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¿Donde Esta Mi Gente? is coming back! Donde Esta Mi Gente? is doing a new show!!

February 24th7 PM Pacific time, FREE! Presented by KQED!

Please join Baruch Porras Hernandez and Raina León who has come on as guest co-host and curator for this exciting lineup of writers and performers! We are featuring performances from Jasminne Mendez , Dizzy Jenkins , Alan Pelaez Lopez, and Kay Nilsson, so don’t miss this show!

DEMG was created by Baruch Porras Hernandez with the help of a grant from Galeria de la Raza back in 2014.This series for 2021 will be a part of KQED En Español, so all of our shows will be in English and Spanish! The show is FREE make sure to reserve your spot on EventBrite!

CLICK HERE TO RESERVE YOUR TICKETS!

DONDE ESTA MI COMEDY?! A night of hilarious stand up by the bay area’s funniest Latino comedians!

January 25th! 10:30 p.m. at Cafe Du Nord!

here is the link, get your tickets before they sell out: CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS!

Help DondeEstaMiGente Out!!!

By donating to our campaign to do more Donde Esta Mi Gente Show!! Most of our shows are funded by our head organizer, Baruch Porras Hernandez. Often artist fees, photographer fees, designer fees come our of his wallet. Which is fine, he wants to support his community, sometimes our shows are funded by KQED, sometimes by SF AIDS Foundation, but we are only able to do 1 or 2 shows a year.

Imagine a world where we can do MORE DEMG SHOWS!!? We want to live in the world. Feb 13th we launched a fundraiser to make 2000 dollars so we could do more shows, we’ve raised $1100!!!!!

Now we need your help to raise the other 900 bucks, help us out with 5 or 10 bucks, tell a friend about fund raiser and what we do. With your help we can keep doing Latinx focused poetry shows in a city where the Latino population is disappearing.

LOVE LOVE LOVE and more love to you all!

GO TO THIS LINK to donate!

A Message From Baruch

For my birthday month I would LOVE it if you donated 5 to 10, or 100 bucks to help us do more ¿DondeEstaMiGente? shows!! DEMG brings Latinx writers, comedians, and musicians together and pays them to perform in amazing shows that are almost always free to the community! I usually pay the photographers, the artists, the designers and all other expenses out my own pocket, which means less shows. With your donations we could do more shows all year round!! Give Today! And if you can’t, no worries, no pressure, all love. DONATE TODAY!!

huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuugs!!!

Baruch

¿DONDE ESTA MI COMEDY? Went Suuuuper Well!!

The Crew on top of the World in the Heart of the Castro!

The show was like a little Dream! We gathered some of the BEST Latinx comedians from all over the Bay Area and had them do comedy with us at our very first all Latino Comedy Show! We decided to call it ¿DondeEstaMiComedy? and I think we like it, we’ll keep it. The Show was at Strut! We are so grateful to Strut for letting us do the show there. A ton of folks came, the audience was great, all the comics killed! The Comics featured were all Latinx in our DONDEESTAMIGENTE tradition.

We featured Kay Nilsson, who is new to comedy, this was his first comedy show with all comics, and all Latinos. Veronica Porras who was so funny! Molly Sanchez who had a really great set and told us a loving story about a pepperoni. Jennifer Dronsky who was the first comic we ever featured at DondeEstaMiGente, she KILLED! Then we had a very very special appearance from The Grace Towers, she was incredible, the crowd loved her. Then we had a set from Jesus U. BettaWork, he was soo good and then did a dance! Then we he had our headliner Eloisa Bravo from Cheaper Than Comedy, we could not have asked for a better closer, and close she did, the audience was over the moon.

All pictures were taken by the very very sexy Fabian Echevarria,!!

CHECK OUT THE PICTURES FROM OUR AMAZING SHOW BELOW and stay tuned for the next Donde Esta Mi Gente?!

This is our serious comedians Shot.

Molly Sanchez KILLED!

The Incredible Out of this World GRACE TOWERS came and did a number, it was fantastic!

Molly Sanchez!

Baruch Porras Hernandez our head organizer and host, cohosting with Kay Nilsson!

Jesus U BettaWORK did a wonderful Mexican Folkloric Dance!

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The crowd LOVED this, Jesus worked it!

The Fantastic Eloisa Bravo was our Headliner!

TIME FOR A NIGHT OF ALL LATINX COMEDIANS!! JOIN US!!

