SOLAR PunkiFicAtiOn ’26
Solarpunkification 2026 is a once-a-year collision of art, ecology, and radical optimism. We are transforming the historic Mabuhay Gardens into a working laboratory for the future we actually want to inhabit.
For decades, the “Fab Mab” served as the undisputed epicenter of West Coast punk rock—a raw, subterranean proving ground where marginalized voices and visionaries built a DIY culture from the ground up. Today, we bridge that rebellious energy with the regenerative ethos of the solarpunk movement. We are building the future from the underground up.
This is not a passive conference. It is a three-day, immersive convergence of solarpunks, artists, musicians, technologists, and community builders treating imagination as serious infrastructure. When we fuse the planet’s oldest Indigenous systems thinking with modern cryptography, mycelial economics, and unapologetic joy, we rewire what is possible.
FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS
POST-CAPITALIST
PROTOCOLS
Hacking the financial system for life on Earth. Join Jeff Emmett and Richard Ng to decode MycoFi and IndigiDAO—economic structures inspired by mycelial networks. Then, watch Ron Turetzky demonstrate the “Post-Capitalist Vending Machine,” using cryptographic smart contracts to facilitate sustainable, collective ownership.
RADICAL ART
& SOMATICS
Get out of your head and into your vessel. The venue will pulse with immersive installations, live visionary painting by Evelisa (giving birth to the “Vision Oracle” era), large-scale soap bubbles by Sterling Johnson, and the Gamelatron Sonic Sanctuary. Cap it off with somatic improvisational dance, live poetry from Via the Messenger, and a late-night Afro-futurist dance party.
THE OPEN SPACE UNCONFERENCE & WORKSHOPS
On Saturday afternoon, we throw out the schedule. The Fab Mab becomes an open laboratory where *you* propose and lead the sessions.
PRE-FESTIVAL (MARCH 6)
Regenerative Workplaces: Leadership consultant Leanne Holdsworth kicks off the weekend by teaching us how to shift our daily work environments from extractive to regenerative through deliberate micro-moves.
POST-FESTIVAL (MARCH 8)
Deep Dives: Stay Sunday for an experiential science-based workshop on the healing power of Compassion with Dr. Daniel E. Martin (Stanford University), and an intensive Advanced Imagination session with Jack Manning Bancroft.
SOLARPUNKIFICATION SCHEDULE
Events take place at Mabuhay Gardens unless otherwise noted. Subject to chaos, rhythm, revision, and surprise.
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ALL WEEKEND ENTIRE VENUEVENUESonic Sanctuary
A sound-thread runs through the whole weekend, with the Gamelatron Sonic Sanctuary looping in the downstairs west exhibition space as the rest of the venue shifts around it.
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FRI 1:00-3:00 PM UPSTAIRS THEATRE & ATRIUM (All Ages)THEATRE + ATRIUMRegenerative Workplaces
A slow opening for the weekend: work, care, pace, and what becomes possible when extraction loosens its grip.
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FRI 3:00-4:00 PM MULTIPLE ROOMSMULTI
Pre-Mixer + Directions
The doors open, the field gathers, and the first frequencies of the weekend begin to find each other.
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FRI 4:00-4:30 PM UPSTAIRS THEATRE & ATRIUM (All Ages)THEATRE + ATRIUMInvocations + Welcome
A threshold of voice, smudge, and welcome — clearing the room, tuning the room, becoming a room together.
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FRI 4:00-5:30 PM LOUNGE 21+LOUNGE
Psychedelic Integration
A quieter current running beneath the opening hour — reflection, integration, and meaning-making as the rest of the building comes alive.
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FRI 4:30-5:30 PM UPSTAIRS THEATRE (All Ages)THEATREProfessor Hope Intro
A conversation that sets the philosophical temperature for the weekend — imagination, governance, custodianship, and what has been missing all along.
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FRI 5:30-6:00 PM MABUHAY GROUND FLOOR THEATREMABUHAYCreative Reset
Step out of autopilot and into coherence with Monique Nguyen in a mini workshop on aligned visioning, nervous system regulation, and creative flow.
