Talks: 2024 Videos: Difference between revisions
No edit summary |
No edit summary |
||
| Line 4: | Line 4: | ||
Since Covid-19 disrupted our use of the 518 Valencia Street gallery for our Public Talks after March 2020, we started hosting outdoor "Urban Forum: Walk and Talks" which turned out to be as or more popular than our original Public Talks series... Many of them were recorded on video which you can see on the video pages covering 2020-2023. This page may include some Walk & Talks from 2024 but will be primarily indoor Talks hosted at 518 Valencia. | Since Covid-19 disrupted our use of the 518 Valencia Street gallery for our Public Talks after March 2020, we started hosting outdoor "Urban Forum: Walk and Talks" which turned out to be as or more popular than our original Public Talks series... Many of them were recorded on video which you can see on the video pages covering 2020-2023. This page may include some Walk & Talks from 2024 but will be primarily indoor Talks hosted at 518 Valencia. | ||
<hr> | |||
<span id="v_apr10-24"><font size=4>April 10, 2024 </font size></span> | |||
<font size=4>Life and Death in a Great American City</font size> | |||
Cities grow, cities change. Some businesses and institutions thrive, while others die off and are replaced. In this joint presentation of words and images, Lorri Ungaretti (''Vanished San Francisco''), and Alec Scott (''Oldest San Francisco'') speak to the history of our great, sometimes troubled city, what's been lost over the years, what's stuck around. The discussion ranged widely, from science to religion, from food to drink, from sports to shopping, from sex to death. | |||
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/life-and-death-in-a-great-american-city-april-10-2024" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe> | |||
<hr> | <hr> | ||
Revision as of 12:06, 11 April 2024
Primary Source
Shaping San Francisco hosts Public Talks on a variety of topics, usually on Wednesday nights, about 18 times a year. Our topic themes vary, but we've grouped them over time into these categories: Art & Politics, Ecology, Historical Perspectives, Literary, and Social Movements.
Since Covid-19 disrupted our use of the 518 Valencia Street gallery for our Public Talks after March 2020, we started hosting outdoor "Urban Forum: Walk and Talks" which turned out to be as or more popular than our original Public Talks series... Many of them were recorded on video which you can see on the video pages covering 2020-2023. This page may include some Walk & Talks from 2024 but will be primarily indoor Talks hosted at 518 Valencia.
April 10, 2024
Life and Death in a Great American City
Cities grow, cities change. Some businesses and institutions thrive, while others die off and are replaced. In this joint presentation of words and images, Lorri Ungaretti (Vanished San Francisco), and Alec Scott (Oldest San Francisco) speak to the history of our great, sometimes troubled city, what's been lost over the years, what's stuck around. The discussion ranged widely, from science to religion, from food to drink, from sports to shopping, from sex to death.
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/life-and-death-in-a-great-american-city-april-10-2024" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe>
March 26, 2024
Cultivating Food Resilience and Combating Global Challenges
The French Punk Gardener Eric Lenoir presents a discussion on territorial food resilience, combating biodiversity collapse, and addressing global warming effects.
<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/eric-lenoir-punk-gardener-march-26-2024" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe>