On the first Tuesday of each month The News, presented by SOMArts Cultural Center, features new, queer work by Bay Area artists. The News is a monthly cabaret evening that spotlights 10-minute or less performance pieces, experiments, and works in progress by pre-selected solo artists, groups, or troupes. On Tuesday, August 2, The News is guest-hosted by Baruch Porras Hernandez, and promises a night of queer/punk culture-fucking liberation with sonic beats, 6 inch heels and colorful explosions! Drawing [...]

On the first Tuesday of each month The News, presented by SOMArts Cultural Center, features new, queer work by Bay Area artists. The News is a monthly cabaret evening that spotlights 10-minute or less performance pieces, experiments, and works in progress by pre-selected solo artists, groups, or troupes. On Tuesday, May 3, The News will feature an evening of “wild cards” – performers who we have wanted to share the stage with but haven’t had a [...]

On the first Tuesday of each month, SOMArts Cultural Center presents The News, featuring new, queer work by Bay Area artists. The News is a monthly cabaret evening that spotlights 10-minute or less performance pieces, experiments, and works in progress by pre-selected solo artists, groups, or troupes. On Tuesday, November 1, The News is guest-hosted by Amanda and Natalia Vigil, and promises a night of interdisciplinary and experimental queer performance by Bay Area artists. This special night is themed Legacy, in [...]

SOMArts is proud to partner with Global Street Dance Masquerade artistic director Rashad Pridgen to present The Black Lives Masquerade on Saturday, February 25. Beginning at Zaccho Dance Theatre (1777 Yosemite Ave, San Francisco) at 3:00 pm, this site-specific performance will travel through the Bayview neighborhood to remember and honor San Franciscans who have been lost to police brutality and injustice. The performance procession will finish at the Bayview Opera House (4705 3rd St) with a community celebration and reception. The Black [...]

On the first Tuesday of each month, SOMArts Cultural Center presents The News, featuring new, queer work by Bay Area artists. The News is a monthly cabaret evening that spotlights 10-minute or less performance pieces, experiments, and works in progress by pre-selected solo artists, groups, or troupes. On Tuesday, March 7, Star Amerasu presents “The Girls”, a night showcasing the amazing works of transfemmes of color in our community. This version of the “The News will bring [...]

SOMArts is proud to partner with the Global Street Dance Masquerade and Artistic Director Rashad Pridgen to present: The Black Lives Masquerade & The Elevation of Black Men on East 14th in Oakland This creative direct action is the closing installment of The Global Street Dance Masquerade’s partnership with SOMArts. The Black Lives Masquerade returns to Oakland accompanied by local black male dancers, artist, activists and leaders to creatively reflect on manhood, survival and perseverance as a creative response to The [...]

Reorienting the Imaginaries presents a controversial study of the racialized and gendered form, insomuch that understanding the complexities of confronting one’s own (mis)representations becomes catalysts for subversion and creation of autonomous futures.   Take part in an intimate community dinner and discussion examining the impact of culture and identity misrepresentation on food, art, clothing, and health. Food will be provided by Oakland Bloom, whose mission is “to provide resources for aspiring food business owners from the [...]