Bell Plate Carol of the Bells at the San Francisco Public Library San Francisco Public Library 2018-12-25 | A bell plate is a percussion instrument consisting of a flat and fairly thick sheet of metal, producing a sound similar to a bell. They are most often used in orchestral and theater music. Bell ringer Victor Avdienko performs "Carol of the Bells" as part of a Russian Bells Holiday Concert featuring instruments by Blagovest Bells of Novato, California. Check out more upcoming events at the San Francisco Public Library: www.SFPL.org/Events
Performance: Kim Shuck’s Poem Jam Celebrates Poet Laureates San Francisco Public Library 2024-05-13 | San Francisco Poet Laureate emerita Kim Shuck invites Georgina Marie Guardado, Kimi Sugioka and Brenda Yeager to read at SFPL’s monthly poetry reading.Kim Shuck was San Francisco’s seventh Poet Laureate. Her poetry draws on her multiethnic background which includes Polish and Cherokee heritage, and her experiences as a lifelong resident of San Francisco. Her most recent book of poetry, Pick a Garnet to Sleep In, was published in 2024, and her book of essays, Noodle, Rant, Tangent, was published in 2022. In her term as Poet Laureate, she hosted scores of free poetry and art workshops for all ages at neighborhood libraries and schools and worked closely with San Francisco Public Library and the San Francisco Arts Commission to launch major citywide initiatives to honor Native American Indigenous Peoples' heritage.Georgina Marie Guardado was the Lake County Poet Laureate for 2020–2022.Kimi Sugioka is the current Alameda Poet Laureate.Brenda Yeager is the current Lake County Poet Laureate for 2024-2026.
Author: Nancy Jooyoun Kim and Parini Shroff in conversation San Francisco Public Library 2024-05-09 | Nancy Jooyoun Kim, author of What We Kept to Ourselves, and Parini Shroff, debut author of The Bandit Queens, converge to explore their books, writing processes and the compelling characters driving their stories. Nancy Jooyoun Kim is the New York Times bestselling author of What We Kept to Ourselves and The Last Story of Mina Lee, a Reese’s Book Club pick. Born and raised in Los Angeles, she now lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. Parini Shroff received her MFA from the University of Texas at Austin, where she studied under Elizabeth McCracken, Alexander Chee, and Cristina García. She is a practicing attorney and currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. The Bandit Queens is her debut novel.
Presentation: Finding Home San Francisco Public Library 2024-05-09 | Explore the concept of 'home' amidst a shifting landscape, featuring writers from The People’s Book of Human Sexuality as they discuss themes of identity and belonging in a world of constant change.How do we find and create home in a changing world? Explore the concept of 'home' amidst change with contributors from The People’s Book of Human Sexuality. The panelists share experiences from growing up on opposite coasts, navigating the absence of queer-affirming media, finding home with the land as an indigenous Chican through yoga, experiencing migration, language and embracing new Canadian experiences. Moderated by editor Bianca Laureano, featuring panelists Karen B. K. Chan, Juan Fernandez, and Serina Payan Hazelwood.
One City One Book: Kathryn Ma in Conversation with Natalie Baszile San Francisco Public Library 2024-05-08 | Kathryn Ma discusses her book, The Chinese Groove, the story of 18-year-old Shelley's journey from China's Yunnan Province to San Francisco, where he confronts familial discord, cultural adaptation and personal aspirations while leaning on the notion of the "Chinese groove" to navigate his new reality. Ma will be in conversation with Natalie Baszile, author of Queen Sugar and We Are Each Other's Harvest: Celebrating African American Farmers, Land, and Legacy.Initially sent to live with his supposed rich uncle, Shelley discovers that reality diverges sharply from his hopes. Instead, he finds himself in a crowded rooming house, juggling school, work and relationships while always reaching for his hope of becoming a poet and rekindling a romance with his American ex-girlfriend. As Shelley traverses the challenges of his new surroundings, he leans on the concept of the "Chinese groove," an unspoken connection among fellow immigrants, to navigate his new reality. Through humorous yet poignant encounters and unexpected twists, Shelley confronts the challenges of family and finding a home, grief and the pursuit of success in a foreign land. Amidst the episodic plot and diverse cast of characters, including his not-so-rich second cousin Ted and Ted's Jewish wife Aviva, Shelley's journey unfolds with both resilience and introspection. Kathryn Ma is the author of the widely praised novel The Year She Left Us, which was named a New York Times Editors’ Choice and an NPR “Great Read” of the year. Her short story collection, All That Work and Still No Boys, won the Iowa Short Fiction Award and was named a San Francisco Chronicle “Notable Book” and a Los Angeles Times “Discoveries Book.” She is also a recipient of the David Nathan Meyerson Prize for Fiction and has twice been named a San Francisco Public Library Laureate. Her new latest book, The Chinese Groove is San Francisco Public Library's 18th One City One Book. Natalie Baszile, with an M.A. in Afro-American Studies from UCLA, is a Warren Wilson College MFA graduate. Queen Sugar earned a spot on the San Francisco Chronicle's Best Books of 2014 and an NAACP Image Award nomination. Her latest work, We Are Each Other's Harvest, explores Black Americans' connection to the land post-Emancipation. Baszile has had residencies at the Ragdale Foundation, Virginia Center for the Arts, Hedgebrook and the Djerassi Resident Arts Program where she received the SFFILM and the Bonnie Rattner Fellowships. Her non-fiction has appeared in Lenny Letter, The Bitter Southerner and more. Baszile, a San Francisco Writers' Grotto member, resides in the Bay Area.
Insurance: Know Your Sub-Limits. San Francisco Public Library 2024-05-08 | How insurance works and how sub-limits affect insurance coverage: carriers often place limits on areas of coverage that you are likely to need if you have a claim.
Everyone Retires—Things You Should Think About. San Francisco Public Library 2024-05-08 | How to potentially think about retirement planning over time. We will discuss steps to think about as retirement gets closer, why asset allocation could change, when you should consider asset allocation changes and the time horizon in retirement.
Get More Out of Your Cash Flow San Francisco Public Library 2024-05-07 | Streamline your cash flow to get more money at the end of the month and more time during the month.
Demystifying the Financial Planning Process. San Francisco Public Library 2024-05-07 | Learn about the financial planning process, the areas covered by a comprehensive financial plan and its value proposition, along with suggestions on how to choose a financial advisor.
Why Invest in Stocks? San Francisco Public Library 2024-05-07 | We will discuss stocks, bonds, mutual funds, ETFs, how to decide which investment concept works for you, how to start investing and why equities might make sense for you.
