Community Film Screening & Chat

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.

Host or Publisher CANA – Cultura y Arte Nativa de Las Americas