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Support Kreative Growth alumni this weekend and — Grab your ticket world premiere of ISLAND BOUND is almost here 🏝️A s...
06/10/2026

Support Kreative Growth alumni this weekend and — Grab your ticket world premiere of ISLAND BOUND is almost here 🏝️

A short experimental dance film + live score performance exploring power and the paradox of paradise.

What does it take to stay connected when a storm is at your shore? Film by , featuring a live performance of the original score by , and an artist panel hosted by to follow.

🎬 Screening: 6:30 PM
🎙️ Artist Panel: 7:30 PM
June 13 · 447 Minna St, SF
🎫 tickets at luma.com/67cwdwfx

Presented by as part of the United States of Asian America Festival: COMMON GROUND

Missed the Opening Reception? This weekend is your last opportunity to experience MAHAL, an exhibition by the 2026 Kreat...
06/04/2026

Missed the Opening Reception? This weekend is your last opportunity to experience MAHAL, an exhibition by the 2026 Kreative Growth artists, Tanza J. Solis and Gelli Pascual.

Join Gelli Pascual for a Saturday artist-led tour through the gallery, with space for reflection, conversation, and connection. Through her series Mana ng Mahal: The Legacy of Mahal, Gelli invites visitors to reflect on the unseen labor of caregiving across generations, and the ways love is inherited through sacrifice, protection, generations, and everyday acts of care.

Register via link in the artist’s bios

Saturday’s artist tour will be hosted by from 11:30 am - 1:30 pm.

Sunday’s artist tour will be hosted by from 2-6 pm.

On the first day of Pride Month, we return to an exhibition that opened last Thursday in San Francisco’s South of Market...
06/01/2026

On the first day of Pride Month, we return to an exhibition that opened last Thursday in San Francisco’s South of Market neighborhood — one that asks a question at the heart of both Filipino culture and q***r experience: what does it mean to love, and what does that love cost us?

On a warm Thursday evening, visitors stepped into 447 Minna Street and were greeted not with a typical gallery opening but with an invitation: As you enter, take a moment to soften and remember the people, gestures, and sacrifices that have taught you what love means. 

This was MAHAL — the 2026 edition of Balay Kreative’s annual Kreative Growth exhibition, presented by Balay Kreative and hosted at CAST SF’s 447 Minna Arts Hub located in the historic Dempster Building. The show features two Filipinx artists: photographer, filmmaker, and poet Gelli Pascual, and multidisciplinary painter, sculptor and material necromancer, Tanza J. Solis. Together, their work forms a meditation on love as inheritance, practice, and responsibility.

Read the full article: link in bio

See you tonight, On view May 28 – June 12, MAHAL Art exhibition opens this evening featuring the art work of and — thi...
05/28/2026

See you tonight, On view May 28 – June 12, MAHAL Art exhibition opens this evening featuring the art work of and — this year Kreative Growth focused on the theme of MAHAL, a Tagalog word with roots influenced by Arabic, Southeast Asia and reflecting on precolonial trade and cultural exchange.

Celebrate the Artists with light drinks + bites with setting the vibes, please rsvp, link in bio.

📍 CAST SF Gallery — 447 Minna St, San Francisco

A huge thank you to our partners and supporters who made this possible:
& 447 Minna — for holding space for artists and community in the SOMA
— SF Arts Commission
Grants for the Arts

Mahal. Love. Beloved. Precious. Valuable. — Join us this Thursday for the opening of MAHAL — a duo exhibition featuring ...
05/21/2026

Mahal. Love. Beloved. Precious. Valuable. — Join us this Thursday for the opening of MAHAL — a duo exhibition featuring the works of and , presented by Balay Kreative’s Kreative Growth 2026 program.

One night. Two artists. One room full of love made visible.

📅 Thursday, May 28 | 6–9PM
📍 CAST SF Gallery | 447 Minna, SF
🔗 RSVP: luma.com/0ruhy97v

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Murals have always been the people’s archive. Long before institutions decided what was worth preserving, communities pa...
05/08/2026

Murals have always been the people’s archive. Long before
institutions decided what was worth preserving, communities
painted their truths on walls — who they were, what they
loved, what they refused to forget. San Francisco’s walls
have always been a site of resistance and remembrance.
This year, we want our community to share their artwork
of Mahal.

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Balay Kreative is accepting applications for the
2026 MAHAL Mural Project — an open call for Bay Area
artists to create two permanent murals in Jessie West
Alley, San Francisco.

This is a paid opportunity:
→ $18,500 awarded per selected artist or team (2 selected)
→ $1,000 for each shortlisted finalist’s design proposal

The theme is Mahal — a Tagalog word carrying the dual
meaning of “beloved” and “valuable.” Artists are invited
to explore it as emotional practice, community vision,
or personal journey.

Open to SF Bay Area solo artists and teams working in
public art or mural-making, of any background.

Application deadline: June 5, 2026 at 5 PM
No mural rendering required at time of application.

Apply + learn more: balaykreative.org/2026-mahal-mural

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