Flip the House!

A dance party & fundraiser for The Great Slate, a grassroots fundraising campaign that raised nearly a million dollars in 2017 for progressive candidates in low-income areas who have trouble raising money locally. Co-produced with Lucas Bergstrom, we hosted several hundred people and raised several thousand dollars for the cause.

Sketchboard

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

Sketchboard events are donation based, volunteer run, inclusive, accessible, and body-positive. LGBTQ+ and BIPOC-ran and focused. 

The Red Victorian

A 20 bedroom historic building on Haight St, converted into a co-living home, hotel, and events space.

The Red Vic is a community resource for locals hosting gallery shows, science lectures, and non-profit meetings, as well as a collaborative home away from home for people from all over the world.

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.