For more information visit The Countert Narrative Society
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Location: San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, 401 Van Ness Avenue at McAllister
Saturday, November 17, 12 – 3 pm
Hands-on Sidewalk Landscaping & Permitting Workshop: Come learn about the Sidewalk Landscaping Permit from Maria D'Agostino of the Department of Public Works Bureau of Urban Forestry.
Then, help us install a Sidewalk Native Plants Demonstration Garden. Get your hands in the soil & help us install a native plant demonstration garden outside in front of the Gallery. Bring gardening gloves and water.
Location: San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, 401 Van Ness Avenue at McAllister
Saturday, December 1, 12 - 3 pm
Bus Tour & Youth Planting Day: Meet at Headquarters, and climb on board the veggie fuel powered bus with Jens-Peter Jungclaussen, the teacher with the bus and Amber Hasselbring, the artist behind the Mission Greenbelt project. San Francisco youth and their parents are treated to a free, guided tour of the Mission Greenbelt. If you’re under 18, be sure to bring an adult.
*Plan to stop along the route for a taco lunch and help to design & plan the first native plant garden along the Mission Greenbelt!
Location: San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, 401 Van Ness Avenue at McAllister
Thursday, December 6, 12 - 1 pm
Meet the Artist Brown Bag Lunch: Bring your lunch to Headquarters and learn more about the Mission Greenbelt project from artist Amber Hasselbring.
Location: San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, 401 Van Ness Avenue at McAllister
Friday, December 7, 3 - 5 pm
Native Plants for Sale: Rachel Kesel will sell native plants for a $7 donation. The plants are courtesy of Greg Gaar at the Haight-Ashbury Neighborhood Recycling Center & Native Plant Nursery.
Location: San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, 401 Van Ness Avenue at McAllister
Saturday, December 8, 1 - 3 pm
Mission Greenbelt Walking Tour with Sidewalk Chalk: Meet at 19th and Dolores and walk the route of the proposed Mission Greenbelt. Along the way, we'll draw the garden plots onto the sidewalks with chalk and take photographs of our creations.
*If it's raining hard, this tour will be canceled.
Location: Dolores Park, 19th and Dolores in front of the statue
Saturday, December 15, 2:30 - 4:30 pm
Mission Greenbelt Bike Tour with Rachel Kesel: Meet at 19th and Dolores for a bike tour led by Rachel Kesel and Amber Hasselbring. Rachel will show us some spots to plant native plants along the way and Amber will discuss why she's selected this route for the Greenbelt.
*If it's raining hard, this tour will be canceled.
Location: Dolores Park, 19th and Dolores in front of the statue
Saturday, December 22, 1 - 3 pm
Mission Greenbelt Sound-scape Tour: Meet at 19th and Dolores and walk the route of the proposed Mission Greenbelt. At the exhibition are field recordings made during three walks, sunrise, mid-day and sunset. We will walk the route together in silence and observe/record what we hear and imagine what new sounds we'll hear once the Greenbelt is built.
*We'll go on this tour rain or shine, so bring appropriate weather gear.
Location: Dolores Park, 19th and Dolores in front of the statue
]]>In October, I received support from the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery to transform their Gallery
space into Mission Greenbelt Public Awareness Campaign Headquarters. Until December 22nd 2007, the Gallery will be full of artwork related to the Mission Greenbelt, and is also an active Campaign Headquarters for public meetings, events and workshops.
For more information visit The Countert Narrative Society
]]>"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
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An Exhibition & Public Art Project at
Crucible Steel Gallery - Cell Space, 2050 Bryant Street, San Francisco CA
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:
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Saturday, September 22, 9-12 noon
Meet from 9-9:30am at Philz Coffee (210 Berry Street @ 4th) the tour will leave at 10am. sharp.
Tour maps will be provided. Bring a bicycle and a sack lunch to eat at the end of the tour, which should last until noon.
Saturday, September 22, Noon
Meet at CELL Space at noon on Saturday. 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 CELL Space, we’ll take some time to view the Hidden Histories exhibit and familiarize ourselves with the Mission Greenbelt with guidebooks and maps. Then we'll start walking. We’ll wrap up the tour around five o’clock in Dolores Park, where interested parties may sign up to join the efforts.
Sunday, September 23, 10-12pm
Meet at CELL Space at 10 am on Saturday. Bicycle required
Sunday, September 23, noon
We'll meet at CELL Space at noon and get our hands dirty with Rachel Kesel. Rachel will bring along some examples of plants that thrive in the Mission. She'll also share a list of ignored spots for potential radical restoration and discuss identifying your own site. Rachel will be demonstrating fast planting techniques for us in her portable demo box. We'll also learn about the best time of year to plant and how to maintain our gardens into the future. If we're really lucky, Rachel will bring us some pears from her tree.
Gallery Hours: Thursday thru Sundays 12-6pm and By Appointment
This past Saturday Sept. 8, The Counter Narrative Society conducted their first creative conversation that reminisce on Mission and Valencia Street. The conversation was video recorded and is becoming part of their office/installation. This component of the installation will be exhibiting over the month. For more information about THINKING OF YOU visit them at: http://www.thecounternarrativesociety.org

Yuka has reconstructed a barbershop based on her research into Mission barbershops. She has collected her findings into a zine which can be viewed at the Barbershop. She periodically will cut hair

Francisco has created an audio visual installation to support his self-guided audio pod cast. Visitor’s also have access to a series of maps that illustrate the periodic transformation of Islais creek.

