From shapingsf-talks at lists.artsandmedia.net Wed Feb 14 00:03:31 2007 From: shapingsf-talks at lists.artsandmedia.net (shapingsf-talks@lists.artsandmedia.net) Date: Wed Feb 14 00:07:36 2007 Subject: Wed Talk: Land Grabs; Sun. Bike Tour: Dissent Message-ID: <234837310702140003y75ed445cn70d8b40eca084dc3@mail.gmail.com> Hi everyone, sorry for the late reminder! Wednesday night at 8 pm we're having an extremely romantic Talk on the topic of Land Grabs in San Francisco! Yes, I'll be giving an overview of the long(er) history of implanting boundaries on the local landscape, while Erick Lyle will report on some counter-Land Grabs in recent years, and James Tracy will talk about the quasi-institutional effort to move land from the private market to public control via the SF Land Trust... then on Sunday, I'll be conducting a 4-hour tour on the topic of "Dissent"... meet at 12 at CounterPULSE and bring water and snack, be ready for rain (hard rain cancels, occasional drizzle won't stop us...).. hope to see you at one or both... and don't forget, our Talks are on KUSF 90.3 FM on Thursday nights at 10:30... --Chris -- All my mail is going through this gmail account now. www.chriscarlsson.com My blog: www.lipmagazine.org/ccarlsson Fall/Winter Talks: http://www.counterpulse.org/fall-winter-talks.shtml www.shapingsf.org www.processedworld.com www.fullenjoymentbooks.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://gdc.groupd.com/pipermail/shapingsf-talks/attachments/20070214/55c303e9/attachment-0001.html From shapingsf-talks at lists.artsandmedia.net Thu Feb 22 15:45:23 2007 From: shapingsf-talks at lists.artsandmedia.net (shapingsf-talks@lists.artsandmedia.net) Date: Thu Feb 22 15:57:40 2007 Subject: Tonight on KUSF: "The Health Epidemic" In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <234837310702221545h6c8f66c0n14a040d00c315256@mail.gmail.com> Hey folks! Here's an update on the radio show Indy Arts is producing for Shaping San Francisco. This is the beginning of a new three-part series on "The Health Epidemic" ... investigating the health industry, and what exactly it does, or does not, have to do with health. Details below. Thanks for your interest! Josh W. http://artsandmedia.net/ -- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Shaping San Francisco presents: "The Health Epidemic: Life in the Therapy Society" -- Part One Featuring: Adrienne Pine (California Nurse's Association) AIR DATE: Thursday, Feb. 22, 10:30 p.m. On-air 90.3 FM, KUSF San Francisco Online at http://www.kusf.org/ DETAILS: This new radio series was originally recorded in January 2007 at CounterPulse in San Francisco, and tackles a host of issues related to life and health in America today, including: -- What's the deal with Governor Schwarzenegger's universal health plan? -- Why should you be concerned about the rush to implement Health Information Technology? -- Why do insurance rates keep going up when the industry is making billions? -- What is the human cost of this health-care system? Shaping San Francisco's Talks series is produced by Shaping SF, the City Lights Foundation, Nature in the City and Independent Arts & Media. Radio version produced by Independent Arts & Media. Shaping San Francisco on KUSF Thursdays at 10:30 p.m. 90.3 FM, KUSF San Francisco (www.kusf.org) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://gdc.groupd.com/pipermail/shapingsf-talks/attachments/20070222/4f48a27e/attachment.html From shapingsf-talks at lists.artsandmedia.net Tue Feb 27 22:55:22 2007 From: shapingsf-talks at lists.artsandmedia.net (shapingsf-talks@lists.artsandmedia.net) Date: Tue Feb 27 22:57:13 2007 Subject: TONIGHT Feb 28 and NEXT WED March 7 Message-ID: <234837310702272255g140ce931u2271419e82454c4f@mail.gmail.com> Hi friends, our Fall/Winter Talks schedule concludes over the next two Wednesday nights at CounterPULSE, 1310 Mission at 9th, at 8 p.m. First, TONIGHT (I assume you're reading this Wednesday morning) is our Green City panel: February 28: The Green City Integrating urban life with local nature, biodiversity, and resources is the challenge of our time. New and veteran activists share visions, strategies, and how they are laying the foundation for a truly Green City. (Peter Berg ? Green City Project/Planet Drum, Peter Brastow?Nature in the City, Bonnie Sherk ? A Living Library, Brian Holland--Bay Localize). Then, next week, March 7, is March 7: Learnin' + Teachin' ? The Future of Education In decaying and resource-starved public schools, teachers and staffers with incredible vision and energy are trying to make education work. But what do we want from education now? Should it be organized around children spending mandatory time in classrooms or should we take a hint from the burgeoning homeschooling movement and look toward other models? Let's challenge our assumptions in this open-ended discussion. (Lisa Schiff, Will Grant, Karen Allen, Ken Tray) Due to a 3-week run of Jess Curtis/Gravity's US Premiere of "Under the Radar" at CounterPULSE the Talks will be on a short hiatus until April 11. Then we have an abbreviated schedule of Spring Talks, two each in April and May: Wednesday, April 11 When the Mission was Low and Slow Join a special screening and talk by members of the Mission Archives on April 11, 8 pm, at CounterPULSE. Back in the late 1970s and early 1980s Mission Street was famously the home to a wild scene of lowriders every weekend. Bouncing, shimmying, and gleaming cars full of excited kids and long-time Missionistas would sometimes stretch along Mission from 16th all the way out to Geneva and back again. A unique public space erupted every week for several years in the face of police harassment, created and maintained by the ever resourceful youth of Latino San Francisco. Join original participants, filmmakers and today's young activists with rarely seen footage, a trailer from a new documentary, "Why We Ride: From Low to Show," shares the stories about the unique culture of the lowrider movement in San Francisco Mission District and the silencing of that culture by the police. We'll also discuss the changing nature of youth culture, street life, public space, and life in San Francisco's Mission District. The event is free, but donations $5-$50 are requested to help both CounterPULSE, the evening's host, and the Mission Archives/Conscious Youth Media Crew, who are providing facilities and video training for local youth. Wednesday, April 25 The National Park Where We Live Amy Meyer is essentially the "godmother" of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area (GGNRA). If not for the heroic efforts of Amy and other environmental activists, we might not have a GGNRA today. Amy has written a book entitled, "New Guardians for the Golden Gate: How America Got a Great National Park," in which she and her co-author, Randy Delehanty, provide exquisite details of the social and political context for the creation of our local urban ecological jewel, which is internationally important. Join us for a typical Counterpulse evening, during which Amy reveals the politics of national park conservation. Wednesday, May 2 >From Enclosures to Industrial Fast-Food: Immigration and Work and Agriculture.... Immigration is as old as history, but major population shifts don't begin until common lands become enclosed in the late feudal period. Today the process continues with the replacement of subsistence agriculture in the global south with agribusiness export crops. Loss of land starts the movement of populations into cities, eventually leading to migration across borders too... When people leave home they take their favorite foods with them. Over the past century waves of immigrants have brought with them many different kinds of foods to California, which slowly have merged into components of "California Cuisine"... Ironically--perhaps tragically--the folks who are immigrants these days very often find themselves working in the fields for agribusiness (even the newly organic businesses) OR in the restaurants and hotels of SF, often in kitchens and food service sector... We will also have a couple of remarkable video clips: 1) occupation strike in Paris at a McDonalds by largely African immigrant workers; 2) scene from Peter Watkins' movie "La Commune" wherein a group of Algerians sits around a table talking about immigration and capital--in 1871! Speaking will be Grey Kolevzon, Chris Carlsson and others TBA... Wednesday, May 30 Butterflies in the City Despite the revolutionary ecological changes on the San Francisco peninsula over the last 240 years, the city abounds with spectacular native biodiversity, including a couple of dozen species of butterflies. Like many insects, butterfly species have co-evolved with specific plants in an ecological co-evolutionary dance over millions of years. The Franciscan bioregion is home to several locally endemic species, such as the mission blue, which only lives on coastal bedrock ridgetops. A subset of our native butterflies have adapted to some non-native plants, including some weeds. Join us for an exhilarating and beautiful ride through this fascinating subject. Barbara Deutsch, Deirdre Elmansoumi, Mia Monroe, Liam O'Brien. Our half-hour radio shows continue on KUSF, 90.3 FM, every Thursday night at 10:30, thanks to Independent Arts & Media. We are starting to plan the next Fall/Winter series of Talks and I'm happy to report that thanks to City Lights Foundation support we are going to add two new series to our Wednesday nights: on First Wednesdays will be "Words First" featuring storytellers and their tales, and Third Wednesdays will feature Art & Politics, each Wed. in the fall showcasing an individual artist and their work. If you have suggestions for topics, speakers, or films to be part of the Fall/Winter 07-08 series, NOW IS THE TIME TO SEND THEM IN!... thanks! --Chris -- All my mail is going through this gmail account now. www.chriscarlsson.com My blog: www.lipmagazine.org/ccarlsson Fall/Winter Talks: http://www.counterpulse.org/fall-winter-talks.shtml www.shapingsf.org www.processedworld.com www.fullenjoymentbooks.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://gdc.groupd.com/pipermail/shapingsf-talks/attachments/20070227/41596966/attachment.html