Una exhibición de telares creados por el Grupo Artista Telar Maya Mam

Acompáñanos a una exposición de tejidos en telar de cintura creados por mujeres Maya Mam de los municipios de Xjan Xwan Atitan, Chimb’al y Torasant, Huehuetenango, Guatemala.

El poder de la mujer indígena se teje en cada hilo.
Cada hilo guarda memoria.
Cada color es territorio.
Cada telar es una historia viva.

Ja weya ob’aj wij · ex weya nchemaj reúne tejidos realizados por mujeres Maya Mam, donde el acto de tejer es también un acto de narrar, resistir y preservar conocimiento ancestral. En cada pieza habita la continuidad de la lengua, la tierra y la comunidad. Aunque estamos lejos de nuestra tierra ancestral, seguimos honrando nuestras tradiciones de tejido y creando nuevas prácticas en la diáspora.

El telar es fuerza, es raíz, es resistencia viva.

Producida por NAKA Dance Theater
En colaboración con Medicine for Nightmares Bookstore

01 Abril – 10 Mayo,  2026

Recepción de inauguración: Sabado 11 Abril, 2-6pm

Recepción de clausura: Sabado, 9 Mayo,  2-6pm

Foto: Scott Tsuchitani 

An exhibition of textiles created by the Grupo Artista Telar Maya Mam.

Join us for an exhibition of Maya Mam backstrap weaving textiles created by women weavers from Xjan Xwan Atitan, Chimb'al and Torasant, Huehuetenango, Guatemala.

The power of Indigenous women is woven in each thread.
Each thread holds a memory.
Each color is a territory.
Each textile is a living history.

Ja weya ob’aj wij · ex weya nchemaj brings together textiles made by Maya Mam women, where the act of weaving is also an act of storytelling, resisting erasure, and preserving ancestral knowledge. In each piece resides the continuity of language, land, and community. Although we are far from our ancestral land, we continue to honor our weaving traditions and create new practices in the Diaspora.

Our weaving is our strength; it is our roots; it is our living resistance.

Produced by NAKA Dance Theater
In collaboration with Medicine for Nightmares Bookstore
3036 24th St, San Francisco, CA

April 1– May 10, 2026

Opening Reception: Saturday, April 11, 2-6pm

Closing Reception: Saturday, May 9, 2-6pm

Tonight join us for a co-reading event celebrating the release of Debris: Stories by Daniel S.C. Sutter followed by a brief conversation between Daniel and guest poet Vida James.

Daniel S.C. Sutter:
A 2025-27 Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford, Daniel S.C. Sutter's story collection Debris has won the Press 53 Short Fiction Award and is now available. His work has appeared in The Georgia Review, The Greensboro Review, Mississippi Review, and elsewhere, and has been awarded the Robert Watson Literary Prize in Fiction. He holds a Ph.D. from Florida State University and an M.F.A. from the University of New Orleans Creative Writing Workshop. He is from Tampa, FL.

Vida James is Nuyorican, currently living in San Francisco. She is a Wallace Stegner fellow at Stanford University. She was a 2024 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellow and a 2024 Center for Fiction Emerging Writer Fellow. She holds an MFA from the University of Massachusetts - Amherst and an MSW from Hunter College. Her writing has been supported by Periplus, Storyknife, Tin House, Bread Loaf, MASS MoCA, the St. Botolph Club Foundation, and VONA. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Kenyon Review, Story, New England Review, and elsewhere.

Block printing workshop for community activists. We'll have tools, paper, tinta, and small blocks, and start off with a conversation about printmaking as cultural and political expression. Second Wednesdays in March, April, and May. Suggested donation $20 for artist and book store.

Clase de grabado para activistas de la comunidad / Tendremos herramientas, papel, tinta, y pequeños bloques, y empezamos con una conversación sobre el grabado como expresión cultural y política. Segundo Miercoles en marzo, abril, y mayo. Donación sugerida $20 para artista y librería.

Fernando Martí (he/him) is an artist, poet, community architect and housing activist, originally from Ecuador, based in San Francisco, Ramaytush Ohlone land.

Fernando Martí (el) es un artista, poeta, arquitecto comunitario y activista de vivienda, originario del Ecuador, y basado en San Francisco, tierra Ramaytush Ohlone.

Join Victoria Law and advocates who were incarcerated in California & New York for a conversation about the horrors of the pandemic behind bars and grassroots freedom organizing. Books will be available for sale & signing.

Victoria Law is a freelance journalist and author who has written about incarceration, particularly women's incarceration, for nearly two decades. Her books include Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women, Prison By Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms (co-authored with Maya Schenwar), and “Prisons Make Us Safer” and 20 Other Myths about Mass Incarceration. Her latest book, Corridors of Contagion: How the Pandemic Exposed the Cruelties of Incarceration, is sadly still relevant.