Financial First Aid San Francisco Public Library 2024-05-07 | A financial crisis can throw even the best money management plan into chaos. This session focuses on ways to gain control of a crisis. Participants will learn about financial assessments, expense prioritization, and effective negotiation with creditors.
Celebration: Queer Armenian Voices in Drag, Poetry and Sapphic RomCom San Francisco Public Library 2024-05-03 | Join us for an electrifying evening celebrating the intersections of SWANA, Armenian and queer culture, featuring performances by beloved drag king VERA!, poetry by language advocate Hrayr Varaz, and a glimpse into the world of award-winning writer Taleen Voskuni.Experience an evening of creativity as we feature three exceptional individuals who embody activism and expression. From VERA!'s infectious laughter and advocacy for inclusivity in the drag community to Hrayr Varaz's innovative linguistic techniques and passion for Western Armenian revitalization, and Taleen Voskuni's storytelling that has received critical acclaim, this event promises to be a memorable celebration of art, identity and community. Join us for the magic of Queer Armenian Voices—you won't want to miss it.VERA! is a beloved Oakland-based queer Armenian drag king known for their infectious laughter, acceptance and love. Beyond the stage, Vera serves as the Associate Director of Development at the Alameda Health System Foundation, supporting accessible healthcare initiatives. As a proud member and cohost of the Rebel Kings of Oakland and father of House of Pack, VERA! uplifts the drag community and advocates for inclusivity and activism through their art. Hrayr Varaz is a poet, linguist and advocate for Western Armenian language and culture. A graduate of UCLA and MIT, Varaz's passion for Armenian education and language revitalization shines through in his work, including his pocket-sized book of Twitter poems, #jivjiv. Through innovative linguistic techniques and a playful approach to grammar and orthography, Varaz seeks to demystify Western Armenian and encourage language learners of all ages. With a desire to liberate writers from the fear of making mistakes, Varaz's book embodies a spirit of creativity and exploration. Based in San Francisco, Varaz also emphasizes his commitment to acknowledging and honoring the indigenous lands of the Ramaytush Ohlone First Peoples.Taleen Voskuni is an award-winning writer who grew up in the Bay Area Armenian diaspora. She graduated from UC Berkeley with a BA in English and currently lives in San Francisco, working in tech. Other than a newfound obsession with writing rom-coms, she spends her free time cultivating her kids, her garden and her dark chocolate addiction. Her first novel, Sorry, Bro, received starred reviews from Kirkus and Booklist, was named an Amazon editor’s pick, and was favorably reviewed in The New York Times. Sorry, Bro is also winner of the 2023 Golden Poppy award for best romance. Lavash at First Sight is her second published novel.Attendees received complimentary copies of Queer SWANA (South West Asian and North African) book titles, including Voskuni's, Sorry, Bro.
Presentation: William Blake’s “Songs of Innocence and of Experience” San Francisco Public Library 2024-05-02 | Author Morton Paley presents on poet William Blake’s illustrated Songs of Innocence and of Experience. William Blake published his poems in an unusual manner: as etched pages combining text and images, later called “composite art.” What difference does this make?Morton D. Paley is an Emeritus Professor English at the University of California, Berkeley.
Performance: Poetry Preserves: 44 Years of Vital Verse San Francisco Public Library 2024-05-02 | The Haight Ashbury Literary Journal celebrates National Poetry Month with a poetry reading featuring some of San Francisco's finest bards. Readers include Nicole Henares, Karen Melander-Magoon, Phyllis Klein, Cesar Love, Ed Mycue, Antoinette Vella Payne, Rafael Pineda, Dan Richman, Alice Elizabeth Rogoff, John Rowe, Eva Helene Stern and Nellie Wong.The Haight Ashbury Literary Journal was created by Cliff McIntire and Indigo Joanne Hotchkiss in 1979 to publish creative writers in the neighborhood. Over the years HALJ’s mission expanded to include writers from San Francisco and beyond. Cliff was formerly incarcerated, and today’s HALJ proudly participates in the PEN America Prison Program. HALJ also participates in the annual Watershed Poetry and Environmental Festival.HALJ publishes well-written poetry and fiction. HALJ’s voices are often of people who have been marginalized, oppressed or abused. HALJ strives to bring literary arts to the public, to the San Francisco community of writers, to the Haight Ashbury neighborhood, and to people of varying ages, genders, ethnicities and sexual preferences. HALJ is produced as a tabloid, with black-and-white artwork, to maintain an accessible price for low-income people.
SF Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program. San Francisco Public Library 2024-04-29 | Find out who they are, what they do and how to volunteer to become an ombudsman.
Avoid Probate in California: Because at Least One Thing is Certain. San Francisco Public Library 2024-04-29 | Protect what you love, who you love and your legacy by learning how to build an estate plan, what to look for in a lawyer, what to do after you have a plan and what to expect from California’s default plan if you pass or become incapacitated without having your documents in place.
The 7 Pillars to a Successful Retirement Plan. San Francisco Public Library 2024-04-29 | Protect and grow your wealth in retirement by implementing seven essential retirement pillars.
Performance: New Poetry Books: Bay Area Poets Read from Recent Publications San Francisco Public Library 2024-04-26 | San Francisco Poet Laureate emerita Kim Shuck invites poets Dena Rod, Taneesh Kaur and Mahnaz Badihian to read from their recent works.Kim Shuck was San Francisco’s seventh Poet Laureate. Her poetry draws on her multiethnic background which includes Polish and Cherokee heritage, and her experiences as a lifelong resident of San Francisco. Her most recent book of poetry, What Unseen Thing Blows Wishes Across My Surface?, a collaboration with visual artist LisaRuth Elliott, and her new book of essays, Noodle, Rant, Tangent, were published in 2022. In her term as Poet Laureate, she hosted scores of free poetry and art workshops for all ages at neighborhood libraries and schools and worked closely with San Francisco Public Library and the San Francisco Arts Commission to launch major citywide initiatives to honor Native American Indigenous Peoples' heritage.Dena Rod is a non-binary poet and essayist whose debut poetry collection Scattered Arils is now in its fourth print run from Milk and Cake Press. Described by The Bold Italic as a “verbose advocate,” they are currently at work on their first novel.Taneesh Kaur is a US-born Punjabi teaching artist based in San Francisco. She has an MA in linguistics from SFSU and is currently an MFA student in Writing at the University of San Francisco. Her debut full-length collection, Thawing: A Poetic Memoir, is forthcoming from Collapse Press.Mahnaz Badihian is an Iranian American poet, painter and translator. She runs the literary magazine MahMag, which brings the poetry of the world together. Badihian finished the translation of a book, Spalding Arise, with Jack Hirschman in 2014 and received her MFA in poetry from Pacific University. She is working on her latest novel, Gohar. Badihian’s recent collection of poems, Ask the Wind was published in 2022. Currently, she is an acting member of the World Festival of poetry and travels to different world poetry events in India, Chile, Cuba, Italy, England, Bolivia, Peru and elsewhere.
