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!

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 two sets of musical medicina happening with Ark of Bones(Chris Evans-cello and efx David Boyce-saxes and efxs) playing the first set and Darren Johnston(trumpet) and Ben Goldberg(clarinet) playing the second set

Noche de Movies is back! Our monthly movie series returns just in time for those chilly San Francisco summer nights. This month we are over la luna excited to be screening John Sayles’ Lone Star with cinematic introductions by Marisol Medina-Cadena.

In the Texas border town of Frontera, Sheriff Sam Deeds (Chris Cooper) digs up the past when he finds an old skull in the desert. As he traces the murder of Sheriff Charlie Wade (Kris Kristofferson) 40 years earlier, Deeds' investigation points toward his late father, the much-loved Deputy Buddy Deeds. Ignoring warnings not to delve any deeper, Sam rekindles a romance with his high school sweetheart while bringing up old tensions in the town and exposing secrets long put to rest.

Join us tonight for a conversation with authors of books in the Vagabonds series, a collection of radical pamphlet-style books from Pluto Press. 

Decolonizing Money author, Julio Linares speaks in conversation with the authors of Community Safety in the Fourth World War, Annie Paradise and Manolo Callahan from the Bay Area's Center for Convivial Research and Autonomy. 

Decolonizing Money: The Promise of Abolishing the US Dollar, by Julio Linares presents an anarchist theory of money which sets out strategies for collective liberation beyond state and capital. Drawing on anarchist, abolitionist and anti-colonial feminist traditions, Julio Linares makes the heretical argument for a grassroots democratic movement to abolish the imperialist US dollar as a necessary step towards the cancellation of debt and establishing a worldwide basic income. Linares shows that money, beyond a store of value and a medium of exchange, is a series of promises a society makes to itself – and he challenges us to make them otherwise.

Julio César Linares is a community organizer and economic anthropologist born in the territories known today as Guatemala. He holds an MSc from the London School of Economics where he studied and worked on projects with the late David Graeber. He serves as Public Outreach for the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN). He lives in Berlin, Germany.

Annie Paradise is a member of the Center for Convivial Research and Autonomy (CCRA), a transterritorial research collective, and a collaborator with the Universidad de la Tierra, Califas, an autonomous learning initiative, both based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is a researcher and co-convener of the Counter Counterinsurgency Lab, and together with Manuel Callahan and others, facilitates Methodologies Against Forgetting and Oblivion (MAFO).

Manuel Callahan is the co-founder of the Center for Convivial Research and Autonomy (CCRA), a transterritorial research collective based in the San Francisco Bay Area with connections to struggles across Southern Mexico. Since 2003, he has facilitated the Universidad de la Tierra, Califas. For over three decades, he has been a primary activator of Acción Zapatista, including work with the Zapatista Autonomy Project. He is both a researcher and co-convener of the Counter Counterinsurgency Lab.

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:
Brian Dublin is an LGBTQ+ Filipino-American Singer/Songwriter from San Jose, CA.  By sharing his story and life experiences through his songs, he hopes his music can make his listeners feel seen, inspire them to live their truth and share their story as well.

Tonight join author Radhika Singh with comrades Mayuran Tiruchelvam and Rama Ali Kased in conversation about Earthly Playing Field—a speculative tale connecting ongoing People's movements against global imperialism through a queer, Sufi love story.

Radhika Singh lives, writes and teaches in Queens, New York. Her fiction speculates on the presence of magic in this world, the connection to spirit and consciousness, and the power of the people to organize for collective liberation.

Dr. Rama Ali Kased is an Associate Professor in Race and Resistance Studies at SFSU. A seasoned community organizer, she has founded organizations including Arab Woman in Active in Arts in Media (AWAAM) in NYC and the Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC) in SF Bay Area. 

Mayuran Tiruchelvam is an Assistant Professor at SFSU’s School of Cinema. His filmmaking is fueled by a vision for a more compassionate and openhearted world, and his activist work focuses on the abolition of prisons and policing, as well as solidarity-building between global communities in resistance.

