Clarion Alley Mural Project

🌟 MURAL INAUGURAL CELEBRATION 🌟🕊️ “NOT IN OUR NAME” / “NO EN NUESTRO NOMBRE”
A collaboration between muralist with poetry by
📆 Saturday, August 2 • 2–4 PM
📍 Clarion Alley, SF (between 17th & 18th, Mission & Valencia Streets)
🖌️ Street Mural Painting – Everyone’s welcome! 12:30–2 PM

🖼️ Mural Description: A striking 15 × 25 ft public artwork merging Juana Alicia’s powerful visual imagery with poetry by San Francisco Poet Laureate Genny Lim. Installed on October 29, 2024 in Clarion Alley, it stands as a solemn, poetic demand for a permanent cease‑fire in Palestine, in solidarity with Gazans enduring violence, starvation, displacement, and the struggle for dignity and resistance

🎤 Line‑Up Highlights:
• Francis Wong – composer | saxophonist | activist | educator
• Poets Alexandro Murguía & Devorah Major – both former SF Poets Laureate
• Chun Yu – Chinese poet/translator (reading in Chinese) .org_chun
• Mo Sati – Palestinian American poet .sati

🎨 Plus on‑site: a long-standing collaborator with CAMP, will be live‑printing and distributing free political posters, engaging the community through art as activism.

Organizing Team: Led by , with volunteers Tirso González Araiza, Catherine Cusic, , Jade Mar and video documentation by
Genny Lim’s poem has been translated into Spanish and Arabic to reach broader audiences

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🎨✨ Join us in Restoring Chuy Campusaño’s Mural! ✨🎨

Help bring life back to this historic piece of San Francisco’s art scene!
We’re repainting Chuy Campusaño’s mural, originally painted in 1994 on Clarion Alley, which has unfortunately been vandalized.

🗓 Date: Sunday, March 9th�⏰ Time: 11 AM - 6 PM�📍 Location: Clarion Alley, Mission District (17th-18th St.), San Francisco

Chuy Campusaño was an influential Chicano artist who contributed significantly to San Francisco’s cultural landscape in the 70s and 80s. A co-founder of his work continues to inspire the Latino and Chicano community.

THIS MURAL DEPICTS THE FORCES THAT CHUY
SAW IN THE NORTH MISSION AT THAT TIME: PUNKS, MODERN PRIMITIVES, RAZA ORGANIZERS XENOPHOBIC POLITICIANS & PREDATORY CHURCHES.

THE MURAL IS A REMINDER OF CONSTANT STRUGGLE & THE NEED TO ORGANIZE

FIST UP! FARMWORKER FLAG FLYING HIGH!

FOR OVER 20 YEARS VOLUNTEERS
HAVE RESTORED THIS MURAL, INSCRIBING IT
WITH RENEWED DEDICATION & KEEPING IT A FOUNDATIONAL PORTRAIT FOR THE ALLEY.

Let’s come together to restore this masterpiece and honor his legacy! ✊🏽

Today at

A staged reading of “3rd and Palou”, written & directed by Biko Eisen-Martin.
This play is about the 3rd street riots of 66’.

Ruth Williams Opera House
www.BVOH.org

4705 3rd St, San Francisco, California

Join us on May 1st for an evening with the lead artists behind the hybrid installation of
BORN A PROBLEM: A Multimedia Exhibition

to learn more of the inspiration, creative process, and the intended impact of the project:

• Paula Te, Exhibition Artist
• Edward Gunawan, Exhibition Writer
• Colin Sullivan, Exhibition Soundscape Artist

RSVP:
https://homemadelit.org/gatherings/bap-talk








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Come join us on Apr 28th for the Opening Reception of BORN A PROBLEM: A Multimedia Exhibition

as we celebrate National Poetry Month with readings by esteemed Poet Laureates:

