Bite Back! Fundraiser
BITE BACK: A Purple Uni Pop-Up Eating Our Way Out of an Eco Crisis
Sunday, October 12th, 2025 | 4pm to 8pm | O2AA, West Oakland • Purple sea urchin bites • Natural wines • Live DJ
Bite Back is a fundraiser to support a multidisciplinary book and exhibit - Purple Sea - exploring how one tiny creature holds the key to understanding climate change, cultural resilience, and the future of our Pacific coast.
Purple sea urchins have devoured 90% of California's kelp forests. Can we eat our way out of this ecological crisis? Come taste the solution while supporting a project dedicated to highlighting the work of scientists, anthropologists, divers, artists, and chefs from Baja, California to British Columbia.
What to expect: 🌊 Purple corn uni tamalitos, veggie ceviche tostada with miso uni dressing, chocolate budino with uni safran caramel - first come, first served until it runs out 🍷 Natural wines from local producers 🎵 DJ sets to keep the energy flowing 📖 Exclusive preview of the Purple Sea project.
Tickets: General Admission: $55 | Patron: $125 | Sponsor: $250 - all get you two food and drink tickets. First come, first served. Additional food and drinks can be purchased until it runs out! Patrons get an exclusive signed artist print. Sponsors get all of the above and an exhibit and book acknowledgement.
This event is presented by Loud Spring, Purple Uni Club, and O2AA.
Bite Back! Pop-Up
We OPENED purple urchins (the ones devouring the Kelp forest), tasted purple uni with diver @monk.dadi.lola. We DIPPED into a purple uni dye bath with artist @margaretseelie @seelie.studio. We READ a new uni and coastal inspired zine featuring artists @josieiselin , @kalie_granier and @ohlonecostanoanesselennation. We ATE the best japanese savory pancake by @okkonpopup, Tamales and magic love potion by @tacosandbanchan. We SIPPED on natural wine by @broccellars @everythingisokaywine - local local - and We VIBED with DJ @grahamlairdprentice on the musical decks.
This was an #activateoakland event sponsored by @oakland @visitoakland and hosted by @loudspringart @purpleuniclub at @o2aa.oakland
Town Life, Ecofutures Festival
Town Life was a 3-part event series presented by Loud Spring in the summer 2024, hosted by O2AA, and programmed in collaboration with Eternal Now & Oakland Garden Club. The event was generously sponsored by Activate Oakland, a grant organized by The City of Oakland and managed by Visit Oakland.
Our programming and conversations center on one key question: How do we imagine our ecofutures? The events featured music, food, talks, art, and vendors.
Symbiocene
SYMBIOCENE is an exhibition featuring the work of ten women and non-binary artists around ideas of symbiosis, interconnectedness, and interdependence, and exploring our trajectories as woven with one another to imagine possibilities to build more live-able and harmonious futures. The Exhibit gathers works of some of our founding members and artists: Kalie Granier, Clémence Vazard, and Silvia Andrade, Iri Berkleid, Odonchimeg Davadoorj, Cheryl Derricotte, Elise Guillaume, Anne–Sophie Guillet, Summer Mei Ling Lee, Yelena Moskovitch, Hannah Rowan.
Curated by Marie de Ganay for the French Contemporary Art Space L’Eté des Serpents, sponsored by Backlash and re.riddle Galleries.
Polarized
POLARIZED was a collaborative program with La Cité Fertile featuring debates and performances questioning the paradigm defining an entity as a “person” and the juridical protection inherent to it. Loud Spring’s proposition was to shift existing perspectives by exploring living rights could be claimed for those which are not or cannot be heard? Giving voice to artists and thinkers, Maya Ines Touam, Esmeralda Da Costa, Eman Gbewonyo, Tiare Ribeaux, Clémence Vazard, Yolande Harris, Tania Mouraud, and Jorge Bachman, POLARIZED promoted environmental justice for all living things. Watch replays on YouTube.
Women Environmental Network’s Hackathon
Loud Spring was the official sponsor of WEN (Women Environmental Network)’s hackathon - a framework for Women Leaders to tackle the climate crisis. Consecutively to the Night of Ideas, Loud Spring prompted participants to write their promises, their wishes for sustainable living and social justice throughout the night.
Loud Wish @ The Night of Ideas
Loud Wish was a site-specific participatory installation inviting visitors to write their wishes for a more conscious and equitable future. The installation took over 3rd balcony of the San Francisco Library during the Night of Ideas, a global program of debate, performances, dance and music featuring top thinkers from San Francisco and beyond and supported by the French Consulate, KQED, San Francisco Public Library, and the SFMOMA.