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Facilitated by Monique Nguyen — systems magician, creative facilitator, and Stanford-trained strategist. A reset for clearing creative friction, regulating the nervous system, and returning to center so energy, work, and life can emerge from a state of true alignment and flow. -
FRI 5:30-7:00 PM MULTIPLE ROOMSMULTI
Previews + Dialogues
The festival widens: portals, placemaking, civic overlays, adjacent futures, and bubbles drifting through the threshold between seriousness and play.
Room lineup
Upstairs Theatre: Roxi Shohadaee / Design Science Studio, Steve DeAngelo, Ancient Futures Dialogue, Inside Bubblescape.
Upstairs Atrium: Nicole Klau Ibarra, then Daveed Benjamin.
Mabuhay Theatre: Monique Nguyen — Creative Reset: Embodied Alignment & Flow (5:30-6:00), followed by Sara + Roxi’s adjacent-possible futures thread (6:00-7:00).
Lounge: Manifesting Utopia with Ryan Hartnett, Sheridan Tatsuno, David Munir Nabti, and Aaron.
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FRI 7:00-8:50 PM UPSTAIRS THEATRE & MABUHAY OVERFLOWTHEATRE + MABUHAYIMAGINE: US Premiere
A feature-length collective imagining, followed by conversation while the feeling is still warm in the room.
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FRI 8:50-10:00 PM MULTIPLE ROOMSMULTI
Performances + Dialogues
Music upstairs, civic imagination downstairs, philosophy in the lounge — the night begins to braid itself into many futures at once.
Room lineup
Upstairs Theatre: Via the Messenger, then Inti Mystica live.
Upstairs Atrium: Charley Hasenbeck.
Mabuhay Theatre: Democracy 2276 with David Munir Nabti.
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FRI 10:00 PM-2:00 AM ALL ROOMSALL
Ancestral Futures Party
A late-night opening rite of movement, rhythm, memory, and speculative joy, held across the building.
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SAT 10:00-11:50 AM OFFSITEOFFSITE
Walk In
A guided walk into Day 2 — arriving by foot, by city, by conversation, and by noon.
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SAT 11:45 AM-12:45 PM MABUHAY THEATRE 21+MABUHAY
Sharp Joy
Disaster communities, a slow rolling book report, and some reflection with Alan Tabor. Exploring LittleUSA’s work in Alabama, Rebecca Solnit’s book on disaster communities, and resilient systems in Tennessee.
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SAT 11:55 AM-12:40 PM ALL ROOMSALL
Day 2 Opening
Day 2 opens with invocation, short transmissions, and previews of the worlds about to unfold.
Room lineup
11:55 AM — Future Journey Workshop with Malcolm Turnbull
11:55 AM — Via the Messenger — Music and poetry to awaken the soul
11:55 AM — Image-in-Action Intentional Art Imagery Workshop with Donna Marchesano
11:55 AM — Post-Capitalist Vending Machine with Ron Turetzky
12:05 PM — Welcome to Solarpunkification Day 2 — With Bobby Fishkin & Saskia Verraes
12:05 PM — Civic Imagination Station — With Aaron Haldiman
12:10 PM — Jeff Emmett — MycoFi — Exploring economic systems inspired by mycelial networks—where cooperation, redistribution, and mutual aid create resilient, regenerative communities.
12:20 PM — Regenerative Adhocracy Preview with Nik Bertulis
12:20 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
12:30 PM — Radical Collaboration Conversation — Professor Hope, Jeff Emmett, Richard Ng, Saskia -
SAT 12:40-1:00 PM MULTIPLE ROOMSMULTIOpening Workshop
Exploring positive deviance, Goldilocks zones, and designing conditions for individual and collective flourishing with Bobby Fishkin, Saskia Verraes & Professor Hope.
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SAT 1:00-6:00 PM ALL ROOMSALL
Open Space + UnPlug/Play
The venue becomes an open laboratory: you propose sessions, you lead them. At 1pm we will open in circle, hold three sessions of an hour each, and close in circle again. Whatever matters most to the people in the room becomes the curriculum. Bring any idea, however half-formed, a question you can’t stop thinking about, or something you need help imagining. Come if you are a tinkerer, a dreamer, an ecologist, an artist, a systems thinker, a community weaver, or simply someone who suspects that the world we want is more possible than the world would have. Come ready to offer something.