Kelly Savage-Rodriguez is the DROP LWOP coordinator for the  California Coalition For Women Prisoners. Kelly was incarcerated for 23 years. Governor Brown commuted her Life Without Parole sentence in December of 2017, and she was finally released on parole in November 2018. As a domestic violence survivor, Kelly was forced to experience the similarities between domestic violence and the violence of incarceration. She is also the executive chair of the Human Rights Watch National LWOP Leadership Council NLC.

David is a father and grandfather who was imprisoned in New York State for several decades, including the first 18 months of the Covid-19 pandemic. 

No Kings, No Queens Chess Club is the super-chill community chess club that gathers the 1st Sunday of every month in the galeria. Hosted by Danny Cao, all ages and skill levels are encouraged to come. Never played chess? We'll teach you! Come hang out, talk chess and play a few games.

Other Dimensions in Sound is our Friday music series curated and hosted by Boohaabian multi reed player extraordinare David Boyce. Each week David will be inviting different musical guests to join him in our galeria for a night of musical medicina.

Tonight’s we have an extra dose of sonic sustenance for you with the Boyce/Free/Wong Tenor Sax Trio

Join us at Medicine for Nightmares for a celebratory reading of Fifty Mothers (River River Books, 2026), a new poetry collection from Preeti Vangani.

Preeti’s second collection has been lauded as a 'kaleidoscopic document of love and loss,' one that weaves narrative and elegy around the figure of a late mother, the poems unfolding in the speaker’s Bombay home. Pierced with joy, with music and sweat, traffic and smoke, the collection layers family dynamics, gender roles, and the pain and pleasure of the speaker’s body, while drawing a living, lyric line between the “gone mother” and daughter. These poems are the fiercely loving, grieving, sexual, and always-processing songs for the grown children of mothers living in a world that takes without asking. Preeti will share a selection of poems from the book, with readings by poets T.S.Leonard, Lucie Periera and Dāshaun Washington. Followed by a book signing!

Preeti Vangani is an Indian poet & writer based in San Francisco. She is the author of Mother Tongue Apologize (2019) and Fifty Mothers, forthcoming from River River Books (Feb 2026). Her work has been published in The Georgia Review, Gulf Coast, Prairie Schooner among other places. Her debut short story won the 2021 Pen/Dau Emerging Writers Prize. She has received artist grants from San Francisco Arts Commission and YBCA through which she facilitates poetry workshops rooted in writing grief through joy. She holds an MFA in Writing from University of San Francisco and teaches in the program. 

Lucie Pereira (she/her) is a Pushcart and Best of the Net nominated writer and educator. Her work has appeared in Stanchion Zine, The Quarter(ly), and Silly Goose Press, among others. She is the food and beverage editor at Honey Literary, a poetry reader for Split Lip Magazine, and the author of the chapbook, From Here to the Ocean (Finishing Line Press 2025). She lives in San Francisco, where she teaches second grade and co-hosts the reading and food pop-up series Kitchen Table.

Dāshaun Washington is a poet from Pittsfield, Massachusetts. His work has received support from Yaddo, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Lighthouse Works, Ucross Foundation, Millay Arts, and beyond. His poems have appeared in Poetry, Poem-a-Day, New England Review, The Nation, American Poetry Review, and elsewhere. He currently lives in San Francisco and is a Jones Lecturer at Stanford University, where he was previously a Wallace Stegner Fellow.

T.S. Leonard is a poet, performer, and author of works published in Foglifter, Poetry, and Fourteen Poems. Leonard’s debut poetry collection, Another Anthem of Fabulous Survival, was selected for the 2024-2025 Poetic Justice Institute Prize and will be published in 2026 by Fordham University Press. Originally from Kansas City, Missouri, he lives and teaches in San Francisco.

The folks who "Swap in the Park" are coming to 24th St! The collective of friends and fashionistas on a budget will be hosting their clothing and book swap in the Medicine for Nightmares gallery. While the clothing swaps were originally inspired by online "no-buy" clubs, this swap encourages us to clean out our closets and come together for an afternoon of sharing and caring. All are welcome to give and take clean and gently used clothes and books. No undergarments please! Only books in the gallery are free to share, please respect business practices in the book store space. If you have no items to give at this time, you are still welcome to hang out and create a mini zine in celebration of community. Templates and art supplies will be provided. 

