Medicine for Nightmares

Medicine for Nightmares Bookstore and gallery in the heart of the Mission District, San Francisco.

Music and films happening  TONIGHT in our galeria!Other Dimensions in Sound is our Friday music series curated and hoste...
05/29/2026

Music and films happening TONIGHT in our galeria!

Other Dimensions in Sound is our Friday music series curated and hosted by Boohaabian multi reed player extraordinare David Boyce. Each week David will be inviting different musical guests to join him in our galeria for a night of musical medicina.

Tonight Other Dimensions In Sound & Eye-Full Films present – a night of rare 16mm films from the archives of David Michalak, including The Spoken Word, Once a Face, Start Talking, Not Quite Right and others. Original 16mm film prints will be projected.
The night opens with a set by Cindy Webster - singing saw, hurdy gurdy and Nancy Beckman – shakuhachi

photo - Helmut Wautischer in Not Quite Right

7pm

¡Tonight at 6pm!Calling all Arab Youth ages 18-35! The PYM is hosting a shadeh w dardasheh event - come learn to play ta...
05/28/2026

¡Tonight at 6pm!

Calling all Arab Youth ages 18-35! The PYM is hosting a shadeh w dardasheh event - come learn to play tarneeb, meet other Arab youth, and learn about the work PYM is doing to enact an arms embargo. The event will be generously hosted by Medecine for Nightmares in the Mission. !انضمولنا

¡LIVE music TONIGHT in our galeria!The SF Indian Classical Session at Medicine for Nightmares is back May 27th! 7pm show...
05/27/2026

¡LIVE music TONIGHT in our galeria!

The SF Indian Classical Session at Medicine for Nightmares is back May 27th! 7pm show starts, $10! The Indian Classical Sessions are an informal gathering dedicated to sharing the meditative beauty, ecstatic energy, and sheer majesty of South Asian music. Hosted by percussionist, drum set and tabla player Sameer Gupta, this gathering focuses on curating 4 short live sets that represent different influences and traditions surrounding South Asian music. Our goal is to connect, build our raga music loving community, and share South Asian classical music in an impromptu, casual and attentive setting.

Featured sets are:
Vivek Thyagarajan
Akshay Naresh
Kamal Ahmad
Sonia Mann Qureshi (kathak) & Ferhan Qureshi

7pm

TODAY Mycelium Youth Network presents an analysis of state violence, displacement, and environment across three cohorts ...
05/26/2026

TODAY Mycelium Youth Network presents an analysis of state violence, displacement, and environment across three cohorts of youth 15-23 years old from San Francisco and Oakland. Join us for an interactive art show that honors youth and attendees as knowledge holders and invites community to co-create understandings of environmental justice and resistance beyond individual action by engaging youth artwork and Photovoice projects. Also, come learn from our youth’s year-long work around mutual aid distributions, ICE safety planning, and community healing!

Mycelium Youth Network (MYN) is a Bay Area youth-centered organization founded in 2017, dedicated to bridging the gap between increasing climate-related disasters and the abilities of young people to proactively respond. We prepare predominantly low-income Black and Brown youth in the Bay Area — who are most vulnerable to and already feeling the effects of environmental racism — for climate change by drawing from ancestral traditions and practices. MYN focuses on climate resilience and climate mitigation to create and strengthen existing holistic relationships and build out regenerative economies. We empower youth to grow as visionary leaders and budding environmentalists, connect with ancestral teachings, and trust in the wisdom of the natural world.

The Youth Leadership Council is a place-based, environmental justice internship that equips young people from Mission High and Metwest High with political education, decision-making power, and research tools to critically assess their conditions, organize, and co-create their visions of a liberated future.

Data Warriors is an anti-racist and anti-colonial participatory research internship where frontline youth from Oakland (ages 15-23) study issues they care about, relate them to State violence and environmental justice, then design and practice interventions that support their community. A core objective of Data Warriors is to develop evaluation values, tools, and capacity to explore lived realities and socioemotional experiences of oppression and liberation.

7pm

Last week in the Portal looked  exactly like this…This week we have  pop up art show on Tuesday, Indian Classical Sessio...
05/25/2026

Last week in the Portal looked exactly like this…

This week we have pop up art show on Tuesday, Indian Classical Sessions hosted by on Wednesday, arab youth social hosted by on Thursday, and Other Dimensions in Sound on Friday with not to mention the most dangerous selection of books in San Francisco.

¡Aqui Estamos!

