Hello all! Happy 2025! There is so much going on! Wild. The space is feeling great (other than being cold most of the time) and it has been such a dream meeting everyone coming through. For maybe the first time in the history of this newsletter, there are no physical construction updates at this time. Technically, I did saw a door in half at one point since the last newsletter, but the whole thing happened really smoothly and cleanly, and at this point the whole thing feels like a distant memory. Anyway, there is LITERALLY TOO MUCH to fit into this newsletter, so let’s get into it!

January Open House

If you’ve been by and are feeling excited or curious about what’s going on at the space and how to get involved or to support or just are looking for something to do with your winter Wednesday night, come to the first of 2025 (first ever!) Bathers Library Open House. I’ll give a (brief-as-possible) presentation about what’s going on at the space and talk through short and long term plans/dreams/challenges/ideas and ways to get involved. Afterwards we’ll have time for socializing and general hanging out. Hope to see you there!

Preorder: The Infinite Play by Alexandra Pink

The latest installment in our series of conceptual artist games is “The Infinite Play” by Alexandra Pink. “The Infinite Play” is a comedy, mystery, tragedy, drama, musical, farce, or spectacle about time, language, power, beauty, age, desire, theater, misunderstanding, and magic for sorceress, bird, prophet, child, chick, friend, horse, rider, king, squire, inn maid, inn cat, Ovid, time traveller, beauty, painter, mirror, poet, director, pan, purveyor of wigs, mime, visitor, companion, architect, student, Martha Graham, ticking clock, curtain, voice, cupid, thirty-eight year old man, mourner, detective, and lover.

Alexandra Pink is an artist and writer living and working in San Francisco. Her work, which ranges from stage, screen, and sound, engages with language and image at the boundaries of genre, syntax, and form. She is in charge of skits at family gatherings.

“The Infinite Play” will be released with a live performance and conversation with the artist January 31st at Green Apple Books on the Park.

Upcoming Events

Residency Applications are OPEN

Applications are open for our Spring and Summer 3-month artist residency. (Not a living space. Just a work zone.) Open to all disciplines (though nothing dusty or stinky, sorry!). Artists will have 24 hour access to a private studio within our space, and are welcome to host events and exhibit work in our windows. At the end of each residency, artists will create an edition object or publication to be published by Bathers Library and sold in our shop. Applications for Spring and Summer 2025 are open until January 31st. There is a $20 application fee which helps fund the program. No one will be turned away for inability to pay, and it will have no bearing on whether or not you are accepted. Find a more full description on the application form.

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