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02/25/2026

thank you to the teams and for including small press into the Art Zone at this year’s 2026 Flower Market Fair! loved the loudness of celebrating the new year with drums, parades, dancing, and all the people. ❤️🧧🧨

i was also finally able to check out two new-ish bookstores in chinatown who are building community thru books: .bookstore, for Chinese language and bilingual books, and , a space for Asian diasporic art books & zines. 📚📚📚

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02/23/2026

thrilled to release the second edition of ’s Good Listener: Meditations on Music and Pauline Oliveros featuring a new orange colorway. 🍊we also made some Good Listener hats for the occasion, for all the sonically attuned in our lives. now available via smingsming.com / link in bio! 💫

bookstores can get copies thru our US distributor / Itasca Books. soon available in UK/EU thru 🙏🏼

Good Listener: Meditations on Music and Pauline Oliveros is a performance-in-writing of Oliveros’s Sonic Meditation XXI—a text score in the form of a question: “What constitutes your musical universe?” Michael Ned Holte responds to this brief but expansive prompt with a daily meditation that focuses attention on the work of Oliveros—the revolutionary composer, feminist and q***r icon, and Deep Listening theorist—but expands outward to consider the author’s own evolving relationship to music and sound. As a performance that documents its own making, the text also serves as a reflection on time, memory, improvisation, silence, solitude, loss, friendship, teaching, visual art, taste, and material culture, among many other subjects summoned in its daily pursuit.

02/05/2026

join us for Lunar New Year festivities next weekend in SF~🧧🐎🔥 reposted from :
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Make Your Own Luck 築好運! at the 2026 Flower Market Art Zone!

Art and humor are our sources of hope and empowerment this new year. Join CCC and Edge on the Square for two days of activations designed to help you armor up with joy, creativity, and resistance.

🗓️ Feb 14-15 | Sat 10am-6pm, Sun 9am-6pm
📍 600 Block of Grant Avenue
🔗 cccsf.us/makeyourownluck

Here’s what’s coming:

🐱 Meet Arm Day, Leg Day: Giant inflatable guardian cats, dance-alongs, and interactive photo-ops for 福 Body Protection by and

📚 Small Press Marketplace & CCC Design Store: Browse independent publishers and local makers featuring , , , , , and works by 50+ CCC Design Store artists

🖌️ Calligraphy & Q***r Lucky Scrolls: Calligraphers create personalized blessings for community members (with love) with Chan Mak Ming, .duen.shan.ming, and

🖨️ Screenprinting & Know Your Rights: Print your own messages and connect with organizations fighting for immigrant rights and language justice with , , , and

🎨 Interactive: Spin the prize wheel and color with , plus grab Spring Festival couplets celebrating q***r culture and community from

💃 Dance-alongs: Move with us in celebration and defiance with

More details and artist announcements coming soon!
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02/03/2026

Congrats for being selected as one of Foundation’s Honored Authors for this year’s Authors Dinner!

The Foundation’s Annual Authors Dinner is a unique cultural event that honors local authors and spotlights the Bay Area’s literary tradition, with proceeds going to the Berkeley Public Library.

A first-generation Chicano painter and illustrator, Héctor Muñoz-Guzmán is the author of Brown Eyes from Russell Street, tracing his artistic practice during a transformative period in his life. His art is rooted in the stories of working-class Mexican American communities, particularly in the Bay Area. Beginning with intimate collages of family photographs, Mesoamerican imagery, and found materials, he builds complex compositions that layer memory, heritage, and place. After completing his foundation year at Parsons School of Design and studying painting at Rhode Island School of Design, he paused his formal education due to a bipolar diagnosis and financial hardship, but he continued to develop his craft. In 2024, he entered the MFA program at UC Berkeley.

12/07/2025

thank you for all your tremendous effort organizing the small press book bazaar. 💌✨ thank you to everyone who showed up and supported bay area small press!!

there is no shortage of knowledge and cultural production in the bay, and i’m thrilled to be a tiny part of it 🐛📚✨

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11/20/2025

LAST DAYS to check out Hush Hush Secret Book Shop at ’s pop-up at 445 S. First Street in San Jose. come by this Fri. Nov. 21 & Sat. Nov. 22 12–5pm and clear us out 🥰📚✨

thank you for inviting and me to organize this pop-up bookstore with you. it’s been so meaningful, and everyone has expressed wishes that this were permanent. forEVER people have been craving more art in . super appreciate all the orgs & ppl making that happen in a daily basis and trying new things! 😗📚

thank you to for participating! 💫

11/12/2025

will be closing out the year with the small press book bazaar on sat. dec. 6, 12–7pm. 📚🐛🐛

thank you for all you do to sustain small press. ❤️

Small Press Book Bazaar
Co-presented by and
Saturday, Dec 6 - 12pm – 7pm
Free Admission

The Lab
2948 16th Street
San Francisco, CA 94103

Flyer design by Jeffrey Sincich.

11/06/2025

last 2 copies of ’s first edition of Good Listener remaining! thanks for the support 🙏🏼🙏🏼 link thru bio~

stay tuned for the second edition 👀✨

Good Listener: Meditations on Music and Pauline Oliveros is a performance-in-writing of Oliveros’s Sonic Meditation XXI—a text score in the form of a question: “What constitutes your musical universe?” Michael Ned Holte responds to this brief but expansive prompt with a daily meditation that focuses attention on the work of Oliveros—the revolutionary composer, feminist and q***r icon, and Deep Listening theorist—but expands outward to consider the author’s own evolving relationship to music and sound. As a performance that documents its own making, the text also serves as a reflection on time, memory, improvisation, silence, solitude, loss, friendship, teaching, visual art, taste, and material culture, among many other subjects summoned in its daily pursuit.

11/04/2025

thank you for coming out to .sungtaek ’s project space yesterday! so much fun to set up the leymusoom giftshop in ’s office, a former mail room! 💚💚

thank you and for inviting me into the space. 🐍✨

10/28/2025

the giftshop returns during their open house! 💫 this sunday, nov. 2, 12–5pm. come hang out and check out ’s project space and studio~

10/27/2025

good dogs, good vibes, and good books ! 🌞 thank you LA!

thx jeff, nicoletta, .losangeles, and volunteers for taking such great care of us!

enjoy your books! 📚📚📚📚

09/04/2025

i’ll be bringing a selection of books to this weekend . first time in cincy—pls send reccs!

CABF 2025
09.06: Noon–6 pm
09.07: Noon–5 pm

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2948 16th St
San Francisco, CA
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