Tonight join the Coalition on Homelessness in a panel discussion and Q&A about San Francisco's current ineffective street response to homelessness and how we as community can transform it.

The Coalition on Homelessness organizes homeless people and front-line service providers to create permanent solutions to homelessness while working to protect the human rights of those forced to remain on the streets.

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.

Join us this afternoon with children’s author Belen Medina as she celebrates the release of her beautiful new book Mariposa’s Journey.

Belen Medina is a children’s book author inspired by her Mexican heritage and bicultural upbringing in California’s Central Valley. She is moved by stories of resilence, whether in nature or in humanity. Her debut picture book, Daughter of the Light-Footed People, received multiple starred reviews and was praised for its lyrical voice and powerful storytelling. It was also the recipient of the Washington State Book Award and the America’s Award. She is also the author of So Many Questions, and Emilia Wishing, both published in 2026. Belen lives in the Pacific Northwest with her two sons, who enjoy pointing out all her grammatical errors as she reads them draft after draft of her stories. 

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 double dose of sonic sustenance is being brought to you by

Mystic Commandos(Alphastare-modular synth & Jaroba-saxophone)-1st set

RedFast Luck(David Boyce-reeds and efxs & PC Munoz-percussion, slapstick, intergalactic hookrug)-2nd set)

Something toothy is coming to Medicina. Join translators Dora Prieto and Daniela Rodríguez Chevalier, with special guests Román Luján and Hugo García Manríquez, for an evening of poetry with bite, celebrating Xitlalitl Rodríguez Mendoza’s JAWS [tiburón], translation out now from Cardboard House Press (2026). 

What happens when the shark gets tired of being the villain? When it splits into a chorus of workers who have bills to pay? When jaws starts sounding suspiciously like yo? Moving between ocean and office, Hollywood horror and everyday survival, this darkly comic collection sinks its dientes into work, language, and the business of staying alive. 

Come for poems, stay until your teeth get pointy and a fin cuts the moon in two.

DORA PRIETO is a Mexican and Canadian poet and translator whose life and work have an unruly relationship to geography. She is a 2025–27 Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford and has held residencies at Hedgebrook and the Banff Centre. She is the co-translator of JAWS [tiburón] by Xitlalitl Rodríguez Mendoza (Cardboard House Press, 2026). Her work has appeared in Best New Poets 2025, Catapult, and Maisonneuve, and she won the 2025 Bronwen Wallace Award for poetry. She is a co-founder of El Mashup Collective, and her practice moves across poetry, translation, textiles, and visual forms.

Daniela Rodríguez Chevalier

Born in Cuernavaca, Mexico ✿ city of eternal Spring ✿ and raised in el Distrito Federal, Daniela Rodríguez Chevalier writes and translates from unceded Coast Salish territories (Vancouver, BC). Her work has appeared in PRISM International, Volume, Discorder and carte blanche. She is part of eclectic artist collectives mim and El Mashup, Festival Coordinator and programmer at the Vancouver Latin American Film Fest, and co-host of Vivaporú on CiTR 101.9FM. Foodie who shelves books and binds them too. Ocean child. She has felt the presence of a shark stirring nearby waters. Dani has two feisty gorgeous dachshunds, Xoco and Rol. @la.tacodelic

Román Luján is a Mexican poet, scholar, and literary translator based
in the Bay Area. He is the author of several poetry books in Spanish,
including Sánafabich, where he explores a poetics of anti-assimilation
by examining the history of violence (material and symbolic) on both
sides of the US-Mexico border. His work, translated into English,
German, and Finnish, has been awarded three national poetry prizes in
Mexico. Imagenigma, his first full poetry collection translated into
English, will be published by Cardboard House Press. He teaches in the
Department of Spanish and Portuguese at UC Berkeley.

