Future Finds

Event | 2/21-22 One last weekend! Introducing our closing event: Date #0, a special exhibit demonstrating how people used to go on a date for audiences of the 22nd century. Devised by K. Sid Zhang with Isabella Terrazas, Sam Howell Petersen, and Anna Mistele, this little dating show invites you to see the tender and ridiculous vignettes that composes our speculation of past and future with the backdrop of a climate catastrophe. Two nights: 🌱2/21, 7:30pm 🌱2/22, 8:30pm Outdoor seating/standing only — please dress warm for chilly evenings! We will provide a canopy in case of rain, but we also recommend bringing your own umbrella if needed. While this is to be viewed from the street, if you can, please purchase a ticket via our link in bio to support us! Future Finds will be closed after Sunday, 2/22. We will open the storefront briefly after each performance — come and mingle before we say goodbye :)

Event | 2/14 It’s the week of the pigment making workshop! This Saturday, artist Catherine Wang McMahon will lead a hands-on session where you can make and bring home your own handground pigments sourced from local natural material. Through preparing pigments and sharing the stories of each material, this workshop will facilitate a deeper connection between us and our ecological and cultural surroundings in the Bay Area. 🌱2/14, 5-7pm While the workshop is at capacity, you can contact us to join the waitlist! And we are open this Friday through Sunday, 12-6pm, so come hang out with us!

Events | 2.7 It’s week 3 of our activations! This Saturday marks the final talks in our program before we switch gears next week. The two talks on Feb 7 cover earth and sky, from California’s land and crops to the thermodynamic energy future and sci-fi. Come join us: 🌱5-6pm: Elias Aveces and L. Song Wu discuss California’s food sovereignty, the production and distribution of food, and organizing possibilities that can help sustain us, including their own practices and experience. 🌱7–8pm: Kelsey Chen and Wendi Yan present a dynamic conversation on qi, thermodynamics, and synthetic biology. How are these related, and how do their ideas of energy shape the futurisms in our world? Catch these final talks in our series and engage with the dedicated, innovative, and whimsical minds that come to share their rad ideas at Bathers Library! We cannot wait to hear your perspective, too! Tickets and day passes are live on our websites in bio. Get them before they sell out! 🌱 graphics by @tuannguyen_ca cover photo by Jakub Owczarek Note: If you are interested in this event but cannot make it in person, please DM us for access to Zoom option.

4SEEN Chandra Shrine 🌙 A portable altar and architectural fragment, this object is a speculative ritual pavilion in miniature. Its pitched roof echoes stained glass uncovered along Ohlone tidal wetlands in 2100 AD. The pavilion once stood on the estuary, before sea-level rise weathered it away. The traces that remain now live in the Huichin Museum of Art. This scale-model shrine survived, however, as a personal relic and talisman. On view until 2/22 at @batherslibrary 💚

Events | 1.31 The second week of our activations features two distinct talks investigating historical and geographic memories, lead by researchers and artists whose scholarship bridges our ecological past and future. This upcoming Saturday, we are hosting: 🌱5-6pm: A talk on historical climate-management systems and alternative technological futures in a tropical context, by Anastasha Rachel Gunawan; 🌱6:30-7:30pm: A conversation and writing workshop on the conditions, memories, and stories of climate migration, by Rwaida Gharib. Meet us on this day of reflection and join an experience of shared learning, remembrance, and imagination that may spark changes in the world around us. Tickets and day passes are available on our website. And, yes, we are open Fri-Sun, 12-6pm! Come find us at Bathers Library :) graphics by @tuannguyen_ca

[suggested ticket in our bio’s linktree] hi all! we’re happy to be hosted at @futurefinds.ca event series at @batherslibrary !! we will be delving into one of many initiatives as a working group, particularly our territorial markets initiatives and efforts to coordinate aggregated producers with aggregated consumers for fair prices for nuestros campos y barrios. no one turned away for lack of funds! and if you choose to buy a ticket, proceeds will be going to our working group’s initiatives! thank u all and see u there next-next saturday!!

The Federal Trade Commission has a list of rules that may be outdated, obsolete, or redundant. They would like to Delete, Delete, Delete. On Saturday, January 24th, we came together and went through the rules, listened to the different options, and created artwork as public comment. What do you think? Learn more /cultural-commentary-project/fcc-delete-delete-delete

Events | 1.24 This Saturday, we are kick starting our program with a full day of workshops and talks activating the storefront through commentary, speculation, and crafting! Come to Future Finds on Jan 24 for: 🐚 A morning of hands-on mussel casting with Kea Kahoilua Clebsch; ✍️ An interactive dialogue between civic art and policy with Danielle Siembieda; 💭 An evening reflection on futurity, urbanism, and power with Kola Heyward-Rotimi. Join us for our first activated Saturday — think, listen, express, and make little bits of future in our little space! Visit our website for more information, and if you haven't yet, get tickets and passes to the events on Jan 24!

The Federal Communications Commission is proposing a rule to delete "unnecessary" regulations. Maybe this is a good thing. Maybe not. Learn -> Create Art -> Submit Comment Let's do this together. Join me: Saturday, January 24th 5:00 - 7:00 PM PT At the @batherslibrary in Oakland R.S.V.P. - https://futurefinds.cargo.site/#events 🧩 The Cultural Commentary Project taps into a powerful, often underused tool: the public comment system. Every time laws are proposed, public comments are required to be considered—this is your chance to make your voice count. Whether it’s about local transit or national policy, your thoughts matter. By submitting your art as a comment, you can help drive change and bring a fresh perspective to the table. -- This project is supported by @ce_org -- #SFArtWeek #ArtPolicy #CommunityEngagement

Tickets to individual events are now available! If you want to come to select events but hesitate to commit to our full series, you got options! We offer: $15 tickets to any individual talk; $25 day passes to all talks that take place on the day of your choice; $60 festival passes to access all talks we host throughout our program. There's no wrong way to future finds — visit our website to find the right tickets for you! Link in bio. We cannot wait to see you soon :)

Opening tomorrow! Our storefront is loading... and here is the official list of all the artists who will present their work at Future Finds! Sneak peek at some of the pieces we are showing: "Future Artifacts" by Kristiana Chan "Cara Cara" by Phia Scolini "California Tiger Salamander Sage" by Anna Brown Coasters from "Dranks for five (...pour one out for Bonbon)" by Mukethe Kawinzi All items will be on display & available for purchase! Come to our little grand opening reception at 5-8pm tomorrow, Jan 17th! Join us to see these cool pieces, hang out with the artists, and try some eco-themed specialty drinks served by artist M Kuznetsov @ratdog.etc :)

Join us at @batherslibrary for the opening of the Future Finds pop-up this Saturday - Jan. 17, 5-8 PM GRAND OPENING: artifacts of a future bay, speculative ecological memories from the year 2100, multiple futurisms. Also would be fun to hang out :) This marks the beginning of the show, and check out our events every weekend starting from next week! Tickets is at futurefinds.cargo.site & link in bio!