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Medicine for Nightmares

Bookstore and gallery in the heart of the Mission District, San Francisco.

10/04/2026

¡Children’s Story Hour and Chess both happening TODAY in our galeria!

2pm
Children’s Story Hour with author Belin Medina
Join us this afternoon with children’s author Belen Medina as she celebrates the release of her beautiful new book Mariposa’s Journey.

Belen Medina is a children’s book author inspired by her Mexican heritage and bicultural upbringing in California’s Central Valley. She is moved by stories of resilence, whether in nature or in humanity. Her debut picture book, Daughter of the Light-Footed People, received multiple starred reviews and was praised for its lyrical voice and powerful storytelling. It was also the recipient of the Washington State Book Award and the America’s Award. She is also the author of So Many Questions, and Emilia Wishing, both published in 2026. Belen lives in the Pacific Northwest with her two sons, who enjoy pointing out all her grammatical errors as she reads them draft after draft of her stories.

4pm
No Kings No Queens Chess Club
No Kings, No Queens Chess Club is the super-chill community chess club that gathers the 1st Sunday of every month in the galeria. Hosted by Danny Cao, all ages and skill levels are encouraged to come. Never played chess? We’ll teach you! Come hang out, talk chess and play a few games.

10/03/2026

Dearly beloved we are gathered on this Saturday here in La Mission to celebrate the wedding of our quierida bookstore child Maria to her hombrecito Berto, which means that Medicine for Nightmares will not be open for business or pleasure at all today.

¡Por favor join us in sending amor and good vibras to the new bride and groom as they embark on this beautiful locura of a journey called marriage!

¡Felizidades Maria y Berto your bookstore familia LOVES you both mucho!

Medicna will open back up tomorrow and we’ll be hosting two fabulous Sunday eventos to make up for closing on you all today. Join us on Sunday at 2pm for Children’s Storytime with author Belen Medina who will be reading from her mew book Mariposa’s Journey. ¡Bring the kiddos! Then from 4-7pm in the galeria No Kings No Queens Chess Club meets up all ages and skill levels welcome.

10/02/2026

¡LIVE music TONIGHT!

Other Dimensions in Sound is our Friday music series curated and hosted by Boohaabian multi reed player extraordinare David Boyce. Each week David will be inviting different musical guests to join him in our galeria for a night of musical medicina.

Tonight’s double dose of sonic sustenance is being brought to you by

Mystic Commandos(Alphastare-modular synth & Jaroba-saxophone)-1st set

RedFast Luck(David Boyce-reeds and efxs & PC Munoz-percussion, slapstick, intergalactic hookrug)-2nd set)

7pm

10/01/2026

TONIGHT something toothy is coming to Medicina!

Join translators Dora Prieto and Daniela Rodríguez Chevalier, with special guests Román Luján and Hugo García Manríquez, for an evening of poetry with bite, celebrating Xitlalitl Rodríguez Mendoza’s JAWS [tiburón], translation out now from Cardboard House Press (2026).

What happens when the shark gets tired of being the villain? When it splits into a chorus of workers who have bills to pay? When jaws starts sounding suspiciously like yo? Moving between ocean and office, Hollywood horror and everyday survival, this darkly comic collection sinks its dientes into work, language, and the business of staying alive.

Come for poems, stay until your teeth get pointy and a fin cuts the moon in two.

DORA PRIETO is a Mexican and Canadian poet and translator whose life and work have an unruly relationship to geography. She is a 2025–27 Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford and has held residencies at Hedgebrook and the Banff Centre. She is the co-translator of JAWS [tiburón] by Xitlalitl Rodríguez Mendoza (Cardboard House Press, 2026).

Born in Cuernavaca, Mexico ✿ city of eternal Spring ✿ and raised in el Distrito Federal, Daniela Rodríguez Chevalier writes and translates from unceded Coast Salish territories (Vancouver, BC). Her work has appeared in PRISM International, Volume, Discorder and carte blanche. She is part of eclectic artist collectives mim and El Mashup, Festival Coordinator and programmer at the Vancouver Latin American Film Fest, and co-host of Vivaporú on CiTR 101.9FM.

