![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Art & Politics: Doug Minkler - Shaping San Francisco Talks
Doug Minkler was one of the first political artists to embrace the Mac and heâs been making scathing collages and edgy, often hilarious posters for several decades. See his solo show and find out how heâs kept himself going all these years!
Keywords: Art; politics; labor; movements; left wing; social services; social movements; expressionism; collage
Downloads: 9 |
| What's Natural About Natural Disasters? Part 4 - Shaping San Francisco Talks
Audience Q&A following the discussion of the topic, featuring Peter Davidson, Tom Athanasiou, Sherlina Nager, and Chris Carlsson
Keywords: San Francisco, community, public safety, class, anti-capitalism, consumerism
Downloads: 10 |
| Art & Politics: Favianna Rodriguez - Shaping San Francisco
Favianna Rodriguez has been making art to make change for years. She will present remarkable posters, illustrations, stickers and more, and talk about art and politics, in the concluding event of our solo artist shows this season.
Keywords: art; activism; Latina; illustrations; posters; social movements
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| Art & Politics: S.F. Print Collective - Shaping San Francisco
The S.F. Print Collective has been postering striking silk-screened images on the cityâs walls for years, speaking to politics, police, immigration, and much more. Slides and discussion from several of the Collectivistas... http://www.sfprintcollective.com/ Recorded Oct. 8, 2008 at CounterPULSE, part of the Shaping San Francisco Talks series.
Keywords: art; politics; anti-eviction; housing; social movements; immigration; police
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| Can San Francisco Feed Itself? - Shaping San Francisco Talks
Can urban food production be compatible with urban native habitat conservation and restoration? What are the limits and advantages of systematic effort to grow food within the city? What should our relationship be to local gardening, regional Community-Supported Agriculture, and Slow Food? Five panelists and audience Q&A spread over three half hour radio shows. This show features Chris Carlsson and Raquel Rivera-Pinderhughes.
Keywords: San Francisco, urban agriculture, community gardening, weeds, Slow Food, farming, organics
Downloads: 64 |
| Jet Martinez: Art & Politics talk - Shaping San Francisco Talks
San Francisco-based muralist Jet Martinez talks about Art & Politics as part of the ongoing Shaping San Francisco Talks series at CounterPULSE. Martinez hails from Mexico originally, and he paints magical realist images of nature, incorporating metallic paints and repetitive geometric patterns (that in turn evoke both pre-industrial textiles and industrially homogenous designs) with natural forms from trees, leaves, and more.
Keywords: art; politics; Shaping San Francisco; Talks; murals; magic realism
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| Local Remanufacturing Our Way Out of the Depression - Shaping San Francisco Talks
How Can Making Products Locally From Recyclables Solve Local Economic Challenges? "We need to make products locally from local recyclables." said Peter Berg. "Remanufacturing provides meaningful work, closes the energy loop, and stimulates creativity. It is a practical response to the economic slump that builds on our physical and human resources." Featuring: Neil Seldman, President of the Washington, D.C.-based Institute For Local Self-Reliance, Peter Berg, Planet Drum Foundation director, and ...
Keywords: Recycling; waste; remanufacturing; materials; sustainability; green jobs; work
Downloads: 9 |
| The Health Epidemic: Therapy Society and Eroding Public Health Part 2 - Shaping San Francisco Talks
Continuing the discussion of public health and the health care crisis, starting with Bill Mosca, director of the California State Oriental Medical Association, and followed by Jason Blantz, a mental health worker serving the disabled, indigent and poor on Medi-cal.
Keywords: San Francisco, health, sickness, therapy, medical care, single-payer, CNA, insurance
Downloads: 63 |
| Land Grab - Shaping San Francisco
Dramatized account of land theft by newly arriving Americans, as told by a female member of the De Haro clan, originally recorded by Haight Ashbury Community Radio project, 1980.
Keywords: land grabs; Spanish Land Grants; Mexican period; ranchos
Downloads: 11 |
| Surviving the Economic Meltdown One Neighborhood at a Time - Shaping San Francisco
Economic meltdown? Recession? Depression? What are we to do? With the bailout benefiting Wall Street at the expense of Main Street, many are expect the new Obama administration to champion a New New Deal. But how will working people fare? Will the catalyst for change come from above or below? What lessons can we learn from the past and what are âurban homesteadersâ already doing to localize the economy at the neighborhood level? Featuring working class historian Gifford Hartman, who will revis...
