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Sat, Dec 7 2024 6:00 PM


40 Years of The Lab (with Pamela Z)

Tickets range from $17 - $78

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Join us to celebrate 40 years of The Lab and honor Pamela Z’s nearly four-decade history of collaboration with the organization.

Buy Tickets for 6pm entry / Cocktail Hour
with food by Leif Hedendal
$78 reserved cocktail seating ($39 tax-deductible)

Buy Tickets for 7pm entry / Honoring Pamela Z
& her history with The Lab, with performance by Pamela Z
$39 general admission seating

Buy Tickets for 8:30pm entry / Cake & Party!
with Guest DJs into the night
$78 reserved cocktail seating

Founded in 1984 as “Co-LAB” with a theater at 1805 and gallery at 1807 Divisadero in San Francisco, what we now know as The Lab celebrates 40 years of its history and honors artist Pamela Z, an integral part of The Lab’s artistic community. Starting in the 1980s, Z launched a series of interdisciplinary “Z Programs” beginning at The Lab, ran a “SoundLAB” workshop series providing artists access to digital audio workstations, and performed many times in various configurations.

We’ll also be displaying some pieces of our extensive poster and documentation archive, and revealing our plans for renovation of the historic San Francisco Labor Temple Main Auditorium in the wake of securing 12 years of lease stability at the Redstone Building, where The Lab has been since 1995.

Proceeds from this event benefit The Lab’s ongoing programming, as well as our expansion and restoration of our historic space in the Redstone Building.
Audio samples in which musicians at this event play:
Videos featuring musicians playing at this event
BREATHING is a movement from Carbon Song Cycle (a inter-media chamber work by composer/performer Pamela Z and visual artist Christina McPhee). The work was originally written for voice & electronics, bassoon, viola, cello, percussion, and tape. This is a solo version performed by the composer (with just voice, processing, and tape), recorded at a 3/13/2014 duo concert with Joan La Barbara as part of the 2014 ROOM Series. Pamela Z is using a gesture controller (designed and built by Donald Swearingen). © 2013 Last Letter Music (ASCAP)