Opportunites & Workshops

Drop-In Coworking Tuesdays

Be a part of our vibrant arts community. We offer a gorgeous, sunlit, open floor-plan office. Be productive in our quiet, focused space with high-speed internet, printing, and complimentary coffee. 
TUES, MAY 9, 16, 23, 30 | $15
9 AM - 5 PM PST
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Overdose Recognition & Response Training for Arts Organizers

This in-person training will give arts organizers a step-by-step overview of how to recognize and reverse an overdose to save someone’s life. This session will be ASL accessible with live interpretation. Registration is free, but space is limited to 20 participants.
WED, JUNE 7, 5:30 - 6:30 PM PST | FREE
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Strategies for Posting Creative Content on Patreon 

Do you already have a Patreon account, or are you planning to create one? “What do I post?” is a common question. Our presenter Midori focuses on using Patreon to bring you creative joy and income.
TUES, JUNE 13, 1 - 2:30 PM PST | $10 - $30
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Our 2023 Space Activation Artist in Residency Program is well underway! This residency program aims to amplify the work of our members and activate our space at 1446 Market Street in San Francisco. Residency members Beast Crawl Literary Festival and Mad One Media are facilitating upcoming in-person events at Intersection for the Arts,
which is conveniently nestled between Hayes Valley and the Mid-Market Corridor. 

Beast Crawl Literary Festival

The Thin Poetic Line: Writing Workshop 

The Thin Poetic Line is a 6-week course that will serve as an entire course or a drop-in generative writing class, exploring the relationship between narrative poetry, flash memoir, and flash fiction. Paul Corman-Roberts will lead writers through prompts to create emotionally compelling stories and poems. 
SAT, MAY 13 - JUNE 17, 10:30 AM - 1 PM PST
Location: Intersection for the Arts, 1446 Market St, SF, CA 94102
$50 per session or $250 for all six sessions
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The Beast Crawl of Fame All Star Jam

This performance features Oakland Poet Laureate Dr. Ayodele Nzinga and SF Poet Laureate Emerita Kim Shuck as headliners in a heavyweight ticket reading over a lush landscape of ambient blues courtesy of the lay/lie band. Other features are MK Chavez, Nazelah Jameson, Natasha Dennerstein, Reggie Edmonds, Kimi Sugioka, and Joel Landmine; the very best of East Bay poetry. All ticket sales will support the Beast Crawl Lit Festival taking on July 22, 2023 in Downtown Oakland. 
SAT, MAY 20, 6:30 PM PST
Location: Intersection for the Arts, 1446 Market St, SF, CA 94102
$20 in advance, $25 at the Door
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Mad One Media

Artist State of Mind (ASOM)

Celebrate Mental Health Awareness Month with a lecture series hosted by Mad One Media and TED Speaker/NPR Storyteller Joshua Walters. This is a professional development series for companies wanting to invest in the mental health of their employees through creative approaches. This Thursday series will feature authors, comedians, musicians, actors, and media makers, focusing on how they created a business from their art practice. Build relationships and strengthen the connections of your team at work by improving your communication, empathy, and humor. These are tools that can help de-stigmatize and support self-care and coping techniques around mental health stressors in the workplace.

Featuring: 
5/11- Speaker and Founder of Ever Forward Club, Ashanti Branch
5/18- Author and Empathy Speaker, Anita Nowak
5/25- Comedian and Founder of KO Comedy, Sammy Obeid
THUR, MAY 11, 18, 25, 1 - 3 PM PST 
Location: Intersection for the Arts, 1446 Market St, San Francisco, CA 94102
$20 - $40 per lecture

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SF Vacant to Vibrant

We are excited to share a local arts opportunity with our community! Vacant to Vibrant is a program that supports small businesses, artists, entrepreneurs, and cultural organizations in connecting with local property owners to create engaging pop-up experiences and community spaces in downtown San Francisco.  If you are an activator interested in operating a pop-up, please apply here: vibrantsf.org/popups. If you are a property owner interested in hosting a pop-up, please apply here: vibrantsf.org/property.

Vacant to Vibrant is accepting pop-up applications for the first cohort of programming through May 2023. After that, applications will be accepted on a rolling basis. They anticipate their first round of pop-ups to launch in late-Summer of 2023. Learn more: vibrantsf.org.