Welcome to Edge on the Square, the innovative arts hub located at the heart of San Francisco Chinatown. We celebrate pioneering creative expressions at the intersection of community, art, and action.
At Edge, surprising programs emerge year-round. Joining a collective effort with the community to revitalize the neighborhood through the cultural arts, Edge welcomes everyone to explore and experiment with our interactive art experiences, site-specific installations, family-friendly events, culinary series, stunning performances, critical panel talks and gatherings, and multimedia exhibitions. Our signature annual event is the Annual Contemporary Art Festival, the first of its kind in San Francisco Chinatown. This year's event will take place on September 20th, so mark your calendars!
Join us at Edge where we are bridging art, community and action to foster meaningful cultural exchanges and imagining a collective future together.
Exhibition Open Now!
Edge on the Square is proud to present our newest exhibition All Eyes On Us: Invention & Ingenuity During Artistic Diasporas. At a moment when immigration is at the forefront of our nation’s geopolitics, All Eyes on Us shines a timely spotlight on the unique and forceful moves that immigrant artists make to negotiate the fraught yet fertile spaces of diaspora.
%20WO%20Subtitle.png)
Chinatown Pride 2025:
We Are Immortal!
華埠驕傲2025: 我們不朽！
May 24, 2025
The Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco (CCC) and Edge on the Square co-present the 2nd Chinatown Pride 2025: We are Immortal!—a powerful evening-long festival that transforms our neighborhood into a bold celebration of resistance through art, dance, and storytelling, opening with a first-ever Chinatown Pride procession and culminating in an exhilarating silent disco!
At a time when LGBTQIA+ and immigrant rights are under attack, Chinatown Pride 2025 stands as a force of resistance and solidarity. This year's theme, "We are Immortal!" is a declaration on transformation, reinvention, and the refusal to be anything but unapologetically alive.
Culinary Series
October 19, 2024 - May 2025
MSG: Making, Sharing, Gathering is an interactive culinary series that invites participants to examine the anthropology of food via cooking rituals and traditions from the Asian American culinary landscape. Through their personal narratives, six Bay Area culinary stars demonstrate how food is a potent cultural practice. These monthly workshops entail unique experiences that celebrate the cuisine of the Asian diaspora, blending nourishment and creativity, resilience and reclamation.
Our Theory of Change
Edge shifts the dominant narrative of the immigrant experience by:
-
Expanding knowledge and awareness of a “critical” immigrant story
-
Being a strong voice for immigrants with an uplifting narrative
-
Being the touchstone that holds the brand and a welcoming space to spark dialogues
Edge will become a sustainable socio-economic engine for Chinatown by:
-
Providing stellar programs that motivate the public to visit, explore, and experience Chinatown
-
Engaging with communities to build relationships and networks that amplify our collective voice and power
Edge widens the aperture of the human experience through:
-
Empowerment, creativity, and optimism
-
Sharpening tools to initiate and engage in meaningful discourse, build self-awareness, exercise agency, and activate social transformation
-
Promoting attitudes of inclusivity, cultural curiosity, constructive exchange
Land Acknowledgement
Edge on the Square, situated in the vibrant heart of San Francisco's Chinatown, stands at the crossroads of history and culture. We would like to acknowledge that the land on which we stand is the ancestral and unceded lands of the Ramaytush Ohlone People who have stewarded this land throughout the generations. We recognize the historic discrimination and violence inflicted upon Indigenous peoples in California and the Americas. We also recognize the historical significance of this land to the diverse Chinese immigrant communities who have contributed to the rich cultural tapestry of San Francisco. We offer our deepest respect to the Ramaytush Ohlone as first peoples and express gratitude to the generations of Chinese Americans who have made this community thrive.
