After Dark: Conversations About Landscape

Spark your curiosity at After Dark!  As the sun sets, we’ll hit the rainbow lights, turn the music up, and open our doors, inviting you to take your imagination out to play. Tonight, join us for a conversation with San Francisco Department of Environment Director Debbie Raphael to learn about the City of San Francisco's new Climate Action Plan, and how her approach to “asking questions and questioning answers” has moved the city forward.

Conservations About Landscape is staged in the Fisher Bay Observatory Gallery, which explores environmental change in the Bay Area and beyond.

Crafting a Climate Action Plan A Conversation
With Debbie Raphael
7:30 p.m.
Fisher Bay Observatory Gallery 6

In this era of uncertainty for people and the planet, what is the City of San Francisco's plan to address climate change? Who gets to decide, and how? In a dynamic and complex system, what are the pathways to change? What does Albert Einstein have to do with solving problems of environmental governance?

Join us in conversation with San Francisco Department of Environment Director Debbie Raphael to learn about the City of San Francisco's new Climate Action Plan, and how her approach to “asking questions and questioning answers” has moved the city forward. Debbie will be in conversation with Emma Greenbaum, Program Manager for the Exploratorium's environment initiatives.

Debbie Raphael believes that cities can take bold action to address environmental harm. A scientist by training and public servant by profession, she has spent most of her career working in government to ensure that everyone has an equal right to a safe and healthy environment. Named one of the world’s 100 most influential people in climate policy, Debbie is a frequent keynote speaker at international climate conferences and a national spokeswoman on environmental issues.

DJ Sake-One
From Hip Hop for Change
6:30 - 7:45 and 8:15 - 9:30 p.m.
Bechtel Gallery 3

Get ready to dance your way through the night as a DJ from Hip Hop for Change sets the vibe and keeps the party moving all night! Born and raised in the culture of hip-hop, DJ Sake-One joins us tonight. He has been looking for the perfect beat since 1989, kickin’ up dust and making 5,000-person venues feel like neighborhood house parties, from San Francisco to New York City to Atlanta to London and beyond. He’s the Frisco native and Bay legend responsible for both the infamous PST party and his current Art of Storytelling Outkast tribute party.  

Hip Hop for Change is an Oakland-based nonprofit that uses grassroots activism to educate people about socioeconomic injustices and advocate solutions through hip-hop culture. 

Tinkering School Mars Mission Q&A
6:30 - 9:30 p.m.
Bechtel Gallery 3

Tinkering School (TS), a San Francisco - based educational program dedicated to youth-centered making and tinkering, created Tinkering School Mars Mission as an Earth-bound program that maintains the accuracy and challenges of real Mars rover operations. Inspired by (but not associated with) NASA’s Mars missions, the TS team, composed of young people ages 14-20, collaborated to build an educational hands-on experience operating rovers in a simulated Martian lava tube. Join members of the team to learn more about their mission and prototypes and to test drive the newest generation of their rovers.