¡La gente "Swap in the Park" viene a 24th St! El colectivo de amigos y amantes de la moda con un presupuesto limitado organizará su intercambio de ropa y libros en la galería: Medicina Para Pesadillas. Si bien los intercambios de ropa se inspiraron originalmente en clubes en línea que "no compran", este intercambio nos anima a limpiar nuestros armarios y reunirnos para pasar una tarde compartiendo y cuidando. Todos son bienvenidos a dar y recibir ropa y libros limpios y en buen estado. ¡Sin ropa interior por favor! Solo los libros de la galería se pueden compartir de forma gratuita; respete las prácticas comerciales en el espacio de la librería. Si no tiene artículos para regalar en este momento, aún puede pasar el rato y crear una mini revista para celebrar la comunidad. Se proporcionarán plantillas y materiales de arte.

Other Dimensions in Sound is our Friday music series curated and hosted by Boohaabian multi reed player extraordinare David Boyce. Each week David will be inviting different musical guests to join him in our galeria for a night of musical medicina.

Tonight we have an industrial size dose of old fashioned funk for you with the one and only Funkonya.

The Indian Classical Sessions are an informal gathering dedicated to sharing the meditative beauty, ecstatic energy, and sheer majesty of South Asian music. Hosted by percussionist, drumset and tabla player Sameer Gupta, this gathering focuses on curating 4 short live sets that represent different influences and traditions surrounding South Asian music. Our goal is to connect, build our raga music loving community, and share South Asian classical music in an impromptu, casual and attentive setting.

Featured sets are:

Nishit Rawat
Ujjaini Mukhopadhyay
Krishna Parthasarathy
Parag Chordia

$10 suggested donations

TONIGHT come enjoy some good old fashioned poetry games and an open mic hosted by Boks Not Bans! The one and only Kevin Dublin will be our featured speaker and lead the games of poetry. Open mic starts at 7pm, sign ups are first come first served. Read original poetry or poems you’ve just made at our poetry game station!

Kevin Dublin is an educator, advocate, and writer of poetry, prose, scripts, and code from Smithfield, NC. “To me, literature is a conversation amongst writers where the world gets to hear the best parts. To join the conversation, all a writer needs to do is read, understand the traditions at play, and respond.” You can learn more about Kevin Dublin on his website kevindublin.com

Books Not Bans is a tiny nonprofit dedicated to building literary community by throwing events and sending free banned and LGBT books to communities across America. We’ve sent 7100+ books to over 25 orgs in 16 states. Follow us on instagram @booksnotbans and check out our website, booksnotbans.org

Books Not Bans donates books to queer orgs, and throws literature-themed parties. 

Donate a book from our registry and we'll ship it to folks who need it. 

Organizations in need of books can request them here.

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For a list of our past events click here. 

We are fiscally sponsored by Independent Arts and Media Foundation (EIN 94-3355076) , a tax-exempt organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Donations are tax-deductible to the fullest extent allowed by law.

A welcoming space for queer musicians and songwriters to share their work, connect, and build community. Performers can sign up online in advance, join as walk-ins, or be featured as a monthly Featured Artist.

Featured Artist Bio:
Xoan is an indigenous multidisciplinary artist who resides in Oakland. He blends sequenced drum beats with dreamy synth progressions and vocals. 

"From the Bay a La Bahia" is a cultural project that aims to bridge two Pacific coast cities, San Francisco, California and Acapulco, Guerrero. This project seeks to create meaningful artistic exchanges between communities that, while geographically distant, share deep connections through migration, displacement, economic violence, resilience and a coastal identity.

Join us as we host the screening of “Voices from the Abyss / Las Voces del Despeñadero” AAn intimate look at the La Quebrada Cliff Divers in Acapulco, Guerrero, who earn their living diving 100 feet into the sea from a dangerous cliff as part of a thrilling show, featuring an original poem recited by them and testimonies on faith, life, and death. Directed by Irving Serrano and Víctor Rejón. 

This event is co-hosted by Demina Laboratorio de Artes, based in Acapulco, Guerro, Mexico. 

Recent commentaries have tended to wonder at the alliances forged between self-professed libertarians of Silicon Valley and the Trump regime. A longer historical view and a more skeptical analysis of US libertarianism suggests that such alliances should come as no surprise. They are the logical merger of entities driven by profit, hubris, and a desire to create a world governed solely by contract and patent. Craib will discuss both the historical evidence drawn from his recent book, Adventure Capitalism (PM Press, 2022), and more recent material from new research.

Raymond Craib is the Marie Underhill Noll Professor of History at Cornell University and the author of The Cry of the Renegade: Politics and Poetry in Interwar Chile, Cartographic Mexico: A History of State Fixations and Fugitive Landscapes, and with Barry Maxwell, co-editor of No Gods No Masters No Peripheries: Global Anarchisms. His most recent book is Adventure Capitalism: A History of Libertarian Exit, from the Era of Decolonization to the Digital Age (PM Press).

Other Dimensions in Sound is our Friday music series curated and hosted by Boohaabian multi reed player extraordinare David Boyce. Each week David will be inviting different musical guests to join him in our galeria for a night of musical medicina.

