Thursday June 11, 2026 | 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

The Tenderloin Museum and TLCBD continue monthly “2nd Thursday at Dodge Alley” block parties featuring live music and presented as part of TLM’s ongoing “Sounds of the Tenderloin” program series. On June 11, TLM welcomes a master musician and special visitor from Cuba and some of the Bay’s most dedicated practitioners of Afro-Cuban music to share an evening of changüí, the folkloric Afro-Cuban party music from the country’s mountainous Eastern province.  The lineup will feature: 

Jose Andres aka “El Sinsonte” - lead vocals and auxiliary percussion

Jose Andres is the lead singer/songwriter of the Latin-Grammy nominated Changüí Guantanamo; and a living master of the 10-line Decima poetry. 

Einar Leliebre - lead percussion and second voice

Einar Leliebre (“Tito”) is rated “First Level” (the highest level for musicians in Cuba) both as a percussionist and vocalist, and has toured the world in Afro-Cuban folkloric troupes. He recently accompanied Omar Sosa on the Bata Drums at SFJAZZ's Miner Auditorium with the Stanford Big Band.

Ernesto Mazar - baby bass and backup vocals

Ernesto Mazar toured the world with Charanga Habanera for a decade. He is the bassist in Omar Sosa’s Quarteto Americano, and was offered the prime spot as the steady bassist for Los Van Van, Cuba's most world-renowned band.

Kai Lyons - “tres” Cuban guitar and backup vocals

Born and raised in San Francisco (Excelsior District), Kai Lyons graduated from Ruth Asawa School of the Arts with the Excellence in Guitar award. He currently teaches at SFState, CSU East Bay, and the Berkeley Jazzschool. He has studied music in Cuba 16 times.

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Saturday June 13, 2026 | 2-3:30pm

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

$15 or $25 (with TLM admission) |  Register via Humanitix

Discover the work of Herman C. Baumann, who ushered modern multi-unit hotels and apartments into the Tenderloin with distinctive flourishes inspired by Spanish Colonial Revival and baroque styles. Seasoned walking tour guide, historian, and emeritus city planning professor Linda Day continues her spotlight series on notable architects whose post-quake buildings define the TL’s built environment. 

Attendees will visit the San Francisco city landmarked Gaylord Suites at 620 Jones street, originally a residential hotel. Inspired by the buildings of the 1915 Panama-California Exposition in San Diego, it is embellished with a Spanish Colonial Revival building entry, facade, and lobby. The tour will also visit the Farrellworth at 601 O'Farrel, which is another stunning example of using this design vocabulary. Baumann often ornamented his buildings with terra cotta to express baroque details because it could be molded into intricate shapes and then fired with colorful glazes. A walk-by of Princess Apartments, 155 Hyde, shows his elaborate use of terracotta. In addition to this iconic trio, Day’s tour will highlight nine buildings that illustrate Baumann's artistry, equally divided between apartments and hotels.

Saturday, June 20, 2026 | 2:00-4:00 PM

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

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

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.

Thursday June 25, 2026 | 7 - 9pm

at 33 Turk St. (outside of the Timbri Hotel)

TRANSMARSH is a free outdoor vertical dance performance by trans people, for trans people — and all who love them. The show features B Dean/BODYSTORM, Pangaea, and tome performing on the Taylor Street facade of the Timbri Hotel, soaring over the intersection of Turk and Taylor Streets, the site of both the 1966 trans led Compton’s Cafeteria Riots and present-day for profit reentry housing for the incarcerated. TRANSMARSH kicks off Pride Weekend by rewilding the Transgender District with the trans history and ecology alive in the Tenderloin's soil.

The Thursday evening “preview” performance is preceded by a trans history walking tour led by community historian and advocate Rev. Dr. Megan Rohrer at 7pm–separate registration required (as space is limited). The night also features a performance by Skywatchers, GRAVITY Access Services, and Oaklash Block Party at the Timbri Hotel, with local drag performers and DJs.

7pm Trans History Walking Tour | Free; register via Humanitix; space is limited!

8pm TRANSMARSH preview performance | Free; register via Eventbrite

Friday June 26, 2026 | 8-9pm (timed to coincide with the conclusion of Trans March)

at 33 Turk St. (outside of the Timbri Hotel at the corner of Turk & Taylor Streets)

TRANSMARSH is a free outdoor vertical dance performance by trans people, for trans people — and all who love them. The show features B Dean/BODYSTORM, Pangaea, and tome performing on the Taylor Street facade of the Timbri Hotel, soaring over the intersection of Turk and Taylor Streets, the site of both the 1966 trans led Compton’s Cafeteria Riots and present-day for profit reentry housing for the incarcerated. TRANSMARSH kicks off Pride Weekend by rewilding the Transgender District with the trans history and ecology alive in the Tenderloin's soil.

8pm TRANSMARSH preview performance | Free; register via Eventbrite

Thursday July 30, 2026 | 6pm

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

It is the greatest comeback since Lazarus! Bambi Lake has risen from the dead in the form of a new book. Wow. Did you hear? This book, aptly titled, Devour Me, Again, features poetry and an interview series—words of wisdom and revolution, a time long gone; glitter, glam, queens colliding, and, of course, some gossip…

Out July 21 via Nightboat Books, this volume was edited by August Bernadicou of the LGBTQ History Project, a non-profit digital archive that preserves primary sources of the LGBTQ+ liberation movement and makes accessible thousands of hours of oral histories with queer activists, performers, and “cutting edge catalysts.” Bay Area writer, rocker, and multi-valent performance artist Brontez Purnell contributed a beautifully witness reflection on Lake as a forward; Purnell will read at the July 30 TLM event alongside Donna Personna, Britney Smears, Stanley Frank, Fauxnique, Tahara, August Bernadicou, Birdie Bob Watt, and Nicole Henares and MORE!

Free to attend | Register via LGBTQ History Project Partiful