About H.A.V.E.
Finding Inspiration in Every Turn
HAVE is a cultural intervention born from a simple irritant. San Francisco’s creative class kept losing ground while the city’s small business ecosystem thinned into monotony. I created HAVE to counter that erosion.
I wanted a space that treated local makers, artists, and vintage dealers as essential cultural infrastructure rather than decorative afterthoughts. Scholars of urban cultural economics note that creative density produces measurable neighborhood vitality, a principle that guided the first HAVE gathering and continues to shape its growth.
HAVE stands for Home, Art, Vintage, Entertainment. The name is literal and symbolic. It signals a convergence of domestic craft, interdisciplinary art, curated vintage, and performance. It also asserts a civic thesis that neighborhoods thrive when creativity is visible, accessible, and celebrated.
HAVE functions as a platform that centers San Francisco based talent, supports sustainable creative economies, and animates historic venues with new work that honors the past while amplifying the future
Who Am I?
My name is Krystyl
I am the founder, curator, and producer behind HAVE. My work in the vintage world taught me that objects carry lineage, place, and memory, and that people who work with these objects often sit at the margins of formal arts institutions.
I wanted to build something porous, rigorous, and community driven. My background in events, creative entrepreneurship, and neighborhood advocacy shaped HAVE into a hybrid model that merges cultural programming with economic opportunity.
I approach each edition with the conviction that local creativity deserves the same visibility as large institutions, and that small businesses are cultural engines, not retail footnotes.
Why HAVE?
HAVE exists to support the makers who give this city its texture. It is curated with intention, grounded in sustainability, and committed to strengthening the creative fabric of San Francisco. Each gathering is a reminder that culture is not an abstract ideal. It is something we build together, one vendor table, one performance, one reclaimed artifact at a time.