Welcome to Hospitality House
Hospitality House was founded in 1967, when the Tenderloin was experiencing an influx of LGBT youth flocking to one of America’s first epicenters for the burgeoning queer liberation movement: San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood. Despite the positive legacy created by this movement, more than 3,000 of these youth found themselves living on the streets. Most of them survived by participating in the vice traffic in the low-income Tenderloin district. Concerned residents in the Tenderloin partnered with this struggling population to form Hospitality House, initially a simple drop-in space offering food and activities to help homeless youth take an intermission from another night on the street. By 1985, Hospitality House had developed into the multiple-program agency it is today. The agency has shifted its demographic focus to meet changing needs of the community, transitioning from youth in the Tenderloin to now serving predominantly adult residents of San Francisco’s Tenderloin, Sixth Street Corridor, and Mid-Market neighborhoods struggling with homelessness, poverty, and the range of other socioeconomic issues facing residents here.
Hospitality House Happenings
THHE AUCTION IS COMING. GET YOUR TICKETS TODAY!
We invite you to join us for an evening of arts, food, and community celebration on Thursday, May 9, 2019, 6PM - 9PM, at THHE AUCTION - the new signature name of Hospitality House’s Annual Art Auction. Along with our new name comes an exciting new venue: the spectacular Midway at 900 Marin Street in San Francisco’s Dogpatch neighborhood. This year, hundreds of supporters and arts enthusiasts will help us celebrate the 50th Year of the Community Arts Program - a half-century of arts, community building, and social change. Check out THHE AUCTION event website and take advantage of our discounted advance tickets today! Sponsorship opportunities available now. |
FEARLESS COLOR: featuring artwork
by Angela Summers & Laurie Blessen The latest exhibition at Hospitality House's Community Arts Program gallery features the work of two of Community Arts Programs most fierce and bold artists. Laurie unashamedly mixes color palettes while Angela morphs bright female forms with insect creatures so vibrant you can almost hear them buzz. The viewer's eye will be transported through the whole rainbow and spinning out the other side. The exhibition opens on Friday, April 19th with an opening reception from 6PM - 8PM which includes an art market, refreshments, and live music. Get the art that you want at 1009 Market Street near Sixth Street. |
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