Tonight’s dose of musical medicina is being provided by Spring (Bruce Ackley-saxophones, Fred Lonberg-Holm-cello, and Zachary Watkins-electronics)

TONIGHT come hear decolonized verses, spanglish poesia, Latine spokenword, Pocho poemas and neighborhood chisme at Speaking Axolotl, the Bay Area’s long running monthly Latine Reading series. 10 slot open mic goes up a las 6:50PM. Open mic poets have 7 minutes to read.

This month we welcome quierido LA poetas Maestro and Ivan Salinas, whose new libro of poesia “Dealer” was published this year

Maestro is a poet and the event coordinator for Highland Island, Le Boule (2011-2012) and worked as an assistant editor for Resurrection Magazine. He is published in Still Water's Anthology, Drifter Zine, Resurrection Press, and The Coachella Review. He rides bikes and destroys spin classes when not singing salsa to himself in East Los Angeles. 

Iván Salinas is a chilango poet and zinester based in the SFV. He's the co-founder of Drifter Zine a publication highlighting artists from LA and beyond. His chapbook Dealer: Poesía Carcacha is a bilingual collection published by There's Only Peace in Death Press in 2026. His writings have been published in The Acentos Review, Mobile Data Mag, Broken Lens Journal, and Razorcake. 

Join us for a very special evening with Brenda Navarro, one of the most critically acclaimed authors in the Spanish language. Brenda will be reading from her new book Eating Ashes which won the Cálamo and CEGAL prizes and was a finalist for the Mario Vargas Llosa Biennial Novel Prize. Brenda will also be in conversation with her book’s english translator Megan Mcdowell.

Megan McDowell has translated work by many of the most important contemporary Latin American writers, including Samanta Schweblin, Alejandro Zambra, Mariana Enriquez, Carlos Fonseca, and Lina Meruane. Her translations have won the National Book Award, the English PEN award for Writing in Translation, the Premio Valle-Inclán, the Shirley Jackson Prize, and two O. Henry Prizes, and have been short- or long-listed four times for the International Booker Prize, and shortlisted once for the Kirkus Prize. In 2020 she won an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her short story translations have been featured in The New Yorker, Harper's, The Paris Review, Tin House, McSweeney’s, and Granta, among others. She is from Richmond, KY and lives in Santiago, Chile.Joi

About Eating Ashes;

Alone and adrift in Barcelona, an unnamed narrator is haunted by the death of her teenage brother, Diego. Diego, the little boy she helped raise in Mexico while their mother struggled to make a living in Spain. Diego, who loved Vampire Weekend and dreamed of becoming a pilot. Diego, who hated Madrid as much as she did.

Now, his ashes in hand, she must return to Mexico. Plagued by memories, she recounts their young lives leading up to tragedy in blistering detail: the acute loneliness that accompanied their emigration; the siblings’ first separation, when she left for Barcelona to make her own way in the world; her activism against labor abuses, which is threatened by her tumultuous relationship with an entitled lover; and the final, heavyhearted confrontation with her brother. Caught between rage and heartbreak over the loss of Diego, she pieces together a story of alienation, but also of surprising courage and hope.

Masterfully translated by National Book Award winner Megan McDowell, and shot through with flashes of dark humor, Eating Ashes boldly confronts both the intimate and systemic struggles faced by migrants striving to build a life worth living. Already an international sensation across Europe, this novel cements Brenda Navarro as a breathtakingly unique and vital voice in literature.

The Hologram is a lightweight, replicable, autonomous protocol for human cooperation which produces a rare form of de-institutionalized stability. In this non-expert web of support, 3 people (the triangle) ask questions to a 4th one (the hologram) in a structured ritual. The hologram doesn't give back, instead their job is to ensure that each of their triangle members also have support from another three people, growing the rhizome of care. By making this form of viral communal stability, we believe that hologrammers and their communities may be able to survive differently, and produce new ways of living that don't rely on or reproduce the toxic systems that are killing us.

This workshop offers "incomers" new to The Hologram practice a chance to learn about the history and reasoning behind The Hologram. So what is The Hologram? What is it used for? And how can The Hologram be applied to your particular context? We will talk about care as revolutionary practice, and based on that discussion we will practice The Hologram. You will leave with new friends and a practice you can use for yourself and your community. The workshop will be facilitated by Dheya and Cassie. The entire event will be in Spanish and English. If other accomodations are needed, please get in touch.

The Holographic mission is to will a world into being where all caregivers are cared for. More than a demand, we are producing a world where this ‘idea’ is actually true, group by group. This is not impractical magic– we do so by teaching anti-capitalist skill building workshops and courses, facilitating small group sessions, and hosting community of practice meetings to discuss and hack away at the issues that come alongside giving and receiving care. All of our offerings are free to any participants who join us, though we are happy for our work to be financially supported by institutions as long as there is no influence on or interference in our work. As we share this particular method for receiving and distributing support differently, we want to demonstrate that collective transformation is possible using tools and relationships we already have. We are a distributed and dissident group of facilitators and organizers around the world who first use and secondly share the practice of The Hologram with anyone who seeks support for surviving and collectively thriving in the apocalypse.

