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Public Talks

Free! All Talks are at 518 Valencia (near 16th Street, one block from 16th Street BART) and begin at 7:30 pm  unless otherwise noted.


Our Public Talks are partly underwritten by the City Lights Foundation and Rainbow Grocery Cooperative.




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Archive of past talks

All our Talks have been integrated into our digital archive at Foundsf.org, and may be easier to access there.

Topic areas of our audio recordings of public talks going back to 2006:

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Talks at 518 Valencia Resume in
Fall 2025—Planning is Underway!

Look for our Fall 2025 calendar in late July/early August.

Photo by Lance Woodruff, originally published in the Tenderloin Times in October 1988, covering a march of homeless and tenant activists in the Tenderloin. (courtesy San Francisco History Center, SF Public Library, AAT-1379

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