who are fasting.  We will package a meal for you to take with you at the end of the event.

STREETS! is a meal for 500 people in celebration of resilience in West Oakland. People’s Kitchen Collective is collaborating with artists, musicians, performers, and social justice organizations to host tables and facilitate conversations about cultural preservation, movement building, and self-determination. This is a reclaiming of the commons, of the streets that are rapidly being disconnected from their history through gentrification. Here, we will eat at the intersection of food, art, and justice. Inspired by the legacy of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense and their Free Breakfast Program and the family meals at Yuri Kochiyama's home that brought radical minds together, this is how we feed a revolution.

“TO THE TABLE” is a meal in remembrance of the signing of Executive Order 9066. We center the memories of Japanese Americans as it connects to our resistance today. This meal is also a celebration of continued solidarity between communities of color, specifically Asian American, AMEMSA, Black, Latinx, and undocumented peoples. TO THE TABLE is open to everyone invested in resisting borders and walls, xenophobic immigration policies, incarceration, racism, and the erasure of our cultures.

Community partners include J-Sei, The Nikkei Resisters, the Arab Resource Organizing Center (AROC), and activist Flora Ninomiya.

With collaborators Marvin K. White, La Pelanga, Misha Abbas, Jun Hamamoto and the San Quentin Prison Origami Class and many more.

This is the third in our four-part series from the FARM, to the KITCHEN, to the TABLE, to the STREETS!

TABLE will be held in West Oakland. Sliding scale tickets have sold out. Thank you for your overwhelming response! Join our mailing list and stay tuned to our social media for upcoming events. Please inquire to eat@peopleskitchencollective.com if you have questions about mobility/accessibility at the event.

Please note that if you have not already RSVP'd the event is at capacity! Please join us at a future event. Contact eat@peopleskitchencollective.com if you have any questions.

Hosted by J-Sei, a Nikkei community center, this potluck is inspired by Japanese American stories of adaptation, survival and a desire to commemorate Executive Order 9066 as it connects to our current administration's actions. The People’s Kitchen Collective will be presenting their work and also want to hear your food memories. These stories will be gathered and shared at our upcoming community meal February 4th, Come to the Table. This event centers the voices and experiences of the Bay Areas intergenerational Japanese American community and is open to all.

Join the People's Kitchen Collective for our annual tradition inspired by the Black Panther Party for Self Defense and their Survival Programs. We'll be serving a hot, delicious, and nutritious breakfast of grits and greens, free to the community. This year marks the 10th annual Life is Living festival presented by Youth Speaks! and the 51st Anniversary of the Black Panther Party.

Video from 2016 Life is Living

General information about the festival here. We'll be in the park on 18th St. closest to Adeline St. from 10am-12pm.