A Conversation with NAKA and Cumbia Dance Party (NAKA's 25th Anniversary)

Monday, November 9, 2026
5:30 PM 9:30 PM 17:30 21:30

SPACE 124, Project Artaud 401 Alabama Street, #124 San Francisco, CA United States (map)

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NAKA's 25th Anniversary

Community Gathering, Performance & Celebration

Monday, November 9. 5:30-6:30 PM, A conversation iwth Debby Kajiyama and Jose Ome Navarrete Mazatl Reflecting on 25 years of NAKA. 8-9:30, Agua fresca and fiesta with DJ @ChicaMultiple spinning the best cumiatón playlist para sudar la gota gorda.

5:30-6:30 PM: Conversation with Debby Kajiyama and José Ome Navarrete Mazatl
Reflecting on 25 years of NAKA’s artistic work

7-8 PM: Performance of Mastín
A new installation performance by Debby and José Ome

8-9:30 PM: Agua fresca and fiesta with DJ
DJ Chica Multiple spinning the best cumbiatón playlist para sudar la gota gorda.

@ SPACE 124, a project space in Project Artaud
401 Alabama Street, #124, San Francisco

Free event — donations welcome.

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Mastín

Installation performance by Debby Kajiyama and José Ome Mazatl

Mastín explores Ome’s inherited fear of dogs alongside the colonial violence of “aperramiento,” when Spanish conquistadors used mastiffs against Indigenous peoples. Through an immersive visual and sound installation and a video of José’s pit bull, Canelo, Mastín brings historical violence into tension with the tenderness of human-animal bonds. The work becomes a test of how historical trauma might be confronted and reconciled.

Suggested donation $25. No one turned away.

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NAKA Dance Theater is supported in part by the Kenneth Rainin Foundation, California Arts Council, San Francisco Arts Commission, SF Grants for the Arts, Fleishhacker Foundation, and Alameda County Arts Commission, and our generous individual donors. NAKA’s 25th Anniversary is supported in part by the Zellerbach Family Foundation.