Upcoming Events:
Saturday, September 18
Eureka Valley
Eureka Valley
Discover a half dozen stairways, open spaces, and incredible views and gardens all across the upper slopes of Eureka Valley, above the Castro, and below Twin Peaks.
RSVP required: shaping@foundsf.org
The "Urban Forum: Walk & Talk" is an outdoor gathering to replace our normal schedule of indoor public talks. These are shorter urban walks with a guest speaker or two, ending in a place where we can sit (safely) and have an open conversation about history, public space, and the themes that come up along the way.
Walking Tours — Fall 2021
Social, historical, and critical tours through San Francisco.
RSVP shaping@foundsf.org
Saturday, September 4—Scandalous South of Market
Saturday, October 23—Valencia Street: Corridor to Colma
Saturday, November 20—Beer, Dunes, and Trains
Saturday, December 4 11-1pm—King Tide/Sea Level Rise Mission Bay
Bicycle Tours
“Cycles of History,” our social, historical, and critical tours through San Francisco by bicycle.
Our fabulous bicycle tours are led by Critical Mass co-founder Chris Carlsson, with help from LisaRuth Elliott.
Join our list or like us on Facebook to be notified about upcoming tours!
NEXT BIKE TOUR »Saturday September 11, 2021, 12-4pm
Ecological History North
RSVP shaping@foundsf.orgExplore 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.