Performance: Kim Shucks Poem Jam with Lee Herrick San Francisco Public Library 2024-04-19 | San Francisco Poet Laureate emerita Kim Shuck invites California Poet Laureate Lee Herrick, youth laureates and special guests to read at SFPL’s monthly poetry reading.Kim Shuck was San Francisco’s seventh Poet Laureate. Her poetry draws on her multiethnic background which includes Polish and Cherokee heritage, and her experiences as a lifelong resident of San Francisco. Her most recent book of poetry, What Unseen Thing Blows Wishes Across My Surface?, a collaboration with visual artist LisaRuth Elliott, and her new book of essays, Noodle, Rant, Tangent, were published in 2022. In her term as Poet Laureate, she hosted scores of free poetry and art workshops for all ages at neighborhood libraries and schools and worked closely with San Francisco Public Library and the San Francisco Arts Commission to launch major citywide initiatives to honor Native American Indigenous Peoples' heritage.Lee Herrick is the California Poet Laureate. He is the author of three books of poems: Scar and Flower, Gardening Secrets of the Dead, and This Many Miles from Desire.
Performance: Roots and Resonance: Poetry Reading by Monica Mody and Sophia Naz San Francisco Public Library 2024-04-16 | A reading by two South Asian diasporic poets, Monica Mody and Sophia Naz, whose poetry takes on/seeks to retell the histories and memories of the sacred and the profane, the oral and the experimental, the liminal and the subliminal, India and Pakistan. The poets share commonalities across partitioned ancestral stories, and they persist through the ambiguities of singing the dead to life.Monica Mody is a poet, scholar, educator and the author of Wild Fin (Weavers Press, 2024), Bright Parallel (Copper Coin, 2023) and Kala Pani (1913 Press, 2013). Her writing has won awards including the Sparks Prize (Notre Dame), the Zora Neale Hurston Award (Naropa) and the TOTO Award for Creative Writing.Sophia Naz is a bilingual poet, artist, editor, translator and author of Bark Archipelago (Weavers Press, San Francisco & Red River, India 2023), Open Zero (Yoda Press 2021), Shehnaz (Penguin Random House 2019), Pointillism (Copper Coin 2017), Date Palms (City Press 2017) and Peripheries (Cyberhex 2015). She has been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize, in 2016 for creative nonfiction and in 2018 for poetry.
Performance: Kim Shuck’s Poem Jam Celebrates Poetry Flash San Francisco Public Library 2024-04-16 | San Francisco Poet Laureate emerita Kim Shuck invited Joyce Jenkins and Poetry Flash writers to celebrate this renowned literary magazine’s 50th anniversary and its mission of building community through literature. Readers include Joyce Jenkins, Lee Rossi, Richard Silberg and MK Chavez.Kim Shuck was San Francisco’s seventh Poet Laureate. Her poetry draws on her multiethnic background which includes Polish and Cherokee heritage, and her experiences as a lifelong resident of San Francisco. Her most recent book of poetry, What Unseen Thing Blows Wishes Across My Surface?, a collaboration with visual artist LisaRuth Elliott, and her new book of essays, Noodle, Rant, Tangent, were published in 2022. In her term as Poet Laureate, she hosted scores of free poetry and art workshops for all ages at neighborhood libraries and schools and worked closely with San Francisco Public Library and the San Francisco Arts Commission to launch major citywide initiatives to honor Native American Indigenous Peoples' heritage.Poetry Flash Literary Review & Calendar publishes book reviews, interviews, poems and event news for California. Poetry Flash also sponsors the Poetry Flash Reading Series, the annual Northern California Book Awards, the annual Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival and Poets in the Schools in the East Bay. In 2012 Poetry Flash received Litquake’s Barbary Coast Award for its outstanding contributions to the Bay Area literary scene.Joyce Jenkins is Editor and Director of Poetry Flash Literary Review & Calendar. She is the author of the chapbooks Portal and Joy Road, and her poems have appeared in ZYZZYVA, Addison Street Anthology: Berkeley’s Poetry Walk and The Place That Inhabits Us: Poems of the San Francisco Watershed. Jenkins is the recipient of the American Book Award and the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award.Richard Silberg is Associate Editor and frequent Poetry Flash reviewer. He has published six collections of poetry, including the recent Deconstruction of the Blues, a PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Literary Award-winner, and The Horses: New and Selected Poems. Other publications include a book of critical prose, Reading the Sphere: A Geography of Contemporary American Poetry, and four co-translations of South Korean poetry, most notably The Three Way Tavern by Ko Un.Lee Rossi is Contributing Editor for Poetry Flash. His new poetry collection is Say Anything (Plain View Press, 2024). He was born near the confluence of Greater Appalachia and the Deep South. During his lifetime the human population grew from 2 billion to 8 billion, and carbon dioxide levels rose from less than 300 ppm to over 400 ppm. He believes in the laws of physics. His religion is kindness.MK Chavez is an Afro-Latinx writer, educator and curator. Chavez co-directs the Berkeley Poetry Festival and is co-founder of the Lyrics & Dirges reading series. The author’s writing explores identity, social justice, ecological resilience, horror cinema, magic and ritual. Her work has been recognized with a Pen Oakland Josephine Miles Award, an Alameda Arts Leadership Award, a San Francisco Foundation/Nomadic Press Literary Award and a 2023 Ruth Weiss Maverick Award, and she was a 2023 Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 100 fellow. Chavez’s literary offerings include Dear Animal, Mothermorphosis, the lyric essay chapbook A Brief History of the Selfie and Virgin Eyes. Recent work can be found among the trees in Golden Gate Park’s Voices of the Trees Project.
Inaugural BIPOC KidLit Fest 2024 at San Francisco Public Library San Francisco Public Library 2024-03-29 | Join authors Natasha Tripplett, Aida Salazar, Lisa Moore Ramee and more at the inaugural SFPL BIPOC KidLit Fest with featured author Christina Soontornvat.This daylong celebration of diverse authors is designed for budding readers, emphasizing the joy of diverse narratives and promising an afternoon of inspiration, representation and the transformative magic of literature. All are welcome at this free event. Visit sfpl.org/events/bipoc-kidlit-fest-featuring-28th-annual-effie-lee-morris-meet-author-program for more information.
