EVENTS

The World Premiere of Intersection for the Arts & Campo Santo’s The River

IFTA | WHEN: April 11 - May 04th | WHERE: A.C.T Costumer Shop, 1117 Market St | Details: Richard Montoya of Culture Clash collaborates with Intersection for the Arts resident theater company Campo Santo, and its co-founder Sean San Jose, to create The River. The play is part of Montoya’s larger series, “The Border Series”, that explores themes of identity, California and its people, and the many types of borders they encounter and cross.

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Women in Manufacturing

SFMADE | WHEN: March 28th, 6-8 pm | WHERE: 910 Howard St | Details: Join us for a conversation with three of the most successful women in manufacturing in San Francisco. In a highly interactive discussion facilitated by Janet Lees, Senior Director at SFMade, we will hear how Kathy Wiley, owner of Poco Dolce, Clare Bressani, Vice President of Tanko Lighting, and Julienne Weston, CEO of Weston Wear, have grown and developed their companies.

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Collective Invention (Wine Down)

HUB | WHEN: March, 29th, 5 pm | WHERE: 925 Mission St | Details: Join us for a wine down hosted by Collective Invention  in and near Collective Invention office on the second floor. Can’t wait to see you there!  

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[HUB WORKBENCH] Design Thinking 101

HUB | WHEN: March 28th, 6:30 pm | WHERE: 925 Mission St | Details: Interested in learning how creative companies give birth to new ideas and turn those ideas into innovative services and products? Then this is the class for you! In a short, high-paced session we will introduce the concepts of design-thinking as they’re taught at the Stanford d. school and elsewhere.  This is a hands on, project-based class taught by past and current d. school d. Leaders using design-thinking in different professional industries.

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Jazz at Intersection: Howard Wiley Quartet: I Love the 80′s

IFTA | WHEN: March 28th, 8pm | WHERE: 925 Mission St | Details: HOWARD WILEY QUARTET: I LOVE THE 80s Howard Wiley brings a new quartet to Intersection performing music influenced by favorite pop hits from the 80s. Howard Wiley’s grandfather, Sam Wiley, played saxophone in Count Basie’s Orchestra, and gave constant advice to the young musician growing up in Hercules, CA.

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[HUB WORKBENCH] Legal for Startups

HUB | WHEN: March 27th, 1:00 pm | WHERE: 925 Mission St | Details: Legal mistakes can doom even the best startup concepts and founding teams. Do you want to avoid them? Legal for Startups will cover the basic legal landscape that all startups should understand well. Companies face a number of legal hurdles on their road from concept to execution, many of which can be lethal pitfalls to success. With the right amount of know-how, these hurdles can be anticipated and managed to ensure smooth company growth.

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Startout SF Presents: Speed Networking - Get out and Connect!

HUB | WHEN: March 26, 6:00 pm | WHERE: 925 Mission St | Details: Join other StartOut members in a fabulous & fun way to build 1:1 connections fast! Looking to build your network?  Find a co-founder?  An investor?  A co-conspirator in the whacky world of entrepreneurship?  Come on out! Facilitated by Executive Life Coach Anne Moellering, this musical-chair-style event will leave you with a bunch of new contacts, ideas and ways to find what you’re looking for in your business, career and beyond.

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Eat and Meet: HUB Food Meet-Up

HUB | WHEN: March, 25th, 4:00 pm | WHERE: 925 Mission St | Details: You are invited to join the Hub SoMa community for a Food Meetup! We will gather, drink coffee and talk about food. This will be the first of many unstructured weekly discussions.

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By-product Becomes Product - Artists’ Talk

IFTA | WHEN: March 23, 1-3 pm | WHERE: 925 Mission St | Details: Christine Lee’s work sits between sculpture, furniture/woodworking, and installation. Her practice is characterized by an objective to reveal the latent potential of disregarded material. Influenced by the increasingly prevalent theories and practices of materials reclamation, resource conservation, and recycling in contemporary art, Lee is proposing an innovative solution to working with composite wood boards that are free of toxic adhesives and binders, effectively utilizing excess waste, offering a safer alternative to readily available plywood and medium-density fiberboard (commonly called MDF), and creating value to a common, abundant by-product for use by a range of artistic and industrial disciplines.

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