Upcoming Events:
Fall 2023
The 25th Anniversary Celebration Continues!
Look for our fall calendar in August, when we will begin with an August 26 special bike tour commemorating the locales central to the raucous history of bike messengers in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. A joint picnic with Planet Drum to celebrate our respective 50th and 25th anniversaries will be held on Saturday, September 23! Luminaries (who happen to be friends of Shaping San Francisco) will appear throughout the Fall, including Jenny Odell, EastBayYesterday's Liam O'Donoghue, Emiliano Echeverria and the Western Neighborhoods Project, Gary Kamiya, Seep City's Joel Pomerantz, South Asian Radical History friends, special film screenings at ATA, the Exploratorium, and the Prelinger Archives... and MORE! Walking and bike tours, bay cruises... it's a jam-packed autumn and winter ahead!
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Walking Tours — Fall 2023
Social, historical, and critical tours through San Francisco.
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TBA 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.
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NEXT BIKE TOUR » Sunday, July 2, 12-4 pm, (Part of Laborfest) pm
Labor History
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.