Solarium by CreatingAS1 - SF Climate Week
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^⎵^Creating a vibrant culture and thriving world involves all of us. Let's dream and build the world forward - through imagination, communication, creation, and action. This evening will be a fantastic journey that we hope inspires, empowers, and connects participants.
Let's remember our deep relationship with the world, feel the power of our hearts, have a sense of kinship with more-than-human beings, celebrate love winning, bask in one's ability to fly, feel like bold dreams come true, and reclaim the radical act of imagination and creation.
5:00pm Doors open, appetizers are served, non-alcoholic and alcoholic drinks are available, start chatting with each other
5:30pm Activity to get to know each other better
6:00pm Dinner is served including vegetarian paellas from Pawn Shop Restaurant
6:20pm Welcome from CreatingAS1 and introduction to the space
6:30pm Shreya Chaudhuri (UC Berkeley and Project Planet)
- let's start decolonizing our minds and transform from separation into an awareness of our interdependence with our environment
6:50pm Eva Frye (Climate Shifted podcast and Two Hands Brands)
- shift perceptions and tell stories that make an impact
7:10pm Wild West Disco Cowboy (Hunky Jesus Contest Easter 2025)
- love won: how a personal message of compassion, empathy and care was conveyed to thousands of people and the press
7:20pm Avi Love (personal coach and workshop facilitator)
- unleash you inner creature and embody core parts of who you are
7:40pm Break
7:55pm Starya will share a beautiful aerial performance our feathered kin. See this incredible artist in the upcoming shows at 200 Channels.
8:00pm Toshi Anders Hoo (Institute for the Future)
- let's use collective intelligence to dream ideas of what could be, then read about them as if they're inevitable and have already happened
8:30pm Roxi Shohadaee (Design Science Studio and habRitual)
- rekindle your personal power to design the future and get a glimpse into catalyzing systemic change through inclusive and transdisciplinary collaboration.
8:55pm Closing the ceremony
9:00pm Community building conversations and follow up questions with the speakers.
You may also use the prompt cards available to ask each other questions you hadn't thought of. These conversation card decks can be used one on one or as a small group.
The intention for our Solarium gatherings is to be soul nourishing and fun. We endeavor to create a space where people feel safe, supported, and a sense of belonging. We are hoping wonderful people will make new friends and existing relationships will deepen.
This will happen at 200 Channels, the new SF venue we co-created. The space itself reflects the holistic, thriving, abundant culture we know is possible. We imagined, built, and installed the biophilic interior design using eco-materials including rice straw MDF, Hempwood, plant-based resin, plus reclaimed wood and glass. We intend for it to provide a creative, loving, and interconnected container for this journey.
The aesthetic story is about regeneration. One side of the space depicts the relationship between forests and water, while the other conveys how fire and decay are also part of new beginnings.
Appetizers and dinner will be served. We'll be offering vegetarian/vegan food. This will include the wonderful veggie paella from The Pawn Shop Restaurant next door.
You may purchase non-alcoholic and alcoholic beverages.
* ROXI SHOHADAEE. Roxi is the Ecosystem Director + ARTchitect of Design Science Studio and CEO + Founder of HabRitual. Roxi is an interdisciplinary designer, experiential producer, artist and creative doula. She works at the intersection of art, science, experience and technology to catalyze social and systemic change through inclusive, transdisciplinary collaborations for the regeneration of our planet and culture. Her work as an immersive experience designer, creative producer, project manager, butoh + ritual performer and contemporary artist traverses scales, from land based projects to civic installations.
www.designscience.studio/wellerfuture
www.designscience.studio
www.habritual.studio
* TOSHI ANDERS HOO. Toshi leads Institute for the Future's Emerging Media Lab (EML), where he explores the implications of rapidly evolving technologies that are transforming the ways humans communicate, collaborate and connect. Toshi also leads IFTF’s Technology and Media Foresight Council advising leaders from both the public and private sector, and he is a lead instructor for IFTF’s Three Horizons of AI course that explores the near, mid and long term implications for AI.
