Oakland School for the Arts balances an immersive arts program with a comprehensive academic curriculum, providing students unique opportunities for learning, innovation, expression and personal growth. OSA’s arts and academic programs build discipline and confidence, effectively preparing creative youth to achieve their potential both in and outside of the arts.

'Human creativity is the ultimate economic resource.'  -- Richard Florida

The APT would like to invite the OSA community to BID in our FIRST ONLINE AUCTION, NOW OPEN. 

Let the fun begin! Bid Online and get fun and unique item while making a donation to Oakland School for the Arts. Refer your family, friends, co-workers by clicking on the link to the left so they won’t miss out.  Check back often as items will be added.  Funds raised will go towards student Writer Coaches / Tutor Center and support teachers in the classroom. “

http://www.biddingforgood.com/OaklandSchoolForTheArts 

Nice article about OSA on the East Bay Express by Ellen Cushing -

http://www.eastbayexpress.com/ebx/the-local-arts-conservatory/Content?oid=3096410

"Even if you're not trying for it, it's almost impossible to not think aboutFame when you walk into Oakland School for the Arts' facilities in the Fox Theater building. Every corner you turn, there are clusters of middle-school students practicing flute and violin in miniature makeshift orchestra pits; gaggles of theater kids running lines together for Les Miz or Of Mice and Men; impossibly graceful girls practicing modern dance steps alone in front of a mirror with impenetrable focus."

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OSA THEATRE DEPARTMENT PROUDLY PRESENTS~

John Steinbeck's 

OF MICE AND MEN

Directed by: Michael Berry-Berlinski 

Jan. 30th-Feb. 4 at 7pm
Feb. 4 at 2pm
(February 4th ~ 7pm show is ASL interpretted)

OSA BLACKBOX THEATRE
$5 STUDENTS AND SENIORS, $10 ADULTS

Buy tickets ONLINE at https://sites.google.com/site/osaomam/

Contact Andy Fullington @ This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

John Steinbeck's haunting masterpiece, Of Mice and Men, is ths story of two drifters and the difficulties they encounter while working for a mean-spirited landowner. The characters who grace the stage are drawn in the beloved Steinbeck style: expressive, profound, representative of all that is both great and melancholy about Depression-era America. Known for its lyrical humanity and evocative sense of time and place, Of Mice and Men follows the story of Lenny and George, one of literature's most famous and archetypal pairs, as they move inexorably toward tragedy.

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Guest Artist - Master Class

The renowned New York-based pianist and composer Michele Rosewoman will be performing solo piano and trio in a rare Bay Area appearance at the Piedmont Piano Company on Saturday January 28th, conducting piano and composition workshops at the Jazz School on Sunday January 29th and giving a master class at Oakland School of the Arts on Monday January 30th.

Ms. Rosewoman will also be interviewed on KPFA, KPOO and KKUP.

https://www.facebook.com/michelerosewoman

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February 10, 11, 12, 8pm
The Marion E. Green Black Box Theatre at OSA

Was It a Dream I Loved is a new full length dance theater performance from Oakland based artist collective "this sweet nothing", co-founded by Sonsheree Giles, Heike Liss, and Caroline Penwarden. These three artists fill the stage with music, dance and images that create a landscape of sexual questioning and reality testing informed by Vaslav Nijinsky's scandalous L'apres midi d'une faune.   

More info at thissweetnothing.org

Advance tickets recommended - http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/214818

Jan. 28, 7-10pm            High School Winter Ball, Leona Lounge in Oakland
Jan. 30-Feb. 4, 7pm      "Of Mice and Men", Black Box
Jan. 30                          Master Class with Michele Rosewoman - More info here.
Feb. 4, 2pm                   "Of Mice and Men", Black Box
Feb. 4, 6pm                   APT Winter Gala & Auction, Uptown Body & Fender
Feb. 10-12, 8pm            "Was It a Dream I Loved" Guest Artist Performance, OSA Black Box
Feb. 16, 6pm                  Parent College Night
Feb. 25, 7pm                 "Monte Carlo Night", Theatre Arts, Uptown Body & Fender

OSA was selected as a California Distinguished School by the CDE in 2009.

OSA is fully accredited by the Schools Commission of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges.

OSA is a member of the Arts Schools Networks.
OSA is a member of the California Charter Schools Association
OSA is a member of the National Association for College Admission Counseling
OSA is affiliated with the Music National Service Initiative.