ShapingSF public talk: Gentrification [Oct. 29]

[Vicky Knox]

Oakland Wiki and SF LocalWiki people,

Want some inspiration for Oakland gentrification and San Francisco gentrification content? Join me at Shaping SF's public talk on gentrification on Wednesday, October 29, at 518 Valencia at 7:30p. You'll also get to meet my friend Erin McElroy, who works on the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project.

"Decades of displacement and eviction have reached another crescendo during 2013-14. Key activists from the 1990s to the present will share tactics and strategies as the war enters its latest stages."

Shaping SF is a local history nonprofit that does public talks and hosts a neat local history archive.

cya,

Vicky

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It's sprinkling. Or it's raining. Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. It's a rare occurrence, but Shaping San Francisco has no public programming this week. All for the better, though, since there are SO many great things going on elsewhere in the City and around the Bay. Please see our recommendations below. Our next Public Talk is on Wednesday, October 29, at 518 Valencia at 7:30 PM, covering San Francisco's Housing Wars 2014. James Tracy presents his new book, Dispatches Against Displacement, Erin McElroy shows more Anti-Eviction Mapping Project genius, and Maria Zamudio of Causa Justa joins in the discussion.  **At this event, Jason Winshell is exhibiting a selection of large-format prints from his recently published book, “STREET". The book's foreword is written by Chris Carlsson. The photographs will be on display at 518 Valencia Street, the Eric Quezada Center for Culture and Politics from 22 October - 4 November. You can view the work and chat with the photographer at a reception on Saturday, October 25 from 1-4 p.m. at Shaping San Francisco, 518 Valencia St. (near 16th).   We recommend: Bees swarm California with their new smart and beautiful graphics during the Beehive Design Collective's Tour "Sucked Dry: Examining Drought and Privitization from California to Mesoamérica". Catch them in West Oakland on Monday, October 20 and Berkeley on Tuesday, October 21. 7 PM Monday, 2 PM and 7 PM Tuesday. See tour page for locations, donations appreciated. The David Brower Center features "Lost Rivers" in their Reel to Real Film Series on Tuesday, October 21. The documentary tells the story of the water flowing just beneath the feet of urban and suburban dwellers. Once upon a time, in almost every industrial city, countless rivers flowed. We built houses along their banks. Our roads hugged their curves. And their currents fed our mills and factories. But as cities grew, we polluted rivers so much that they became conduits for deadly waterborne diseases like cholera, which killed hundreds of thousands throughout the 19th century. Our solution two centuries ago was to bury rivers underground and merge them with sewer networks. Today, under the city, they still flow, out of sight and out of mind… until now. 7 PM, 2150 Allston Way, Berkeley, $10 (get tickets online soon). Our past February Public Talk on Design Radicals featuring Greg Castillo and Sabina Richard introduced an exhibition and symposium celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Free Speech Movement and radical activism at UC Berkeley. It opened Thursday, October 16 in Wurster Hall's Environmental Design Library on the Berkeley Campus. Find out information on hours and directions. Through December 26. Also on Tuesday, October 21, celebrate 50 years of special collections at the SFPL, Main Library addressing their unique role in public libraries with Kevin Starr, professor of History at USC. The exhibition "Celebrating 50 Years: 1964-2014" goes through January 2015. 6 - 8 PM, Koret Auditorium, 100 Larkin Street, FREE. This week is Urban Studies Week at USF, the highlight of which is an "Imperial San Francisco" talk by Gray Brechin on Wednesday, October 22. If you've read this important SF history tome (and we highly recommend you do!), you'll not want to miss the chance to see Gray in person. 5 - 6:30 PM, USF Maier Room, Fromm Hall, corner of Parker and Turk, FREE. The newly formed Glen Park Neighborhood History Project is meeting on Wednesday, October 22. Several important things are on the agenda, including planning the naming of a CA historic site, discussing the Glen Park newspaper digitization (85 scanned!), and inviting GP residents to share photos of house-moving. 6:15 - 7:45 PM, GP Branch Library, 2nd Floor Mtg. Room, 2825 Diamond St., FREE. Judy Irving's latest, and recently completed, documentary, "Pelican Dreams" sees its World Theatrical Premiere on Friday, October 24 at the Balboa Theatre. Enjoy a Q&A session with Judy at the evening showings. 7 PM and 9 PM, 3630 Balboa, $10. Check out other Bay Area showings. Alemany Farm hosts its 10th annual Harvest Fest this Saturday, October 25! Since last October, the farm has harvested over 10,000 pounds of produce, all of which went—for free—to volunteers, neighborhood residents, or weekly donations to the Free Farmstand!  Not to mention the work they’ve continued to do stewarding native plant areas, pond habitat, and herb garden. Join for family fun, face painting, food, and farm work. 11 AM - 5 PM, 700 Alemany Boulevard, FREE, bring a potluck item, utensils, and work gloves! Other Avenues, a worker-owned cooperative on the West Side, and once part of the People's Food System, celebrates 40 years on Saturday, October 25. Enjoy a raffle, photo booth, entertainment for all ages, music, and food and drinks. 5:30 - 10:30 PM, 1399 43rd Ave. (at Judah), FREE. Potrero Hill Archives Project hosts its 15th Annual Potrero Hill History Night on Saturday, October 25. There will be lots to consume: pizza and coffee and desserts, Hill tales and history, and you'll be in good company! 5:30 PM refreshments and entertainment start, 7 PM program, food costs a bit, donations to the project appreciated for the program. CORRECTION: Our apologies for erroneously listing The Victorian Alliance's Haight-Ashbury Fall House Tour for the wrong date in our previous email newsletter. The tour took place on Sunday, October 19, not this coming Sunday. In the last issue of the San Francisco Bay Guardian (RIP!), Shaping San Francisco was honored with "Best Time Travel on Two Wheels" for our Cycles of History Bicycle Tours. Here's what they said: "Join a Shaping San Francisco bike ride and discover aspects of San Francisco history that you'd never get on top of one of those hulking hop-on-hop-off tour buses. For example: What do you know about 1934's General Strike and how its aftermath influenced our city's radical working-class history? Tales of labor battles, ecological history, even foundations of the transit system can all be found on these bicycle and walking tours led by Chris Carlsson [and sometimes also LisaRuth Elliott! -ed.], who provides a unique look at the rich layers that make up this urban landscape. Nor are these stimulating excursions the only gift co-founder Carlsson's nonprofit imparts to the city. Shaping SF's Digital Scanning Project showcases historical collections with neighborhood newspapers, some of which are out of print, in order to make them available as online historical resources." We're grateful for the thumbs up, and want to clarify the Neighborhood Newspaper Digitization Project is a collaborative effort made possible by the Internet Archive, Acción Latina, Bernal History Project, Glen Park Neighborhood History Project, New Fillmore, Noe Valley Voice, Potrero Hill Archives, Visitacion Valley History Project, Western Neighborhoods Project, and many many volunteers! Support history from below and help shape the city. Shaping San Francisco is an affiliate project of You are receiving our weekly updates on Shaping San Francisco's public events because you met us at a Public TALK, you came on a Bicycle History or Walking Tour, you signed up through our website, or you're just interested in SF history! Unsubscribe vknox...@gmail.com from this list. 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[Britta]