https://www.iftf.org/people/toshi-anders-hoo
https://www.toshihoo.com/
* SHREYA CHAUDHURI. Shreya was a keynote speaker at the Bioneers Conference 2025. She runs Project Planet, a nonprofit for decolonial environmental education, including teaching the class Decolonizing Environmentalism at Berkeley that she created. She is a a senior at UC Berkeley, majoring in Environmental Science and Geography with minors in Global Poverty & Practice and Data Science. As a Climate Action Fellow at the Student Environmental Resource Center and UC Office of the President, Shreya advances equity in UC Climate Policy and leads the Decolonial Environmental Network on campus. She is also on the council for the Students of Color Environmental Collective, and, for her senior thesis, Shreya studied Indigenous ecological knowledge and climate resilience on her family’s ancestral tea farm in India.
https://projectplanet.world/
https://conference.bioneers.org/speaker/shreya-chaudhuri
EVA FRYE. Eva is a strategist, storyteller, and ecoactivist who is in awe of the biodiversity of life on Earth, and who uses this love to show up resourced in climate work. As Executive Producer and Host of Climate Shifted podcast, she interviews experts on the front lines of climate communication about what actually works to shift perception for climate action. As Cofounder of Two Hands Brands, a brand strategy and design studio, Eva uses her background in psychology and brand strategy to help early stage tech companies and nonprofits bridge the gap between climate science and effective storytelling.
https://climateshifted.com
https://twohandsbrands.com
AVI LOVE. Avi is a personal coach who believes there are deep parts of ourselves we can access and integrate by delving into our kinship with animals and the more-than-human world. Avi invites you to discover dimensions of yourself that are sparkly, punctuated by pools of deep vitality, that live as a harmonic force with vibrant nature. Then connect with, embody, and bring into beautiful, fully-realized being those core parts of who you are in all of the worlds you inhabit. Avi is also a creativity, intuition alignment, and gender doula.
https://avilovecoaching.com
LOCATION:
200 Channels is connected to Monarch Nightclub and Pawn Shop Restaurant. Enter through The Emperor's Drawing Room of Monarch Club, which is on 6th St just south of Mission St. (Look for the Emperor's Drawing Room sign on the side of the building and right over the doorway, it says "Music and Cocktails, Where the Fabulous Play.")
Check in with security and our amazing greeter for the evening.
TICKET INFO:
* The ticket price for this event is $25 per person and includes dinner and snacks.
* Please pay in advance via the provided Venmo or PayPal links. Or you may pay with cash or these methods in person at the entrance.
* If you would like free admittance, please contact us about available volunteer shifts.
21 years old and over.
TRANSPORTATION AND PARKING:
- 200 Channels is a short 8 minute walk from the Powell BART Station (walk down 5th St to Mission St, then walk on Mission St to 6th St)
- If you drive, we often find street parking in the area.
- The Fifth & Mission / Yerba Buena Parking Garage includes Bicycle Lockers as well. It is a great option if you prefer a parking structure for your car or bike. It is a 5 minute walk from the venue.
https://www.sfmta.com/garages-lots/fifth-mission-yerba-buena-garage
https://maps.app.goo.gl/NNkYyeyJFLTzbWvs9
- There is a Lyft Bike station on Mission St and Mint St between 5th and 6th, as well as on Howard St between 5th and 6th
- There is a Bikehangar at 4th & Minna. A Bikehangar is a public multi-space, one-door bike parking facility located in a car parking space.
https://www.sfmta.com/getting-around/bike/bike-parking
Dinner will be served. However, other nearby food options we'd recommend are The Bite Mediterranean restaurant and Miss Saigon Vietnamese restaurant. Both are located at 6th and Mission. We'd also recommend Saluhall SF, the food court connected to Ikea on Market St.
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