Dheya is a mother, originally from Ecuador, and has lived in San Francisco for over 20 years. She is a garden educator and community health worker in the Mission District. She empowers her community through ancestral wisdom, permaculture, and herbalism, and serves on the SFUSD Latinx Parent Advisory Council and the Mission Latinx Moms Committee. She came to The Hologram in 2020 during the pandemic and is convinced it’s a powerful tool for social health and wellbeing. She wants to bring this practice to Spanish-speaking communities. 

Cassie is an artist, organizer, and is part coyote. She comes from a prairie swamp in Illinois but has lived in NYC, San Francisco, Northern Canada, Germany, and other confused places. She started The Hologram in 2016 and has been practicing it ever since. After many years of being a part of this network of anti-capitalist and non-hierarchical support, she is herself a member of the feral class and slightly unemployable.

El Holograma es un protocolo ligero, replicable y autónomo para la cooperación humana que genera una forma poco común de estabilidad desinstitucionalizada. En esta red de apoyo no experta, tres personas (el triángulo) hacen preguntas a una cuarta (el holograma) mediante un ritual estructurado. El holograma no devuelve nada a cambio; su función es asegurarse de que cada integrante de su triángulo también cuente con el apoyo de otras tres personas, expandiendo así el rizoma del cuidado. Al generar esta forma de estabilidad comunitaria viral, creemos que quienes practican el holograma y sus comunidades podrán sobrevivir de otra manera y crear nuevas formas de vida que no dependan ni reproduzcan los sistemas tóxicos que nos están matando.

Este taller ofrece a las personas recién llegadas—"incomers"—la oportunidad de conocer la historia y el fundamento del Holograma. ¿Qué es el Holograma? ¿Para qué sirve? ¿Y cómo puede aplicarse a tu contexto particular? Hablaremos sobre el cuidado como práctica revolucionaria y, a partir de esa conversación, practicaremos el Holograma. Te irás con nuevas amistades y con una práctica que podrás usar para ti y para tu comunidad.

Todo el evento será en español e inglés. Si se necesitan otros ajustes, por favor ponte en contacto. 

Dheya es madre, originaria de Ecuador y vive en San Francisco desde hace más de 20 años. Es educadora de jardinería y trabajadora de salud comunitaria en el Distrito Mission. Fortalece a su comunidad a través de la sabiduría ancestral, la permacultura y la herbolaria, y forma parte del Concejo Asesor de Padres Latinos del SFUSD y del Comité de Mamás Latinas del Mission. Llegó a El Holograma en 2020 durante la pandemia y está convencida de que es una herramienta poderosa para la salud social y el bienestar. Quiere llevar esta práctica a comunidades hispanohablantes

Cassie es artista, organizadora y es medio coyote. Viene de una pradera pantanosa en Illinois, pero ha vivido en Nueva York, San Francisco, el norte de Canadá, Alemania y otros lugares desconcertantes. Comenzó El Holograma en 2016 y lo ha practicado desde entonces. Después de muchos años siendo parte de esta red de apoyo anticapitalista y no jerárquico, es ella misma: miembro de la clase feral y ligeramente inempleable.

La misión holográfica es querer un mundo donde todas las personas cuidadoras sean cuidadas. Más que una demanda, estamos produciendo un mundo donde esta «idea» sea realmente cierta, grupo por grupo. No se trata de magia impráctica—lo hacemos enseñando talleres y cursos para el desarrollo de habilidades anticapitalistas, facilitando sesiones en grupos pequeños y organizando encuentros de práctica comunitaria para discutir y encontrar soluciones a los problemas que surgen al dar y recibir cuidado. Todas nuestras ofertas son gratuitas para quienes participen con nosotras, aunque agradecemos que nuestro trabajo reciba apoyo financiero de instituciones siempre que no haya influencia ni interferencia en nuestra labor. Al compartir este método particular para recibir y distribuir el apoyo de otra manera, queremos demostrar que la transformación colectiva es posible usando las herramientas y relaciones que ya tenemos. Somos un grupo distribuido y disidente de facilitadores y organizadores alrededor del mundo que primero usan y luego comparten la práctica de El Holograma con cualquier persona que busque apoyo para sobrevivir y prosperar colectivamente en el apocalipsis.

