Artist: Community Rejuvenation Project, Desi, Peskador
Location: 1401 Alice Street
Date Painted: 2014
Date Photographed: 2014
Description: dancers
Notes: whole wall below. The mural is no longer visible due to construction.
The man in the green jacket (lower left) is from a photo of Daniel Cruz protesting Wells Fargo, who forclosed on 6,000 loans in Alameda County between 2006 and 2013. The man in the center of the picture with the drum Malonga Casquelourd. The pattern behind him is the stained glass from the Malonga Casquelourd Center for the Arts, a historic theater and arts space operated by Oakland Parks and Recreation, and the arches are on center’s façade.
The women dancing behind Casquelord are Zakariya Diouf and Naomi Gedo Diouf who run the Diamano Coura West African Dance Company. Zakariya Diouf is the former director of the Le Ballet National Du Senegal. Both have contributed to the development of African performing arts and arts education in the Bay Area.
Underneath them, protestors holding “Save the Alice” signs are shown storming into a city council meeting, protesting Jerry Brown’s 2003 decision to close down the Alice Arts Center, (Malonga Casquelourd Center for the Arts).
