Galeria de la Raza

Exhibition Opening: Our Language, Our Story
2025-10-18 15:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | 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.

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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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Galería de la Raza Holiday Office Closure
2025-12-22 00:00 - 2026-01-02 23:59 | Galería de la Raza Studio 24, 2779 Folsom St. Suite A, San Francisco, California, 94110, United States
Galería de la Raza will be closed for the winter holiday from Monday, December 22, 2025 through Friday, January 2, 2026. We will be back in the office on Monday, January 5, 2026. ¡Felices Fiestas!

Dragiarte
2026-01-10 19:00 - 22:00 | Galería de la Raza Studio 24, 2779 Folsom St. Suite A, San Francisco, California, 94110, United States
Celebrate all things queer, Latine, and DRAG with hostesses Sally Limón and La Chucha Rude as they transform the one and only Rio Yañez for his first time in drag as the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce!

Bring your dollar bills and join us on Saturday, January 10 to experience this highly anticipated performance!

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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Bay Windows: Scavenger Hunt
2026-01-24 11:00 - 14:00 | Galería de la Raza Studio 24, 2779 Folsom St. Suite A, San Francisco, California, 94110, United States
Galería de la Raza invites you to experience Bay Windows: Illuminating Immigrant Women’s Perspectives, a citywide public art installation by Christine Wong Yap that brings immigrant women’s stories across neighborhoods. Fifteen sculptural lanterns glow from storefront windows bridging Chinatown and the Mission District, each a papercut created by a Chinese or Latina immigrant woman. Together, these works illuminate shared experiences around workers’ rights, housing, public safety, and mental health.

Join Galería and the other partner organizations for a free scavenger hunt throughout San Francisco. Find 15 unique lanterns in Chinatown and the Mission District. Interact with the makers, gather trivia, and collect stamps for the chance to win prizes.Fun, free, and family-friendly!

Start your adventure at:– Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco’s Design Store, 41 Ross Alley– Galería de la Raza’s Studio 24, 2779 Folsom Street Suite A

Please RSVP to receive updates. Encouraged, but not required.

RSVP HERE

Actividad de Búsqueda del tesoro: sábado, 24 de enero de 2025, 11:00 AM a 2:00 PM.

Encuentra 15 linternas de diseño único en Chinatown y el Distrito Misión. Convive con sus creadoras, realiza la trivia y colecta las estampillas para tener la oportunidad de ganar premios.

¡Divertido, gratuito y para toda la familia!

Comienza tu aventura en:– Tienda de diseño del Centro Cultural Chino de San Francisco, 41 Ross Alley– Galería de la Raza, Studio 24, 2779 Folsom Street Suite A

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REGÍSTRATE AQUI

尋寶遊戲

2025年1月24日(星期六) 上午11點至下午2點

在華埠(Chinatown)與米慎區(Mission District)尋找15盞獨具特色的燈籠。與燈籠製作者互動，了解趣味知識並收集印章、獲得贏取獎品的機會。

趣味十足、免費參加、闔家同樂！

開啟冒險之旅：– 舊金山中華文化中心舊呂宋巷41號，41 Ross Alley– Galería de la Raza’s Studio 24, 2779 Folsom Street Suite A

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On view: The Living Altars by Ivan Lopez
2026-01-30 00:00 - 2026-03-31 23:59 | California
Galería de la Raza is proud to present The Living Altars by ReGen Artist Fund grantee, Ivan Lopez. The Living Altars is a public art project consisting of six outdoor sculptures inviting our Mission community to pause, reflect, and contribute by interacting with the sculpture in a public space. Rooted in the belief that words and images have the power to shape our dreams, our healing, and the future of our neighborhood, visitors can engage with the accompanying medicinal plant and can contribute to the shared journals at each sculpture. Over time, the altar becomes a living archive—a collective vision built from the hopes, dreams, and voices of our neighbors. The six sculptures are stewarded by local businesses along Mission Street to encourage the public to reflect on their relationship with the commons, public space, and community.

Visit each sculpture on Mission Street and contribute to the shared journals! Follow the map above for a self-guided tour of the project.

ReGen Artist Fund: The Living Altars Sculpture Walk
2026-01-30 15:00 - 17:00 | California
Galería de la Raza is proud to present The Living Altars by ReGen Artist Fund grantee, Ivan Lopez. The Living Altars is a public art project consisting of six outdoor sculptures inviting our Mission community to pause, reflect, and contribute by interacting with the sculpture in a public space. Rooted in the belief that words and images have the power to shape our dreams, our healing, and the future of our neighborhood, visitors can engage with the accompanying medicinal plant and can contribute to the shared journals at each sculpture. Over time, the altar becomes a living archive—a collective vision built from the hopes, dreams, and voices of our neighbors. The six sculptures are stewarded by local businesses along Mission Street to encourage the public to reflect on their relationship with the commons, public space, and community.

Join us on a sculpture walk on January 30th to launch the project and visit all six altars in the neighborhood. A celebration follows at Artillery Ceramics at 2751 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110.

