Amidst the shifting social and cultural landscape in San Francisco, how do we maintain our roots?  The Roots In Resilience Film Festival and the Conjuring Roots visual arts program will explore how our origins affect both our present and future selves.

Happy Pride Month!  Come and celebrate the gayness of June at the QUEER as FUCK festival launch party!

In its second year, multi-disciplinary arts program URBAN x INDIGENOUS (UxI), will showcase their program Remember Our Place?, honoring ancestors in a society which is driven by the act of leaving them behind.

Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project (QWOCMAP) hosts their 12th annual Queer Women of Color Film Festival with a roster showcasing 38 innovative films from around the world!

Performer Nancy Wang will wrestle the tricky but tried and true White Rabbit, Red Rabbit play, written by Iranian playwright Nassim Soleimanpour.  

Standing Strong! Japantown and Fillmore

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Exploring and celebrating the spirit of African-American and Japanese- American communities amongst racial discrimination, segregation, redevelopment and gentrification, members of Shizue Seigel’s Write Now! Japantown and Write Now! Fillmore writing workshops will read from the Standing Strong! Fillmore and Japantown community anthology.

Legendary San Francisco institutions, Kearny Street Workshop and the Great Star Theater in Chinatown present programs exploring Asian American roots through literature, photography and the stage  during upcoming events this month.

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Join artist Genny Lim and other performers as they explore the time-space continuum and dark holes as metaphors for change, transformation and existence.  

Beginning on May 19th, A Place of Her Own will showcase its eighth exhibition featuring 20 assemblage artworks.  Curated by artists Cynthia Tom and Maggie Yee, the exhibition will illustrate the imaginations and desires of women through various mediums.  

Legions of Boom, celebrates the legendary Filipino-American mobile DJ crews of the Bay Area and their influence on music, culture and community.