Tonight, we explore the importance of space. Whether we’re talking about living space or our social surroundings, if you don’t own or manage the venue, you may be in a precarious situation. In this segment, we focus on the effects of Redevelopment on Filipinos in San Francisco’s South of Market community through the lens of Alleluia Panis, a longtime cultural worker and artistic director of Kularts, and MC Canlas, local historian and cultural specialist for the Filipino American Development Foundation.
To tell the modern day story about displacement and land ownership in San Francisco, you have to start with the International Hotel. This weekend, I went to the annual commemoration of the eviction. Board member Carlos Zialcita kicked off the event.
Tonight, we explore the importance of space. Whether we’re talking about living space or our social surroundings, if you don’t own or manage the venue, you may be in a precarious situation.
Bayanihan Community Center
MC Canlas
Alleluia Panis
In the first half of the show, we focus on the Filipino community. Members of SOMA Pilipinas Alleluia Panis, artistic director of Kularts, and MC Canlas, cultural specialist for the Filipino American Development Foundation, talk about the effects of Redevelopment on San Francisco’s South of Market community. More information is available at Freedom Archive’sResistance to Urban Renewal timeline.
The team that liberated 23rd Ave Community Building. Photo by Steve King.
Then we’ll go across the bay and spotlight a victory. The Liberate 23rd Ave Community Building campaign is an amazing victory, keeping a Queer and Trans People of Color space in the hands of the community. Guests include Eri Oura and Eugene Kang from Cycles of Change, Devi Peacock from Peacock Rebellion, and Ricardo Andrade, a long-time resident at the space.
This mix-use building is home to a community bike shop (The Bikery, part of Cycles of Change), a Queer & Trans People Of Color collectively-run house and community garden (SOL – Sustaining Ourselves Locally), a martial arts and self-defense studio (Shaolin Life), a people of color-led maker/hacker space (LOL – Liberating Ourselves Locally) that is now a program of Peacock Rebellion, and a queer and trans people of color arts + healing organization (Peacock Rebellion).
Community Calendar
Tomorrow, the International Hotel Manilatown Center host Club Mandalay. This free, family-friendly music club starts at 7 p.m. and features jazz sets by house band, The Autonomous Region.
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