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SAT 6:00-8:00 PM ALL ROOMSALL
Evening Previews
Short sparks, long arcs, and evening momentum — stories of place, strategy, care, sound, and decentralized futures moving room to room.
Room lineup
6:00 PM — Via The Messenger — an invocation
6:00 PM — Cultivating our Multidimensional Creative Core Through Playful Movement and Poetical Synthesis with Leylani Kyleiaa Angeluccio
6:00 PM — A New Story Unfolds (Micro/Meso/Macro) with Dan Martin
6:10 PM — The Regenerative Adhocracy with Nik Bertulis
6:20 PM — Post Capitalist Vending Machine with Ron Turetzky
6:20 PM — Gaiapolis Workshop Preview – Sheridan Tatsuno
6:30 PM — Squiggly Line Life with Saskia Verraes and Jack Manning Bancroft, exploring our lives and career paths as a hopeful response to the BANI world (brittle, anxious, Non-linear, incomprehensible).
7:00 PM — Preview of Claudia Brenner’s Catastrophic Wildfire Prevention Workshop
7:00 PM — Elemental Sound Journey with Clare Hedin
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
7:00 PM — The Give Hub Presentation with Chris and Kat — a transparent, community-powered fundraising platform designed to strengthen local economies and regenerative initiatives.
7:10 PM — An integration with Dr. Howard Whitehouse
7:10 PM — Lunar Punk/ Decentralized Solar Punk Future with Jack Manning Bancroft, Richard Ng, Chris & Kat, Jeff Emmett, Ron Turetzky, Nicole
7:20 PM — Donna Marchesano’s ‘Image-in-Action’ preview
7:20 PM — Solarpunk Futures Field Guide with Ramona Tudorancea — Exploring how to connect personal agency with legal frameworks, how the theory of values lies within new economic models, and how to align all this with Solarpunk ethos using AI artwork as a means of expression.
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SAT 8:00-10:20 PM ALL ROOMSALL
Parallel Workshops
The night deepens into movement, values, utopia, resilience, and sound.
Room lineup
8:00 PM — Solar Punk Values Workshop with Jack Manning Bancroft, Sara Olsen, and Saskia Verraes
8:00 PM — Fluid Dance: Reggae Flow with Juliana Mendonca and Zane Groshelle — A somatic movement practice rooted in activating water intelligence through flow. Through contact improvisation, breath, rhythm, and weight-sharing, we explore fluidity, relational awareness, and embodied connection, followed by an open reggae jam.
8:40 PM — Regenerative Disaster with Claudia Brenner and Alan Tabor
9:20 PM — Image-in-Action Intentional Art Imagery Workshop with Donna Marchesano
10:00 PM — An Evening of Magic & Imagination with Jack Manning Bancroft
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SAT 9:30 PM-1:00 AM UPSTAIRS THEATRE (All Ages)THEATRE
Reggae Open Jam
The upstairs theatre stays alive after the workshop block — first an open jam, then a looser, later reggae current into the night.
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SAT 10:00-11:20 PM UPSTAIRS ATRIUM (All Ages)ATRIUM
Magic + Imagination
A late-night gathering with Jack Manning Bancroft, leaning into imagination as practice rather than ornament. Honoring mentoring knowledge, custodial nature knowledge, and imagination not being scraped into current programs.
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SAT 10:00-11:20 PM MABUHAY THEATRE 21+MABUHAYIMAGINE Screening
A late-night screening held downstairs while the atrium stays in conversation.
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SUN 8:00-10:30 AM MULTIPLE ROOMSMULTI
Morning Sessions + Screening
Sunday begins in fragments and convergences: economics, ecology, sovereignty, music, film, and practical resilience all unfolding in parallel. Reconsidering the nature of our consciousness as energy and creativity as how we intersect with our highest potential.
Room lineup
Upstairs Theatre: Via the Messenger, Rebecca Pan, Gina of Kinlia, The Mosaic Vision case study, Bobby Fishkin. 9:00 AM — Creativity Is Part of Your Body with Clare Hedin.
