"What binds the exhibition is not a singular narrative but a shared insistence on thresholds as sites of both risk and possibility, where meaning is generated precisely through friction. In this way, Love Letters to Aliens does not ask viewers to resolve the discomfort of these encounters, but to remain with them, to recognize borders not as fixed lines to fortify or transgress, but as living spaces where new forms of relation, witnessing, and becoming tentatively begin." - Sienna Freeman

Saturday, February 7

5:00 PM -Doors ​

5:30 PM - Letter Writing Workshop with Flying Over Walls ​

6:30 PM - Standing On The Earth Beneath Our Feet  Closing Ceremony + Performance by Roco Córdova ​

specialty alien mocktail and cocktails by Julio César Morales

6 - 7:30 pm Friday, January 9, 2026​ at Southern Exposure, San Francisco.

Books will be available for purchase via Medicine for Nightmares. ​ ​

Free and Open to the Public, Refreshments served

January 8 - 31 at T.I.A.T.

Together with the Hydrocolonialism Institute, tiat is proud to present an exhibition bringing together Bay Area artists, technologists, and cross-disciplinary makers exploring what it means to live and create in a time of accelerating environmental change and shifting water futures. ​

5 pm til the end, Saturday, October 25, 2025​ at Southern Exposure, San Francisco.

The exhibition, with work by Rana Hamadeh, Xandra Ibarra, Osvaldo Ramirez Castillo, Maryam Tafakory, and Yue Xiang, considers the notion of the alien in its most expansive sense – from the extraterrestrial to the intimate. ​

Free and Open to the Public

Saturday, December 20 from 7 - 11 pm at Cone Shape Top in Oakland, CA. ​ ​

Alchemia presents: Yalda with Sholeh Asgary, Falgoush: Dast Dar Dast: Folk Songs of Resistance from Afghanistan and Iran, Kimia Koochakzadeh-Yazdi, OMJVinyls, DJ Alchemia ​

$15 NOTAFLOF All ticket proceeds donated to grassroots mutual aid initiatives in Sudan

11 am - 7 pm on Sunday December 21, 2025 aka Winter Solstice Finnish Hall Auditorium 1970 Chestnut St Berkeley, CA
 

TICKETS / ENTRANCE $10-$25  www.blindsight.work

6:30 pm Thursday, October 16​ ​

285 Anthropology and Art Practice Building, UC Berkeley

Free and Open to the Public

"Researching the neighborhood, she learned Chinatown has 41 alleys and was fascinated to discover Golden Star Radio, the first Chinese language radio program in North America." - Emily Wilson

Performance/Activation and Installation "41 Alleys"

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Saturday, September 13, 2025 
6 - 6:30 pm 

Wentworth Pl, Chinatown, San Francisco

"When we gather together, the forces around us become louder. There's a danger in gathering, but there's a grounding in it as well." --Sholeh Asgary

We talk about: the relationship between photography and sound practice, the politics of sound, transcribing the waterways of Iran into music, incorporating the politics of a venue into site-specific installation, how sound becomes object, and much more...

Antimatter, Famous Techno, Sholeh Asgary, Audre

Peacock Lounge, 552 Haight, SF

All-ages, $5-$15 notaflof

Sholeh Asgary performs from her debut EP “آبان (Aban).” This is a ticketed event that includes specialty cocktails, beverages and snacks. Proceeds will support artists, curators, and the exhibition, "Zephyr Coating."

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 May 31, 7-10 pm at 120710 Gallery in Berkeley, CA.

Part of Getty’s PST ART: Art & Science Collide, UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture’s Design Media Arts Department and the California NanoSystems Institute.

Sholeh Asgary's "Ghost Winds (Shabah e Baad)" is included in this group exhibition curated by the Untitled/Collective. 

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120710 Gallery, Berkeley, CA

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Opening reception for Sholeh Asgary's exhibition at the UCLA CNSI gallery.

A live in-store performance on Saturday, May 3rd at 5:00pm.

Free entry / No RSVP 5403 ½ N Figueroa St., Los Angeles, CA 90042

Info@estuario.la 323-507-2071

The UCLA Art|Sci Center proudly presents “Sound + Science 3.0”, the third installment of its trailblazing symposium series.

Hosted across three UCLA locations: the Fowler Museum, the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI), and the Botanical Gardens on May 1 +2.

A live performance recording of 2023 is released on Terra Nova Records. Available in digital and CD. ​

Asgary & Rothenberg improvise water songs from Asgary's installation, "Shabah e Baad (Ghost Winds)."

Performance at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, CA. Sholeh Asgary + Ava Koohbor perform Koohbor's instrument. ​

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performances at 7:30 & 8:30 pm (ish)

Sholeh Asgary performs with Julie Ezelle Patton, The Poetry Center’s Mazza Writer in Residence. Followed by conversation with Tonya M. Foster at Minnesota Street Project, SF

co-presented by SFSU’s Poetry Center in partnership with Makaan and Black Space Residencies.

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6:00 PM  

The Audio Archive Booth is short listed for a 2025 Creative Capital Award under the technology category. 

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Data Visualization; Digital Media; Social-Engaged Technology; Oakland, CA

The Audio Archive Booth is short listed for a 2025 Creative Capital Award under the technology category. 

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Data Visualization; Digital Media; Social-Engaged Technology; Oakland, CA

The Audio Archive Booth is short listed for a 2025 Creative Capital Award under the technology category. 

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Data Visualization; Digital Media; Social-Engaged Technology; Oakland, CA

The Audio Archive Booth is short listed for a 2025 Creative Capital Award under the technology category. 

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Data Visualization; Digital Media; Social-Engaged Technology; Oakland, CA