Milford Graves Full Mantis is the first feature-length portrait of renowned percussionist Milford Graves, exploring his kaleidoscopic creativity and relentless curiosity. Tickets (sliding scale/by donation): $5-$15 Graves has performed internationally since 1964, both as a soloist and in ensembles with such legends as Albert Ayler, Giuseppi Logan and Sonny Sharrock. He is a founding pioneer of […]
Performance at 7PM Los Angeles choreographer and visual artist Jay Carlon presents Dances on Paper, a one-night performance and exhibition at Human Resources on Saturday, September 13, 2025, from 6-8PM. In this new body of work, Carlon turns from the stage to the page, exploring charcoal, graphite, and sweat on expansive 30-foot paper landscapes. With […]
a collective unsilencing, a divine portent, a wail, an omen, a refusal to cower in the face of attempted erasure, a call to our ungovernable animality, a convening of artists using their voices and creative agency to resist intimidation and summon alternative worlds where transness is holy and bodily autonomy is sacrosanct, a portal built of rage […]
Tickets ($5-15, no one turned away for lack of funds) Nina Sarnelle's Breath Work is an experimental opera exploring breath as a medium for resistance. Part documentary, part ritual, it was made collaboratively by community members in Long Beach, California, next to one of the largest ports in the world. Shipping infrastructure, railyards, freeways and […]
Tickets Live performances and readings, including choral performance by Tanner Pfeiffer and 8TPS choir; an original movement piece by Beatrice Gosse; a site-specific grappling hook performance by Sadie Greyduck; a non-linear lecture performance on trans horror by Wesleigh Gates; Xina Xurner. This program is a part of HOWL, curated by Ashton S. Phillips. HOWL brings […]
An evening of two short film screenings by artist Margaret Haines, paired with readings from cast & friends. Tickets available online and at the door: $10-$15 suggested donation no one turned away for lack of funds At 6pm, La Jumelle / On Air: Purity, Corruption & Pollution (20 min, 2024), a retelling/prophecy of the life […]
Tickets: available online and at the door (5-15 suggested donation, no one turned away for lack of funds). A portion of the night's proceeds will be donated to Bay Area Workers Support. Valencia is an experimental feature collaboration of 20 directors each adapting a chapter of Michelle Tea's award-winning, underground classic memoir of the same […]