Román Luján is a Mexican poet, scholar, and literary translator based
in the Bay Area. He is the author of several poetry books in Spanish,
including Sánafabich.

Hugo García Manríquez,. Two of Hugo’s most recent translations into Spanish are two
anthologies he edited and translated. One of the San Francisco Bay
poet Jack Spicer, “After Lorca and other poems” and the other by
English poet Sean Bonney, titled “The Language of barricades”. His
latest poetry collection is Lo común, translated and published by
Cardboard House Press as Commonplace.

7pm

09/30/2026

TONIGHT Reclaiming our Democracy and Economy from AI with authors Dr. Alex Hanna Wendy Liu and Tamara Kneese moderated by Jackie Fielder

Join moderator Supervisor Jackie Fielder for an evening exploring how we, as everyday people, can take back our economy and democracy from artificial intelligence. We will explore what we even mean when we talk about “AI,” whether we’re in an AI bubble, the impacts of AI, whether we should be afraid of AI, and who’s behind the AI hype. This panel is jam-packed with women authors whose books have inspired critical conversations about AI and the tech sector at large: Dr. Alex Hanna, co-author of The AI Con, Wendy Liu, author of Abolish Silicon Valley, and Tamara Kneese, author of Notes Toward a Digital Workers’ Inquiry.

Wendy Liu made a career switch from software engineer to writer, a move that was sparked by reading lots of books at a time when her startup was tanking. Now she mostly writes about the horrors of Silicon Valley and why tech workers need to organise. She is the author of Abolish Silicon Valley.

Dr. Alex Hanna is a writer and sociologist of technology, labor, and politics. She is the Director of Research at the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR). Dr. Hanna is the co-author of The AI Con (Harper, 2025), a book about AI and the hype around it. They also run the Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 series, playfully and wickedly tearing apart AI hype on their livestream and podcast.

Dr. Tamara Kneese is a Senior Research Scientist at Partnership on AI and a Practitioner Fellow at the University of Virginia’s Environmental Institute. She is the author of Death Glitch: How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in The Life and Beyond (Yale University Press 2023) and co-author (with Capacitor Collective) of Notes Toward a Digital Workers’ Inquiry (Common Notions 2025).

7pm

09/29/2026

We have an amazing and eclectic line up of authors talks and conversations in the next couple of weeks-everything from the AI threat and how to deal with it to mexican poetry in translation to children’s storytime to Chicano fatherihood and tenderness to fiction writers in conversation…

Wednesday Sept. 30th 7pm
Reclaiming our Democracy and Economy from AI moderated by Jackie
Fielder with authors

Thursday October 1st 7pm
ENTRE
DIENTESJAWS[tib urón]- Bay Area
Launch with
translators Dora
Prieto and Daniela
Rodríguez Chevalier

Sunday October 4th 2pm
Book Launch For Mariposa’s Journey by Belen Medina

Sunday Oct. 11th 7pm
Author talk: No to Nuclear with Linda Pentz Gunter and Eric Wolfe

Tuesday October 13th 7pm
Sacred Lessons: Healing Across Generations with author Mike de la Rocha

Wednesday Oct. 21st 7pm
Surreal or real! A conversation
between two writers on their styles and what inspires them with authors Donna Miscolta and Marianne Villanueva.

All this and a selection of books that will free your mind so your ass will follow.