Keywords: Economic crisis; Depression; urban homesteaders; self-reliance; localization; 1930s anti-eviction; gardening; alternative energy; graywater; Food Not Bombs
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| Art & Politics: Andrew Schoultz - Shaping San Francisco
Schoultzâs distinctive murals full of strange animals, twisting buildings and floating birdhouses caught the angst of modern life. Lately heâs gone to a surrealistic sea and weâll get a full look at his work and hear what he says about it tonight. Recorded January 16, 2008, one of Shaping San Francisco's Talks at CounterPULSE.
Keywords: art; politics; murals; community
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| Class and Power in Queer San Francisco - Shaping San Francisco
What does âclassâ or âcommunityâ mean? How does the newbie Midwesterner serving burgers at a Castro street diner relate to the landlord and shop owner âGay Communityâ spokesmen? How do the schisms between different classes of women, whether lesbian or bi or undefined, show up in daily life and local politics (or not)? How does fear of gender bending impact trans and intersexed people when it comes to paying the rent? Solidad de Costa, Keith Hennessy, and Michelle Tea.
Keywords: class; community; gender; transgender; gay; lesbian; bisexual; worker; labor; economy; housing
Downloads: 4 |
| Learnin' + Teachin' -- The Future of Education - Shaping San Francisco Talks
In decaying and resource-starved public schools, teachers and staffers with incredible vision and energy are trying to make education work. But what do we want from education now? Should it be organized around children spending mandatory time in classrooms or should we take a hint from the burgeoning homeschooling movement and look toward other models? Let's challenge our assumptions in this open-ended discussion...
Keywords: San Francisco, public schools, parents, homeschooling, religion, textbooks, social interaction
Downloads: 107 |
| Russell Howze/Stencil Nation Art & Politics - Shaping San Francisco
With dynamically illustrated perspectives across the art form, hundreds of photographs and numerous essays have been curated by StencilArchive.orgâs founder, Russell Howze. Stencil Nation builds upon published works to give the most extensive and up-to-date history of stencil art, as well as how-to tips from the artists. Recorded April 15, 2009 at CounterPULSE, part of Shaping San Francisco's ongoing Art & Politics Talks series.
Keywords: art; politics; stencils; graffiti; murals; urban art; street art
Downloads: 12 |
| Twin Peaks Bioregion and the Natural Areas Program - Shaping San Francisco
The Franciscan Bioregion is the unique ecological area of Planet Earth and the area of our keen interest, north of the San Francisco airport, from San Bruno Mountain to the Golden Gate. In the heart of the city is a series of hilltops, e.g., Mt. Davidson, Tank Hill, Corona Heights, as well as Glen Canyon, that are still rich with natural areas, wildlife habitats, and indigenous biodiversity. This âTwin Peaks Bioregionâ is severely threatened by noxious weeds and insensitive uses of our local n...
Keywords: Twin Peaks; hilltops; open spaces; biodiversity
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| When the Mission was Low and Slow - Shaping San Francisco
Friends and neighbors from the Mission District, including Mission Archives and Conscious Youth Media Crew folks, came together at CounterPULSE as part of the Shaping San Francisco Talks series on April 11, 2007, to screen raw footage of low-riders on Mission and other lost footage of the 1970s and 1980s. Ray Balbaran, Vero Majana, Roberto Hernandez, and dozens of others... Back in the late 1970s and early â80s Mission St...
Keywords: Mission District; Latino; Low riders; La Raza; The Lot; El Tecolote; Mission Archives; Conscious Youth Media Crew
Downloads: 5 |
| 40th Anniversary: San Francisco State Strike 1968-69 - Shaping San Francisco
The student/faculty strike at S.F. State College in 1968-69 was a seminal event, ushering in ethnic studies in higher education, contributing energy and activists to dozens of San Francisco political movements and much more. Learn about it from original participants: Roger Alvarado, Margaret Leahy, John Levin.
