Solarpunkification 2026
Solarpunkification brings together artists, musicians, technologists, futurists, and community builders to prototype the futures we actually want.
The Solarpunk vision asks what becomes possible when technology and nature work together and when imagination gets treated as serious infrastructure.
Three days of live music, film, dance, playshops, workshops, and radical conversations at the legendary Mabuhay Gardens, where Louis Armstrong, The Ramones, Allen Ginsberg, The Dead Kennedys, Iggy Pop, The Specials, Metallica, Robin Williams, Guns N' Roses, Herbie Hancock, R.E.M., and Soundgarden historically performed.
Highlights include:
US film premiere of the Australian animated film Imagine, Indigenous systems knowledge made unforgettable, an Odyssey for our times
Afrofuturist dance party until 2 AM.
Reggae flow session
Open-space unconference
Immersive art installations,
Conversations spanning indigenous wisdom, regenerative design, and collective imagination.
https://themab.org/#solarpunk
https://www.solarpunkification.art/single-project-2
https://www.solarpunkification.art/about-4
FRIDAY, MARCH 6
1:00–3:00 PM — Pre-Festival Workshop: Regenerative Workplaces — We’ll be exploring how much of modern work, whether inside organizations or carried out alone, has been shaped by the extraction of time, energy, attention, and care.
3:00 PM — Solarpunkification Pre-Mixer + Cosmic Directions Ceremony with Arturo
4:00 PM — Collective Smudge and Space Clearing with Rosalyn
4:00 PM — Via the Messenger — Musical Invocation
4:30 to 5:30 PM Professor Hope & Jesse Elliott and Howie and Shay Psychedelic Integration
5:30 PM to 5:50 PM – Upstairs Theatre - Interbeing: We Each Have Role to Play - a Portal to regen·era Opens with Roxi Shohadaee, Design Science Studio
5:20 PM — Placemaking & Regeneration — Tom Watson shares reflections from Solarpunkification 2025 on a place for creativity and a vision for the future of Mabuhay Gardens, now and in the future, at Solarpunkification 2026 — regeneration, creativity, and joy in place. With support from Andres Acosta and Bobby Fishkin.
5:30 PM to 6:05 PM —Reset: Embodied Alignment & Flow Facilitated by Monique Nguyen
5:30 to 6:30 PM - Nicole Klau Ibarra- Becoming players in our future
5:30 PM to 5:50 PM— Interbeing: We Each Have a Role to Play — A Portal to regen·era opens with Roxi Shohadaee of the Design Science Studio
5:50 PM to 6:05 PM - Steve DeAngelo - One Tribe
5:50 PM to 7:00 PM - Manifesting Utopia: Action-oriented strategies and brainstorming/discussions for mitigating risks and shifting our trajectory towards collective human flourishing. (Ryan Hartnett (regenerative placemaking), Sheridan Tatsuno (Gaiapolis), David Munir Nabti (Collapse to Flourishing Index / Doughnut Economics), Aaron (solarium))
6:05 to 6:45 PM - Ancient Futures Dialogue (Steve DeAngelo, Brotha Peace, Brother Mikhail, Casandra Anthony, We Are The Manifesters)
6:05 to 7:00 PM - Sara- Roxi- Hopeful future for Iran - Solarpunkifying The World - Adjacent Possible Futures
6:30 PM to 7:00 PM - Solarpunk Overlays: Designing Civic Infrastructure Above the Webpage Daveed Benjamin
6:45 PM to 7:00 PM - Inside Bubblescape Experience with Sterling Johnson. Stefanie Schwartz and Elle Sam.
7:00 PM — AIME IMAGINE US Film Premiere. An Australian animated adventure born from the imaginations of over 150 Indigenous young people. "Profound conversations meet trippy visuals in one-of-a-kind adventure" — The Guardian
8:20 PM — Post-Film Q&A
8:50 PM to 9:00 PM – Via the Messenger – Performance
9:00 PM — Inti Mystica — Live Performance A genre-bending Latin indie band rooted in San Francisco, CA (Ohlone land), blending ancestral resistance with modern rhythms.
9:00 PM — Initiation of the Imagining of a Collective Ecological Future with Dr. Howard Whitehouse
9:00 PM — Democracy 2276 with David Munir Nabti
9:00 PM — In an Age of Abundant Intelligence, the Scarcest Resources May Be Meaning, Belonging, and Shared Purpose with Charley Hasenbeck
10:00 PM–2:00 AM — Ancient Futures: Afrofuturist Dance Party We Are The Manifesters, Thirsty! and Protopia Presents: Ancient Futures - Afrofuturist Danceparty, in collaboration with Airpushers with Djs @k.la.v @jayvi_velasco and @cptnjay .
