Poetry Hikes

A monthly Bay Area meetup for writing and sharing poetry on late night midweek hikes with friends.

This event is hosted in honor of Peter Eckersley.

Sketchboard

The largest figure drawing meetup in SF, hosted monthly, with 2 models and live music. I started the group in 2017 with Jessamyn Lynn Pattison, with the mission of creating affordable fine arts events in the city.

This event still happens under the same name, with new organizers, at Monument.

Flip the House!

A dance party & fundraiser for The Great Slate, a grassroots fundraising campaign that raises money for progressive candidates in low-income areas. Co-produced with Lucas Bergstrom at Symmetry Labs HQ.

The Red Victorian

A 20 bedroom co-living home, hotel, and events space in the Haight Ashbury district of San Francisco. Part of the Embassy Network.

The Red Vic hosted art shows, wood shop classes, science lectures, concerts, and local community meetings.

Ephemerisle

An annual week-long gathering of ~1000 people every July in the Sacramento River Delta. Participants host educational talks, art, and music events, as well as boating and seasteading workshops.

There is no official organizing body, though core groups form to manage infrastructure and address safety and community needs.

[freespace]

An experiment in what is possible when a community shares the gift of physical space. 

Started in June 2013, inspired by the National Day of Civic Hacking when a 14,000sq ft building on 7th & Mission in SF was acquired for the monthly rent of $1.

We hosted over 300 free events in the first month, and supported long term projects such as a free bike share, maker classes for people in homeless shelters, and a community garden.

[freespace] inspired similar projects in 26 locations and 18 different countries around the world.

Activate McCoppin

For one month, an abandoned parking lot in a San Francisco neighborhood was turned in to a community generated events space.

Local residents came together to host and attend concerts, dinners, yoga, art classes, meet their neighbors, and re-imagined the potential of the underutilized space on their block.