Keywords: Student strike; faculty strike; police violence; Ronald Reagan; S.I. Hayakawa; Black Student Union; Third World Alliance; ethnic studies
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| Art & Politics: Mona Caron - Shaping San Francisco
Inaugurating a new âthird Wednesdaysâ series at CounterPULSE, Mona Caron will present a slide show of her famous murals and many other works, talking about the politics of her art, and her ideas about the relationship of art and politics.
Keywords: murals; art; politics; painting; Switzerland; Intragna; Mona Caron
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| Bees in the City - Shaping San Francisco Talks
Learn about the âColony Collapse Disorderâ afflicting commercial beekeepers and the threat to agribusiness, in juxtaposition to the dozens of native bees flourishing in Californiaâs urban environments, which reinforce local biodiversity and provide another important link to growing our own food in cities. K. Ruby and Philip Gerrie
Keywords: bees; urban agriculture; biodiversity; agribusiness; Colony Collapse Disorder
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| Candlestick Point: State Park for the People - Shaping San Francisco
Claude Everhart of Friends of Candlestick, Alan Hopkins, Golden Gate Audubon Society, Patrick Rump, Literacy for Environmental Justice talk about the unusual history and present of the Candlestick Point State Recreation Area. It's an open bayshore park built on landfill and trash, a product of a deliberate community-driven process that chose open space and natural qualities over the usual city-style parks and recreation facilities...
Keywords: Candlestick Point; State Park; urban park; bayshore; redevelopment; endemic species; birds; African-American; native plants
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| Claude Everhart on Candlestick Point State Recreation Area - Shaping San Francisco
Claude Everhart, a founder of Friends of Candlestick, describes the public process that led to the Candlestick Point State Recreation Area as a natural park on the bayshore, built on landfill, created by community input and control.
Keywords: Candlestick Point; San Francisco; state parks; public participation; community input
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| Ecology & Redevelopment in Bayview Hunter's Point - Shaping San Francisco
The City and Lennar Corporation are promulgating a redevelopment plan, but what about ecology, wildlife and the human community? Come learn about ArcEcology's recent report that illustrates brand new and exciting alternatives for the Bayview-Hunter's Point Redevelopment. How is Candlestick Point State Recreation Area affected? Isn't Bayview-Hunter's Point entitled to its own Crissy Field? How can (re)development benefit the current residents and be driven by their needs and wants? (Saul Bloom, A...
Keywords: redevelopment; toxic waste; Yosemite slough; Candlestick Point; Hunter's Point; Navy Base; Southeast San Francisco; Eastern Neighborhoods
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| Can San Francisco Feed Itself? Part 2 - Shaping San Francisco Talks
Continuing part one on the theme of urban agriculture and food security. This episode features Antonio Alcala of Alemany Farm and Brahm Ahmadi of the People's Grocery.
Keywords: San Francisco, urban agriculture, community gardening, weeds, Slow Food, farming, organics, People's Grocery, Alemany Farm
Downloads: 124 |
| Hearing the City: Evolution of Radio - Shaping San Francisco
From AM radio (the first mass media) before WWII and how it shaped San Francisco, Auto Row AM-radio to the 1960s underground FM radio to the present era of podcasting, we will trace the paths of media, technology, audience and producers. Joe Lerer (KFRC and KSAN), Monkey (PirateCat Radio), George Epileptic (KUSF) and Chris Carlsson (Shaping San Francisco. Recorded January 14, 2009 at CounterPULSE, part of the Shaping San Francisco Talks series).
Keywords: radio; AM; FM; web; broadcast; community; media; underground
Downloads: 16 |
| Hugh D'Andrade: Art & Politics - Shaping San Francisco
Hugh will present a slideshow of his diverse body of work, ranging from rock posters to anti-war flyers to original paintings, and talk about the ways his politics have informed his artâand vice versa. Recorded October 17, 2007 as part of the Shaping San Francisco Talks series at CounterPULSE in San Francisco.
Keywords: art; politics; bicycling; copyright; copyleft; commons; illustration
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| Infrastructure Wars: Sustainable Movements - Shaping San Francisco Talks
An historical look at how San Franciscans have fought for a human-centered city. From saving Telegraph Hill, stopping freeways, and resisting development, the corporate agenda has been thwarted again and again. Today new movements are again contesting the direction of the city. Chris Carlsson, host, and Calvin Welch, housing activist, in this episode.
