Free Community Day: Get in the Game

What do running and art have in common? Feelings. So, what better way to spend your morning than by immersing yourself in those feelings? Join Track and Feels, a run club at the intersection of slow running and slow music that embodies a unique blend of soundtrack and running track.

Named “The Official Band of the City and County of San Francisco” via city ordinance, the San Francisco Pride Band was the first openly gay musical organization upon their founding in 1978. Over the last forty years, the volunteer-run organization and band have been appearing throughout the Bay Area to promote LGBTQ+ visibility and understanding across communities.

For SFMOMA’s Artcade, three proposals were selected from an open call, and the winning teams spent the summer designing and building their game. Presented alongside Get in the Game: Sports, Art, Culture, the selected games reflect on the expansive nature of play, spectatorship, and the close relationship between competition and collaboration.

The Artivate program works to bring activism and art to youth in the Bay Area while bridging communities through public art projects. Artivate artists Chris Treggiari and Amy Berk will be onsite and have packed their mobile studio with all the tools and materials needed to create your own zine and designed a selection of prompts and pre-designed pages inspired by artists and artworks on view in Get in the Game.

DJ Umami was born, raised, and is based in the Bay Area. While R&B, soul, and hip-hop are foundational to her musical taste, it’s Umami’s ability to read the energy of a crowd and belief in music as healing that allows her to serve an eclectic menu of sounds. As a Filipina American, she hopes to bring more visibility to the craft, and inspire the next generation of women DJs.

The High Five (Mike Jacobs, 2016, 10 minutes) | It’s likely you have given or received a high five; however, do you know the fascinating story behind the gesture and its creator, Glenn Burke?

Elladj (Mike Schwartz, 2023, 5 minutes) | Follow the remarkable journey of Elladj Balde, a Canadian figure skater who found a new voice and calling through wild ice skating.

The Trails Before Us (Fritz Bitsoie, 2022, 13 minutes) | Nigel James, a seventeen-year-old Diné mountain biker, hosts the first enduro race in the Navajo Nation and shares the way he is driven by his dual love of the sport and connection to his community’s land and culture.

Strong Grandma (Winslow Crane Murdoch, 2023, 15 minutes) | World record powerlifter Catherine Kuehn, age ninety-five, finds herself reflecting on the love and the loss that brought her to the sport in her eighties and the community and identity she found through sport.

TURFinc was founded by Johnny Anthony Lopez in 2012 and utilizes its platform as a positive force, sharing dance as a mechanism to heal trauma and encourage body positivity. Originating in Oakland in the 1990s, Turfing — short for “taking up room on the floor” — is a form of street dance that integrates several hip-hop-rooted dance styles into a wholly new form. Each dancer puts their own unique spin on the form, offering space for deep personal expression.

Jenifer K Wofford’s painted mural pictures Victoria “Vicki” Manalo Draves, the first Asian American Olympic gold medalist, suspended in a pike in a vast gradient of color. Born and raised in San Francisco’s South of Market district, the Filipina American diver was also the first woman awarded gold medals for both the ten-meter platform and the three-meter springboard competitions at the London 1948 Olympic Games. For VMD, Wofford was compelled by imagining a “soft inward focus combined with the mannered tension in her body’s position, both completely on display and totally inside herself.” Wofford’s mural is part of SFMOMA’s Bay Area Walls, a series of commissions and other site-responsive wall projects by local artists that actively engage with pressing issues of our time.