SATURDAY, APRIL 24, 2027 • 12 - 6 PM RADIUM RUNWAY, ALAMEDA POINT
DESIGNING TODAY, FOR A CIRCULAR TOMORROW
Community Dance Performance
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Spoken Word
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Inspiring Installations
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Vibrant Chalk Mural
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Community Dance Performance • Spoken Word • Inspiring Installations • Vibrant Chalk Mural •
ABOUT THE FESTIVAL
What if the future we want starts with curiosity, connections, and circles?
For one day, the Circles Futures festival brings that future to life and transforms Alameda Point into a bustling hub of Circular Culture. Taking place during the closing weekend of SF Climate Week, Circular Futures brings together the ideas, people, and organizations working together to build a more regenerative future.
The day kicks off with a spectacular community dance performance featuring 200 performers on the Alameda Point Taxiway. From there, explore art installations, spoken word performances, hands-on workshops, and conversations with people reimagining how we make, use, and reuse the resources around us.
Join us in an accessible, fun, family-friendly afternoon exploring circular economic ideas we can put in place today, for a more sustainable tomorrow.
Saturday, April 24, 2027 | 12–6 PM | Free and open to all.
"If we could build an economy that would use things rather than use them up, we could build a future."
— Dame Ellen MacArthur
WHY CIRCULAR FUTURES?
The spark that got the ball rolling was when ED Tara Pilbrow watched a TED talk by the revered British sailor and activist, Ellen MacArthur. In the TED Talk, Ellen describes her relationship to resources while sailing around the world, where each morsel of food or gallon of fuel had to be accounted for. She realized that we must view the materials we have on the earth from the same standpoint - as finite and ultimately diminishable - and re-shape the take-make-waste status-quo of the linear economy.
Pilbrow, resonating deeply with this sentiment, had the vision to create a community dance piece that embodied the fundamental ideas of circularity. The dance piece would be a massive statement about the type of future we want to see.
The rest of the festival line-up followed, answering the question: how can we design a day that makes the circular economy principles engaging, artistic, accessible, and fun!
FESTIVAL PARTNERS AND SPONSORS
We are proud to be co-hosting the festival with Circle America, collaborative affinity group created by environmental advocate Bill Shireman.
Circle America is a collaborative affinity group of investors, donors, executives, activists, innovators, and influential civic and citizen leaders from across the political spectrum who are all dedicated to a circular economy and culture. Learn more about their work here.