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Other Dimensions in Sound: Red Fast Luck
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 musica…
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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 extra special dose of sonic sustenance is being provided by Red Fast Luck(David Boyce-reeds and efx, PC Munoz-percussion, boom stick, and intergalactic hook rug)
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Fri, Jul 17 · 7:00 PM
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Medicine for Nightmares
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Healing the Land Teaches Us Who We Are
Rooted in Indigenous wisdom and a four-element framework, this book invites readers to rediscover and re-embody the truth that caring for ourselves and caring for the living Earth …
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Rooted in Indigenous wisdom and a four-element framework, this book invites readers to rediscover and re-embody the truth that caring for ourselves and caring for the living Earth are one and the same. Healing the Land Teaches Us Who We Are helps us reconnect to the innate, embodied wisdom that many of us in modern Western society have abandoned—or been forced to forget.
Maceo Carrillo Martinet, PhD, builds on the work of Indigenous scholars like Robin Wall Kimmerer and Jessica Hernandez to share how not only are climate solutions still possible, they already exist—and they’re being practiced by communities around the world. Explicitly decolonial, this book offers a framework rooted in reciprocity, resistance, and kinship with the living Earth, and is built around four life-giving elements:
Water: How ancient Indigenous water-harvesting technologies, like the Pueblo peoples’ arid-garden systems, Peru’s siembra y cosecha de agua, and women-led practices, are vital for sustaining water, land, and community—and are essential for climate resilience
Earth: How successful community land stewardship—like Mexico’s ejidos, Maghrebian agdal, and Southeast Asian rotational farming—continue to support ecological health and human life in spite of colonial desecration
Fire: How “Indigenous fire”—frequent, low-intensity burns rooted in deep cultural relationship—functions as a crucial medicine for restoring forest health, preventing wildfires, and sustaining cultural and environmental resilience
Air: The profound connection between linguistic diversity and biodiversity—and how language can be weaponized to colonize and erase or nurtured to heal and awaken
This book invites readers not only to learn but to participate—to re-member, practice, and defend the Indigenous ways of knowing, sustaining, and resisting that are vital to our collective future.
For over twenty-four years, Maceo Carrillo Martinet, PhD, has been co-creating and implementing community-based ecological restorationand education projects across New Mexico and beyond. His award winning and community-affirming work is born mainly from an obligation to the earth, the youth, and the ancestors. The proceeds from this book will go toward the community work highlighted and sprouting across the world. Originally from San Francisco, but now lives in New Mexico with his family, where he takes care of a small farm, which, in return, takes care of him and his family.
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Sat, Jul 18 · 4:00 PM
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The Mutual Aid of Language
At a time when eugenics is resurgent in public health and tech capitalists intent on evolving beyond the human talk in colonial metaphors of inevitable progress through competitive…
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At a time when eugenics is resurgent in public health and tech capitalists intent on evolving beyond the human talk in colonial metaphors of inevitable progress through competitive individualism, The Mutual Aid of Language argues that human language could not have evolved in the survival of the fittest story to which they’ve reduced human nature. Language rather requires our mutual aid and tells a different story of our past and future. This event will feature a book talk sketching anthropological and anarchist critiques of evolutionary egoism and illustrating the anarchic organization language through analysis of videorecorded interactions. We’ll then facilitate an open discussion on the place of conversations in organizing strategy and as everyday tactic for prefigurative social change.
Mark Sicoli works as an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Virginia on Monacan Land in Charlottesville, where he teaches on Language Evolution, Multimodal Interaction, History of Linguistic Theory, and Anthropology and Anarchy. He researches language in everyday interactions and collaborates for Indigenous language revitalization with Zapotecan people of Oaxaca, Mexico, and with Tribal Nations of Virginia. He is author of Saying and Doing in Zapotec // Decir y Hacer en Zapoteco.
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Sun, Jul 19 · 2:00 PM
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Medicine for Nightmares
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It's Not Enough to Survive
Author Jesse Montgomery tells the story of the Young Patriots Organization, poor white people who worked with the Black Panthers and Young Lords of the First Rainbow Coalition. Joi…
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Author Jesse Montgomery tells the story of the Young Patriots Organization, poor white people who worked with the Black Panthers and Young Lords of the First Rainbow Coalition. Joined in conversation by Chika Okoye (Center For Political Education) and Finn Finneran
Formed in the late 1960s, the Young Patriots Organization was a Chicago-based radical group made up of young white migrants from Appalachia and the South who helped found Black Panther activist Fred Hampton’s Rainbow Coalition. The YPO grew from a local street gang into a powerful political and social force in the city’s Uptown neighborhood, where it fought against police brutality, racism, economic exploitation, and displacement through community organizing, the establishment of survival programs, and working-class cultural organizations.
In this first stand-alone history of the YPO, Jesse Montgomery presents the group as one of the New Left’s most enigmatic anti-racist organizations—one inspired by the moral and political power of the civil rights movement and the street corner socialism of the Black Panthers but also one that embraced regressive Southern identifiers, such as Confederate flags, that belied its liberatory message. Though the YPO’s existence was short-lived, its story helps us to reimagine radical unity in the face of dislocation, political oppression, and the brutal incentives of racial capitalism. As Montgomery argues, its work to cross racial and class lines and build coalitions for the greater good is a symbol of the America that could still be.
Jesse Montgomery is an Assistant Professor of English at Berea College and the author of It Is Not Enough to Survive: The Young Patriots Story.
Chika Okoye: Lead Educator, who has been a long-time educator for CPE's Marxism 101 programs
Finn Finneran (he/they) is a writer and organizer living in the Bay Area Originally from the south, Finn studies history at UC Berkeley
Note; Friends of the author will gather from 6-7pm to play old-time Appalachian and honky tonk tunes in honor of the Young Patriots and the role country music played in their community organizing."
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Mon, Jul 20 · 7:00 PM
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Poets in the Window
!TONIGHT we have poets in our front window!
Come by tonight and listen to poets reading their work in our front window to Calle 24, the most living loving street in all of San Fr…
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!TONIGHT we have poets in our front window!
Come by tonight and listen to poets reading their work in our front window to Calle 24, the most living loving street in all of San Francisco.
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Thu, Jul 23 · 7:00 PM
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Medicine for Nightmares
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Broun Fellinis
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 musica…
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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)
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Fri, Jul 24 · 7:00 PM
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SF Bay Area Tatreez Circle
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 whil…
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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.
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Sat, Jul 25 · 1:00 PM
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Bay Area Queer Open Mic
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 …
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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.
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Sun, Jul 26 · 6:00 PM
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Workers Voices Storytelling
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, …
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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
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Tue, Jul 28 · 7:00 PM
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Noche de Movies: The Exiles
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 Mac…
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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.
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Thu, Jul 30 · 7:00 PM
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Other Dimensions in Sound: Mutant Audio
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 musica…
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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)
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Fri, Jul 31 · 7:00 PM
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Medicine for Nightmares
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