Solarpunkification 2026: SF’s 3-Day Fest of Art + Music (March 6-8)
Solarpunkification brings together artists, musicians, technologists, futurists, and community builders to prototype the futures we actually want.
The Solarpunk vision asks what becomes possible when technology and nature work together and when imagination gets treated as serious infrastructure.
Three days of live music, film, dance, playshops, workshops, and radical conversations at the legendary Mabuhay Gardens, where Louis Armstrong, The Ramones, Allen Ginsberg, The Dead Kennedys, Iggy Pop, The Specials, Metallica, and Robin Williams, Guns N’ Roses, Herbie Hancock, R.E.M., and Soundgarden historically performed.
Highlights include:
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US film premiere of the Australian animated film Imagine, Indigenous systems knowledge made unforgettable, an Odyssey for our times
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Afrofuturist dance party until 2AM.
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Reggae flow session
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Open-space unconference
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Immersive art installations,
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Conversations spanning indigenous wisdom, regenerative design, and collective imagination.
https://themab.org/#solarpunk
https://www.solarpunkification.art/single-project-2
https://www.solarpunkification.art/about-4
FRIDAY, MARCH 6
1:00–3:00 PM — Pre-Festival Workshop: Regenerative Workplaces
We’ll be exploring how much of modern work, whether inside organisations or carried out alone, has been shaped by extraction of time, energy, attention, and care.
3-4pm
Solarpunkification Pre-Mixer + Cosmic Directions Ceremony with Arturo
4:00 PM — Doors Open & Pre-Mixer
4:35 PM — Connection Experience
A guided experience to open hearts and weave community connection.
4:50 PM — Welcome to Solarpunkification
5:00 PM — Professor Hope & Jesse Elliott
5:20 PM — Placemaking & Regeneration
Tom Watson shares reflections from Solarpunkification 2025 about a place for creativity and a vision for the future of Mabuhay Gardens now and in the future at Solarpunkification 2026 — regeneration, creativity, and joy in place. With support from Andres Acosta, Bobby Fishkin.
5:40 PM — Musician/Producer Via the Messenger will perform a powerful blend of philosophy, poetry, and music to awaken the soul.
6:00 PM — Activist, author and visionary Steve DeAngelo
6:15 PM — Ancient Futures Dialogue. Brotha Peace, Brotha Mikhail and Steve DeAngelo
6:45 PM — Bubblescape Experience.
Sterling Johnson and Stefanie Schwartz bring bubbles and live poetry into an immersive experience.
7:00 PM — AIME IMAGINE US Film Premiere. An Australian animated adventure born from the imaginations of over 150 Indigenous young people. “Profound conversations meet trippy visuals in one-of-a-kind adventure” — The Guardian
8:20 PM — Post-Film Q&A
9:00 PM — Inti Mystica — Live Performance
A genre-bending Latin indie band rooted in San Francisco, CA (Ohlone land), blending ancestral resistance with modern rhythms.
10:00 PM–2:00 AM — Ancient Futures: Afrofuturist Dance Party We Are The Manifesters, Thirsty! and Protopia Presents: Ancient Futures – Afrofuturist Danceparty, in collaboration with Airpushers
SATURDAY, MARCH 7
10:00 AM–12:00 PM — Walk to Solarpunkification. Sign up here.
Guided community walk from The Palace of Fine Arts to Mabuhay Gardens, arriving in connection with place, city, and one another. Meet us at 10 am under the big domed rotunda by the lagoon at the Palace of Fine Arts. More details in link.
12:00 PM — Via the Messenger
Music and poetry to awaken the soul
12:10 PM — Jeff Emmett — MycoFi
Exploring economic systems inspired by mycelial networks—where cooperation, redistribution, and mutual aid create resilient, regenerative communities.
12:25 PM — Richard Ng — IndigiDAO
We draw upon our ancestral knowledge and connection to the land and look at the DAO and its members as a mycelial network
12:40 PM — Solarpunkification Opening Workshop with Bobby Fishkin, Saskia Verraes & Professor Hope
Exploring positive deviance, Goldilocks zones, and designing conditions for individual and collective flourishing.