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 heavy duty sonic sustenance with Myles Boisen(guitar and efx) and David Boyce(saxes and efxs) playing the first set and Insect Life(Ben Goldberg-clarinet, Raffi Garabedian-tenor sax, and Danny Lubin-Laden-trombone Ben Davis-cello) playing the second set.

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 feature is Nicaraguan poet Carlos Bojore, who will be reading from his new book “Me Duele Hasta El Aire”!

NOTE; Speaking Axolotl is a BIPOC reading series which means BIPOC poets only on the mic. White folks are welcome to sit and listen but their presence is not required.

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 sonic sustenance is being brough to you by Mutant Audio(Scott Foster-guitar, David Boyce-saxes and efx, Cairo McCockran-drums featuring Evelyn Ficarra-sound design and flute)

!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.

andrea isabel (she/her) is an MFA in Writing candidate at the University of San Francisco. Through both poetry and prose, she examines cycles of time; relationships; and lesbianism. In addition to writing, andrea is the Founder of a Bay Area-based BIPOC lesbian artist collective, “WOVEN, lesbians weaving worlds.” Usually, she is gazing at oil paintings in small galleries, sipping Syrahs in San Franciscan wine bars, or witnessing evening colors blend into the Pacific’s horizon.

Andrew Ignacio was born and raised in North Jersey, parents both from Pampanga, Philippines. He moved to San Francisco last August with his wife and 7 year old. He works at Bayanihan Equity Center in SoMa. Before SF, he lived in North Georgia for three years. Before that, he spent seven years teaching English in South Korea. Andrew writes about all that he has learned from his own culture and from everywhere he has lived. 

marvin flores is a chicano poet and educator based in the south bay. currently in a fellowship with youthspeaks for their 2026 Public Poets fellowship. he is also enrolled in school of arts institute program for a BFA in writing.

Maya Raveneau-Bey is an Oakland born and raised fighter blessed with creative prowess. She treats her poetry like a graceful dagger, relentlessly conquering ignorance, inaction and chains. She has been honored in spaces such as the 2025 Brave New Voices festival winning first place, the Oakland Youth Poet Laureate as a two-time finalist, and performing as the sole poet for Barbara Lees Inaugural Celebration. She is an anticipated 2029 graduate currently attending CSU Northridge studying Film Production with a minor in Africana studies on track to becoming the next Ryan Coogler.

Join Adam Johnson, host of the Citations Needed podcast for a reading and discussion of his new book, How to Sell a Genocide: The Media's Complicity in the Destruction of Gaza. Adam will be joined in discussion tonight by Oman Zahzah.

As bombs rained down on Gaza in October 2023, images of mass death and destruction gripped the world, and openly genocidal statements from Israeli leaders foretold the magnitude of horrors to come. But the US media was quick to downplay, obscure, and repackage an emerging campaign of extermination into a slick “war on terror” framework.

How to Sell a Genocide is an indictment of the US corporate media’s role in enabling—and, at times, directly inciting—one of the most devastating campaigns of mass killing in modern memory. Johnson unpacks how major news outlets like the New York Times, CNN, and MSNBC systematically sanitized Israel’s war crimes, hid the US’s central role, and dehumanized the Palestinian people.

Drawing from deep, original data-driven analysis, Johnson dissects the mechanics of propaganda, from the selective empathy, strategic omissions, overt racism, and repetition of state-sanctioned falsehoods, to the demonization of humanitarian workers and dishonest coverage of campus protests. With clarity and moral force, Johnson argues that the genocide could not have been sustained without the active, ongoing complicity of the US media.

All royalties from the book will be donated to the Middle East Children’s Alliance.

Omar Zahzah is Assistant Professor of Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas (AMED) Studies in the Department of Race and Resistance Studies (RRS) at San Francisco State University. He is a frequent contributor to independent outlets such as The Electronic Intifada, Mondoweiss, and The Palestine Chronicle. Omar is the author of Terms of Servitude: Zionism, Silicon Valley, and Digital Settler Colonialism in the Palestinian Liberation Struggle, co-published by Seven Stories Press and The Censored Press in September 2025. Omar's new book, A Question of Violence: Palestine in American Academia After October 7th, is forthcoming from Seven Stories Press and The Censored Press. 

