Join Deep Vellum and the Center for the Art of Translation in celebrating the publication of the second annual Best Literary Translations anthology! Guest edited by Pulitzer Prize winner Cristina Rivera Garza, Best Literary Translations 2025 features poetry and prose originally written in twenty three languages, brought into English by some of the most talented translators working today. Series co-edited Wendy Call will be joined in conversation by writer and critic Britta Stromeyer for a lively discussion about reading and promoting translated literature.

Wendy Call is author of No Word for Welcome, winner of the Grub Street National Book Prize for Nonfiction, and the chapbook Tilled Paths Through Wilds of Thought. She is also co-editor of the craft anthology Telling True Stories, translator of three books of poems by Irma Pineda, and co-translator of How to Be a Good Savage and Other Poems, by Mikeas Sánchez. She was a 2015 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow in Poetry Translation, a 2019 Fulbright Faculty Scholar in Colombia, and 2023 Translator in Residence at the University of Iowa. She teaches in the Rainier Writing Workshop MFA Program at Pacific Lutheran University.

Britta Stromeyer is a member of the National Book Critics Circle. Her writing appears in Flash Fiction Magazine, Bending Genres Journal, Necessary Fiction, OCWW’s About Write, Marin Independent Journal and other publications. Britta holds an MFA from Dominican University, CA, an M.A. from American University, and a Certificate in Novel Writing from Stanford University.

San Francisco Solidarity Collective hosts Letter Writing and Correspondence Night

Our focus is on prison abolitionist work centered on the struggle of people in prison, jails, and immigrant and juvenile detention centers locally and worldwide. Join us for exchanging letters, starting a pen-pal, or just one-time birthday cards. No commitment necessary We will provide statements from incarcerated individuals, addresses, stamps, and envelopes. We got you, come write with us familia.

Colectivo de Solidaridad de San Francisco
 Noche de Escritura de Cartas y Correspondencias.
 Nuestro enfoque está en el trabajo abolicionista de las prisiones,
centrado en la lucha de las personas en prisiones, cárceles y centros
de detención juvenil y de inmigrantes a nivel local y mundial. Únase con nosotros para intercambiar cartas, iniciar amistades por correspondencia o simplemente escribir tarjetas de cumpleaños. No es necesario comprometerse. Nosotros proveeremos declaraciones de las personas encarceladas, direcciones, sellos y sobres.
¡Estamos para ti! Vengan a escribir con nosotros familia!

Join us for an in-person presentation and conversation with Anthony Dest about Dissident Peace: Autonomous Struggles and the State in Colombia.

In 2016, the Peace Accords between the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia–People's Army (FARC–EP) and the Colombian government promised to bring an end to over fifty years of armed conflict. Yet, despite widespread international acclaim and heavy investments in the peace process, war continued. In this book, Dest provides a rigorous reassessment of the terms of peacebuilding through an exploration of ongoing struggles for autonomy, based on over fifteen years of research and activism in Colombia.

Anthony Dest is currently Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Lehman College, City University of New York (CUNY).

Critical race theory (CRT), a vital movement and discipline in American legal scholarship, has transformed our understanding of systemic racism. Yet despite insightful analysis revealing the threads of racism embedded in American institutions and society, it has been demonized by opponents at every turn, with numerous state legislators now seeking to ban its use in the classroom. The Origins of Critical Race Theory weaves together the many sources of critical race theory, recounting the origin story for one of the most insightful and controversial academic movements in U.S. history. In addition to introducing readers to the tenets and key insights of critical race theory, Martinez and Smith explore the lives and intellectual influences of the movement’s founders, shedding light on how the many components of critical race theory eventually formed into a movement. Through archival research and interviews with scholars like Derrick Bell, Richard Delgado, and Jean Stefancic, Aja Y. Martinez and Robert O. Smith provide the personal side of critical race theory. They reveal that despite the Marxist menace it has recently been made out to be, critical race theory is an organic extension of the Civil Rights movement, a deeply human and deeply American response to ongoing systemic injustice and inequity. An insightful exploration into the story of a movement, The Origins of Critical Race Theory narrates the hidden influences, fascinating characters, and intellectual struggles that informed critical race theory’s inception.

Aja Y. Martinez is Associate Professor of Latina/Latino Studies at the University of Illinois UrbanaChampaign and author of the award-winning Counterstory: The Rhetoric and Writing of Critical Race Theory.

