Acción Latina Presents:

PASEO ARTÍSTICO: 10 Year Anniversary Block Party!

October 10, 2026

11AM-6PM

Harrison St. between 24th St. & 23rd St.

24th Street/Calle 24 Latino Cultural District  San Francisco, CA 

All programs are free for all ages

PASEO ARTÍSTICO CULMINATES 10 YEARS WITH OCTOBER 10th BLOCK PARTY!

Ten years ago, in 2016, Acción Latina and cultural community partners on 24th Street launched Paseo Artístico, the first family-friendly, bilingual community artwalk in the Mission District of San Francisco. With the intention to celebrate and promote the Calle 24 Latino Cultural District (formally recognized in 2014), Paseo Artístico became a major cultural activity in the Mission, uniting businesses, cultural arts venues, artists, families and community members, while building a powerful platform for Latinx artists development. In the past 10 years Paseo Artístico has presented over 2000 artists at 53 unique quarterly events. This October 10th Paseo Artístico will feature a Block Party on Harrison and 24th street with a live stage, a dozen cultural venues, multiple vendors, a dynamic line up of musical artists, DJs, painters, crafts, kids activities, community murals, dance performance, and poets who have performed at Paseo Artístico over the last 10 years. Invited artists for October 10 block Party include Inti Mystica, Agua Pura, Fogo Na Roupa, Sin Frontera Dreams, DJ Quest, Liliana Herrera, Mission District Young Musicians Program, Sew Frisco, and more! The event is free for entire family. 

Check www.paseoartistico for updated lineup and schedule. 

About Paseo Artístico  Bilingual Art Walk

Paseo Artístico is an interactive and collaborative, free bilingual Latinx Artwalk first produced in 2016 by artists and cultural organizations in Calle 24 Latino Cultural District. Accion Latina took over leadership of Paseo Artístico as a regular program in 2017 in collaboration with ten local cultural venues. Produced quarterly, each event has a corresponding theme: February is “Lovers Lane” celebrating Valentines Day and universal love for the Mission District; March is Women’s Leadership; May/June celebrates Labor Movements, Queer identity, Hip-Hop Arts, and October highlights performances from different decades of the El Tecolote’s Archives with “History Matters in the Mission.” October 2026 will celebrate the 10 year anniversary of Paseo Artístico.

Paseo Artistico is co-presented with Accion Latina by 24th Street cultural venues including Brava Theater, Dance Mission, Precita Eyes Muralists, Community Music Center, Medicine For Nightmares Bookstore & Gallery, Calle 24 Latino Cultural District, Made in The City, Evolved SF, Artillery AG Ceramics, Horizons Unlimited and Mission Cultural Center. 

Past collaborators include Adobe Books, Galería de La Raza, KQED, SF Museum of Modern Art, GAP Foundation, Hispanics in Philanthropy, Temo’s Cafe, La Victoria Bakery, Luz de Luna, The Frida’s Closet. Paseo Artístico has generously been funded by California Arts Council, San Francisco Arts Commission, Latino Community Foundation, and Mellon Foundation and generous donors. 

About Acción Latina

Accion Latina's mission is to promote cultural arts, community media and civic engagement as a way of building healthy and empowered Latino communities, particularly in the Bay Area. Our cornerstone media project, El Tecolote newspaper, began in 1970 as a journalism project in a Raza Studies class at SFSU addressing inadequate coverage of Latino issues in the media. In 1982, we began producing the Encuentro del Canto Popular, an annual festival of the genre of music called nueva canción, to celebrate Latin American music. In 2000—still operating as a mostly volunteer-run organization—Acción Latina purchased a 3,240 square foot building in what would become the 24th Street/Calle 24 Latino Cultural District. In 2015, we renovated our 24th Street façade to establish the Juan R. Fuentes Gallery, which seeks to showcase the work of established and emerging artists who depict the nuances of Latino life. The gallery now hosts 6-7 exhibitions annually. In partnership with other cultural arts organizations, in 2016 we initiated Paseo Artístico, a monthly art stroll within the Latino Cultural District. Last year, Accion Latina's cultural arts events drew 12,000 visitors. Accion Latina produces Paseo Artistico every three months with the help of an artistic curatorial committee and the participation of cultural venues, organizations and bookstores on 24th Street. On March 1, 2017, the San Francisco's Historic Preservation Commission designated Acción Latina a "legacy business."

PASEO ARTISTICO 10 Year Anniversary Show October 10 Block Party

PROGRAM SCHEDULE 

(24th Street Stage on street in front of Temo’s Cafe)

11AM-12PM  DJ Project / Horizons  

11:45AM Welcome: Producer Paul S. Flores / Acción Latina

11:50AM-11:55AM Nico Gonzales Medina / Acción Latina (KIDS ARTS TABLE)

12-12:30-  MDYMP/Community Music Center (MUSIC)   

12:35-12:40 Made in the City  (VENDORS)  

12:45-1:15  Liliana Herrera / BRAVA (MUSIC) 

1:20-1:25 Precita Eyes  (VISUAL) 

1:30-2:00   Sin Frontera Dreams & El Corazon de la Misión Baila / Calle 24 (MUSIC) 

2:20-2:25 Artillery Ceramic Studio (VISUAL community mural)

2:15-2:45   DJ Quest/ HORIZONS DJ Project

2:50-2:55  Amanda Ayala (VISUAL)

3PM-3:30  Kim Font / Medicine for Nightmares (MUSIC) 

        3:30-3:45 DJs

3:45-4:30  Agua Pura / Accion Latina (Salsa MUSIC) 

         4:30-4:45 DJs

4:45-5:30  Inti Mystica / Encuentritos (MUSIC)

          5:30 DJs

5:30-6PM  Fogo Na Roupa /Dance Mission (DANCE & MUSIC ) 

6PM breakdown (end)

MCs: Josue Rojas, Fatima Ramirez and Imelda Carrasco

Stage Mgr: Chris Cuadrado and Bill Martinez

Vendor Coordinator: Frank Gonzalez

Sound engineer:

Backline: Community Music Center

Kids Activity: Nico Gonzales- Medina

poster design by Xavi Moreno

PREVIOUS PROGRAMS

ABOUT THE ARTISTS : Raise Your Voice / Levanta La Voz !

