"The understanding of a culture comes from hearing the language, tasting the food, seeing personal interactions, experiencing the traditions, and so much more when it is in context."
— Elizabeth Laval & Candice Pendergrass, Sikh Youth Public History Project
"The understanding of a culture comes from hearing the language, tasting the food, seeing personal interactions, experiencing the traditions, and so much more in context."
— Elizabeth Laval & Candice Pendergrass, Sikh Youth Public History Project
Photo Credit: Photo: Alemany Farm by LisaRuth Elliott SAN FRANCISCO--The Diggers served free food in an effort to address a massive influx of young people to the Haight during the Summer of Love and the Black Panthers’ Free Breakfast Program for youth began soon after. Drawing from this same desire to reimagine food systems, food […]
SAN FRANCISCO--The Maritime Museum at Aquatic Park recently underwent extensive renovation, bringing to public view murals and sculptures from the WPA that have long been hidden and overlooked. Other beautiful artworks grace public buildings throughout the East Bay and San Francisco, including Coit Tower, and on Treasure Island, where Maritime Museum artists went on to […]
SAN FRANCISCO-- Ellen Ullman writes in her new book Life in Code “The penetration of technology into the interstices of human existence is nearly complete,” and then demystifes how humans turn their intentions and ideas into the computer codes that are the language of computers. Katja Schwaller puts “Twitterlandia” under the microscope of her critical gaze, showing how the reconfiguration […]
SAN FRANCISCO--Few events in the past century equal the importance of the Russian Revolution. And yet we only know it through the fog of propaganda and fear, and the actual events of 1917 are long forgotten in the mists of time. Find out what actually happened in that fabled year, and how it fit together […]
SAN FRANCISCO-- As part of Shaping San Francisco’s Free Public Talks Series, Seth Eisen/Eye Zen Presents and collaborators bring to life research and performance excerpts from their newest project (a collaboration with Shaping SF)—a series of queer history performance-driven walking tours through the streets of San Francisco.
SAN FRANCISCO-- In summer 2017 an ambitious project was begun to restore and extend the life of Mona Caron's Market Street Railway Mural at 15th and Church Streets. When it was painted in 2003-04, it quickly became a beloved piece of public art, and uniquely presented a complicated historical narrative of Market Street, its uses over […]
As part of Shaping San Francisco’s Free Public Talks Series historians Chuck Wollenberg, Jonathan Hunt, and Kathryn Olmstead discuss a number of reflective questions related to the Cold War: How did Communists help build this social movement, and how did the Communist Party undercut its own principles during WWII? How did African American workers and interned Japanese-Americans fit into the story? And where did that leave California politics at the end of WWII and the beginning of the long post-war economic boom?
SAN FRANCISCO-- Today’s San Francisco and our village-like neighborhoods, charming architecture, and quality of life are indebted to the Freeway Revolt that shocked the nation between 1956 and 1965. Most histories have focused on the politicians and city leaders who argued and voted in those years, overlooking the vital role of the emergent middle-class women […]
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