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 the first half of the show, we focus on the Filipino community. Members of SOMA Pilipinas [1] Alleluia Panis, artistic director of Kularts [2], 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's [3] Resistance to Urban Renewal timeline [4].

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 [5]), 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 [6]), a people of color-led maker/hacker space (LOL – Liberating Ourselves Locally [7]) that is now a program of Peacock Rebellion, and a queer and trans people of color arts + healing organization (Peacock Rebellion [8]).

Community Calendar

Tomorrow, the International Hotel Manilatown Center host Club Mandalay [9]. This free, family-friendly music club starts at 7 p.m. and features jazz sets by house band, The Autonomous Region.

Pistahan Parade and Festival [10] is Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Yerba Buena Gardens

[1] http://www.somapilipinas.org/

[2] http://www.kularts.org/

[3] https://freedomarchives.org/

[4] https://cdn.knightlab.com/libs/timeline3/latest/embed/index.html

[5] http://www.cyclesofchange.org/

[6] http://shaolinlife.org/

[7] http://oaklandmakerspace.wordpress.com/

[8] http://www.peacockrebellion.org/

[9] https://www.facebook.com/events/285517038694435/

[10] http://www.pistahan.net/