Placeholder content. The organizations on this page are invented, and none of them has agreed to take part. Real entries go in once each has confirmed.
The Passport
Forty-four printed pages on what Bay Area organizations are doing through October, in the run-up to the midterms. This is the digital edition: the same entries, with every organization on the map.
Select a marker to jump to that organization.
Coastline simplified from Natural Earth (public domain). Positions are approximate.
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Page 06 Bayview Arts Collective Bayview October 3 – 26
Ballot Box Portraits
Studio portraits made with neighbours on their way to and from the polling place, printed overnight and hung the same week.
1200 Third Street, San Francisco
Placeholder entry. Not a confirmed participant.
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Page 08 Tenderloin Print Room Tenderloin October 1 – 31
Posters for a Long October
An open press: one new poster a day for thirty-one days, given away free from the window until the run is gone.
240 Turk Street, San Francisco
Placeholder entry. Not a confirmed participant.
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Page 12 Mission Mural Project Mission October 10 – 24
Wall Text
Six walls given over to writers rather than painters, lettered by hand, on what the neighbourhood wants said out loud.
2801 24th Street, San Francisco
Placeholder entry. Not a confirmed participant.
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Page 16 Dogpatch Sound Lab Dogpatch October 17 – 18
Listening Room: Civic Noise
Two evenings of field recordings made at public meetings across the region, played back at full length and full volume.
1035 Tennessee Street, San Francisco
Placeholder entry. Not a confirmed participant.
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Page 20 Richmond Community Studio Outer Richmond October 4 – 25
Neighbours, Drawn
Free Saturday drawing sessions where anyone can sit for a portrait, and every sitter leaves with the drawing.
4300 Balboa Street, San Francisco
Placeholder entry. Not a confirmed participant.
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Page 24 West Oakland Assembly West Oakland October 9 – 30
Assembly Line
A working print and banner shop for anyone organizing locally, staffed by artists, open four days a week.
1701 Peralta Street, Oakland
Placeholder entry. Not a confirmed participant.
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Page 28 Fruitvale Story House Fruitvale October 11 – 26
Told Here
Recorded oral histories from three generations of the block, played in the storefront and archived for the branch library.
3401 East 12th Street, Oakland
Placeholder entry. Not a confirmed participant.
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Page 32 Berkeley Civic Workshop South Berkeley October 2 – 23
Draft, Redraft
A public writing room for ballot arguments, letters and speeches, with editors on hand and nothing published unsigned.
2020 Bonar Street, Berkeley
Placeholder entry. Not a confirmed participant.
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Page 36 Alameda Point Gallery Alameda Point October 18 – 31
Hangar Projects
Four large-scale commissions installed in a former airfield hangar, open late on weekends through the end of the month.
2900 Main Street, Alameda
Placeholder entry. Not a confirmed participant.
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Page 40 Peninsula Arts Exchange San Mateo October 5 – 19
Common Ground
A swap of works, tools and time between six organizations that have never shared a programme before.
55 East Third Avenue, San Mateo
Placeholder entry. Not a confirmed participant.
Get the printed Passport
The printed edition is free, and distributed through the participating organizations during October. To stock it, or to be listed in the next one, get in touch.