Entre Nosotras: In conversation with Paola de la Calle, Ester Hernandez, and Olga Talamante
2025-04-26 13:00 - 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Galería de la Raza Studio 24, 2779 Folsom St. Suite A, San Francisco, California, 94110, United States
Currently on view in the duo exhibition From Fertile Lands Birthing Women Made of Flowers at Galería Studio 24, Entre Nosotras is Paola de la Calle’s project honoring queer elders Ester Hernandez and activist Olga Talamante. With this project, De la Calle dives into the personal journey these women have lived while active and in the center of cultural movements by collecting memories through an oral history approach, observation of personal objects, and archival research to create portraits that roots them in cultural memory.

Join us on Saturday, April 26, 2025, 1-3pm for a conversation with Paola de la Calle, Ester Hernandez, and Olga Talamante. Facilitated by Galería’s Executive Director, Ani Rivera, this conversation will explore the artist and collaborator process to create Entre Nosotras, intertwined herstories, and the continuous path towards liberation.

This event is free to attend. Seating is limited, please RSVP at the link below before Wednesday, April 23, 2025.

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Lunada Literary Lounge
2025-05-12 19:00 - 21:30 | Galería de la Raza Studio 24, 2779 Folsom St. Suite A, San Francisco, California, 94110, United States
Join us, May 12 at Studio 24 for the third installment of Lunada Literary Lounge this season! We’re excited to welcome back artist and performer Praba Pilar to the Galería stage where she will be presenting her new performance on “Artifecal Intelligence”, Inteligencias Artifecales. Don’t miss this special performance and commentary on our current techno-political world. Hosting is the one and only Norman Zelaya with music by DJ Si.Mon.Güey.

About the Featured ArtistPraba Pilar is a queer diasporic Colombian artist creating interdisciplinary projects that disrupt the cult of the techno-logic. Most recently, she’s been working internationally on subversive, playful, and simultaneously serious ways with AI systems to nixtamalize the technology sector, creating algorithms, code, images, and songs that challenge data extraction techno-colonialism and offer algorithms of liberation. Her performances and digital artworks have been presented in museums, galleries, universities, festivals and streets around the world. You can learn more about her work at https://www.prabapilar.com/

ReGen Artist Fund: SF Imprint by Isabella Gordillo
2025-05-17 13:00 - 16:00 | California
Galería de la Raza is excited to present SF Imprint, a ReGen Artist Fund project by grantee Isabella Gordillo.

SF Imprint is a photographic exploration of post-pandemic San Francisco. For many working-class residents, this moment is defined by grief—not only the loss of loved ones, but also time and opportunities. Despite sorrow, joy persists and evolves.

It’s not hard to notice national and local media’s sensationalization of San Francisco’s current state. While people’s struggles to make ends meet, find housing, and survive are evident, the headlines rarely convey the full gravity of these issues with understanding or asking why. In contrast, SF Imprint examines moments of care and resilience—moments of environmental stewardship, fighting for humanity, or dancing in the streets. These moments of hope and solidarity are essential in setting a new standard for how the community is valued.

Through this zine project, SF Imprint asks “What is the imprint we leave on the City? How do we honor ourselves and fight for our humanity?”. SF Imprint encourages you to be a participant and join in action and engagement with your community.

Join us on May 17 for the zine launch and photowalk led by Isabella Gordillo from Mission Dolores Park to Galería de la Raza Studio 24. The day will feature a guided photowalk and community reflection. Isabella will be joined by their mentor and photographic artist Janett Perez to provide an insightful overview of documentary photography and share her expertise.

Following the photowalk, a reception will be held at Galería de la Raza Studio 24 at 2:30 pm where you can relax, enjoy food and refreshments, and grab a copy of the SF Imprint zine.

Photowalk- 1:00 PMMission Dolores Park18th St. and Church St.(meet near the restrooms)

Zine Launch Reception- 2:30 PMGalería de la Raza Studio 242779 Folsom St. Suite ASan Francisco, CA 94110

Exhibition Opening- The Q-Sides: 10th Year Anniversary
2025-06-07 19:00 - 22:00 | Galería de la Raza Studio 24, 2779 Folsom St. Suite A, San Francisco, California, 94110, United States
Galería de la Raza is pleased to present The Q-Sides: 10th Year Anniversary. This exhibition re-stages the East Side Story LP album covers Volumes 1-12 by centering queerness as the subjects of the popular vinyl collection of soul oldies in lowrider culture. The Q-Sides was conceived and created by Vero Majano, Brown Angel, and Kari Orvik.

