CELLspace

We've been "famed" :P All joking aside on the headline, we are honored and proud to see that art and culture will continue to thrive on the block where CELLspace was!

Indigenous healing center to open where a famed S.F. alternative arts warehouse once stood A cultural arts and healing center focusing on Indigenous medicine is set to open on the...

(mostly) good times all around......

27 years ago TODAY, March 21st, 1996, a group of artists and activists secured the lease on 2050 Bryant Street in San Francisco and created CELLspace. The space served artists of all kinds with creative space in a variety of artistic disciplines and provided a space for countless communities to celebrate culture, art, activism, education and the sacred. It was an inspirational 17 year run from 1996 until 2012.

What are you up to this weekend and all next week? Original artists, and CELLspace collective alums, Whitney and Alex are back on this wall at Asiento (Bryant at 21st) to re-do part of their mural that got destroyed by a car (true story). Come by, say hi, paint a planet, have a drink, eat some food, and get yerself back down on Bryant St.!

Greetings community art space allies,
Writing to ask your support for an important East Bay community center that has been around since 2011. PLACE recently was visited by the City of Oakland which identified numerous code violations that need to be corrected for them to continue serving the public with maker spaces and educational workshops and classes at their community art and garden community center. They need help to pay for both structural improvements as well as some ongoing monthly support to cover the gap in earned income due to the decreased activity of programming during the next 9-12 months of making the upgrades. Please consider making either an ongoing monthly contribution or a single donation to support these necessary improvements, as well as sharing the fundraiser to friends.

A PLACE WORTH SAVING A Critical Juncture in PLACE’s 12 Year History!

When in doubt go hot pink.

Historic creative space American Steel gets gentrified out of existence. Another sad day in the Bay.
https://48hills.org/2022/04/american-steel-burning-man-artist-community-displaced-redevelopment-gentrification

At American Steel, a trailblazing artist community is displaced for redevelopment - 48 hills Tight-knit Burning Man clan reckons with moving—but may have itself paved the way for West Oakland industrial hub's gentrification

Good news in the SF community spaces world.... just heard that The New Farm got a 5 year lease. Here's to more farm living, live music, and other great future plans.... https://thenewfarmsf.org/

The New Farm | Green City Project We are incredibly happy to share some great news! The SF Port Authority is granting us a lease for The New Farm at its present location at 10 Cargo Way in San Francisco. We need your financial support now to help us enter into the new lease,to make necessary building improvements, and to build a chi...

In the spirit of cell-brating our 26th birthday week, we will be posting some stuff here as a reminder of what was and is.
Here is a good summary of the CELLspace
https://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=CELLspace%3A_1996-2012&fbclid=IwAR154JIQc4u62xAADUIrVG5yhvNs78Q8NmixGMEM7dI7ObheHC8AgZOkcDc

CELLspace: 1996-2012 - FoundSF CELLspace was founded on the Spring Equinox of 1996 when a group of artists and educators leased a former screen-printing warehouse — a 10,000 square foot bay in a larger building that had three more bays of industrial and arts businesses — at 2050 Bryant Street to develop a communal workspace f...

26 years ago, on this day in 1996, we signed the lease on a 10,000 square foot warehouse at 2050 Bryant and a multi-disciplinary collective of artists began the monumental task of making their shared vision a reality.

RIP American Steel :( https://brokeassstuart.com/2022/02/21/american-steel-artists-speak-about-billionaires-evicting-them/

American Steel Artists Speak About Billionaires Evicting Them Just 5 years after being purchased by 11-West, one of our most vibrant and imaginative artist communities in Oakland will be emptied out by this summer. The community of large scale industrial artists, fabricators, builders, and makers at American Steel in West

These photos are making me weep tears of joy...

The building begins.

Seventh 100 percent affordable apartment building breaks ground in Mission District - Mission Local Construction has kicked off on a nine-story, 130-unit apartment building at 18th and Florida streets in the Mission — and, once complete, apartments there

1998 Cell event poster by John Wischmann

A Giving Tuesday REQUEST for a non-profit community art and ecology center PLACE. This month is their 9th anniversary and the center has suffered 75% loss of income since the shelter-in-place order was issued. They did receive a 45% rent reduction for April and May, but still have over $3000 in monthly expenses. They had savings to cover 2 months of this deficit, but will run out soon if we do not receive some support. Since the Shelter-In-Place order was recently extended and they did not receive any pandemic relief from the SBA or other grants they applied for, they are asking for our extended community to help during this crucial time. Instead of a CSA, they are asking friends to please participate in a CSS, or Community Supported Space.

They have launched https://www.patreon.com/placecommunity to help grow a network of patrons to support their work. Despite being closed to the public, PLACE has been growing herbs, making medicines and distributing food and hygiene kits to seniors and immuno-compromised neighbors in our houseless communities. Additionally they are moving our educational classes to an online platform to continue spreading knowledge of resiliency, regeneration, and urban gardening.

Please consider becoming a monthly supporter thru Patreon, or consider teaching a class or participating in an online event with them. If interested in proposing an event or class, please go here- https://www.place.community/propose

If a one time donation is all you can do, you can either PayPal ([email protected]) or Venmo (-community). Thank you so much for sharing this around and pitching in how you are able.

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