Past Events

Echoing Sanctuary’s ethos of plurality, the Sanctuary Salon series weaves together the voices of artists whose practices span creative disciplines, including spoken word, music, dance, and film. Invited guests will present and perform new or existing works that resonate with the thesis of the exhibition, allowing visitors to engage with and reflect on these themes in new and compelling ways.

December 14 participating artists:
Basma Edrees
Rachelle Escamilla
Aisan Hoss
Persis Karim
Hossein Massoudi
Hafez Modirzadeh
Jessica Mejia
Asaf Ophir
Adrienne Swan

Sound has been used as a powerful tool for healing and introspection in myriad cultures and spiritual practices throughout human history. The Sound of Sanctuary is a sound meditation series held at FOR-SITE Foundation's Sanctuary exhibition in the Fort Mason Chapel. Led by Somatic Experience and Certified Sound Healing Practitioner Loriel Starr, participants are invited to lay upon the Sanctuary artist rugs, immerse themselves in the restorative sonic space, and tune in to their inner sanctuary.

Created by Sergio De La Torre and Chris Treggiari, the Sanctuary Print Shop is a mobile print shop that aims to raise awareness about recently-enacted immigration policies and how they impact our communities by creating and distributing powerful messages in support of immigrants’ rights. Through silkscreen community workshops (taught via their mobile tricycle silkscreen cart), and other participatory activities, Sanctuary Print Shop educates participants on the history of the sanctuary ordinance within San Francisco, and serves as a resource center and catalyst for public engagement in the movement to uphold immigrants' rights.
 
Friday, January 12, Sanctuary Print Shop will be stationed outside the Fort Mason Chapel so that Sanctuary visitors will have the opportunity to silkscreen their own exhibition-specific prints.

Created by Sergio De La Torre and Chris Treggiari, the Sanctuary Print Shop is a mobile print shop that aims to raise awareness about recently-enacted immigration policies and how they impact our communities by creating and distributing powerful messages in support of immigrants’ rights. Through silkscreen community workshops (taught via their mobile tricycle silkscreen cart), and other participatory activities, Sanctuary Print Shop educates participants on the history of the sanctuary ordinance within San Francisco, and serves as a resource center and catalyst for public engagement in the movement to uphold immigrants' rights.
 
Saturday, January 13, Sanctuary Print Shop will be stationed outside the Fort Mason Chapel so that Sanctuary visitors will have the opportunity to silkscreen their own exhibition-specific prints.

As part of his commission for Sanctuary, Brendan Fernandes will present a site-specific durational performance exploring themes of reverence and sacred space. Titled Safely, the performance utilizes improvisational choreography to evoke the physical act of cleaning and the fallen body, suggesting larger notions of devotion, humility, trauma, and safety. Meditative cleaning gestures will activate the rugs in Sanctuary into locales of contemplative devotion. The gesture of falling—antithetical to more traditional notions of dance—suggests harm or violence against vulnerable bodies. The rugs will thus become indexical sites where the body meets the ground, or spaces of soft refuge where the body is welcomed and protected. A sanctuary.

Created by Sergio De La Torre and Chris Treggiari, the Sanctuary Print Shop is a mobile print shop that aims to raise awareness about recently-enacted immigration policies and how they impact our communities by creating and distributing powerful messages in support of immigrants’ rights. Through silkscreen community workshops (taught via their mobile tricycle silkscreen cart), and other participatory activities, Sanctuary Print Shop educates participants on the history of the sanctuary ordinance within San Francisco, and serves as a resource center and catalyst for public engagement in the movement to uphold immigrants' rights.
 
Sunday, January 14, Sanctuary Print Shop will be stationed outside the Fort Mason Chapel so that Sanctuary visitors will have the opportunity to silkscreen their own exhibition-specific prints.

Echoing Sanctuary’s ethos of plurality, the Sanctuary Salon series weaves together the voices of artists whose practices span creative disciplines, including spoken word, music, dance, and film. Invited guests will present and perform new or existing works that resonate with the thesis of the exhibition, allowing visitors to engage with and reflect on these themes in new and compelling ways.

January 26 participating artists:
Jacques Ibula
Adam Bowers
Deema K. Shehabi
Lenora Lee
Yi-Ting Hsu (Gama)
Lynn Huang
Hien Huynh
Eric Koziol
Shannon Preto
Hope Mohr
Marlie Couto
Cylie Kindval
Karla Quintero
Ranu Mukherjee

Sound has been used as a powerful tool for healing and introspection in myriad cultures and spiritual practices throughout human history. The Sound of Sanctuary is a sound meditation series held at FOR-SITE Foundation's Sanctuary exhibition in the Fort Mason Chapel. Led by Somatic Experience and Certified Sound Healing Practitioner Loriel Starr, participants are invited to lay upon the Sanctuary artist rugs, immerse themselves in the restorative sonic space, and tune in to their inner sanctuary.