November 18, 2025
Upcoming Holiday Closures

 

Photo by Shundo David Haye.

 

City Center Closures

Thanksgiving

The City Center building and the bookstore will be closed Thursday and Friday, November 27–28, and will reopen on Saturday, November 29 for the regular morning program. There will be no public lunch. The online SFZC Store will remain open.

Rohatsu Sesshin

The City Center offices and Bookstore will be closed from Monday, December 1 through Saturday, December 6. The online SFZC Store will remain open.

Interim

The City Center zendo will be closed from Monday, December 8 through Wednesday, December 10 for Interim. Interim will end with the Wednesday night Dharma talk.

Christmas and New Year’s Eve

City Center and the online SFZC Store will be closed Thursday and Friday, December 25–26.
The City Center zendo will be closed Monday, December 22 through Wednesday, December 31.
New Year’s Eve schedule TBA.

City Center will be closed Thursday, January 1, 2026.

Online Zendo Closures

Thanksgiving

The online zendo will be closed Thursday and Friday, November 27–28, and will open on Saturday, November 29 for the regular morning program.

Rohatsu Sesshin

The online zendo will operate as usual during Rohatsu for daily zazen and for the Wednesday and Saturday Dharma talks.

Interim

The online zendo will remain open during the December 8–10 interim.

Christmas and New Year’s Eve

The online zendo will be closed Thursday and Friday, December 25–-26 and on Thursday, January 1, 2026.

Green Gulch Farm

Thanksgiving

Green Gulch Farm will be closed on Thursday and Friday, November 27–28.

Rohatsu

Green Gulch Farm will be closed for Rohatsu on Sunday, December 14 (no Sunday program).

Christmas and New Year’s Eve

Green Gulch Farm will be closed from Wednesday, December 17 through Monday, December 29.
It will be open for the New Year’s Eve program and for the January 4 Dharma talk.

Intensive

Green Gulch Farm will be open for Sunday Dharma talks on January 11 and 18.
It will be closed on Sunday, January 26