Closing Reception & Artist Talk
2026-01-31 13:00 - 16:00 | Galería de la Raza Studio 24, 2779 Folsom St. Suite A, San Francisco, California, 94110, United States
Our Language, Our Story & The Window Project

Join us for an afternoon in conversation with Our Language, Our Story in dialogue with The Window Project – two powerful visual art projects that center immigrant voices, community wisdom, and collective resilience.

This conversation brings together artists and collaborators to celebrate these projects while engaging in an important dialogue on immigration, language accessibility, and the lived experiences of migrant communities. Joyce Xi and Sergio de la Torre will be joined by guest speaker Winnie Kao from the Asian Law Caucus to reflect on how art can amplify voices, build understanding, and inspire meaningful action.

RSVP by clicking the button below. Please note, seating is limited. Seating priority will be given to early arrivals, elders, and people with disabilities.

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About the Projects

Our Language, Our StoryPresented by Galería de la Raza in collaboration with photographer Joyce Xi and the Asian Law Caucus, Our Language, Our Story is a call toward a more inclusive future. The exhibition honors the insight, strength, and lived experiences shared by community members whose stories shape the Bay Area.

The Window ProjectAs you visit, we also invite you to also make a pit stop by Galería’s Studio 16, where The Window Project remains on view for a limited time.You won’t want to miss the stunning window displays filled with powerful photographs and bold artwork. This project serves as an accessible community hub—offering know-your-rights information alongside stories of immigration, remittances, street vending, and cultural pride.

The Magnolia Tree Gazing: A Celebration of Queer Poetics Anthology Launch and Reading
2026-02-07 16:00 - 19:00 | Galería de la Raza Studio 24, 2779 Folsom St. Suite A, San Francisco, California, 94110, United States
Galería de la Raza is excited to invite you to the launch of The Magnolia Tree Gazing: A Celebration of Queer Poetics Anthology by ReGen Artist Fund grantee Lourdes Figueroa.

The Celebration of Queer Poetics Anthology Project is a poetry anthology and workshop series reflecting the diverse queer voices forming Bay Area Literary Landscape. This artisan made book grew from a six-week generative poetry workshop crafted by Lourdes Figueroa in the Mission District, focusing on bipocx queer poetics offering a tender space to explore and create poetry. The printed anthology is a collaboration between Lourdes Figueroa, The Celebration of Queer Poetics Workshop, and Murciélago Prensa, Cinthia Marisol Lozano Garcia Amaya.

Join us for a night of love and ternura to celebrate the first volume of this anthology and hear the work created by workshop poets Juju Martinez, María Esquinca, Maribel Martínez, Melí Gómez, Michelle Ngô, and Zander Moreno.

The AO Series - Alexa Treviño & Anthony Jimenez
2026-03-07 00:00 - 2026-05-09 23:59 | Galería de la Raza Studio 24, 2779 Folsom St. Suite A, San Francisco, California, 94110, United States
Galería de la Raza is proud to present Part One of The AO Series, the first installment of a three-part exhibition celebrating the culmination of the ReGen Artist Fund Cohorts 1 and 2.

The AO Series represents a significant investment in San Francisco’s creative arts sector, directly funding 15 artists and regranting $250K over the past two years. This series highlights the work of six grantees, offering the public an opportunity to experience the depth, regenerative spirit, and at times collaborative nature of each artist’s completed body of work.

These projects were made possible through the ReGen Artist Fund, a small grants program that pairs financial support with professional development. In addition to funding, participating artists receive training in grant writing and program planning, equipping them to develop competitive proposals for future opportunities. The fund is as much a commitment to artistic growth as it is to community investment. Encouraged to think critically about how art can reshape societal narratives, these artists examine their roles as cultural bearers while addressing stories and perspectives often overlooked in today’s politically charged climate.

Through exploring portraiture through traditional painting and technology, in this series, artists Alexa Treviño and Anthony Jimenez explore how we carry and honor family and community, memories, and place.

Join us in celebrating the kick off of The Artist Oeuvres

Opening

Saturday, March 7, 2026

7:00 PM – 10:00 PM

Dragiarte
2026-03-28 19:00 - 22:00 | Galería de la Raza Studio 24, 2779 Folsom St. Suite A, San Francisco, California, 94110, United States
✨Get your hairspray, comb, and shag ready, it’s time for another edition of Dragiarte.✨

Join Galería de la Raza and Chillonas on Saturday, March 28 to celebrate all things queer, Latine, and DRAG! Find out how hostesses Sally Limón and La Chucha Rude transform Mission homeboy, Norman Zelaya into their drag alter ego. You don’t want to miss out!

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

Please note: seating is limited. Priority will be given to early arrivals, elders, and people with disabilities.

Get Tickets

Lunada New Moon Fest 2026
2026-04-17 17:00 - 22:00 | Galería de la Raza Studio 24, 2779 Folsom St. Suite A, San Francisco, California, 94110, United States
For the past 25 years, Lunada Literary Lounge has gathered on the full moon to honor spoken word, poetry, musica, and literatura. On its silver anniversary, Galería will instead gather under the new moon, holding three seasonal gatherings on April 17, June 14, and October 10, 2026.