Hugo García Manríquez,. Two of Hugo's most recent translations into Spanish are two
anthologies he edited and translated. One of the San Francisco Bay
poet Jack Spicer, “After Lorca and other poems” and the other by
English poet Sean Bonney, titled “The Language of barricades”. His
latest poetry collection is Lo común, translated and published by
Cardboard House Press as Commonplace.

Dora @primadora_

Dani @la.tacodelic

Xitlalitl @pollitaconpapos

Cardboard House Press @cardboardhousepress 

Join moderator Supervisor Jackie Fielder for an evening exploring how we, as everyday people, can take back our economy and democracy from artificial intelligence. We will explore what we even mean when we talk about “AI,” whether we’re in an AI bubble, the impacts of AI, whether we should be afraid of AI, and who’s behind the AI hype. This panel is jam-packed with women authors whose books have inspired critical conversations about AI and the tech sector at large: Dr. Alex Hanna, co-author of The AI Con, Wendy Liu, author of Abolish Silicon Valley, and Tamara Kneese, author of Notes Toward a Digital Workers’ Inquiry.

Wendy Liu made a career switch from software engineer to writer, a move that was sparked by reading lots of books at a time when her startup was tanking. Now she mostly writes about the horrors of Silicon Valley and why tech workers need to organise. She is the author of Abolish Silicon Valley.

Dr. Alex Hanna is a writer and sociologist of technology, labor, and politics. She is the Director of Research at the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR). Her work examines how new computational technologies--such as AI and machine learning--exacerbate racial, gender, and class inequality through their data practices and effects on labor. With Emily M. Bender, Dr. Hanna is the co-author of The AI Con (Harper, 2025), a book about AI and the hype around it. They also run the Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 series, playfully and wickedly tearing apart AI hype on their livestream and podcast. She also works in the area of social movements, focusing on the dynamics of anti-racist campus protest in the US and Canada. She holds a BS in Computer Science and Mathematics and a BA in Sociology from Purdue University, and an MS and a PhD in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Dr. Tamara Kneese is a Senior Research Scientist at Partnership on AI and a Practitioner Fellow at the University of Virginia's Environmental Institute. She is the author of Death Glitch: How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in The Life and Beyond (Yale University Press 2023) and co-author (with Capacitor Collective) of Notes Toward a Digital Workers' Inquiry (Common Notions 2025).

Supervisor Jackie Fielder is a Mission renter, public bank organizer, former city commissioner and educator, and climate and environmental justice advocate. Jackie got her start in the #NoDAPL movement by organizing for divestment from the Wall Street banks financing the Dakota Access Pipeline. In 2017, she co-founded the San Francisco Defund DAPL Coalition and the San Francisco Public Bank Coalition to start the nation’s first city-owned bank to support small businesses, affordable housing, and renewable energy. She’s the proud granddaughter of Mexican immigrants and Native American grandparents and a citizen of the Three Affiliated Tribes of North Dakota, with Two Kettle Lakota and Hidatsa descent. She graduated from Stanford University in 2016 with a Bachelors of Arts in Public Policy and a Masters of Arts in Sociology.

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. Tonight’s feature is Toan.

Toan is an independent musician and songwriter whose work blends evocative lyricism with genre-fluid soundscapes. With a growing discography that spans introspective singles, lush demos, and collaborative tracks, Toan crafts music that invites listeners into emotional and sonic depth — balancing intimacy with expansive production.

Closing night of the Crate to Canvas art show that is currently on exhibit in our galeria!

The Big Leagues Rare Soul Collective (TBL) and El Filmero Productions present a unique art installation inspired by the rare soul record collecting scene, celebrating vinyl crate digging culture through a combination of art, music, and film. Experience original artwork and photography from TBL members, and vinyl sets spun from their personal collections.

Featuring vinyl music sets and/or artwork by: Aveets · TUFF · Discos Olvidados · Space Cholo · Xaztecra · Joshua De Leon · Pisto · Jose Niño · Laughing Boy

Share stories with people outside your generation and create a visual representation of what you learn. This inter-generational program encourages children to share their stories with their grandparents, uncles, aunts or other family members. Or share stories between friends who are of different generations. Local artist Zefania will help participants shape their stories. Supplies provided. 