Originally presented in the Summer 2015, The Q-Sides challenged the long-held heteronormative exclusivity within the lowrider culture to unveil a queer presence. The Q-sides was part of a project series presented by Galería de la Raza that included Por Vida by Manuel Paul, (a digital mural installation on the Bryant Street public art facing site) and the film Homeboy by Dino Dinco.

The polarizing reception these projects received transcended across local politics and social constructs, vis-à-vis social media and presented an opportunity to address the violent erasure of queerness within the Latiné community while propelling Latiné aesthetic possibilities. Today, the work is presented within a targeted national social-political context in which Queer and Trans existence is under attack. This ten year anniversary is a celebration of Queer resilience and as Jose Esteban Muñoz urges, a “call for the revivification of the queer political imagination”.

Exhibition Dates: Saturday, June 7- Saturday, August 2

Exhibition- The Q-Sides: 10th Year Anniversary
2025-06-07 19:00 - 2025-08-02 18:00 | Galería de la Raza Studio 24, 2779 Folsom St. Suite A, San Francisco, California, 94110, United States
Galería de la Raza is pleased to present The Q-Sides: 10th Year Anniversary. This exhibition re-stages the East Side Story LP album covers Volumes 1-12 by centering queerness as the subjects of the popular vinyl collection of soul oldies in lowrider culture. The Q-Sides was conceived and created by Vero Majano, Brown Angel, and Kari Orvik.

Originally presented in the Summer 2015, The Q-Sides challenged the long-held heteronormative exclusivity within the lowrider culture to unveil a queer presence. The Q-sides was part of a project series presented by Galería de la Raza that included Por Vida by Manuel Paul, (a digital mural installation on the Bryant Street public art facing site) and the film Homeboy by Dino Dinco.

The polarizing reception these projects received transcended across local politics and social constructs, vis-à-vis social media and presented an opportunity to address the violent erasure of queerness within the Latiné community while propelling Latiné aesthetic possibilities. Today, the work is presented within a targeted national social-political context in which Queer and Trans existence is under attack. This ten year anniversary is a celebration of Queer resilience and as Jose Esteban Muñoz urges, a “call for the revivification of the queer political imagination”.

Lunada Literary Lounge
2025-06-11 19:00 - 21:30 | Galería de la Raza Studio 24, 2779 Folsom St. Suite A, San Francisco, California, 94110, United States
Save the date to gather with us under the May full moon for Lunada Literary Lounge 🌕

Join Galería de la Raza on Wednesday, June 11 at Studio 24 for the final installment of Lunada Literary Lounge this Spring 2025! Featuring Jessica Martinez and DJ Mr. 45! Come for the feature, and stay for the open mic! Open Mic is available on a first come first serve basis, sign ups will be at the door. Don’t be shy and share your work.

Free admission.

ReGen Artist Fund: Queer Fandanguito Series by Evelyn Donají Arellano
2025-06-14 17:30 - 20:00 | Galería de la Raza Studio 24, 2779 Folsom St. Suite A, San Francisco, California, 94110, United States
Galería de la Raza is excited to present the Queer Fandanguito Series led by ReGen Artist Fund grantee Evelyn Donají Arellano with the Son Jarocho group Corazón de Cedro.

Son Jarocho is a lyrical-musical tradition from México’s Sotavento region with deep African, Indigenous and Arab-Andalusian influences. The Fandango, where Son Jarocho is played, is a communal musical celebration rooted in resistance and collective liberation. Like many oral and folk traditions, it passes down ancestral histories and knowledge while offering a structure for recording our own experiences.

Outside of México, the Fandango has become a way for migrant communities to find and support one another. In the San Francisco Bay Area, the melodies and rhythms of different diasporic musical traditions have become intertwined, offering a common language for cross-cultural connection.

The Queer Fandanguito Series invites us to queer the Fandango and imagine a tarima free of heteronormativity, where queer dance expressions are celebrated. This musical series aims to foster meaningful connection, cultural preservation, and cross-border solidarities for our diasporic, queer, and femme communities.

Join us Saturday, June 14 in celebrating queer musical expressions while remaining rooted in the folk traditions of our homelands. May our traditions continue to restore our spirits and strengthen our fight for our peoples’ collective liberation.

