Creative Hubs
Creative Hub:
Roar Shack Live! at 34-7th Street
The Market Street Arts Creative Hubs program activates new and underutilized spaces for artists, designers, and entrepreneurs along Market Street.
Market Street Arts and The Living Earth Show launched an innovative partnership in 2024 turning a vacant bar space into an experimental music hub. The 2024-25 series, Roar Shack Live!, breathed new life into 34-7th Street, the former home of renowned cocktail lounge Mr. Smith's, turning it into a dynamic venue for experimental chamber music and multidisciplinary performances.
Through the partnership, The Living Earth Show presented ten site-specific, immersive productions showcasing San Francisco's role as a center for cultural innovation. The series debuted on Friday, September 20, 2024, with Music For Hard Times, an ambient masterpiece and audiovisual love letter to San Francisco created by The Living Earth Show, composer Danny Clay, and visual artist Jon Fischer. The Living Earth Show wrapped their inaugural season in June 2025 with a fittingly immersive, powerful, and boundary-defying show with Qube Chix.
To create accessible creative hubs in Mid-Market, all performances are be pay-what-you-can, ranging from $1–$100. Tickets are available now for the next season will be available at The Roar Shack Live!
"Roar Shack Live! isn't just a performance series—it's a creative laboratory in the heart of Mid-Market,” said Andy Meyerson, co-founder and Artistic Director of The Living Earth Show. “We're harnessing the district's raw energy to craft boundary-pushing, multisensory experiences that could only emerge from San Francisco. Our aim is to show that San Francisco is a place where culture is created, not just consumed.”
"As an organization based in San Francisco—since we met as San Francisco Conservatory of Music (SFCM) graduate students—presenting these performances on Market Street allows us to bring the work that we tour around the world to audiences here at home. This location inspires us to push artistic boundaries while keeping our work accessible through our pay-what-you-can model,” adds Travis Andrews, co-founder and executive director of The Living Earth Show. “By refining our productions here before touring them globally, we're helping to transform Mid-Market into an incubator for world-class art. It's about creating a ripple effect—from this historic thoroughfare to stages across the globe."
In August 2025, The Roar Shack Live! celebrated one year in open in the new space and The Living Earth Show signed a new 2 year lease to keep them in the space through 2027.
Market Street Arts’ Creative Hub program has also partnered with Julian Prince Dash to open Holy Stitch! located at 1059 Market, and Red Tail Beer & Wine Bar at 992 Market Street.
Left: Travis Andrews & Andy Meyerson, Co-Founders of The Living Earth Show (photo by Natalia Perez)
Right: Travis & Andy play their experimental chamber music at 34 7th Street, a formerly vacant space, as a crowd looks on (photo by Market Street Arts)
The Creative Hubs program is one of several projects aimed at transforming the experience in Mid-Market. Follow @marketstreetarts on Instagram for up to the minute updates on the amazing things happening in the Mid-Market neighborhood.