Patrick has created a installation concerned with the social and political underpinnings of Mission Bay as well as open space in San Francisco. A Self-guided tour map is available for visitor’s to tour Mission Bay for themselves.
Amber has created an informative installation to promote her Mission Greenbelt proposal which would stretch from Franklin Square to Dolores Park. Come by and see native California plants, and help build a a puzzle of the Mission Green Belt.
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Contact: Joshua Short (curator)
HYPERSEA
info@hypersea.net
http://www.hypersea.net
An Exhibition & Public Art Project at
Crucible Steel Gallery - Cell Space, 2050 Bryant Street, San Francisco CA
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:
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Friday, September 14, 2007 4:00-8:00 PM
Saturday, September 15, 2007 12:00-6:00pm
The Counter Narrative Society (TCNS) invites anyone who lives, plays, works or shops on Mission and Valencia Streets to participate in their second creative conversation piece happening in their 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. They also welcome ornaments. (A scanner and printer will be available on site to make photocopies of originals.)
Gallery Hours: Thursday thru Sundays 12-6pm and By Appointment
This past Saturday Sept. 8, The Counter Narrative Society conducted their first creative conversation that reminisce on Mission and Valencia Street. The conversation was video recorded and is becoming part of their office/installation. This component of the installation will be exhibiting over the month. For more information about THINKING OF YOU visit them at: http://www.thecounternarrativesociety.org
Yuka has reconstructed a barbershop based on her research into Mission barbershops. She has collected her findings into a zine which can be viewed at the Barbershop. She periodically will cut hair

Francisco has created an audio visual installation to support his self-guided audio pod cast. Visitor’s also have access to a series of maps that illustrate the periodic transformation of Islais creek.
Patrick has created a installation concerned with the social and political underpinnings of Mission Bay as well as open space in San Francisco. A Self-guided tour map is available for visitor’s to tour Mission Bay for themselves.
Amber has created an informative installation to promote her Mission Greenbelt proposal which would stretch from Franklin Square to Dolores Park. Come by and see native California plants, and help build a a puzzle of the Mission Green Belt.
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Contact: Joshua Short (curator)
HYPERSEA
info@hypersea.net
http://www.hypersea.net
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]
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Installation view: patrick piazza "Weight of the land lying open"
Installation view: Amber Hasselbring's Mission Green Belt Project
Mission Green Belt Puzzle
Installation view: Francisco Hernandez "Islais Creek Audio Tour"
first meeting of the counter narrative society
Detail of The Counter Narrative Society office/installation
Detail of The Counter Narrative Society office/installation
Hair cuts happening
Detail of Yuka's Barber Shop
Yuka giving hair cut
Adam Getting a hair cut at Yuka's Barber Shop
Mike Santos showing off his hyphe new camera with the "Leica" lens
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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.
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This image gives a pretty good idea of where Mission Creek was headed in 1887. They say it still runs underneath Division Street up to Harrison and under the Mission. Supposedly the Armory at 14th and Mission was built on a tributary of the creek so that there would be a water source available in the event of a siege. If you wander around this area today it is not hard to spot signs of settling where foundations or sidewalks tilt or a large hump is formed in the center of a street where the road is settling around a submerged pipe.
This Sanborn map from 1887 is available on microfiche at the SF Public Library's History Center on the 6th floor.
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One of the ways that Mission Bay was filled was that it was used as a pretty major garbage dump from the 1870's up until after the 1906 earthquake. The area South of Channel street was known as "Dumpville" and by 1895 it covered as much as 20 acres and received almost 400 cartloads of garbage a day from the densely populated and rapidly growing South of Market area. This image is from a Sanborn map from the SF Public Library and it calls to mind the society of "ragpickers" that grew up around the disposal of garbage. Anything and everything that could be put to use was gleaned from the trash by whole families that lived in the area and made their living from the dump. Notice the piles of tin cans duly noted in the drawings. it's a pretty big building for just burning trash. Perhaps it was a facility for sorting garbage as well. The dredged cut along Channel Street still exsited throughout this time and it collected all manner of toxic effluvia to the point that instead of being called Mission Creek, it was commonly referred to as "Shit Creek".
Its rather ironic to note that Mission Bay served for many years as an informal "dump" area during its post industrial decline. Only a few years ago it was possible to wander about the open lots of Mission Bay and to stumble upon bedframes, old tossed out baby carriages, toilets, teddy bears, abandonded shoes, stoves, refrigerators, tires, whole vehicles and all other forms of detritus that people didn't wish to pay to offload at the city dump.
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