A Shaping San Francisco Cycles of History Bike Tour SEP 18, 2011 SUN at 12PM $15-50 Sliding Scale Check out Shaping San Francisco’s current Bicycle Tours and other public programming at ShapingSF.org. This trip through San Francisco’s lost sand dunes, ponds, creeks and coastline will focus on the city from downtown north, covering the heart […]
A Shaping San Francisco Public Talk SEP 14, 2011 WED at 7:30PM FREE Check out Shaping San Francisco’s current Public TALKS and other public programming at ShapingSF.org. Endangered Species is an artwork that wrapped four San Francisco Muni buses in images of locally endangered species. Reintroducing these animals into the urban scene that displaced them, the […]
JUL 9, SAT at NOON* $15-50 sliding scale From the pre-urban history of Indian Slavery to the earliest 8-hour day movement in the U.S., the ebb and flow of class war is traced. SF’s radical working class organizations are shaped in part by racist complicity in genocide and slavery, but from the 1870s to the […]
JUN 25, SAT at 11:30AM* $15-50 sliding scale Meet at the Valet Bike Parking across from the Ferry Building. After that we’ll go north 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. […]
JUN 19, 2011 SUN at 12PM, meet at the COLMA Bart Station $15-50 Check out Shaping San Francisco’s current Bicycle Tours and other public programming at ShapingSF.org. Cemetery Tour (Colma) We meet at the COLMA BART STATION at 12 noon, and then take a spirited tour of several massive cemeteries where famous San Franciscans are […]
JUN 12, SUN at NOON* $15-50 sliding scale This trip through San Francisco’s lost sand dunes, ponds, creeks and coastline will focus on the city south of downtown and SOMA, traversing the Mission, Mission Bay, Potrero Hill, Bayview, and the southeast coastline, including several new public parks. It’s a social, historical and critical 4-hour tour […]
JUN 8, 2011 WED at 7:30PM FREE Check out Shaping San Francisco’s current Public TALKS and other public programming at ShapingSF.org. Peoples Food System, The Farm, and Saving San Bruno Mountain Travel back in time to hear of urban farms, collectives distributing organic foods, the fight to save the mountain (San Bruno), and how the […]
MAY 25, 2011 WED 7:30PM FREE Check out Shaping San Francisco’s current Public TALKS and other public programming at ShapingSF.org. A dramatic visual presentation of the lost murals and forgotten political posters made in San Francisco during the 1970s, based on visual essays in “Ten Years That Shook the City: San Francisco 1968-78” book, with […]
MAY 21, 2011 SAT at 12PM $15-50 Check out Shaping San Francisco’s current Bicycle Tours and other public programming at ShapingSF.org. Dissent 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 […]
MAY 18, 2011 WED 7:30PM FREE Check out Shaping San Francisco’s current Public TALKS and other public programming at ShapingSF.org. Kicking off several consecutive weeks of discussion based on articles in the new book Ten Years That Shook the City: San Francisco 1968-78, this one will look at the politics of the Mission District withAlejandro […]