Broadway Creative Studios Activation
My dear friend Tom Watson has reached a Memorandum of Understanding to acquire 435 Broadway, San Francisco—historically known as Mabuhay Gardens and more recently as Broadway Studios this month (ie in August 2025). The goal is long term stewardship for creativity, regeneration, joy, somatic expression, and multidisciplinary convergence towards a preferred future. This building has been a cultural center that has had global influence before. The building has hosted performances by legends- Louis Armstrong, Dead Kennedys, Iggy Pop, The Ramones,The Specials, Guns N’ Roses, Herbie Hancock, Robin Williams, Whoopi Goldberg, Dave Chappelle and many others.
He has previously created a multidimensional multidisciplinary art colony in Germany. Tom Watson will serve as Managing Director of Broadway Creative Studios and I plan to serve as Artistic Director, Chief Systems Change Officer and Solar Punk In Residence via our collaboration with CrowdDoing. We’ve been collaborating with other dear friends on the project.
Our Vision: 20 Hours of Daily Creativity
We envision Broadway Creative Studios as a thriving ecosystem operating 20 hours a day, from 6 AM to 2 AM—a place where:
Polymaths feel safe to thrive across disciplines and boundaries
Translational leadership bridges art, technology, social change, and healing
Global creativity finds its epicenter in San Francisco's emerging cultural district
Joy becomes a vertex where people, practices, and possibilities intersect
Disciplines play together toward a brighter, more regenerative future
This isn't just a venue—it's a utopian cultural fusion designed to help us all feel more at home in the future we're building together.
Would you like to get involved? Would your institution be a perfect strategic partner? Are there impact investors who would be perfect to collaborate with on this? Do you know creative/artistic uses of the space that would be extraordinary? We created a form: Help us make Broadway Creative Studios a thriving, 20-hours-a-day creative hub!
We’re building a schedule from 6 AM to 2 AM every day — and we want YOUR ideas.
You can:
You can suggest:
Events or projects you’re directly connected to
Dream events we can help connect and produce
Let us know what time slot(s) your idea works best in and how often it could happen (daily, weekly, monthly, annual, or multiple days/week).
We are working on custodianship of this historic building cultural creative arts center in San Francisco in radical collaboration with likeminded humans in resonance. If you have suggestions and living bridges or wish to discuss please let us know.
Bobby Fishkin and Tom Watson