Now in its 15th year, Noche Bohemia continues to honor the power of poetry and community. Since its inception in 2010, this free Poetry Night has welcomed local poets, writers, and educators to share their voices as we celebrate the legacy of Rubén Darío and other Latin American poets. Year after year, Noche Bohemia remains our longest-running annual tradition, a beloved gathering that uplifts creativity, connection, and cultural pride. Participants for this year’s Noche Bohemia are Albert Felipe,  Connie Mae Oliver, Roque Baron, Fausto Ravel, Rosalilia M. Mendoza, Efraín Escobar,  Paul Flores, and Carlos Mejía Godoy.

BIOS

Connie Mae Concepción Oliver: Connie Mae Concepción Oliver is a poet and artist, her third collection of poems is titled "dormilona."

Lili of the Valley: Born and raised in the San Fernando Valley/Tataviam lands, Rosalilia M. Mendoza is the eldest daughter of six. Her parents migrated from Zacatecas and Michoacan. As a former therapist, teacher, and community & political activist, Rosalilia shares her healing journey facing sexism, colonialism, intergenerational wounds, and discrimination through poetry. She writes in hopes of transforming thorns into roses. Currently, Rosalilia enjoys reading, writing, researching her family tree, raising awareness of social and political issues impacting Indigenous peoples from all continents, and both envisioning and creating a better world for her sun, Chalchihuitl.

Fausto: Víctor, Augusto, Nathanael, Eusebio de las tres Marías, Morazán, Huayta. Nace en Lima— Perú en el año 1960. Sus primeros encuentros con la literatura universal se dan a muy corta edad, ya que tuvo la fortuna de vivir dentro de una universidad local que lo marcó para siempre. Luego y siguiendo su designio ingresa a la universidad, "Nacional Mayor de San Marcos" . Casa de estudios de los más prestigiados escritores nacionales. Estudia, Filosofía y letras, especializado en Filosofía Clásica griega. Publicó su primer libro de prosa poética y cuentos el año, 2016, siendo bien recepcionado por el público lector. Casado con, Zela Blanco, doctora en medicina y obstetricia, de nacionalidad nicaragüense; acercó y motivó aún más su investigación sobre, el príncipe de las letras castellanas y el modernismo poético hasta nuestros días.
La complejidad de la temática dariana, lo atrapó y desde entonces, no deja de leerlo como libros de cabezera.

Paul Flores: https://paulsflores.art/about

Roque Baron: TBA

Albert: TBA

Efraín: TBA

Carlos Mejía Godoy: TBA

Join us on March 15 at 4pm for a closing reception of the exhibition Architecture of Genocide: Gaza Before and After October 2023. Come learn about the Palestinian struggle for liberation through revolutionary songs with the Palestinian Youth Ensemble as they perform “Mawtini" (My Homeland), the Palestinian National Anthem that discusses the immense unconditional love and loyalty we hold for our land, and "Salam Li Gaza" (Salute to Gaza) which serves as a tribute to Gaza. It discusses the deep resilience Palestinians in Gaza (and the land itself) hold that have allowed them to remain steadfast amidst the death and destruction they endure and survive. Stick around for a powerful presentation that goes through a timeline of events after October 2023, highlighting the occupation’s intentional targeting and destruction of necessary civil infrastructure in order to commit genocide in Gaza. Together we document both the occupation’s crimes against humanity, but also the steadfastness of the people of Gaza who have persevered through the unimaginable. 

Organization: The Palestinian Youth Movement is an independent, grassroots movement that organizes Palestinian and Arab youth to struggle for Palestinian liberation. PYM draws from Palestinian revolutionary history, where the participation of youth in the national struggle has been central in leading and sustaining our struggle. We believe that Palestinian youth have a right and responsibility, even in the far diaspora, to be active participants in working to liberate our people and land from the river to the sea. 

Pervuvian writer, anthropologist, and editor Karina Pacheco will discuss her books The Year of the Wind and Niños del pájaro azul and will be joined by Gisela Ortiz, human rights activist and former Secretary of Culture of Peru.

The event will also feature a photography exhibit by Percy Rojas related to human rights and justice.The book/photo event is part of “Counter-Pedagogies of Forgetting: An Itinerant Gathering of Literature, Documentary Film, and Photography on Memory and Justice in Peru” a project to foster public conversations about memory and justice regarding the political violence Peru experienced between the 1980s and 2000s.

Karina Pacheco: Peruvian writer, anthropologist, and editor. Author of The Year of the Wind and Niños del pájaro azul. Her fiction explores memory, violence, and everyday life in the Andes and the Amazon, and her novels consistently interweave memory, human rights, and gender, linking intimate experiences with collective conflicts.
Gisela Ortiz: Longtime Peruvian human rights activist and Director of Operations of the Peruvian Forensic Anthropology Team (EPAF), with decades of work alongside families searching for the disappeared. She is also a former Secretary of Culture of Peru and hosts the podcast Diálogos on Radio Harawi.Percy Rojas: Historian and photographer. Works with the Department of Justice on human rights. He previously worked with EPAF and has contributed to documentation and training initiatives related to transitional justice and the search for missing persons in Ayacucho.

