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  • Salon Series 41: SF Handstyles: Word of Mouth

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    Letterform Archive 2325 Third St Floor 4R, San Francisco, CA, United States

    with Kate Dole Sharing work from the archives of handstyle master Leonard "Jade" Liu, Dole will review a brief history of San Francisco's graffiti scene.   Join Kate Dole for a talk on the critical role of oral traditions in passing down and maintaining the core and foundations of San Francisco's graffiti culture through the […]

  • Garden Neighborhoods of San Francisco: The Development of Residence Parks, 1905-1924

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    Mechanics' Institute


    with author Richard Brandi Between 1905 and 1924, at least 36 San Francisco residence parks, such as St. Francis Wood and Seacliff,  were planned with the feeling of living in a park in mind. This fascinating book looks at an unexamined area of San Francisco's architectural history. Join this informative talk and presentation!

  • San Francisco Past and Present

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    Mechanics' Institute


    Oldest San Francisco focuses on the institutions that have helped make San Francisco San Francisco, featuring brief histories of its oldest restaurant (Tadich), oldest bakery (Boudin), oldest scientific institution (the Cal Academy). It speaks of civic fabrics—the oldest extant blue jeans (held in a vault at Levi’s) and first rainbow flag (exhibited at the GLBT Historical […]

  • Celebrating 150 Years of Cable Cars: Watermusic in the Track

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    Mechanics' Institute


    Join historians and authors Mike Phipps and Don Holmgren in celebration of the 150th anniversary of the cable cars in San Francisco. Phipps and Holmgren illuminate Hallidie's journey to California, his wire rope use in the gold mines, plans for the Clay St Hill cable car and subsequent involvement in the patents, and Pacific Cable […]

  • Empress San Francisco: The Pacific Rim, The Great West, and California at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition

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    Zoom CA, United States

    When the more than 18 million visitors poured into the Panama-Pacific International Exposition (PPIE) in San Francisco in 1915, they encountered a vision of the world born out of San Francisco’s particular local political and social climate. By seeking to please various constituent groups ranging from the government of Japan to local labor unions and […]

  • A Bay Area Women in Publishing virtual gathering

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    Zoom CA, United States

    Meet the people making it happen at key literary arts institutions in San Francisco!   Have you ever gone to an author conversation at City Arts & Lectures or an event at the Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco and wondered what it takes to put together such expansive cultural programming? Perhaps you’ve […]

  • Albert Pissis and the Building (and Re-Building) of San Francisco

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    Mechanics' Institute


    Join journalist Therese Poletti on the significance of architect Albert Pissis in defining San Francisco architecture in the wake of the 1906 earthquake and fire, and rebuilding the San Francisco we know and love today. While many of Pissis's works are well known to San Franciscans - the Hibernia Bank, the Flood Building, the former […]