Bring your instruments and dancing shoes and join us on the tarima. All levels of musical experience are welcomed!

The Q-Sides: Artist Talk and Closing Reception
2025-08-02 13:00 - 16:00 | Galería de la Raza Studio 24, 2779 Folsom St. Suite A, San Francisco, California, 94110, United States
Galería invites you to attend the closing reception and artist talk for The Q-Sides: 10th Year Anniversary.

The Q-Sides re-stages the East Side Story LP album covers Volumes 1-12 by centering queerness as the subjects of the popular vinyl collection of soul oldies in lowrider culture. The Q-Sides was conceived and created by Vero Majano, Brown Angel, and Kari Orvik. Join us on August 2nd to learn more about the artists and the project’s impact on the Latiné cultural art cannon, and to experience The Q-Sides one last time before it closes.

This event is free to attend. Light refreshments will be served. Please RSVP before Wednesday, July 30, 2025.

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Can’t make it in person? Join us through the livestream on our Youtube channel below.

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The Window Project Prints Exhibition
2025-09-05 00:00 - 2025-10-04 23:59 | Galería de la Raza Studio 24, 2779 Folsom St. Suite A, San Francisco, California, 94110, United States
Galería de la Raza presents The Window Project in collaboration with Professor Sergio de la Torre’s Spring 2025 class “Artist as Citizens” at the University of San Francisco (USF).

The Window Project is designed to foster a sense of inclusion and representation by incorporating topics of conversation that shape the Mission District and its residents. In their design, the students of “Artist as Citizens” examine topics such as immigration, remittances, street vendors, and cultural pride while including localized elements unique to the neighborhood such as maps, photography, quotes, and information on individual rights. This design incorporated additional collaborations with students from Leonard R. Flynn Elementary School and the “Performing Arts and Social Justice” class at USF taught by Professor Roberto Gutièrrez Varea to include the perspectives of those living in the neighborhood.

Welcome. Bienvenidos. This is your window into the Mission.

Utilizing the large fourteen foot windows, The Window Project is on public view at Galería’s Studio 16. For a brief time, you can take a closer look at the details that make up this design at Galería’s Studio 24 that include the following elements:

Student Street Photography: Featuring real-life images that capture the energy and diversity of the Mission District through the eyes of students.

Know Your Rights Information: Highlighting resources and knowledge crucial to immigrant communities.

Quotes from Residents: Compiled by Professor Varea’s “Performing Arts and Social Justice” class, these quotes provide authentic voices from within the district.

Maps and Artistic Elements: These visually narrate the district’s cultural and physical landscape.

The Window Project reminds us what makes this neighborhood special, and what it takes to care for the diverse voices and experiences that create the Mission District.

DRAGIARTE
2025-09-06 19:00 - 22:00 | Galería de la Raza Studio 24, 2779 Folsom St. Suite A, San Francisco, California, 94110
Don’t think that we forgot! Chillonas has rescheduled a new date for another edition of DRAGIARTE at Galería de la Raza Studio 24.

Chillonas is a Latinx+ Queer nightlife event produced by La Chucha Rude and Sally Limón. Birthed in San Francisco, Chillonas fosters a space centering, but not exclusive to, Latinx music, drag, and other forms of art.

Hosted by Sally Limón and La Chucha Rude with a special first-time-in-drags performance by artist Melanie Cervantes.

Get your tickets at the door for $15. Bring cash!

This is a 21+ event.

Lunada Literary Lounge
2025-09-07 19:00 - 21:30 | Galería de la Raza Studio 24, 2779 Folsom St. Suite A, San Francisco, California, 94110, United States
Save the date to welcome the Fall 2025 season of Lunada Literary Lounge 🌕

Join Galería de la Raza on Sunday, September 7 at Studio 24 for the first installment of Lunada Literary Lounge this season! Returning to host and curate our featured lineup is Mission homeboy and writer Norman Zelaya.

Featured literary artists for the season to be announced.

Open Mic is available on a first come first serve basis, sign ups will be at the door. Don’t be shy and share your work.

Free admission.

Lunada Literary Lounge
2025-10-06 19:00 - 21:30 | Galería de la Raza Studio 24, 2779 Folsom St. Suite A, San Francisco, California, 94110, United States
Save the date for Lunada Literary Lounge! 🌕

Join Galería de la Raza on Monday, October 6 at Studio 24 for the second installment of Lunada Literary Lounge this season! Returning to host and curate our Fall lineup is Mission homeboy and writer Norman Zelaya.