TIME FOR ANOTHER ¿Donde Esta Mi Gente?! Did y’all miss us? Our last show at LitCrawl with KQED was packed and it went really well. Our next show is an ALL COMEDY LINE UP!!
We’ve been doing all Latinx poetry and music shows for four years, with a Latinx comic sprinkled here and there, but now this is our first ever COMEDY SHOW! Please join us at ¿Donde Esta Mi Comedy? at Strut!! Featuring Eloisa Bravo Jesús U. BettaWork, Molly Sanchez, Jennifer Dronsky, Veronica Porras, Kay Nilsson and a very special appearance by Grace Towers!
this show is FREE!
SEE YOU ALL THERE!

hosted by Baruch Porras Hernandez!

JANUARY 21 7PM! AT STRUT 470 CASTRO STREET SAN FRANCISCO FREE!

It’s LitCrawl Time Again!

We are super honored to be working with KQED and LitQuake once more, to bring you a taste of DEMG during their annual big LitCrawl show! Join us Oct 14th at The Laundry, 3359 26th Street San Francisco, during the third leg of LitCrawl! 8 PM! This show is titled “¡Bad Immigrants!” and will bring you literary performances from immigrant writers on the strength, hilarity, and humanity of being an immigrant. With performances by: Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Amanda Muñiz, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, and Camilo Villa.
Ingrid Rojas Contreras is a Colombian writer based in San Francisco. Her debut novel, Fruit of the Drunken Tree, is forthcoming in 2018. Her work has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Electric Literature, and Guernica, among others.She is the book columnist for KQED and currently teaches Fiction at the University of San Francisco.

Camilo Villa is a Colombian artist and poet based in Oakland, California. He has performed in venues, such as The Queer Open Mic and Donde esta mí gente. Camilo holds a Fine Arts Degree with a minor in Social Action & Public Forms from the California College of the Arts.

Zulfikar Ali Bhutto is an artist of mixed Pakistani and Lebanese descent. He has performed with Radar Productions, The Stud, throughout the U.S, Colombia, Pakistan and Dubai. Some of you might ask, why Zulfi is performing with us, and we’re like, why not? Though, DEMG is a Latinx Performance showcase, we invited Zulfikar to join us in solidarity with our queer Muslim immigrant siblings. As pocs we should support each other and make space for each other, also DEMG is a huge fan of Zulfikar, his work is incredible. DEMG stands with all immigrants. 

Amanda Muñiz is a writer from Puebla, Mexico currently studying English Literature and Latino Studies at San Francisco State. She is inspired by her parents, the migrant experience, the land she has trekked over, and chisme.

hosting yet again, the creator of ¿DEMG?, writer, performer, and standup comedian Baruch Porras Hernandez

CLICK HERE for the FB info, and to share the event and invite all your friends!!! Don’t forget, Saturday, Oct 14th at The Laundry, 3359 26th Street San Francisco, during the third leg of LitCrawl! 8 PM!

We are so EXCITED!

to be collaborating with one of San Francisco’s oldest and most respected Queer Literary Organizations, RADAR Productions! RADAR curates public events that support emerging queer artists and bona fide superstars, which is why we are over la luna happy to be working with them.

Our team up show is this Thursday! The show is FREE, so no excuses, you all better be there. Representing ¿DEMG? Will be Tomas Moniz, sexy Chicano writer publisher who has performed with us several times, and super adorable Camilo Villa all the way here form Colombia. Baruch will be there but the event will be hosted by the super rad Julianna Delgado Lopera.

click here for more info on the writers, CLIIIIICK!

Thursday, Oct 12th, 6PM at the San Francisco Public Library 100 Larkin Street San Francisco in the Latino/Hispanic Room–basement level. 

The Show Last Night ROCKED!

Hello everyone, Baruch here, Yesterday I was truly moved and overjoyed by the artists at the ¿Donde Esta Mi Gente? reading at Beast Crawl. I have not had that many audience members thank me as they left a show in a long time. There was like, a line of people, that was pretty neat. The show went so well, three people came up to me after and told me they wanted to be donors to the performance series. I want to thank Zulfi Faluda, René Vaz Eloisa Bravo, Amanda Muniz, and Javier Zamora for being incredibly flexible, true professionals, and for their top notch performances, thank you guys, you are what makes DEMG great, and make me happy DEMG exists. The venue was small, it was super hot, but the audience were troopers, and sat in that heat to hear the poetry and comedy. THANK YOU SO MUCH to everyone that came to the show. OUR NEXT DONDE ESTA MI GENTE IS I OCTOBER!!