During the month of September as a starting point of our research project “Thinking of You: Mission and Valencia” that investigates the local memory of the Inner Mission in the face of rapid social and urban changes, The Counter Narrative Society invites local residents who live, play, work and shop on Mission and Valencia Streets to participate in a series of creative conversations/workshops to recall past, present and future memories. These conversations will be happening in our conference room at HYPERSEA's Hidden Histories headquarters and on the streets.

SEPTEMBER 8-29, 2007

Location: HIDDEN HISTORIES – Headquarters: TCNS’s Conference Room
Crucible Steel Gallery / Cell Space, 2050 Bryant Street, San Francisco CA

For full programming of dates and its events visit us at www.thecounternarrativesociety.org

Meet at CELLspace at noon on Saturday, September 22nd. Bring your walking shoes and plenty of ideas.

Join us for a walking tour of the proposed Mission Greenbelt. We'll start at Franklin Square Park and walk a half-mile into Dolores Park. At CELLspace, we’ll take some time to view the Hidden Histories exhibit and familiarize ourselves with the Mission Greenbelt witth guidebooks and maps. Then we'll start walking.

List of events on opening night

THIS WEEKEND
Let’s Make A Community Scrapbook

a [Creative Conversation] of Thinking of You: Mission and Valencia by The Counter Narrative Society


• September 14 / Fri. 4-8pm &  Sept. 15 / Sat. 12-6pm

The Counter Narrative Society (TCNS) invites anyone who live, play, work or shop on Mission and Valencia Streets to participate in our second creative conversation piece happening in our conference room/installation at the Hidden Histories headquarters exhibition. For this conversation, everyone is invited to bring photographs and drawings to create scrapbook pages to memorialize past and present features of Mission and Valencia Street. We also welcome ornaments. (A scanner and printer will be available on site to make photocopies of originals.)

Location:
HIDDEN HISTORIES
Crucible Steel Gallery - Cell Space, 2050 Bryant Street, San Francisco CA

For more information about Thinking of You: 

[photos: office/installation, archive and audience participating at the creative conversation: thinking of you from 09.08.07] 

Hypersea Project:

HIDDEN HISTORIES

An Exhibition & Public Art Project at
Crucible Steel Gallery - Cell Space, 2050 Bryant Street, San Francisco CA

Event Calendar 9/12 - 9/19

Happening:
Friday, Sept. 14 4-8 PM & Saturday, Sept. 15  12-6 PM

Let’s Make A Community Scrapbook by TCNS

Installations:
Gallery Hours: Thursday thru Sundays 12-6pm and By Appointment

Thinking of You by TCNS

Yuka’s Barbershop by Yuka Ezoe

Islais Creek by Francisco Hernandez

The Weight of the Land Lying Open by Patrick Piazza

Mission Greenbelt by Amber Hasselbring

For Calendar / Events Descriptions:

Hypersea Project:

HIDDEN HISTORIES

An Exhibition & Public Art Project at
Crucible Steel Gallery - Cell Space, 2050 Bryant Street, San Francisco CA

Event Calendar 9/20 - 9/27

Tours and Workshops:

Saturday, September 22, 9-12 noon  
Mission Bay History Bicycle TouR w/ Patrick Piazza

Saturday, September 22, Noon
Tour of the Proposed Mission Greenbelt w/ Amber HasselbrinG

Sunday, September 23, 10-12pm 
The Ephemeral waters of Islais creek Bike tour w/ Francisco Hernandez

Sunday, September 23, noon
Radical Restoration in the Mission w/ Rachel Kesel

Installations:
Gallery Hours: Tuesday thru Sundays 12-5pm and By Appointment

Thinking of You by TCNS

Yuka’s Barbershop by Yuka Ezoe

Islais Creek by Francisco Hernandez

The Weight of the Land Lying Open by Patrick Piazza

Mission Greenbelt by Amber Hasselbring

For Calendar / Events Descriptions:

Audio files for a self-guided tour of the Islais Creek watershed are now link to the following weblog:

http://islaiscreek.blogspot.com/

Follow the audio file links and listen to each segment or download them on to you MP3 player. Several additional sites will be added shortly, so check back in for updates. 

Sep 14, 2007

Art Review : Hidden Histories

By Eric Zassenhaus

"All right. I'm walking south on Bryant, towards 19th again. Where is this place?"

My friend was calling a second time. She'd given up and had the cab drop her off up the street. Camouflaged by graffiti and vegetation, smack-dab in the middle of Bryant Street, Cell Space makes a fitting venue for Hidden Histories, a multifaceted, collaborative series of projects exploring the familiar but obscure in "San Francisco's Eastern landscape." ...CONTINUE reading this review