This month we are featuring writer Carribean Fragoza!

Open Mic is available on a first come first serve basis, sign ups will be at the door. Don’t be shy and share your work.

Free admission.

About the Feature

Carribean Fragoza is a fiction and nonfiction writer from South El Monte, CA. Her collection of stories Eat the Mouth That Feeds You was published by City Lights and was a finalist for a 2022 PEN Award. She has edited two compilations of essays, Writing the Golden State: The New Literary Terrain of California (Angel City Press) and East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte (Rutgers University Press). She has published in Harper’s Bazaar, The New York Times, Zyzzyva, Alta, BOMB, Huizache, the Los Angeles Review of Books, ArtNews, and Aperture Magazine. She is the Prose Editor at Huizache Magazine. Fragoza is the founder and co-director of South El Monte Arts Posse, an interdisciplinary arts collective. She is a Whiting Literary Award recipient and Creative Writing faculty at California Institute of the Arts.

About the DJ

Margarita Azucar originally hails from Chicago, and became a California transplant in her teen years. Eventually she returned to the Midwest to pursue a doctoral degree in clinical psychology at the University of Michigan. She’s had brief stints in Mexico City, Jamaica, Brazil, and Paris, but spent much of the last 20 years in San Francisco.

She has a range of musical influences: her older siblings exposed her to everything from hard rock, metal, to new wave, punk, and reggae when she was a kid; the streets of Chicago brought house music and Caribbean Latin American sounds; while family parties brought the rancheras, polkas, and Mexican rockabilly. She looks for lyrics and their meaning, but also appreciates the music’s ability to bring about spiritual elevation.

When she isn’t curating playlists (she’s evolved from mix tapes and CDs) and radio hosting, Margarita leads diversity and inclusion strategic initiatives at a local university. She spent most of her career developing trauma-informed interventions for children, youth, and families and continues to approach her DJing and work through a lens of social justice and community healing.

On view: Our Language, Our Story
2025-10-18 00:00 - 2026-01-31 23:59 | Galería de la Raza Studio 24, 2779 Folsom St. Suite A, San Francisco, California, 94110, United States
Galería de la Raza presents Our Language, Our Story, a powerful photographic exhibition by artist Joyce Xi in collaboration with the Asian Law Caucus. Through striking portraits and deeply personal narratives gathered from immigrants across the Bay Area, the exhibit asks: What does it mean to be seen, heard, and understood in the language of your heart?

Conceptualized in 2023, this project was initially created to document immigrant experiences and highlight the need for language access in everyday life. Expanding from the first six stories exhibited at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in 2024, the project now encompasses more than 20 cultures throughout the Bay Area that are reflected through their language and stories. In today’s political and social climate, this body of work celebrates and centers the fullness of these community members and leaders; friends, family, elders, neighbors, co–workers, teachers, entrepreneurs, artists, students, vendors, and people of faith. Together, they represent the backbone of our communities and an essential part of our social fabric. These images highlight the deep relationships we foster, and the joys and hardships immigrant communities face living in an English-dominant society.

Over several months of interviews and visits to community centers, family celebrations, neighborhood hangouts, and organizing meetings, Xi built relationships with these individuals and listened to their aspirations, struggles, dreams, love, and resistance. Visitors are encouraged to consider the experiences of immigrants and refugees by reading their stories, listening to their language, and witnessing their day to day lives. Our Language, Our Story affirms that language is far more than a means of communication. It is a vessel of memory, a source of cultural continuity, and a powerful assertion of self. To speak in your native language is to resist erasure, to demand dignity, and to claim space.

“Language helps you identify your people in a new place, it fills your ears with familiar warmth.”

– Alejandra Oliva, Rivermouth

Read the individual stories featured in the exhibition below.

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Exhibition Opening: Our Language, Our Story
2025-10-18 15:00 - 18:00 | Galería de la Raza Studio 24, 2779 Folsom St. Suite A, San Francisco, California, 94110, United States
More information coming soon!