• Ayodele Nzinga (Oakland Poet Laureate)
• Kim Shuck (7th San Francisco Poet Laureate)
• Lee Herrick (California Poet Laureate)

with co-hosts Michelle Lin & Edward Gunawan

RSVP:
https://homemadelit.org/gatherings/bap-opening

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📣 📣 As part of and

🔸Join us for
Archipelagic Arts in Times of U.S. Militarism

🔸Round table discussion with Panelists: Anita Chang, Ph.D. - Taiwanese American filmmaker, media artist, writer, scholar, and professor of Communication at Cal State East Bay. Kyoko Sato, Ph.D. - Japan-born scholar teaching and serving as associate director of Stanford University’s Program in Science, Technology, and Society, examining technoscientific governance in Japan and the United States. Dena Montague, Ph.D. - Environmental Justice Lecturer with the Earth Systems Program at Stanford University, speaking on the global arms trade. Craig Santos Perez, Ph.D. - Chamoru poet, scholar, artist, environmentalist, political activist, and faculty in Ethnic Studies at MiraCosta Community College in San Diego, CA. Wesley Ueunten, Ph.D. - Third-generation Okinawan born and raised in Hawaiʻi, musician, writer, scholar, and professor of Asian American Studies at San Francisco State University.

🔸Featured panelists will share their scholarly and creative works, including video, poetry, and music, to offer new ideas and approaches to addressing the historical and current U.S. military presence and relations which grew out of the U.S.’s “seagoing Manifest Destiny.”

🔸FREE🔸

Thursday | April 18 | 5:00 - 7:00 PM PT
450 Jane Stanford Way, Building. 300,
Room 300 (in the Main Quad),
Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305

A beautifully written review of Manifest Differently at Minnesota Street Project by Max Blue in the SF Examiner.

Max Blue captured the exhibition, and the project's entire message perfectly, thank you!

This is a really stunning exhibition with a powerful message, and there is still almost a week left to see it -

Join us this Saturday for the closing reception!

On Saturday, March 16th we'll have to presentations:

1:00 - 2:30pm
SPECULATIVE AND RADICAL SOLIDARITY IN THE AGE OF GENERATIVE AI 🌿🌸🌿
Dr. David A.M. Goldberg, independent scholar, media critic, and product designer will present a multimedia critique of contemporary cultural expectations, catastrophes, and miracles refracted through the lens of machine learning and so-called artificial intelligence algorithms.

followed by

3:00 - 4:30
NEXT GEN SPEAKS OUT 🌿🌸🌿
Join Artivate youth artists Alex De La Cruz, Daria Belle, Rhiannon Hewitt, and others talk about their Manifest Differently prints and what is currently on the minds of teens.

Followed by a Closing Party with food and drink from
Reems California 🌿🌸🌿

Hope to see you there!
❤️🩷🧡💛🤎💛🧡🩷❤️

Artists tackle colonialism, white supremacy in SF show “Manifest Differently” is a multi-genre, multi-venue project featuring fine art, poetry and discussions.

📣 public program

Next Gen Speaks Out

Saturday | March 16 | 3:00 - 4:30 PM

1275 Minnesota Street, San Francisco

Join Artivate youth artists Alex De La Cruz, Daria Belle, Rhiannon Hewitt, and others talk about their Manifest Differently prints and what is currently on the minds of teens

📣 Join us for a public program

SPECULATIVE AND RADICAL SOLIDARITY IN
THE AGE OF GENERATIVE AI

Dr. David A.M. Goldberg, independent scholar, media critic, and product designer will
present a multimedia critique of contemporary cultural expectations, catastrophes, and
miracles refracted through the lens of machine learning and so-called artificial
intelligence algorithms.

Saturday | March 16 | 1-2:30PM
Minnesota Street Project, 1275 Minnesota Street, San Francisco

"I am thinking very specifically about the diaspora of people who still believe in creating a better world; not just a better family, neighborhood, city, institution, or society… but an entire planet. Most people use electronic communications, databases, algorithms, software, and networks that they don’t own or control to accomplish the majority of the things they can, must, and want to do. Those who contemplate and theorize resistance in this situation have to extend Audre Lorde’s question of dismantling the master’s house with the master’s tools, because we don’t just build the master’s house with them, we build ourselves. The house is now a machine that recognizes, speaks, listens, and models logical thinking. We, often fueled by the delirium of our rage, our satire, our critique, our burning creativity, have been teaching the house, so now it knows our languages, interprets our texts, and can leap to seemingly-miraculous conclusions after tirelessly searching for needles in vast haystacks of our making. This talk is about a lot of things at once: Afrofuturism, Black feminism, generative artificial intelligence, the artistic imagination, and a question: faced with a daunting diversity of problems that are often bigger than any group can grasp, is solidarity at the planetary scale possible?"