Stoop Sessions: Stoop Sessions started as a series of pop-up shows around San Francisco featuring the Top Chefs & friends. Now, it's evolved into a platform for artists of all genres to have their songs reimagined by the band! The Top Chefs are a powerhouse live band based in San Francisco. Known for their dynamic performances that blend hip-hop, jazz, R&B, and soul, the group transforms stages with a sound that is both forward-thinking and rooted in tradition. In 2026, you can look forward to their debut album and their viral new content series, Stoop Sessions, where they perform live with a variety of artists in the San Francisco streets.

Mariachi CMC: Mariachi CMC, a community based ensemble directed by Community Music Center’s Martha Rodríguez-Salazar that explores the history and the different musical styles of Mariachi. Mariachi CMC will perform from its repertoire of traditional Mariachi music and instructors, Miguel Govea and Daphne Gonzalez-Cambambia.

Ancestral Dreams Collective We are a collective of young queer and trans POC artists who explore linocut printmaking as personal and political art. We create art as a way to connect further with our present selves, our ancestors, and with community. Our art brings our ancestors' stories and the futures we imagine into reality and radically envisions a different way of being, relating, and loving each other. We aim to produce art that disrupts, awakens, and calls people into the struggle for our collective freedom. Our collective works span across and between several mediums and research topics, including film photography, performance, painting, ceramics, comics, poetry, risograph, zines, and printmaking. Our collaboration began as a cohort of young queer people learning how to print linocut at SOMArts, as a part of the Queer Ancestors Project. In October 2025, our collective designed and installed an altar, “Bring some home with you”, for the annual SOMArts Dia de Muertos exhibition.

Instagram @ancestraldreamsco

Lourdes Figueroa is the editor of The Magnolia Tree Grazing: A Celebration of Queer Poetics Anthology Project, a poetry anthology and workshop series reflecting the diverse queer voices forming Bay Area Literary Landscape. This artisan made book grew from a six-week generative poetry workshop crafted by Lourdes Figueroa in the Mission District, focusing on bipocx queer poetics offering a tender space to explore and create poetry. The printed anthology is a collaboration between Lourdes Figueroa, The Celebration of Queer Poetics Workshop, and Murciélago Prensa, Cinthia Marisol Lozano Garcia Amaya. This artist/event is copresented by the San Francisco Flor Y Canto : Over the course of three days, the San Francisco Flor y Canto 2026 festival takes over The Mission with a literary and cultural celebration. Led by the legacy of the city's first Latino poet laureate, Alejandro Murguia, the festival honors La Mission's rich literary lineage while welcoming voices from California to around the world. From the opening invocation in Balmy Alley to poetry readings echoing through Calle Veinte Cuatro and inside participating businesses like Precita Eye, Acción Latina and Medicine for Nightmares Books & Gallery—the festival brings together acclaimed authors and poets. Throughout the three-day span, the festival fosters connections and community, reading, poetry, art, youth events and more. Don’t miss the magic of words and creativity, they become part of a collective narrative that celebrates the beauty of literature and the enduring spirit of La Mission.

Batey Tambó: Batey Tambó is an Oakland and San Francisco-based, women of color-led, cultural group grounded in the centuries-old musical tradition of Afro-Indigenous Puerto Rican Bomba. Batey Tambó director/founder Denise Solís (La Bombera de la Bahia), founded one of the first ever all female Bomba ensembles, Las Bomberas de la Bahia, and more recently co-founded and co-led, Taller Bombalele. She has been a student of Bomba since 2001 and continues to learn from maestrx and elders from Puerto Rico and the Diaspora. Denise Solis is one of the first women to play the subidor (lead drum) in the tradition of Bomba. 

Batuki (often known as Batería Batuki) is a dynamic, San Francisco-based Afro-Brazilian music and dance collective that blends Afro-Latin rhythms, hip-hop, funk, and electronic sounds. Formed during the pandemic, they are well-known for their vibrant performances at festivals like SF Carnaval and the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival. Batuki has served as an artist-in-residence at the historic Ruth Williams Opera House (Bayview Opera House) in the Bayview neighborhood. The group frequently hosts interactive drumming workshops (Roda de Timbau) and cultural arts events throughout the city, notably as part of the Paseo Artístico stroll in the Calle 24 Latino Cultural District. They play a high-energy fusion inspired by the traditional batuque drum circles of Brazil, emphasizing community healing, collective participation, and cultural exchange.

Josiah Flores: Part-time poet turned melodic storyteller, Chicano singer/songwriter Josiah Flores puts music to the parts of life most tend to hide from. From the foothills of south San Jose to the foggy avenues of San Francisco, he calls the Bay Area his home. Influenced by the likes of Stoney Edwards, Freddy Fender, and Willie Dunn, if one were to sit in a dimly-lit corner of their local watering hole, hunched over a beer, they would find Josiah’s songs sitting down next to them.

Mala Greña - Mala Greña is a Queer fronted Dark Psych Cumbia project from the bay area. Cumbia en contra de cistemas! Playing Cumbia classics from everywhere and originals taking Cumbia into Dark Psicodélica with a little bit of a stoner rebajada feel, interweaving between different genres such as Huapango, Mambo, Bolero and more. Our music touches on queer identity, Fighting against and surviving in colonized systems and building community.

 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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