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Ccarlsson at 04:49, 18 April 2026

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	'''Shaping San Francisco hosts Public Talks on a variety of topics, usually on Wednesday nights, a dozen 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.'''		'''Shaping San Francisco hosts Public Talks on a variety of topics, usually on Wednesday nights, a dozen 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.'''

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			<span id="v_apr16-26"><font size=4>April 16, 2026 </font size></span>

			<font size=4>San Francisco: A Liberal Oligarchy?</font size>

			New tech oligarchs have thrown their money around to shape city politics for the past decade. We now have a billionaire bluejeans heir for mayor. We explore how organized money and corporate power managed to steer San Francisco going back through the post-WWII cold war, the long decline of Catholic morality, and the explosion of social movements and the sexual revolution the city is known for. Join political scientist Lincoln Mitchell, former supervisor and Mayoral candidate Tom Ammiano, and neighborhood activist and writer Romalyn Schmaltz for a spirited romp through the tangled and conflicted histories of the past few decades.

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Ccarlsson at 05:16, 27 March 2026

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	<em>Part of Shaping Legacy: San Francisco Monuments & Memorials, a project of San Francisco Arts Commission, with Adriana Camarena, Kim Shuck, and Chris Cuadrado. Thanks to Association of Ramaytush Ohlone for guidance throughout the year.</em>		<em>Part of Shaping Legacy: San Francisco Monuments & Memorials, a project of San Francisco Arts Commission, with Adriana Camarena, Kim Shuck, and Chris Cuadrado. Thanks to Association of Ramaytush Ohlone for guidance throughout the year.</em>

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Ccarlsson at 05:13, 27 March 2026

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Ccarlsson at 05:25, 19 March 2026

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	<font size=4>The Priest, the Imperialist, and the Sculptor</font size>		<font size=4>The Priest, the Imperialist, and the Sculptor</font size>

	~~Please join us in closing~~ a year-long case study of the Padre Junipero Serra statue. Jonathan Cordero (Association of Ramaytush Ohlone) critically examines the romantic myth that supports the veneration of Serra and reveals the actual calamitous impact of the mission system. Chris Carlsson explains how an unlikely series of events led to the so-called “Mission Revival”, the commissioning of the statue by James Phelan, and giving Serra an undeserved new role in a manufactured public memory. He reveals that the statue's placement in Golden Gate Park in 1907 in fact bolstered a white supremacist agenda at the dawn of the 20th century. LisaRuth Elliott explores Douglas Tilden, the cosmopolitan sculptor revered in the deaf community, and his many other contributions to the SF civic art collection and beyond. This evening is a chance to talk about the reanimation of a man through a monument, the fraught relationship between a patron of the arts and his protegé, and how these honorific likenesses and what they are supposed to signify become part of our urban space.		We close a year-long case study of the Padre Junipero Serra statue. Jonathan Cordero (Association of Ramaytush Ohlone) critically examines the romantic myth that supports the veneration of Serra and reveals the actual calamitous impact of the mission system. Chris Carlsson explains how an unlikely series of events led to the so-called “Mission Revival”, the commissioning of the statue by James Phelan, and giving Serra an undeserved new role in a manufactured public memory. He reveals that the statue's placement in Golden Gate Park in 1907 in fact bolstered a white supremacist agenda at the dawn of the 20th century. LisaRuth Elliott explores Douglas Tilden, the cosmopolitan sculptor revered in the deaf community, and his many other contributions to the SF civic art collection and beyond. This evening is a chance to talk about the reanimation of a man through a monument, the fraught relationship between a patron of the arts and his protegé, and how these honorific likenesses and what they are supposed to signify become part of our urban space.

	<i>Part of Shaping Legacy: San Francisco Monuments & Memorials, a project of San Francisco Arts Commission</i>		<i>Part of Shaping Legacy: San Francisco Monuments & Memorials, a project of San Francisco Arts Commission</i>

Ccarlsson at 05:27, 13 March 2026

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	James Michael Buckley’s 2024 ''City of Wood: San Francisco and the Architecture of the Redwood Lumber Industry'' reconnects us to the built environment from San Francisco all the way up to Eureka in the far north of California, past and present. David Schmidt’s brand new majesterial ''San Francisco Bay Area: An Environmental History'' contains a close look at the historic forests of the Bay Area and how they were cut down to help build the region. Together these speakers will help us see how profoundly the iconic trees of the west coast literally undergird our everyday lives even today.		James Michael Buckley’s 2024 ''City of Wood: San Francisco and the Architecture of the Redwood Lumber Industry'' reconnects us to the built environment from San Francisco all the way up to Eureka in the far north of California, past and present. David Schmidt’s brand new majesterial ''San Francisco Bay Area: An Environmental History'' contains a close look at the historic forests of the Bay Area and how they were cut down to help build the region. Together these speakers will help us see how profoundly the iconic trees of the west coast literally undergird our everyday lives even today.

			<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/city-of-redwood-march-11-2026" width="560" height="384" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Ccarlsson at 05:11, 13 March 2026

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	'''Shaping San Francisco hosts Public Talks on a variety of topics, usually on Wednesday nights, a dozen 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.'''		'''Shaping San Francisco hosts Public Talks on a variety of topics, usually on Wednesday nights, a dozen 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.'''

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			<span id="v_mar11-26"><font size=4>March 11, 2026 </font size></span>

			<font size=4>City of Redwood</font size>

			James Michael Buckley’s 2024 ''City of Wood: San Francisco and the Architecture of the Redwood Lumber Industry'' reconnects us to the built environment from San Francisco all the way up to Eureka in the far north of California, past and present. David Schmidt’s brand new majesterial ''San Francisco Bay Area: An Environmental History'' contains a close look at the historic forests of the Bay Area and how they were cut down to help build the region. Together these speakers will help us see how profoundly the iconic trees of the west coast literally undergird our everyday lives even today.



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