San Francisco Oracle Haight Ashbury History at the San Francisco Public Library
Richard Honigman, Ann Cohen, Martine Algier, and Azul Robert Simmons interviewed in Summer 2005 by Rebecca Nichols at San Francisco Park Branch Library. Part of the Haight Ashbury Oral History Project. Learn more about community events at the Park Branch Library:
SF CityGuides - Ghosts at Hotel Union Square San Francisco
A ghost story from the Hotel Union Square, told by SF City Guides volunteer Cara Tramontano. This is an excerpt from the tour Ghosts, Sinners and Secret Places. Check out the list of 90 free walking tours of San Francisco at:
Nike Missile Site SF-88 by Dick Huey at the San Francisco Public Library
Dick Huey gives an illustrated history of Nike Missile Site SF-88, located in the Marin Headlands, and ties it into the history of triangulated gun defense of San Francisco Bay. Recorded at the Merced Branch Library - SFPL.org/Merced
Jason Marc Alexander Haight Ashbury History at the San Francisco Public Library
Jason Marc Alexander interviewed in Summer 2005 by Rebecca Nichols at San Francisco Park Branch Library. Jason Marc Alexander was a member of the San Francisco Mime Troupe in the sixties- a brilliant actor and political activist. Part of the Haight Ashbury Oral History Project. Learn more about community events at the Park Branch Library:
Potrero Hill 1980's Photography by Jo Babcock at the San Francisco Public Library
Between 1979 and 1983, Jo Babcock photographed extensively around San Francisco’s Potrero Hill and Mission Bay neighborhoods, shooting over 200 color negatives with a high quality 4x5 view camera. During the 1970's & 80's, Mission Bay and lower Potrero were still active, maritime and industrial neighborhoods. Noise, pollution and flammable gas tanks were tolerated in close proximity to Victorian houses and residents of low to modest incomes. Artists lived in raw, asbestos-ridden warehouses with cheap rent and tremendous views. For four years, on weekends and early mornings when the streets were mostly deserted, Jo Babcock went out with his camera, documenting the cottages, lunch counters, warehouses and railroad yards. Many of the buildings and businesses captured on film 35 years ago are now gone or changed beyond recognition. Jo Babcock's photographs are on display in the San Francisco Main Library until August 23, 2018. Learn more online:
Abigail Markwyn, PPIE, and Empress San Francisco
The author of Empress San Francisco presents an illustrated lecture on Spectacle, Identity, and Citizenship:
Bay Area Ethnic and Racial Communities at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. Abigail Markwyn shares photographs of the PPIE and discusses the choices of participation by ethnic communities of the San Francisco Bay Area. Empress San Francisco is available to check out from our online catalog, and you can browse more than 2,000 historic photos of the PPIE online:
Homeless People In San Francisco Public Library
San Francisco City Hall, San Francisco, CA - Photo Review
San Francisco City Hall, San Francisco, CA - Photo Review
San Francisco City Hall, San Francisco Public Library, Civic Center Plaza, Philz Coffee
San Francisco Public Library California
San Francisco Public Library in the Civic Center neighborhood of downtown San Francisco.
Night of Ideas 2019 - San Francisco || “Facing our Time: the City of the Future.”
The French Consulate, San Francisco Public Library and SFMOMA team up to present Night of Ideas in San Francisco on February 2, 2019
FREE event features artist JR, Chef Dominique Crenn, Co-founder of The Center for Humane Technology Tristan Harris and host of KQED’s Forum Michael Krasny.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA (January 8, 2019) – The French Consulate in San Francisco, San Francisco Public Library (SFPL) and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) jointly announce the first San Francisco edition of the global marathon event Night of Ideas on February 2, 2019, from 7 p.m. to 2 a.m., at the San Francisco Main Library. Presented in collaboration with the City of San Francisco and a vibrant ecosystem of local cultural, science, tech and academic partners, this free seven-hour marathon of philosophical debate, talks, performances, and music features top thinkers from San Francisco and beyond in a format designed to spur dialogue on the theme “Facing our Time: the City of the Future.”
