Gray Brechin: California's Living New Deal Project

The Studio for Urban Projects presents
Gray Brechin
California’s Living New Deal Project 

Wednesday, May 13th at 7:30 pm
at the Studio for Urban Projects
3579 17th St., San Francisco (located between Dolores & Guerrero)

(Image: Illustration of the works of the WPA created by the WPA)

“Throughout the nation men and women, forgotten in the political philosophy of the Government, look to us here for guidance and for more equitable opportunity to share in the distribution of national wealth… I pledge myself to a new deal for the American people. This is more than a political campaign. It is a call to arms.”

- Franklin Delano Roosevelt speaking at the Democratic convention in Chicago (July 11, 1932)

President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal was a vast array of economic programs initiated to pull America out of The Great Depression. Between 1935 and 1943 the New Deal’s Works Projects Administration (WPA) alone created almost 8 million jobs engaging citizens in the construction of public works including – civic buildings, roads, hospitals, libraries, aqueducts, dams and hiking trails. Today almost every community in America has a park, bridge or school constructed by the WPA.

Initiated by geographer and writer Gray Brechin, The Living New Deal Project is an unprecedented and growing collaborative effort to identify, map, and interpret the vast public works legacy of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal in California including projects of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Public Works Administration (PWA), Works Progress Administration (WPA), and other New Deal programs in California. A partnership between the California Historical Society and U.C. Berkeley’s Institute for Research in Labor and Employment Library and the California Studies Center, the Living New Deal Project is designed as a collective act of rediscovery.

Please join us for a discussion of the impressive legacy of the New Deal and how you might participate in this people-generated history project.

Gray Brechin is the author of the acclaimed book Imperial San Francisco: Urban Power, Earthly Ruin (UC California Press, 1999) and Farewell, Promised Land: Waking from the California Dream (UC California Press, 1999), a collaboration with photographer Robert Dawson. Brechin is currently vice president of the National New Deal Preservation Association (newdeallegacy.org) and a visiting scholar at the U.C. Berkeley Department of Geography. His current book project is: Another World Was Possible, an exploration of what government at its best can do to promote peace, education, and the common good.

Please join us.
Space is limited. Please RSVP to info@studioforurbanprojects.org.

Suggested donation $5-$15.

Kimchi Contest! 김치 경연 대회

Saturday, May 9: Kimchi Registration at 1PM, Tasting starts at 2PM

Kimchi Contest! Poster Image (click here!)

Please come to the first annual CRITTER Kimchi Contest! All are welcome to submit their favorite version of this spicy pickled delicacy. The people’s choice will win $100, second wins $75, and third will get $50. Bring 1 quart of your best Kimchi to CRITTER at 3579 17th street on Saturday May 9th at 1 PM. Tasting opens at 2PM.

Kimchi is a traditional Korean pickled side-dish made of vegetables with various seasonings. It is most commonly made with spicy cabbage, but can be made with other vegetables as well. All varieties accepted!

There will be ongoing demonstration of how Kimchi is made, and plenty of palette-cleansing white rice available, so even if you don’t have a favorite recipe for Kim Chee, or you’ve never tried it before—here’s the best chance to try the best Kimchi at CRITTER.

¡Venga ud. al primer concurso de kimchi – estilo CRITTER! Todo el mundo esta bienvenido a participar con su versión de este manjar picante en escabache. El publico presente decidira cual es la receta ganadora y los premios seran los seguientes: primero $100, segundo $75 y tercero $50. Traiga ud. 1 quarto de galón de su mejor kimchi a CRITTER: 3579 calle 17 (entre Dolores y Guerrero) el sábado 9 de mayo a la 1 de la tarde. Las pruebas comenzarán a las 2 de la tarde.

Kimchi es un acompañamiento tradicional coreano hecho de verduras curtidas en escabeche picante y una variedad de aderezos,. El más común se hace con col picante, pero tambien se puede hacer con otras verduras. ¡Todas las variedades serán aceptadas!

Va ha haber demostraciones contínuas de cómo hacer kimchi y mucho arroz blanco para limpiar el paladar. Si no tiene aún una receta favorita para kimchi, o si nunca lo ha probado, esta es la mejor oportunidad para probar todas las mejores recetas de kimchi en CRITTER.

The Self-Sufficient Kitchen: cheese

This class will introduce techniques of milk preservation. Using both raw goat and cow’s milks from local dairies, students will get hands-on experience making several basic fresh cheeses including ricotta, farmer’s cheese, fresh mozerella, and feta cheese. The class will also demonstrate the basics of yogurt, kefir, buttermilk and creme fraiche.

For a full description of the series click here.

Sam Green: Utopia in Four Movements

The Studio for Urban Projects presents
filmmaker Sam Green
performing Utopia in Four Movements, a live work-in-progress screening

Friday, May 1st at 7:00 p.m.
at the Studio for Urban Projects
3579 17th St., San Francisco (located between Dolores & Guerrero) 

Filmmaker Sam Green presents a live work-in-progress screening of his new film Utopia in Four Movements. The film explores the battered state of the utopian impulse at the dawn of the 21st century through several seemingly unrelated vignettes — including a history of Esperanto, a portrait of an exiled American radical, and a meditation on the world’s largest shopping mall. Green’s presentation utilizes PowerPoint and is accompanied by a live score by musician Dave Cerf.

Sam Green is acclaimed director of the documentaries The Weather Underground and Rainbow Man/John 3:16.

Please join us.
Space is limited. Please RSVP to info@studioforurbanprojects.org.
Suggested donation $5-$15.
Please note that the doors will close after the performance begins.