Keywords: San Francisco, landfill, sand dunes, creeks, wetlands, freeway revolt, earthquakes, housing, high-rise revolt
Downloads: 22 |
| Lake Merced Natural Area - Shaping San Francisco Talks
The largest coastal lagoon between Point Reyes and Pescadero, Lake Merced is an incomparable natural resource for San Francisco. A controversial preserve has been proposed for East Lake and some intact habitats, to protect wildlife and threatened species. Dan Murphy GG Audubon Society, David Behar, SF Public Utilities Commission. A Nature in the City co-production (www.natureinthecity.org)
Keywords: Lake Merced; aquifer; golf courses; habitat; species; wildlife; birds; Audubon; southwest San Francisco
Downloads: 9 |
| Land Grabs - Shaping San Francisco Talks
San Francisco's entire history is based on land grabs, within its own borders, and far beyond. Sketching this history to the present, we will also look at counter-efforts to grab land and to create open and cooperative spaces in an ever-more commercially tyrannized society. Chris Carlsson and James Tracy.
Keywords: San Francisco, Pacific Rim, Pribiloff Islands, seals, whales, land grants, Mexican ranchos, squatting, water lots, cemeteries, Mission Bay, redevelopment, Potrero Commons
Downloads: 69 |
| Land Grabs Part 2 - Shaping San Francisco Talks
continuing the discussion from part 1 on the long, sordid history of Land Grabs in San Francisco, and in this Talk, a refreshing turning of the tables where popular efforts begin grabbing land back for purposes other than private property and commerce, featuring Erick Lyle talking about 949 Market Street squat, the 3rd St corridor, mid-Market redevelopment; James Tracy speaks about Homes Not Jails and the SF Community Land Trust, Chris Carlsson tells about the recent history of art spaces, evict...
Keywords: San Francisco, mid-Market, blight, redevelopment, Homes Not Jails, squatting
Downloads: 57 |
| Le Tank Solaire - Shaping San Francisco
Satirical radio advertisement for "Le Tank Solaire", the solar-powered defense strategy for the 1970s and 1980s, prepared by members of the Union of Concerned Commies.
Keywords: tank; solar; Chrys-is-ler Corp; satire
Downloads: 26 |
| Martha Senger, Goodman Building on Artists Residential Hotels - Shaping San Francisco
Martha Senger, a Goodman Building stalwart, describes briefly the history of small artist residential hotels in San Francisco.
Keywords: Goodman Group; Goodman Building; Hotaling; residential hotels
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| What's Natural About Natural Disasters? - Shaping San Francisco Talks
Earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, epidemic flu, chronic disease, etc. What are the elements of a community response based on mutual aid, cooperation, and a renewed commitment to a public health infrastructure? Chris Carlsson, the host, and Tom Athanasiou of Eco-Equity, speak in the first of four half hour shows from the Shaping San Francisco "Nature in the City" Talks at CounterPULSE.
Keywords: San Francisco, Nature in the City, ecology, global warming, climate change, carbon reduction, sky is falling
Downloads: 235 |
| New Green City Politics - Shaping San Francisco
What are the historic roots of our current ecological politics, how have they shaped todayâs environment and the questions we face now? Open space, biodiversity, global warming, fresh water, street design and transit choices, urban farming... local historian Dick Walker (âThe City in the Countryâ), Kearstin Krehbiel (SF Parks Trust), Peter Brastow (Nature in the City), Keirstin Dischinger (Bike Kitchen)...
Keywords: Open space; biodiversity; global warming; fresh water; street design; transit choices; urban farming
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| Nowtopia - Shaping San Francisco
Chris Carlsson introduces his new book at CounterPULSE, April 9, 2009: "Nowtopia: How Pirate Programmers, Outlaw Bicyclists, and Vacant-Lot Gardeners Are Inventing the Future Today"... this is a bit over an hour, and it's entirely a reading from the contents of the book to an audience of about 80 friends.