Adam Johnson is a media analyst and co-host of the podcast Citations Needed. His writing has been featured in the Nation, In These Times, the Intercept, Los Angeles Times, and San Francisco Chronicle.

How do we inhabit our age while staying young in the ways we want– and what’s going too far? We can’t predict our healthspan, but let’s discuss how we’ve probably influenced it, whether it was worth it, and where we go from here.

Interested? Join this open, facilitated community discussion.

Hosted by Louise Wo & Brian DeSimone

Louise Wo is an experience designer, event producer, facilitator, and founder of Gemlike, a studio that partners with social impact organizations to create gatherings that cultivate belonging, joy, and collaboration. She has produced and facilitated gatherings for organizations including The Skoll Foundation, Wikimedia Foundation, Kiva, and Save the Redwoods League. She is also one of the Co-Creators of Future of Us, a civic imagination initiative and festival in San Francisco. As a community leader, Louise serves on the Young Professionals Committee at Glide Foundation and performs with Broadway Bares San Francisco, a charitable fundraiser supporting people living with HIV, homelessness, and food insecurity.

Brian DeSimone is an executive portrait photographer and artist based between San Francisco, navigating connection and belonging through art and technology. Twenty five years of hospitality, six years of executive portraits, and a standing belief that the encounter is the product.

Crate to Canvas is coming to San Francisco!

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, vinyl sets spun from their personal collections, and a screening of the award-winning short documentary, Souleros(2022).

Souleros explores Northern California’s rare soul collectors (known as Souleros) whose dedication to vinyl collecting keeps the legacy of overlooked soul artists alive. Featuring vinyl music sets and/or artwork by: Aveets · TUFF · Discos Olvidados · Space Cholo · Xaztecra · Joshua De Leon · Pisto · Jose Niño · Laughing Boy

Opening Night
Saturday, August 8, 2026 · 7–10 PM
Medicine for Nightmares Bookstore & Gallery
3036 24th St., San Francisco

Closing Night
Saturday, September 26, 2026 · 7–10 PM

FREE ALL AGES EVENT

Tonight Reggie Edmonds Vasquez and company share some poems in honor of their debut chapbook, Ecology of the Hood, out now through Foglifter Press.

​WINNER OF THE 2025 Start a Riot! Chapbook Prize!

Ecology of the Hood is a love letter to streets. It asks the question; What if the hood was not a collection of problems, but a complex ecosystem of living organisms, all mirroring the same survival against an inherently hostile world? The politics of environmentalism and Black Liberation collide with each other in cycles of extraction, survival, decay, and regeneration. This collection seeks to refute the idea that the rose growing from concrete is misplaced or forgotten. The gardens we grow belong here. They are proof of life in a world obsessed with our deaths.

Reggie Edmonds-Vásquez (they/them) is a poet, educator, and cultural curator from Richmond, CA. Their work explores Black, queer, and gender-diverse identities and has earned recognition from Nomadic Press, Afro Urban Society, and the Museum of the African Diaspora. A three-time Berkeley Grand Champion and national finalist, they direct programming at Rich Oak Events. Their debut chapbook Ecology of the Hood (Foglifter Press) was selected for the 2025 Start a Riot! Chapbook Prize.

Nia Pearl is an award-winning poet, writer, and environmental justice advocate working at the intersection of art, activism, and public engagement. She is an established host and event curator passionate about creating participatory spaces for creative expression and literary dialogue. Nia’s writing has been published in Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism, The Town: An Anthology of Oakland Poets, Painting the Streets: Oakland Uprising in the Time of Rebellion, When We Exhale: An Anthology of Black Women: Rooted in ancestral medicine, and terra:soul: echoes from the future ancestors. She is one of the recipients of the 2023 Nomadic Press/San Francisco Foundation Literary Awards.