SATURDAY, MARCH 7
10:00 AM–12:00 PM — Walk to Solarpunkification. Sign up here — Guided community walk from The Palace of Fine Arts to Mabuhay Gardens, arriving in connection with place, city, and one another. Meet us at 10 am under the big domed rotunda by the lagoon at the Palace of Fine Arts. More details in link.
11:30 AM — Unplug & Play Me Time
11:45 AM — Sharp Joy: disaster communities, a slow rolling book report, and some reflection with Alan Tabor
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
12:40 PM — Solarpunkification Opening Workshop — with Bobby Fishkin, Saskia Verraes & Professor Hope
Exploring positive deviance, Goldilocks zones, and designing conditions for individual and collective flourishing.
1:00–6:00 PM — Open Space Unconference & UnPlug and Play — The venue becomes an open laboratory: you propose sessions, you lead them. Whatever matters most to the people in the room becomes the curriculum. Bring ideas, questions, prototypes, or something you need help imagining. Come if you are a tinkerer, a dreamer, an ecologist, an artist, a systems thinker, a community weaver, a vibe coder, or simply someone who suspects that the world we want is more possible than the world would have. Come ready to offer something.
6:00 PM — Via The Mesenger — 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
7:10 PM — An integration with Dr. Howard Whitehouse
7:20 PM — Donna Marchesano's 'Image-in-Action' preview
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 — Lunar Punk/ Decentralized Solar Punk Future with Jack Manning Bancroft, Richard Ng, Chris & Kat, Jeff Emmett, Ron Turetzky, Nicole
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.
7:40 PM — Multidimensional Creative Core Activation
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 — Dance + Somatics + Music + Healing Arts + Mythology + Regenerative Education. A dialogue between performance, embodied practice, and community reflection. Sign up here
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
10:00 PM — IMAGINE Film — Showing 2
SUNDAY, MARCH 8
8:00-10:00 AM — Real Post Capitalist Business Models with Sara Olsen
9:00 AM "Hopeless to Hopeful: Community as Resistance" with Rebecca Pan
9:00 AM — Musician/Producer Via the Messenger invocation
9:00 AM — Creativity Is Part of Your Body with Clare Hedin
A combined talk and experiential workshop reconsidering our consciousness as energy and creativity as how we intersect with our highest potential through active somatic and intellectual practices.
9:00 AM — Regenerative Disaster Prevention: Conor, Niko, Alan Claudia: Regenerative Disaster Prevention, Resilience and Recovery, Alan Tabor: Agrivoltaics, Sustainability & Disaster Communities
9:10 AM — Human Included Ecology with Ryan Hartnett
9:30 AM — IMAGINE Film — Showing 3
10:00 AM — "Can AI help us Gather more IRL?" with Gina Levy from Kinlia.
10:00 AM — Image-in-Action: Intentional Art Imagery Workshop with Donna Marchesano — Harness the power of imagination through the creative process for transformation of self and community.
10:00 AM — Regenerative Adhocracy with Nik Bertulis
10:00 AM — Move as a Living System: An Improvisational Dance Workshop with Rebecca Strull — Sign up here
10:30 AM — Catastrophic Wildfire Prevention Workshop with Claudia Brenner
10:30 AM — MycoFi Workshop with Jeff Emmett
11:00 AM — IMAGI-NATION — Professor Hope, the Professor of Imagination at IMAGI-NATION {University}, presents on unlocking the imagination of the world to summon new intelligence.
11:00 AM — Activating Your Multidimensional Creative Core: Playful Prayer & Embodied Invocation via call-and-response Choreographed Poetry
11:30 AM — First Steps with Raman Fireside — How do we start where we are and build a regenerative economy and civilization?
11:30 AM — Post Capitalist Vending Machine with Ron Turetzky — Exploring Cryptographic Infrastructure for Collective Ownership. Post-capitalist vending machines as practical, artistic, and therapeutic exploration of alternative economic structures, featuring Share-House.fun and Mutual Vend.
