Outdoor Walks and Talks in Scenic Marin Headlands, 

Performances, Culinary and Mixology Programs, Artist Studio Tours

Sausalito, CA (September 4, 2015)…Headlands Center for the Arts, located in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area’s historic Fort Barry, organizes a variety of public programs that complement the artists’ residencies and connect visitors to the creative process. Headlands’ artist-renovated Mess Hall, where resident artists enjoy chef-prepared meals, is a key component for many on-site public programs and serves delicious locally sourced, organic meals family style.

FIELDWORK SESSIONS

Going Coastal

Sunday, September 13, 3:30–6:30 pm, $90 | $80 members

Renowned Bay Area sea forager and sustainable fisheries advocate Kirk Lombard demonstrates how to forage seasonal seafood straight from the shore, how to identify safe-to-eat fish and shellfish, and the legal and ethical techniques for bringing them to your table. Note: this session takes place outdoors at an offsite location on the coast. Location details will be sent to registered participants. Optional drinks with Kirk will follow the session.

Drink to Your Health: Herbal Mixology with Rohini Moradi

Sunday, November 15, 2–5 pm, $90 | $80 members

Renowned herbalist, mixologist, and cocktail educator Rohini Moradi instructs on how to bring your health—and libations—to life with local, medicinal, and epicurean herbs. Learn to harmonize the “three chords” of cocktails and other herbal remedies. Infuse your own tincture to bring home. All herbs provided by Oakland’s own Homestead Apothecary. Participants must be 21+ to register for this event.

SHOP TALKS

Erin Diebboll

Tuesday, September 15, 7 pm; Doors open at 6:30 for wine and housemade breads & spreads, $25 | $20 members

Artist Erin Diebboll (AIR ’15) delves into the question of how we house our memory of spaces, both occupied and vacated, in the real estate of our minds. Alongside many of her works—completed and in-progress—Diebboll will share insight into her process of interviewing people about the domiciles of their childhoods, and how these narratives translate into drawings. Diebboll’s method demonstrates how well the pen reflects the past.

Desirée Holman with Derek Conrad Murray

Tuesday, October 13, 7 pm; Doors open at 6:30 for wine and housemade breads & spreads, $25 | $20 members

Interdisciplinary artist Desirée Holman (AIR ’09, ANW ’15) is joined by art and visual culture critic and theorist Derek Conrad Murray for a casual and conversational evening that brings the studio visit to a group context. In an open-ended dialogue, these two compelling thinkers will move through several of Holman’s works that embody her practice’s most prevalent themes: desire, behavior, and belonging.

DINNERS

Animal Sense

Sunday, September 20, 4:30 pm (ticket price includes dinner), $35 | $25 members

Discussion on animal intelligence and perception with four of our current Artists in Residence: Alexey Buldakov, Wioleta Kaminska, Nandipha Mntambo, and Heather Smith. Together, through personal, scientific, and artist lenses, try to adopt the mind’s eye of the animal world and consider the environment from a non-human consciousness. Conversation continues over a family-style vegetarian dinner in the Mess Hall.

Fall Members Dinner

Wednesday, October 7, Studio Visits 5:30 pm, Dinner 6:30 pm, $30 | Open to Headlands Center members at all levels

Members enjoy studio visits with artists in residence followed by a chef-prepared family-style meal in the Mess Hall.

Into the Woods

Sunday, October 11, 4:30 pm, $35 | $25 members (ticket price includes dinner) 

Current Artist in Residence and drag artist Mica Sigourney, aka Vivvyanne ForeverMORE, brings a night of unusual but perfectly poised vignettes to the hills and vales of Headlands’ campus, along with live drag performances by Honey Mahogany, Laundra Tyme, and Monique Jenkinson, aka Fauxnique. Enjoy performances by the troubadours as you roam the Fort, followed by a family-style dinner in the Mess Hall.

Aeroir: A Taste of Place

Cocktails & Aeroir tasting (dinner to follow)

Thursday, November 19, 6:30 pm, $90 | $75 members

“Aeroir,” a concept developed by writer Nicola Twilley of Edible Geography, holds that local atmospheres offer unique tastes of place. Join Twilley and collaborators Zack Denfield (The Center for Genomic Gastronomy) and Gabriel Harp (CoClimate) for the world’s first-ever sit-down dinner of aeroir cuisine—with a distinctive Headlands flavor, of course. Engage with the concept of aeroir through a multitude of senses—visual, olfactory, gustatory, and haptic—in this interactive evening to close out Headlands’ 2015 public programs.

FALL OPEN HOUSE

Sunday, October 25, 12–5 pm, Free

A once-in-a-season opportunity to meet current artists, view works-in-progress, attend performances and readings, and enjoy a housemade lunch in the Mess Hall Café. Click www.headlands.org/people/current-artists to see who is working on site this fall.

LECTURE

William Cordova: ephemeral monuments (Co-presented with San Francisco Art Institute)

Tuesday, November 17, 7 pm, Free | Offsite: SFAI Lecture Hall

Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture with current Artist in Residence William Cordova. Cordova will present a talk that explores how evidence of our past constructs our futures by addressing the “ephemeral monument,” a presence constructed by absence, form, function, and necessity. The lecture series is free, and provides a forum for direct engagement with leading global figures in art and culture.

WALKS

Desire Trails

Sunday, September 27, Noon, $35 | $25 Members (ticket price includes meal in the Mess Hall)

Back by popular demand! Desire paths are well-trodden trails created by foot traffic, where the ground becomes imprinted evidence of a place that wants to be discovered, and the people who seek it out. Embark on Headlands anew with an artist, writer, or civic leader whose poetic turns on the land will shift your interpretation of this beloved and scenic locale. Hikes conclude in the Mess Hall where amblers can swap stories and enjoy a post-trek meal. Family friendly trails will be included; rain or shine.

Headlands Center for the Arts

Headlands Center for the Arts comprises a dynamic nine-building campus that supports process-driven exploration, research, ideation, and risk-taking. Located in the coastal wilderness of the Marin Headlands in Sausalito, CA, Headlands is a laboratory for the development of new work and a place for the exchange of ideas across cultures and artistic disciplines. Throughout the year, Headlands hosts a diversity of programs for artists and the public.

Founded in 1982, Headlands’ alumni network consists of over 1,200 artists living and working locally and internationally. Their work is widely published and performed, featured in important public and private collections, and frequently represented in prestigious exhibitions and festivals. A partial list of notable alumni includes: Tania Bruguera, Mark Dion, Harrell Fletcher, Mary Gaitskill, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Ann Hamilton, Lewis Hyde​, Pieter Hugo, Will Oldham (a.k.a Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy), Margaret Kilgallen, Nikki S. Lee, Julie Mehretu, Barry McGee, Terence Nance, Sapphire, Jacolby Satterwhite, Rebecca Solnit, and Andrea Zittel.

Headlands Center for the Arts is located at 944 Simmonds Road in historic Fort Barry, across the Bay from San Francisco. Part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, a unit of the National Park Service, Headlands is open and free to the public Sunday through Thursday, noon–5 pm; closed Friday and Saturday. For additional information call 415-331-2787 or visit headlands.org.

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