May 16, 2012
Pictured: Soil Kitchen
Amy Franceschini
Shaping San Francisco Public Talk
MAY 16, WED 7:30PM
FREE
Amy Franceschini is a pollinator who creates formats for exchange and production that question and challenge the social, cultural and environmental systems that surround her. An overarching theme in her work is a perceived conflict between humans and nature. Her projects reveal the ways that local politics are affected by globalization. In 1995, Amy founded Futurefarmers, an international collective of artists. In 2004, Amy co-founded Free Soil, an international collective of artists, activists, researchers, and gardeners who work together to propose alternatives to the social, political and environmental organization of space.
May 19, 2012
Asian American Women Artists Association (AAWAA)
MAY 19, SAT at 8PM
$10-20 Sliding Scale
Pangu held up the Sky for 18,000 years. When exhausted, he laid his body down. The fleas on his body became the Humans… and humans began to scatter… Journey with Nancy Wang’s ancestors on the high seas in 1850, crashing in the Carmel Bay, starting the Monterey fishing industry, and overcoming anti-Chinese violence to triumph! Then journey with Kenji Oshima’s story as he explores his multi-ethnic experience. The GAPA Men’s Chorus provides music for this multi-media concert experience.
May 20, 2012
A Shaping San Francisco Cycles of History Bike Tour
Chris Carlsson conducting the Dissent bicycle history tour, here at Pier 40.
MAY 20, SUN at NOON
$15-50 sliding scale
Covering everything from literary dissenters to urban riots and protests, this tour examines sites of conflict and unrest, the social movements and upheavals, that have shaped San Francisco since its origins. It’s a social, historical and critical 4-hour tour through the city’s contrarian past and present.
May 21, 2012
REGISTRATION CLOSED
Artists Writers Directors Dancers Choreographers Actors Musicians Filmmakers Performers Producers
CounterPULSE Presents Boot Camp for Artists
with Jessica Robinson Love
Intensive skills for raising money and attention
6-weeks: Mondays, April 16th – May 21st, 2012, 6:30-9:30pm
Whether you’re a choreographer who’s self-producing for the first time, a director who’s ready to expand your company, an experienced artist looking to brush up on skills, or a performer looking to get a part-time job in arts administration, this crash course will give you the skills you need to kick-start your career.
The bootcamp includes 18 hours of instruction, plus in-person presentations by local editors and funders. Your art deserves the investment!
Space is limited, advanced registration is required.
May 23, 2012
Pictured: Carnaval, May 2011, San Francisco, on Mission Street. Photo: Chris Carlsson Date: May 23, 2012
A Shaping San Francisco Public Talk
MAY 23, WED 7:30 PM
FREE
Emerging visions for public thoroughfares challenge the 20th century paradigm of automobile-centric streets. Pedestrians, bicyclists, and wild critters are all demanding their own ways to cross the city. San Francisco’s “Green Connections” project seeks to integrate these new visions into San Francisco’s urban grid. Join Andy Thornley (SF Bike Coalition), Peter Brastow (Nature in the City), Elizabeth Stampe (Walk SF), and the SF Planning Dept.’s Kearstin Dischinger to critically evalute these competing and complementary visions of a reconfigured San Francisco.
May 25, 2012
Scott Wells & Dancers
MAY 25 – JUN 3, FRI-SUN at 8PM, JUN 3 matinee at 2PM
SPECIAL FORCES explores the military body through dance. It is more about physical intelligence than military intelligence. Wells grew up in the military and his father served in Vietnam. Also premiering is PARKOUR-2, which will be as “electrifying” (SF Weekly) as any of Wells’ “Kamikazi dances” (Voice of Dance).
May 26, 2012
A Shaping San Francisco Cycles of History Bike Tour
Bicycle History Food Tour June 26, 2011. Food warehouse at Davis and Jackson, 1950s
MAY 26, SAT at 12PM
$15-50 sliding scale
We’ll go towards North Beach to explore the old Italian food industries, before turning south to explore the multiple food histories of the Mission and with luck, making it to Alemany Farm for our final stop. Special food stops all the way!
May 30, 2012
Shaping San Francisco Public Talk
MAY 30, WED 7:30PM
FREE
Trace the vital history of political dissent in San Francisco with Chris Carlsson, using our FoundSF collection to connect past movements with today’s, with a focus on the anti-nuclear and anti-war movements of the 1970s and 1980s through today’s Occupy movement.
June 1, 2012
Scott Wells & Dancers
Photo: David Papas; Dancers: Rajendra Serber and Kellye Mckee
MAY 25 – JUN 3, FRI-SUN at 8PM, JUN 3 matinee at 2PM
SPECIAL FORCES explores the military body through dance. It is more about physical intelligence than military intelligence. Wells grew up in the military and his father served in Vietnam. Also premiering is PARKOUR-2, which will be as “electrifying” (SF Weekly) as any of Wells’ “Kamikazi dances” (Voice of Dance).
June 15, 2012
LIZZ ROMAN & DANCERS
JUN 15 -JUL 1 FRI-SUN at 8PM
Online $20
At the door $25
LIZZ ROMAN & DANCERS presents “DEEPER” Architectural Meditations at CounterPULSE, Roman’s newest site specific dance\event featuring dancers Chris Black, Tara Fagan, Cameron Growden, Courtney Moreno and James Soria performing to original live score by ENTAMOEBA and DJ JERM with lighting by JennyB of Shady Lady Lighting.