11:30 AM — Manifesting Vision with Ryan Hartnett, Sheridan Tatsuno, Aaron
11:30 AM — IndigiDAO Workshop with Richard Ng
12:00 PM — Imagining a Collective Ecological Future with Dr. Howard Whitehouse. The collective unconscious is currently emerging into the consciousness of the collective. The Imagining of a Collective Ecological Future
12:20 PM — The Mosaic Vision: a Case Study of Building a Professional Community on 'I Am Because We Are'
12:30 PM — Gaiapunk with Sheridan Tatsuno — Gaiapolis Strategy planning: A new literary genre that shows how Gaiapunks can actually implement and create their Gaiapolis locally.
12:50 PM — Via the Messenger — Music and poetry to awaken the soul
1:00 — Warm Data Lab — 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. They are designed to help strengthen and practice our collective ability to perceive, discuss, and hold complex issues. Sign up here
1:00 — Weaving with members of the Design Science Studio Evolutionary Collective
3:30 PM — Via the Messenger mini performance
3:40–4:00 PM — Closing Circle
4:30–6:30 PM — Post-Festival Workshop: Compassion Post-Solarpunkification Workshop on Compassion facilitated by Daniel Martin, Ph.D. — What it is/not, how it heals, from the individual, work, to global. A two-hour post-festival workshop exploring compassion through science-based talk and experiential exercises. Dr. Martin is Director of Compassion Education at CCARE (Stanford University) and Associate Professor at Cal State East Bay. Get your ticket here
4:30 PM — Open Jam hosted by Jesse Elliott — bring your instruments!
7:00 PM — Post-Solarpunkification Workshop 3: Advanced Imagination with Jack Manning Bancroft and Professor Hope Get your ticket here
Artwork on display at Solarpunkification 2026:
Design Science Studio
A portal to regen·era has opened. Pick up a physical phone and connect to the regen·era archive, explore your role in the regenerative stories of the future. Constructed from reclaimed and renewable materials, regen•era is co-created by artists, designers, systems thinkers and storytellers shaping regenerative futures.
1000 signs. A global invitation to reconnect to our common humanity. What would your sign say?
Mycofi artwork celebrating mycelium design patterns
Sonic Sanctuary Counsel video. 18 screens highlighting the Gamelatron, sonic kinetic sculptures.
See last year's Solarpunkification highlights: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA1524DqsFLlrlLPoZL1ToE5No1CSyKQd and https://solarpunkification.art/.
Solarpunkification 2026 is being held at Mabuhay Gardens is an important physical infrastructure for radical belonging. It's a container that has the potential for artists to form right relationships with future selves via rites of passage such as surpassing one's expectations of what is possible. Solarpunk builds on deep punk roots from Iggy Pop to Patti Smith to the Ramones and the Specials who all performed at Mabuhay Gardens. Regenerative futurists, systems change leaders, and many others in our mix can likewise be influenced by who has come before us on this stage.
Solarpunkification 2026 is a three-day gathering where solar punks, artists, musicians, regenerative futurists, systems thinkers, designers, creatives, technologists, and community builders come together to explore a simple question: What happens when a cultural space becomes a working laboratory for the futures we actually want to live in?
The Solarpunk vision asks what becomes possible when technology and nature work together and when imagination gets treated as serious infrastructure. Mabuhay Gardens becomes a place to prototype those answers—not through theory, but through the actual experience of it together.
You can see last year's 2025 Solarpunkification Youtube Playlist at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA1524DqsFLlrlLPoZL1ToE5No1CSyKQd. You can see last year's popup information at https://solarpunkification.art/. Last year’s event established that we are not just observing the future; we are actively prototyping it through the "interdisciplinary Goldilocks Zone" where art, science, and indigenous wisdom converge.
Mabuhay Gardens- the building at 435 Broadway in San Francisco has always been a place where culture transforms itself. Louis Armstrong played here along with many others from Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, The Dead Kennedys, Iggy Pop, The Sex Pistols, The Ramones, The Specials, Metallica, Guns N' Roses, Herbie Hancock, R.E.M., and Soundgarden. Robin Williams, Whoopi Goldberg, and Dave Chappelle found their voices on this stage.
