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Saturday, November 16,
10 am-12:30 pm
Mission Creek at King Tide
A Waterway Walk
A Waterway Walk
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!
December 4, 7:30 pm
Refusing Silicon Valley
Public Talk at 518 Valencia Street
Wendy Liu’s Abolish Silicon Valley pulled back the façade on the Horatio Alger myths surrounding tech work and start-up culture and left no doubt about the emptiness of life in that world. Erin McElroy, a co-founder of the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project, has turned her prodigious analytical skills to the expansion of the tech industry to the periphery of the former Iron Curtain in Romania in their new Silicon Valley Imperialism. As San Francisco gropes its way through yet another faltering tech bubble pushed by AI hucksters and grifters, join us for a blisteringly honest look at what the titans of silicon are really promoting.
All our Talks are free but we welcome donations. Donate now!
Saturday, December 7,
12 noon-2:30 pm
Yosemite Creek:
Slough and Double Rock
A Waterway Walk
A Waterway Walk
As Candlestick Point State Recreation Area slowly comes to encircle this forgotten waterway, we'll follow the freshwater route as it falls from its source in McLaren Park to the muddy, long industrialized and militarized shoreline today.
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.