YeYe Suarez Ensemble Afro-Latin fusion defines the rhythms of YeYe Suarez. Their music incorporates many of the most vibrant Latin American musical traditions inspired by the rhythms of the African Diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean. With a vision to promote empowerment, unification and social justice through original musical and lyrical compositions, YeYe researches, […]

A film by Spanish director Antonio Hens (“Clandestinos”) about a gay love story set in Cuba. Reiner and Yosvani are best friends and soccer mates. Handsome Reinier, in order to support his mother, wife and baby, prostitutes himself to older male foreigners, while the shy Yosvani is reluctantly engaged to a girl and lives with […]

Ka Mau, also known as Pitch Black Gold, along with Holly Saucy and J.Mitchell will be taking audiences on “Africlectic” journeys through poetry, genre bending sound and visual experiments. For the last ten years Ka Mau has lived in Bali, Indonesia using the art of poetry, rap and dance to connect cultures, inspire creative thought […]

Known as the host of her own ground-breaking comedy-sketch show, Bay Area comedian Gina Gold presents a new series, TMI Storytelling: Raw Stories, Real Spit, a monthly storytelling series the 4th Thursday of the month. Where: La Pena Cultural Center, 3105 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley, CA Admission: Free For more info: (510) 849-2568 / www.lapena.org

Decolonize your diet In this workshop, experts will share public health research that shows that recent Latino/a immigrants have better health than their American-born children. People will discuss the need for decolonizing our diets through reclaiming ancestral foods, recipes, cooking techniques, and remedios. Our ancestors ate a plant-based diet, with a heavy reliance on nixtamal […]

Led by Asher’s trombone and vocals, this ensemble from New York City’s vibrant early jazz scene presents a celebration of one of the first great American singersongwriters, Hoagy Carmichael. Audiences should expect an evening of original songs inspired by and reverently re-imagined arrangements of Carmichael classics like “Stardust”, “Up A Lazy River” and “Georgia On […]

Please join us for an evening of community stories about eviction and other housing horrors. We’ll gather around a campfire to listen to and support San Francisco evictees, as they tell us spooky housing stories. This event is a collaboration between “Unsettlers: Migrants, Homies, and Mammas” a project by Adriana Camarena with Shaping San Francisco […]

Now in its fifth year, Comedy Returns to El Rio! takes place on the third Thursday of the month on an intimate stage in the south Mission dive bar. Hosted by Bay Area comedy fixture Lisa Geduldig (Kung Pao Kosher Comedy, Funny Girlz), who began her comedy career at El Rio 24 years ago with […]

‘Blood Brother’ tells the story of Rocky Braat, a young man from a fractured family and a troubled past who met a group of HIV positive children living in an orphanage while traveling through India without a plan. The screening will also include a presentation and installation led by Eduardo Antonio of Clínica Esperanza, the […]