Mabuhay Gardens at Solarpunkification 2026 represents important physical infrastructure for radical belonging. Its a container that has the potential for artists to form right relationships with future selves via rights of passage such as surpassing one's expectations of what is possible. On stage in 2025 it was striking at Mabuhay Gardens to see artists give some of the most exquisite performances while sharing on stage that they are raising their game specifically to be in alignment with the extraordinary artists who have been on stage at that space in history. The same is true for all of us- that the vibe coders build on jazz traditions such as Louis Armstrong's history at Mabuhay Gardens, solar punk builds on deep punk roots from Iggy Pop to Patty Smith to the Ramones and the Specials who all performed at Mabuhay Gardens. Regenerative futurists, systems change leaders, and many others in our mix can likewise be influenced by who has come before us on this stage. Solarpunkification 2026 is platform for us all to raise collective game for the sake of our most preferred futures becoming our most probable.
There are many sciences which have leveraged the metaphor of a goldilocks zone. We will create a goldilocks zone for understanding experientially, artistically, intellectually, musically and somatically the bright futures that we have in mind together.
Mabuhay Gardens Participation Options links- https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eCqFdWpbotwKXFjbmyyEES_qafMkvBLY/view?usp=sharing
https://themab.org/ more on Mabuhay Gardens
CrowdDoing.world for more on co-convener.
Pre-solarpunkification workshop 1- 1-3pm March 6th Pre-Solarpunkification Workshop on Regenerative workplaces: Everyday Choices That Shape the System at Work, https://luma.com/do3ukcff
United States Premier of IMAGINE film + conversation with the co-creator at Solarpunkification 2026, March 7th 7pm to 8:50pm https://luma.com/5amqkc9y
Hike to solarpunkification- March 7th 10am to 11:50am https://luma.com/dgogwlep, https://www.linkedin.com/events/7428206865341370368/
Warm Data Lab at Solarpunkification- March 8th 1-3:30 https://luma.com/tt9ql9hu
Post-solarpunkification workshop 2: March 8th 4:30-6:30 pm Post-Solarpunkification Workshop on Compassion: What it is/not, how it heals, from the individual, work, to global (ticketed) https://luma.com/767ovvyy
Post-Solarpunkification Workshop 3 March 8th 7-9pm Advanced Imagination Workshop by Jack Manning Bancroft & Professor Hope (Post Solarpunkification 2026) https://luma.com/3kvcf7w6
Inti Mystica will be performing at 9pm on Friday March 6th, preview - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaaEm0PZGk4
https://www.solarpunkification.art/single-project-2
https://www.solarpunkification.art/about-4
Friday, March 6 – Highlighting a subset of events during Solarpunkification which shared external links /media
Steve DeAngelo – One Tribe & Ancient Futures Dialogue (5:50–6:45 PM)
One Plant Alliance website:
https://www.oneplantalliance.org/
Steve DeAngelo Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/steve.deangelo/?hl=en
Steve DeAngelo reel 1:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DRqpDxIDTeq/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
Steve DeAngelo reel 2:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQZ6tsgEjEA/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
AIME IMAGINE US – Film Screening Premiere (7:00–8:20 PM)
IMAGINE film trailer (YouTube):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Etv4_oBiYxM
AIME Mentoring website:
https://aimementoring.com
AIME Mentoring Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/aimementoring/
Inti Mystica – Live Performance (9:00–10:00 PM)
Inti Mystica video 1 (YouTube):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaaEm0PZGk4
Inti Mystica video 2 (YouTube):
https://youtu.be/ljKuXETXGl8?si=PS3cXZyT-u6S7Og0
Inti Mystica video 3 (YouTube):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bob9UOKDrVM
Inti Mystica Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/intimystica/
Inti Mystica Bandcamp:
https://intimystica.bandcamp.com/Regenerative Adhocracy Preview – Nik Bertulis (6:10–6:20 PM)
Ritual Biology website:
https://ritualbiology.com
Gaiapolis Preview – Sheridan Tatsuno (6:20–6:30 PM and 7:30–8:00 PM)
Dreamscape Global website:
https://dreamscapeglobal.com
Dreamscape Global blog:
https://dreamscapeglobal.com/blog
Image‑in‑Action: Intentional Art Imagery – Donna Marchesano (preview 7:20–7:30 PM; workshop 9:20–10:00 PM)
Art of Marchesano website:
http://www.artofmarchesano.com/
Art of Marchesano Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/artofmarchesano?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw==
Image‑in‑Action reel 1 (Instagram):
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DUmT9WZD_bg/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
Image‑in‑Action reel 2 (Instagram):
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DP7tEUbEZp7/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==, Solarpunk Values Workshop – Jack Manning Bancroft, Sara Olsen, Saskia Verraes (8:00–10:00 PM block)
SVT Group website (impact accounting value stack):
https:/svtgroup.net