[film] Somos Esenciales // SF

Saturday, March 22 from 2pm – 4pm.
683 Florida Street, San Francisco, CA 94110

Community Film Screening & Chat.  Free for the family. Spanish-English translation available.

Join us for film screenings, theatrical performance, storytelling, Q&A and comida at the Indigenous Peoples Cultural Arts Healing Center.

1. We will feature a new documentary film about Somos Esenciales research with Mission Street Vendors directed by Rafael Flores.
2. A new Theater performance based on the lives of Somos Esenciales researchers, directed by Paul S. Flores.
3. Presentation from Rodrigo Lopez, Director of Mission Vendors Association, as well as presentations from three Somos Esenciales Participatory Action Research (PAR) groups co-facilitated by Adriana Camarena including Somos Remedios (Long COVID Remedies and Ancestral Healing Practices), Somos Investigadores (Immigrant mental health research) and SUPERA (digital delivered mental health app in Spanish).
4. We will also invite the community to ask questions and talk back about our multi-year project produced by CANA with funding from the National Institutes of Health. We will have food and vendors for people to enjoy.

Somos Esenciales, a program of Cultura y Arte Nativa de las Americas (CANA), is proud to present an immersive event of film, theatrical performance, storytelling, Q&A and comida featuring authentic stories of the Misson District. Somos Esenciales community research project will present findings about health and economic issues facing Lation and immigrant workers in the Mission District. We invite community members to hear research findings and comment back to our group. FEATURING Film Director Rafael Flores Writer Paul S. Flores Somos Esenciales Community Researchers The Essentials Theater Project Mission Street Vendors Comida & Vendors Located at the new Indigenous Peoples Cultural Arts Healing Center at the heart of the Mission District.

The Indigenous Peoples Cutltural Arts Healing Center activates the healing powers of indigenous cultures, values, and spiritual traditions in service to Indigenous communites.

SOMOS ESENCIALES: Community Revitalization & Health through Arts & Enterpreneurship is a folklife–based participatory action research and intervention project by CANA, UC Riverside, Friendship House Association of Native American Indians, and Somos Esenciales. OUR COMMUNITY PARTNERS: SF Care, Day Labor Program/Women’s Collective, Excelsior Strong, Friendship House of Native American Indians, Mission Language and Vocational School, San Francisco Department of Public Health, San Francisco Planning, and YCD.