A North American Total Eclipse of the Sun: April 8, 2024 with astronomer Andrew Fraknoi San Francisco Public Library 2024-03-28 | Learn about how solar eclipses come to be, what scientists discover during eclipses, exactly when and where the upcoming eclipse will be best visible, and how to observe the eclipse and the sun safely.
Panel: Interdisciplinary Women in Computer Science San Francisco Public Library 2024-03-22 | Learn about different careers in computer science that are merging technology with other subjects such as environmental science, art, and civics. Attendees will have the opportunity to ask the panelists questions at the end of the program. Additionally, attendees will receive access to a document featuring resource recommendations tailored to various scientific disciplines. Panelists: Valerie Hau, Software Engineer at HumaneDr. Soo Kyung Kim, Senior Computer Scientist at SRI International Dr. Saiph Savage, Assistant Professor and Director of the Civic A.I. Lab at Northeastern University
Presentation: Spiller, Thriller, Filler: How to Create Lush Container Gardens San Francisco Public Library 2024-03-22 | Learn how to use the filler, spiller, thriller method of container planting. Create a gorgeous container garden that will carry you through spring, summer and fall. This workshop, presented by Master Gardener Arete Nicholas, is geared towards all levels of gardening—from the very beginner to the experienced. Learn how to create planters overflowing with colorful flowers, herbs and trailing plants and how to refresh them after planting as the seasons change.
Presentation: Essentials of Nutrition, A Guide to Healthy Eating San Francisco Public Library 2024-03-22 | Explore the fundamental principles of nutrition. Dive into key topics such as understanding macronutrients and micronutrients, decoding food labels, and staying abreast of the latest nutrition trends. Tackle common and frequently asked nutrition questions. From dispelling myths to providing practical tips for everyday meal planning, you will gain the essential knowledge needed to make informed choices about your diet and discover how to make healthy eating a joyful and sustainable part of your life. This workshop is open to all, with no prior nutrition knowledge required. Presented by Kylie Smith, MS, RD, CDCES. Kylie is a clinical dietitian at John Muir Health. She also teaches nutrition at Diablo Valley College. She earned her MS in Nutrition Science and Food Management from Oregon State University and her BS in Physiological Science from UCLA.
Presentation: How I Built My Clothing Repair Business with Audrey Danser San Francisco Public Library 2024-03-21 | From why and how it was started, learn about Audrey Danser's low-waste mending business, Salvage Studio. Founded in September 2021, Audrey has salvaged over 1,000 vintage and modern garments. Audrey Danser is a local mending specialist helping keep beloved clothes in circulation and out of the landfill. Audrey has been repairing and reimagining garments for 20 years and currently works from her home studio in the Mission district of San Francisco. In addition to clothing repair, Audrey teaches mending workshops, including for corporate partner Patagonia, and private 1:1 sewing and mending lessons. Audrey is also a content creator and uses Instagram to normalize the practice of re-wearing, upcycling and educates through digestible mending tutorials to empower folks to repair their own clothes.
Celebration: Pride in Panels - Graphic Content: Queer Erotic Comics San Francisco Public Library 2024-03-13 | Pride in Panels: SF Queer Comics Festival was a groundbreaking, inaugural showcase of San Francisco Bay Area LGBTQIA+ queer comics creators on February 18, 2024 at the Main Library of San Francisco Public Library that celebrated the remarkable vitality of the San Francisco Bay Area queer comics scene through riveting panels, maker workshops and an exhibition hall of over 100 LGBTQIA+ cartoonists in a 100% free event for all.How have queer comics handled sex, sexuality, and desire, both in erotic stories and ones that simply include graphic content? Why and how are we making this work, and who is it for? Join moderator Justin Hall (Hard to Swallow) and panelists Trinidad Escobar (Arrive in My Hands), Jon Macy (Fearful Hunter), MariNaomi (I Thought You Loved Me), and Leah Spears (Polyamory Coloring Book) as they discuss the challenges and opportunities of representing sex in their work, how far representation has come in erotica, and where it’s all headed. This panel will contain graphic language and imagery.
Celebration: Pride in Panels - Out in the World: Publishing Queer Comics San Francisco Public Library 2024-03-13 | Pride in Panels: SF Queer Comics Festival was a groundbreaking, inaugural showcase of San Francisco Bay Area LGBTQIA+ queer comics creators on February 18, 2024 at the Main Library of San Francisco Public Library that celebrated the remarkable vitality of the San Francisco Bay Area queer comics scene through riveting panels, maker workshops and an exhibition hall of over 100 LGBTQIA+ cartoonists in a 100% free event for all.There are more ways than ever to get queer comics out into the world, from self-publishing to the indie presses to the mainstream book and comics publishers. This plethora of options, both on the web and in print, can be bewildering and comes with its share of pitfalls. Join moderator Avi Ehrlich (SIlver Sprocket) and panelists Yasmeen Abedifard (D.R.Y.), Tara Madison Avery (Stacked Deck Press), Caspar Cendre (A.B.O. Comix), Breena Nuñez (Laneha House) as they break down the myriad challenges and opportunities of the modern publishing landscape.
Celebration: Pride in Panels - Sickening! Queer Horror Comics San Francisco Public Library 2024-03-13 | Pride in Panels: SF Queer Comics Festival was a groundbreaking, inaugural showcase of San Francisco Bay Area LGBTQIA+ queer comics creators on February 18, 2024 at the Main Library of San Francisco Public Library that celebrated the remarkable vitality of the San Francisco Bay Area queer comics scene through riveting panels, maker workshops and an exhibition hall of over 100 LGBTQIA+ cartoonists in a 100% free event for all.Horror comics can be disturbing, downright terrifying… or even a bit of campy fun! From psychological to gore to monsters, from cute to creepy, what is the range of possibilities represented by queer horror comics? How can the horror genre uncover the fears, fantasies, and fabulousness of the queer psyche? Join moderator William O. Tyler (Theater of Terror) and panelists Robyn Adams (Homozone), Dave Davenport (Feral), Diego Gomez (1963), and Malcolm Johnson (Tales of Hoodoo Horror) as they dissect the rotting corpse of queer horror.
