Past Happenings
BITE BACK! PRESENTED BY LOUD SPRING AND PURPLE UNI CLUB
September 14, 2024 - O2AA - West Oakland, CA
We OPENED purple urchins (the ones devouring the Kelp forest), taste purple uni with diver @monk.dadi.lola. We DIPPED into a purple uni dye bath with artist @margaretseelie @seelie.studio. We READ a new uni and coastal inspired zine featuring artists
@josieiselin , @kalie_granier and @ohlonecostanoanesselennation. We ATE the best japanese savory pancake by @okkonpopup, Tamales and magic love potion by @tacosandbanchan. We SIPPED on natural wine by @broccellars @everythingisokaywine, local local. and We VIBED with DJ @grahamlairdprentice on the musical decks
This was an #activateoakland event sponsored by @oakland @visitoakland and hosted by @loudspringart @purpleuniclub at @o2aa.oakland
TOWN LIFE ECOFUTURES FESTIVAL - AIR EDITION
June 15, 2024 - O2AA - West Oakland, CA
Town Life was 3-part event series presented by Loud Spring, hosted by O2AA, and programmed in collaboration with Eternal Now & Oakland Garden Club. The event was generously sponsored by Activate Oakland, a grant organized by The City of Oakland and managed by Visit Oakland.
TOWN LIFE ECOFUTURES FESTIVAL - AIR EDITION
June 15, 2024 - O2AA - West Oakland, CA
Town Life was 3-part event series presented by Loud Spring, hosted by O2AA, and programmed in collaboration with Eternal Now & Oakland Garden Club. The event was generously sponsored by Activate Oakland, a grant organized by The City of Oakland and managed by Visit Oakland.
TOWN LIFE ECOFUTURES FESTIVAL - LAND EDITION
April 20, 2024 - O2AA - West Oakland, CA
Town Life was 3-part event series presented by Loud Spring, hosted by O2AA, and programmed in collaboration with Eternal Now & Oakland Garden Club. The event was generously sponsored by Activate Oakland, a grant organized by The City of Oakland and managed by Visit Oakland.
SYMBIOCENE
June 30th 2022 to August 28th, 2022 - Arles, France
SYMBIOCENE is an exhibition featuring the work of ten women and non-binary artists around ideas of symbiosis, interconnectedness, and interdependence, and exploring our trajectories as woven with one another to imagine possibilities to build more live-able and harmonious futures. The Exhibit gathers works of some of our founding members and artists: Kalie Granier, Clémence Vazard, and Silvia Andrade, Iri Berkleid, Odonchimeg Davadoorj, Cheryl Derricotte, Elise Guillaume, Anne–Sophie Guillet, Summer Mei Ling Lee, Yelena Moskovitch, Hannah Rowan.
Curated by Marie de Ganay for the French Contemporary Art Space L’Eté des Serpents, sponsored by Backlash and re.riddle Galleries.
POLARIZED
July 4th & 5th, 2020 - Paris, France / Virtual
POLARIZED was a collaborative program with La Cité Fertile featuring debates and performances questioning the paradigm defining an entity as a “person” and the juridical protection inherent to it. Loud Spring’s proposition was to shift existing perspectives by exploring living rights could be claimed for those which are not or cannot be heard? Giving voice to artists and thinkers, Maya Ines Touam, Esmeralda Da Costa, Eman Gbewonyo, Tiare Ribeaux, Clémence Vazard, Yolande Harris, Tania Mouraud, and Jorge Bachman, POLARIZED promoted environmental justice for all living things. Watch replays on YouTube.
LOUD WISH
February 2020 - San Francisco, USA
Loud Wish was a site-specific participatory installation inviting visitors to write their wishes for a more conscious and equitable future. The installation took over 3rd balcony of the San Francisco Library during the Night of Ideas, a global program of debate, performances, dance and music featuring top thinkers from San Francisco and beyond and supported by the French Consulate, KQED, San Francisco Public Library, and the SFMOMA.
WEN HACKATHON
March 2020 - San Francisco, USA
Loud Spring was the official sponsor of WEN (Women Environmental Network)’s hackathon - a framework for Women Leaders to tackle the climate crisis. Consecutively to the Night of Ideas, Loud Spring prompted participants to write their promises, their wishes for sustainable living and social justice throughout the night.
