EastSide Arts Alliance / Film Fridays and NAKA Dance Theater presents:

Sorry I Missed Your Show
EastSide Cultural Center
2277 International Blvd
Fri July 11, 2025 at 7 pm

This series features informal and intimate conversations using archival media to reflect on past performances by Bay Area artists that have left a lasting impact on our performance community. Often, artists and fans find themselves saying, "Sorry I missed your show!" This series aims to revive those memorable performances, capturing their political and artistic significance from a specific era, space, and time.

Don't miss this rare opportunity for an intimate conversation with K.E.V, Leslie Lopez, Simone Nalls and others as they reflect on their contribution to the seminal work of the Anastacio Project.
The Anastasio Project (2015) was a multidisciplinary, roving public performance work that initiated an investigation into racial profiling, state brutality, and border violence, using the story of Anastasio Hernández-Rojas as a point of departure. Hernández-Rojas was a Mexican national who was detained at the U.S.-Mexico border in May 2010 and was subsequently killed by a dozen Border Patrol agents. To this day, none of the agents were held accountable.

By performing the stories of Hernández-Rojas and others, the project invoked memories of shared, deep-rooted pain caused by historic and ongoing state-sanctioned injustices and violence that afflicted Brown and Black communities, particularly within Oakland’s local communities. It aimed to inspire dialogue, unity, solidarity, and community action.

In celebration of Eastside’s 25th Anniversary, all programming throughout this year will be free of admission, but an RSVP is required! Please consider donating to people powered programming so that EastSide can continue to grow and provide a haven for revolutionary thought and truth telling.