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This is a free family event for the community is full of carnival games and activities, special opportunities, and more.
Contact Info: Silena@faithfulfools.org (415) 240-8234
Easy and fun walk for all ages, family friendly. Enjoy good healthy habits in community with others. Finish the health walk for a nice swag bag. Small program in the morning to be determined.
Celebrate the inaugural Tenderloin Branch Open House and the activation of every floor of the Main Library for I Love Tenderloin Week. Participate in the following activities for the day: 12-3pm (First Floor): Meet the library's community partners at our Resource Fair in the Atrium and Genre Room 2-3pm (Second Floor): Arabic Story Hour, followed by crafts for children and families in the Children's Center \3-4pm (Fifth Floor): Streaming Music Listening Party in The Bridge's Learning Studio We will also have photographs of the Tenderloin by photographer Judi Iranyi mounted throughout the Main Library. There will be a photobooth for families and folks to take pictures, lots of food for TL residents, and library tours in various languages. Attendees will receive swag throughout the library branded with TL artist design and SFPL logo.
Join us for the first ever Cumbia Block party in The Tenderloin Saturday April 27th where it will be filled with the vibes from Bay area bands: Mala Greña, El Pecado Juana and Philthy Dronez, and Psyched! Radio DJs: Mala Vida ,Liz Al Toque, Pinche Lesli and DiscoMovil Salazar, along with vendors and free food by Mi Morena.
In celebration of the recent publication of Gigi Otálvaro-Hormillosa’s new book, Erotic Resistance: The Struggle for the Soul of San Francisco, Tenderloin Museum hosts the author for a double-header book talk with Annie Sprinkle & Beth Stephens, fellow activist-artists and scholars of human sexuality, who will discuss their latest latest, Assuming the Ecosexual Position:The Earth as Lover. Program moderated by Dr. Joy Brooke Fairfield. A celebration of the erotic performance cultures that have shaped San Francisco, Erotic Resistance: The Struggle for the Soul of San Francisco (UC Press, 2024) explores a milieu that is indelibly intertwined with the Tenderloin’s history: the city's bohemian past and its essential role in the development of American adult entertainment by highlighting the contributions of women of color, queer women, and trans women who were instrumental in the city's labor history, as well as its LGBT and sex workers' rights movements. Otálvaro-Hormillosa utilizes visual and performance analysis, historiography, and ethnographic research (including participant observation as both performer and spectator), and interviews with legendary burlesquers and strippers to share a remarkable history and to frame an intersection of art, activism, performance, and human sexuality. Otálvaro-Hormillosa explores how, in the 1960s, topless entertainment became legal in San Francisco for the […]
Get your drumming on with Dana Fontana! Join us at The Healing WELL SF as we rejoice in the rhythm of the drums. The TenderArts Drumming Circle is a Covid-safe, empowering, and joyous moment for us to come together and celebrate. Dana Fontana will lead us through a variety of rhythms, the rudiments of improvisation, and basic drumming techniques. Drums will be provided but you are welcome to bring your own percussive instrument!