Zefania is a native-born San Franciscan, Latina artist, and lifelong believer in the power of creativity to connect us. For more than 20 years, she has made, explored, learned, and grown through the arts—with curiosity as my compass and community at the heart of it all. Zefania’s work is rooted in place, culture, color, and the beautiful unpredictability of making. Zefania believe art can open doors, spark conversation, build bridges, and remind us that we belong to something bigger than ourselves. Still curious. Still creating. Still finding magic in the unexpected.Bring your curiosity there’s always room at the table.

This event is hosted by the Mission branch of the SFPL

Noche de Movies is back! Our monthly movie series returns just in time for those chilly San Francisco summer nights. Microwave palomitas will be provided. This month’s movie is Louis Malle’s Crackers(1984) a comedy crime film starring that snooty Donald Sutherland and that wrinkly Sean Penn when he wasn’t so wrinkly. The film has Missiois shot in several iconic Mission spots like our quierida departed La Rondalla. Presented by Jonas.

Microwave palomitas will be provided.

Join the Molcajete poets on September 17th from 7PM-9:00PM for an open mic night of poetry and rhyme to celebrate Yen La Poeta's birthday! Featured poets and artists will perform throughout the night for a fun and dynamic evening of poetry, spoken word, and rhyme! Featuring Martha Moreno, MC PAUZE, Bryan Chavez Castro, and Rebeca Abidaíl Flores.

Martha Moreno is a Sacramento-based poet who writes about love, relationships, and the emotions that come with them. She’s been writing poetry for a while but has never shared her work publicly, making this her first time putting her words out there.

MC Pauze is an Emcee, Songwriter, & Percussionist born & raised in the Mission District of San Francisco, CA. As a member of Justin’s Case, The Watershed, and Old Soul Kollective, he uses his music as a platform to heal, communicate, and shine light on injustices occurring in his community and beyond. Pauze has dedicated his life to the Hip-Hop movement because of its ability to uplift and the tools it provides for critical thinking, about society and the role of the people within it. He proudly claims the mantle of “Conscious Hip-Hop Artist” and purposefully creates music with a message of justice, resistance, and love.

Bryan Chavez Castro is a poet, writer, and translator from El Salvador’s rural east. He was Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Fellow at UC Berkeley, where he studied comparative literature. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Antiphony, Huizache, Acentos Review, and elsewhere. His translations appear in The Offing. He now lives in Oakland, CA.

Rebeca Abidaíl Flores is a Mexican and Salvadoran artist from Fresno, CA. She connects working-class labor to joy. In her artistic practice, she creates objects rooted in labor—like paletas, mangüeras, and camisas—to reimagine them as interactive pieces of play. Her creative fellowships include the Latinx Teaching Artist Fellow at Root Division, Bloomberg Tech Fellow with Acción Latina, and a Teaching Artist at the University of San Francisco and San Francisco State University. She has been an artist in residence at The Ruby, Story Knife in Alaska, Gracia Residency in Guatemala, and the and the Laureate Lab Visual Wordist Studio with Juan Felipe Herrera.

KWAN AKA Kdubb : Kwan an artist  from Queens New York, who liked playing with rhyme and words, and using them in funky ways!

DJ HELICA a San Francisco native who will be spinning tunes before open mic starts! 

Tonigh join us for a book talk and an acoutic set with the author of Spanish Punk David Vila Dieguez.

David Vila Dieguez is a musician, filmmaker, and scholar specializing in and around Hispanic popular music and cultural studies. He grew up between the Basque Country and Galicia. He currently holds a professorship at California State University, Monterey Bay. He is one of the founding members of the cultural magazine Furman2l7 and the singer of the Latinx alternative band the Rumba Madre. Learn more about David at his website davidviladieguez.com and
rumbamadre.com.