Weeknights open until 10pm
Fridays & Saturdays until 11pm

09/28/2026

Last week in the Portal looked exactly like this…
This week the Portal is buzzing with book talks, bilingual poetry celebrations, live music, chess club and an afternoon of children’s story hour…

Wednesday 7pm
Reclaiming our Democracy and Economy from AI moderated by Jackie
Fielder with authors Wendy Liu, Dr. Alex Hanna, and Dr. Tamara Kneese

Thursday 7pm
ENTRE
DIENTESJAWS[tib
urón]- Bay Area
Launch with translators Dora
Prieto and Daniela
Rodríguez Chevalier

Friday 7pm
LIVE music with RedFast Luck & Mystic Commandos

Sunday 2-4
Book Launch For Mariposa’s Journey by Belen Medina

Sunday 4-7pm
No Kings No Queens Chess Club!

All this and a selection of books your amcestors have been waiting for you to read.

Weekdays open until 10pm
Friday & Saturday open until 11pm

09/27/2026

¡Queer Music Open Mic happening tonight in our galeria!

A welcoming space for q***r musicians and songwriters to share their work, connect, and build community. Performers can sign up online in advance, join as walk-ins, or be featured as a monthly Featured Artist. Tonight’s feature is Toan.

Toan is an independent musician and songwriter whose work blends evocative lyricism with genre-fluid soundscapes. With a growing discography that spans introspective singles, lush demos, and collaborative tracks, Toan crafts music that invites listeners into emotional and sonic depth — balancing intimacy with expansive production.

6pm

09/26/2026

FAMILIA we have two really cool eventos happening in the galeria today.

3pm
Workshop: Visual Histories with
Zefania sponsored by the SFPL
Share stories with people outside your generation and create a visual representation of what you learn. This inter-generational program encourages children to share their stories with their grandparents, uncles, aunts or other family members. Or share stories between friends who are of different generations. Local artist Zefania will help participants shape their stories. Supplies provided.

Zefania is a native-born San Franciscan, Latina artist, and lifelong believer in the power of creativity to connect us. For more than 20 years, she has made, explored, learned, and grown through the arts—with curiosity as my compass and community at the heart of it all. Zefania’s work is rooted in place, culture, color, and the beautiful unpredictability of making. Zefania believe art can open doors, spark conversation, build bridges, and remind us that we belong to something bigger than ourselves. Still curious. Still creating. Still finding magic in the unexpected.Bring your curiosity there’s always room at the table.

This event is hosted by the Mission branch of the SFPL

7pm
Crate To Canvas
Closing Night Celebration
Closing night of the Crate to Canvas art show that is currently on exhibit in our galeria!

The Big Leagues Rare Soul Collective (TBL) and El Filmero Productions present a unique art installation inspired by the rare soul record collecting scene, celebrating vinyl crate digging culture through a combination of art, music, and film. Experience original artwork and photography from TBL members, and vinyl sets spun from their personal collections.

Featuring vinyl music sets and/or artwork by: Aveets · TUFF · Discos Olvidados · Space Cholo · Xaztecra · Joshua De Leon · Pisto · Jose Niño · Laughing Boy

09/24/2026

Noche de Movies is back! Our monthly movie series returns just in time for those chilly San Francisco summer nights. Microwave palomitas will be provided. This month’s movie is Louis Malle’s Crackers(1984) a comedy crime film starring that snooty Donald Sutherland and that wrinkly Sean Penn when he wasn’t so wrinkly. The film has Missiois shot in several iconic Mission spots like our quierida departed La Rondalla. Presented by Jonas.

Crackers is a 1984 film by Louis Malle about a group of small-time out-of-luck thieves, led by the unemployed Weslake (Donald Sutherland), who attempt to rob the neighborhood pawn shop owned by the greedy Garvey (Jack Warden). It is a remake of the Italian film Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958) directed by Mario Monicelli.

Microwave palomitas will be provided.

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3036 24th Street
San Francisco, CA
94110

Opening Hours

Monday	12pm - 8pm
Tuesday	12pm - 8pm
Wednesday	12pm - 8pm
Thursday	12pm - 10pm
Friday	12pm - 10pm
Saturday	12pm - 10pm
Sunday	12pm - 8pm

Telephone

+14158241761

Website

http://www.medicinefornightmares.com/

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