¡Bay Area Q***r Open Mic TODAY in our galeria!A welcoming space for q***r musicians and songwriters to share their work,...
05/24/2026

¡Bay Area Q***r Open Mic TODAY in our galeria!

A welcoming space for q***r musicians and songwriters to share their work, connect, and build community. Performers can sign up online in advance, join as walk-ins, or be featured as a monthly Featured Artist.

This month’s feature is TraumaCheez

TraumaCheez is a San Francisco-based indie singer-songwriter. Her musical artistry combines explosive vocals with a fluid sense of groove. Featuring catchy melodies paired with witty, humorous lyrics - and a high-energy stage presence focused on live interaction - she delivers a truly captivating performance.

6pm

TODAY join us for an afternoon of tatreez, Palestinian embroidery, as we come together in community to stitch. A tatreez...
05/23/2026

TODAY join us for an afternoon of tatreez, Palestinian embroidery, as we come together in community to stitch. A tatreez circle is a gathering of tatreez artists who stitch together while sharing stories and learning from each other. All levels of experience are welcome but this is not meant to be a workshop. We will not be teaching tatreez but are happy to help guide you on what you need to get started before the event. Bring your own projects and your own supplies.

What is Tatreez? Tatreez is the art of Palestinian embroidery that has been practiced in Palestine for centuries. A practice passed down generationally from mother to daughter. Taking inspiration from the land and everyday life, Palestinian women hand stitched motifs and patterns directly onto their thobe that represented their social status, the villages/regions from which they hailed and their individuality.

Can I join if I’m not Palestinian? YES! This is a space for Palestinians and non-Palestinians who share a love of tatreez. Regardless of who practices tatreez, it is important to always remember the history of this beautiful art and the role it plays today in the Palestinian resistance movement, both in Palestine and within the diaspora. These circles are a safe space for Palestinians and our allies.

1-3pm

¡LIVE music TONIGHT in our galeria!Other Dimensions in Sound is our Friday music series curated and hosted by Boohaabian...
05/22/2026

¡LIVE music TONIGHT in our galeria!

Other Dimensions in Sound is our Friday music series curated and hosted by Boohaabian multi reed player extraordinare David Boyce. Each week David will be inviting different musical guests to join him in our galeria for a night of musical medicina.

Tonight we have an extra heavy dose of sonic sustenance with Rodvien/Boyce/Dean(Brian Rodvien-drums, David Boyce-reeds and efx, and Bryan Dean-electric bass)

7pm

TONIGHT come hear decolonized verses, spanglish poesia, Latine spoken word, Pocho poemas and neighborhood chisme at Spea...
05/21/2026

TONIGHT come hear decolonized verses, spanglish poesia, Latine spoken word, Pocho poemas and neighborhood chisme at Speaking Axolotl, the Bay Area’s long running monthly Latine Reading series. 10 slot open mic goes up a las 6:50PM. Open mic poets have 5 minutes to read.

!This month we are over la luna excited to welcome our very special feature !

Mexican-Canadian poet and translator Dora Prieto writes from Ohlone land (Oakland, CA), where she is a 2025–27 Wallace Stegner Fellow in
Poetry at Stanford. Her co-translation of JAWS [tiburón] will be released by Cardboard House Press on May 21! Her debut poetry collection Blood Tejido is forthcoming with House of Anansi (April 2027), and she is a member of El Mashup Collective, where she collaborates on interdisciplinary artistic experiments. She is an auntie, a dreamer, a thinker, and a cold ocean swimmer—despite a close encounter with a shark as a kid. ♡☆

NOTE; Speaking Axolotl is a BIPOC readoing series which means black and brown poets only on the mic. White folks are more than welcome to listen and atend but their presence is not required.

7pm

TONIGHT join us for the 2026 Rooted and Written Faculty and staff reading, exploring what we root in as resistance. Feat...
05/20/2026

TONIGHT join us for the 2026 Rooted and Written Faculty and staff reading, exploring what we root in as resistance. Featuring new work from Grace Loh Prasad, Tara Dorabji, Sabina Khan-Ibarra, Rowena Leong Singer, MK Chavez, Swetha Amit and Danny Theimann; moderated by Dominic Lim.

Produced by The Writers Grotto, Rooted and Written is a free, multi-genre writing workshop for Bay Area writers of color.

7pm

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3036 24th Street
San Francisco, CA
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Monday 12pm - 8pm
Tuesday 12pm - 8pm
Wednesday 12pm - 8pm
Thursday 12pm - 10pm
Friday 12pm - 10pm
Saturday 12pm - 10pm
Sunday 12pm - 8pm

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