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CounterPulse Presents Festival 2025 September 4 - 27, 2025   80 Turk St, SF // counterpulse.org/events S AN FRANCISCO, CA -- Welcome to the fifth installment of the CounterPulse Festival! Held every other year, the CounterPulse Festival is a month-long celebration of art and community, rooted in the queer experimental dance and art scenes that CounterPulse is home to. Amidst federal and local funding cuts, CounterPulse once again commits to the artists in our community despite limited resources, foregrounding

‘‘Trashflower’ by Rose and Zoe Huey & ‘On the Floor’ by Maria Silk September 4, 2025 @ 8PM PT - September 5, 2025 @ 8PM PT September 12, 2025 @ 8PM PT - September 13, 2025 @ 2PM PT 80 Turk St. SF Learn more and get tickets here SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- From living with microplastics and honoring dancefloor histories, the 2025 CounterPulse ARC Edge program presents Trashflower by Rose and Zoe Huey and On The Floor by Maria

  Off Hours, CounterPulse’s spring 2025 curators in residence, are excited to announce Show Me Devotion, a two-person exhibition featuring new works by Gericault De La Rose and Adrian Clutario.   About Show Me Devotion  A freer, queerer world is not only possible; it already exists. It is slippery and elusive, but you can find it if you know the right places to look. For many, these moments of authenticity can only exist in dark and inconspicuous margins, spaces filled

Ethereal: Market Street Studios Meet Tenderloin Stage  San Francisco, CA — ArtSpan and CounterPulse are proud to present "Ethereal," a transformative group exhibition featuring works by thirteen artists from ArtSpan’s Journal Building Residency. The exhibition runs from January 9 through April 28, 2025, at CounterPulse's historic Tenderloin venue supporting experimental arts.  "Ethereal" spans three floors, inviting viewers into wondrous, introspective dreamscapes through an array of sculptures, paintings, and multimedia installations. The exhibition showcases works that blur the boundaries between reality

Thursday March 6th • 5PM - 10PM Step into a world where imagination shapes reality at CounterPulse’s annual gala! This year, INNERSPACE: We-Topia is powered by a completely renewable resource–community joy! No matter the conditions in other worlds, INNERSPACE: We-Topia grows from an alchemical soil that converts resistance to resilience.Together, we’ll hone utopia as a practice rather than a distant destination. As always, costumes are encouraged! Think visionary dreamers, radiant futurists, or a world only you can imagine. Let

  Primera Generación Dance Collective is ready to be back in San Francisco! We are so excited to perform and be in community with our friends and familia in the Bay. Our last time performing in SF was back in 2019 for the Festival of Latin American Contemporary Choreographers. Over the years our members, Alfonso Cervera, Rosa Rodriguez-Frazier, Irvin Manuel Gonzalez, and Patricia “Patty” Huerta, have had the pleasure of returning in different capacities, but we are filled with joy

  Embodying Utopia is a project created to give queer people the space to imagine what an ideal world would look like for them.    Crystal Vielula selected four incredible queer Bay Area dancer/choreographers to imagine queer utopias that were safe and joyful.  In response to their answers, she created collages of each of their imagined landscapes. Those collages were projected onto them as they danced so that they could embody their personal utopia.  From the collages, Vielula created 3-D