Memory Cafe in San Francisco—5/12/2026

Join us and Open Exposures for a community-centered photography workshop designed for elders to engage emotion, memory, imagination and social connection through images. Participants will be invited to make collaborative portraits with their caregivers. No prior photography experience is required!

Caring for a loved one with memory loss doesn’t have to be a lonely job. Memory Cafe is a gathering for people experiencing mild to moderate memory loss and their caregivers (spouses, family members, or friends). Enjoy time with your loved one and meet others who are dealing with similar issues in a supportive and welcoming environment.

San Francisco Memory Cafe meets on many Tuesdays at different locations. Participants must be accompanied by their caregiver.

Please RSVP in advance to Amy Takemoto by emailing her at: MemoryCafe@jfcs.org. Include the date of the event, participant and caregiver’s name and which Memory Café event you are responding to in the email.

About this event: This is the second event in a three-part series. In this workshop, Making Images Together, participants will be invited to make collaborative portraits with their caregivers. Rather than focusing on technical skill or documentation, we will use photography as a sensory and relational practice. Participants are invited to look, hold, share, remember, and create through imagery. The workshop emphasizes presence over recall, emotion over chronology, and shared experience over individual performance. Open Exposures, founded and grounded by Louis Bryant III and Katie Gritilian, offers a series of workshops that examine how people of color in the diaspora experience the complex relationships between travel, colonization, and photography. Open Exposures was conceived in close collaboration with Katie Giritlian and other fellow worker-owners of Converge Collaborative.