Celebration: Pride in Panels - Think of the Children: Queer All-Ages Comics San Francisco Public Library 2024-03-13 | Pride in Panels: SF Queer Comics Festival was a groundbreaking, inaugural showcase of San Francisco Bay Area LGBTQIA+ queer comics creators on February 18, 2024 at the Main Library of San Francisco Public Library that celebrated the remarkable vitality of the San Francisco Bay Area queer comics scene through riveting panels, maker workshops and an exhibition hall of over 100 LGBTQIA+ cartoonists in a 100% free event for all.From Webtoons to manga to graphic novels, comics have exploded in the children’s lit scene in recent years. How do these stories reflect the joys and trials of queer kids today? How are queer creators inspired by their childhood favorites, like The Babysitters Club and Naruto? Join moderator Laura Gao (Messy Roots) and panelists Amanda Castillo (Mapmakers), Samadrita Ghosh (Night Owls & Summer Skies), Ajuan Mance (What Do Brothas Do All Day?), Kyla Aiko (Foxlight), as they discuss their comic journeys, and how you’re never too young to make your own webcomic!
Author: Dr. Jacqueline Francis in Conversation with Virginia Smyly San Francisco Public Library 2024-03-06 | Jacqueline Francis and Virginia Smyly discuss the work of Sargent Claude Johnson, an important African American sculptor and artist with San Francisco connections. Following the opening of a major exhibition of Johnson's work at The Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens, Francis and Smyly will discuss this important artist and his influence on San Francisco and the world. Francis is co-curator of the exhibit and co-editor of its companion book, Sargent Claude Johnson (1888-1967) with Dennis Carr (The Huntington’s Virginia Steele Scott, Chief Curator of American Art) and John P. Bowles (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill).Johnson's powerful works — masks, portrait busts, and figural sculptures created in the 1920s and 1930s—have become emblems of the Harlem Renaissance. The exhibition will also include several art pieces by Johnson held by the San Francisco African American Historical and Cultural Society, which has an archive of early San Francisco African American history, life and culture. Around 1915, Johnson moved to San Francisco and studied art at the A.W. Best School of Art and the California School of Fine Arts (later the San Francisco Art Institute). Johnson received government commissions and became one of the few African American supervisors in the Works Progress Administration nationwide. His largest work was a 185-foot-long, 12-foot-high cast-stone frieze (1942) made for the football field at George Washington High School and entitled "Athletics."Jacqueline Francis, Ph.D., is Dean of the Humanities and Sciences Division at California College of the Arts in San Francisco. She is a co-editor of Sargent Claude Johnson (2024), Is Now The Time for Joyous Rage? (2023) and Romare Bearden: American Modernist (2011). She is the author of Making Race: Modernism and “Racial Art” in America (2011) and is a contributor to Mary Ann Calo's African American Artists and the New Deal Art Programs (2023). In 2023, she was named to the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 100—recognition of her activism and innovative projects in the Bay Area region.Virginia Smyly is a retired Public Health professional who heads the San Francisco African American Historical and Cultural Society's archive inventory project. She is a native San Franciscan, a graduate of Lowell H. S., University of California at Berkeley, and UCB’s graduate school, where she earned degrees in African American Studies, Anthropology, and Public Health. She is the author of 100 Years in Action: Booker T. Washington Community Service Center. Her vocation is historian and she is an amateur genealogist.
Author: Dr. Tanisha C. Ford in conversation with Dr. Tiffany E. Barber San Francisco Public Library 2024-03-05 | Dr. Tanisha Ford in conversation with Dr. Tiffany E. Barber on African American fashion culture and its influence on the past, present and future.This conversation will contextualize the exhibit, Toward a Black Aesthetic: Kenneth P. Green Sr.'s Photographs of the 1960s and 70s, on display in the Jewett Gallery and the African American Center through April 21, 2024. In this show, Green’s images pay homage to Black women whose strength, intellect and beauty he recognized through photographs that also highlight the fashion and politics of the era. The discussion will revolve around fashion themes discussed in Ford's books, Dressed in Dreams: A Black Girl’s Love Letter to the Power of Fashion (St. Martins, June 2019), the award-winning Liberated Threads: Black Women, Style, and the Global Politics of Soul (UNC Press, 2015) and her latest book, Our Secret Society: Mollie Moon and the Glamour, Money, and Power Behind the Civil Rights Movement.Dr. Tanisha Ford is Professor of History and Biography and Memoir at The Graduate Center, CUNY. She has written four books, also including, Kwame Brathwaite: Black is Beautiful (Aperture, May 2019) and is currently working on a genre-bending book about sculptor and institution builder Augusta Savage. Ford has received several major awards and honors and was named one of The Root's 100 Most Influential African Americans. Her research has been supported by prestigious institutions such as New America, Emerson Collective, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Ford Foundation, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and London University’s School of Advanced Study, among others. Tanisha writes regularly for diverse newspapers and magazines, including the New York Times, the Atlantic, Time, ELLE, Town & Country, Harper’s Bazaar, The Root, Aperture, CBSNews, WNYC and NPR. A native of Indiana, she currently resides in Harlem.Dr. Tiffany E. Barber is a prize-winning, internationally-recognized scholar, curator and critic whose writing and expert commentary appears in top-tier academic journals, popular media outlets and award-winning documentaries. Her work spans abstraction, dance, fashion, feminism, film and the ethics of representation, focusing on artists of the Black diaspora working in the United States and the broader Atlantic world. Her latest curatorial project, a virtual, multimedia exhibition for Google Arts and Culture, examines the value of Afrofuturism in times of crisis. She is currently Assistant Professor of African American Art at the University of California-Los Angeles as well as curator-in-residence at the Delaware Contemporary. Dr. Barber is the recipient of the Smithsonian’s 2022 National Portrait Gallery Director’s Essay Prize.
