July 10, 2007

Deep Oakland is proud to announce the release of Dennis Somera’s SpOAKlanD available for download here.

Dennis Somera uses text as “a seed for ideas needing manifestation in da world as performance through his body or better true collaboration with udders.” He has performed his spoken-word-play with a pinch/punch of performance art at Oakland and San Francisco Bay Area performance venues including the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Pusod, SOMArts, and the Oakland Asian Cultural Center. He has been published in Tinfish, Chain and PomPom.

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Affiliated with neither the tourism nor better business bureaus, Deep Oakland seeks to create a compendium of inter-linked images, text and sound that represent the complications and vitality of Oakland’s current moment.This project is ongoing. As the website grows, we will continue to solicit and present archival and current materials from a diverse range of Oakland writers, artists, community leaders and organizations, materials that engage or investigate the city’s ecology, economics, politics, development, history and the arts.Our hope is that Deep Oakland will both serve as a location for conversation to begin, and will extend conversations already in progress, to the point of critical mass where the interconnectivity of the activities of these disparate activists, artists and writers becomes visible and begins to positively impact the Oakland community and the world at large.

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