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Located in SOMA in San Francisco, CounterPULSE is a non-profit theater, performance space, community center, and gallery with roots deep in the Bay Area’s provocative performance and dance scenes. CounterPULSE produces its own shows, helps support local artists and activists with its programs and can be rented for productions and rehearsals.

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	1	2	3 May Day 2012 May Day 2012 May Day 2012 May 3, 2012 8:00 am – May 5, 2012 5:00 pm Performance Festival to Benefit CounterPULSE MAY 3-5, THU-SAT at 8PM Celebrating CounterPULSE’s 7th anniversary, May Day showcases a diverse array of local artists and raises funds for a nonprofit known as…	4 May Day 2012 May Day 2012 May Day 2012 May 3, 2012 8:00 am – May 5, 2012 5:00 pm Performance Festival to Benefit CounterPULSE MAY 3-5, THU-SAT at 8PM Celebrating CounterPULSE’s 7th anniversary, May Day showcases a diverse array of local artists and raises funds for a nonprofit known as…	5 May Day 2012 May Day 2012 May Day 2012 May 3, 2012 8:00 am – May 5, 2012 5:00 pm Performance Festival to Benefit CounterPULSE MAY 3-5, THU-SAT at 8PM Celebrating CounterPULSE’s 7th anniversary, May Day showcases a diverse array of local artists and raises funds for a nonprofit known as…	6 May Day 2012 Our Daily Bread: Seeds to Sprouts: How does your garden grow? Our Daily Bread: Seeds to Sprouts: How does your garden grow? May 6, 2012 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm MAY 6, SUN at 5PM FREE Join us for an afternoon of food and a performance co-created by youth from the 10th and Mission Youth Center with Deep Waters Dance Theater. This…
7 Our Daily Bread: Seeds to Sprouts: How does your garden grow? Bootcamp for Artists Bootcamp for Artists May 7, 2012 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm REGISTRATION CLOSED Artists Writers Directors Dancers Choreographers Actors Musicians Filmmakers Performers Producers CounterPULSE Presents Boot Camp for Artists with Jessica Robinson Love Intensive skills for raising money and attention 6-weeks: Mondays, April 16th – May…	8	9 Bootcamp for Artists Shaping SF Public Talks: Rock, Posters, and Politics! Shaping SF Public Talks: Rock, Posters, and Politics! May 9, 2012 7:30 pm – 10:00 pm Shaping San Francisco Public Talk MAY 9, WED 7:30PM FREE Mat Callahan and Lincoln Cushing present an incredible slide show of dozens of rock and political posters from the 1960s and1970s, discussing the…	10	11 Shaping SF Public Talks: Rock, Posters, and Politics! Cynthia Adams and Li Chiao-Ping Cynthia Adams and Li Chiao-Ping May 11, 2012 8:00 pm – May 12, 2012 4:00 pm MAY 11-12, FRI & SAT at 8PM, SAT at 2PM $15-20 Sliding Scale Cynthia Adams (Fellow Travelers Performance Group) and Li Chiao-Ping (Li Chiao-Ping Dance) present an imaginative concert of multimedia…	12 Cynthia Adams and Li Chiao-Ping Cynthia Adams and Li Chiao-Ping Cynthia Adams and Li Chiao-Ping May 11, 2012 8:00 pm – May 12, 2012 4:00 pm MAY 11-12, FRI & SAT at 8PM, SAT at 2PM $15-20 Sliding Scale Cynthia Adams (Fellow Travelers Performance Group) and Li Chiao-Ping (Li Chiao-Ping Dance) present an imaginative concert of multimedia…	13 Cynthia Adams and Li Chiao-Ping 2nd Sundays May 2nd Sundays May May 13, 2012 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm MAY 13, SUN at 2PM FREE Deborah Karp Dance Projects How does the shifting landscape affect the moving body? How do the continuous and fluid movements of an active body create pathways in…