Upstairs Atrium: The morning ecology-and-sovereignty thread includes Ryan Hartnett and Erik Katz in the 9:10 window, as listed in the latest schedule.
Mabuhay Theatre: Real Post-Capitalist Business Models with Sara Olsen, followed by a morning IMAGINE screening.
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SUN 10:00 AM-12:30 PM UPSTAIRS ATRIUM (All Ages)ATRIUM
Move as a Living System
A living system isn’t controlled by a single part. It’s made of interdependent elements that influence one another, adapt to change, and generate intelligence. In this improvisational dance workshop with Rebecca Strull, we’ll embody that reality. Open and accessible to anyone with a body! No dance experience needed.
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SUN 10:30-11:30 AM MULTIPLE ROOMSMULTI
Wildfire + IMAGI-NATION
The morning sharpens into practical imagination: wildfire, fungi, invocation, and the work of unlocking collective possibility to summon new intelligence.
Room lineup
Upstairs Theatre: Claudia Brenner Wildfire Workshop, then Professor Hope Presents: IMAGI-NATION.
Upstairs Atrium: Move as a Living System continues.
Lounge: Jeff Emmett — MycoFi Workshop, then Playful Prayer & Embodied Invocation. -
SUN 11:30 AM-1:00 PM ALL ROOMSALL
Fireside + Lunch
FIRST STEPS: How do we start where we are and build a regenerative economy and civilization? Join Jessica and Raman Frey for an energized discussion around the metacrisis, root causes of our current predicament, and movement towards life-affirming paradigms.
Room lineup
Upstairs Theatre: Raman Fireside, Lunch, Via the Messenger.
Upstairs Atrium: Move as a Living System continues into lunch.
Mabuhay Theatre: Manifesting Vision with Ryan Hartnett, Sheridan Tatsuno, and Aaron.
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SUN 12:50-2:30 PM LOUNGE 21+LOUNGE
Emotional Awareness
If Solarpunkification is a laboratory for the futures we want to inhabit, this session becomes a working lab for the emotional and relational capacities required to build those futures sustainably. Cultural skill-building for people actively building new systems with Chelsea Borruano.
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SUN 1:00-3:30 PM THEATRE & MABUHAYTHEATRE + MABUHAY
Warm Data + DSS
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, helping us hold complex issues.
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SUN 3:30-4:00 PM UPSTAIRS THEATRE (All Ages)THEATRE
Closing Circle
A final gathering to bring the weekend back into the body — with one more offering from Via the Messenger before everyone disperses.
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SUN 4:30-5:30 PM UPSTAIRS ATRIUM (All Ages)ATRIUM
Protopia Playshop
SolarPunk, the opposite of fascism — a late-afternoon session with Sandra Kwak on how cultural imagination can become civic counterforce.
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SUN 4:30-6:30 PM UPSTAIRS THEATRE (All Ages)THEATRE
Compassion Workshop
A science-based and experiential workshop with Dr. Daniel Martin on what compassion is, what it is not, and what it might repair. Explore how it heals from the individual, to work, to global scales, and learn to foster safe equilibrium.
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SUN 4:30-6:30 PM & 7:00-9:00 PM MABUHAY & LOUNGE 21+MABUHAY + LOUNGE
Open Jam
Bring your instruments. Jesse Elliott hosts a downstairs jam that opens, pauses, and returns as the night turns over.
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SUN 6:30-6:45 PM UPSTAIRS THEATRE (All Ages)THEATRE
Via Mini Set
A brief bridge of music and presence between the late-afternoon workshop and the final evening session.
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SUN 7:00-9:00 PM UPSTAIRS THEATRE (All Ages)THEATRE
Advanced Imagination
A final plunge into imagination as method, worldview, and shared practice with Jack Manning Bancroft and Professor Hope.
Mabuhay Gardens (435 / 443 Broadway, SF) has long been a vital incubator for cultural transformation. The very walls that hosted the raw, world-changing energy of The Dead Kennedys, Iggy Pop, and Robin Williams will now serve as the physical infrastructure for radical belonging and collective growth.