Join us in 2085, in a radiant, repair-filled future
What will our communities look and feel like when we have addressed past and ongoing harms and injustices? Join us for an immersive experience, the Reparationists' Gala: The Radiant Era, set in year 2085—fifty years after comprehensive reparations for chattel slavery and its legacies have been enacted in the United States.
You are invited to imagine life in a society shaped by a culture of repair. To build the world we deserve, we must experience alternatives and give ourselves permission to dream. Through immersion, storytelling, and art, we're inviting you into a safe space to freely imagine a shared liberated future. This is a non-profit event and proceeds are tax-deductible.
When: Friday, November 13th, 2026 @ 5:30 pm- 9:00pm
Where: Oakstop's California Ballroom | 1736 Franklin St, Oakland, CA 94612
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Experience what comprehensive reparations can achieve through exhibits, activations, and discussion in 3 future, reparation-filled worlds: World of Apologies, World of Rehabilitation, World of Compensation.
Connect with leaders in the reparations movement and other community members curious and doing reparative work.
Learn about the progress underway across the reparations movement.
Eat, drink, and celebrate with futurist Black cuisine served by Jusla Eats, beats from DJ BlackWoman, comedian Steven Asifo on the mic as emcee, and local improv performers bringing our world of repair to life.
Dream together through exhibits and activations with partnered organizations.
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Brought to you by:
The People's Narrative
The People's Narrative believes better futures are built with honest narratives that are grounded in humanity and dignity. We make narrative change work second nature for orgs dedicated to long-term equity and justice—going deeper than branding and marketing to understand power, organizing, and the roots of the beliefs that get people mobilizing. One way we bring narratives to life is through produced experiences where people can grapple and develop their own connection to the issue.
Our Core Partner: Liberation Ventures
Liberation Ventures is a field catalyst accelerating the movement working towards reparations for slavery and its legacies. Long term, they are building a culture of repair for all people in the United States. LV exists to support the ecosystem of organizations across the country that are building momentum toward a comprehensive federal reparations policy portfolio. To do this, they invest in ideas, people, organizations, and networks to unlock the movement’s full potential.
Rewards
Thanks to generous sponsorship from the East Bay Community
Foundation, we are now able to offer the community ticket for $5. We
are so excited that this event will now be more accessible! If you
want to support at a higher level, please see the "Individual
Sponsor Ticket."
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This $50 accessible ticket reflects a 37% discount from our
"at-cost" ticket price to cover space, food, and
entertainment (excluding other event and project costs). We want to
remove as many barriers as possible to community joining us to dream
and build the future we deserve.
This is a non-profit event and your ticket cost is tax-deductible. You will receive a tax-deductible donation letter via email.
All ticket purchases include:
- Entry into the gala
- Immersive experiences, activations, entertainment
- Passed Hors d'oeuvres & Speculative Small Plates (a tasting menu imagining dinner in 2085)
- Black-owned beer, wine, or mocktails (2) and standard beverages
This is our individual sponsor ticket. The suggested amount is our "at-cost" price to cover space, food, and entertainment (excluding other event and project costs). However, this ticket offers a sliding scale from $25-$500 to best accommodate the varying financial realities of our attendees.
At or above $80, you will have the option to be recognized as an
individual sponsor on the event website and program or remain anonymous.
This additional support will foster our world building, provide
stipends for our activation and exhibition partners, and contribute to
a wider scope of event and project costs.
This is a non-profit event and your ticket cost is tax-deductible. You will receive a tax-deductible donation letter via email.
All ticket purchases include:
- Entry into the gala
- Immersive experiences, activations, entertainment
- Passed Hors d'oeuvres & Speculative Small Plates (a tasting menu imagining dinner in 2085)
- Black-owned beer, wine, or mocktails (2) and standard beverages
Highlights
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Is there a dress code? Wear what makes you feel
comfortable and liberated, break out an outfit you haven't had an
excuse for, lean into colors, patterns, and your culture.
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Can I still contribute even if I can't physically
come? Yes! You can either:
- Select "contribute" at the top of the page and click on the blue text next to "choose your perks" that says " (or continue without)" in lieu of selecting the ticket options
- Select a sponsorship level.
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What are reparations?
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At the most basic level, “reparations” are the process of the state making amends for harm. While most people think of reparations simply as compensation, a wider variety of material, systemic, and symbolic repair for victims, their families, and broader society are involved.
As defined by the United Nations , reparations refers to measures by the government to repair violations of human rights by providing a range of material and symbolic benefits to victims or their families as well as affected communities and society as a whole.
The Repair Framework is how Liberation Ventures defines comprehensive reparations. It applies the UN reparations definition to the human rights violations of chattel slavery and its legacies in the United States – including racial violence, Jim Crow, redlining and segregation, inequitable veterans benefits, the war on drugs, and more. Comprehensively addressing these harms requires reckoning, acknowledgement, accountability, and redress.
View Liberation Ventures's repair framework.
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Is this gala a fundraiser?
- No, the gala is the theatrical setting for the evening. Tickets and sponsorships will cover space, food, entertainment and experience building. There might be optional opportunities to contribute towards specific organizations or artists that are are featured in the exhibits and activations, but fundraising is not the goal of the event.
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Who and what is this event for?
- This event is for both community members that are curious and
doing reparative work and for current leaders in the reparations
movement. We invite you to be a reparationist—a person devoted
to the repair, advancement, and liberation of Black people
around the world—for the evening (and beyond) and imagine what a
repaired filled future might hold for all of us and our descendants.
It's one of many projects creating a vision for a repaired future for America’s 250th anniversary!
- This event is for both community members that are curious and
doing reparative work and for current leaders in the reparations
movement. We invite you to be a reparationist—a person devoted
to the repair, advancement, and liberation of Black people
around the world—for the evening (and beyond) and imagine what a
repaired filled future might hold for all of us and our descendants.
Activity
Thanks to generous sponsorship from the East Bay Community
Foundation, we are now able to offer the community ticket for $5. We
are so excited that this event will now be more accessible! If you
want to support at a higher level, please see the "Individual
Sponsor Ticket."
_____
This $50 accessible ticket reflects a 37% discount from our
"at-cost" ticket price to cover space, food, and
entertainment (excluding other event and project costs). We want to
remove as many barriers as possible to community joining us to dream
and build the future we deserve.
This is a non-profit event and your ticket cost is tax-deductible. You will receive a tax-deductible donation letter via email.
All ticket purchases include:
- Entry into the gala
- Immersive experiences, activations, entertainment
- Passed Hors d'oeuvres & Speculative Small Plates (a tasting menu imagining dinner in 2085)
- Black-owned beer, wine, or mocktails (2) and standard beverages
This is our individual sponsor ticket. The suggested amount is our "at-cost" price to cover space, food, and entertainment (excluding other event and project costs). However, this ticket offers a sliding scale from $25-$500 to best accommodate the varying financial realities of our attendees.
At or above $80, you will have the option to be recognized as an
individual sponsor on the event website and program or remain anonymous.
This additional support will foster our world building, provide
stipends for our activation and exhibition partners, and contribute to
a wider scope of event and project costs.
This is a non-profit event and your ticket cost is tax-deductible. You will receive a tax-deductible donation letter via email.
All ticket purchases include:
- Entry into the gala
- Immersive experiences, activations, entertainment
- Passed Hors d'oeuvres & Speculative Small Plates (a tasting menu imagining dinner in 2085)
- Black-owned beer, wine, or mocktails (2) and standard beverages
