Programs and Events- Fueling Creativity, Building Community

Each year, the North Street Project convenes cohorts of artists and writers around a central theme. These six-month circles bring together people who are serious about their craft but not about themselves—open to new ideas, willing to question, and ready to push forward. No pretense. No posturing. Just real conversations, fresh insights, and creative momentum.

Cohorts meet regularly for roundtables, workshops, and shared experiments that unfold across the months. The continuity matters: ideas don’t just spark, they build; relationships don’t just begin, they deepen; and new work doesn’t just start, it takes shape. Each cohort contributes to collective projects such as exhibitions, journals, or performances that carry the work into the public sphere.

The 2025 theme is Mothering—explored not only in literal terms, but as metaphor, practice, and antidote: care, making, lineage, resistance, and the radical act of tending to what matters in a distracted world.

A home for work that asks big questions. This is about deep engagement with ideas, place, and process. We publish writing and visual work that challenges, inspires, and speaks to the creative life with honesty and depth. 

Step away to step deeper into your work. This retreat isn’t about escaping—it’s about returning. To what matters, to what’s next, to the work that’s calling you forward. Rooted in nature and creative discipline, it’s a time to listen, to question, and to create without distraction.

Mothering opens January 10th 2026 at 120710 Gallery in Berkeley, California. 

The North Street Substack → A space for thinkers, makers, and the creatively restless. This is where we wrestle with ideas, share what we’re working through, and explore what it means to be an artist today. Essays, reflections, provocations—this is where the conversation continues. Topics range from creative doubt and discipline, the role of slowness in art, and interviews with artists pushing the boundaries of their medium. This is where we wrestle with ideas, share what we’re working through, and explore what it means to be an artist today. Essays, reflections, provocations—this is where the conversation continues.