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UPCOMING EVENTS
(All events are free)

Tuesday, September 7, 7pm
Creating a Movement with Teeth:
A Documentary History of the George Jackson Brigade with editor Daniel Burton Rose and former brigade member Bo Brown.

 

Bursting into existence in the Pacific Northwest in 1975, the George Jackson Brigade claimed 14 pipe bombings against corporate and state targets, as many bank robberies, and the daring rescue of a jailed member. Combining veterans of the prisoners' women’s, gay, and black liberation movements, this organization was also ideologically diverse, consisting of both communists and anarchists. Concomitant with the Brigade's extensive armed work were prolific public communications. In more than a dozen communiqués and a substantial political statement, they sought to explain their intentions to the public while defying the law enforcement agencies that pursued them.

Collected in one volume for the first time, Creating a Movement with Teeth makes available this body of propaganda and mediations on praxis. In addition, the collection assembles corporate media profiles of the organization’s members and alternative press articles in which partisans thrash out the heated debates sparked in the progressive community by the eruption of an armed group in their midst. Creating a Movement with Teeth illuminates a forgotten chapter of the radical social movements of the 1970s in which diverse interests combined forces in a potent rejection of business as usual in the United States.

Daniel Burton-Rose (Editor) is the author of Guerrilla USA: The George Jackson Brigade and the Anti-capitalist Underground of the 1970s and the co-editor of Confronting Capitalism: Dispatches from a Global Movement, and The Celling of America: An Inside Look at the U.S. Prison Industry.



Friday, September 10, 7pm
Growing Green Schoolyards
with Arden Bucklin-Sporer and Rachel Kathleen Pringle of The San Francisco Green Schoolyard Alliance
who have teamed up to create the definitive guide to school gardens, How to Grow a School Garden: A Complete Guide for Parents and Teachers. Are you a parent who would like to see a garden curriculum at your child's school? Do you want to help start a school garden but don't know where to begin? How to Grow a School Garden takes on the over-sized task of starting a school garden from scratch by breaking down the process into simple, doable steps. From garden plans and design to breaking ground and garden workdays to planning lessons and activities in the garden, this well-organized book is filled with helpful advice that will empower parents and teachers everywhere to establish gardens at their own schools.



Monday, September 13, 7pm
Tunnel People
with Teun Voeten
By the end of the millennium, thousands of homeless people roamed the streets of Manhattan. A small group of them went underground. Invisible to society, they managed to start a new life in the tunnel systems of the city. Acclaimed war photographer and cultural anthropologist Teun Voeten gained unprecedented access to this netherworld. For five months in 1994 and 1995 he lived, slept and worked in the tunnel. With him, we meet Vietnam veterans, macro-biotic hippies, crack addicts, Cuban refugees, convicted killers, computer programmers, philosophical recluses and criminal runaways. Voeten describes their daily work, problems and pleasures with humor and compassion. He also witnessed the end of tunnel life. The tunnel people were evicted in 1996, but Amtrak and homeless organizations offered them alternative housing.

Teun Voeten studied Cultural Anthropology and Philosophy in the Netherlands. An award winning photojournalist and author, he has worked covering the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia, Rwanda, Sudan, Angola, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Afghanistan, Colombia, Iraq, Lebanon and Gaza.

Note: A selection of Teun Voeten’s Photographs will be on view at The Arcade.

Wednesday, September 15, 7:30pm
Arcade related event at Counterpulse 1310 Mission (at 9th) in SF:
Imprisoned But Unbowed:
The Struggles of Incarcerated Women
Panel discussion including Sin Soracco, who penned the now legendary prison novel Low Bite, recently reprinted and co-published by The Green Arcade.

 

Thursday, September 23, 7pm
The Moral Underground:
How Ordinary Americans Subvert an Unfair Economy with author Lisa Dodson



AND MORE FOR THE FALL:


The Green Arcade will be part of Litquake 2010 in October

 

Sunday October 3rd at 7pm
Ein Zweigabend. A Zweig Night.
At Salle Pianos, Market St at Rose Alley


Poster art © Gent Sturgeon

A literary and musical evening dedicated to the works and memory of the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig, featuring some of Zweig’s favorite music and readings from his works. With violinist Gregory Sykes, pianist Ian Scarfe, and vocalist Patrick Marks, proprietor of The Green Arcade!

 

Click HERE for the pdf poster with more details!

Tuesday October 12, 7pm
C Street:
The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy with author Jeff Sharlet



Thursday October 28, 7pm
Left in the Dark:
Portraits of San Francisco Movie Theaters
with a special pre-event walking tour of SF’s Old “Great White Way,” Market Street, by noir curator Eddie Muller.




ONGOING:

Infinite City:
A San Francisco Atlas
Broadsides will be available at The Arcade. Rebecca Solnit’s upcoming book, Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas, reimagines traditional map-making to chart not just space and place but also people and time in 22 inventive maps. From July through December, SFMOMA will issue 6 broadside prints of 7 maps. Each map launch will be tied to Live Art events—both at the museum and “out there.” Broadsides will be available at The Green Arcade as they are issued, starting in July and continuing until the release of the book in November. (The book features a piece by The Green Arcade’s own artist in residence, Gent Sturgeon.)

Still available:
The SF Public Press
the first Pilot issue of the new paper: a startup nonprofit news organization in San Francisco that aims to do for print and Web journalism what public broadcasting has done for radio and television. $2.00.

San Francisco Art and Politics
Antonio Roman-Alcala’s new free paper, including an interview with Rebecca Solnit, and an article by Chris Carlsson.

California Northern: A New Regionalism
a brand new biannual publication exploring the region's cultures, environments, histories, and identities. The inaugural issue features an in-depth interview with King of California author and former Los Angeles Times journalist Marx Arax, a close look at Jerry Brown's previous stint as governor, and an examination of a recent proposal to build the world's largest solar plant in San Benito County. Essays on the meaning of regionalism, the history of eucalyptus trees, and what it means to be a Northern Californian are also included, along with previously unpublished fiction and photos. $5.95.

 


NOW at The Green Arcade:


The Green Arcade Pinocchio T-Shirt
designed by Gent Sturgeon, worn by Magisaurus


A mere $18 dollars!

Pinocchio
by Gent Sturgeon




Add Bonn
We are thrilled to have work spanning over 3 decades currently on display and available for purchase


Add Bonn • Marin Headlands-Telephone Pole • acrylic on canvas board  22 X 28, 1980
$1500.00

Add Bonn is a native San Franciscan who studied at California School of Fine Arts and displayed at the de Young, the Palace of Fine Arts, the Museum of Modern Art, The Legion of Honor and the Oakland Museum. Her grandparents moved to the Mission District in 1853.


Xavier Viramontes


Boycott Grapes silk screen printed and signed by the artist
Framed $250.00 • Unframed $150.00

This poster, which was originally produced in the 1970s, played an important part in the Grape Boycott taking place at the time.  It is now part of the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Institute and the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico.  This is the first time it has been reproduced since that time.


Sandy Florian


Cover art by Gent Sturgeon, creator of The Green Arcade's logo.

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