Some Lost Tribes of San Francisco
Adrianna Camarena, writer
Jaime Cortez, artist
Guillermo Gomez-Peña, artist
Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, writer
Aaron Shurin, poet
Rebecca Solnit, writer
Two maps about identity are featured in October. A joint project by Rebecca Solnit and artist Guillermo Gomez-Peña responds to the question "Who am I where?" with a wonderful exploration of the authors' contingent identities and circumstantial memories. "Tribes of San Francisco," by local artist Jaime Cortez, is a cartographic display of vanishing and arriving ethnicities and subcultures that have inhabited San Francisco.
In conjunction with Litquake SF, the largest independent literary festival on the West Coast, we celebrate the stories and voices of the Mission and the city at large in an evening emceed by local performance artist Gomez-Peña. Join us in the heart of the Mission for remarkable anecdotes and readings about San Francisco from Solnit, leader of the map project, and other contributors: Shurin ("Monarchs and Queens"), Jelly-Schapiro ("Shipyards and Sounds"), Cortez ("Tribes of San Francisco"), and Camarena ("The Mission: North of Home, South of Safe").
Admission free.