Although shrouded in darkness, the new moon signifies new beginnings, limitless possibilities, and rejuvenation.This lunar phase allows us to set intentions with a blank slate, and give ourselves and our community moments to re-energize with art and the words of our community during destabilization and high anxiety.

Embrace the new moon. Celebrate creativity. Connect with community.

This season we will feature twice the features, music, vendors and a stacked open mic. The 2026 season kick off is on Friday, April 17th. Don’t forget to mark your calendars for the remainder of the fest happening Sunday, June 14th and Saturday, October 10th.

Open mic sign ups for April 17 are starting now, visit the link below to claim a spot in the line up.

CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP

Free admission.

About the Features

Andrea Cruz—a.k.a. Diabbla—was born in Chicago, Illinois, and possesses deep Mexican roots. She is a multifaceted artist who brings a fresh, new versatility to the music scene. She inherited her singing talent from her family at a young age and as she grew and honed her vocal skills, she began to branch out into the world of rap at age 15.

Steeped in the “old school” traditions of the genre, Diabbla draws inspiration from artists such as Cypress Hill, Control Machete, Akwid, West Coast legends, Molotov, and many others. Over the years, she has seamlessly blended rapping with singing, incorporating elements of R&B, Jazz, Boom Bap, Trap, Drill, and more.

Diabbla is currently based in San Francisco, California area where she continues to expand her reach across new horizons, firmly believing that no border can ever contain her sound or her name. She promises to be an artist who offers far more than just a particular image; her true desire is to leave a lasting legacy through her compositions, ensuring that listeners can truly feel and connect with every single bar she delivers from her own personal life.

Karina Gamez is an emerging writer, born to Salvadoran immigrants and raised in the Bay Area, CA. She is a recent graduate of New York University, where her academic and literary work has been grounded in El Salvador, exploring themes of state violence, historical memory, war, exile, migration, caretaking, illness, and love. Her writing has appeared in rhizomag, Confluence, among other publications. She is also an organizer with the Bay Area chapter of the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES).

The AO Series - Anna Colom & Nayelli Rosas
2026-06-06 00:00 - 2026-08-22 23:59 | Galería de la Raza Studio 24, 2779 Folsom St. Suite A, San Francisco, California, 94110, United States
Galería de la Raza is proud to present Part One of The AO Series, the second installment of a three-part exhibition celebrating the culmination of the ReGen Artist Fund Cohorts 1 and 2.

The AO Series represents a significant investment in San Francisco’s creative arts sector, directly funding 15 artists and regranting $250K over the past two years. This series highlights the work of six grantees, offering the public an opportunity to experience the depth, regenerative spirit, and at times collaborative nature of each artist’s completed body of work.

These projects were made possible through the ReGen Artist Fund, a small grants program that pairs financial support with professional development. In addition to funding, participating artists receive training in grant writing and program planning, equipping them to develop competitive proposals for future opportunities. The fund is as much a commitment to artistic growth as it is to community investment. Encouraged to think critically about how art can reshape societal narratives, these artists examine their roles as cultural bearers while addressing stories and perspectives often overlooked in today’s politically charged climate.

Within Part Two of the AO Series, artists Anna Colom and Nayelli Rosas explore gender expression, safe placemaking, and cultural ties through portraiture and design, using tattooing and photography as forms of resistance, empowerment, and self-expression.

Join us in celebrating the kick off of The Artist Oeuvres

Opening

Saturday, June 6, 2026

7:00 PM – 10:00 PM

Lunada New Moon Fest 2026
2026-06-14 17:00 - 22:00 | Galería de la Raza Studio 24, 2779 Folsom St. Suite A, San Francisco, California, 94110, United States
For the past 25 years, Lunada Literary Lounge has gathered on the full moon to honor spoken word, poetry, musica, and literatura. On its silver anniversary, Galería will instead gather under the new moon, holding three seasonal gatherings on April 17, June 14, and October 10, 2026.

Although shrouded in darkness, the new moon signifies new beginnings, limitless possibilities, and rejuvenation.This lunar phase allows us to set intentions with a blank slate, and give ourselves and our community moments to re-energize with art and the words of our community during destabilization and high anxiety.

The ritual of gathering transforms to fulfill what we as a community need to thrive. As we lead up to each seasonal gathering, poets will join us along the way providing offerings of their work in digital format. 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.

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.

Dragiarte
2026-06-20 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 and Chillonas bring DRAGIARTE to Studio 24 with featured icon, Lito Sandoval, being put in drag for the first time!

Join Galería de la Raza and Chillonas on June 20 to celebrate all things queer, Latine, and DRAG with hostesses Sally Limón and La Chucha Rude as they transform Chicano icon Lito Sandoval.

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.

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

Please note: seating is limited. Priority will be given to early arrivals, elders, and people with disabilities.

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