The Wiggins brothers of POPLYFE onstage for GLIDE; their father Dwayne Wiggins and uncle Raphael Saadiq, were founding members of the multi-platinum R&B/Soul group Tony! Toni! Tone!
GLIDE Holiday Jam, 2012: Doin’ Good for GLIDE, featured music and spoken word performances at the Warfield Theatre on December 6, 2012. Artists including Judith Hill, Eoin Harrington, Lara Johnston, POPLYFE, Tony! Toni! Tone!,Tim Johnstonof the Doobie Brothers, and the Glide Ensemble and Change Band performed and helped raise over $900,000 for GLIDE. Funds support GLIDE’s social programs including Mo’s Kitchen, which serves three meals a day to San Francisco’s poorest residents.
GLIDE provides healthcare, youth programs, housing, women’s services, emergency treatments, childcare and family support, as well as free daily meals. Located at Ellis and Taylor in the Tenderloin, one of San Francisco’s harshest urban environments, GLIDE is an oasis that has unconditionally served the poor and disenfranchised for nearly 50 years.
Poet and playwright Chinaka Hodge for GLIDE
Reverend Cecil Williams, GLIDE Founder and Minister of Liberation took the stage at GLIDE’s annual holiday jam, Doin’ Good, on December 6, 2012
Lara Johnston onstage at Doin’ Good for GLIDE
Singer and songwriter Judith Hill
The Wiggins brothers of POPLYFE onstage for GLIDE; their father Dwayne Wiggins and uncle Raphael Saadiq, were founding members of the multi-platinum R&B/Soul group Tony! Toni! Tone!
D’wayne Wiggins of Tony! Toni! Tone!
Tommy Moon with Renel Brooks-Moon, event emcee
Bill Nothman, GLIDE Founding President Janice Mirikitani, GLIDE Founder and Minister of Liberation Reverend Cecil Williams, Reverend Karen Oliveto, Robin Ridenour
Kate Watson, Eoin Harrington
Tracy Curtis, Kristen Yamamato, Mike Billeci
GLIDE honorees onstage
Outside GLIDE on any given Sunday
Photos by Drew Altizer Photography
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