SATURDAY: Houseless/Poor Mamas Write Homes with Poems, 2025 Premiere

Date(s) & Time(s): Saturday May 10, 5pm

Duration: 120 mins

Venue: Monkeybrains

Location: 933 Treat Ave, SF, CA 94110

Sliding Scale Tickets $0 - $20. No-one turned away. Available at door or online at sfiaf.org/2025_poor_magazine

About: Po' Poets of POOR Magazine (poor, houseless, disabled, youth and elder poets in resistance) presents writing from street, shelter and community-based theatre/poetry workshops with poor and houseless mamas. Followed by a trailer screening of "Crushing Wheelchairs" (co-directed by Adrian Diamond and Muteado Silencio, cinematography by Green Diamond Projects) featuring poems from their poetry/theatre collection. Both the movie and poetry collection are focused on "Mamafesting" (Tiny gray-garcia) healing-housing called Homefulness (a homeless peoples' solution to homelessness currently housing 22 families in Oakland) in SF. Through cultural art, vision, prayer and poetry with 1st Nations spiritual guidance, Homefulness is coming to Yelamu (SF).

UnTour Book Release Ceremony

When: Tuesday, May 20 at 6pm

Where: City Lights Books (261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco)

Join us for the release of "UnTourBook Across Occupied Turtle Island: Klanmarks, Manuments, and Plakkks!"