Lunada Literary Lounge
2025-11-05 19:00 - 21:30 | Galería de la Raza Studio 24, 2779 Folsom St. Suite A, San Francisco, California, 94110, United States
Save the date for Lunada Literary Lounge! 🌕

Join Galería de la Raza on Wednesday, November 5 at Studio 24 for the third installment of Lunada Literary Lounge this season! Returning to host and curate our Fall lineup is Mission homeboy and writer Norman Zelaya.

This month we will be featuring former Fresno Poet Laureate (2023-2025), Joseph Rios!

Open Mic is available on a first come first serve basis, sign ups will be at the door. Don’t be shy and share your work.

Free admission.

About the Feature

Joseph Rios, a former poet laureate of Fresno (2023-2025) and a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Standford University. Rios is the author of Shadowboxing: Poems & Impersonations, which won the American Book Award in 2018. In addition to his accomplishments, he was a fellow with Macondo, Canto Mundo, and the Academy of American Poets. He has also been featured in Poets and Writers magazine, KVPR, Forum at KQED, and the San Francisco Chronicle. Rios currently resides in Fresno.

About the DJ

Eryka, (they/them) originally from Southern California, has made the Bay Area their home for the past 15 years. Eryka’s musical journey began with their grandfather’s mid-century stereo, where they were immersed in marimba, bolero, mambo, and classic country. Raised amidst diverse musical influences—from their father’s classic rock to their mother’s Madonna and disco—Eryka absorbed a rich tapestry of sounds.Eryka started DJing at house parties during their teens, and these days host intimate listening sessions and creating emotion-evoking mixes for events.

Celebrating The Chicana Legacy Codices
2025-11-15 13:00 - 16:00 | Galería de la Raza Studio 24, 2779 Folsom St. Suite A, San Francisco, California, 94110, United States
Join us for an afternoon in conversation with collaborators and contributors of The Chicana Legacy Codices.

These artist books echo the form and spirit of amoxtli codices of the Mexica (“Aztec”) and Maya through their accordion-style design. Each limited-edition book features a reproduction of installations, paintings, and prints by artists whose legacies reach deeply into our communities, enhance collective memory, create new awareness, and contribute to a greater understanding of the rich cultural diversity of the U.S.

Celebrating the Chicana Legacy Codices brings together Celia Herrera Rodríguez, Felicia Rice, Nicole Rudolph, and Yreina D. Cervántez, along with moderator Laura E. Pérez to reflect on the series.

Presented by Galería de la Raza, The Latinx Research Center at UC Berkeley, Moving Parts Press, and Museo Eduardo Carrillo.

THIS EVENT IS NOW SOLD OUT. You can watch the livestream of the conversation below.

Watch Livestream

ReGen Artist Fund: Queer Fandanguito Series by Evelyn Donají Arellano
2025-11-15 19:00 - 22:00 | Galería de la Raza Studio 24, 2779 Folsom St. Suite A, San Francisco, California, 94110, United States
Galería de la Raza is excited to present the Queer Fandanguito Series led by ReGen Artist Fund grantee Evelyn Donají Arellano with the Son Jarocho group Corazón de Cedro.

Son Jarocho is a lyrical-musical tradition from México’s Sotavento region with deep African, Indigenous and Arab-Andalusian influences. The Fandango, where Son Jarocho is played, is a communal musical celebration rooted in resistance and collective liberation. Like many oral and folk traditions, it passes down ancestral histories and knowledge while offering a structure for recording our own experiences.

Outside of México, the Fandango has become a way for migrant communities to find and support one another. In the San Francisco Bay Area, the melodies and rhythms of different diasporic musical traditions have become intertwined, offering a common language for cross-cultural connection.

The Queer Fandanguito Series invites us to queer the Fandango and imagine a tarima free of heteronormativity, where queer dance expressions are celebrated. This musical series aims to foster meaningful connection, cultural preservation, and cross-border solidarities for our diasporic, queer, and femme communities.

Join us Saturday, November 15 in celebrating queer musical expressions while remaining rooted in the folk traditions of our homelands. May our traditions continue to restore our spirits and strengthen our fight for our peoples’ collective liberation.

Bring your instruments and dancing shoes and join us on the tarima. All levels of musical experience are welcomed!

Galería's ThanksTaking Office Closure
2025-11-27 08:00 - 2025-12-01 17:00 | Galería de la Raza Studio 24, 2779 Folsom St. Suite A, San Francisco, California, 94110, United States
Galería de la Raza will be closed from Thursday, Nov. 27, 2025 through Monday, December 1, 2025. We will be back in the office on Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025.

