Dream Farm Commons

So many people contributed to making an altar to our beautiful friend, sister, mentor, amazing artist and maker of beauty, Tosha Stimage. People will be tending the altar and we will keep it live. For how long? We do not know but so much to drink in of Tosha's energy in the world.
Rest in Peace

The Whole Earth is our Hospital- this is the the waiting room
+ Workshop for Care & Repair
Opening on March 8! 12 noon sharp!
Cassie Thornton, Ann Schnake and friends at Dream Farm Commons
349 15th St at Webster Oakland thru April 4
At noon (sharp!) on March 8, you are invited to a ritual led by Cassie. She'll give a barefoot inter-dimensional weather report about the two dimensions currently operating at once. Have your last sanctioned (artisanal) Flat White produced in a 3rd wave performance by a real coffee ritualist, Micah Hammac, as we absorb and process the end of the luxury of the caste system that keep us comfortable at the cost of everything else.

And veerrrry important: you will have a different  experience, by coming to the Waiting Room during our 1-3 PM sessions every Friday and Saturday. This is small group experience that will change you! Schedule your appointment, make a proposal for the waiting room or read more about the project at the waiting room website
https://waitoftheplanets.com/

You'll also get to visit The Workshop of Care & Repair! Three doors down from the waiting room, artist and nurse Ann Schnake offers brief sessions for collective and singular bodies and souls, beginning with the question: "when care under capitalism = neglect, what do you need today and what shall we make?”
Listen to most tender innards and make new parts in preparation for the world
email [email protected] for appts to the workshop.

Charlotte Law will be bringing her inner babydragbug identity Cam(i) to the Annex for an artist talk and sonic meditation
in Temple Wyrm Saturday, December 6th 3-5 PM

Temple Wyrm is a dyad of vibrance born from alchemical processes, inviting audience into tenderness and deep listening as ways to compost the present moment. Evolving Donna Haraway’s Children of Compost and paired with Pauline Oliveros Sonic Meditations the annex will serve as a place of collective contemplation inviting the audience to sound out and listen to the real, imaginary and elemental worlds beyond the binary.
Come along for an artist talk and sonic meditation
in Temple Wyrm Saturday, December 6th 3-5 PM

We made a Monument!

And wrote some vows to ourselves and our community(s)

With your help *Food Bank Monument* raised $998 to support our local community partner and also gathered a *monumental* amount of non perishable goods we brought bring to our neighbors at Harrison Hotel.

This work feels meaningful in light of the attack on social services broadly and the disruption of SNAP benefits specifically — especially during the point in the year when food pantries are most overwhelmed and over extended.

If you are in a place where a donation feels comfortable we would love to round this number up for this entirely volunteer run organization who. Donations can be made though the Venmo provided. But being together in commitment, care and resistance and play is the real monument.

We were so happy to host this even as part of and amid a national call of action

November 21st from 6-8 we invite you to come together as artists in defiance, in service, in action and in poetics as a part of the national call to actions by Fall of Freedom:
Join us at Dream Farm Commons, for FOOD BANK MONUMENT: a social sculpture! bring a non-perishable food item(s), a cup to share hot chocolate, your extra funds, or just yourself to contribute to our collective social sculpture in response to the government’s withholding of SNAP benefits.
This event is held as part of and the current DFC exhibition, Rad Tender. We will gather and collectively stack donations of non-perishable foods to build our communal Monument* and together raise direct funds to a local food pantry who provide ongoing organizing and support for low-income service, part-time, and seasonal workers and their families. We will share in conversation— and making vows to one another for collective care about ways we can care for ourselves, our communities, and take further action in this crucible moment of faux populism and out preform the performative cruelty of authoritarianism.*** Hot beverages will be provided. Bring a non-perishable food item(s), a cup, your extra funds*, or just yourself.

• What does a Food Bank Monument look like? Glad you asked, but you will decide. A mound of Claus Olden Burgers? A perfect stack of Maya Linguini? A cacophonic Kara Wal-Kheer? All are invited to visit the gallery and add to, take from, and alter the living sculpture before it is donated. 100% of proceeds will be donated directly to our community pantry partners.

** as part of the event we will ask “What actions and poetics do you want to create and focus on in for these crucial times? What are your vows to yourself and each other?”

*** If you can’t make it on November 21st,but want to contribute to the “social sculpture” please make a donation though the DFC website, all funds raised for this event will go directly to our community partners