Echo Location: The Cultural Geopolitics in South of Market - a multimedia installation + public programming series that reflects on the neighborhood’s complicated history and centers the experiences of two historically marginalized communities whose presence has been essential to the heritage of SoMa - the Filipinx and LGBTQIA2S+.
Read More#AAPIpower to the Polls is a virtual concert and phone bank event happening Saturday, August 28th on Zoom from 4PM-6:30PM PST
Read Morehosted by SOMA Pilipinas, featuring artists Franceska Gamez and Malaya Tuyay.
Read MoreKSW Presents Preeti Vangani and Jenny Qi in celebration of Preeti's latest book, Mother Tongue Apologize.
Read MorePoets celebrate the life and legacy of Janice Mirikitani. Featuring San Francisco Poet Laureates past and present. Sponsored by the Friends of the San Francisco Public Library
Read Morekalayaan (till every grass blade is afire from every other) closes this Saturday, August 7. We hope you can join us for a small closing reception at 1246 Folsom St, SF from 12-3pm. We'll have books, zines, and art for sale (including some of the works on display!); the archives open for research; and Charlene Tan inviting visitors to collaborate on her participatory weaving installation.
Read MoreWe are proud to host the book launch for Monkey Around! The debut novel from Claire Light (writing as Jadie Jang) is an action-packed urban fantasy delivering a bold new take on the Monkey King in San Francisco - complete with murder and mayhem!!
Read MoreResearch & Remembering: Weaving with Charlene Tan. Community members are invited to bring plastic bags to incorporate into a large weaving structure in this Pilipinx textiles workshop with Charlene Tan.
Read MoreBalay Kreative is teaming up with KSW to celebrate the intersections of Asian American culture in the Bay Area.
Read MoreAwesome Theatre and Chinatown Historian Marc Pomerleau (The Fighting History of SF Chinatown) are teaming up again for EMPRESS YEE AND THE MAGICAL HISTORY OF CHINATOWN, a new documentary that tells the story of Cynthia Yee, a burlesque dancer, entertainer, educator, tour guide, all-around mover and shaker and bender of traditional norms, born, raised, and still creating magic in San Francisco’s Chinatown.
Read MoreAsian Prisoner Support Committee proudly presents a first glance of their forthcoming anthology, ARRIVING: Freedom Writings of Asian and Pacific Islanders.
Read MoreThe community is invited to contribute Pilipinx & Asian American zines to the Kearny Street Workshop archive, conduct research, & create content from images in the archive. Featuring live weaving by Charlene Tan.
Read MoreCelebrate the opening of @somarts upcoming exhibition #SoundsLikeHome on Thursday, July 15, 6–8 PM PST with a virtual program!
Read MoreOACC is hosting a community talk about the film, Minari, on Saturday 7/10 at 1pm.
Read MoreCatch APAture 2016 featured artist, Sammay, at Choreofest!
Read MoreWrite Now SF Bay’s fourth anthology features 130 BIPOC writers and artists responding to our times with prose, poetry, and visual art reflecting Bay Area realities.
Read MoreFilipinx choreographer and interdisciplinary artist SAMMAY will share research, reflections, and practice as it relates to Exhibit BAE.
Read MoreJoin Aklasan Records for an evening of Filipino Hardcore and Punk music to benefit True Manila, a grassroots organization based in Manila that helps to uplift, feed, and educate street children in the most impoverished areas of Manila.
Read MorePilipinx Virtual Histories: kalayaan (till every grass blade is afire from every other) responds to a recurring theme in interviews Kearny Street Workshop recorded with San Francisco Pilipinx artists of different generations: the cultural freedom that is possible in spaces beyond the bounds of mainstream society.
Read MoreBooksmith and The Bindery are proud to host a four-event series presented by Clarion Alley Mural Project (CAMP) called Wall + Response, featuring sixteen Bay Area poets responding to the social/ political/ racial/ justice narratives of four murals on Clarion Alley.
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