The Brave New Voices Youth Poetry Festival is a four-day festival from July 15-18 that brings the best youth poets from around the world. The festival consists of workshops, showcases, service learning, and slam competitions. Learn more about the inner workings that make Brave New Voices the premier youth event of the year.
Read MoreYouth Speaks is hosting their Backyard Conference: Bringing the Revolution Home on June 22-26, 2026. This 5 day summer camp is curated and facilitated by youth for youth consisting of free workshops and performances dedicated to creating fun spaces for you to connect with and create community.
Read MoreThe Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network (DVAN) proudly presents: Hoangmai Pham in Conversation with Kathy L. Nguyễn. This book talk is the latest installment of DVAN's quarterly reading series in partnership with the San Francisco Public Library. This free event will take place at Green Apple Books on the Park on Thursday, June 18th, from 7 to 8pm.
Read MoreThe 2026 AVA Lab exhibition presents works that imagine futures carried forward through memory, resistance, and collective imagination.
Read MoreKala is administering the California Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship for the Bay Area Region, which includes the following counties: Alameda County, Contra Costa County, Marin County, Napa County, San Francisco County, San Mateo County, Santa Clara County, Sonoma County.
Read MoreThe 2026 AVA Lab exhibition, Futures We Carry, imagines futures carried forward through memory and collective imagination, foregrounding counter-narratives. Participating artists challenge dominant histories and propose alternative ways of being.
Read MoreCelebrate the closing of Lineages of Organizing: The Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center at 30, curated by Colin Choy Kimzey.
Read MoreJoin Kearny Street Workshop and the SF Arts Commission on Saturday, May 23 from 2–4PM for Dreaming People’s History, the second installation of the 2026 Art on Market Poster Series. This walking tour tells the story of the Asian American Movement, when radicals used art to recover past struggles and create a new political identity. Celebrate Asian American & Pacific Islander History Month with a walking tour of the poster series led by artist Colin Choy Kimzey and collaborator Jade Amargo Verdeflor. Learn about the community of San Francisco artists who helped define Asian America and take inspiration for how we can relate to the past in our own time.
Read MoreJoin us on May 22nd at Arc Gallery & Studios for the launch of Maya Salameh’s poetry collection Mermaid Theory with poets Adam Ahmed and Christine Huang.
Read MoreThe 2026 AVA Lab exhibition presents works that imagine futures carried forward through memory, resistance, and collective imagination.
Read MoreKSW and the Center for Asian American Media are proud to present The Auntie Sewing Squad Resistance Playbook, which will be premiering at Sunday, May 10, at 4:15 pm at the AMC Kabuki.
Read MoreARTogether is hosting The Global Artist’s Toolkit: Navigating Grants Regardless of Immigration Status online on Thursday, May 7th, from 4-5:30PM. RSVP AHEAD OF TIME IS REQUIRED. Attendance is free.
Read MoreETH-NOH-TEC presents Strong Like Bamboo 3: Stories of Resilience from across America on Saturday, May 2nd, 1PM at The Marsh and Sunday, May 3rd, 1PM at the Oakland Asian Cultural Center. Tickets are sold on a sliding scale.
Read MoreJoin the Haight Ashbury Literary Journal for an afternoon of poetry and community! The Haight Ashbury Literary Journal is celebrating the launch of Volume 40 on Saturday, April 25th from 2–4 PM at The Clarion Performing Arts Center with readings from the issue's featured writers, Colleen McKee and Justin Ayala, as well as friends of the journal.
Read MoreSamar will be hosting the sixth installment in their reading series with Kearny Street Workshop at Arc Gallery and Studios on Saturday, April 18th, at 7PM. Featured readers are Tala Khanmalek (mecca monarch), Dāshaun Washington, and David Gorin.
Read MoreThousand Cranes Tattoo Studio in San Jose, CA is hosting an artist's showcase and an outdoor maker's market on Saturday, April 18th from 11–5pm celebrating artists and vendors with Micronesian and Melanesian roots. This community building event will have free entry. Food, artwork, and handmade goods will be available for purchase.
Read MoreOmnidawn Publishing wants to publish your poetry! Submit by April 16th to win $1,000 and 20 framable Broadsides. The contest will be judged by Rodrigo Toscano.
Read MoreOn Waverly welcomes poet and KSW’s Co-Executive Director, Jason Bayani and activist-author Kazu Haga for an evening of reading and conversation celebrating their newest books, Everyone I Love, Alive (Omnidawn Publishing, 2025) and Fierce Vulnerability (Parallax Press, 2025). The event will be held on Thursday, April 16th, from 5:30–6:30 PM.
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