Community Day at Hidden Currencies: Art, Music & Screen-Printing Activation
Join us for a family-friendly afternoon of hands-on activities, music, and poetry as part of the Hidden Currencies series. City Studio students and co-directors Amy Berk and Chris Treggiari bring the Mobile Art Bike to Pier 17 for a hands-on screen-printing activation rooted in months of research into the climate migration of humans and animals driven by nature, climate change, systems, and policy. Attendees are invited to collaborate on custom silkscreened posters to take home — each one a document of this moment, a dispatch from the futures we are already entering, and a catalyst for conversation about displacement, adaptation, and what it means to move in a world reshaped by the climate crises.
The afternoon features a musical activation rooted in blues tradition and family rituals of grief, reflection, and remembrance – many of which circle back to water. Drawing on the collective power of voice, movement, and song, jawno okhiulu, Uma Phatak, and Kyra Dorado Teigen invite the community into a shared practice shaped by participation, connection, and a renewed sense of what we’re capable of together.
About the Artists
City Studio is an intergenerational art project fostering creativity, curiosity and conversation. City Studio is led by Co-Directors Amy Berk and Chris Treggiari.
jawno okhiulu is an African Diasporic roots singer, gardener, and founder of Eager Arts & Culture Hub (EACH). Drawing on formal training in Human Biology, African & African American Studies, Food Systems, and Regenerative Economies, jawno's work grows from a single question: what does it take to build communities where we are better toward each other and the planet we call home? Through music, community programming, and a lot of joy, Jawno works to reconnect us to our histories and futures of possibility. He is a Program Associate at the Waverley Street Foundation, dedicated to advancing transformational change by matching resources to the artful spaces where climate and community meet.
© Vita at Hewitt Visuals
Uma Phatak is a Marathi poet and programmer living in San Francisco. She is drawn to the structures that underpin both poetry and programming — the ways form, syntax, and language shape meaning. Her writing has been supported by the Sewanee Writers' Conference and VONA, and her poems have appeared with Honey Literary and The Passionfruit Review. Uma holds an MS and a BS in Artificial Intelligence and Human-Computer Interaction.
Kyra Dorado Teigen is a Filipina interdisciplinary artist and educator raised and based in Huchiun and Yelamu, Ohlone lands. Her creative and cultural work is rooted in ethnic studies and environmental justice and includes music, printmaking, painting, and sculpture as modes of storytelling, honoring, holding community histories, and deepening solidarity and love. As a teacher with Sama Sama Cooperative Summer Camp and Pinoy Educational Partnerships, she works with youth in her Filipino community and beyond building intergenerational kapwa, restoring reciprocal relationships to land, and making art together towards liberation.
© Vanessa Joy
About the Hidden Currencies Series
Presented by the Consulate General of Switzerland in San Francisco, Hidden Currencies explores water as a living medium whose circulation sustains both life and technological innovation. The series highlights connections between Switzerland’s longstanding commitments to water stewardship, diplomacy, and innovation, and the Bay Area’s role as a global hub for research and technology.
The central exhibition features works by six artists whose practices span photography, sculpture, installation, performance, video, and data art: Mark Baugh-Sasaki, Kristiana Chan 莊礼恩, Céline Ducret, Ana Teresa Fernández, Greg Niemeyer, and Annelia Norris (pue leek la').
An adjoining experiential hub features interventions by City Studio (Amy Berk + Chris Treggiari), Ani Moskovyan, Greg Niemeyer, Samuel Wildmann, Tania Claudia Castillo, Candice Mays, and Juana Perfecta. Together, these works invite visitors to reckon with water's hidden presence in everyday life — drawing audiences into direct encounters with the systems, costs, and migrations that water quietly connects.
Curated by Amy Kisch, Founder of AKArt Advisory and Art+Action, the exhibition unfolds as an immersive experience that extends beyond the gallery through a series of interdisciplinary activations bringing together Swiss and U.S. artists, filmmakers, Indigenous knowledge holders, policymakers, scientists, and climate activists to explore water, climate justice, and imagined futures.
This event is presented by the Consulate General of Switzerland in San Francisco in collaboration with AKArt Advisory, EAWAG, Stanford Doerr School Sustainability Accelerator, and Geneva Water Hub, and supported by Presence Switzerland and EAWAG.
For more information or to explore other Swiss events, visit SwissImpact.
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