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Trees Wednesday, Biodiversity Thursday, Walking Saturday, Biking Sunday...
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This week we'll be moving from one side of the above banner to the other: from trees to urbanized landscapes, with the sun barely setting on any of our public programming.
On Wednesday, November 5, we won't have to compete with the World Series win*. Come hear from Jared Farmer, author of the comprehensive investigation of four California arboreal selections (redwoods, eucalypts, citrus, and palms) and through them the history of our state and the American West, Trees in Paradise: A California History. Craig Dawson of Sutro Stewards adds to the conversation about eucalypts on the slopes of our City.
Thursday, November 6, Shaping San Francisco has been invited to be part of the California Academy of Sciences Bio-techno NightLife focusing on how biodiversity is created and carried into the future. We're excited to show how what we're collecting and growing through Foundsf.org, our digital archive, is an example of this. Come visit our table from 6 - 9 PM on Thursday. $10 AoS members, $12 non-members. Tickets available.
We've added a new Walking Tour, Cutting Corners: Rincon Hill, South Park, and Beyond, based on LisaRuth's recent research into South Park's creation and early SOMA development. Guess which rapidly developing city paid no heed to the intrinsic value of the natural environment and completely altered the landscape in the space of a decade (or two)? On Saturday, November 8, see below for more information and RSVP please!
And to close the week, we will be tracing the transit lines of San Francisco's (and the region's) history on our Transit History Bicycle Tour, rescheduled for Sunday, November 9. RSVP today!
*Kudos to the full house of our housing activist speakers and engaged audience last week for remaining on point and enthusiastic for the duration of the Talk while the neighborhood and city erupted around us! Wanna hear the latest on SF's Housing Wars? Listen to the audio in our archives.
Photo of Alemany Farm blooming citrus tree by LisaRuth Elliott
Coming up:
Come to our Ten Years That Shook the City author panel at the Howard Zinn Bookfair on Saturday, November 15. Join us to hear from our authors Jesse Drew, Mary Jean Robertson, and Lincoln Cushing as well as Chris and LisaRuth. Our session is at 2:45 PM in the Bill Sorro San Francisco History Room. This daylong event in the Mission District, featuring over 100 authors throughout the day, is a celebration of the books that make us rethink our roles in the world and connect people with hidden histories. 10 AM - 7:30 PM, Mission High School, 3750 18th St., FREE.
Seeking:
Haight-Ashbury Flower Power Tour Guide
Who will carry the tour into the future to ensure that Haight-Ashbury history is not lost, and is accurately conveyed? If you are that person, please email Pam your enthusiastic one-page explanation as to why you would like to join the tour guide team. Need not have firsthand Sixties experience to apply. (This is part time/seasonal work.)
We recommend:
- Presidio Dialogues presents Coyotes in our Midst: Learning to Live with North America's Native "Song Dog" on Thursday, November 6. Camilla Fox, Founder and Executive Director of Project Coyote, speaks about the remarkable adaptability and resiliency of this successful predator, and the challenges and opportunities coyotes provide to both urban and rural communities. 7 - 9 PM, Presidio Officer's Club, 50 Moraga Ave., FREE.
- Wild Equity Institute celebrates their five year anniversary also on Thursday, November 6. There will be live music, an outdoor gear raffle, and vintage endangered species artwork up for auction at this celebratory end-of-year fundraiser. They will also showcase what has been accomplished to date. 6 - 9 PM, Eric Quezada Center for Culture and Politics, 518 Valencia St. (at 16th), $15 donation. Buy a ticket before they sell out!
- The film, Occupy the Farm has its Berkeley debut this Friday, November 7, and plays through Thursday, November 13. The more people that see the film, the more theaters will pick up the film!! UA Berkeley 7, 2274 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley. Showtimes and tickets.
- On Saturday, November 8, join in the BioBlitz fun, an intensive one-day study of biodiversity. at 9 AM gather at Heron's Head Park (32 Jennings St.). FREE. Bring your smart phone for sure. Bonus: camera, binoculars, and magnifying glasses to identify birds, mammals, fish, reptiles, butterflies, insects, spiders, trees, flowers, mushrooms, even microcbes and slime molds. Or, take a walk in the heart of the city on biodiverse Mt. Davidson, led by Jake Sigg, local ecological luminary at 10 AM. Email the walk folks to find the starting point. FREE.
- Make your way out to Candlestick Point State Recreation Area on Saturday, November 8 to participate in a volunteer workday to assist the Candlestick Point Eco-Stewards to improve coastal habitat by removing invasive plants. Teens 14 and up are welcome when accompanied by a parent or legal guardian. 9 AM - 1 PM, Candlestick Point State Recreation Area Native Plant Nursery and Community Garden.
- A benefit for beat poet David Meltzer is being organized for Sunday, November 9. Poetry, music, drinks, and good times to be had, while raising money to help David out. 7:30 PM, Bird & Beckett Books, 653 Chenery, $20 donation at the door.
- And finally, check out the Urban Cartography exhibit at SPUR through February 6, 2015, looking at the last 20 years of mapmaking and featuring maps from our recent presenter, Burrito Justice, friends at Stamen Design, and much more! FREE during open hours, 654 Mission Street (near 3rd).
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Shaping San Francisco Public Talk
Wednesday, November 5
7:30 PM * FREE
518 Valencia Street (at 16th)
From the Introduction to Jared Farmer's Trees in Paradise: A California History:
"Conceptually, Trees in Paradise is a book about interchanges—between the regional and the global, the native and the introduced, the biological and the cultural, the domesticated and the uncontrollable. The indigenous trees of California changed settlers, and many of those same people changed California with nonnative trees. By considering this biocultural exchange in all its curious detail, we gain a fuller understanding of the successes, failures, and limitations of the California Dream."
The Sutro Stewards was formed to address a unique need in San Francisco, fostering positive relationships between habitat conservation needs and the recreational needs of a dense urban population. The Sutro Stewards is currently the largest organized independent volunteer pool in San Francisco, equipped for habitat conservation and trail restoration activities on city, state or privately owned properties.
Books for sale by the Green Arcade.
Shaping San Francisco Public Talks are partly underwritten by City Lights Foundation and Rainbow Grocery Cooperative with support from The Kenneth Rainin Foundation.
Photo of redwood as Berkeley street tree by LisaRuth Elliott
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Shaping SF Walking Tour
Saturday, November 8
NOON - 2 PM * $10-$20 sliding scale
Meet where Ecker Plaza meets Mission Street
(near 1st and Mission)
Tour ends at 3rd Street bridge at Mission Creek.
From the riches procured by massive amounts of earth moving and pillaging of resources in the Sierra Mountainw, came the fortunes to make possible the shaping of the SOMA landscape. This neighborhood was in turn developing in the 1850s and 1860s to support the gold and silver mining industries. Accumulation of riches led to more creation of land, which led to more capital creation through saleable property, and the dimensions of a city began to form.
Join us for a tour in a transformed landscape led by LisaRuth Elliott with contributions from Chris Carlsson.
Please RSVP!
Image of Second Street Cut courtesy of the San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco History Center
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