Lunada Literary Lounge
2025-12-04 19:00 - 21:30 | Galería de la Raza Studio 24, 2779 Folsom St. Suite A, San Francisco, California, 94110, United States
Save the date for Lunada Literary Lounge! 🌕

Join Galería de la Raza on Thursday, December 4 at Studio 24 to close out the last Lunada Literary Lounge of 2025! Returning to host and curate our Fall lineup is Mission homeboy and writer Norman Zelaya.

Galería is excited to close this season of Lunada Literary Lounge by spotlighting a special literary project, Speaking in tongues/ Hablando en lenguas.

Speaking in tongues/ Hablando en lenguas emerged in April of 2023 as a literary journey, wherein Mexican and Chicanx poets embarked on a tour of five Mexican cities: Monterrey, San Luis Potosí, Querétaro, León and Mexico City. Speaking in tongues/ Hablando en lenguas is now presented as a collection of four books that integrate duos of Mexican and Chicanx poets, who all move between Spanish, English and Spanglish. These three languages and their speeches declare and manifest themselves on all sides of the Mexico-US border. These eight poetics coincide in themes of migration, land, border, language, politics, love, and more.

Featuring Aideed Medina, hector son of hector, Josiah Luis Alderete, and Lourdes Figueroa, these poets will bring their contributions to this literary project to share with Lunada audience.

Open Mic is available on a first come first serve basis, sign ups will be at the door. Don’t be shy and share your work.

Free admission.

ABOUT THE FEATURES

Aideed Medina is Pushcart Prize-nominated poet, award-winning spoken word artist and playwright, and is the author of 31 Hummingbird: A Suite of Poems (Editorial Xingao, 2023) and Segmented Bodies (Prickly Pear Press, 2024). Her poetry and prose have been featured in many publications, including Fresno State’s Club Austral Literary Magazine, Chicano Writers and Artists Association Journal, La Bloga, Poets Responding, Split This Rock, and Nueva York Poetry Review, among many others, as well as in compositions for the 559 Mural Project and Fresno Grand Opera’s Opera Remix. She is the 2025-2027 Fresno Poet Laureate.

hector son of hector is from Long Beach, CA and currently lives in Oakland. He is the child of Mexican immigrants, works in a hospital, dreams of short stories and writes poetry in secret.

Josiah Luis Alderete is a full blooded Pocho spanglish speaking poeta who has been an active part of La Area Bahia’s Spoken Word scene for over twenty years. He was one of the founding members of outspoken word group The Molotov Mouths and is the curator and host of the long running monthly Latinx reading series Speaking Axolotl. His book of poems “Baby Axolotls & Old Pochos” was published in 2021 by Black Freighter Press. Currently he tends the 24th street portal as one of the owners of Medicine For Nightmares Bookstore & Galeria and resides in North Richmond where he is waiting for Quetzalquatl to arrive.

Lourdes Figueroa is a queer chicanx oral poet & an award winning poetry filmmaker whose work reflects her family’s experiences in el azadón— tilling the soil under the sun, in Yolo County. Lourdes is the author of the chapbooks yolotl, Ruidos = To Learn Speak, and Vuelta (Nomadic Press). Her poem Pieces from yolotl was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2022 by Quite Lightning. She is a recipient of Nomadic Press Bay Area Literature Award for Poetry. Lourdes celebrates your pocha marimachita tongue. A native of limbo nation, she continues to believe in your lung & your throat.

Bay Windows: Illuminating Immigrant Women’s Perspectives
2025-12-05 00:00 - 2026-03-11 23:59 | Galería de la Raza Studio 24, 2779 Folsom St. Suite A, San Francisco, California, 94110, United States
Logo by Christine Wong Yap.

Galería de la Raza is proud to partner with artist Christine Wong Yap to present Bay Windows: Illuminating Immigrant Women’s Perspectives from December 11, 2025 through March 11, 2025, a decentralized public art display featuring fifteen sculptural lanterns. The lanterns will be exhibited in the storefronts of five community-facing organizations in Chinatown and the Mission District. Each lantern is based on a papercut by a working-class, Chinese or Latina immigrant woman with limited English proficiency and limited access to the arts. Their imagery conveys narratives at the intersection of lived experience and social and political issues—including immigrant’s rights, worker’s rights, the cost of living, affordable housing, public safety, and mental health—as well as what the women have done or could do to address those issues.

