Next Three Events:
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Thursday, May 22, 6 pm
S.F. Dept. of Memory Pub Crawl
Special Event with members of the Dept. of Memory and you!
Join the San Francisco Department of Memory, an at-large team of community & local historians that preserve city memory, on a drink-finding mission through Financial District and North Beach bars. In our effort to recreate, delve into, and understand San Francisco's deep past to the recent present, we invite you to consult the spirits with us. Numquam Obliviscar: we'll never forget!
RSVP to shaping@foundsf.org
We welcome donations. Donate now!
Saturday, May 31, 12-3 pm
Hidden San Francisco 2nd Edition
Special Event: An Urban Hike in the Presidio!
Chris Carlsson hosts an urban hike to celebrate the release of the 2nd edition of Hidden San Francisco.. Starting at the Presidio Visitors Center at Tunnel Top Park with a brief presentation of the new content of the book with new copies for sale. Then we'll take one of the newly featured Hidden Ecological Treks in the book, going west and up and over the Presidio and down to Baker Beach. Bring snacks and drinks to share!
RSVP to shaping@foundsf.org
We welcome donations. Donate now!
Saturday, June 7, 12-3 pm
Rose Garden to Land's End
An Urban Walk & Talk with Crosstown Trail
Join Shaping San Francisco and friends for a spirited hike and rambling conversation(s) as we hike from along the Crosstown Trail (celebrating its anniversary!) from Golden Gate Park's Rose Garden north to Mountain Lake and then west to Land's End.
RSVP to shaping@foundsf.org
We welcome donations. Donate now!
Explore 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.