Filipinx Creatives Take Center Block in San Francisco’s Mid-Market for August’s UNSTAGED
SAN FRANCISCO (August 13, 2025) – Market Street Arts announced the line-up for August’s UNSTAGED: Live on Mid-Market, the free, interactive arts, music, and community experience on Thursday, August 21, from 4–7 p.m.. This month, UNSTAGED is getting a distinctly Filipinx flair, thanks to Kultivate Labs’ curation of emerging creatives from the Filipino Cultural District. Visitors will experience the diversity and vitality of Filipinx artistry on Market Street, between 5th and 6th. Registration is free and open at UNSTAGED.org.
UNSTAGED will feature a range of live acts, including drag, comedy, breakdancing, and live music. From the Cuffin’ DJ crew, Druskee, DJ Boogie Brown & Jon Reyes will bring the house party vibes with, "Cuffin' All Thangs R&B," a R&B party that plays a mix of R&B music from various eras, including throwbacks, sing-alongs, slow jams, and remixes. There will also be an acoustic R&B stage featuring HIGATE Music Artists: Micah Espina, Peejay Estay, JENN!, Diwata Diaries, Don Miralles & Rafael.
Guests are invited to join Community Arts Stabilization Trust (CAST) and KALW’s Audio Academy journalism fellows for street-side interviews and an exclusive Open House of the Warfield Commons, the one-of-a-kind home for artists, culture keepers, journalists & storytellers in the heart of San Francisco. Meet the growing creative community including Psyched Radio SF and get a glimpse into the People's Studio, KALW's future home for music, news, information, and culture. RSVP is required for the Open House Tour on http://bit.ly/warfieldcommons-tour.
Attendees will experience culture not just on stage, but embedded in the public spaces and storefronts of Mid-Market—an area that is both a historic arts corridor and a designated part of the Filipino Cultural District. This activation offers a vivid, immersive glimpse of what it looks like when Filipino creative voices lead San Francisco’s cultural resurgence. The full lineup includes:
Tila Pia Drag
Sidewalk Karaoke
Higate Acoustic RnB featuring:
All the Way Live Breakdance Battles
DJ sets with the Cuffin’ Crew featuring:
Psyched! Radio’s new space activation
The event takes place in the Mid-Market Entertainment Zone (Market Street between 5th and 6th Streets), where those 21+ can grab a drink and hit the street. Drinks for purchase will be available at The Red Tail, The Warfield, The Timbri Hotel, and Saluhall.
UNSTAGED: Live on Mid-Market is supported by the Mid-Market Foundation, Urban Alchemy, the Office of Mayor Daniel Lurie, the Svane Family Foundation, the San Francisco Office of Economic and Workforce Development. Kultivate Labs is an exclusive partner for August’s UNSTAGED.
ABOUT KULTIVATE LABS
Kultivate Labs is a Non-profit Economic Development and Arts Organization, creating thriving commercial ecosystems by accelerating businesses that preserve culture and community. Kultivate Labs is an ecosystem of interconnected mutually-supporting programs providing space and opportunities for the arts to flourish so that commercial activities are activated and reflect the community at large.
ABOUT THE MID MARKET FOUNDATION
The Mid Market Foundation (MMF) is a 501c3 established in 2019 to conceive, implement, and manage transformative programs. It launched Market Street Arts in August 2023, creating a uniting vision for the neighborhood. MMF also launched the Tenderloin/Mid-Market Community-Based Safety Program, which is one of the largest alternative community safety programs in the country, providing ambassador services across San Francisco’s Mid-Market, Tenderloin, and SOMA neighborhoods.
ABOUT MARKET STREET ARTS
Led by the Mid-Market Foundation, Market Street Arts is a multi-year collaboration between the City, neighborhood stakeholders, businesses, residents, private donors, and corporate sponsors to actualize the true potential of Mid-Market. It capitalizes on Mid-Market’s centralized location and creative infrastructure as San Francisco’s historic theater district. Implementation strategies specifically leverage the neighborhood’s larger cultural venues with a fabric of new and existing creative entrepreneurs, arts organizations, businesses, public art, beautification, and events of various scales, serving as a multipronged platform for creative expression, human connection, and economic investment.
Market Street Arts is funded by the Mid Market Foundation, a 501c3 established in 2019 to conceive, implement, and manage transformative programs, in partnership with the San Francisco Office of Economic and Workforce Development.