Wild Women Suffragists: The Untold Story San Francisco Public Library 2024-02-27 | Presentation: Wild Women Suffragists: The Untold Storyin partnership with San Francisco's Institute for Historical Study.The struggle for women’s right to vote coincided with America’s first culture war – a battle between a strong Free-Love movement and Victorian prudery. Come learn how the 19th-century Free-Love movement impacted the suffrage campaign.Presented by Joe C. Miller, a member of San Francisco’s Institute for Historical Study
Presentation: MUNI Is My Ride - featuring Keith Ferris and Lia Smith San Francisco Public Library 2024-02-27 | A captivating presentation featuring illustrations showcasing passengers and bus stops, coupled with insightful interviews and portraits of bus and train operators. This event is sure to inspire you to reconsider the solitude of the automobile and embrace the appeal of public transportation, whether it's MUNI in San Francisco or the transport services in your own hometown.See MUNI through the eyes of Keith Ferris's colorful pencil portraits of operators, lively drawings of bus passengers and black-and-white depictions of bus stops. Paired with Lia Smith's engaging interviews, MUNI operators share the nitty-gritty of their daily hustle in transporting passengers across the city, offering insights into what sparked their journey into this profession. MUNI is My Ride is sure to delight. Ferris has exhibited since the 1970s and maintained a fine art studio for over forty-seven years. Although his focus has been abstract oil paintings on canvas, drawing remains foundational to his work. The over fifty drawings in MUNI IS MY RIDE, which he started in 2009, evolved and helped him hone his abilities to capture a likeness in his portraiture.Smith writes short stories and novels. She has had short stories published in both national and literary magazines. She has employed her writing skills to advocate for her community and has project managed several community art installations including the Alemany Island Beautification Project, the first freeway pillar painted in San Francisco and flanked by forty-eight art panels at the intersection of Alemany Boulevard and San Bruno Avenue.Attendees received a complimentary copy of MUNI is My Ride.
SFPL Super Bowl Banned Book Storytime San Francisco Public Library 2024-02-27 | After Kansas City's Super Bowl win, SFPL presents a banned book storytime by City Librarian Michael Lambert. Enjoy “Sofia Valdez, Future Prez” by Andrea Beatty, a book that has been banned for featuring one small image of LGBTQ+ pride. We’re on the same team as Kansas City Public Library when it comes to intellectual freedom. Let’s tackle censorship together and continue to celebrate diverse voices! Visit www.tacklecensorship.org to learn more.
Presentation: SF Film Noir Locations Then and Now San Francisco Public Library 2024-02-22 | Join us online for a virtual tour of film noir locations shot predominantly in San Francisco's Telegraph Hill area. Creator of the web site Reel SF and film buff, Brian Hollins, will focus on the film noir decades of the 1940s and 1950s. This online presentation will cover how directors used locations to enhance their storytelling and will then turn to Telegraph Hill, the nexus of film noir locations in San Francisco, to describe a number of particularly interesting location sites.
Writers for Writers A Lunar New Year Celebration Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network Reading Series San Francisco Public Library 2024-02-21 | The San Francisco Public Library partners with the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network for an extraordinary evening of literary talent as SFPL celebrates the launch of their 2024 Reading Series. Readings by Truong Tran, Damon Potter and members of the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network (DVAN). Tran, born in Saigon, Vietnam, is an acclaimed poet and author of several collections of poetry, including The Book of Perceptions and Four Letter Words. His works have been translated into multiple languages and he has received numerous awards, such as The American Book Award and The Poetry Center Prize. Truong is also a self-taught visual artist whose work has been exhibited in various prestigious venues. He currently resides in San Francisco and teaches at Mills College, Oakland.Potter is the co-author of Looking and Seeing with Tran. He works as a gardener in San Francisco.The DVAN Team, comprised of Anh-Vy Phan, Annika Le, Carolyn Ho, Isabelle Thuy Pelaud, Julie Thi Underhill, Kathy Nguyen, Sydney Van To, and Vina Vo also read their respective works DVAN empowers and promotes diasporic Vietnamese and Southeast Asian literary voices through nonfiction, fiction, and poetry, fostering understanding, dialogue, and championing diverse stories for future generations, acknowledging the complexities and distinctions within the transnational diaspora community. They are refugees, immigrants, survivors and descendants, and their stories must be heard.
Black Voices in American Opera San Francisco Public Library 2024-02-21 | Educational Content Curator, Cole Thomason-Redus, presents a historical and musical survey of Black voices in American opera. Thomason-Redus will explore the careers and recordings of pioneers such as Camilla Williams, Simon Estes and Marian Anderson, and mid-century superstars such as Leontyne Price, along with other modern-day masters of the American opera stage. In addition to celebrating these iconic voices, we will discuss the institutional and social barriers that have often existed within the art form, and the corrective and equity-based efforts being taken today as San Francisco Opera paves the way for a new century of opera in America.
Capacitación: Alfabetización digital, acceso y consideraciones durante y después del encarcelamiento San Francisco Public Library 2024-02-20 | Este vídeo destaca alfabetización digital, acceso y consideraciones durante y después del encarcelamiento. Fue creado como parte de la iniciativa “Ampliar el acceso a información para las personas que se encuentran prisioneras en cárceles y centros de detención” de la Biblioteca Pública de San Francisco, fundado por Mellon Foundation (más información en Iniciativa Expandiendo el Acceso a la Información para las Personas Encarceladas | Biblioteca Pública de San Francisco (sfpl.org) #ExpandingInformationAccessforIncarceratedPeople ).Este video incluye: Introducción (Jeanie Austin, Stephen Jackson)--0:00University of Kansas (Hyunjin Seo)--6:30University of North Carolina at Charlotte (Bianca C. Reisdorf)--21:25University of Washington (Kentrell Owens)--34:31Una transcripción de esta capacitación está disponible en http://tinyurl.com/3vvdeu4k.Para recibir un certificado de ALA por asistir a esta capacitación, por favor ingrese a https://idpv3.ala.org/idp/profile/SAM... y complete la capacitación por medio de la plataforma de desarrollo profesional de ALA.Las transcripciones son creadas en un plazo determinado por un contratista de SFPL. Este texto puede no estar en su forma final y puede ser actualizado o revisado en el futuro. La exactitud y la disponibilidad pueden variar. El registro autorizado es la grabación de vídeo.
Capacitación: Servicios bibliotecarios para personas encarceladas en el aula LIS San Francisco Public Library 2024-02-20 | Este video demuestra servicios bibliotecarios para personas encarceladas en el aula LIS. Fue creado como parte de la iniciativa “Ampliar el acceso a información para las personas que se encuentran prisioneras en cárceles y centros de detención” de la Biblioteca Pública de San Francisco, fundado por Mellon Foundation (más información en Iniciativa Expandiendo el Acceso a la Información para las Personas Encarceladas | Biblioteca Pública de San Francisco (sfpl.org) #ExpandingInformationAccessforIncarceratedPeople )Este video incluye: Introducción (Jeanie Austin, Darius Coleman)--00:00Pratt School of Information (Shawn(ta) Smith-Cruz)--04:18University of Rhode Island (Melissa Villa-Nicholas)--25:32University of Alabama (Miriam E. Sweeney)--56:30Una transcripción de esta capacitación está disponible en http://tinyurl.com/2pvn5erjPara recibir un certificado de ALA por asistir a esta capacitación, por favor ingrese a idpv3.ala.org/idp/profile/SAML2/Redirect/SSO?execution=e1s2 y complete la capacitación por medio de la plataforma de desarrollo profesional de ALA.Las transcripciones son creadas en un plazo determinado por un contratista de SFPL. Este texto puede no estar en su forma final y puede ser actualizado o revisado en el futuro. La exactitud y la disponibilidad pueden variar. El registro autorizado es la grabación de vídeo.
