Thursday December 11, 2025

At Dodge Alley (Turk & Larkin St.)

Free to attend | No registration required | $15 vouchers for food/drink at nearby businesses first come first serve

TLM teams up with Movement, a local “musical discovery platform” highlighting immigrant musicians, to present a special musical encounter between master musicians for 2nd Thursdays at Dodge Alley. Fresh off the release of her latest album Volver a la Luz, singer songwriter Diana Gameros will share original songs and Mexican classics with her longtime collaborator multi-intstrumentalist Patrick Wolff. Sudanese vocalist Salma Al Assal shares a set of aghaani banaat mixed with reggae and soul (rescheduled from November). The TL’s La Voz Latina organizes early Posada festivities for the holiday season!

Thursday December 4, 2025 | 6-9PM

at The Compton’s Cafeteria Riot play venue | 835 Larkin St. SF, CA 94109

Free to attend | No registration required

Tenderloin Museum and The Compton’s Cafeteria Riot cast and crew host a holiday market featuring neighborhood makers and Tenderloin talent. Visit the play’s immersive venue at 835 Larkin St. during the December SF First Thursday Art Walk to find locally made art, crafts, and other gift-worthy wares. Plus, the Compton’s kitchen will be running a special Matcha bar, offering a toasty, delicious sip to accompany your holiday shopping.

Tenderloin Museum is thrilled to partner with Unspeakable Vice, “a volunteer history initiative making queer belonging accessible to everyone,” to offer a monthly walking tour focused on the LGBTQIA+ history in the Tenderloin and Polk Street neighborhoods.

Saturday, November 29, 2025 | 2:00-4:00 PM

Meet at the Tenderloin Museum | 398 Eddy St., SF, CA 94102

Register to attend via Humanitix | Admission to the Tenderloin Museum included with ticket

Created by downtown San Francisco resident and professor at California College of the Arts Shawn Sprockett, Unspeakable Vice began as a close look at the queer origins of San Francisco, traversing the city’s North Beach and Barbary Coast areas to trace the history through from 1770-1960. This new tour extends Sprockett’s richly detailed and craftily delivered approach to the TL and Polk Street to offer a deep dive into the emergence of LGBTQIA+ icons and movements that shaped the area from the 1960s to the 1990s. 

Sunday November 23, 2025 | 12-2pm

At “The Compton’s Cafeteria Riot” venue | 835 Larkin St. SF, CA 94109

$45 for a show, a meal, and unlimited mimosas | Tickets available via Humanitix

Mary Vice and Coco Buttah--two regulars of the "Compton's Cafeteria Riot"--present a drag brunch in the play's venue. Join for a revue of superlative performers in the space where the Riot comes alive. Pancakes and sausage off the griddle, unlimited mimosas!

Saturday November 22, 2025 | 3-4pm

At the Tenderloin Museum | 398 Eddy St. SF, CA 94102

Free to attend | Register to attend via St. Anthony’s

As the St. Anthony Foundation marks 75 years, celebrate the impact and ingenuity of this essential Tenderloin organization that pioneered dignity-based social services in the neighborhood. TLM hosts the book release of  For the Love of God, a new volume by Barry Stenger that chronicles St. Anthony’s extraordinary story and brings its transformative role in the TL into detailed focus. 

Saturday, November 22, 2025 | 2:00-3:30 PM

Meet at Tenderloin Museum, 398 Eddy St., SF, CA 94102

$15: Tour only / $25: Tour + museum admission | Register via Humanitix

There’s no better way to get to know the Tenderloin than by walking its streets! Traverse the neighborhood with our passionate, knowledgeable resident tour guides, visit key sites from the Tenderloin’s history, and connect these notable places to what’s going on in the neighborhood today.

Saturday, November 15, 2025 | 2:00-3:30 PM

Meet at Tenderloin Museum, 398 Eddy St., SF, CA 94102

$15: Tour only / $25: Tour + museum admission

Register via Humanitix

Explore the rich architectural history of the Tenderloin on a guided walking tour by historian Linda Day that highlights the neighborhood’s early 20th-century building boom. Between 1906 and 1929, a small group of talented local architects helped shape the Tenderloin’s distinctive character, designing elegant apartments, hotels, and theaters in a range of styles—from Beaux-Arts to Moorish Revival.

POSTPONED DUE TO RAIN! Thursday November 13, 2025 | 5-8pm

At Dodge Alley (Turk & Larkin St.)