Robert O. Smith is Assistant Professor of History at the University of North Texas and Enrolled Citizen of the Chickasaw Nation. He is the author of More Desired than Our Own Salvation: The Roots of Christian Zionism and Comprehending Christian Zionism: Perspectives in Comparison.

Carlos Villacorta and Oswaldo Estrada will present their most recent fiction, ALICIA ESTO ES EL CAPITALISMO (Miami: Suburbano, 2025) and DREAMS IN TIMES OF WAR / SOÑAR EN TIEMPOS DE GUERRA (Albuquerque: U of New Mexico Press, 2025). Reading and discussion in Spanish and Spanglish

Oswaldo Estrada (Santa Ana, California, 1976) is a Peruvian-American writer. He is the author of a children’s book, El secreto de los trenes (2018), and of three collections of short stories, Luces de emergencia (2019), Las locas ilusiones y otros relatos de migración (2020), and Las guerras perdidas (2021). He has edited the volume Incurables. Relatos de dolencias y males (2020) with twenty Latin American authors who live in the US. In 2020, he won two International Latino Book Awards, as well as the International Latino and Latin American Book Fair Prize from Tufts University. In 2021, he was a finalist for the Doris Betts Fiction Prize. His book Las guerras perdidas won a Gold Medal (First Place) for Best Collection of Short Stories in Spanish at the International Latino Book Awards 2022. He is the author of the novel Tus pequeñas huellas (2023), and a professor of Latin American Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His most recent book is Dreams in Times of War / Soñar en tiempos de guerra (2025).

OSWALDO ESTRADA is a Peruvian-American writer and teaches Latin American Literature at UNC Chapel Hill. He has published several books of literary and cultural criticism, three collections of short stories and the novel Tus pequeñas huellas (Suburbano, 2023). He has received awards from the International Latino Book Awards, the International Latino and Latin American Book Fair, the North American Academy of the Spanish Language, and the Fulbright Foundation.

 ROCIO FERREIRA is the head of the Department of Women's and Gender Studies and Associate Professor of Latin American Literature, Culture and Cinema at DePaul University in Chicago; she is also co-director of the international poetry festival, Poesía en Abril of Chicago. She specializes in 19th-century and contemporary literary and visual culture created by women and is now working on the representation of the Peruvian armed conflict in literature written by women.

Un espacio íntimo para compartir lecturas latinoamericanas, recorrer paisajes y voces únicas de la región, y abrir conversaciones que nos atraviesan y nos invitan a pensar juntxs.

An intimate space to share Latin American literature, explore the region’s unique voices and landscapes, and open up conversations that move us and invite us to think together.

Líneas del Sur is a book membership program designed to connect passionate Spanish-speaking readers with the rich literary landscape of Latin America. Members explore fresh voices from the region through carefully curated books, contextual articles, and editorial notes. The experience is enriched by lively conversations in both online and in-person book clubs, fostering a vibrant community of literary enthusiasts.

This month’s book is Maria Elena Moran’s “Los Continentes del Adentro”. Copies are available at Medicina Para Pesadillas.

This special evening celebrates the work of renowned Gazan choreographer and dancer Mohanad Smama, who has shared two dance films and additional videos with us. It marks the first time his work is being shown in California. We strongly encourage donations to Mohanad’s family in Gaza—100% of proceeds from this event will go directly to them. The evening will include an audience discussion of his work, led by dance scholar and choreographer Stephanie Sherman, as well as an experimental performance with Stephanie and musician and visual artist Asma Ghanem exploring the possibilities of sisterhood across Jewish/Palestinian identity.

Mohanad Smama is a Palestinian dancer, choreographer, and director living in Marseille. He is considered one of the pioneers of contemporary dance in Palestine. In his hometown of Gaza, he founded the Hai Team for Contemporary Arts — the first contemporary dance school in the city. There, he teaches dance classes for both children and adults. He is known for his extensive experience in developing training methodologies and techniques in Palestinian dance and dabke. He has produced numerous performances, films, exhibitions, and even a contemporary dance festival in Gaza in 2023. His work has been shared globally, and he has continued his artistic practice even during wartime, using art as a means of life and a form of resistance

