Upcoming events.
At the Intersection: Cultivating Jewish Embodied Dialogue
This series of participatory sessions invites Jewish-centered identities into a supportive space that encourages empathy-focused dialogue.
Women's Work in Troubled Times
A celebration of SWANA artist works in progress! This is a co-production with Red Poppy Art House and Aviva Arts.
Story Circle - 11Reflections: San Francisco
This is a FREE workshop is offered in conjunction with a new project, 11 Reflections: San Francisco! We invite SWANA, MENASA, Muslim American artists, BIPOC artists and allies, and impacted communities in the Bay Area to explore the question: What has the impact of the post-9/11 era been in your city, and how does it connect to what’s happening today in Palestine?
Community Listening Circle
Engage in community discussion to support Golden Thread Productions' Season for Palestine!
Creative Rituals for Our Times: A Poetry/Expressive Arts Session with Vidhu Singh, PhD
We invite you to join us for a healing arts practice exploring words and images to deepen self-discovery and resilience.
Burning Bright: Release and Resilience
Join Aviva Arts at the cozy Red Poppy Art House for an afternoon of music, ritual, food, and community featuring sound healing with Manaar Azreik of Wholistic Solutions!
Online reading of The Gaza Monologues by Ashtar Theatre Palestine
Join Golden Thread Productions and Aviva Arts in an online reading of The Gaza Monologues by Ashtar Theatre Palestine!
Dia De Los Muertos: Ofrendas
Join us for a digital workshop! Nicky Martinez will lead an online shadowbox-making workshop to honor our ancestors. Learn about the indigenous practices of Dia de los Muertos, how it has changed since colonization and stayed alive today, and how to commemorate a loved one in a creative shadowbox.
Joy Practice: Stories in Nature
Continue your Joy Practice with a day on the land in Western Sonoma County. Bring the whole family for this intergenerational celebration.
New Growth: Burning Wild on the Land
Observe forest resiliency up close! Join a community walk, hear excerpts from the play Burning Wild, and learn about garden composting.
Joy Practice!
Join us in this digital series! Make space for creative liberation. Reignite your imagination. Create new practices which focus on inner listening, self-trust and freedom from preconceived notions.
Burning Wild at 3GT New Works Fest
3Girls Theatre Presents:
The 9th New Works Festival: Rebuild, Renew, Reinvent
Burning Wild, created by Debórah Eliezer—who herself is a survivor of California’s recent wildfires—and the Aviva Arts Ensemble in a devised performance that incorporates physical theater, dance, song, documentary video and puppetry to tell a story about land, displacement and renewal, created in response to the ecological crisis facing Northern California, and by extension, the world.
A $12 ticket will reserve a seat for this performance. Walk up sales are pay-what-you-can, and 3GT will reserve a portion of the house for walk ups. Tickets HERE
Access Notes
Z Space is a wheelchair accessible theater and has accessible seating for all shows. Bathrooms are wheelchair accessible and are welcoming to all genders. You will be given an opportunity to indicate access needs during the ticket buying process. If you find that ADA seats have been sold out for a night you want to attend, or if you have any other questions or concerns, please contact our box office at boxoffice@zspace.org.
Taste: (in person) Tea Salon & Story Circle with Noor Adabachi and Debórah Eliezer
Taste (in person) Tea Salon & Story Circle with Noor Adabachi and Debórah Eliezer
Tea and story circle with delightful Mediterranean Mezze. Available to donors of $200+
Hearing: (in-person) Being in the Shadow & the Light with Yiyo Ornelas and Pamela Hollings
Hearing: (in-person) Being in the Shadow & the Light with Yiyo Ornelas and Pamela Hollings
A live, experiential journey of space and sound.
Location TBD in an outdoor natural setting
Touch: (online) Cultivating Creative Rituals for Resilience with Vidhu Singh and Lindsay L. Barr
Touch (online) Cultivating Creative Rituals for Joy and Resilience with Vidhu Singh and Lindsay L. Barr
Cultivate your unique creative expression through poetry, art and mindful breath. All are welcome, no experience necessary.
Sight: (online) Shadow Box Crafting Workshop with Nicky Martinez
Aviva Arts Presents: Winter Wonders: Experiences for the Senses
Sight (online): Shadow Box Crafting Workshop with Nicky Martinez
A meditative craft filled Dia de los Muertos journey.
(dis)Place[d] on Olivia Cruse
(dis)Place[d] will be presented in a limited engagement with Olivia Travel’s “Greece, Cyprus, and Israel Luxury Cruise” from October 22-29th. This sailing is currently sold out, visit the Olivia website for more information on this sailing and waitlist options.
(dis)Place[d] Matinee followed by Tea Salon
In (dis)Place[d] playwright/performer Debórah Eliezer traces her own roots through the story of her father, Edward Ben-Eliezer, an Iraqi Jew born in 1930, who witnessed the Fraud from the roof of his grandparent’s home, member of the Zionist underground, refugee, Israeli spy and eventual immigrant to San Francisco.