Keywords: Nowtopia; gardening; utopia; bicycling; programming; biofuels; Burning Man
Downloads: 7 |
| Philippines and San Francisco: Part 2 - Shaping San Francisco Talks
Part two of the Spring Talk at CounterPULSE on the Philippines and San Francisco. This part features MC Canlas and Estella Habal continuing the discussion of the Philippines-US war and then the long wave of Filipino immigration to San Francisco.
Keywords: San Francisco; Philippines; anti-Chinese racism; Chinese exclusion; anti-Japanese exclusion; Spanish-American War; Philippines-US war
Downloads: 65 |
| Precarious Dead-End Job? The Cooperative Alternative - Shaping San Francisco
Members of Bay Area worker cooperatives will share their thoughts on the history and practice of democratic organization, decision making, equitable employment, and the effects that these organizations have had on the local economy (Rainbow, Inkworks, Box Dog Bikes, Design Action, NoBAWC).
Keywords: Cooperatives; collectives; self-management; self-employment; democracy; economic democracy
Downloads: 12 |
| Public Commons vs. Corporate Privatization - Shaping San Francisco
With Mayor Newsom trying to give away the cityâs wi-fi space to a corporate consortium, efforts by Bechtel and other private contractors to take over our public water system, the ongoing scandal of PG&E selling us our own âpublicâ power and their current efforts to take over alternative power, incessant pressure to privatize the public schools, a national culture that blindly accepts corporate interests as preferable to public interests, weâll talk about how the San Francisco Bay Area can be...
Keywords: Corporate personhood; democracy; economics; community control; public interest; Green Party
Downloads: 5 |
| Talks, Art & Politics: Conscious Youth Media Crew - Shaping San Francisco
A film screening of shorts by participants of the Conscious Youth Media Crew.
Keywords: Racism; green; greenwashing; Bayview Hunter's Point; African American; Latino; BART; police brutality
Downloads: 7 |
| Talks: From India to the Bay Area - Shaping San Francisco
Devendra Sharma (Performing Diaspora) and Jaysi Chander (physician and kathak dancer/tabla player/poet and activist) discuss important issues surrounding the Bay Area Indian community. Topics include: immigration politics, women in forced marriage, Indian Invitro industry, political economy of Silicon Valley and Indian outsourcing industries.
Keywords: India; South Asia; dance; Performing Diaspora; Silicon Valley; marriage; immigration; outsourcing
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| The Trouble with Voting - Shaping San Francisco
Does voting matter? Do you urge everyone around you to vote? What kinds of power do we gain or lose by participating in elections? What else can we do? Weâll hear from folks who believe in representative democracy, those who propose reforms, and those who reject it outright. Michael Med-o Whitson, Natasha Marsh (Calif League of Young Voters), James Rucker (colorofchange.org). Recorded Oct. 10, 2007 at CounterPULSE, part of the Shaping SF Talks series.
Keywords: voting; elections; representative democracy; direct democracy; reforms
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| Toxic San Francisco - Shaping San Francisco Talks
Superfund sites in San Francisco? Come find out whether people and nature are being treated appropriately and fairly in these two well known but very different communities and environments. Is the Presidio Trust fulfilling its commitment to protect and restore the natural resources of this great urban National Park? Are the Navy and the City of San Francisco taking the best care of the residents and their environment at Hunter's Point Shipyard? San Francisco is blessed with significant remaining...
Keywords: Toxic waste; superfund; Bayview Hunter's Point; Presidio; Tennessee Hollow; Candlestick Point State Recreation Area; bioremediation; landfill; Navy; heavy metals
Downloads: 12 |
| A Bicycle Built for Two - Shaping San Francisco
Traditional tune of the late 19th century that accompanied the bicycling boom of that era.
Keywords: Bicycle; 19th century; traditional
Downloads: 85 |
| Alcatraz 40th Anniversary of Indigenous Occupation - Shaping San Francisco
Mary Jean Robertson ("Voice of the Native Nations" KPOO-FM radio, 34d, 4th and 5th Wednesdays from 6-8 pm) and Tony Gonzalez (AIM-West, International Indian Treaty Council) speak about the importance of the Alcatraz occupation in 1969-70, and the many initiatives galvanized by the audacity of that event. The first part of the audio is the soundtrack from a movie "Alcatraz Is Not an Island" by Jim Fortier.
