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Please Touch Community Garden
11 Jul
Jay and Joanna are gracious hosts on Wednesdays and Saturdays at this lovely oasis in the city. Begun in 2010 in partnership with Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired, all are welcome to visit between the hours of 11:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. As I bring my clients weekly to investigate, learn, and discover the many different edible, ornamental, and medicinal plants that can be found here, it is a surprisingly peaceful setting in the center of town: http://pleasetouchgarden.org/
Extraction Exhibition Schedule
28 Jun
Josh MacPhee. Forest, 2011. Woodblock print, 10 x 15 in.
As curator, I invite you to this year’s LaborFest exhibition Extraction. It will actually be spread out between two institutions: International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) Local 34 Hall and Unitarian Universalist Society.
LaborFest participates in the 100th year commemoration of the Ludlow mining strike in Colorado, better known as the Ludlow Massacre. This strike in the Southern Colorado coal fields lasted from September 1913 to April 1914 and represents one of the bloodiest strikes in U.S. history. To help commemorate this important moment in labor history, LaborFest and ILWU Local 34 host an exhibition of art works on the broader theme of Extraction.
Man’s relentless extraction of the earth’s resources for the purpose of creating fuel, without environmental stewardship, is a strong focus in this show. Likewise, the human body viewed as the site for extraction, whether in terms of energy, strength, endurance, or will, receives similar focus. Works countering the destructive mandate of the extractive processes transforming the world with visions of just relationship between human consumption and human and earth integrity are also present. Artists include Marlene Aron, Philippe Barnoud, Sherri Cavan, Mike Conner, Louise Gilbert, Graphic Arts Workshop (San Francisco), Justseeds Artists’ Collective, Josh MacPhee, Emmy Lou Packard and Diego Marcial Rios.
Viewing dates and times: July 1 through July 12, 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. on weekdays and 12:00 noon to 4:00 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, ILWU Local 34 Hall, 801 2nd Street; next to AT&T Ball Park. The ILWU parking lot is at the intersection of 2nd and King Streets. Free.
Marcia Poole. Miner, 2014. Diptych.
A smaller group of works on the theme of Extraction will be shown at First Unitarian Universalist Church, 1187 Franklin Street at Geary Street, from July 2nd to July 31st. Artists include Attila Cziglenyi, Marcia Poole and Diego Marcial Rios. Besides hosting the Extraction exhibition works, the Church has organized a group of works by artists who are members of unions. A reception for the artists will be on July 20th, Sunday, 12:00 noon to 2:00 p.m.
For other viewing times in the Martin Luther King, Jr. and Thomas Starr King Rooms, call the Front Desk, (415) 776-4580, Monday through Friday, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
For further information about these LaborFest events and many other LaborFest events for the month of July, please visit: http://www.laborfest.net.
Lecture at Treasure Island Museum
17 Jun
Join me for a slide lecture I will present on Saturday, June 21st at 10:30 a.m.
During World War II, the Treasure Island Naval Base stockades and psychiatric ward bore witness to the first stirrings of a 70-year evolution in military policy towards gays. Psychiatric practices screened out, hospitalized, and discharged homosexuals rather than punishing and imprisoning them. Visual culture from the period, psychiatric and popular assumptions, and prejudices illuminate the impact of the war effort and psychiatry on society’s attitudes towards an emerging minority identity.
After the lecture, stay for lunch at one of the Island’s cafes or bring your own picnic lunch. The incredible views are accessible by car, bike, or on foot. A bicycle rental shop is located at the back of Building One. Several wineries have tasting rooms on the Island and are open in the afternoon.
Part of a monthly free lecture series titled “Little Island, Big Ideas,” presented by the Treasure Island Museum.
Postcard artwork: McClelland Barclay (1891-1943), Sailor Loading Fixed Amunition, 1942. Oil on canvas. 48-031-N, Department of Navy-Naval Historical Center, Navy Art Collection.
It’s My World To Dump In
21 Mar
Remember the times as a kid when you would come upon a forest clearing and find a pile of beer cans at a former campsite? Things haven’t changed, even here in the beautiful city of San Francisco.
A Time Honored Tradition
14 Dec
David Duckworth, A Time Honored Tradition, 2013. Pen-and-ink on Bristol paper, 9 x 12 in.
Book Reading with Takashi Tanemori
28 NovSaturday, December 7, 6:30pm
The Path to Forgiveness, The Way to Peace:
An Evening with Takashi Tanemori
Takashi Tanemori, survivor of the 1945 nuclear attack on Hiroshima, Japan, and long-time peace activist, will be present during a reading of his memoir, Hiroshima: Bridge to Forgiveness. Losing both parents and two sisters to the atomic blast and its aftereffects, Tanemori became an Oyanashigo – a street urchin – who struggled to stay alive by searching waste sites and garbage cans for food in the ashes of postwar Japan. At the age of 18, he emigrated to the United States, becoming a laborer in the agricultural fields of Fresno. Currently a Berkeley resident, Takashi’s road to forgiveness spans decades of life experience, forging the bitterness of revenge into a devotion to peace and harmony. Founder of the Silkworm Peace Institute, a nonprofit organization dedicated to international peace, Takashi shares his life story through speaking engagements, conflict resolution seminars, workshops on The Seven Codes of the Samurai (“Peace through Forgiveness”), his writing and artwork.
Elizabeth Weinberg, John Crump and David Duckworth will read excerpts from Hiroshima: Bridge to Forgiveness. Takashi Tanemori will speak on exercising forgiveness and achieving peace.
Elizabeth Weinberg is the Executive Director of Silkworm Peace Institute. John Crump is co-author of Hiroshima: Bridge to Forgiveness. With an active interest in history, Hiroshima was his first book effort. Recently, he co-authored Thunderbolts of the Hell Hawks, about pilots of the 365th Fighter Group in WWII. David Duckworth is an artist, cultural historian, and lecturer on World War II era material culture.
The Green Arcade (bookstore), 1680 Market Street, at Gough and Haight, (415) 431-6800
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