CIRCUL:The Creative Culture Con Launch Fundraiser

Wednesday, Oct 1

7:00pm – 9:30pm

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Join us at Brady and Firen’s lovely SF Noasis community backyard gathering space in Noe Valley for an inspiring introduction and fundraiser launch for CIRCUL - the flagship project bringing the Bay Area’s famously generative circles of culture together. Circul is a new kind of gathering - not just another conference or festival, but a biennial multi-day cultural crucible launching in San Francisco in Fall 2026. Part conference, part festival, part co-creation lab, Circul is designed to show how the hard work and joy of collaborative creative practice can spark shared purpose, service, and belonging.  We are living through a time of deep disconnection. Loneliness and fragmentation are rising worldwide. Yet history shows that when people come together to create, they generate not just art but meaning, not just events but movements. Circul is focused on scaling this overlooked civic technology: collective play and collaborative culture as forces for resilience and renewal. At Circul, participants will engage with leaders and doers from the Bay’s rich circles of culture: immersive art and maker communities, biotech pioneers and software builders, dance and performance groups, and the Bay’s radical countercultural lineages - spanning underground urban exploration, psychedelic communities, and sex-positive movements. Together participants will: • Co-create large-scale participatory art
• Prototype civic rituals
• Join transformative salons and dialogues
• Experiment in creative jam sessions that cross disciplines
• Celebrate through festival-integrated music, DJs, dancing, and art revelry
 Participants will leave not only inspired but equipped with tangible tools - including a Playbook for Cultural Superproduction - to bring back to their own communities and spark new gatherings, projects, and cultural spaces. Join us for drinks, nibbles, and conversation as we introduce this emerging civic platform and gathering to carry the Bay’s cultural lineages forward. Short talks by Charley Hasenbeck, Brady Forrest, Leslie Fine, and John Law. Circul is guided by a growing Leadership & Advisory Team including: • Charley Hasenbeck (Founder, Circul; Co-Founder Creative Culture Club) • Brady Forrest (Founder, Ignite Talks; Director, Community Arts Stabilization Trust) • John Law (Cacophony Society; Co-Founder, Burning Man) • Marian Goodell (CEO, Burning Man Project) • Alexander Rose (Founding Executive Director, The Long Now Foundation; Director Of Long Term Futures, Automatic) • Ben Davis (Founder & Chief Visionary Officer, Illuminate) • Candace Locklear (Co-Founder, Mighty Public Relations) • Peter Hirshberg (Co-Founder, Gray Area Foundation for The Arts) • Danielle Engelman (Director Of Programs, The Long Now Foundation) • Leslie Fine (Managing Partner, Enjoy The Work; Former Salesforce VP) • Josh Constine (Editor, TechCrunch; Board, Stern Grove; Signalfire VC) • Jesse Elliott (Co-Founder, The Music District; Co-Founder CACHE; Co-Founder Groundwaves; Creative Philanthropy Strategist) • Aaron Rabideau (Strategy, Messaging & Design, Circul) • Tim Van Loan (Community Arts Stabilization Trust; Salesforce) • Peter Platzgumer (Associate Director Of Art, Burning Man Project) • Doc/Aaron Baum (Co-Founder, Circul & Creative Culture Club; Former NASA) ********************************** - Outside — bring layers - Bring food or drinks as you please; expect light snacks but not dinner - Party winds down at 9:30 — we have to shut down by 10pm due neighborhood quiet hours

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