The 13th Annual SF ¡Dada! Do Salon at Spec’s (North Beach)
SPEC’S Twelve Adler Museum Cafe | 12 William Saroyan Place, San Francisco, CA 94133
Event Details
Three Rooms Press presents
The 13th Annual
SF ¡DADA! DO SALON
A Highly Eclectic DADA Performance Event
plus the official San Francisco launch of
MAINTENANT 20: Journal of Contemporary DADA Writing and Art
Sunday, December 6, 2026 | 6 pm PST
SPEC’S Twelve Adler Museum Cafe
12 William Saroyan Place, North Beach, San Francisco
Free Admission
An evening of provocative, exuberant, eclectic performance and poetry is slated to hit the stage as Three Rooms Press presents 2026 SF ¡DADA! DO SALON: a wild ride of contemporary DADA performance and poetry by leading Bay Area maverick artists The event includes the official San Francisco launch of the internationally-renowned MAINTENANT 20: Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art (2026, Three Rooms Press), which features more than 230 visual and literary works by artists and writers from six continents.
The event takes place Sunday, December 6, 6 pm, at SPECS’ Twelve Adler Museum Cafe, 12 William Saroyan Place in North Beach. Admission is free. Costumes encouraged. Come as you aren’t.
The line-up features renowned contemporary DADA artists from the Bay Area and beyond including Mahnaz Badihian, Allison A. Davis, Carol Dorf, Jon Longhi, Richard Loranger, Robyn Mallery, Thomas Stolmar, Rich Stone, Tate Swindell, Maw Shein Win, and Lorene Zarou-Zouzounis. Three Rooms Press co-founders and MAINTENANT editors Peter Carlaftes and Kat Georges host.
Plus after the reading, for an added attraction, pianist/singer Wendy Fitz and bassist Steve Webber will perform live from 8-9:30pm!!!
MAINTENANT 20: A Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art is the latest of the ongoing annual MAINTENANT DADA journal series, established in 2008. This year’s issue features over 240 contributors from 34 countries and 6 continents, offering work on the theme of IMPROPERGANDA. With brilliant cover art by renowned Iranian-American artist, Nicky Nodjoumi, MAINTENANT 20 dives into the intersection of politics, misinformation, and the post-truth era. A must-read for academics, artists, and anyone reckoning with modern media and governmental disinformation.
The MAINTENANT series is archived in leading international institutions including the Museum of Contemporary Art–New York, the BelVUE Museum–Brussels, and more. Contributors have included such artists Mark Kostabi, Raymond Pettibon, Fred Tomaselli, Nicole Eisenman, Edel Rodriguez, and Kazunori Murakami, along with writers William S. Burroughs, Gerard Malanga, Charles Plymell, Jack Hirschman, and Jerome Rothenberg, with a strong contingent of punk musician-artist-writers including Grant Hart, Mike Watt, Exene Cervenka, Thurston Moore, and Alice Bag
Disclaimer: Please double check event information with the event organizer as events can be canceled, details can change after they are added to our calendar, and errors do occur.
Cost: FREE*
