The CounterPulse Festival 2021

Join CounterPulse as we dismantle and build new architectures of affects towards new social paradigms imbued with reflection, embodiment and touch.

Reopen your mind with new events by FACT/SF, tinypistol, curbAlert, Krista DeNio >> Moving Ground, Faluda Islam / Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Meg Foley, Marc Kate & Julie Phelps, Performance Primers, Skybridge, ArtSpan and more.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9th

11am-12pm: Panel with ZERO1, Thoughtworks, and CounterPulse
Location: Virtual

5pm-6:30pm: ArtSpan Artist Reception
Location: CounterPulse Gallery

5pm-9pm: Split by FACT/SF
Location: CounterPulse Project Space

7pm-8:30pm: Upon a Phrase: A Matchbook Performance with Hannah Meleokaiao Ayasse and Casey Gardner
Location: San Francisco Center for the Book


FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10th

12pm-1:30pm: Fuck the System! Queeratorial Collectives Do It Themselves a conversation curated by Performance Primers
Location: Virtual

5pm-9pm: Split by FACT/SF
Location: CounterPulse Project Space

5:30pm-7:30pm: Leslie Parker Dance Project's Call to Remember Fall 2021 Residency
Location: Virtual

6pm-7:30pm: Embodied Poetics with Justin Ebrahemi & Justine Fernandez
Location: CounterPulse Main Stage

8pm-9pm: The ABJD Series: Prologue 1009, Heaven 58 followed by screening of Un Chant d'amour by Faluda Islam / Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

Location: CounterPulse Main Stage


SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 11th

2pm-3pm: Radius Instigated by Julie Phelps & Marc Kate
Location: McEvoy Foundation for the Arts

3pm-7pm: Split by FACT/SF
Location: CounterPulse Project Space


TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14th

12pm-2pm: Tenderloin Arts Lending Library
Location: CounterPulse Lobby

2pm-5pm: beautiful crystals imply slow growth workshop with Meg Foley
Location: Virtual (Live-streamed from CounterPulse's Upstairs Studio)

2pm-4pm: Embodied Divination workshop with Amara Tabor Smith
Location: Virtual

5pm-7pm: Contemporary Experiment Workshop with Leslie Parker
Location: Virtual


WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15th

6pm-7pm: The ABJD Series: Heaven 58 & Prologue 1009 ???? ???? by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto / Faluda Islam
Location: CounterPulse Main Stage


THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16th

5pm-9pm: Split by FACT/SF
Location: CounterPulse Project Space

6-8pm: From Roots to Action workshop with Krista DeNio and NETWORK project collaborators
Location: CounterPulse Main Stage

6:30-8pm: unorest by CurbAlert
Location: Estuary Park in Oakland

7:30-8pm: CounterPulse at SkyBridge
Location: Skybridge on Stevenson Alley


FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17th

2pm-4pm: Fuck the System! Queeratorial Collectives Do It Themselves a mixer by Performance Primers
Location: Township Commons in Oakland

5pm-9pm: Split by FACT/SF
Location: CounterPulse Project Space

6:30-8pm: unorest by CurbAlert
Location: Estuary Park in Oakland


SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18th

3pm-7pm: Split by FACT/SF
Location: CounterPulse Project Space

3pm-5pm: Weaving Spirits film screening and Q&A with Landa Lakes & Javier Stell-Fresquez and The Transgender District
Location: Virtual

5pm-8pm: Radius and NETWORK at the Djerassi Program:
* 5-6:15pm: Audience Reception + NETWORK activation with trees
* 6:15-7:10pm: Radius performance
* 7:20-8:00pm: NETWORK showing + experience
Location: Djerassi Resident Artists Program