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Active EBMUD project on Wood Street

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WOPAC Vacancy- Prescott Area

The West Oakland Project Area Committee (WOPAC) is seeking a tenant representative from the Prescott/South Prescott subarea to serve.

The WOPAC advises the City Council on the use of redevelopment funds in the West Oakland Redevelopment Project Area.

The WOPAC meets once a month on second Wednesday evenings and also has two standing subcommittees.

To qualify as a tenant representative, the person must lawfully rent and occupy, as his or her principal place of residence, a residential dwelling located within the Prescott/South Prescott subarea.

Please contact Ms. Hui-Chang Li at 238-6239 or hli@oaklandnet.com for a Candidate Filing Form if you are interested and/or have any questions regarding this position.

The next WOPAC General Meeting will be held on Wednesday, August 12th, 6:30-9:00 at The West Oakland Senior Center , 1724 Adeline Street . You are welcome to attend to observe the body in action.

For more about WOPAC, visit http://www.business2oakland.com/main/westoakland.htm.

Crucible's 9th Annual Fire Arts Festival

Wednesday - Saturday, July 15-18, 2009
8:00PM - 11:59PM

NEW LOCATION THIS YEAR! (see where)

Each July The Crucible’s Fire Arts Festival celebrates creativity through fire and light with a spectacular open-air exhibition of interactive fire art, performance and the largest collection of outdoor fire sculpture on the West Coast.

This year we will be expanding the festival in a new, larger location. Our new Oakland location is three times larger than years past, giving attendees more elbow room and us the ability to bring you more of your favorite artists. We will have more fire and light sculptures, food and merchandise vendors.

In addition to our regular performances, we will feature the world premiere of Dan Cantrell's The Rootabaga Opera.

The 10-year-old nonprofit was founded in 1999 by a small group of artists seeking to combine the industrial arts with sculpture and multimedia techniques housed in a single location.

The Crucible is known for promoting the reuse of materials that results in creative expression and innovative design.

Through their rich offerings of hands-on classes, participants young and old can learn skills from blacksmithing and ceramics, to welding, woodworking, fire performance and more.

Thanks to A Better Oakland folks for pointing me to some pics from the event. There are more pics at the Flickr site.