1:00–6:00 PM — Open Space Unconference & UnPlug and Play
The venue becomes an open laboratory: you propose sessions, you lead them. Whatever matters most to the people in the room becomes the curriculum. Bring ideas, questions, prototypes, or something you need help imagining. Come if you are a tinkerer, a dreamer, an ecologist, an artist, a systems thinker, a community weaver, a vibe coder, or simply someone who suspects that the world we want is more possible than the world would have. Come ready to offer something.
6:00 PM — The Regenerative Adhocracy
6:15 PM — Gaiapolis
6:30 PM — Squiggly Line Life with Saskia verraes and Jack Manning Bancroft
Exploring our lives and career paths as a hopeful responses to the BANI world (brittle, anxious, Non-linear, incomprehensible).
7:00 PM — Human Included Ecology with Ryan Hartnett of Earthlight Institute
How small paradigm shifts have major impacts on how we understand and solve the existential challenges of our time, as well as improve our personal health in subtle but powerful ways
7:20 PM — Solarpunk Futures Field Guide with Ramona Tudorancea
Exploring how to connect personal agency with legal frameworks, how theory of values lie within new economic models and how to align all this with Solarpunk ethos using AI artwork as a means of expression.
7:40 PM — Multidimensional Creative Core Activation
8:00–10:00 PM — Fluid Dance: Reggae Flow with Juliana Mendonca and Zane Groshelle
Dance + Somatics + Music + Healing Arts + Mythology + Regenerative Education.
A dialogue between performance, embodied practice, and community reflection.
10:00 PM — IMAGINE Film — Showing 2
SUNDAY, MARCH 8
9:00 AM — Creativity Is Part of Your Body with Clare Hedin
A combined talk and experiential workshop reconsidering our consciousness as energy and creativity as how we intersect with our highest potential through active somatic and intellectual practices.
9:30 AM — IMAGINE Film — Showing 3
10:00 AM — Image-in-Action: Intentional Art Imagery Workshop with Donna Marchesano
Harness the power of imagination through the creative process for transformation of self and community.
11:00 AM — IMAGI-NATION
Professor Hope, the Professor of Imagination at IMAGI-NATION {University}, presents on unlocking the imagination of the world to summon new intelligence.
11:30 AM — Post Capitalist Vending Machine with Ron Turetzky
Exploring Cryptographic Infrastructure for Collective Ownership. Post-capitalist vending machines as practical, artistic, and therapeutic exploration of alternative economic structures, featuring Share-House.fun and Mutual Vend.
12:00 PM — Imagining of a Collective Ecological Future with Dr. Howard Whitehouse. The collective unconscious is currently emerging into the consciousness of the collective. The Imagining of a Collective Ecological Future
12:30 PM — Gaiapunk with Sheridan Tatsuno
Gaiapolis Strategy planning: A new literary genre that shows how Gaiapunks can actually implement and create their Gaiapolis locally.
12:50 PM — Via the Messenger
1:00–3:30 PM — Warm Data Lab
Warm Data Lab experiences have been described as a “kaleidoscope of conversation,” packed with enriching stories, laughter, and insight. They nourish the soul, transform the way we approach life, work, and our communities. They are designed to help strengthen and practice our collective ability to perceive, discuss, and hold complex issues. https://luma.com/tt9ql9hu
3:30 PM — Via the Messenger
3:40–4:00 PM — Closing Circle
4:30–6:30 PM — Post-Festival Workshop: Compassion (Ticketed)
Post-Solarpunkification Workshop on Compassion facilitated by Daniel Martin, Ph.D.
What it is/not, how it heals, from the individual, work, to global.
A two-hour post-festival workshop exploring compassion through science-based talk and experiential exercises. Dr. Martin is Director of Compassion Education at CCARE (Stanford University) and Associate Professor at Cal State East Bay.
