Support Enzyme Cultural Center

Enzyme Cultural Center is undergoing rigorous renovations to revitalize a 4-year vacant warehouse in considerable disrepair in the heart of SoMA to become a QTBIPOC focused arts center providing low cost classes, workshops, studio and events space to our underserved communities.

UPDATE:

We are in the process of coming up to code to become fully permitted for public arts and studio use as well as entertainment. So far we’ve obtained our business license with the city, renovated the main exits, soundproofed the space, consulted on fire, ADA and building inspections, and covered rent and bills during our period non-operation.

We are receiving so much support from the community and are asking for further aid in order to meet city requirements and make our space safe and accessible. This is a costly and time consuming process which includes:

Opening additional emergency exits

Installing lit exit signs and smoke alarms

Construction of ADA compliant ramps and bathroom

Patching roof leaks

Paying labor costs for architects, electricians, contractors, plumbers, and consultations

Paying extensive permitting fees, inspection costs, and legal fees

ABOUT ENZYME:

The vital organs of the Bay Area’s cultural identity are hemorrhaging.

In the macrobiome of our community, Enzyme catalyzes the reactions she needs to survive. QTBIPOC artists, musicians, and producers of culture have been displaced from our public spaces where our communities can gather, create, and accumulate any kind economic power, due to gentrification, rising rents, insufficient public spending in the arts, and political policies that drive us out of our work, out of our homes, and away from our communities.

As the inheritors of the San Francisco Bay Area’s greatest cultural treasures gifted to the world, we need affordable space to gather, create, nurture and expand San Francisco’s artistic and musical cultural identity. The Enzyme Cultural Center seeks to catalyze that reaction for QTBIPOC communities by providing affordable and accessible space and resources in a non-hierarchical community space whose communitarian principles and DIY ethos will foster an egalitarian network necessary for proliferating economically viable urban cultural innovation.

Enzyme Cultural Center provides low cost classes, workshops, studio and event space to our underserved communities.