Night of Ideas: More?
The Bay Area’s biggest celebration of creativity and critical thought is back at the San Francisco Public Library’s Main Branch!
This year’s edition brings together dozens of local cultural organizations, leading thinkers and artists to contemplate the theme “More?” In a world driven by the logic of growth, what does it mean to have “more”? What do we need “more” of: More material abundance, connection, creativity? More justice? More joy? Can we share “more” — and can we sustain it? Will “more” ever be enough?
Join KQED, SFMOMA, the San Francisco Public Library and the Villa Albertine San Francisco, along with artistic curating partner Circuit Network, for another inspiring marathon of talks, performances, food, art and collective imagination.
FULL PROGRAM
6:45 PM
Welcome to Night of Ideas
Larkin Street Steps
7:30 PM
Floor 1: Sights & Sounds
PERFORMANCE House of More! Welcome and Fashion Showcase with Juanita More!, drag artist; Mr. David, fashion designer & Landa Lakes
Floor 2: More Imagination
PERFORMANCE “From the Canyons to the Stars” by Matthew Zapruder, poet, Commissioned by Villa Albertine
Children’s Center A
Floor 3: More Justice
KEYNOTE More Justice for All with San Francisco Poet Laureate Tongo Eisen-Martin
3rd Floor Desk
Floor 5: More Joy
INTERACTIVE Future of the Library Salon with Margaret Sullivan Studio, Gensler & Bay Area Theatre Cypher
*ends at 9:00 PM
Periodicals Room
8:00 PM
LL: More Abundance
PANEL Food + Planet: Crafting a Delicious Future of Food that Works for 100% of Life curated by Raphaelle Moatti, Delicious Future with Jonathon Keats, artist and philosopher & Seth Miller, Conscious leadership coach and impact investor
Latino/Hispanic Community Room
PANEL Wisdom of the Natural World with Baptiste Morizot, philosopher; Bernie Krause, musician/soundscape ecologist; & Suzanne Husky, artist
Koret Auditorium
Floor 2: More Imagination
PERFORMANCE Expanding (Hi)stories, Reading Performance “Dust Jackets” with Rayyane Tabet, artist
*Duration: 15 min., repeats four times
Children’s Center A
PRESENTATION Storytime for Adults with Mac Barnett & Shawn Harris, children’s book authors
Children’s Center B
SCREENING Jewish Film Institute: Less Is More: Short Films, Big Ideas, featuring Holding Moses (Rivkah Beth Medow & Jen Ranin, 2022); Masel Tov Cocktail (Arkadij Khaet & Mickey Paatzsch, 2020); 116 Cameras (Davina Pardo, 2017); Absolutely No Spitting (Judith Helfand, 2019), The Mix
Floor 3: More Justice
PANEL More Reproductive Freedom? The Post-Dobbs Legal Future in California with Mary Ziegler, UC Davis & Gilda Gonzales, Planned Parenthood of Northern CA
Hormel LGBTQIA Center
PANEL Artivism: The Artist As Advocate & Activist with Playwright Cat Brooks & Oakland Poet Laureate Ayodele Nzinga
African American Center
PANEL More Health Justice with Isela Ford, Dept. of Public Health; Nancy Hernandez, “Excelsior Strong and Latino Task Force”; Carlos Izaguirre, Instituto Familiar de la Raza’s Indigena Health & Wellness & Mercedes Garcia and Dairo Romero, Mission Economic Development Agency (MEDA) Chinese Center
Floor 4: More Connection
PANEL More Content? From Print to Pixels with Chloe Veltman, NPR; D. Scot Miller, East Bay Express & Oscar Villalon, Zyzzyva
Jobs and Careers Center
PANEL Where Is the Water Cooler? New Work Boundaries with Marina Gorbis, Institute for the Future; Jérôme Baccelli, novelist & guest
Small Business Center
PANEL More Education: From the Classrooms to the Cloud with Marion Fourcade, UC Berkeley Dept. of Sociology; Azi Jamalian, The GIANT Room & guest
Silver Music Center
Floor 5: More Joy
INTERACTIVE Ecosex in the City: Celebrating Earth, Air, Fire and Water with Beth Stephens, artist/activist; Annie Sprinkle, artist/activist & friends
Environmental Center
9:00 PM
LL: More Abundance
PANEL Trans Leadership & Caring Futures with Marcel Pardo Ariza, artist; Honey Mahogany, SF Democratic Club & Transgender District; Anjali Rimi, Parivar Bay Area; Nicole Santamaria, El/La Para Trans Latinas & Pau Crego, Executive Director, Office of Transgender Initiatives.
