Hello out there and welcome to the new Adobe Blog! From its time on 16th Street to its current, 5-year-old incarnation as a cooperative on 24th Street, the Adobe Books and Arts Cooperative has aimed to provide a place to read and find books, meet like-minded people, and absorb performances, events, and exhibitions that reflect the cooperative’s vision, however fragile, of a space in San Francisco reserved for the community-minded and arts-enthusiastic.
With this blog, we hope to maintain a decentralized, online platform that is in many ways a virtual analog of the Adobe spirit embodied in the diverse books, events, and exhibitions on offer at our 24th Street space. You can expect transmissions in the form of: interviews, essays, appreciations, event previews, reviews, histories, photos…and anything else we can manage to zap from our minds to your screen.
We welcome a wide array of contributors, and the best way to get involved here, while also helping to keep our physical space up and running, is to become a volunteer with the co-op.
Happy reading! // jamie a.
More Reading
A conversation with the San Francisco poet Tongo Eisen-Martin.
A conversation with the San Francisco musician Marshall Trammell.
I’d wager that most of us have engaged, at one time or another, in the pastime of seeking out the unassuming but legendary historic home that links a city or subculture’s past to the present.
Whenever the offerings on our glorious American streaming services go stale, the National Film Board of Canada remains as a goldmine of documentaries, feature films, and experimental films from our neighbors to the north.
The photographer Yoshi Yubai’s show SAN FRANCISCO is up in the Adobe gallery space until February 27th.
During John Coltrane’s last years, the city was, coincidentally or not, a crucible for his controversial, awesome turn to free improvisation.
Artists Sienna Freeman and Justin Robinson in conversation.
An unstructured list (who needs rankings anyway) of our favorite books, new and old, that we read in 2018.
A collection of songs befitting the shorter days and colder nights.
Last week, Adobe Books hosted My Life, My Stories for a moving event that organizer Brittany Bare recaps in this post. Their mission of fostering a more connected and empathetic San Francisco through oral history and storytelling is one we absolutely dig.