14 2nd Sundays May Bootcamp for Artists Bootcamp for Artists May 14, 2012 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm REGISTRATION CLOSED Artists Writers Directors Dancers Choreographers Actors Musicians Filmmakers Performers Producers CounterPULSE Presents Boot Camp for Artists with Jessica Robinson Love Intensive skills for raising money and attention 6-weeks: Mondays, April 16th – May…	15	16 Bootcamp for Artists Shaping SF Public Talk: Art & Politics Shaping SF Public Talk: Art & Politics May 16, 2012 7:30 pm – 10:00 pm Pictured: Soil Kitchen Amy Franceschini Shaping San Francisco Public Talk MAY 16, WED 7:30PM FREE Amy Franceschini is a pollinator who creates formats for exchange and production that question and challenge the social, cultural…	17	18	19 Shaping SF Public Talk: Art & Politics Tales of Pangu: Lifting Up the Sky Tales of Pangu: Lifting Up the Sky May 19, 2012 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm Asian American Women Artists Association (AAWAA) MAY 19, SAT at 8PM $10-20 Sliding Scale Pangu held up the Sky for 18,000 years. When exhausted, he laid his body down. The fleas on…	20 Tales of Pangu: Lifting Up the Sky Shaping SF Bike Tours: Dissent Shaping SF Bike Tours: Dissent May 20, 2012 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm A Shaping San Francisco Cycles of History Bike Tour Chris Carlsson conducting the Dissent bicycle history tour, here at Pier 40. MAY 20, SUN at NOON $15-50 sliding scale Covering everything from literary…
21 Shaping SF Bike Tours: Dissent Bootcamp for Artists Bootcamp for Artists May 21, 2012 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm REGISTRATION CLOSED Artists Writers Directors Dancers Choreographers Actors Musicians Filmmakers Performers Producers CounterPULSE Presents Boot Camp for Artists with Jessica Robinson Love Intensive skills for raising money and attention 6-weeks: Mondays, April 16th – May…	22	23 Bootcamp for Artists Shaping SF Public Talk: What Are Our Streets For? Shaping SF Public Talk: What Are Our Streets For? May 23, 2012 7:30 pm – 10:00 pm Pictured: Carnaval, May 2011, San Francisco, on Mission Street. Photo: Chris Carlsson Date: May 23, 2012 A Shaping San Francisco Public Talk MAY 23, WED 7:30 PM FREE Emerging visions for public thoroughfares…	24	25 Shaping SF Public Talk: What Are Our Streets For? Scott Wells & Dancers 20th Anniversary Season Scott Wells & Dancers 20th Anniversary Season May 25, 2012 8:00 pm – May 27, 2012 10:00 pm Scott Wells & Dancers MAY 25 – JUN 3, FRI-SUN at 8PM, JUN 3 matinee at 2PM SPECIAL FORCES explores the military body through dance. It is more about physical intelligence…	26 Scott Wells & Dancers 20th Anniversary Season Scott Wells & Dancers 20th Anniversary Season Scott Wells & Dancers 20th Anniversary Season Scott Wells & Dancers 20th Anniversary Season May 25, 2012 8:00 pm – May 27, 2012 10:00 pm Scott Wells & Dancers MAY 25 – JUN 3, FRI-SUN at 8PM, JUN 3 matinee at 2PM SPECIAL FORCES explores the military body through dance. It is more about physical intelligence… Shaping SF Bike Tour: Food politics Shaping SF Bike Tour: Food politics May 26, 2012 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm A Shaping San Francisco Cycles of History Bike Tour Bicycle History Food Tour June 26, 2011. Food warehouse at Davis and Jackson, 1950s MAY 26, SAT at 12PM $15-50 sliding scale We’ll go…	27 Shaping SF Bike Tour: Food politics Scott Wells & Dancers 20th Anniversary Season Scott Wells & Dancers 20th Anniversary Season May 25, 2012 8:00 pm – May 27, 2012 10:00 pm Scott Wells & Dancers MAY 25 – JUN 3, FRI-SUN at 8PM, JUN 3 matinee at 2PM SPECIAL FORCES explores the military body through dance. It is more about physical intelligence…
28	29	30 Scott Wells & Dancers 20th Anniversary Season Shaping SF Public Talk: Dissent in San Francisco Shaping SF Public Talk: Dissent in San Francisco May 30, 2012 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Shaping San Francisco Public Talk MAY 30, WED 7:30PM FREE Trace the vital history of political dissent in San Francisco with Chris Carlsson, using our FoundSF collection to connect past movements with…	31