EVENTS CALENDAR
The Autry in Griffith Park
4700 Western Heritage Way, Los Angeles
Free and open to all Autry and CHS members. Members have the first chance to preview Art of the West prior to the exhibition's public opening. The museum will stay open late for members only! The Autry is offering a special discount for current CHS members to get 20% off a Benefactor membership at the Turquoise level with an invitation to attend the June 12th Benefactor Member Opening Reception.
California Historical Society, 678 Mission Street, San Francisco
Free, please RSVP
Join us as Dr. N. Bruce Pickering, Executive Director of the Asia Society’s Northern California Center, discusses the complicated and layered relationship between China and California. Dr. Pickering will address the history between the United States and China, how the rise of the middle class impacts the relationship, and how China and the U.S., and China and California will work together in the future.
Dr. N. Bruce Pickering was appointed Asia Society Vice President for Global Programs in July of 2012. He continues to serve as Executive Director of the Asia Society’s Northern California Center, a position he accepted in February of 2003. He has an extensive background in government, non-profit organizations and academia. In addition to his position with the Asia Society, Dr. Pickering is also member of the board of ChinaSF, which seeks to create business relationships between San Francisco and China, the Advisory Council of USC’s Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBEAR), and the San Francisco Asian Contemporary Art Consortium, which he helped found in 2010.
California Historical Society, 678 Mission Street, San Francisco
Free, please RSVP
Coming off the heels of its festival premeire as an official selection in the 2013 San Francisco Black Film Festival, Impresa! will come to the California Historical Society with filmmaker Sephora Woldu hosting screenings at 6:30 and 7:30 p.m. Impresa! is a narrative fiction about a person who wants to take over a nontraditional business and the reactions she gets from her family/ community.She is a first generation Eritrean American living in San Francisco, and the perils of her nontraditional business venture worry the family. Our protagonist goes on a day trip in the Bay Area visiting the most creative Eritrean and Ethiopian owned businesses to prove that innovation has a place in the community. The short film is a light, uplifting look into the fictitious story of one girl abandoning cultural fiscal fears and chasing entrepreneurship.
As a silent film, Impresa! is a story told in English and Tigrinya subtitles. Tigrinya is the official language of Eritrea, and though commonly spoken and understood, the East African nation is a proud country of many people and languages. Impresa! is proud to tell this story in both English and Tigrinya to accurately represent the Diasporic experience.
This event is part of the Yerba Buena neighborhood's Third Thursdays. Join in on the Third Thursday of each month in downtown San Francisco’s Yerba Buena neighborhood for a monthly outing full of arts, food, and drink. Wander the blocks around Yerba Buena Gardens to soak in art and music. Pick up a wrist band at participating galleries and museums for a special Third Thursday all-night happy hour at participating bars and restaurants. Experience art immersion with special installations, performances, and events.
California Historical Society, 678 Mission Street, San Francisco
Free, please RSVP
Join us for an evening discussion of the Native American occupation of Alcatraz in connection with our Curating the Bay exhibition. Native American community leaders Joseph Myers and Tom Clarke will lead a roundtable discussion, as well as share a wealth of personal experiences from that time. Also, using Historypin's Year of the Bay project to navigate through these memories and stories, we will explore some personal footage of the occupation, as well as fascinating material from the California Indian Museum and Cultural Center in Santa Rosa. This is an opportunity to talk story and discuss the impact this event had on the indigenous population in the Bay Area.
California Historical Society, 678 Mission Street, San Francisco
Free, please RSVP
Please join us as our exhibition Curating the Bay: Crowdsourcing a New Environmental History comes to a close. Join the fun in identifying photos with live HistoryPin History Mystery challenges. Come identify the Audiograph sounds of the Bay with Julie Caine and KALW. Enjoy a sea shanty sing along. Win great prizes and take your final tour of Curating the Bay.
California Historical Society, 678 Mission Street, San Francisco
Free, please RSVP
Join us for the Unbuilt San Francisco: The View from Futures Past exhibition opening celebration!
Music, performance, and art in Annie Alley, a side street turned temporary pedestrian plaza.
Visit the exhibition at both the California Historical Society and SPUR.
This event is sponsored by the Yerba Buena Community Benefit District.
About the Exhibition:
The twentieth century saw both a series of ambitious efforts to reimagine the city of San Francisco and the explosive growth of the Bay Area as a metropolitan region. In Unbuilt San Francisco: The View from Futures Past, the California Historical Society and SPUR present some of the most revealing episodes in these distinct but related streams of civic discourse through projects that were proposed but never realized. Concern with a particular site, problem, or opportunity often spans a period of decades and presents a window into a city's changing attitudes, politics, and values. Every bit as much as the cities we build, the cities we imagine and reject reveal the collective creativity of the urban project and the imperfect civics of place-making.
The exhibition focuses on plans and schemes at scales from the district to the region, emphasizing planning, urban design, regionalism and environmental management. The exhibition will be divided into four components and feature Taming Nature, The Dream of the Integrated Region, District Revisions and Transportation and Infrastructure.
Free Event at the California Historical Society, 678 Mission Street, San Francisco
What events, big and small, have shaped the San Francisco Bay? Join us every Wednesday, for a guided lesson in adding your own personal photos to this exciting Curating the Bay: Crowdsourcing a New Environmental History project.
Spring shopping made easy at a pop-up shop of the popular North Beach boutique Park and Pond located in the Ten Lions Book Store from now until August.