Join us for an afternoon of tatreez, Palestinian embroidery, as we come together in community to stitch. A tatreez circle is a gathering of tatreez artists who stitch together while sharing stories and learning from each other. All levels of experience are welcome but this is not meant to be a workshop. We will not be teaching tatreez but are happy to help guide you on what you need to get started before the event. **Bring your own projects and your own supplies.**

What is Tatreez? Tatreez is the art of Palestinian embroidery that has been practiced in Palestine for centuries. A practice passed down generationally from mother to daughter. Taking inspiration from the land and everyday life, Palestinian women hand stitched motifs and patterns directly onto their thobe that represented their social status, the villages/regions from which they hailed and their individuality.

Can I join if I'm not Palestinian? YES! This is a space for Palestinians and non-Palestinians who share a love of tatreez. Regardless of who practices tatreez, it is important to always remember the history of this beautiful art and the role it plays today in the Palestinian resistance movement, both in Palestine and within the diaspora. These circles are a safe space for Palestinians and our allies.

If you’re new to tatreez and have questions please reach out to sfbaytatreez@gmail.com.

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 double dose of sonic sustenance is being brought to you by Diana Alvarez(1st set) & Noise Witch(2nd set. David Boyce-reeds&efxs, Brian Rodvien-drums, and Bryan Dean-bass)

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 5 minutes to read.

!This month’s Speaking Axolotl is being guest curated by Yen La Poeta and features Zaifen King L., Bryan Chavez Castro.

Zaifen King L. is an independent Mexican author of oneiric and emotional narratives. Her stories explore love, obsession, loss, and transformation through characters who inhabit the space between the intimate and the strange. Her work blends sensitivity, emotional tension, and an intimate gaze into human bonds, creating tales where pain, beauty, and discomfort coexist in the same space.Her writing is distinguished by melancholic atmospheres, unsettling images, and a profound exploration of what remains within people even when they try to leave it behind.

Bryan Chavez Castro is a poet, writer, and translator from El Salvador’s rural east. He was the Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Fellow at UC Berkeley, where he studied comparative literature. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Antiphony, Huizache, Acentos Review, and elsewhere. His translations appear in The Offing. He now lives in Oakland, CA.

Yenia Jimenez is a poet, community storyteller, whose poetry explores identity, memory, culture, love, survival, and the lived experiences of marginalized communities. Her poetry is rooted in personal experience, cultural history, and community, using raw and intimate storytelling as a form of reflection, resistance, and connection.

Yenia has been featured in Huizache Magazine and founded her own poetry collective Molcaje Poets to uplift and highlight poets from across the diasporas and create space for diverse voices to be heard and celebrated.

Her work extends beyond the page through poetry workshops, youth programming, curriculum development, open mics, and community arts projects. For Yenia, poetry is more than an art form; it is a way of remembering, questioning, connecting, and story telling through prose.

Celebrate the new book by Aimee Suzara, Birth Language, which centers a Filipina-American time traveling through her history, twisted and haunted like the roots of a balete tree. The book fuses English, Spanish, and Tagalog. It employs archival texts from as early as the 1500s when European conquistadors and explorers encountered the pre-colonial Philippine islands. Guided by the babaylan (shaman) and populated by mythical creatures like the mananngangal, kapre, and sireno, the collection celebrates a history of resistance, reclaiming and redefining the self despite colonization, assimilation, and cultural loss.

Aimee will share poetry from her book and converse with guest poets Yaccaira Salvatierra and David Maduli about shared themes in their work.

Aimee Suzara is a Filipino-American poet, playwright, performer, and educator Aimee Suzara is the author of the poetry book BIRTH LANGUAGE (Tia Chucha Press, Aug 2026), SOUVENIR (Wordtech Editions 2014), which was Willa Award Finalist, and two chapbooks, Finding the Bones and The Space Between. Her poems, prose and plays have appeared in Kartika Review, California Language Association Journal, Orion Magazine, Raising Mothers, Poets.org, Mom Egg Review, and Women Re-Creating Classics (Bloomsbury 2025), among others. Her commissioned play THE REAL SAPPHO was supported by the Kenneth Rainin Foundation New Works program and the National Endowment for the Arts. Suzara was a 2025 San Francisco Foundation / Nomadic Press Literary Award winner, and has been been awarded fellowships and residencies by Poetry and the Senses at UC Berkeley, Mesa Refuge, the Key West Literary Seminar, A Room of Her Own Foundation, Hedgebrook and the Atlantic Center for the Arts.  As a multidisciplinary performer, she has collaborated with dance theater and music ensembles such as Deep Waters Dance Theater and the Grammy-Award-winning Kronos Quartet. She holds degrees from UC Berkeley and Mills College.  Based in Oakland, California, she teaches writing at Bay Area colleges and universities and through her coaching business Wild Tongues. 

David Maduli is a father, educator, and author of Alemany Bay Window/Redwood Coast Record Crate (Sampaguita Press, 2024). His work, often inflected by many years as a DJ and school teacher, received the Joy Harjo Poetry Prize. Born in San Francisco, he resides in Oakland, where he completed his MFA at Mills College with a fellowship in Community Poetics.

Yaccaira Salvatierra is a California-based poet, translator, mother and dedicated educator. She is the author of the poetry collection Sons of Salt (BOA Editions, 2024), which explores themes of maternal resistance, structural violence, and absent fathers. It was named one of the "Best Books for Adults" by the New York Public Library. She is currently translating Estancias de Emilia Tangoa by Peruvian poet, Ana Varela Tafur. She lives and teaches in Oakland.

Drumming Up Resistance is an engaging presentation by anthropologist, musician, and author Umi Vaughan based on his latest book, Silencing the Drum: Religious Racism and Afro-Brazilian Sacred Music. Drawing on years of conversations with religious leaders, musicians, and community activists across Brazil, Vaughan explores the resilience of Afro-Brazilian sacred traditions in the face of religious intolerance and cultural erasure. The program features rare audio recordings made with master musicians in Brazil and concludes with an opportunity for audience discussion—and perhaps even a little communal music-making. Don't miss it!

Umi Vaughan is an artist-scholar who reimagines life and celebrates culture through a Black diasporic lens. His training includes a B.A. in Fine Art and Spanish Language from Morehouse College, a Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Michigan, and music making in communities across the African diaspora, especially the Bay Area, Peru, Colombia, Cuba, and Brazil. He is the co-author of Silencing the Drum: Religious Racism and Afro-Brazilian Sacred Music, author of Carlos Aldama’s Life in Batá: Cuba, Diaspora, and the Drum and Rebel Dance, Renegade Stance: Timba Music and Black Identity in Cuba. To learn more visit UMIART.ART.

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 Ochs/Johnston/Mezzacappa/Davis.

!TONIGHT we have poets in our front window!

Come by tonight and listen to Bay Area poets reading their work in our front window to Calle 24, the most living loving street in all of San Francisco. This month’s poets are hector son of hector, Michelle Ibarra, Arnoldo Colibri Hummingbird, and Luz de Nacar.

Hector son of Hector is an Oakland poet. He is a child of Mexican immigrants, works in a hospital, dreams of short stories and writes poems in secret.

Michelle Ibarra is a Xicana poet with roots in both San Francisco’s Mission District and South San Francisco. Her poetic practice is heavily influenced by the 1970s Xicanx art movement, Rasquachismo, her working class upbringing, and her hatred for the governing state. Through her work, she explores queer sexuality, Catholic iconography, drug user liberation, and love at the end of the world. She has an upcoming zine called Three Love Poems and A Song of Despair.

Luz de Nácar (they/them) was born in East Los, raised in Puebla and Veracrúz, and currently survives in Oakland. As a transterritorial two-spirit romantic, they make prayers out of art —music, poetry, carving— for the feeding of ancestors and Spirit by connecting to personal anqd cultural symbols that strengthen their relationships to nature as a mother and expression as medicine.

arnoldo garcía, un colibrí, is a migrant native of the Río Grande valley. His first poems were stanzas of vetavel fields and hanging vines of hops stretched across telephone poles. Arnoldo runs the small neighborhood publishing operations called editorial Xingao, dedicated to promoting poets & artists of colors, and runs the poetry blog, La comuna | the Art of the Commune

An invitation for community to shared and stamp  their  stories and their community  trhough a carving session hosted by Oaxacan printmaker Pavel Acevado. Pavel and community will carve in collaboration a  6 feet Humpback carving whale, an ancient mammal that thrives to this oceans. This evento is FREE to the public, no experience necessary all materials are provide by the artists. 

Pavel Acevedo, originally from Oaxaca, Mexico, is a contemporary relief printmaker whose work explores themes of migration, identity, and cultural hybridity. Moving to California in 2010, Acevedo has built a practice rooted in both his Oaxacan heritage and his lived experiences as an immigrant in the United States. His art reflects a dialogue that is neither strictly Mexican nor American, but instead a layered, contemporary reality shaped by crossing borders and adapting to new environments.

Working primarily in relief printmaking, Acevedo employs plywood and linoleum blocks to create powerful portraits and images that draw upon the pre-Hispanic codex as well as contemporary urban life. His subjects often include friends, community members, and symbolic figures that embody the diverse populations of California. By weaving together references to ancient visual traditions and modern narratives, he constructs imagery that speaks to continuity, resilience, and transformation within migrant experiences.

Acevedo’s educational foundation was formed at the School of Fine Arts Oaxaca (Escuela de Bellas Artes), complemented by workshops at the Rufino Tamayo Workshop, where he deepened his knowledge of printmaking techniques. After relocating to California, he established himself within the artistic communities of Riverside and East Los Angeles. His studio, Urge Palette Art Supplies in Riverside, serves as both a workplace and a hub for creative engagement. His prints and murals can be found throughout the region, including significant displays at the Riverside Art Museum and in public spaces across the city.

Among his notable projects are his contributions to the Utopia/Dystopia portfolio, curated by artist Miyo Stevens-Gandara. For this series, Acevedo created prints that juxtapose portraits of a solitary woman and two men, symbolizing the multiplicity of narratives that shape the Los Angeles experience. Through such works, Acevedo affirms his role as both an artist and storyteller, chronicling the intersections of culture, migration, and community in contemporary life.

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.

Shades of Brown is a Nuestra Causa fundraiser and the official launch of our first apparel collection, Brown Brilliance. The collection was created as an extension of our organizing work, celebrating the identity, creativity, resilience, and brilliance of the communities we come from and serve. Proceeds from the drop will directly support Nuestra Causa’s community programs and organizing.

The evening would include a reception featuring food from street vendors we organize alongside; the debut of our Brown Brilliance T-shirt collection, a report-back on our work, poetry from formerly incarcerated poets, recognition of program participants/fellow organizers, and a short panel highlighting the story and creative process behind the Brown Brilliance project. We’d close with remarks and time for everyone to connect and mingle.

Nuestra Causa is a community-based organization rooted in San Francisco’s Mission District. Our work centers on violence prevention, youth leadership, support for currently/formerly incarcerated people and their families, street vendor rights, food justice, and community-led advocacy. 

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.

Richard Villegas Jr. reads from his irreverent new memoir, Your a Fat Suckr Bich: Notes on the Merry but Perilous Work of Schoolteaching in Los Angeles — a twenty-year veteran's unfiltered account of life on the front lines of the public school system.

