Nexus 2026: Full Schedule

Join us for our annual San Francisco/ Bay Area Black Art week from Wednesday September 30th - Sunday October 4th, 2026!

6:00pm PDT

MR. ADVOCATE: A FIlm Screening + Creative Session Celebrating Black Storytelling

Wednesday September 30, 2026 6:00pm - 8:00pm PDT

African American Art & Culture Complex @ 762 Fulton St, San Francisco, CA 94102, USA

Limited Capacity seats available

A screening of the narrative film Mr. Advocate followed by a facilitated dialogue and a short creative response that celebrates Black storytelling and connects artists across the Bay Area.

Nexus Black Art Week celebrates the talent of Black artists across the Bay Area. This event puts a Black filmmaker's work on the screen and gives you room to respond to it in your own medium.

Participants watch Mr. Advocate, a narrative film made by a filmmaker who spent over ten years teaching in public schools across the United States and abroad. Then we make something - a short creative response to the film, on paper, canvas, or their own medium. They share what they made, turn and talk in pairs and as a full group, and join a facilitated dialogue about Black storytelling and the role of Black art in the Bay Area. Participants bring their own medium or use what's in the room, and respond to the film. We close with a facilitated dialogue about the role of Black art in our schools, our streets, and our history.

This is a room for artists, curators, collectors, and art lovers from both sides of the Bay. Come make something and meet the people making the Bay Area's Black art scene.

Open to artists, curators, collectors, educators, and neighbors.

Artists

Stacie McClam

Filmmaker, Author

Stacie McClam is a filmmaker, educator, and author. Her film production company, School Dismissed, focuses on films about K-12 education issues and solutions. Through film, Stacie exposes the realities that many students and staff face inside schools and reimagines education's future... Read More →

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Wednesday September 30, 2026 6:00pm - 8:00pm PDT
African American Art & Culture Complex 762 Fulton St, San Francisco, CA 94102, USA

Film Screening, Event

Website https://mradvocatefilm.com/

1:00pm PDT

San Francisco Black Film Festival Presents: Indie Film Screenings + TECH TALK: Filmmaking

LIMITED

Sunday October 4, 2026 1:00pm - 4:00pm PDT

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts @ 701 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA

Limited Capacity seats available

NEXUS: SF Black Art Week x San Francisco Black Film Festival

San Francisco Black Film Festival Presents: Indie Film Screenings + TECH TALK: Filmmaking
Date: Sunday, Oct 4, 2026
When: 1pm - 4pm
Where: Yerba Buena Gardens Screening Room, 701 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94103

Schedule:

“Holy Roller” (Directed by Sara Anders) [Runtime- 18:02 minutes, plus film intro]
“Paralysis by Analysis” (Directed by Jolene Carter) [Runtime- 19:00 minutes]
“The Lake Merritt Monster” (Directed by Benjamin Mulholland) [Runtime- 16:30 minutes]
TECH TALK: Film- Featuring Bay Area Film Directors Sara Anders & Benjamin Mulholland, Moderated by SFBFF, Executive Producer, Sabrina Eberhardt [30 minutes]
“This Will Never Work”(Directed by Niccolo Aeed & Marina Templesman) [Runtime: 92 minutes]

Artists

Benjamin Mulholland

Director

Benjamin MulHolland is an Oakland based Writer/Director, who for 15 years has been turning small budgets into professional motion pictures, most notably, M.O.A.B. and it’s sequel DAISY CUTTER.

His biting action/satire web series PENNIES FOR THE JUGGERNAUT was well received and d

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