Baruch Porras-Hernandez has featured and competed in Poetry Slams all over the country, and Canada. The Berkeley Slam changed his life. He has been doing this for so long, most of those Slams don’t even exist anymore. He has been the headliner three times at the legendary Berkeley Poetry Slam, was one of the first features at The Capturing Fire National Queer Slam in Washington D.C. back in 2010, he is one of the only three winners of the Radar Poetry Slam, and won The Moth Slam, in LA 2014. Other credits include The Northbay Slam, BawdySlam, Oakland Slam, UCSanta Cruz Poetry Slam, The Coast Slam, and is one of the winners of the LitSlam in San Francisco. He has been called a “Multi Hyphenated Artist!”, and “Daring, candid, inventive!” by the San Francisco Chronicle. He’s the author of the small poetry collections I Miss You, Delicate and Lovers of the Deep Fried Circle from Sibling Rivalry Press, and has been published in several journals and anthologies, like Split This Rock, The Racket, Foglifter, Assaracus, The Tusk, Bold Italic, QuietLighting, and Write Bloody. He has received fellowships and taken part of residencies from Banff Center for the Arts, Berkeley Rep, Carolyne Moore Writers House, and the Lambda Literary Foundation. He’s performed all over North America including shows with the Rumpus, BusBoys and Poets, SF SketchFest, RADAR Productions, Writers with Drinks, LitQuake, has won the MOTH in LA, and is a two time winner of Literary Death Match.

Josiah Luis Alderete is a full blooded Spanglish speaking Pocho y left handed callejero de Aztlán who has been part of La Area Bahia’s spoken word scene for over twenty years. He is the curator and host of the long running Latinx reading series Speaking Axolotl. He is the author of two books of poetry “Baby Axolotls & Old Pochos(Black Freighter Press 2021) and the chapbook “Fuchi Faces de los Estados Jodidos”(For The Pueblo 2023). This year he has the honor of being the Poetry Center’s Mazza Writer in Residence at San Francisco State. Along with his bookstore sister Tân Khanh Cao,Josiah tends the portal known as Medicina Para Pesadillas Bookstore y Galeria on 24th street in La Mission.

Kevin Madrigal Galindo (he/they) is a first generation hijo de su ch!#g@$a madre from South San Francisco by way of Zapopan, Jalisco. You can find Kevin's work in The Boiler, Bozalta, Foglifter, and KQED. When Kevin isn't writing, he teaches nutrition and cooking to elementary school students and seniors en La Misión. Kevin helps organize When The Smoke Comes, a free creative writing workshop in Oakland that seeks to not only imagine an end to oppression, but to better prepare us to bring it about. Feed the people! Feed the land!"

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 the groovalicous vibes of Funkonya in the Portal(Kirk Peterson-bass, Sean Alford-drums and Vern-guitar)

Kitchen Table is a series centered around poetry and literature, food and drink, and culture and politics. The core of the series is intimate poetry, performance, and conversation with the feel of a salon, with three or more writers sharing each month and a local pop-up sharing their food or drink with us. 

Samantha Stevens (she/they) is a queer, Black, disabled writer and educator from the East Coast living in California on occupied Coast Miwok land. They have received fellowships from The Watering Hole, Community of Writers, Trillium Arts, Esperimento Sul Respiro, The Ruby, Kearny Street Workshop, and others and are a graduate of the MFA in Poetry at the University of San Francisco. They are the recipient of the 2022 Deathrattle/Oroboro Penrose Poetry Prize. Their work is forthcoming or featured in The Iowa Review, The Seventh Wave, Foglifter, Fruitslice, and others. Often working to dream and exist in new ways, Samantha seeks to build an integrative liberatory practice centering writing, movement, meditation, and ritual.
Their first collection, “There is joy here, I promise.”, explores the body, mental health, illness, loss, ancestral inheritance, and queerness and was a finalist for the 2025 CAAPP book prize.

Adrienne Mitchel is the Food Editor at Embarcadero Media and producer/editor at SavorNation. Based in Mountain View, she's always on the hunt for the next food story (and the next bite to eat!). Adrienne received a BFA in Broadcast Journalism and Documentary and minor in Visual Journalism from Chapman University in 2022.

