Michael Louis' "Slept In" at Tilden Regional Park's Nature Area

Welcome to the Garden! This walk through the Allen Ginsberg Community Poetry Garden is a sound scape of poems produced in collaboration with local artists and community members, Left Margin Lit, the University of California Berkeley's African American Studies Department, and the Berkeley Arts Magnet School at Whittier, with support from the UC Berkeley Chancellor's Partnership Fund. We invite you to join us, take a wander around, and find a place in this garden and in these poems.

(re)collection is a series of site-specific installations by LeeAnn Perry that bring together memories of defunct and ephemeral music venues in the Bay Area, in order to reconnect participants in musical communities that have fragmented through time, to resurrect networks of musical collaboration that have lain dormant, and to invite newcomers to these communities to pay tribute to their inspirations.

Beast Nest is an experimental artist based in Oakland, CA.

A new track from the electronic artist Boron, presented in the form of a site-specific sound walk. http://boron.bandcamp.com

(re)collection is a series of site-specific installations by LeeAnn Perry that bring together memories of defunct and ephemeral music venues in the Bay Area, in order to reconnect participants in musical communities that have fragmented through time, to resurrect networks of musical collaboration that have lain dormant, and to invite newcomers to these communities to pay tribute to their inspirations.

(re)collection is a series of site-specific installations by LeeAnn Perry that bring together memories of defunct and ephemeral music venues in the Bay Area, in order to reconnect participants in musical communities that have fragmented through time, to resurrect networks of musical collaboration that have lain dormant, and to invite newcomers to these communities to pay tribute to their inspirations.

(re)collection is a series of site-specific installations by LeeAnn Perry that bring together memories of defunct and ephemeral music venues in the Bay Area, in order to reconnect participants in musical communities that have fragmented through time, to resurrect networks of musical collaboration that have lain dormant, and to invite newcomers to these communities to pay tribute to their inspirations.

(re)collection is a series of site-specific installations by LeeAnn Perry that bring together memories of defunct and ephemeral music venues in the Bay Area, in order to reconnect participants in musical communities that have fragmented through time, to resurrect networks of musical collaboration that have lain dormant, and to invite newcomers to these communities to pay tribute to their inspirations.

"Portals: Visions of Freedom and Abolition in The Past and Future" documents how it feels to walk through neighborhoods in San Francisco as Black, Queer and Trans people. Using emotionally charged textured soundscapes and spoken word testimony of racial profiling and sentiments about the police, this sound art experience explores themes of alienation and abolition. Portals begins at the corner of Sycamore Street and 623 Valencia Street in the Mission. Participants are then guided to the opening of Clarion Alley, where they will be led through the mural-filled passage. The soundwalk features abstract emotional textured soundscape loops, spoken word, and audio that directly interacts with the content of some of the murals. It takes place primarily in Clarion Alley and addresses how the alley in and of itself is a creative space that serves as a portal into past (and idealized) versions of the Mission, when it wasn’t as gentrified and sterile and when freaks, punks, and artists flourished in the neighborhood. Produced and composed by Elsa Trash, Labryssa Deskins, and Titania Kumeh as part of the Big Freak artist collective and band based in Oakland, California.