Date and Time
- Monday, Jan 12, 2026 12am - 11:59pm
Location
Blue Shield of California Theater at YBCA
700 Howard St., San Francisco, CA
Details
Sanctuary City Project is an ongoing public art and printmaking initiative that asks urgent questions about immigration, citizenship, and who gets to feel safe. Through mobile screenprinting devices, bold graphic posters, and community-led workshops, artists Sergio De La Torre and Chris Treggiari use design as a tool for dialogue. The project invites people to reflect on language, policy, and lived experience, and produce bold, typographic posters in real time. Thirteen Sanctuary City banners are installed on advertising poles around the downtown area. Drawn from interviews and workshops, pairing scale with phrases like THIS IS A SANCTUARY, WHERE WILL PEOPLE GO?, and UNDOCUMENTED UNAFRAID. Declarative yet unresolved, the language holds space for undocumented voices and the emotional realities of displacement—asking viewers to sit with the weight of policy and the possibilities of collective authorship.