2019 — The Lab

The Lab

2948 16th St San Francisco, CA, 94103

(415) 864-8855

The Lab is a nonprofit experimental art and performance space located in the Mission District of San Francisco.

Legend Willie Perdomo reads from his new book “The Crazy Bunch” with Tongo Eisen-Martin
May
14
7:30 PM19:30

Legend Willie Perdomo reads from his new book “The Crazy Bunch” with Tongo Eisen-Martin

7:30-9:00pm, readings start promptly at 8pm
$8 entry (no one turned away for lack of funds), free for members

Willie Perdomo is the author of The Crazy Bunch, The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; Smoking Lovely, winner of the PEN Open Book Award; and Where a Nickel Costs a Dime, a finalist for the Poetry Society of America Norma Farber First Book Award. His work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Poetry, The Common, Bomb Magazine, and African Voices. He teaches at Phillips Exeter Academy.

Originally from San Francisco, Tongo Eisen-Martin is a poet, movement worker, and educator. His latest curriculum on extrajudicial killing of Black people, We Charge Genocide Again, has been used as an educational and organizing tool throughout the country. His book titled, "Someone's Dead Already" was nominated for a California Book Award. His latest book "Heaven Is All Goodbyes" was published by the City Lights Pocket Poets series, was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize and won a California Book Award and an American Book Award.

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Sadie Barnette: The New Eagle Creek Saloon
May
11
to Jun 30

Sadie Barnette: The New Eagle Creek Saloon

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Sadie Barnette’s newest installation reimagines her father’s bar – the first black-owned gay bar in San Francisco. From 1990-93 Rodney Barnette operated the New Eagle Creek Saloon, a family-run business which served a multiracial gay community marginalized by the racist profiling practices of San Francisco’s bar scene at that time.

Barnette’s installation will be activated at The Lab with a series of free events during May and early June and will culminate as a float in the SF PRIDE Parade on June 30, 2019. As part of The Lab’s artist commissioning program, Barnette will get keys to our space, the login for our website, and the option to revise every aspect of The Lab’s operations.

UPCOMING:

The New Eagle Creek Saloon will be open for viewing every Wednesday in June from 5-8pm

June 30, 10:30am: Sadie Barnette’s The New Eagle Creek Saloon gets wheels and goes to Pride!

Sadie Barnette is from Oakland, California. She earned a BFA from CalArts and an MFA from the University of California, San Diego. Her work has been exhibited throughout the United States and internationally and is in the permanent collections of museums such as LACMA, Berkeley Art Museum, the California African American Museum, the Cornell Fine Arts Museum, the Pérez Art Museum in Miami, Studio Museum in Harlem (where she was also Artist-in-Residence), Brooklyn Museum and the Guggenheim. She is the recipient of Art Matters and Artadia awards and has been featured in publications such as The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Artforum, and Vogue. She lives in Oakland, CA.  sadiebarnette.com

Sadie Barnette: The New Eagle Creek Saloon was commissioned with support from the California Arts Council, the San Francisco Arts Commission, Fort Point Beer Co., Tito’s Handmade Vodka, the members, and Board of The Lab.

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