Sent on: July 30, 2025

Join us on Thursday for A Creative Life with Tamara Chu

Come out this Thursday for an evening of movement and storytelling with Tamara Chu

Part spoken journey, part moving meditation, tomorrow evening we’ll follow Tamara’s explorations of presence, performance, and the “art of the whole truth.”

Through her creative work as a dancer, digital artist, and (most recently) Problem Library MC, Tamara often returns to the question of presence—an intangible quality of artistic and athletic performance that can animate a space, focus a crowd, and shift what’s possible between people.

Tamara will share reflections from past projects—including her cinematic web novella Sabrina x Nine—alongside insights from her return to martial arts with her father, a practice she once resisted but now approaches as living philosophy. Her stories explore how lessons move across generations, how metaphors encode wisdom, and how movement can become a form of remembering.

What opens up when we follow the spiral of lifelong inquiry? What kind of presence passes from one body to another? And more curiously: what is it like to live two lives at once—one moving backward toward your past?

Be with us for an evening that will end as it begins: in movement, together.

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A Creative Life #004
with Tamara Chu

Thursday, July 31st
Doors at 6pm / Talk at 7pm

Problem Library
1288 15th Ave, San Francisco

$15 for Adults
$5 for students
Free for SOF/PC alumni

Celebrating Problem Library Students and Alumni at San Francisco City Hall

We’re hosting a special gathering tonight from 4–6pm at San Francisco City Hall to celebrate the work of several thoughtful, creative, and inventive students & alumni from Problem Library programs. These young artists continue to grow and make meaningful work beyond the bounds of our offerings, and we’re delighted to have brought them together for this opportunity. It’s a joy to witness the direction each artist is taking as they develop their creative voices.

The show is hosted in the District 7 office in City Hall thanks to an invitation from Supervisor Melgar’s team, and features new work by Sofia Criswell, Nico Lown Heinz, Alice Barreras, Charlotte Quigley, Josie Rishniw, Toto Honniball, and Giovana Tavares.

We hope you’ll join us to celebrate.

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Problem Children Alumni Art show

Wednesday, July 30th
4–6pm

District 7 Office, Room 273
City Hall, San Francisco

Free and open to the public

Still to come this summer

Join us for a series of gatherings that stretch across parks, programs, and public television—each one an invitation to reflect, connect, and close the season together.

We look forward to seeing you in the coming weeks.

As always, find the latest on our website:
Problem Library summer events →