Keywords: Alcatraz; 1969; 1970; Native Americans; Indians; Indigenous; AIM; American Indian Movement; American Indian Center; Mission District
Downloads: 21 |
| Anti-Systemic Knowledge: Learning from the Global South - Shaping San Francisco
A talk on the coloniality of power and knowledge, transmodernity, border knowledge, indigenous socialism and the socialization of power, solidarity economies, and other contemporary practices, theories and radical political alternatives emerging from the Global South. The panelists will discuss autonomous self-activity in Venezuela, Amazonian social forums, poly-culturality, global indigenous movements, the conditions and politics of knowledge production during the early colonization of the Amer...
Keywords: Indigenous movements; theory; exteriority; mestizo; anti-colonialism; socialism; modernism
Downloads: 53 |
| Anti-War Then and Now - Shaping San Francisco
Weâll take a look back at military resistance to the Vietnam War, including the mutiny of sailors on the Coral Sea, the anti-nuclear and anti-Central American War movements of the 1980s and hear from Iraq vets about the state of anti-war activities in the current conflict. David Solnit, Paul Cox and Sarah Lazare.
Keywords: Anti-war; Vietnam; Iraq; veterans; organizing; El Salvador; Nicaragua; resistance; GIs
Downloads: 35 |
| Arab San Francisco - Shaping San Francisco
Peoples from the Arab World have been migrating to San Francisco for over a hundred years. The earliest were mostly from the Levant: Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Palestine; and also Yemen. Most recent immigrants coming from North Africaâs Magrib region (Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia) and Iraq since the first Gulf War. Why did they come here? How have they affected SF life? What are their ongoing connections to âhomelandsâ across the world? San Francisco, being a liberal progressive oasis, attrac...
Keywords: Arab; Middle East; immigration; San Francisco; Gay; Lesbian; conservatism
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| Archy Lee - Shaping San Francisco
Excerpt from an 1850s song popular in San Francisco, having to do with the freeing of Archy Lee from jail. He had been seized by fugitive slave bounty hunters but a mob set him free. This rendition by Blackberry, recorded in 1980 for the Haight Ashbury Community Radio project.
Keywords: slavery; song; 1850s; San Francisco
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| Are Green Jobs Different? Can Capitalism - Shaping San Francisco
Amidst a general enthusiasm and push for a ânew Green economyâ weâll take a look at both the kinds of work that get labeled green, and how the logic of capitalism impedes a deeper ecological transformation. Jason Mark ("Building the Green Economy," Alemany Farm), Chris Carlsson ("Nowtopia," Shaping San Francisco), and Mary Rick (Business Alliance for Local Living Economies).
Keywords: Green Jobs; Green New Deal; Green Economy; Sustainability; small business; government; regulation; wage labor
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| Art & Politics: Keith Hennessy--Saliva - Shaping San Francisco
a 1988/89 performance by Keith Hennessy. Twenty years ago Keith Hennessy created Saliva, an interdisciplinary dance-performance-ritual under a freeway in downtown San Francisco. Deep within the rage and grief of the AIDS crisis, Hennessy performed a ritualistic reclamation of the body, the queer male body, as holy. Video excerpts, live performance, historical context, and audience discussion combine to recreate this AIDS-era work of queer performance...
Keywords: performance; AIDS; 1980s; Keith Hennessy; interdisciplinary; dance; ritual; San Francisco; gay; body; queer
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| Bicycling in San Francisco - Shaping San Francisco
A Shaping San Francisco Talk held at CounterPULSE, 1310 Mission at 9th in San Francisco on Wed. Oct. 21, 7:30pm 17 years of Critical Mass and 10,000 members of the Bike Coalition? what's right, what's not with the way bicycling and bicycling politics is developing at the end of the first decade of the 21st century? A broad discussion of bicycle etiquette, transportation and urban design, equipment and safety (good engineering vs...
Keywords: bicycling; bicycles; San Francisco Bicycle Coalition; bike boulevards; Critical Mass; red lights; helmets; courtesy; road rage; street design
Downloads: 24 |
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