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Thursday November 13, 2025 | 5-8pm
At Dodge Alley (Turk & Larkin St.)
Free to attend | No registration required
$15 vouchers for food/drink at nearby businesses first come first serve
TLMteams up withMovement, a local “musical discovery platform” highlighting immigrant musicians, to present a special musical encounter between master musicians for 2nd Thursdays at Dodge Alley. Our November program features Salma Al Assal, a renowned Sudanese vocalist who specializes in aghaani banaat–a repertoire of party music performed by women for weddings and other celebrations. Al Assal–whose name translates to “Sweet Honey Salma”--fuses traditional Sudanese sounds with reggae and American soul to create a rousing, original style sure to bring joy to the streets of the TL! The Tenderloin has been home to a large and multitudinous diaspora from the Arab world going back to the 1960s, and at present sports the only explicitly Sudanese restaurant in the Bay Area (Z Zoul). TLM is thrilled to bring a star of the Arab music scene for a free, outdoor concert for the Tenderloin community. Al Assal will be joined by a special musical collaborator from a different musical tradition, Désirée Dorsainvil, a Haitian-American multimodal artist with roots in acting and dance. she is currently moving through new forms ~ singing, writing, filmmaking and motherhood.
Saturday, November 15, 2025 | 2:00-3:30 PM
Meet at Tenderloin Museum, 398 Eddy St., SF, CA 94102
$15: Tour only / $25: Tour + museum admission
Explore the rich architectural history of the Tenderloin on a guided walking tour by historian Linda Day that highlights the neighborhood’s early 20th-century building boom. Between 1906 and 1929, a small group of talented local architects helped shape the Tenderloin’s distinctive character, designing elegant apartments, hotels, and theaters in a range of styles—from Beaux-Arts to Moorish Revival.
Saturday, November 22, 2025 | 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.
Saturday November 22, 2025 | 3-4pm
At the Tenderloin Museum | 398 Eddy St. SF, CA 94102
Free to attend | Register to attend via St. Anthony’s
As the St. Anthony Foundation marks 75 years, celebrate the impact and ingenuity of this essential Tenderloin organization that pioneered dignity-based social services in the neighborhood. TLM hosts the book release of For the Love of God, a new volume by Barry Stenger that chronicles St. Anthony’s extraordinary story and brings its transformative role in the TL into detailed focus.
Sunday November 23, 2025 | 12-2pm
At “The Compton’s Cafeteria Riot” venue | 835 Larkin St. SF, CA 94109
$45 for a show, a meal, and unlimited mimosas | Tickets available via Humanitix
Mary Vice and Coco Buttah--two regulars of the "Compton's Cafeteria Riot"--present a drag brunch in the play's venue. Join for a revue of superlative performers in the space where the Riot comes alive. Pancakes and sausage off the griddle, unlimited mimosas!
Tenderloin Museum is thrilled to partner with Unspeakable Vice, “a volunteer history initiative making queer belonging accessible to everyone,” to offer a monthly walking tour focused on the LGBTQIA+ history in the Tenderloin and Polk Street neighborhoods.
Saturday, November 29, 2025 | 2:00-4:00 PM
Meet at the Tenderloin Museum | 398 Eddy St., SF, CA 94102
Register to attend via Humanitix | Admission to the Tenderloin Museum included with ticket
Created by downtown San Francisco resident and professor at California College of the Arts Shawn Sprockett, Unspeakable Vice began as a close look at the queer origins of San Francisco, traversing the city’s North Beach and Barbary Coast areas to trace the history through from 1770-1960. This new tour extends Sprockett’s richly detailed and craftily delivered approach to the TL and Polk Street to offer a deep dive into the emergence of LGBTQIA+ icons and movements that shaped the area from the 1960s to the 1990s.
