“Each city has its own fingerprint of style and story. However, here in the Mission, in San Francisco, I see a level of Cultura that inspires the world.”-Carlos Santana  FIRST ELEMENT: COMIN’ AT YA! Theater as you know it is about to be FLIPPED. Campo Santo’s First Element happy hour vis-a-vis mobile theater project that [...]

featured image of Howard Wile- photo credit Daniel Atkinson This Friday Afternoon hit the right spot with satiable music and soulful eats @ OFF THE GRID, Fridays 12-3pm – Minna Street, btwn Mary & 5th Street. Intersection for the Arts curates live music and theater performances to appear at Off The Grid’s lunch market at [...]

Here at Intersection, we are spoiled with an insanely talented and brilliant cast of interns. We love that they come in with their own passions and ideas and enhance our work in all kinds of ways. Mirsha Heredia is one of these bright individuals who has been a valuable energy in our visual arts & [...]

Before the meme, the pandora station ads, QR codes, and email marketing…EVEN BEFORE the billboard, bansky, or club flyers….there was the BROADSIDE.  Closer to what we see on Haight Street, the light posts clad with homemade printed flyers for DJ nights and band performances stapled on to death. These can pass as the modern broadside. [...]

“Come explore the possibilities of how you can use poetry to map your life story. If you had to track your life journey through traffic signs, what symbols  or words would you choose ? What bus line, neighborhood, intersection in San Francisco helps you tell a story? How would you walk someone from a different [...]

Intersection for the Arts is ecstatic to premiere a bi-weekly blog series from our resident photographer (and historian in many ways!), Mark Ellinger, who will be enlightening us with colorful insights from our very own neighborhood. One part of his series titled,”Where Is It?”, invites our readers to find a mystery landmark within our neighborhood [...]

The Mighty Little Press behind the Broadside Attractions | Vanquished Terrains Exhibit Admit it, in the era of soft copies and kindles, who knows what a “Broadside” is anymore? And maybe if you do, you probably are a designer or printer (or ephemera geeks like us), right? Once upon a time, there was the press. [...]

“True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar, it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.” – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.   It was a journey of 12 weeks that started late Fall of 2011, that a group of local youth gathered to participate in drawing, photography, [...]

OFF THE GRID, Every Friday is the liveliest lunchtime in the City. Feel good, Eat good and lounge out with us @ OFF THE GRID, Fridays 12-3pm – Minna Street, btwn Mary & 5th Street. Intersection for the Arts curates live music and theater performances to appear at Off The Grid’s lunch market at 5th [...]

Once again, OFF THE GRID, keepin’ it lovely EVERY Friday. The lunch session you deserve! Feel good, Eat good and unwind with us @ OFF THE GRID, Fridays 12-3pm – Minna Street, btwn Mary & 5th Street. Intersection for the Arts curates live music and theater performances to appear at Off The Grid’s lunch market [...]