Asma Ghanem is a Palestinian artist, experimental musician and film director. She was born in Damascus, Syria in 1991. Asma has two degrees in audio-visual arts from the International Academy of Arts in Palestine in 2013 (BA) and a Master's Degree (MA) from the University of Fine Arts in Toulouse-France (ISDAT) in 2016.  The works of Asma are inspired by the imaginative nature of narrating the personal experience of the occupation in Palestine. Her artistic and musical works are connected to her childhood and are centered around essential components such as the concept of homeland, the sonic experience under occupation, the world of imagination, and love stories in an occupied place.  She currently lives and works in Oakland, CA

Stephanie Sherman is a queer anti-Zionist Jew, choreographer, dancer, published bilingual poet, and visual artist, who is committed to social justice. With 25 years of experience working between the US, Ecuador, and Mexico, her artistic practice is shaped by her activism. She holds a PhD in Performance Studies from UC Berkeley, an MFA in Dance from NYU, and is a two-time Fulbright Award grantee (Mexico & Ecuador). She is a professor at California College of the Arts and San Jose State University. Her work, a fusion of dance, poetry, and surrealist visual art, engages cultural identity, gender, disability, and national borders. Her practice is collaborative, accessible, and ever-evolving. Stephanie is also a scholar and educator with a focus on choreographies of resistance in Mexican art.

San Francisco Solidarity Collective hosts Letter Writing and Correspondence Night

Our focus is on prison abolitionist work centered on the struggle of people in prison, jails, and immigrant and juvenile detention centers locally and worldwide. Join us for exchanging letters, starting a pen-pal, or just one-time birthday cards. No commitment necessary We will provide statements from incarcerated individuals, addresses, stamps, and envelopes. We got you, come write with us familia.

Colectivo de Solidaridad de San Francisco
 Noche de Escritura de Cartas y Correspondencias.
 Nuestro enfoque está en el trabajo abolicionista de las prisiones,
centrado en la lucha de las personas en prisiones, cárceles y centros
de detención juvenil y de inmigrantes a nivel local y mundial. Únase con nosotros para intercambiar cartas, iniciar amistades por correspondencia o simplemente escribir tarjetas de cumpleaños. No es necesario comprometerse. Nosotros proveeremos declaraciones de las personas encarceladas, direcciones, sellos y sobres.
¡Estamos para ti! Vengan a escribir con nosotros familia!

War of the Flea: The Fight for Xicano Studies is a real-life David v. Goliath story of Xicano students at Michigan State. Through their involvement with Movimiento Estudiantil Xicano de Aztlan (MEXA), agitation, and grassroots community organizing they forced a major university to establish a Xicano/Latino Studies program. These students and their small and increasingly marginalized community were barraged by attack after attack. This documentary chronicles the main events that changed the trajectory of their lives. Join the director in this screening and opportunity for discussion of the film and how it relates to organizing the struggle now. 

Ernesto Todd Mireles, MSW.  Ph.D. is a filmmaker and award-winning author, a three-decade student, community, union, and electoral organizer. Mireles is currently faculty in Northern Arizona University’s Ethnic Studies department. He holds an MSW in organizational and community practice and a PhD in American Studies from Michigan State University. His book Insurgent Aztlan was awarded a 2020 International Latino Book Award in the Best Political/Current Affairs category. Mireles does a weekly podcast called The Reality Dysfunction and has completed his first documentary about Xicana/o/x student organizing titled War of the Flea: Fight for Xicano Studies. He has recently started writing short screenplays and filming them. 

Please join us for the launch of the spring edition of Forum Magazine! We’ll celebrate the new magazines with readings from contributing poets, fiction writers, non-fiction writers, and visual artists! Copies of our new spring issue will be available for purchase! Established in 1937, Forum Magazine is a student-run literary and visual arts magazine that serves the City College of San Francisco community, greater Bay Area, and beyond. Dedicated to providing a platform for the contemporary, urban voices of our institution, Forum collects, edits and publishes quality works of literature and the visual arts as produced by the CCSF family.

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 sonic sustenance.

Tonight’s polyrhythmic medicina is being provided by the Jordon Glen/Warren Huegel drum duo

Come gather and hear decolonized verses, spanglish poesia, Latine spokenword, Pocho poems and neighborhood chisme at Speaking Axolotl, the Bay Area’s long running monthly Latine Reading series.

This month’s feature is Hector son of hector and zooming in from Mexico Jesus de la Garza.

10 slot open mic opens up a las 6;50pm

Jesús de la Garza (Montemorelos, México, 1994). Es autor delos libros de poesía Óxido silvestre (2019), La máquina de Warhol (2022), La máquina de Turing (2024), y Cuaderno de tinta extraña (2024); también de la obra de teatro La pierna(2021). Fue merecedor del Premio Internacional de Poesía Gonzalo Rojas Pizarro (2017) en Chile, finalista del Premio Nacional de Dramaturgia Joven Gerardo Mancebo del Castillo (2020) en México, ganador del premio Punto de Partida de la UNAM en la categoría de cuento (2023) y del Premio Nacional de Poesía Carmen Alardín (2024). Ha sido becario del Centro de Escritores de Nuevo León (2018) y del PECDA de Nuevo León (2020).

hector son of hector is from Long Beach, CA and currently lives in Oakland. He is the child of Mexican immigrants, works in a hospital, dreams of short stories and writes poetry in secret

NOTA; Speaking Axolotl is a BIPOC reading series which means black and brown poets on the mic. Whyte folks are welcome to attend and listen but your presence is not required.

San Francisco Solidarity Collective hosts Letter Writing and Correspondence Night

Our focus is on prison abolitionist work centered on the struggle of people in prison, jails, and immigrant and juvenile detention centers locally and worldwide. Join us for exchanging letters, starting a pen-pal, or just one-time birthday cards. No commitment necessary We will provide statements from incarcerated individuals, addresses, stamps, and envelopes. We got you, come write with us familia.

Colectivo de Solidaridad de San Francisco
 Noche de Escritura de Cartas y Correspondencias.
 Nuestro enfoque está en el trabajo abolicionista de las prisiones,
centrado en la lucha de las personas en prisiones, cárceles y centros
de detención juvenil y de inmigrantes a nivel local y mundial. Únase con nosotros para intercambiar cartas, iniciar amistades por correspondencia o simplemente escribir tarjetas de cumpleaños. No es necesario comprometerse. Nosotros proveeremos declaraciones de las personas encarceladas, direcciones, sellos y sobres.
¡Estamos para ti! Vengan a escribir con nosotros familia!

Join us for a special evening of poetry with the one and only Grammy Nominee, Shawn William as we celebrate his new book, "TALL, DARK & HEALING!". Hosted by Rich Oak Events and MC’d by Tino.

Tall, Dark & Healing is a conversation in book form. The topics discussed and the way they are approached feel like a friend that isn’t afraid to hold you accountable while reminding you of your worth and growth.​

Shawn William is a Grammy Nominated spoken word artist, published author, storyteller & father hailing from Oakland, California. For over 20 years of dedication & hard work his writing & performance skills have allowed him to performed at the Apollo Theatre, Radio City Music Hall, The Essence Festival, feature on The Arsenio Hall Show and Verses and Flow, while also being one of 5 artist selected to have a residency at The Kennedy Center.

RichOak Events is a spoken word and literary arts organization based in the East Bay region of the SF Bay Area, primarily working in Oakland and Berkeley. We are dedicated to providing equitable platforms for self expression to underserved and intentionally silenced communities both through virtual media and in person interactive engagements. Our top priority at RichOak Events is to facilitate a space to empower people of all genders, sexualities, ethnicities, abilities and ages to tell their own stories in ways that will produce positive change on a local, national, and global level.

Join us this afternoon for a powerful Artist Talkback moderated by award-winning Palestinian/Mexican-American Filmmaker Colette Ghunim and featuring Palestinian artists Hussam, Manar Harb, Lara Aburamadan and Ren Allathkani. 

The conversation will delve into the collective power of Palestinian art to not only bridge cultural divides, but to preserve an identity that is actively being erased. They will discuss how artists can channel their work to be both a healing tool for themselves and a radical act of revolution for the world. 

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 sonic sustenance.

Tonight’s potent musical medicina is being provided by Deciphering Broken Rhythms Collective

Author Chris Carlsson inaugurates the 2nd edition of his unique historical guidebook to San Francisco's overlooked and forgotten histories. Tonight he will read from the new preface to the 2nd edition, "In the Wake of the Pandemic," which puts the recent pandemic in the context of a long history of public health politics in the city. He also analyzes the long history of tech booms in the city, and how likely the much-touted "doom loop" will reach a climax. In addition, a new chapter featuring unusual ecological hikes through San Francisco on unknown back trails through neighborhoods well off the tourist path will also be revealed.

Chris Carlsson, co-director of the “history from below” project Shaping San Francisco, is a writer, publisher, editor, photographer, public speaker, and occasional professor. He was one of the founders in 1981 of the seminal and infamous underground San Francisco magazine Processed World. In 1992 Carlsson co-founded Critical Mass in San Francisco, which both led to a local bicycling boom and helped to incubate transformative urban movements in hundreds of cities, large and small, worldwide. In 1995 work began on “Shaping San Francisco;” since then the project has morphed into an incomparable archive of San Francisco history at Foundsf.org, award-winning bicycle and walking tours, and almost two decades of Public Talks covering history, politics, ecology, art, and more (see shapingsf.org). Beginning in Spring 2020, Carlsson has hosted Bay Cruises along the San Francisco shoreline.

At the dawn of the pandemic, he published a detailed historical guidebook of the city, Hidden San Francisco: A Guide to Lost Landscapes, Unsung Heroes, and Radical Histories (Pluto Press: 2020), republished in an expanded 2nd edition in April 2025. His full-length nonfiction work Nowtopia (AK Press: 2008) offers a groundbreaking look at class and work while uniquely examining how hard and pleasantly we work when we’re not at our official jobs. His latest novel, When Shells Crumble was published by Spuyten Duyvil in Brooklyn, NY at the end of 2023. He published his first novel in 2004, After The Deluge, a story of post-economic utopian San Francisco in the year 2157. He has edited six books, including three “Reclaiming San Francisco” collections with the venerable City Lights Books. He redesigned and co-authored an expanded Vanished Waters: A History of San Francisco’s Mission Bay after which he joined the board of the Mission Creek Conservancy. He has given hundreds of public presentations based on Shaping San Francisco, Critical Mass, Nowtopia, Vanished Waters, and his “Reclaiming San Francisco” history anthologies since the late 1990s, and has appeared dozens of times in radio, television and on the internet.

San Francisco Solidarity Collective hosts Letter Writing and Correspondence Night

Our focus is on prison abolitionist work centered on the struggle of people in prison, jails, and immigrant and juvenile detention centers locally and worldwide. Join us for exchanging letters, starting a pen-pal, or just one-time birthday cards. No commitment necessary We will provide statements from incarcerated individuals, addresses, stamps, and envelopes. We got you, come write with us familia.

Colectivo de Solidaridad de San Francisco
 Noche de Escritura de Cartas y Correspondencias.
 Nuestro enfoque está en el trabajo abolicionista de las prisiones,
centrado en la lucha de las personas en prisiones, cárceles y centros
de detención juvenil y de inmigrantes a nivel local y mundial. Únase con nosotros para intercambiar cartas, iniciar amistades por correspondencia o simplemente escribir tarjetas de cumpleaños. No es necesario comprometerse. Nosotros proveeremos declaraciones de las personas encarceladas, direcciones, sellos y sobres.
¡Estamos para ti! Vengan a escribir con nosotros familia!

No Kings! No Queens! 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.

Tony Koji Wallin-Sato and Jeff Knorr’s recent publications are in the intimate dance and response to the effects of mass incarceration. Between lived experience with the carceral system and having a loved one experiencing incarceration, their work interweaves through the broken criminal justice system and how far reaching carcerality is beyond physical walls.

Tony Koji Wallin-Sato is a multicultural Nisei writer who works with currently and formerly incarcerated students in higher education through Project Rebound. He is a lecturer in the Critical Race Gender and Sexuality Studies department at Cal Poly Humboldt and an in-prison teaching artist with the William James Association. His chapbook, Hyouhakusha: Desolate Travels of a Junkie on the Road, was published through Cold River Press and his first book of poems, Bamboo on the Tracks: Sakura Snow and Colt Peacemaker (2024, Finishing Line Press) was selected by John Yau for the 2022 Robert Creeley Memorial Award. His second book of poems, Okaerinasai, was published in October 2024 through Wet Cement Press. His poetry, photography, fiction, and non-fiction have appeared in Another Chicago Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, Asian American Writer's Workshop, Yellow Medicine Review, LIT Magazine, New Delta Review, and everyone’s favorite socialist publication Haymarket Book's Asian American and Pacific Islander Anthology We the Gathered Heat. He is a graduate of Sacramento City College, Humboldt State, and CSU Long Beach. In September he begins a PhD program at UW in Seattle. All he wants is to see his community's thoughts, ideas, and emotions freely shared and expressed.

