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Readings by Queer Poets in the Arts of Africa Galleries (de Young Museum)

Saturday, April 18, 2026 - 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm | Cost: FREE*
*Free for Bay Area Residents or free after paid general admission for non residents
de Young Museum | 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, San Francisco, CA
San Francisco

Event Details

As part of the closing celebration for the exhibition Leilah Babirye: We Have a History, join us for an afternoon of poetry woven through the arts of Africa gallery. Poets will give voice to Babirye’s sculptures — works that hold queerness, exile, kinship, beauty, and belonging with fierce tenderness. This program offers an intimate activation of the gallery, where the voices of poets meet Babirye’s artistic forms in real time.

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Cost: FREE*
*Free for Bay Area Residents or free after paid general admission for non residents
Categories: *Top Pick*, Art & Museums, Community, In Person, Theater & Performance
Address: 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, San Francisco, CA

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