Gray Area

How can artists, data scientists, and journalists collaborate to report news through creative methods? Join us on November 19 for a conversation on art and activism with Mission Local, Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, and ZERO1. RSVP to join: grayarea.org/event/art-activism-journalism/

How does cross-disciplinary art shape culture? On November 18, join author W. Patrick McCray in a conversation on "Making Art Work." McCray's new book from MIT Press provides a survey of creative collaborations between artists, scientists, and curators over the past fifty years. RSVP: https://grayarea.org/event/making-art-work/

What Can a Body Do?: How We Meet the Built World Tech and the City: Author/designer Sara Hendren in conversation with disability activist Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, cosponsored by Gray Area and Goethe-Institut SF

Soundwave NEXT: Past and Future Forms On Nov 12, Soundwave NEXT x Gray Area present an audiovisual performance led by Sholeh Asgary with Dena Al-Adeeb, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, and Leyya Mona Tawil. RSVP: https://grayarea.org/event/past-and-future-forms/ Through the lens of SWANA (South-West Asia, North Africa) experimentalism in sound and performance, the project explores cyclical time and the optics of visibility in relation to the body as a past and future form, shaped by foreign policy, crude oil and water.

Today, join Sara Hendren, in conversation with disability activist Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, about her new book inviting us to rethink how our built environment is designed. Join us at 5:30pm PT: bit.ly/34C6AFm Co-Hosted with Mechanics' Institute Goethe-Institut San Francisco

Your voice matters. On November 3rd, Gray Area, located at 2665 Mission Street in San Francisco, will be a vote center for the upcoming election. If you haven't voted early or by-mail already, SF County voters may cast their ballot at Gray Area / Grand Theater on Election Day, Tuesday, November 3rd from 7AM-8PM. Along with in-person voting, Gray Area will also be a drop-off location for completed mail-in ballots. The San Francisco Department of Elections will be managing thi...s vote center and will ensure that all CDC and public health guidelines on social distancing and masks are followed. To find your polling place location, visit http://vote.org.

Tonight! We're excited to help support the live stream for "Road to Election 2020: Women In Politics" hosted by SF Chronicle. Heather Knight and Tal Kopan will be in conversation with U.S. Rep. Katie Porter, Emerge president A’shanti Gholar and state Assemblymember Buffy Wicks for a panel discussion on women in politics. The panel will discuss issues pertinent to women in 2020 including Kamala Harris’ historic vice-presidential run, the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the fight over her replacement, and how the lack of childcare options during the COVID19 pandemic is driving so many women out of the workforce. https://datebook.sfchronicle.com//road-to-election-2020-wo

Because C H A N G E takes time. Your responses have been so insightful, New Monuments Task Force is extending the public comment period to give everyone more time to keep participating! Visit the website to learn more, and contribute in the public comment survey online: newmonumentstaskforce.org The Relic Report is a tour of the SF monument landscape its meaning, its formal language, its politics responding to a national reckoning around race and symbols of injustice. Vol. 1 of the two-part zine publication invites you to participate in a public-comment survey, to generate citizen input on their relationship to our city’s monuments.

What can design do to empower the body? This new book by Sara Hendren argues that disability is a social phenomenon, not a medical one. Mechanics' Institute presents Sara Hendren in conversation with disability activist Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, cosponsored by Gray Area and Goethe-Institut SF. RSVP to join the conversation:... https://www.milibrary.org//what-can-body-do-how-we-meet-bu Learn more in this recent New Yorker article: https://www.newyorker.com//when-the-world-isnt-designed-fo

Next Tuesday, October 27, our friends at Counterpulse are hosting Matchbox Lab #4. Audience & artists collaborate to operate robots & sounds, for a live performance at the intersection of surveillance, machines, and our sentient selves. RSVP: http://counterpulse.org/event/matchbox-lab-4-hybrid-tenders/