Enzyme Endures! Support Queer DIY Arts and Events Space

For those who’ve heard and those just tuning in: Enzyme lost its hearings with the Entertainment Commission and Planning Department, which means no events for the time being.

Nevertheless, our goal is to continue the project by raising funds to keep going. While we fight to hold onto the space, we’re reimagining sustainability within the city’s restrictive S1: Storage zoning, while also assessing the possibility of pursuing a “Change of Use” process. Depending on the viability of these options, we are also considering a new space properly zoned for arts, nightlife, and third place community building.

Despite city pushback, costly violations, and perpetual setbacks, during its two year lifetime Enzyme has:

✨ Activated a formerly abandoned building for queer arts through DIY power

✨ Hosted over 120 events serving 8000 people from a diversity of underground music scenes throughout the bay

✨ Distributed 6,000 fentanyl test strips & 500 doses of Narcan

✨ Created events and studio space serving 700 QTBIPOC artists

✨ Built a reliable, horizontally organized, consensus-democracy-based place of work for community members

✨ Provided space for people to freely explore the many expressions of their uniqueness in a community setting

✨ Constructed an active experimental learning environment that could produce sustainable queer coalition responding to the frameworks of capitalism and cisheteronormative hegemony

Your support fuels our survival, queer chaos, and the process of building an intentional community for learning and action, designed to empower queer people by resisting oppressive societal structures through collective effort and innovation.