So, in respond to a decade of mainstream press promoting the Inner Mission, San Francisco, as a hip and lucrative propriety value, when in fact, for those living in this area who comes from working and immigrant classes, this is another story of gentrification, adaptation and reinvention. The Counter Narrative Society, as the historian society who does not come “to replenish the gaps of memory…[but to challenge] even those memories that have survived intact" (2) (Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi), will be launching at the Hidden Histories event a research that documents artistically the current social dichotomy between Mission and Valencia Streets.
The society will implement this research by going directly into the public to ask and record what people know, remember and feel about the Mission and Valencia Streets? While concurrently, it will have at the Hidden Histories's Headquartes an installation in the form of a small conference room. Through out the month, the conference room will serve as a platform for conducting surveys and meetings with community members and organizations to create art that addresses: What do we remember of these two streets? And how we would like these streets to be preserved or changed?
(1, 2) http://www.historyguide.org/history.html