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Saturday, Nov. 9, 12 noon-2:30 pm
Scandalous South of Market
A Walking Tour
Join a walk starting at the Palace Hotel with its surprising tales of 19th century wealth and vice, traverse the buried histories of Redevelopment and Yerba Buena, the Philippines-US War, and much more!
Tour ends at King and 3rd Streets.
RSVP and click here to donate in advance!
Sunday, Nov. 10, 12 noon-3 pm
Food Politics History
A Walking Tour
Explore the many ethnic threads that, knit together, have produced our amazing local cuisine. From the old Italian food industries to Chinese shrimping villages, to the prodigious Bay Area fresh fruit and vegetable trade, get ready for an illuminating tour that will change how you think about what you eat.
Tour ends at pier 50.
RSVP and click here to donate in advance!
Saturday, November 16,
10 am-12:30 pm
Mission Creek at King Tide
Mission Creek is what we call the human-made channel that is the remains of a once sprawling Mission Bay. Learn about that history on this walk where we will see the rising King tide inundating aspects of the remarkable ecological restoration work done along the banks of the channel. Learn about City plans to reinforce and mitigate the inevitable sea-level rise impacts on Mission Bay, the most recently built neighborhood in the city.
Tours are FREE. RSVP to shaping@foundsf.org.
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.