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Tenderloin Museum

398 Eddy Street
San Francisco, CA, 94102
415-351-1912
San Francisco California

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Tenderloin Legends: A Historic Walking Tour
Jan 24
Jan 24, 2026
Tenderloin Legends: A Historic Walking Tour
Jan 24, 2026

Saturday, January 24, 2026 | 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. 

Jan 24, 2026
NOISE - Film 1 of Rob Nilsson's "9 @ Night"
Jan 29
Jan 29, 2026
NOISE - Film 1 of Rob Nilsson's "9 @ Night"
Jan 29, 2026

Thursday January 29, 2026 | 6:30-8:30pm

398 Eddy St. SF, CA 94102

Tickets: $10 GA / $6 TLM members | Register via Humanitix

$50 / $35 (TLM members) full series tickets available at this link.

Film #1 in director Rob Nilsson’s 9 @ Night film cycle. Ben Malafide (Robert Viharo), arrives in San Francisco by ferryboat after 20 years in Federal Prison. He finds a world run by misdirection, euphemism, equivocation, downright lies and which avoids direct answers to any given question. Street raw meets digital glitz and Ben is transported...then thwarted.

Jan 29, 2026
USED - Film 2 of Rob Nilsson's "9 @ Night"
Feb 3
Feb 3, 2026
USED - Film 2 of Rob Nilsson's "9 @ Night"
Feb 3, 2026

Tuesday February 3, 2026 | 6:30 - 8:30pm

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

Tickets: $10 GA / $6 TLM members | Register via Humanitix

$50 / $35 (TLM members) full series tickets available at this link.

Film #2 in Rob Nilsson’s Tenderloin epic 9 @ Night. USED follows two pilgrimages to Reno. Malafide and Johnny hop trains to seek inspiration from People T, an ex-con Cherokee healer. But St. Tre takes would-be paramour Kenny by plane to play cards. Out in the Nevada desert one voyage ends in reconciliation... then suicide. The other ends empty-handed back where it started. Everyone has used and been used. A latter day WAITING FOR GODOT. but in constant motion.

Feb 3, 2026
ATTITUDE - Film 3 of Rob Nilsson's "9 @ Night"
Feb 5
Feb 5, 2026
ATTITUDE - Film 3 of Rob Nilsson's "9 @ Night"
Feb 5, 2026

Thursday February 5, 2026 | 6:30 - 8:30pm

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

Tickets: $10 GA / $6 TLM members | Register via Humanitix

$50 / $35 (TLM members) full series tickets available at this link.

Film #3 in director Rob Nilsson's Tenderloin epic 9 @ NIGHT. ATTITUDE follows Spoddy, an impossible small time auto thief who alienates everyone. Then he is diagnosed with AIDS. Stunned, and in denial, he confronts his girlfriend, sister of two tough partners in crime. She rages at him. Where did he get it? Spoddy rages back. “I spread what I want." The bottom is about to fall out of his life.

Feb 5, 2026
SINGING  - Film 4 of Rob Nilsson's "9 @ Night"
Feb 10
Feb 10, 2026
SINGING - Film 4 of Rob Nilsson's "9 @ Night"
Feb 10, 2026

Tuesday February 10, 2026 | 6:30 - 8:30pm

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

Tickets: $10 GA / $6 TLM members | Register via Humanitix

$50 / $35 (TLM members) full series tickets available at this link.

Film #4 in director Rob Nilsson’s Tenderloin epic 9 @ Night. SINGING follows Perry Truman, an accountant from the suburbs, rejects a tryst offered by his live-in girl friend of 20 years. She wants to rekindle their love. He has just quit his job. Wandering the Tenderloin that night he is drawn into a series of dangerous and erotic street encounters. Everyone sings in SINGING, except the real singer. Perry sings the same song twice but with different meanings. At the end he sings like a man who knows he has failed to live passionately.

Feb 10, 2026
STROKE - Film 5 of Rob Nilsson's "9 @ Night"
Feb 12
Feb 12, 2026
STROKE - Film 5 of Rob Nilsson's "9 @ Night"
Feb 12, 2026

Thursday February 12 , 2026 | 6:30 - 8:30pm

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

Tickets: $10 GA / $6 TLM members | Register via Humanitix

$50 / $35 (TLM members) full series tickets available at this link.

