Commemorative Sidewalk Plaques Project Moves Forward

An important part of our work is helping residents, workers and visitors appreciate the history and culture of the District’s buildings and streets.

We are working on a project to install bronze plaques at key historic locations around SoMa, in cooperation with the SF Arts Commission, Public Works, the SFMTA, and with funding provided by local developers.  You can read about it in the September 2020 Bay Area Reporter article, easily viewable here.

Resolution authorizing the plaques has now been unanimously approved by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors (as reported in this article  from the Bay Area Reporter).

Additional design reviews and approvals are still required.  Your presence and comments (via Zoom, or by email in advance) will be much appreciated.  Please consider signing up for our SOMA Action Network so we can let you know when we need that help. 

If all goes well, the first plaques should be installed as part of the Department of Public Works’ upgrade to Folsom Street, hopefully starting later this year.

Meanwhile, we invite you to view this presentation about the plaque project.  

View Presentation (PDF file)

Thanks!

Guaranteed Income for SF Artists

New News! 
There will be a special Zoom event this Saturday
to provide more info and an answer questions about the
Guaranteed Income Pilot For SF Based Artists.  

Saturday April 10, 2021   10:30 AM

Join Zoom Meeting here
Or call 16699006833 and use Meeting ID: 820 2830 9679 and Passcode: 979481

A pilot program has been created to provide monthly income to selected San Francisco artists, and applications are now open.

  • Funded by the San Francisco Arts Commission
  • Administered by the Yerba Buena Center For The Arts
  • 130 artists, randomly selected
  • whose artistic practice is rooted in a historically marginalized community,
  • live in Zip codes 94102, 94110, 94112, 94124, 94134, 94103, 94107, 94109, 94115, 94117, 94130, 94158, or 94108, 
  • meet income eligibility, and
  • face loss of income due to the COVID-19 pandemic,
  • will receive six regular monthly payments of $1000 between May 21 and October 1, 2021.
  • These are disaster relief payments, and will not be taxed.  May affect benefits.   

For full information and to apply
click here!
Applications close April 15, 2021.

“The arts are truly critical to our local economy and are an essential part of our long-term recovery. If we help the arts recover, the arts will help San Francisco recover. This new program is an innovative effort to help our creative sector get through this challenging time, and come back even stronger and more resilient than before.”
– The Honorable Mayor London Breed

MASCellenaous Workshops to Explore Queer Masculinity

Diamond Wave, a San Francisco-based Bay queer arts organization, has announced a spring/summer creative workshop series called MASCellaneous 2021.  Artistic director Kevin Seaman and their team have selected six Bay Area queer artists to lead 60- to 90-minute workshops centering their creative practices and how they intersect with queer masculinities.

Wednesday, April 7
MASCellaneous: Angels and Demons: Becoming Your Own Legend
with theatre artist Rotimi Agbabiaka

Thursday, April 22
MASCellaneous: HOW TO GENDER
with writer Stuart Getty

Tuesday, April 27
MASCellaneous: Day Look Makeup
with drag & cosplay artist KaiKai Bee Michaels / Kai Gault

Wednesday, May 12
MASCellaneous: Studly Stories: Storytelling for Masc-of-Center Queers
with drag & media artist Kyle Casey Chu

Monday, May 24
MASCellaneous: We All Wear Mascs
with drag artist Jota Mercury

Thursday, June 10
MASCellaneous: Remembering Gender Dualisms | Decolonizing Binaries
with performer Javier Stell-Fresquez

All workshops are free with registration and begin at 6:00 pm PT via Zoom. For more info, or to register, visit www.diamond-wave.org.  More info also at their Facebook page.