Balay Kreative

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07/29/2026

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📍 UNIQLO Davao Roadside Store
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In collaboration with Wilson Limon

07/22/2026

Over 60 artists and teams applied. Over 2700 people voted.

And the winners of the Mahal Mural artist call are:

Franceska Gamez & Venazir Gamez
(Franceska Gámez @ Venazir

Thank you to everyone who applied and voted! Your efforts are helping create a more beautiful Filpino Cultural District! To our finalists, thank you for submitting powerful, culture moving artworks!

Production starts in Fall 2026. Stay tuned!

07/16/2026

As we approach the deadline for voting for the Mahal Mural design, we want to hear your thoughts on the proposed designs! If you’ve questions or concerns about the project, or just want to give props to the amazing artists and teams who’ve developed their concepts, please join us on Zoom at the link above.

Also, if you haven’t already voted for your favorite mural design, make sure to go to the link below to cast your vote!

Friday, July 17, 9A-10A
Friday, July 17, 1P-2P

🔗 tinyurl.com/mahalmural

07/13/2026

Vote for your favorite Mural Design. 🌺 For the MAHAL Mural 2026, we asked our community what love looks like — and these five finalists were selected for you to vote. Now it’s your turn to weigh in.

Review each proposal, read their stories, and cast your vote for the mural that will live in the heart of San Francisco’s Filipino Cultural District.

Voting is open July 13–20, 2026. One vote per email.

Congratulations to the top 5 finalist and thank you to all who applied!
1. Cece Carpio
2. Franceska Gámez
3. illuminaries
4. Pangarap Co
5. Venazir

🔗 Link in bio → balaykreative.org/mahal-mural-vote

This project is made possible b:
Community Challenge Grants
Yerba Buena Neighborhood

FilAm CommunityVote PublicArt FilipinxArt MuralArt

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

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.

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

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

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934 Brannan St
San Francisco, CA
94103

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http://balaykreative.org/

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