With keynotes, panels and presentations by diverse voices including artist JR, (whose video mural The Chronicles of San Francisco opens at SFMOMA in May 2019), Dominique Crenn, chef/owner of the three Michelin-starred restaurant Atelier Crenn, John Law, Co-founder of Burning Man, architect Nicola Delon, designer of the French pavilion at the Venice Biennale, Dominique Alba, director of the Paris Urbanism Agency, Michael Krasny, host of Forum on KQED, and Allison Arieff, editorial director of SPUR, the San Francisco edition of Night of Ideas expects thousands to participate in the evening’s exchange of ideas and creative dialogue.
Multiple stages throughout the Main Library host concurrent programming, music and dance performances, yoga, breakout sessions and opportunities for engagement and debate amongst the attendees. More than 30 topics relating to the City of the Future will be explored over the course of the evening on multiple floors of the Main Library including civic imagination, arts, accessibility, equity, literature, film, games, food, transportation, media, city planning, play and much more.
PRESENTERS AND SPONSORS
Night of Ideas is co-presented by the San Francisco Public Library, the French Consulate in San Francisco, and SFMOMA in collaboration with media partner KQED and the City and County of San Francisco.
The event is made possible by the support of Friends of the San Francisco Public Library, 836M, the Cultural and Scientific Services of the French Embassy in the United States and the French American Cultural Society. La Nuit des Idées is a project of the Institut Français and Fondation de France.
Co-presenters: French Consulate in San Francisco, San Francisco Public Library, SFMOMA
Media Partner: KQED Public Media for Northern CA,
Curating Partners: Numerous renowned local institutions worked together to create the content for Night of Ideas. Among them, Atelier Crenn, Burning Man, City Lights Bookstore, Civic Center Commons, Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany, Hormel LGTBQIA Center, Institute for the Future, Litquake Festival, Lycée français de San Francisco, Mutek.SF, National Park Service, Open Austria, SFFILM, SPUR, Stanford University, Ubisoft, UC Berkeley and Youth Speaks.
Performances: Night of Ideas will offer performances by: Awesome Orchestra Collective, Bay Area Flash Mob, Steve Silver’s Beach Blanket Babylon, Burning Man, Exploratorium, Outdoor Yoga SF, RAWdance, San Francisco Sound Wave, Solenn Seguillon and Aleron Trio, among others.
Main Partners: The event is made possible with the support of Friends of the San Francisco Public Library, 836M, the Cultural and Scientific Services of the French Embassy in the United States and the French American Cultural Society.
In-kind Partners: We thank French Bee and Intercontinental San Francisco for their contributions.
How to Die in California at the San Francisco Public Library
Recorded 7 May, 2019.
The End of Life Option Act is a California law which allows terminally ill, mentally capable patients to request aid in dying – a prescription for medication that will end their life at their own chosen time. Signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown on October 5, 2015, it went into effect on June 9, 2016. California is the fifth state to enact an aid-in-dying law. Learn about end-of-life options in California and what it means. Speakers: Richard Beeman, Compassion and Choices; Thalia DeWolf, Bay Area End of Life Options; AnneMarie Olson, Hospice by the Bay; Wendell Stephenson, Final Exit Network. Also, a screening from excerpt of the documentary, A Dance with Death: The Final Days of Kelly Johnson, produced by The New Fillmore. Check out more upcoming events at the library in our online calendar: SFPL.org/Events
Tyler Cohen reads for SF Zine Fest at the San Francisco Public Library
Tyler Cohen narrates her work at the Thinking Captions event, part of the 2017 San Francisco Zine Fest.
San Francisco City Hall 2017 Eclipse from San Francisco Public Library
Time lapse interval record from 9:30 am to 11:10 am during 2017 Solar Eclipse. View from Jobs and Career Center of San Francisco Main Library west towards San Francisco City Hall. Learn more about the Jobs and Career Center resources and help services online at:
Straight Theater Haight Ashbury History at the San Francisco Public Library
Hillel Resner, Ginny Resner, and Luther Greene interviewed in Summer 2005 by Rebecca Nichols at San Francisco Park Branch Library. Part of the Haight Ashbury Oral History Project. Learn more about community events at the Park Branch Library:
View of San Francisco and San Francisco Zoo, 1964
Views of San Francisco and San Francisco Zoo - home movie, 8mm film by Robert Durden. Shots include view from Twin Peaks; flamingos, monkeys, elephants, tigers, lions and giraffes at the San Francisco Zoo; the Golden Gate Bridge with fog; and the San Francisco Bay with ships.