Jeff Knorr is a Professor of literature and creative writing at Sacramento City College. He is the author of five books of poetry, most recently Fire Season (Flowersong Press,) The Color of a New Country (Mammoth Books), The Third Body (Cherry Grove Collections), Keeper (Mammoth Books), and Standing Up to the Day (Pecan Grove Press). His other works include Mooring Against the Tide: Writing Poetry and Fiction (Prentice Hall); the anthology, A Writer's Country (Prentice Hall); and The River Sings: An Introduction to Poetry (Prentice Hall). His poetry and essays have appeared widely in literary journals and anthologies including Chelsea, Poetry Northwest, New Ohio Review, The Journal, North American Review, Hamilton Stone Review, Barrow Street, and Like Thunder: Poets Respond to Violence in America. Jeff was the Poet Laureate for the city and county of Sacramento from 2012-2016.

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 sonic sustenance.

Tonight’s potent musical medicina is being provided by Low Grade Infection(Ron Kukan-Guitar, Duane Andrews-Guitar, Matt Simon-Bass, and Carl Goldberg-Drums)

 The Cornelius Cardew Choir, Thingamajigs Ensemble and Pet the Tiger Instrument Inventors Collective celebrate the life and work of composer Pauline Oliveros and the release of the new book of text scores inspired by her “deep listening”. Several of the artists have scores published in this volume which will be performed alongside works by Oliveros. Audience participation in the “sonic meditations” is encouraged. 

Founded in Berkeley on Mayday 2001, the Cardew Choir sings at the intersection of inclusive community and experimental music, strongly influenced by Cornelius Cardew and his circle in the 1960’s and ‘70’s in England. We draw inspiration from the experimental music tradition and musicians such as Pauline Oliveros and John Cage. We recognize our music-making as enacting healthy political economy, with respect for individual contributions and high regard for the community as a whole and we intend our mutually supportive work to be compassionate, joyful and liberating political action. We invite you to our audience participation performance of Pauline Oliveros’ The Heart Chant 5-9 pm on 21 June at the Garden of Memory event at the Chapel of the Chimes in Oakland. https://www.facebook.com/cardewchoir 

 Thingamajigs Performance Group (TPG) is a sound-based ensemble working co-creatively in a variety of mediums and with a wide array of local and international artists. Formed in 2008, TPG focuses on durational performance, alternate tuning, group and open compositional formats, interdisciplinary and intercultural collaboration, and site-specific work. Their fields of institutional study, performance practice, and instrumentation are directly informed by Japanese noh and gagaku, Korean pansori, sijo and sinawi, formal training in both Western and Eastern art practices, and a commitment to experimental art. Their proximity to issues of intercultural performance is acute. They navigate relationships with traditional artists and idioms as an integrated part of their work. Current Members :  Keith Evans, Rae Diamond, Suki O'Kane and Edward Schocker 

Pet the Tiger is an SF Bay Area inventors collective led by David Samas that plays in a wide variety of idioms exploring new timbral dimensions through extended techniques, new instruments, xenharmonics and fringe acoustic phenomena. Pet the Tiger also hosts workshops teaching instrument building and a popular “Instrument Petting Zoo”. They have performed new commissions for at the Asian Art Museum of SF, SF Conservatory of Flowers, Oakland Museum of California, Soundwave and the Market Street Prototyping Festival.PTT is the standing ensemble for Psychobotanikon, the Harmonic Series Gamelan and the house band at the Turquoise Yantra Grotto. We will performing tonight with Kevin Corcoran (percussion), Dan Gottwald (invented instruments), Stephen Parris (guitar), and David Samas (voice). https://publiceyesore.bandcamp.com/album/gaze-emanations

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. 

San Francisco Solidarity Collective hosts Letter Writing and Correspondence Night

Our focus is on prison abolitionist work centered on the struggle of people in prison, jails, and immigrant and juvenile detention centers locally and worldwide. Join us for exchanging letters, starting a pen-pal, or just one-time birthday cards. No commitment necessary We will provide statements from incarcerated individuals, addresses, stamps, and envelopes. We got you, come write with us familia.

Colectivo de Solidaridad de San Francisco
 Noche de Escritura de Cartas y Correspondencias.
 Nuestro enfoque está en el trabajo abolicionista de las prisiones,
centrado en la lucha de las personas en prisiones, cárceles y centros
de detención juvenil y de inmigrantes a nivel local y mundial. Únase con nosotros para intercambiar cartas, iniciar amistades por correspondencia o simplemente escribir tarjetas de cumpleaños. No es necesario comprometerse. Nosotros proveeremos declaraciones de las personas encarceladas, direcciones, sellos y sobres.
¡Estamos para ti! Vengan a escribir con nosotros familia!