For this month’s Paseo Artistico, in keeping with the theme “Women Are the Heart of Our Culture” we are featuring Arlene Eisen, whose new book “In The Worldwide Family of Militant Women” was released this year by Iskra Books. Arlene will read from her new book and also be in conversation with Nadya R. Tannous.

Inspired by the Black and Vietnamese liberation movements, Arlene Eisen has been a militant in the struggles against Empire since the 1960’s. She edited The Movement newspaper and was a leading voice in the anti-imperialist women’s movement of the 1970’s. For the next half century, she joined the anti-apartheid movement, the movement for justice in Palestine, including the olive harvest in the West Bank, the struggle for the right to return to New Orleans after Katrina, the movements against U.S. fascist police and their deputized militias and against the holocaust in Gaza-- always standing in solidarity with national liberation struggles both inside and outside the U.S. Empire.

Arlene Eisen is the author of the influential study, Operation Ghetto Storm—the report that first documented and analyzed the extrajudicial killing by police of Black people in the US. Her analysis of the U.S. war on Black people documented, for the first time, that US police and their surrogates kill a Black person every 28 hours. From Chicago to Oakland, from New York to New Orleans, the hashtag #Every28Hours fueled campaigns that challenged police power. The US Human Rights Network presented the report at the 2014 Review of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination in Geneva. She also wrote, Women of Viet Nam (revised). That book so resonated with popular opinion, that even with no commercial advertising, or social media, it sold more than 50,000 copies in English and editions in Spanish, French, Danish and Farsi were published. Eisen’s Women and Revolution in Viet Nam was the first book to be published in the West about women in Viet Nam after the War. Her book, In the Worldwide Family of Militant Women, a hybrid social history/memoir was released in January 2026. Eisen’s journalism has appeared in Telesur, The Root, Counterpunch, San Francisco Bayview, She produced and hosted Nina Viva, a monthly radio show on KPOO-FM that featured voices of international women analysts. Based in Caracas, she was a staff writer for Venezuelanalysis.com, an independent English-language daily news service. Her latest book “Women Are the Heart of Our Culture” was published this year by Iskra Books.

Nadya R. Tannous, author of the book’s Foreword and other articles.  Nadya is a longtime organizer with the Palestinian Youth Movement.The Palestinian Youth Movement is a transnational, independent, grassroots movement of young Palestinians in Palestine and in the diaspora. PYM plays an active role in their national struggle for the liberation of their homeland and people to end the ongoing Zionist colonization and occupation of their homeland, and genocidal campaign to destroy all Palestinian life. Nadya also has a Master’s degree from Oxford University in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies.

Other Dimensions in Sound is our Friday music series curated and hosted by Boohaabian multi reed player extraordinare David Boyce. Each week David will be inviting different musical guests to join him in our galeria for a night of musical medicina.

Tonight’s musical medicina is being provided by Sand Ghost(Nore Free-saxophone/efx, Cassandra Firmin-drums, and Melissa Mohlenhoff-bass)

Block printing workshop for community activists. We'll have tools, paper, tinta, and small blocks, and start off with a conversation about printmaking as cultural and political expression. Second Wednesdays in March, April, and May. Suggested donation $20 for artist and book store.

Clase de grabado para activistas de la comunidad / Tendremos herramientas, papel, tinta, y pequeños bloques, y empezamos con una conversación sobre el grabado como expresión cultural y política. Segundo Miercoles en marzo, abril, y mayo. Donación sugerida $20 para artista y librería.

Fernando Martí (he/him) is an artist, poet, community architect and housing activist, originally from Ecuador, based in San Francisco, Ramaytush Ohlone land.

Fernando Martí (el) es un artista, poeta, arquitecto comunitario y activista de vivienda, originario del Ecuador, y basado en San Francisco, tierra Ramaytush Ohlone.

Este 8 de marzo Frente al retroceso de nuestros derechos, elegimos encontrarnos, abrazarnos y reflexionar.

Conmemoramos el día Internacional de la Mujer

Nos reunimos para alzar la voz.
Para nombrar lo que arde.
Para bordar la memoria en nuestros cuerpos.
Para cantar lo que quisieron silenciar.

Celebramos nuestras luchas,
nuestras ancestras,
nuestras rebeldías vivas.

¡Vivas nos queremos!

Habrá poesía que incomoda y abraza.
Música que despierta.
Bordados que resisten.
Apapachos que sostienen.

Porque nuestras voces no piden permiso.
Se tejen.
Se cuidan.
Se levantan.

