Within the David Ireland House, this project will create a physical space to gather intergenerational stories, images and visual ephemera focused on trans joy and creative resilience. Primarily serving the trans Latinx community in San Francisco’s Mission district, the development process will include hosting weekly conversations with community organizations, artists and community members around trans […]

In partnership with artists and the Oakland community, this project will illuminate, explore and celebrate the contributions of the Black Panther Party and African American community to Oakland’s Temescal neighborhood. This project’s development will begin with a series of community gatherings and conversations to elevate the voices of the Black Panther Party and Black business […]

Pieces of Home. In collaboration with Marina Fukushima, Surjit Nongmeikapam and Mercy Housing, this project will create an intergenerational and multi-disciplinary performance that engages questions of transforming and repurposing urban spaces for affordable housing in San Francisco’s Mission Bay neighborhood. The project takes place within context of Mission Bay’s history as both “terrain vague” (empty, abandoned, […]

In partnership with Black Cultural Zone and Asé Arts, Afro Urban Society will create a series of townsquare-style performances, outdoor workshops, cross-cultural community conversations, visual installations and a short spoken word dance film at Liberation Park. They seek to highlight the journey and unique experiences of diverse Black populations in Oakland, provide space for artists […]

This two-year oral history and performance project will center Oakland’s Swan’s Market, a culturally vibrant and historic venue at the intersection of four diverse Oakland neighborhoods. The project’s first phase will begin with a nine-month workshop with Oakland high school students to build skills and develop performances. That will be followed by live and self-paced […]

This project engages multilingual and multiracial Chinese and Latinx immigrant communities through the creation of flags representing power and resilience. The flags will be unveiled as a procession in San Francisco’s Lunar New Year Parade to illuminate immigrant culture in the public sphere. Communities will be engaged through multilingual workshops co-developed with community partners, drawing […]

This project will culminate in a large-scale outdoor Drag performance event, celebrating the living oral, dance and embodied tradition of the queer community from which Drag arises. The Show will be specifically committed to examining the ways that institutional white supremacy and racism are manifested, mimicked, enacted and/or complacent within the Drag community. The project will […]

This project honors the blocked and soil-filled waterways that once flowed through Mission Dolores and the 5,700 Indigenous ancestors buried in the cemetery. In collaboration and solidarity with local Ohlone culture bearers, Latinx and Indigenous dance artists, and the American Indian Cultural District, sii agua sí is symbolically re-filling the site with water (sii) to […]