Our programs engage and support artists, activists, environmentalists, and scholars whose work reflects a commitment to environmental and social justice, racial equality, and cultural and gender equity. They include Collaborative Productions, Films, Archives and Oral Histories, Performance Events, Visual Art Exhibitions, and Social Practice Gatherings to examine and discuss specific topics and issues with our communities.

EarthLab SF co-sponsors artists’ productions, including those of Courtney Desiree Morris and the SF Bay Area Theater Company (SFBATCO). We contribute in various ways, from paying artists and staff to helping publicize others’ programs and producing documentation. The Co-Directors also produce films and performance events, in which they perform.

Environmental Justice Films—To date, EarthLab SF has completed three feature-length environmental justice films (a trilogy): “Goodbye Gauley Mountain” (the first Feature Queer Environmental Documentary), which addresses mountaintop removal coal mining in West Virginia. “Water Makes Us Wet,” which examines California’s droughts amid global warming, and “Playing With Fire,” which explores the relationship between California’s wildfire crises and broader social fires. These films bring hope and an LGBTQ+ lens to environmental documentaries, making them unique.

San Francisco’s Queer Artists Oral History Project is a digital archive that preserves the rich art history of San Francisco and LA and makes Californians’ stories accessible to researchers, artists, and the general public.

The EarthLab SF organizes and facilitates local and regional gatherings through workshops and symposiums of BIPOC, LGBTQ+, the disability community, and women’s arts organizations to discuss the state of (including the backlash against) cultural equity to strengthen our commitment to our communities and each other, ensuring everyone has a right to free expression and equitable representation in the arts.