Founded in 2001 by José Ome Mazatl and Debby Kajiyama, NAKA Dance Theater creates experimental performance works using dance, storytelling, multimedia installations and site-specific environments. They are honored to continue celebrating their 25th Anniversary year by presenting work at Medicine for Nightmares. NAKA cultivates partnerships with communities, engages people’s histories and folklore and expresses experiences through accessible performances that challenge the viewer to think critically about social justice issues. Recent collaborations include Ja weya ob’aj wij, ex weya nchemaj (My Story, My Weaving), a devised installation-performance work created with Indigenous Maya Mam Women weavers living in Oakland, and Dismantling Tactic X: Fugitivity, a creative response to xenophobia and the threat of mass deportations. In addition to their performance work, NAKA co-produces Live Arts in Resistance (LAIR) in partnership with EastSide Arts Alliance. LAIR is a dynamic series of performance showcases, artist residencies, and community town halls that address racial inequity and white supremacy in popular culture. @nakadancetheater

Join YA author René Peña-Govea in launching her debut, Estela, Undrowning, a novel that follows teenage poet, Estela Morales as she navigates racism, eviction, and first love as one of the only Latinas at San Francisco's most exclusive public high school. René will be in conversation with her sister, La Doña, and accompanied with music from La Familia Peña-Govea and other friends. Q+A and signing to follow.

René Peña-Govea and Cecilia Peña-Govea (La Doña) are Chicanas born and raised in San Francisco. René is a writer, musician and educator who released her first album and published her first poem at age fifteen, winning the Isabel Allende-sponsored Paula Award for poetry. She has been named a Publishers Weekly Spring 2026 Writer to Watch as well as a YBCA-100 Honoree, a Brown-Handler Fellow, a Las Musas Hermana, and a creative-in-residence and The Ruby, The North Coast Project. Her debut has garnered three starred reviews, and coverage in Cosmpolitan, People Magazine, and KQED Forum.

Cecilia Peña-Govea, or La Doña, is an award-winning multi-instrumentalist, composer, singer, and educator. She was selected as one of YouTube Foundry's Artists in 2019, and her song, "Quién me la paga" was included as one of the New York Times "19 Songs That Matter Now." Two of her albums have been named by the SF Chronicle as the best album of their years, respectively, and Barack Obama included her song "Penas con pan" on his playlist. She also serves as the governor for the San Francisco chapter of the Recording Academy (the Grammy's).

La Familia Peña-Govea also includes the sisters' parents, Susan Peña and Miguel Govea, educators and musicians who have played in the Bay Area for forty years. Miguel led salsa band Los Compas and Susan joined René in an all-women's conjunto Café con leche as well as the family band. They are joined by Enrique Ramirez and Jamon Balberan, who, along with Antonio Ramirez, are founding members of Los Peludos.

Other Dimensions in Sound is our Friday music series curated and hosted by Boohaabian multi reed player extraordinare David Boyce. Each week David will be inviting different musical guests to join him in our galeria for a night of musical medicina.

Tonight we have an extra special heavy dose of musical medicina as Red Fast Triple Luck(David Boyce-reeds and efxs, Francis Wong-saxophones, Chris Trinidad-guitar, and PC Munoz-percussion,boom stick, and intergalactic hook rug) enters the Portal to celebrate the release of their new CD.

Against the multiple violences of the current capitalist conjuncture, what the Zapatistas have named The Fourth World War, an autonomous energy surges to collectivize and communalize everyday life and reclaim vernacular values. From a network of autonomous health practices and projects in Greece that confront the dominant biomedical industry, to families and communities organizing transterritorially to reclaim subsistence practices, including milpa, from the extractivist agroindustry in Pajaro Valley, to autonomous learning spaces across the Bay Area that issue a call to relearn the habits of assembly, we invite comrades and collectives to join us for an instantiation of the Counter Counterinsurgency Lab, conspiring with CareNotes collective, Tierras Milpas, and the Center for Convivial Research and Autonomy (CCRA) to ask, how might we proliferate fierce care? Can we initiate a collective cartography in the present of the ways we are already confronting dominant industrial systems, imagining new collective ways of being, building a life in common, and collectivizing and politicizing suffering, organized as a Defense of Territory and Care for Life?

CareNotes is a collective of care workers who are organizing for health autonomy.

Tierras Milperas is an autonomous community of families, migrants and campesinos organized around milpa and assembly in the Pajaro Valley.

Center for Convivial Research and Autonomy (CCRA) is a collective knowledge production project committed to recovering vernacular knowledges and subsistence practices in service of autonomy.

No Kings, No Queens Chess Club is the super-chill community chess club that gathers the 1st Sunday of every month in the galeria. Hosted by Danny Cao, all ages and skill levels are encouraged to come. Never played chess? We'll teach you! Come hang out, talk chess and play a few games.