Community Day at Hidden Currencies: Art, Music & Screen-Printing Activation

For more information about this event and the exhibition and event series Hidden Currencies: Water Justice in the Age of AI visit here.

Join us for a family-friendly afternoon of hands-on activities, music, and poetry as part of the 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.

​​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 , , , and , and supported by and EAWAG.

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