Koret Auditorium
9:30 PM
Floor 3: More Justice
KEYNOTE Housing Inequity and Unpacking the Legacy of Neighborhood Segregation in San Francisco with Assessor-Recorder Joaquín Torres
3rd Floor Desk
10:00 PM
Floor 2: More Imagination
PANEL More Space! Our Interplanetary and Interstellar Human Future with Molly Bentley, Pascal Lee, Franck Marchis & Clement Vidal, Berkeley SETI Research Center
Children’s Center A
INTERACTIVE Art of Knots with Windy Chien, artist/author
Children’s Center B
SCREENING The Seed and The Mission by Hélène Goupil, journalist/filmmaker, The Mix
Floor 3: More Justice
PANEL More Wealth Redistribution? with Eva Davoine, Amory Gethin, Wouter Leenders & Ségal Le Guern Herry, UC Berkeley Dept. of Economics
Hormel LGBTQIAA+ Center
PANEL New Forms of Remembrance with Dan Wolf, Sound in the Silence Project & Rubén Martinez, Little Central America Project
African American Center
PANEL More Doughnuts! Let’s Make Sustainable Cities with Mathilde Billet, architect & guests
Chinese Center
Floor 4: More Connection
PANEL Artificial Intelligence / Artificial Art? with Gregory Renard, Google X & Şerife Wong, artist
Jobs and Careers Center
PANEL More Energy? What’s Next after the Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough? with Steven Ross, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Small Business Center
PERFORMANCE Cabaret Heaven feat. Renée Lubin with Roy Brown & Maureen McVerry with Ken Brill
Silver Music Center
Floor 5: More Joy
PANEL Psychology, Spirituality and the Soul of Psychedelics with Dr. Paul Ryder, Congregation for Sacred Practices; Julie Megler, NP; Jahan Khamsehzadeh, PhD & Rabbi Zac Kamenetz, Shefa: Jewish Psychedelic Support
Environmental Center
LATE NIGHT
LL: More Abundance
10:30 & 11 PM PERFORMANCE Pamela Z
*Duration: 25 min.
Koret Auditorium
Floor 1: Sights & Sounds
11:30 PM PERFORMANCE The Mermen
Floor 2: More Imagination
11 PM SCREENING Kadist San Francisco Presents Five Hundred Twenty-Four by Lenka Clayton & Phillip Andrew Lewis, The Mix
THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT
Various Locations
PERFORMANCES
- Bay Area Theatre Cypher
- SF Circus Center’s DeMarcello Funes & Ceara Walton
- House of More! Drag Performers
- Club Foot Bibliothèque
- Renée Lubin with Roy Brown
- Maureen McVerry with Ken Brill
LL: More Abundance
PERFORMANCE Allison Lovejoy & Friends: excerpts from The Best Bad Things
*Set performance also at 10PM
Floor 4: More Connection
INTERACTIVE Small Business Marketplace with handmade by pmaccay, StormCloud Press & Kokak Chocolates & more
Floor 6: More Friends
Friends’ Lounge hosted by Friends of the San Francisco Public Library, The Pacifics & ValueCulture
7:00–9:00 PM Take a breather, hang out and learn how you can support your Library.
9:00 PM–1 AM DJs, Dancing, Bubbles and more.
Periodicals Room, 5th Floor and Skylight Gallery, 6th Floor.
FOOD
- Assembly Cafe, located in Civic Center Plaza, Chao Pescao, 272 McAllister St., and Sunset Squares Pizza, 59 9th St., are offering discounts for attendees.
- Snacks can be purchased at bars. Tea, coffee & pastries will be available for purchase in the lower level cafe from 8:30–11 PM.
Register here for updates and reminders.