Art work on display at Solarpunkification 2026:
Pick up a physical phone to listen to regenerative stories of the future. Constructed from reclaimed and renewable materials, regen•era is co-created by artists, designers, systems thinkers, and storytellers shaping regenerative futures.
1000 signs. A global invitation to reconnect to our common humanity. What would your sign say?
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Mycofi artwork celebrating mycelium design patterns
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Sonic Sanctuary Counsel video. 18 screens highlighting the Gamelatron, sonic kinetic sculptures.
See last year’s Solarpunkification highlights: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA1524DqsFLlrlLPoZL1ToE5No1CSyKQd and https://solarpunkification.art/.
Solarpunkification 2026 is being held at Mabuhay Gardens is an important physical infrastructure for radical belonging. It’s a container that has the potential for artists to form right relationships with future selves via rites of passage such as surpassing one’s expectations of what is possible. Solarpunk builds on deep punk roots from Iggy Pop to Patti Smith to the Ramones and the Specials who all performed at Mabuhay Gardens. Regenerative futurists, systems change leaders, and many others in our mix can likewise be influenced by who has come before us on this stage.
Solarpunkification 2026 is a three-day gathering where solar punks, artists, musicians, regenerative futurists, systems thinkers, designers, creatives, technologists, and community builders come together to explore a simple question: What happens when a cultural space becomes a working laboratory for the futures we actually want to live in?
The Solarpunk vision asks what becomes possible when technology and nature work together and when imagination gets treated as serious infrastructure. Mabuhay Gardens becomes a place to prototype those answers—not through theory, but through the actual experience of it together.
You can see last year’s 2025 Solarpunkification Youtube Playlist at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA1524DqsFLlrlLPoZL1ToE5No1CSyKQd. You can see last year’s popup information at https://solarpunkification.art/. Last year’s event established that we are not just observing the future; we are actively prototyping it through the “interdisciplinary Goldilocks Zone” where art, science, and indigenous wisdom converge.
Mabuhay Gardens- the building at 435 Broadway in San Francisco has always been a place where culture transforms itself. Louis Armstrong played here along with many others from Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, The Dead Kennedys, Iggy Pop, The Sex Pistols, The Ramones, The Specials, Metallica, Guns N’ Roses, Herbie Hancock, R.E.M., and Soundgarden. Robin Williams, Whoopi Goldberg, and Dave Chappelle found their voices on this stage.
Mabuhay Gardens at Solarpunkification 2026 represents important physical infrastructure for radical belonging. Its a container that has the potential for artists to form right relationships with future selves via rights of passage such as surpassing one’s expectations of what is possible. On stage in 2025 it was striking at Mabuhay Gardens to see artists give some of the most exquisite performances while sharing on stage that they are raising their game specifically to be in alignment with the extraordinary artists who have been on stage at that space in history. The same is true for all of us- that the vibe coders build on jazz traditions such as Louis Armstrong’s history at Mabuhay Gardens, solar punk builds on deep punk roots from Iggy Pop to Patty Smith to the Ramones and the Specials who all performed at Mabuhay Gardens. Regenerative futurists, systems change leaders, and many others in our mix can likewise be influenced by who has come before us on this stage. Solarpunkification 2026 is platform for us all to raise collective game for the sake of our most preferred futures becoming our most probable.
There are many sciences which have leveraged the metaphor of a goldilocks zone. We will create a goldilocks zone for understanding experientially, artistically, intellectually, musically and somatically the bright futures that we have in mind together.
Mabuhay Gardens Participation Options links- https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eCqFdWpbotwKXFjbmyyEES_qafMkvBLY/view?usp=sharing
https://themab.org/ more on Mabuhay Gardens
CrowdDoing.world for more on co-convener.
