The Mission has long been ground zero for memory, struggle, and imagination. We gather there for the Northern California Blast of Xicanxfuturism: Gritos for Tomorrow, Codex I at Medicine for Nightmares.

Xicanxfuturism: Gritos for Tomorrow, Codex I is a living codex of speculative futurist thought, art, comics, novellas, short stories, flash fiction, poetry, and essays. The anthology looks forward from the conditions we live in now, imagining Xicanx futures as something actively forming as our numbers, memory, and cultura continue to grow.

This is not a standard literary reading, but is an evening of collective presence, imagination, and futurity with Project:MASA visuals, a demo of an in-development Xicanxfuturist video game, and live readings from contributors working across forms and disciplines.

Featuring work by: MM Olivas, EC Dukes, Ronnie Dukes, Natalia Rivas, Patrick Fontes, Joel Flores, Salvador Ayala, and Scótt Russell Dúncan