Speaker: Faheem Majeed’s Freedom’s Stand, A Sculpture of Black Newspapers San Francisco Public Library 2024-02-17 | Unpack artist Faheem Majeed’s sculpture Freedom’s Stand to learn more about the significance of the African American press and how it inspires today’s modern artists. In September 2022 Majeed premiered the site-specific sculpture that features a rotating selection of front pages of historical and contemporary African American newspapers and magazines at the High Line in New York City, and the sculpture’s exhibition will close in April 2024. Learn how Majeed developed the idea for this sculpture’s content and form, and why he drew inspiration for the sculpture from the structures of the Dogon granaries in West Mali. Majeed will be joined by his research assistant Shola Jimoh to discuss the selection process for the publications and front-page headlines that have rotated through the display for the past year and a half. Go deeper as we investigate not only the informational value of Black newspapers, but also the social, spiritual and artistic significance these publications continue to bring to bear in our current culture. AboutFaheem Majeed is an artist, educator, curator and community facilitator. He blends his unique experience as a non-profit administrator, curator and artist to create works that focus on institutional critique and exhibitions that leverage collaboration to engage his immediate community, as well as the broader community, in meaningful dialogue. He is the co-founder/co-director of the arts collective Floating Museum. Majeed received his BFA from Howard University and his MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). Shola Jimoh is currently a second-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Performance Studies at Northwestern University. She graduated from the University of Illinois-Chicago in 2022, receiving a Bachelor of Arts in Public Health with the highest distinction. Under the leadership and guidance of Faheem Majeed, Shola has served as a research assistant on several interdisciplinary archival projects concerning black American (hi)stories within the arts and beyond.
Presentation: tanea lunsford lynx in conversation with Dr. Albert Broussard. San Francisco Public Library 2024-02-15 | lunsford lynx discusses the early African American presence in San Francisco with Albert Broussard, centering on a 1978 oral history interview between Broussard and Arelious Alberga, an African American gentleman born in San Francisco in 1884. lunsford lynx, one of the four inaugural artists-in-residence at SFPL through the San Francisco Arts Commission's Artist-in-Residence program, spent ten weeks immersing herself in the Main Library. She became fascinated by the San Francisco History Center’s collection of oral histories. Her journey led her to stumble upon a remarkable series, the Afro-Americans in San Francisco Prior to World War II: Oral History Project and a 1978 conversation featuring an interview between Broussard and Alberga. As lynx delved into the transcripts and listened to Alberga's captivating stories, a vivid picture of African American people in San Francisco during the 1880s and early 1900s emerged. This program is a companion to the exhibit, we were here, an interactive creative investigation, which delves into the African American presence in San Francisco during the late 1800s and early 1900s, with a particular focus on the 1906 earthquake. It is on view on the 3rd Floor of the Main Library and in the African American Center, Dec. 14, 2023 to March 1, 2024. See the online exhibit here: tanealunsfordlynx.com/wewerehere
Performance: Kim Shucks Poem Jam Celebrates Manifest Differently, Part II San Francisco Public Library 2024-02-13 | San Francisco Poet Laureate emerita Kim Shuck invites authors Avotcja, Aileen Cassinetto, Clara Hsu and Mahnaz Badihian from the Manifest Differently project to read at SFPL’s monthly poetry reading.Kim Shuck was San Francisco’s seventh Poet Laureate. Her poetry draws on her multiethnic background which includes Polish and Cherokee heritage, and her experiences as a lifelong resident of San Francisco. Her most recent book of poetry, What Unseen Thing Blows Wishes Across My Surface?, a collaboration with visual artist LisaRuth Elliott, and her new book of essays, Noodle, Rant, Tangent, were published in 2022. In her term as Poet Laureate, she hosted scores of free poetry and art workshops for all ages at neighborhood libraries and schools and worked closely with San Francisco Public Library and the San Francisco Arts Commission to launch major citywide initiatives to honor Native American Indigenous Peoples' heritage.Manifest Differently is unpacking the expansionist ideology of Manifest Destiny, its continuing impact on the multicultural & multi-ethnic communities in the SF Bay Area and beyond, its legacies of perpetuated violence, the inherited trauma & addiction, and the outgrowth of resistance and resilience. The project was co-conceived by poet/artist Kim Shuck and artist/writer Megan Wilson. Each has a layered family history of Euro-American and Indigenous ancestry, deeply impacted by the stains, scars and strength that remain.