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Pre-solarpunkification workshop 1- 1-3pm March 6th Pre-Solarpunkification Workshop on Regenerative workplaces: Everyday Choices That Shape the System at Work, https://luma.com/do3ukcff
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United States Premier of IMAGINE film + conversation with the co-creator at Solarpunkification 2026, March 7th 7pm to 8:50pm https://luma.com/5amqkc9y
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Hike to solarpunkification- March 7th 10am to 11:50am https://luma.com/dgogwlep, https://www.linkedin.com/events/7428206865341370368/
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Warm Data Lab at Solarpunkification- March 8th 1-3:30 https://luma.com/tt9ql9hu
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Post-solarpunkification workshop 2: March 8th 4:30-6:30 pm Post-Solarpunkification Workshop on Compassion: What it is/not, how it heals, from the individual, work, to global (ticketed) https://luma.com/767ovvyy
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Post-Solarpunkification Workshop 3 March 8th 7-9pm Advanced Imagination Workshop by Jack Manning Bancroft & Professor Hope (Post Solarpunkification 2026) https://luma.com/3kvcf7w6
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Inti Mystica will be performing at 9pm on Friday March 6th, preview – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaaEm0PZGk4
https://www.solarpunkification.art/single-project-2
https://www.solarpunkification.art/about-4
Friday, March 6 – Highlighting a subset of events during Solarpunkification which shared external links /media
Steve DeAngelo – One Tribe & Ancient Futures Dialogue (5:50–6:45 PM)
One Plant Alliance website:
https://www.oneplantalliance.org/
Steve DeAngelo Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/steve.deangelo/?hl=en
Steve DeAngelo reel 1:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DRqpDxIDTeq/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
Steve DeAngelo reel 2:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQZ6tsgEjEA/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
AIME IMAGINE US – Film Screening Premiere (7:00–8:20 PM)
IMAGINE film trailer (YouTube):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Etv4_oBiYxM
AIME Mentoring website:
https://aimementoring.com
AIME Mentoring Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/aimementoring/
Inti Mystica – Live Performance (9:00–10:00 PM)
Inti Mystica video 1 (YouTube):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaaEm0PZGk4
Inti Mystica video 2 (YouTube):
https://youtu.be/ljKuXETXGl8?si=PS3cXZyT-u6S7Og0
Inti Mystica video 3 (YouTube):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bob9UOKDrVM
Inti Mystica Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/intimystica/
Inti Mystica Bandcamp:
https://intimystica.bandcamp.com/Regenerative Adhocracy Preview – Nik Bertulis (6:10–6:20 PM)
Ritual Biology website:
https://ritualbiology.com
Gaiapolis Preview – Sheridan Tatsuno (6:20–6:30 PM and 7:30–8:00 PM)
Dreamscape Global website:
https://dreamscapeglobal.com
Dreamscape Global blog:
https://dreamscapeglobal.com/blog
Image‑in‑Action: Intentional Art Imagery – Donna Marchesano (preview 7:20–7:30 PM; workshop 9:20–10:00 PM)
Art of Marchesano website:
http://www.artofmarchesano.com/
Art of Marchesano Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/artofmarchesano?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw==
Image‑in‑Action reel 1 (Instagram):
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DUmT9WZD_bg/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
Image‑in‑Action reel 2 (Instagram):
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DP7tEUbEZp7/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==, Solarpunk Values Workshop – Jack Manning Bancroft, Sara Olsen, Saskia Verraes (8:00–10:00 PM block)
SVT Group website (impact accounting value stack):
https:/svtgroup.net
Friday, March 6
Solarpunkification brings together artists, musicians, technologists, futurists, and community builders to prototype the futures we actually want. The Solarpunk vision asks what becomes possible when technology and nature work together and when imagination gets treated as serious infrastructure. Three days of live music, film, dance, ...
Saturday, March 7
Solarpunkification brings together artists, musicians, technologists, futurists, and community builders to prototype the futures we actually want. The Solarpunk vision asks what becomes possible when technology and nature work together and when imagination gets treated as serious infrastructure. Three days of live music, film, dance, ...
Sunday, March 8
Solarpunkification brings together artists, musicians, technologists, futurists, and community builders to prototype the futures we actually want. The Solarpunk vision asks what becomes possible when technology and nature work together and when imagination gets treated as serious infrastructure. Three days of live music, film, dance, ...
