Start off cleaning up in January 2025!
Oakland edition Global Action’s 5th Annual New Year’s Day Global Clean-up
For anyone who can’t be here but would like to organize a clean up, download the CleanSwell app both for iOS and Android and then when you start your cleanup, use the Group Name “RCGA NYD25”. Come through and let’s kick off 2025 on that note!
Create in Me a Clean Heart: Our Prayer of Cleansing and Renewal
Coming in February 2025…
We will host our Black History 2025 event – “Martin & Music”
Charles Holt brings us “Martin & Music” featuring the words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr and music of the Civil Rights Movement. The event takes place at Heart & Soul Center of Light, 5811 Racine Street, Oakland, CA on February 9th at 2:00pm. This highly celebrated show was created in 2012 by Gerald C. Rivers (Morehouse College Alumni) and Charles Holt (Rhodes College). Tickets are $20 per person early bird until 1/19 and $30 per person thereafter. Go here for tickets.
Don’t miss the 15th Anniversary Recap and Photo Gallery
Celebrating 15 Years in Community… We Had A Grand Time!
We are so grateful that you were with us on Saturday for our 15th Anniversary Gala! We had such a fun time connecting, sharing, and celebrating in community.
BIG thanks to Ty Stephens, Branice McKenzie, Takiyah Franklin and our Gala Musicians under the capable and creative direction of Valerie Joi Fiddmont. We are also grateful for Dr. Micia Mosley for emceeing and to our DJ Danyelle Jennings!
Thank you to Calabash for their catering, The Community Hub for hosting us, and Black Cultural Zone for allowing us access to their shop off hours.
The gala would not have been possible without the loving leadership of our co-chairs Earnestine Calvin & Valda Earl-Southall and we are deeply grateful for the team of volunteers who contributed their time and talent.
To learn more about upcoming Heart & Soul events, check our calendar.
Heart & Soul loves to produce spiritually uplifting events.
We often gather on 5th Sundays to celebrate more informally as a community. We commemorate special occasions, host mini-concerts and film screenings, and connect with other spiritual communities and leaders. You never know what we’ll be up to!
We’ve produced the following events over the last few years:
- Into the Blue, a concert with Tammy Lynne Hall
- Harriet Tubman film screening
- Michael Eric Dyson and Susan Taylor community discussion
- Aretha Franklin Tribute concert