The lanterns are the culmination of Bay Windows / Ventanas en saliente / 窗花, a trilingual, cross-cultural social practice project led by Yap, the daughter of Chinese immigrants. For this project, Yap received a 2025 Creative Capital Award, as well as additional support from the Zellerbach Family Foundation and others. This is Yap’s second project engaging this multigenerational cohort of women. Her first, in 2023, was the first contemporary art project in the history of the San Francisco Chinese New Year Parade, which dates back to the 1850s.

Each lantern will be accompanied by a trilingual statement by its designer, along with a link to a subtitled video interview, so that audiences can see and hear the participant speaking in her native language about what her papercut represents and how the process was for her. By creating and displaying lanterns and papercuts, Yap aims to bridge the two largest immigrant groups in San Francisco, who together comprise nearly 40% of the City’s population.

In addition to the lanterns—which will be visible for free to passersby 24/7 for three months—Galería de la Raza is slated to host a display about the project in its foyer beginning in December 2025, while the original paper cuts will be shown at the Chinese Culture Center’s Design Store starting in January 2026.

Yap, the five partner organizations, and the 15 collaborating designers will co-host a free scavenger hunt during the day on Saturday, January 24, 2026 between 11 am and 2pm. On that day, the public will be invited to visit the 15 lanterns for the chance to win prizes.

ABOUT THE LEAD ARTISTChristine Wong Yap (she/her) is a visual artist and social practitioner who gathers and amplifies grassroots perspectives on belonging and mental well being. Her project, “How I Keep Looking Up / Como Sigo Mirando Arriba / 仰望,” resulted in the first contemporary art project in the history of the 150-year-old San Francisco Chinese New Year Parade.

COLLABORATING DESIGNERSAiLan Xie 謝愛蘭, Cammi XingYu Huang 黃幸瑜, ChunMei “Amay” Cao 曹春梅, DanLi Xu 許丹麗, Lidia “Lupita” Iraheta, Marcela Escamilla, Mayra Alfaro, MiaoFen Guan 關妙芬, Nadia Rodriguez, Selina Luo 羅玉蓮, Tomasa Ramirez, YongYu “Ah Yu” Lei 雷泳瑜, YongYu “Yoyo” Situ 司徒咏瑜, YuJuan “Ah Juan” Chen 陳玉娟, Yurisma Gonzalez

MADE POSSIBLE WITH SUPPORT FROMCreative CapitalZellerbach Family FoundationNational Endowment for the ArtsA Blade of GrassAsian, Inc.

Los Nahuatlatos with Nick Gaitan
2025-12-05 19:00 - 21:30 | Galería de la Raza Studio 24, 2779 Folsom St. Suite A, San Francisco, California, 94110, United States
Galería de la Raza is excited to co-present a performance by San Antonio based, Los Nahuatlatos, featuring Houston’s own Nick Gaitan, at Galería’s Studio 24!

Tejas Roots meets Conjunto Blues in this musical journey through the soundscapes of the Texas frontera and Gulf Coast. A creative partnership over 10 years in the making, each of the four members front their own musical projects covering everything from Cumbias to Swamp Pop, Rhythm & Blues to Xicano Souls, and all stops in between.

Having toured throughout the country and recently returned from the American Folk Life Center at the National Library of Congress, Nick Gaitan, Nicolás Valdez, Joaquin Muerte and Luis Gonzalez, encapsulate a large spectrum of the Xicano diaspora with original songs, accordion driven grooves, and inspiring lyricism. This is dancing music for the Movimiento, so pónte trucha, Raza, and bust out them botas and calcos!

FREE ADMISSION!

Dragiarte
2025-12-12 19:00 - 22:00 | Galería de la Raza Studio 24, 2779 Folsom St. Suite A, San Francisco, California, 94110, United States
Cuándo quieras tu, divertirte más, y bailar sin fin, yo sé de un lugar… its December’s Dragiarte featuring Olga Talamante!

Celebrate all the Sagittarius birthdays with us at the Winter/Spring season opening of Chillonas Dragiarte. Join Galería and hostesses Sally Limón and La Chucha Rude as they transform living legend Olga Talamante into her drag alter ego. You don’t want to miss out!

Get your presale tickets at the link below for $15 or at the door for $20. This is a 21+ event.

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