Saturday, April 18th, 9pm - 2am Full Space / 21+ / Limited Capacity Want free entry? Check out the PW Union where members get event access, drinks, skip the line, and more: www.publicsf.com/membership Curious about more ticket options, deals, and ways to party? Check out our website at www.publicsf.com Snakehips touch down at Public Works […]
The Bay Area’s Annual Spring Conference on Plant Medicines & Psychedelic Science. Psychedelic Culture 2026 will explore cutting-edge themes that are largely absent from the mainstream psychedelic conversation, all related to our main initiatives: Indigenous Reciprocity & Decolonial Dialogues, Psychedelic Justice, Protection of Sacred Plants & Cultural Traditions, and voices from the Global South. At […]
ODC Theater: Spring Season Coffee Hours Sunday, 4/19 @ 11:00am - Monique Jenkinson and Chloë L. Zimberg Sunday, 4/26 @ 11:00am - Mariana Valencia, Jazmin Romero & Charles Slender-White
Join us this April at Gray Area's Cybernetics Book Club. This month, Cybersentics Book Club discusses the idea that emotions have fixed, measurable shapes that transcend culture and can be induced through touch alone. Though contested, Clyne's theory of sentic shapes casts a long shadow, most notably informing Rosalind Picard's work on affective computing. This […]
Friday: Opening Reception, 6 PM to 10 PM Saturday: Open Gallery Hours, 4 PM to 10 PM Sunday: Open Gallery Hours, 12 PM to 6 PM ./local_memory: soft systems is […]
Join us for readings and a conversation about Dr. Wilkinson’s new book, Climate Wayfinding. As climate disruption reshapes landscapes, politics, and daily life, a deeper question lingers beneath the headlines: How do we live—fully, honestly, boldly—within this moment? Where do we turn for steadiness and imagination as we find our way forward? Join climate leader […]
Weaving Spirits Festival of Two-Spirit Performance presents Life Giver: Nurture like Fire Sunday, April 19, 2-6pm Dance Mission Theater Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/life-giver-nurture-like-fire-tickets-1986097336598 Gather with Weaving Spirits for a day of food and learning about the intersections of Women, Indigiqueers, and fire. 🔥 We invite you to join us for a screening of Women They Are Carrying […]
EXHIBITION DATES MARCH 21 - APRIL 26, 2026 OPENING RECEPTION SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 4-9PM ARTIST PANEL SUNDAY, APRIL 19, 3-5PM A threadbare idea is one that is weak, hackneyed, or stale. This exhibition brings together 5 SF Bay Area quilt artists - Ora Clay, Joe Cunningham, Margaret Fabrizio, Trisha Hickey and Lorraine Woodruff-Long - whose […]
A joyful collection of poems in Nahuat, Spanish and English, that celebrate Indigenous life and language, and their survival, despite concerted efforts to eradicate them. ... A moving story of celebrated poet Jorge Argueta's childhood in the Salvadoran village of Witzapan, where his grandmother taught him his first words in Nahuat.
Navigating the mental toll of the headlines with UN advisor, humanitarian psychiatrist Dr. Suzan Song Stress, burnout, and collective anxiety have become the air we breathe – whether from grieving a loved one, losing a job, or simply trying to keep up with a world in overdrive. Drawing on decades of work with children and […]
How Do I Look? - the most vain, mundane and loaded question. Fauxnique, the drag queen guise of multi-faceted artist Monique Jenkinson, wields her unique combination of precise physicality, irreverent humor and gutsy vulnerability, to dig past glossy platitudes and flattering exaggerations into the hot mess of perception, subjectivity, identity and taste. Monique Jenkinson is […]
As part of A Season for Iran, we are honored to present BĀZ-TĀB—meaning reflection—an immersive performance and installation rooted in the architectural memory of Iran. Through large scale charcoal hand-drawing, paper sculpture, sound, and spatial performance, the work reconstructs the dreamlike fragments of places remembered: courtyards, domes, wind towers, and the intimate interiors of Iranian […]
