Acción Latina Presents:

PASEO ARTISTICO: “De Colores”

Saturday June 28, 2025

12:00pm-8:00pm*

Various venues on 24th Street/Calle 24 Latino Cultural District, San Francisco 

Join Acción Latina and partners as we celebrate the vibrancy and resiliency of LGBTQ artists at Paseo Artístico Day, the Mission District’s only regular Free Bilingual Artwalk for the entire family.

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Come immerse yourself in all the beautiful colors of the Latine community at Paseo Artístico: De Colores in the Calle 24 Latino Cultural District Saturday June 28. The Mission District’s FREE bilingual community art stroll PASEO ARTISTICO returns with an all day event featuring performances and exhibits from some of the most talented artists in the neighborhood representing the LGBTQ community. 

The Mission District has always been proud of our diversity. Latino and Latine identity is not monolithic, but rather made of vibrants colors that express our passion for peace and justice. Queer artists from the Mission District have led many movements and established new traditions for decades; from Juan Pablo Gutierrez highlighting HIV and AIDS at Día de Los Muertos in the 1980’s to comedians Marga Gomez and Monica Palacios co-founding Culture Clash at Galería de la Raza. Paseo Artistico: De Colores will pay homage to this legacy of tradition and transformation by highlighting LGBTQ artists like writer/comedian Baruch Porras-Hernandez, Puerto Rican musicians Esotérica Tropical who released a critically acclaimed album, Mexican/Japanese ceramic artist Vivana Matsuda aka Mudwitch who integrates elements of their identity into their pottery, bachata class and social dance from Queerchata, theater in Spanish production Cuando Fuimos Humo from Teatro Comunitario, and so much more. As always Paseo Artistico is family friendly and free for the entire community. 

See below image for schedule of events

PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE: Paseo Artístico June 28, 2025 

12PM-4PM VIVIANA MATSUDA (Mudwitch), JAS (Ashe Ceramics )& ISABELA MUÑOZ (Munisa Ceramica)

 @ Artillery Ceramics Studio  2751 Mission St. (at 24th St)

12PM-2PM QUEERCHATA Dance Class with SUPERNOVA and Social Dance @ Dance Mission Theater  3316 24th St. 

1PM- MARIACHI CMC music @ 24th and Harrison St. Outdoor

2PM - CHAVALOS DANZA dancer performance @ Temo’s Café 3000 24th St. 

3PM - BARUCH PORRAS-HERNANDEZ and friends comedy @ Medicine for Nightmares Books & Gallery 3036 24th St.

4PM - TEATRO COMMUNITARIO Cuando Fuimos Humo, VALENTINA TRUJILLO Fantasmagorías (video conceptual) & Estudiantes del Instituto de Artes Cinematográficas de Avellaneda (Argentina) Dulces Criaturas (Cortometraje)- theater and films in Spanish @ Mission Cultural Center 2868 Mission St. 

5PM -  Dinner Break. Support local restaurants and businesses. 

6PM - ENCUENTRITOS CONCERT featuring Esotérica Tropical (Puerto Rican bomba influence) and Warango (Afro-Peruvian roots and percussion) @ Acción Latina 2958 24th St. 

For updated info go to www.paseoartistico.org

Paseo Artistico is produced quarterly by Acción Latina, Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, Dance Mission, Precita Eyes Muralists, Medicine For Nightmares Bookstore and Gallery, Community Music Center, Artillery Ceramics, Temo’s Café, Calle 24 Latino Cultural District. Special thanks for support from SFMTA.

Paseo poster design by Vero Orozco

For more info email <<paul@accionlatina.org>>

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Jas is a Black queer non-binary ceramic artist from South Florida, now based in San Francisco. With Jamaican and Irish heritage, their work explores ancestral reconnection through handbuilt ceramics rooted in West African and Caribbean traditions. Jas creates functional and spiritual vessels—planters, incense burners, offering bowls, deity figures—that honor Black identity, ritual, and everyday care. They teach wheel throwing and continue to deepen their craft through both teaching and personal practice. For Jas, working with clay is a way to heal, reclaim cultural knowledge, and build connections across time, place, and community.

My name is Viviana Matsuda and I am a queer Japanese/Mexican Artist from San Francisco. My dad was a ceramicist and when he passed away I was left with a bunch of pottery supplies. I took a ceramics class as a creative outlet to work through my grief. Using only my hands to turn earth was therapeutic. I spent hours making all sorts of random forms with no intentions. Some are chubby like me and have uneven curves. The colorful pieces are smooth or ruff, some have freckles, and are all so beautiful in their diversity.

