Get ready to rock out at Mixtape: Protest Playlist by Cheryl Derricotte - a night of music and activism coming your way!
Mixtape: Protest Playlist by Cheryl Derricotte
re.riddle x Fall of Freedom
On Saturday, November 22, 2025 from 6 – 7:30pm as part of the nationwide call, Fall of Freedom, re.riddle is proud to present, Mixtape: Protest Playlist by artist Cheryl Derricotte. The event will take place at Minnesota Street Project, 1275 Minnesota Street, San Francisco.
Mixtape: Protest Playlist is equal parts dance party/sing-along/food for the soul participatory public event. Members of the public are invited to partake in Mixtape: Protest Playlist, a curated soundtrack of protest songs across genres.
Featuring songs from Sweet Honey in the Rock, Bob Dylan, the Isley Brothers, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Rage Against the Machine and Green Day, Mixtape: Protest Playlist has some inspired listening for all ages. The full playlist will be available for the public to view. Attendees are welcome to write-in/add their own favorite protest songs to the list. The artist will be present and inviting attendees to pull a song title from her special container in the hopes that it will fortify them over the course of the next 4 years.
Mixtape: Protest Playlist is a 90-minute participatory event. Event is free and open to public. People are welcome to drop-in for some or all of the mixtape.
About the Artist
“I originally created Protest Playlist in 2017 as part of the artist-led 100 Days of Action in response to the first Trump administration. Mixtape: Protest Playlist is created in support of the artist-led days of action Fall of Freedom, because in the words of the late great Mary Ellen Pleasant, “I’d rather be a corpse than a coward.”
Cheryl Derricotte is a visual artist and sculptor. Her favorite medium is glass, and she also makes work on paper and textiles. Her work explores themes of identity, memory, and place, and has been featured in The New York Times, The Guardian, The San Francisco Chronicle and the San Francisco Examiner. This fall, she will serve as the inaugural 2025 Ann Getty Endowed Chair, Visiting Artist-Scholar at the University of San Francisco. Cheryl was also recently named a 2025 George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation Fellow in the category of Objects and Installation Art.
Currently at work on public art projects in the Midwest and on the East Coast, Cheryl is known for being the creator of Freedom’s Threshold—the first glass monument to Harriet Tubman—unveiled in 2023 in Millbrae, CA. She has held prestigious residencies including the Museum of Glass; Corning Museum of Glass; the Joshua Tree Highlands Artist Residency; and the Windgate Charitable Foundation Fellowship at the Vermont Studio Center. Cheryl’s work is in the permanent collections of the deYoung Museum, the Museum of Glass, the Historic New Orleans Collection and the Oakland Museum of California. Cheryl holds an MFA from the California Institute of Integral Studies, an MRP from Cornell University, and a BA from Barnard College. A licensed city planner, she merges art, the built environment and civic engagement across disciplines.