🚀 Fab Mab is Back! 🚀From Mabuhay Gardens to the future of San Francisco’s cultural heartbeat—435 Broadway is being reborn
​🚀 Fab Mab is Back! 🚀
​From Mabuhay Gardens to the future of San Francisco’s cultural heartbeat—435 Broadway and 443 Broadway are being reimagined. Friday July 17th 4:30pm to 7:30pm.
🎶 24 HOURS A DAY of art, music, healing & wild creativity
🌍 A global hub where tech, art & social change collide
🔥 Legendary past → regenerative future
​-Experience timeless classics given modern expression, featuring live performances by Michelle Ohwobete and Dustin Smurthwaite
​-Inch the clown, professional clown that loves to spread joy and dance
​Sound Bath - We will have a sound healer, Mary Kelly, for part of our activation time together. Mary Kelly will offer a sound bath during this activation. Mary Kelly is an artist affiliated with https://www.designscience.studio/. We are grateful for this resonance layer. This sound experience creates a multi-dimensional soul activation centered on the 4 horizontal directionals and the 3 vertical directionals. This sound experience balances and centers our collective field, so as to create a newly unified dimension founded in unconditional love. Mary serves as a Wisdom Keeper of dimensions. She is currently apprenticing in Curanderismo in Humboldt County, and will be studying abroad in Oaxaca as part of University of New Mexico’s continuing education program in June.
​Dr. Howie Whitehouse will share about his research on rights of passage and human science.
​Albert Lopez will speak about his 24/7 online channel The Underground Signal and the importance of creating an independent space for artists and audiences to engage, stay informed and form coalitions that will usher in the next counterculture explosion. The revolution will not be televised… it will be radically collaborative, interactive, and live streamed.
​Tom Watson, Managing Director, Mabuhay Gardens, themab.org,
​Bobby Fishkin, Artistic Director, Chief Systems Change Officer, Solarpunk in Residence at themab.org via CrowdDoing
​We’re launching the Fab Mab Convening—a salon of artists, dreamers, designers, producers & investors to co-create the next chapter.
​✨ Got an idea? Want to host an event? Dreaming of the impossible? This is your invitation. bookings@themab.org.
​👉 Share your ideas: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSduj8hBcVFn1xlBveLUaxWx1Q8lhzX2wn-fweSsEibmL50gNQ/viewform?usp=sharing&ouid=104540442621207909020
​Chris/Kathy will share about our Mabuhay Gardens Panic Bookings Pilot
​Colleen will share about the comedy program at Mabuhay Gardens
​Andres Acosta will share about https://lightsonbroadway.org/on/
​Please consider supporting the Fab Lab crowdfunding campaigns:
​https://lightsonbroadway.org/on/
​https://gofund.me/162c6607
đź“– Read the story on KQED: https://www.kqed.org/arts/13980619/mabuhay-gardens-reopening-sf-punk-club-north-beach
​Fab Mab Convening → Coming Soon.
Legends played here. The future begins here. Are you in? Full version below: ✨ You’re Invited: Fab Mab Convening at Broadway Creative Studios ✨
​History is alive again at 435 Broadway, San Francisco—a building with a cultural lineage that changed the world. Known in past eras as Mabuhay Gardens and later Broadway Studios, this space has hosted legends including Louis Armstrong, Allen Ginsberg, The Sex Pistols, Iggy Pop, The Ramones, Herbie Hancock, Robin Williams, Metallica, Dave Chappelle, and many more.
​Now, under the stewardship of Tom Watson and a circle of collaborators, the space is being reborn as Broadway Creative Studios—a regenerative cultural epicenter for creativity, somatic expression, and systems change. Our vision is nothing less than:
​24 Hours of Daily Creativity (6 AM – 2 AM)
​A thriving ecosystem where polymaths feel safe to cross boundaries
​Translational leadership bridging art, technology, social change, and healing
​A global creative hub in San Francisco’s cultural district
​Joy as the vertex of practices, people, and possibilities
​A collaborative laboratory for a brighter, more regenerative future
​This isn’t just a venue—it’s a utopian cultural fusion.
​We are building the schedule now and we want YOUR imagination, events, and networks woven into this story. Join us for the Fab Mab convening—an open gathering for artists, producers, impact investors, technologists, healers, social entrepreneurs, and culture-makers who wish to:
​Propose creative or artistic uses of the space
​Nominate dream events
​Align as impact investors in the vision
​Co-design this future with us
​Ways to Get Involved:
​Share your ideas: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSduj8hBcVFn1xlBveLUaxWx1Q8lhzX2wn-fweSsEibmL50gNQ/viewform?usp=sharing&ouid=104540442621207909020
​Support the Fab Lab crowdfunding campaign: https://gofund.me/162c6607
​Read more from KQED on this regenerative relaunch: https://www.kqed.org/arts/13980619/mabuhay-gardens-reopening-sf-punk-club-north-beach
​Fab Mab convening details to be announced soon—RSVP by contributing your ideas and support today.
​Together, let’s reawaken the magic at Broadway and make it a beacon of creativity for decades to come.