Based in East Los Angeles, Richard Villegas Jr. is a writer whose work spans television, theater, fiction, poetry, and cultural criticism. He was the originator and consulting producer of the half-hour drama series Vida for Starz, contributing to the show’s development from 2015 to 2020. His essays and articles have appeared in The Los Angeles Times, Playboy.com, and New American Media. His ten-minute plays Cochino and La Tina Duty were presented at Casa 0101 as part of the Brown and Out Play Festival IV and VI, respectively. He is the author of La Música Romántica (CreateSpace, 2014), a collection of short fiction, and I Heart Babylon, Tenochtitlan, and Ysteléi(CreateSpace, 2011), a hybrid work of short fiction, poetry, and essays. His writings on teaching and queer identity in the classroom are published on his Substack, The Alphabet People: The LGBTQ’s of Teaching Kindergarten.

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 a double dose of sonic sustenance featuring Nikita Manin on clarinet(1st set) and Rainbow Eclipse(Nader-modular synthesizer and David Boyce-saxes and efx) playing the 2nd set.

Founded in San Francisco in 2022, Kitchen Table is a reading series centered around poetry and literature, food and drink, and culture and politics. The core of the events are the questions: What feeds your body? What feeds your mind? Writers share their work as we all share a local pop-up's food or drink. Featured readers for this evening are Dāshaun Washington, Jeanne Powell, and Cecilia Lei.

Pop-up collaborator: Half Baked Hapa

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.

Cecilia Lei is a reporter, producer and podcast host based in the East Bay. She covers immigration, the criminal legal system, AAPI issues, as well as other local communities. Her work has appeared in KQED, Apple News, SF Chronicle, NPR and Vox Media. Cecilia is also a co-founder of COYOTE Media Collective, a worker-owned newsroom in the Bay Area that launched in 2025.

Jeanne is a published poet and essayist. She holds degrees from Wayne State University and the University of San Francisco. Jeanne has taught in the CS, UB and OLLI programs at universities in the City. Her books in print include MY OWN SILENCE and WORD DANCING from Taurean Horn Press. Her poems have appeared in several print and online journals, including Essence Magazine, Haight Ashbury Literary Journal and the tenth anniversary issue of Drumvoices Revue from SIU-E. Jeanne Powell's poem, "Next Time" won first prize from the Detroit Writers Guild in 2002.

Earlier this month, people from all over the world gathered in Cuba to commemorate the historic leader of the Cuban revolution Fidel Castro on the 100th anniversary of his birth. Cuba today is being brutally punished by the US government for daring to forge its own path of independence and social equality — the ideals that Fidel fought his entire life for. Join us for an evening of reflection and discussion on the life and legacy of Fidel and the urgent need to end the genocidal US blockade on Cuba. 

Initial speakers include: 

Gloria La Riva is a longtime Cuba solidarity activist and member of the Party for Socialism and Liberation. She is a recipient of Cuba's Friendship Medal for her years of Cuba solidarity, awarded by the Council of State.

Jonathan Thomas is a UPS Teamster and shop steward with Teamsters Local 315. He traveled to Cuba this month with the Hatuey Project to deliver cancer medications to children's hospitals in Havana — a direct act of solidarity against the U.S. blockade. 

Sponsoring Organizations:

The Cuba and Venezuela Solidarity Committee exists to build solidarity and support for the two sister republics in the United States and opposes US aggression in Latin America + anywhere else in the world.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cubavenezcte?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

The Party for Socialism and Liberation exists to carry out the struggle for socialism inside the United States, the center of world capitalism and imperialism. The PSL stands in solidarity with working-class and oppressed people around the world who are resisting capitalist exploitation and imperialist domination. 

Get your karaoke playlist ready and start practicing your favorite songs for Karaoke Tianguis hosted by the colorful @xicanaollin. Come shop from amazing makers and artists while we move through the karaoke sign up list. Bring friends, family, and loved ones. If you can talk, you can sing! No judgment, lots of fun!