Yeva Johnson, Author : It Takes a Village to Support a Black Poet San Francisco Public Library 2024-02-13 | An evening of readings from the village that nurtures poet Yeva Johnson. This stellar line-up of poets and writers are in community and care with Yeva Johnson, Friends of the San Francisco Public Library Brown Handler Writer's Resident. Come hear inspiring words from writers D’mani Thomas, Edward Gunawan, Karen Llagas, Lorraine Bonner, Mel Y. Chen, Nicky Andrews, Tamiko Wong, Tijanna O. Eaton, Zia Wang and Yeva Johnson. The Residency, funded by Lisa Brown and Daniel Handler, is designed to nurture emerging and established San Francisco based writers by guaranteeing them access to free, adequate space and bringing them into direct collaboration with the Library for literary activities. This program honors the vital connection between the public Library and the literary world. D'mani Thomas (he \ they) is a writer, nerd and aspiring film maker from Oakland, California. He’s interested in the tiny moments that capture attention spans. They have received fellowships from UC Berkeley’s Art & Research Center, The Watering Hole, Foglifter and others. D’mani’s debut chapbook, Grown-up Elementary, was published last year. Outside of poetry, catch them studying horror movies, dancing, and eating too many fries. Edward Gunawan [he/they] is a queer Indonesian-born Chinese writer and curator. The author of chapbooks The Way Back (winner of Start a Riot! Prize, Foglifter Press, 2022) and Press Play (Sweet Lit, 2020), Edward has also completed over 25 feature and short films as writer, producer, actor and/or director. Residing on Ohlone land in Oakland, CA, Edward is the founder/co-host of HOME MADE @ ARTogether. Karen Llagas’s new poetry collection, All of Us Are Cleaved, is recently published by Nomadic Press in 2023. Her first collection of poetry, Archipelago Dust, was published by Meritage Press in 2010. A recipient of a RHINO Founder's Prize, Filamore Tabios, Sr. Memorial Poetry Prize & a Hedgebrook residency, her poems and reviews have also appeared in various journals and anthologies. She lectures at UC Berkeley and divides her time between San Francisco and Los Angeles. Lorraine Bonner is a sculptor, poet and retired physician. When she is not in the studio she spends time in her yard, creating a garden that she hopes will keep her self-sufficient in vegetables and fruits year-round. Her written and visual work bears witness to trauma, personal and political, in the service of planetary liberation. Mel Y. Chen is a professor of gender studies and lover of critters. Author of Animacies and Intoxicated, they are now working on It, a series of drawings, music and essays. They are on the board of the Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project, and part of a small and sustaining queer/trans of color arts collective. Nicky Andrews is a Māori writer living on Ramaytush Ohlone territory. Their writing has been supported by VONA, Kearny Street Workshop, Kenyon Review, Rooted & Written, and Tin House. Their debut chapbook, Māori Maid Difficult, is out now with Tram Editions. Tamiko Wong was born and raised in San Francisco with roots in Japantown, Chinatown, and the Richmond district. Her work has been included in Standing Strong! Fillmore & Japantown, Lunchbox Moments, I Am a Warrior, on Pacific Time, and in AsianWeek. She writes poetry, memoir and song. Tamiko has also produced podcasts and zines. Tijanna O. Eaton (Tə-zha-na) is a Pushcart Prize-nominated Black, queer butch writer whose work appears in Honey Literary, Noyo Review, Yellow Arrow Vignette, Panorama Journal and elsewhere. She received the 2021 Unicorn Authors Club inaugural Alumni award and is a 2023 Rooted & Written Fellow. Tijanna's nonfiction memoir, BOLT Cutters, is the story of her 12 arrests in three years in the early 1990s during the height of the crack epidemic. Yeva Johnson, a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet and musician, whose work appears in Bellingham Review, Obsidian, sin cesar, Sinister Wisdom, and elsewhere, explores interlocking caste systems and possibilities for human co-existence in our biosphere. Yeva is a current Brown Handler Writer’s Resident. Her debut chapbook, Analog Poet Blues, is available at Black Lawrence Press. Zia Wang is Indian American and part of the third generation of her family from East Africa. Her poetry has been published or is forthcoming in The American Journal of Poetry, SWWIM, and Drunken Boat among others, and was also selected as a runner-up in the 2023 New Orleans Review Poetry Contest. She currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband, two daughters and an orange cat.
Capacitación: Servicios de Bibliotecas Legales para las Personas Encarceladas San Francisco Public Library 2024-02-09 | Este vídeo destaca los servicios de la biblioteca jurídica para personas encarceladas. Fue creado como parte de la iniciativa “Ampliar el acceso a información para las personas que se encuentran prisioneras en cárceles y centros de detención” de la Biblioteca Pública de San Francisco, fundado por Mellon Foundation (más información en Iniciativa Expandiendo el Acceso a la Información para las Personas Encarceladas | Biblioteca Pública de San Francisco (sfpl.org) #ExpandingInformationAccessforIncarceratedPeople ).Este video incluye: Introducción (Jeanie Austin, Darnell Epps)--0:00American Association of Law Libraries (Diane M. Rodriguez)--12:07Minnesota State Law Library (Liz Reppe)--27:28State of Oregon Law Library (Cathryn Bowie)--44:20Una transcripción de esta capacitación está disponible en http://tinyurl.com/c6x3btd4.Para recibir un certificado de ALA por asistir a esta capacitación, por favor ingrese a https://idpv3.ala.org/idp/profile/SAM... y complete la capacitación por medio de la plataforma de desarrollo profesional de ALA.Las transcripciones son creadas en un plazo determinado por un contratista de SFPL. Este texto puede no estar en su forma final y puede ser actualizado o revisado en el futuro. La exactitud y la disponibilidad pueden variar. El registro autorizado es la grabación de vídeo.
Capacitación: Servicios de Reingreso para las Personas Recién Encarceladas San Francisco Public Library 2024-02-09 | Este vídeo destaca los servicios de las bibliotecas públicas para las personas en proceso de reingreso e incluye consideraciones para la planificación de nuevos servicios bibliotecarios para personas que han sufrido recientemente el encarcelamiento. Fue creado como parte de la iniciativa “Ampliar el acceso a información para las personas que se encuentran prisioneras en cárceles y centros de detención” de la Biblioteca Pública de San Francisco, fundado por Mellon Foundation (más información en Iniciativa Expandiendo el Acceso a la Información para las Personas Encarceladas | Biblioteca Pública de San Francisco (sfpl.org) #ExpandingInformationAccessforIncarceratedPeople ).Este video incluye: Introducción (Jeanie Austin, Enrique Rivera)--0:00 Queens Public Library; Reentry Program Considerations (Jill Anderson)--8:05Public Library Reentry Services and Programs (Jeanie Austin)--38:01Una transcripción de esta capacitación está disponible en http://tinyurl.com/bdc5kd5k.Para recibir un certificado de ALA por asistir a esta capacitación, por favor ingrese a https://idpv3.ala.org/idp/profile/SAM... y complete la capacitación por medio de la plataforma de desarrollo profesional de ALA.Las transcripciones son creadas en un plazo determinado por un contratista de SFPL. Este texto puede no estar en su forma final y puede ser actualizado o revisado en el futuro. La exactitud y la disponibilidad pueden variar. El registro autorizado es la grabación de vídeo.
Vacant to Vibrant San Francisco Public Library 2024-02-07 | Learn about “Vacant to Vibrant,” a program that transforms vacant downtown San Francisco storefronts into vibrant communities shaped by local small business participation.
Shikha Malaviya, Anandibai Joshee A Life in Poems San Francisco Public Library 2024-02-07 | Learn about Anandibai Joshee, India's first female medical doctor and the first woman from India to study medicine in the United States in the nineteenth century.
Home Preparedness in Earthquake Country San Francisco Public Library 2024-02-06 | Matt Springer, a professor in the UCSF Department of Medicine, will give a talk and slideshow about precautions that can be taken to lessen the damage from an earthquake at home and work.
In The Black, a Black-led Marketplace San Francisco Public Library 2024-02-05 | Learn about “In The Black,” a Black-led marketplace in the Fillmore/Western Addition.
