Pickup Sessions
The Pickup Sessions offers live music to people standing in meal lines at the West Oakland Food Pantry created in response to issues around food insecurity and the stigma and shame often associated with them.
PICKUP SESSIONS
The Pickup Sessions is a collaboration led by Living Jazz in partnership with the West Oakland Food Pantry in response to issues around food insecurity and the stigma and shame often associated with them. Live music performances aim to transform the act of standing in line for food, beverages, and essential supplies into a joyous musical celebration that honors the neighborhood’s history as a center of West Coast blues, jazz, funk, soul and R&B and begins to reclaim the cultural value of a once flourishing African American neighborhood decimated by government policies.
THE IMPACT
BRINGING JOY TO THOSE WAITING IN LINE FOR ESSENTIAL SERVICES.
MITIGATING THE SENSE OF SHAME SOME EXPERIENCE WHILE WAITING.
SENSE OF COMMUNITY SUPPORT & TOGETHERNESS.
EMPLOYMENT OF OVER 100 BAY AREA INDEPENDENT ARTISTS.
IN THE COMMUNITY
