Located in San Francisco Chinatown, Now Place is a bookstore, RISO print studio, publishing project and art community hub for Asian diasporic, queer, and emerging voices. We hold space for the in-between — between languages, identities, disciplines, and belonging.
More than a store, we are a place for gathering: for workshops, readings, panels, pop-ups, and afternoons with a cup of tea and a pile of zines.
Come visit. Stay a while.
Build something with us.
As we celebrate one year since the rebirth of Now Place, we invite artists to participate in ACROSS 跨, a group riso exhibition exploring all and any notions of boundaries, in-betweens, transness, and movement!
🌱 Our space is open in SF Chinatown
We’ve reopned our doors in 2025 fall — with a new home built for stories, creative care, and collective dreaming.
Come visit us at 679 Clay St. San Francisco.
A home for independent publishing, shared dreams, and unfinished thoughts.
🌱 Volunteer with Now Place
Now Place 此间 is a small artist-run bookstore, publisher, and community space in San Francisco’s Chinatown.
We run on many kinds of care — the kind that welcomes a stranger, rearranges a shelf, wipes a table, designs a poster, or helps an artist set up for their first show.
Volunteers are part of this living ecosystem.
By spending time in the shop, helping at events, or lending your creative skills, you become part of the gentle rhythm that keeps Now Place alive — a rhythm built on curiosity, kindness, and collaboration.
Fairs and exibition
Talks and panels
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New York Art Book Fair, 2026
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Hardcore Art Book Fair, 2026
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San Francisco Art Book Fair, 2026
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Bay Area Book Fest, 2026
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Vancouver Art Art Book Fair, 2025, 2026
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Seattle Art Book Fair, 2026
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Los Angeles Art Book Fair, 2026
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Index Art Book Fair, 2026
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Bangkok Art Book Fair, 2025
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Press Print Party, 2025
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Singapore Art Book Fair, 2025
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Bay Area Queer Zine Fest, 2024, 2025
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East Bay Alternative Zine Fest, 2023, 2024, 2025
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San Francisco Zine Fest, 2023, 2024, 2025
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Olympia Zine Fest, 2025
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Los Angeles Zine Fest, 2025
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West Coast Craft, 2025
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Renegade, SF, 2024, 2025
Lecture Series: Bookstore as verb
Minnesota Street Project, SF
SFABF, 2026
Lecture Series: Publishing in space, creating as living practice
Bangkok Art & Culture Centre,
Bangkok Art Book Fair 2025
Lecture Series: Publishing in space, creating as living practice
Nanjing, 2025
Panel talk: Independent Publishing Panel Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre
Vancouver Art Book Fair 2025
Zine making Workshop,
The board, LA,
LA Zine Fest2025
Lecture Series: Building a fluid home in San Francisco
Guangzhou, 2025
Panel talk: Female artists self exploration panel
Bay area, 2023