Join the People of Red Mountain in screening their documentary, People of Red Mountain: Life over Lithium. Detailing how their ancestral lands have been marred and threatened by Genocide and now the Destructive Lithium mining practices that threaten to destroy their access to clean air, water and their ancetral traditions. After the film screening, join us for a Q&A with members of People of Red Mountain or learn more about their struggle and how we can all support and uplift their struggle and those of all indigenous and oppressed people in the world today.

People of Red Mountain (Atsa Koodakuh wyh Nuwu, in Paiute) is a committee of traditional knowledge keepers and descendants of the Fort McDermitt Paiute, Shoshone and Bannock Tribes working in coalition with allies to protect our ancestral homelands. We have seen the immense impact that mining projects inflict on the land. The destruction of our cultural resources, wildlife habitat, and the contamination of our ground water are unacceptable consequences of these projects. We oppose the extraction of mineral resources from our homelands because we recognize that there is no benefit great enough to outweigh the cost. While offers made by mining interests can be tempting in a small community with limited economic resources, there is nothing in the material world that can replace our clean drinking water, our first foods, or our reciprocal relationship with the land. We know that the land carries our ancestors as well as generations yet unborn. We know that what we do to the land we do to ourselves.Gary Mckinney is a leader of Protect Mcdermitt Caldera 

Sendero Gráfico is a printmaking tour projects between Daniel Gonzalez and Pável Acevedo, where we share our prints with the public, having a variation of Linocuts, woodcuts, serigraphs, etc and an interaction with the community with community through live screen print, creating alternatives of a support network with the public besides the outlets creating traditionally thought the arts.

Daniel González is a printmaker and graphic designer from Boyle Heights, Los Angeles. His early childhood was shared between Mexico and the United States. Daniel's work carries strong ideals of social justice and community. Although his work seeks to preserve narratives, histories and memories, he also has a strong contemporary social commentary using the time honored technique of relief printmaking and letterpress. After spending six years working on over 35 group mural projects through a free public art program, Daniel began his formal studies at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland and San Francisco where he was introduced to printmaking and letterpress. Through volunteering at the San Francisco Center for the Book and the Mission Cultural Center, he was able to expand his practice in printmaking. He returned to Los Angeles where he continued to work with printmaking through Self Help Graphics & Art, a community art space. Daniel completed his studies at UCLA's School of Art & Architecture's Design Media Arts program with Latin Honors. Daniel is now based in Los Angeles where he maintains a print and design studio in Highland Park. His works have been exhibited internationally and has recently completed his first public art project, the artwork for the Metro Expo Line La Cienega Station titled Engraved in Memory. His work is housed in several special collections, including the Mexican Museum of Chicago, UC Irvine, UC Santa Cruz, Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley, Stanford University, San Francisco Public Library and the Carnegie Museum. Although Daniel specializes in printmaking, he is constantly experimenting and working with different media. From 3D modeling software, laser cutters, and game coding, Daniel always brings a sincere perspective and shares a facet of his rich cultural experience with strong social justice under currents. He constantly travels to Mexico and throughout the United States, visiting printmaking studios and working with artists on a variety of projects.

Pável Acevedo, is from Oaxaca, Mexico and moved to California in 2010. Much of Acevedo’s art incorporates themes and imagery depicting the migratory experience in California. As a relief printmaker, utilizing plywood and linoleum surfaces, he creates portraits of friends, the pre-hispanic codex, and other images that depict the diverse multitudes found in the city. Through the use of portraits and imagery, both new and old, he is able to invent a conversation that is neither Mexican nor American, but rather a contemporary reality that reflects his unique life. Acevedo attended the School of Fine Arts Oaxaca (Escuela de Bellas Artes) and participated in different art workshops at the “Rufino Tamayo workshop.” In 2010 he moved to California, where he continues to live and work today. Although his art has led him to many locations across the country, his studio, Urge Palette Art Supplies, is in Riverside, and he tends to create most of his art in East Los Angeles. Many of his pieces can be seen in murals and streets around Riverside, as well as in the Riverside Art Museum.

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 sonic sustenance.

Tonight’s potent musical medicina is being provided by Pete Schmitt(bass) JC O’Donnel(guitar), David Brandt(drums)