Rights: Permission to use this oral history commercially must be obtained from the San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library. sfpl.org/permissions When using this film please credit SAN FRANCISCO HISTORY CENTER, SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC LIBRARY.
A selection of San Francisco Public Library's unique audiovisual materials were digitized through a grant Analog to Digital. The grant project was supported in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian.
Young San Francisco filmmakers at work, 1974
Super 8mm film footage of the two young San Francisco filmmakers at work on a San Francisco neighborhood Bicentennial Project. Shots include the filmmakers filming in Mission District and Chinatown. The filmmakers' work can be seen in Mission District and Chinatown
Rights: Permission to use this film commercially must be obtained from the San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library. sfpl.org/permissions When using this film please credit SAN FRANCISCO HISTORY CENTER, SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC LIBRARY.
A selection of San Francisco Public Library's unique audiovisual materials were digitized through a grant Analog to Digital. The grant project was supported in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian.
San Francisco State University, 1974
San Francisco State University, San Francisco - Super 8mm film shot from the viewpoint of a San Francisco child for a Bicentennial Project in 1974. Shots include San Francisco State University's housing, campus and Cox Stadium.
Rights: Permission to use this film commercially must be obtained from the San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library. sfpl.org/permissions When using this film please credit SAN FRANCISCO HISTORY CENTER, SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC LIBRARY.
A selection of San Francisco Public Library's unique audiovisual materials were digitized through a grant Analog to Digital. The grant project was supported in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian.
Rojas Contreras at San Francisco Public Library, SF, CA
Sept. 2019
Join us for a conversation with Bay Area author Ingrid Rojas Contreras. Her first novel, Fruit of the Drunken Tree, was published in July of 2018 and immediately received wide critical acclaim.
Ms. Contreras' essays and short stories have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Buzzfeed, Nylon, and Guernica, among others.
She has received numerous awards and fellowships from Bread Loaf Writer's Conference, VONA, Hedgebrook, The Camargo Foundation,
and the National Association of Latino Arts and Culture. She is the book columnist for KQED, the Bay Area's NPR affiliate and teaches writing at the University of San Francisco.
Ms. Contreras will be in conversation with Oscar Villalon, Managing Editor of Zyzzyva, a San Francisco Journal of Arts & Letters.
Fruit of the Drunken Tree was published in paperback in May of 2019, and is the San Francisco Public Library's On The Same Page selection for June/July.
Nadja White Port of Aqaba 2016 California Listens at the San Francisco Public Library
Nadja reflects on the spontaneity and emotional discoveries of her world travels. Recorded at San Francisco Main Library by StoryCenter. California Listens: Stories about Being Californian is a project of the California State Library being implemented by Berkeley-based StoryCenter over the last three years. The primary goal is to collect 10 2-4 minutes digital stories from the more than 50 Public Libraries around the State of California. In addition StoryCenter will work with a number of libraries in building their capacity for carrying out recorded conversations using the Listening Station, an iPad-based recording kit and app developed specifically for this project. The stories will exist as a collection for the State Library at archive.org, and for participating libraries. The digital stories were created in series of two day workshops for 6-12 participants hosted at each library. Copyrighted. Rights are owned by Nadja White. Copyright Holder has given StoryCenter permission to provide access to the digitized work online. Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the Copyright Holder. In addition, the reproduction of some materials may be restricted by terms of gift or purchase agreements, donor restrictions, privacy and publicity rights, licensing and trademarks. Works not in the public domain cannot be commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owner. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user. Files were created by StoryCenter and preserved by the California Preservation Program. Contact Information StoryCenter 1250 Addison Street, Suite 103 Berkeley, CA 94702 USA Phone: (510) 548-2065 Email: info@storycenter.org
1978 Native American, San Francisco, Oral History
Native Americans transplanted from Alaska and the Dakotas describe their integration into San Francisco's fast pace of life. learn more about local history at the San Francisco History Center: sfpl.org/sfhistory
Rights: Permission to use this oral history commercially must be obtained from the San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library. sfpl.org/permissions When using this film please credit SAN FRANCISCO HISTORY CENTER, SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC LIBRARY.
A selection of San Francisco Public Library's unique audiovisual materials were digitized through a grant Analog to Digital. The grant project was supported in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian.