CITY COLLEGE OF SAN FRANCISCO- LABOR AND COMMUNITY STUDIES
CALIFORNIA’S LIVING NEW DEAL PROJECT
and
CALIFORNIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY present

REVIVING THE NEW DEAL:
A Time When Government Helped The People

Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the New Deal Programs of the Roosevelt Administration.

In this election year and time of economic crisis, we will see what it was like when government helped people cope with the hard times of the Great Depression and we will ask what it would take to revive the spirit of compassion in politics today.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16TH
7:00-9:00PM SCIENCE 204
The Films of the New Deal:
The Road is Open Again, The River, The City and other short works
Presenters: Gray Brechin and Fred Glass

Friday, OCTOBER 17TH
10-11AM & 11AM-NOON DIEGO RIVERA THEATER
Panel Presentations on:
Depression San Francisco; Social Movements and Organized Labor; Latinos, African-Americans and the New Deal; After Katrina– Building a New Deal for Today; and more

Presenters: Gray Brechin, Project Scholar, California’s Living New Deal Project and Karega Hart, Marco Mojica, Bill Shields and Latu Tapaatoutai

12:00PM, 1:00 PM & 5:15PM SCIENCE BUILDING MAIN LOBBY
"Art and Architecture of the New Deal at City College"; Led by Will Maynez of the CCSF Works of Art Committee

3:30-5:00PM VISUAL ARTS 114
Teaching the New Deal – Panel and Materials for College and High School Teachers: Parks and Buildings of the WPA; Labor and the New Deal; Stories of Migration and Immigration; The Educational Legacy of the New Deal; and more

Presenters: Gray Brechin, Martin Meeker, Bill Morgan, Catherine Powell and Harvey Smith

6:00PM CREATIVE ARTS 133
Panel Presentation on The New Deal and the Arts:
Working People’s Culture; the Federal Theater Project; Hobos and Homelessness in Thirties Art; Asian-Americans and New Deal Art; New Deal Printmaking; and more

Presenters: Archie Green, Labor Folklorist and Lincoln Cushing, Art Hazelwood and Joel Schechter

7:30-9:30PM CREATIVE ARTS 133
Performance: From the New Deal to Katrina, Bringing It All Back Home

Performers: The Pena-Govea Family Band; Alex and Harriet Bagwell and the Rockin’ Solidarity Labor Heritage Chorus performing their show, Beans, Bacon and Gravy

Parking

Balboa Reservoir Parking, $2.00 per day/Mass Transit use encouraged. Food available on campus. The San Francisco Community College District does not discriminate on the basis of disability in the admission or access to, or treatment or employment in, its programs or activities. Persons who wish to request disability-related accommodations including sign-language interpreters should contact Linda R. Jackson, District ADA Coordinator. Office of Affirmative Action, 31 Gough Street, Room 16, San Francisco, CA, 94103, Phone: (415) 241-2281, Fax: (415) 241-2203. Please request accommodations no later than 12 working days prior to the date of the event in order to assure the best possible arrangements. ART CREDITS- Top Image: Work With Care by Robert Muchley, Mural Images: Diego Rivera Mural at City College of San Francisco

CCSF OCEAN CAMPUS, 50 PHELAN AVENUE, SAN FRANCISCO
Map of the campus- http://www.ccsf.edu/Info/Map/

Food Venues at City College of San Francisco Ocean Campus

City Café Cafe Lower Student Union
Open- 7:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

Cafeteria Lunch Smith Hall
Open- 11:15 a.m. to 1:15 p.m.

Lunch Box Lunch Cloud Circle
Open- 7:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

Pierre Coste Fine Dining Lunch Statler Wing
Open- 11:15 a.m. to 1:15 p.m.
(last order in at 12:30 p.m.)

Pierre Coste Fine Dining Dinner (Thurs only) Statler Wing Open- 5:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.

Taste Buds Breakfast Smith Hall
Open- 7:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.

Taste Buds Lunch Smith Hall
Open- 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

Food Coach Misc Visual Arts Plaza

FOR MORE INFO PLEASE CONTACT THE
LABOR & COMMUNITY STUDIES
415.550.4459 or wshields@ccsf.edu

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