upcoming events
Puri Arts
Body as Land - Belonging
Oakland Museum of California June 21st 2026
For this Spotlight Sundays, we are excited to welcome back Dohee Lee and PURI Arts with their project Land as Body: Belonging, a powerful community ritual that interweaves ceremony, storytelling, and drumming.
This spirited offering provides a ceremonial bridge for healing between ancestors and the people of all lands that have endured ruptures due to deportation, incarceration, and all forms of colonial violence.
In collaboration with Asian Refugees United-Connect-Reflect-Enact (ARU-CRE) and Asian Prisoner Support Committee (APSC) (including members inside and out of San Quentin Prison), Land as Body cultivates a collective of immigrants, refugees, and settlers on the indigenous lands of Turtle Island where they live and belong. Please join us for this potent expression of healing and connection.
Ritual on the Road
May 19th 1-4PM at Oakland Museum of California
We are excited to welcome Oakland based artist Dohee Lee Puri Arts (DLPA) for their Ritual on the Road series. Join us for a powerful offering in OMCA’s beautiful Garden that will center the healing rituals of Korean indigenous practices from Jeju Island, Korea, where Lee was born and trained. Using visual art and traditional instrumental soundscapes, this interactive performance will be rooted in deep engagement with the Asian Diaspora immigrant refugees community represented by Asian Refugees United (ARU) and in educational collaboration with indigenous partners around loss, harm, and resilience of ancestral and homelands.
Performed by Puri Arts Ensemble, CRE Cohorts and Ritual Drummers
Puri Arts Present: Ritual on the Road is supported by The New England Foundation for the Arts, California Arts Council, The Center for Cultural Power, Kenneth Rainin Foundation, Alliance for California Traditional Arts, East Bay Community Foundation and Stupski foundation with ARU