Esotérica Tropical—María José Montijo’s debut album, Esotérica Tropical (2022), bears a deep bomba influence, both in its rhythms and collaborative nature. Conceived as a love letter to Puerto Rico from the diaspora. The result is an album full of healing songs meant to nourish and replenish us from constant oppression and the intergenerational wounds of colonization –a soundtrack for liberatory practices and joyous moods; a space for ritual and ceremony through song and dance. Ig: @esotericatropica

Warango is a musical project born in the city of Oakland, California, based in Afro-Peruvian musical roots and anchored in the strong presence of Afro-Peruvian percussion: Cajon, Cajita and Quijada de Burro (donkey's jawbone); instruments that are part of the resistance history of African descendants in Peru. In addition, our group has an influence of harmonies and melodies from classical and contemporary music that have enriched our proposal of Afro-Peruvian music.

This group is led by Pierr Padilla (Peru), musician and dancer, and composed of Javier Trujillo (Peru) on guitar, Kyla Danysh (USA) on violin, Pedro Rosales (Peru) on percussion and Alex Farrell (USA) on bass guitar & double bass.
ig: @warangomusic

 PREVIOUS PROGRAMS:

History Matters in the Mission Full show

Click above to see entire show of History Matters in the Mission video from October 23, 2021

History Matters in the Mission (HMM) documents important cultural, artistic and political events in the Mission District based on the archival material from 50 years of El Tecolote Bilingual Newspaper, and interviews with local legendary artists and activists from the early 1970’s including Yolanda Lopez, Michael Ríos, Juan Gonzales, Joan Holden and Carlos Barón. Lead artist and director Paul S. Flores interviewed each local luminary to craft performances as both interpretations and reenactments of important events in The Mission from the 1970’s that still resonate today. Flores collaborated with choreographer Vanessa Sanchez, who also plays Yolanda Lopez, and musician Pedro Gomez, costume designer Jessica Recinos, puppeteer Jonathan Youtt, actress Edna Mira Raia, and Augmented Reality designer Shamsher Virk, to recreate the sounds and looks of the five Mission luminaries whose stories will be performed at different sites along 24th Street in the Latino Cultural District. Each outdoor site and venue will host a 5-10 minutes performance highlighting one of the local legends. Augmented Reality featuring videos, artwork and archival photos from El Tecolote will be available for download through your smartphone.

Paseo Artistico is produced by Accion Latina and co-presenters within the Calle 24 Latino Cultural District art venues including Mission Cultural Center, Brava Theater, Dance Mission, Calle 24 Latino Cultural District, Adobe Books, Community Music Center, Precita Eyes, Alley Cat Books, Evolved Sf, SF Day Laborers and Domestic Workers, Loco Bloco and ZERO1

Paseo Artistico is a community collaborative proudly produced and managed by Acción Latina made possible by an Andrew Mellon Foundation grant

Paseo Artistico is managed and Produced by Accion Latina. Our primary community partner is Calle 24

Primary Community venues/partners include: Brava Theater, Precita Eyes Muralists, Adobe Books, Alley Cat Books, Dance Mission Theatre, Mission Cultural Center, Community Music Center, Loco Bloco, Calle 24 Latino Cultural District, ZERO1, and Evolved SF.

Please fill out the SURVEY from the event to give us feedback about you and your experience at Paseo Artistico. 

poster design by Chris Cuadrado.

Para más información por favor mande un correo electrónico a paseoartistico@accionlatina.org. O visite www.paseoartistico.org. 

Participatory Application

UPCOMING 2020 PASEOS: Feburary 15, April 11, June 13  

ARTIST PARTICIPATION APPLICATION

Please fill out this info sheet to share your desire to participate in Paseo Artistico and your artist information in order to for us to better understand and support your potential presentation at Paseo Artistico and other 24th Street arts venues. As a Paseo artist, your info will be shared with all the cultural venues on 24th Street/Calle 24 Latino Cultural District. These venues such as Alley Cat Books, Brava Theater, Mission Cultural Center, Adobe Books Dance Mission and more will reference your Mission Artist Application in Data Base from for future opportunities to present and produce work. Hopefully this leads to supporting your artistic sustainability in San Francisco so more people can enjoy your contributions.

DEADLINES:

Application for participation in Paseo deadline is always two weeks prior to Paseo Artistico. All entries must be submitted by 12PM PST.

CONTACT:

For further information and or clarification please email:

paseoartistico@accionlatina.org

APPLICATION

https://goo.gl/forms/2hpLjo9iQdM5CD7E2

CONTACT

For further information and or clarification please email: Paseoartistico@accionlatina.org

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