James J. Siegel is the author of the poetry collections “The God of San Francisco” (Sibling Rivalry Press) and “How Ghosts Travel” (Spuyten Duyvil). He is the host and curator of the monthly Literary Speakeasy show at Martuni’s piano bar in San Francisco, which has been running for over a decade. His poems have been featured in several journals and anthologies, including Foglifter, the Cortland Review, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, and more.

Joe Wadlington is a writer, artist, and drag queen. He grew up in the Appalachian Mountains near, but not near enough, to Dollywood. Now he lives in San Francisco.
He has worked in digital marketing and social media for a decade and was most recently The Global Creative Lead of Twitter’s SMB team. He’s been published in The New Yorker, The Rumpus, Architectural Digest, Food & Wine Magazine, The Chronicle, The Bold Italic, and the satire collection Loose Lips (Grand Central Publishing). Along with Danielle Truppi, he is the co-creator, co-producer, and co-host of the monthly literary show “Happy Endings.” Happy Endings is a monthly night of stories, poetry, and comedy. It has raised thousands of dollars for San Francisco writers, has been included in three literary festivals, and been positively reviewed by The San Francisco Chronicle and Broke-Ass Stuart.

Esperanza Cabrales (they/them) is a queer Xicana slam poet, performer, jewelry maker, teaching artist, and educator based in Oakland.  They lead poetry workshops through Bay Area Creative, working with TK through high school students. Esperanza organizes the Nepantla exploratory workshop series for QTBIPOC Creatives + Allies. Their work celebrates shared spaces, approaching emotions with curiosity, and the beauty of queer and cultural identities. 

This month’s pop up is Treat Street PIzza

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.

As part of the MAPP, this event is a tribute to one of MAPP's founders, Manuel Trujillo. We honor the cultural work Manuel promoted in the Mission as a Mexican immigrant and artist who reshaped and reimagined the Mission. 

Manuel not only co-founded MAPP, but he also brought other projects to the Mission, such as Noches Bohémias and, most recently, Dueto Arte, with Artemisa. His passion for making spaces and music accessible for our Mission community created community ties in San Francisco and beyond. In Jalisco, Manuel was born and raised in a family of musicians, whose values and stories cross borders, as the genres Manuel played, especially ranchero and corrido, which he often delighted us with.

The event's program will have performances by Manuel's family, Pablo and Martha Trujillo, and friends such as Alfredo Gómez, Enrique Ramiréz, Francisco Ferrer, Erika Cruces, Ricardo Torres, and many more, who will be playing a repertoire of the various genres to remember Manuel's generous work that enriched our community with familiar and new tunes, a passion Manuel shared around our barrio. 

Curation:Veronica Solis Mora and Armando Ortiz

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 the sonic sustenace is being brought to you by Mutant Audio(Scott Foster-guitar, David Boyce-reeds and efx)

Noche de Movies is back! Our monthly movie series returns just in time for those chilly San Francisco summer nights. This month we are over la luna excited to be screening Kent MacKenzie’s The Exiles.

The Exiles is a 1961 film by Kent MacKenzie chronicling a day in the life of a group of 20-something Native Americans who left reservation life in the 1950s to live in the district of Bunker Hill, Los Angeles, California. Bunker Hill was then a blighted residential locality of decayed Victorian mansions, sometimes featured in the writings of Raymond Chandler, John Fante, and Charles Bukowski. The structure of the film is that of a narrative feature, the script pieced together from interviews with the documentary subjects. The film features Yvonne Williams, Homer Nish, and Tommy Reynolds.

Microwave palomitas will be provided.

An Evening of Powerful Workers Justice Storytelling, combining fiction, spoken word, theater and oral history. From the picket line to the coal mine to the streets of the Mission, we will resist ICE, celebrate work, honor the people who do it and support their struggles for freedom. Do you like the Union? Yes! Do you like the Bosses? No! Union-Bashing’s Got to Go!

Una velada de historias poderosos sobre la justicia laboral, que combina ficción, poesia, teatro e historia oral. Desde los piquetes a las minas de carbón hasta las calles del barrio de Mission, resistiremos al ICE, celebraremos el trabajo, honraremos a quienes lo realizan y apoyaremos sus luchas por la libertad. ¿Se

puede? ¡Si, se puede!

