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Saturday, April 20, noon-2:30 pm
...And Some of That Started Here! Glen Park
WALKING TOUR
The San Francisco civic pride campaign, It All Starts Here SF, highlights the foundational tenets of our city and how "San Francisco has a deep history of inclusion, innovation, tragedy and resilience and we always come back." Join Evelyn Rose, Glen Park historian and founder of the Glen Park Neighborhoods History Project, to rediscover our connections with some historic San Francisco “firsts” throughout the district and adjacent open space. From the first dynamite factory in America personally licensed by inventor Alfred Nobel to the first high-altitude flight in a fixed-wing flying machine, a resident who led the first official march for women's suffrage in the United States, plus other interesting revelations along the way. You'll be surprised at the remarkable histories Glen Park harbors!
RSVP required to shaping@foundsf.org.
Wednesday, April 24, 7:30 pm
History of Monopoly/Game Night!
at 518 Valencia
at 518 Valencia
David Giesen brings his extraordinary collection of original 1907 Monopoly game artifacts to anchor his presentation of the fascinating political history of the game, with roots in the anti-monopoly politics championed by Henry George in the 19th century. Following the presentation we will have a GAME NIGHT! San Francisco Trivia, Yahtzee, Monopoly, Cuban dominoes, bring your own! BYOB too!
This is a free event, but we gladly accept donations. donate now!
Wednesday, May 8, 7:30 pm
Art & Politics: Hughen/Starkweather
at 518 Valencia
at 518 Valencia
"Conversations, interviews, and deep research are a significant piece of their process for every project they take on. Feeling a “responsibility to educate the viewer, to give them a window in,” they have, over the course of the last decade, developed a nuanced strategy for avoiding what many artists fail to acknowledge as a problem: leaving their audiences out in the cold. . .When the colors and shapes of a nonrepresentational work of art rearrange themselves into remembrance or recognition, magic happens. Hughen/Starkweather describe this as “closing the space between abstraction and language.” Excerpt from Selene Foster article on Hughen/Starkweather's Adjacent Shores, April 2016.
This is a free event, but we gladly accept donations. donate now!
Explore Shaping San Francisco:
Ecology Emerges
Discussions and reflections on the history of Bay Area ecological activism, based on oral histories documenting the past 50 years.
Ecology Emerges is an oral history gathering project to explore the past 50 years of ecological activism in the Bay Area and the role that individual and institutional memories play in the development, policy proposals, and interrelationships that together make up the existing networks of ecological politics. We document the living ecological activist movement, in their own words, but also in a larger context of urban growth and globalization.
Oral Histories
Shaping San Francisco, as part of our ongoing work, sits down with people who have stories to tell and conducts oral history interviews.
Check them out here.
"Editor's Pick Tour" from FoundSF.org
Comprised of over 1,400 pages, and 2,500 historical photos, the wiki-based archive FoundSF.org is the product of hundreds of contributors, regular people who were compelled by the chance to investigate some piece of this City's past.
Shaping San Francisco is fiscally sponsored by Independent Arts & Media, a California non-profit corporation.