To celebrate International Women’s Day on Sunday, athleticwear company Lululemon is taking over The San Francisco Mint for a limited-run event featuring the voices of inspirational Bay Area women.
The first of its kind in the region, the brand’s performative and interactive exhibit — which opens Friday and runs through Sunday — centers on the experiences and insights of five local personalities: community organizer Adejire Bademosi, yogi and entrepreneur Britteny Floyd-Mayo, artist Katie Gong, fitness expert and yoga instructor Dani Parker and Nkechi Deanna Njaka, a neuroscientist and multidisciplinary artist.
“The exhibit is a physical manifestation of our celebration of women, International Women’s Day and the ‘extra sweat’ that women put in to reach the same milestones as men,” Susan Gelinas, Lululemon’s senior vice president of people and culture, explained to WWD.

Nkechi Deanna Njaka, neuroscientist and multidisciplinary artist, speaking via video during one part of the exhibit. 
Courtesy of Lululemon

The event is guided, which means that the brand’s “docents” bring groups into the Mint’s various vault rooms, each decked out for different purposes. Some play videos of the speakers telling their stories, others are designed in different colors and settings to evoke different moods or emotions, culminating in a live setting with guest

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