Free to attend | No registration required

$15 vouchers for food/drink at nearby businesses first come first serve

TLMteams up withMovement, a local “musical discovery platform” highlighting immigrant musicians, to present a special musical encounter between master musicians for 2nd Thursdays at Dodge Alley. Our November program features Salma Al Assal, a renowned Sudanese vocalist who specializes in aghaani banaat–a repertoire of party music performed by women for weddings and other celebrations. Al Assal–whose name translates to “Sweet Honey Salma”--fuses traditional Sudanese sounds with reggae and American soul to create a rousing, original style sure to bring joy to the streets of the TL! The Tenderloin has been home to a large and multitudinous diaspora from the Arab world going back to the 1960s, and at present sports the only explicitly Sudanese restaurant in the Bay Area (Z Zoul). TLM is thrilled to bring a star of the Arab music scene for a free, outdoor concert for the Tenderloin community. Al Assal will be joined by a special musical collaborator from a different musical tradition, Désirée Dorsainvil, a Haitian-American multimodal artist with roots in acting and dance. she is currently moving through new forms ~ singing, writing, filmmaking and motherhood. 

Saturday, November 8, 2025 | 2:00-3:30 PM

Meet at Tenderloin Museum, 398 Eddy St., SF, CA 94102

$15: Tour only / $25: Tour + museum admission | Register via Humanitix

There’s no better way to get to know the Tenderloin than by walking its streets! Traverse the neighborhood with our passionate, knowledgeable resident tour guides, visit key sites from the Tenderloin’s history, and connect these notable places to what’s going on in the neighborhood today.

Thursday, November 6, 2025 | 6:00-8:00 PM

835 Larkin St. (The Compton’s Cafeteria Riot venue)

FREE! | No registration required | All welcome

Part of SF First Thursday Art Walk

Join sculptor, meditation instructor, and longtime Tenderloin community member Ramekon O’Arwisters for Crochet Jam, a community art experience rooted in the African-American tradition of weaving in a calm, nonjudgmental space. O’Arwisters founded Crochet Jam in 2012 and has organized scores of them in the TL, around SF, and beyond; this iteration will be hosted at TLM’s venue for The Compton’s Cafeteria Riot play at 835 Larkin St. near the epicenter of the monthly SF First Thursday Art Walk. Over 2024-2025, Tenderloin Museum tapped O’Arwisters to participate in an “Artist Circle” convened by the Tenderloin Museum for the San Francisco Arts Commission’s Shaping Legacy project, a multi-year equity-focused initiative by SFAC to critically examine the monuments and memorials in San Francisco’s Civic Art collection. On the heels of this work, TLM invited the artist to share his signature community practice–the Crochet Jam–in a space that hosts community theater memorializing a pivotal overture in the Tenderloin’s timeline and LGBTQ Movement. 

Wednesday November 5, 2025 | 7:30 - 8:30pm

at 518 Valencia St. SF, CA 94110

Free to attend but donations welcome! No registration required

Tenderloin Museum teams up with intrepid Bay Area community historians Shaping SF (and our friends at SF Neon and Safe Streets Rebel) to consider “Carmageddon” in San Francisco, highlighting notable overtures that took place in or adjacent to the TL! From Shaping SF: A look back at the rise of the Automobile on the streets of San Francisco from the 1920s onward… civil resistance on Auto Row in the 1960s, Tesla Takedown this year… the protests of Uber and Lyft drivers and before that the role of cabbies in converting to electric vehicles. And now the streets are full of robo-cars… what does EV saturation mean for daily street life in SF? And public transportation?

Saturday, November 1, 2025 | 2:00-3:30 PM

Meet at Tenderloin Museum, 398 Eddy St., SF, CA 94102

$15: Tour only / $25: Tour + museum admission | Register via Humanitix

There’s no better way to get to know the Tenderloin than by walking its streets! Traverse the neighborhood with our passionate, knowledgeable resident tour guides, visit key sites from the Tenderloin’s history, and connect these notable places to what’s going on in the neighborhood today.

Thursday, October 30, 2025 | 5:30-7:30pm

at the Tenderloin Museum | 398 Eddy St. SF, CA 94102

FREE | Register to attend via Humanitix

ABC7 hosts a special community screening of Tara Campbell’s ABC7 Originals documentary, A Mother’s Hope, followed by a panel conversation with the women she interviewed.

Saturday October 25, 2025 | 2-3:30pm

Meet at the Tenderloin Museum | 398 Eddy St. SF, CA 94102

$35 tour + Rohrer’s new Transgender District book OR $25 tour/museum only

Register via Humanitix

The Tenderloin has been a space of trans art, resistance, nightlife and organizing since the 1800's. Stroll the Tenderloin with Rev. Dr. Megan Rohrer for a tour of the neighborhood that explores the extraordinary and ordinary lives of trans people in the neighborhood, with a special emphasis on why Halloween is so special to the trans community!