Film #5 in director Rob Nilsson’s Tenderloin epic 9 @ Night. Phil Berkowitz, a 60 year old North Beach poet, survivor of the days of wine and roses, has a stroke. Helpless, he lies in his flea bag Tenderloin hotel room and is found by Johnny, part-time janitor in a seedy strip club run by St. Tre and Malafide, now operating under the name Modisco. Johnny tries to help him regain his speech and plays Cupid, Introducing him to Svetlana, a waitress, and alcoholic. Svetlana feels sorry for Phil, but Phil mistakes kindness for attraction.

Feb 12, 2026
SCHEME C6 - Film 6 of Rob Nilsson's "9 @ Night"
Feb 17
Feb 17, 2026
SCHEME C6 - Film 6 of Rob Nilsson's "9 @ Night"
Feb 17, 2026

Tuesday February 17 , 2026 | 6:30 - 8:30pm

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

Tickets: $10 GA / $6 TLM members | Register via Humanitix

$50 / $35 (TLM members) full series tickets available at this link.

Film #6 in Rob Nilsson's Tenderloin epic 9 @ NIGHT. A scheme is a dream with street smarts. but doomed to fail. Bid's father is a cop but Bid is an urban outlaw on a motorcycle determined not to need family or society. Yve, his anarchistic girl friend and Grey, his accomplice in stolen auto parts, are part of his scheme to stay one step ahead of the law. Bid invites rebellion but discovers loneliness.

Feb 17, 2026
NEED - Film 7 of Rob Nilsson's "9 @ Night"
Feb 19
Feb 19, 2026
NEED - Film 7 of Rob Nilsson's "9 @ Night"
Feb 19, 2026

Thursday February 19 , 2026 | 6:30 - 8:30pm

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

Tickets: $10 GA / $6 TLM members | Register via Humanitix

$50 / $35 (TLM members) full series tickets available at this link.

Film #7 in director Rob Nilsson’s 9 @ Night film cycle. Petite robs johns in order to support Tyrone, a failing pool hustler. Jane works as a stripper in a Tenderloin club. Lou, Jane's mother and a heroin addict, is a renegade aging prostitute who works the streets in defiance of the pimps. Francesca manages an escort service and does phone sex. In a profession which thrives on fantasy and martyrdom these women struggle to hold onto their reasons for caring for each other.

Feb 19, 2026
PAN - Film 8 of Rob Nilsson's "9 @ Night"
Feb 24
Feb 24, 2026
PAN - Film 8 of Rob Nilsson's "9 @ Night"
Feb 24, 2026

Tuesday February 24 , 2026 | 6:30 - 8:30pm

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

Tickets: $10 GA / $6 TLM members | Register via Humanitix

$50 / $35 (TLM members) full series tickets available at this link.

Film #8 in director Rob Nilsson’s 9 @ Night film cycle. Bobby is a latch-key kid, a lonely 9 year old boy who plays at home as his single mother works to support them. Pan. an ex-convict tries to father a dysfunctional family of street people in an encampment by the railroad tracks. He tries to teach Bobby about life on the streets but violent consequences await those who challenge society's taboos.

Feb 24, 2026
GO TOGETHER - Film 9 of Rob Nilsson's "9 @ Night"
Feb 26
Feb 26, 2026
GO TOGETHER - Film 9 of Rob Nilsson's "9 @ Night"
Feb 26, 2026

Thursday February 26 , 2026 | 6:30 - 8:30pm

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

Tickets: $10 GA / $6 TLM members | Register via Humanitix

$50 / $35 (TLM members) full series tickets available at this link.

Film #9 in Rob Nilsson’s Tenderloin epic 9 @ Night. The sinking fortunes of an Oakland art cinema mirrors a shaky marriage. Michelle wants to program high minded films while her co-owner husband prefers "vintage porn" promoted by St. Tre, owner of a strip club and escort service. St. Tre's boy friend Ben Malafide, a recent inmate, begins to think life in prison is preferable to the "freedoms" of polite society. Bills pile up, homeless people begin to camp outside the theatre and, oddest of all, the theatre itself begins to speak.

Feb 26, 2026

 

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