The Nuevo Sol Domestic Workers Teatro performers are part of a fighting organization of day laborers and domestic workers who tell their stories with humor and heart. Award-winning Lead Organizer Guillermina Castellanos will introduce the presentation/Codirectora Guillemina Castellanos presentará las participantes y su obra de teatro.

Jenny Worley is an English professor at City College, past president of the college’s faculty union, AFT 2121, and was a dancer-organizer in the historic Lusty Lady unionization campaign

Jenny Worley es una profesora, ex-presidenta de AFT 2121 y una bailarina y organizadora del Lusty Lady Eroticl Dance Club.

Bahaar Tadjbakhsh is a Bay Area-based artist, labor educator and organizer. She is a core ensemble member of the San Francisco Neo-Futurists theater ensemble and on staff at the U.C. Berkeley Labor Center

Bahaar Tadjbakhsh es actriz, dramaturgo, organizadora y educadora.

Bill Shields is a retired union organizer and labor educator, co-founder of the Bay Area Labor Theater, and an oral historian, writer and performer

Bill Shields es maestro y sindicalista jubilado y un escritor y actor.

Michael Dunn is a novelist whose terrain is working class history, a union activist and a high school teacher.

Michael Dunn es novelista, activista sindical y profesor de secundaria.

Harvey Schwartz is the in-house historian for the International Longshore and Warehouse Workers Union, a leading labor oral historian in Northern California, a teacher and the author of numerous labor oral history books, including Solidarity Stories

Harvey Schwartz es un líder importante en la historia laboral de California y un profesor y autor.

James Tracy is the Chair of the Labor and Community Studies Department of City College of San Francisco, a housing and labor organizer and author of many books on organizing and people’s history

James Tracy es profesor, escritor y organizador.

Jacqueline Ramos is a Mission District native, City College of San Francisco teacher, public health advocate, poet and performer

Jacqueline Ramos es de la Mision, una profesora, poeta y luchadora por la justicia.

Tina Martin is a core member of the City College faculty union AFT 2121’s oral history project which culls fighting lessons for labor from the school’s union activist retirees.

Tina Martin es miembra central al proyecto Voces de los Jubilados de City College y Renato Larin desempeñó un papel historíco al unir City College y la Misión.

Renato Larin played a central role in bringing City College to the Mission and la Misión a City College

What Concrete Cannot Cover is an artist talk by Maya Kaqchikel artist Marilyn Boror Bor. Through her ongoing research on concrete as a material tied to colonialism, dispossession, and the transformation of Indigenous territories, Boror reflects on memory, the body, and the forms of knowledge and resistance that persist despite historical violence. The program includes a conversation about her artistic practice followed by a live performance.

Marilyn Boror Bor (Guatemala, 1984) is a Maya Kaqchikel artist, educator, curator, and cultural worker from San Juan Sacatepéquez, Guatemala. Working across painting, installation, performance, photography, video, and research, her practice explores Indigenous memory, language, territory, and the ongoing effects of colonialism through Maya knowledge systems.

Her work has been presented internationally at the 35th São Paulo Biennial (2023), Aichi Triennale (2025, Japan), Museu do Amanhã (2025, Brazil), Kunst Meran (2025, Italy), Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (2021, Spain), and Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo (MADC) (2025, Costa Rica). She has participated in international residencies including Art Omi (2026, New York) and The Rooming House Residency (2026, San Francisco). Through materials such as concrete, textiles, clay, and archival documents, Boror creates works that reflect on dispossession, resilience, and Indigenous ways of knowing.

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.

Daniel Lyons (he/él), also known as the QueerCowboy, is a West Marin County-based writer, storyteller, artist, and therapist currently working on a memoir about leaving the evangelical church to find his truest self as a bisexual trans man. The music he covers intimately reflects the highs and lows of this journey, weaving together themes of love, heartache, and survival.

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 we are blessed with a Boohabian night of afrofuturists jazz grooves courtesy of the one and only Broun Fellinis(David Boyce-reeds and efx, Kevin Carnes-percussion and Kirk Peterson-bass)