Thanks, Vicky! This ShapingSF mailing list also looks really amazing; I've subscribed to it now too. :)

Britta

[Vicky Knox]

Yeah, it's great!

FYI again, I think I may have mentioned this at a gentrification editathon: Chris Carlsson, one of the founders of ShapingSF, gave me a near-complete collection of original Processed World magazines. Processed World came out in the 80s, 90s and 00s as a critique of the San Francisco technology sector and office job. They're super fun and artistic, and I think they're a great local treasure to pour over. If anyone is interested at some point, you can come to my home in Oakland and check them out (or maybe I can lug them across the bay). I work remotely so I can be really flexible with my time. :]

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[Leah Nichols]

Thanks for this Vicky! Just found the Processed World collection online as well here. Lots to read, and the cover graphics are so cool.

Also, see you (& others) at the ShapingSF public talk! 

Leah

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[Ben Donley]

Those talks were rad. Maria Zamudio was particularly great. Thank you for telling us about it.

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[Vicky Knox]

Yeah, it was totally rad! I got "Dispatches Against Displacement" if anyone wants to check it out.

Chris and LisaRuth from ShapingSF really like LocalWiki and have been wanting to find more ways for our events and our content to cross paths. Let me know if you have any ideas or are interested in joining the convo--I should be starting an email chain with them in the next day. :]