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Please visit and support our local venues all of which have calendars of upcoming events on their own websites. .ANNOUNCEMENTS HAPPY BIRTHDAY (Comt.) July 7, 1887 ~ Russian-born French Painter and Stained Glass Artist,
July 12, 1817, born in Concord, Mass., Henry David Thoreau, author, poet, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, philosopher, and leading Epitaph On The World Here lies the body of this world,
We Are Many Should you ask me where I note* 1973 U.S.President R. Nixon and his national security Adviser, Henry Kissinger plotted the violent overthrow of Chile ,and democratically elected government of socialist President Salvador Allende, 5,000 miles away with their assistance.
"I would like to see every single soldier on every single side, just take off your helmet, unbuckle your kit, lay down your rifle, and set down at the side of some shady lane, and say, nope, I aint a gonna kill nobody. Plenty of rich folks wants to fight." Give them the guns. ONGOING SEASON OF ABUNDANCE EXHIBITION July 20 1947 ~ Happy Birthday Carlos Santana
The Age Demanded
July 25 Happy Birthday, Avotcja Jiltonilro, Poet, Playwright, MultiPercussionist, Photographer, Teacher. Avotcja is a DJ on KPOO and a Berkeley City Council Lifetime Achievement Poetry Award winner and more..Visit Avotcja's website for more about this remarkable woman.
GONE BEYOND STEPHEN GASKIN ~ STEPHEN GASKIN
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JULY 2019 *San Francisco* MON . TUES . WEDS . THURS . FRI . SAT . SUN Please Support our SAN FRANCISCO creative community of artists, authors, poets, musicians, SAN FRANCISCO ART AND POERTRY CALENDAR work in process
Support our local Poets,Artists 1ST & 3RD MONDAY POETS! TUESDAY Tuesday, July 23, 2019 Join us for the first San Francisco screening of FILM Tuesday July 23, 2019 Tuesday French Movie Night: next month Tuesday, AUGUST 12, 2019
next month 3RD Tuesday, AUGUST 16, 2019 THE WORD PARTY Wednesday July 24, 2019 SACRED GROUNDS POETRY READING SERIES (since 1972) (on facebook) THURSDAY ONGOING July 6 - August 11, 2019 ONGOING THROUGH JULY 2019 RONALD F.SAUER & REBECCA PETERS next month Thursday AUGUST 8,2019 OPEN MIC TALENT SHOWCASE 2nd Thursday,AUGUST 15,, 2019 POEM JAM Thursday AUGUST 2019 7:30PM BEAT MUSEUM 540 Broadway, San Francisco New Monthly Series FIRST THURSDAY each month 2019 SF ART BOOK FAIR Browse the booths of artist books, art catalogs, monographs, periodicals, artists, collectors and enthusiasts and enjoy live performances at this FRIDAY, JULY 26, 2019 JULY GROUP EXHIBITION SF LIVE WORMS GALLERY 1345 Grant Avenue ~ San Francisco ClOSING RECEPTION next month 3RD FRIDAY,AUGUST 16, 2019 ~ 7:00 PM Saturday, July 27, 2019 MODERN CINEMA: HAUNTED! next month 1ST Saturday, AUGUST 3, 2019 Hear Ye! Hear Ye! FIRST SATURDAY each month: San Francisco Botanical Garden, 5TH ANNUAL FLOWER PIANO Sun, July 28, 2019 SAN FRANCISCO BALLET Sunday, July 28, 2018 2:30-4:00 pm BIRD AND BECKETT BOOKS 653 Chenery St. bet. Diamond and Castro San Francisco MOTHER CALIFORNIA: nrext month Sunday,AUGUST 11, 2019 GEARS TURNING |
SAN FRANCISCO POETS
Susan Birkeland IN MEMORIAM
The Cool Grey City of Love LITTLE HISTORY July 1, 1846 July 1, 1850 July, 1985 July,1985- Larry Harvey and friends began the Burning Man festival with a torching of an 8-foot wooden figure on Baker Beach. It was to celebrate the summer solstice and exorcize the sadness of a lost love affair. July 1, 1968 July 1, 1966
July 3, 1994 -- July 4, 1971 July 4, 1962 ~ Crew of nuclear disarmament ship Everyman I July 4, 1978 -- Joan Baez concert in Leningrad with Santana & The Beach Boys is abruptly cancelled without explanation by Soviet officials. Baez heads to Moscow, meets dissidents, including Andrei Sakharov & Yelena Bonner, bringing messages & gifts from friends & relatives in the U.S. July 5, 1880 ~ George Bernard Shaw, 23, leaves his job with the Edison Telephone Company. You must not suppose, because I am July 5, 1968 -- John Lennon sells his psychedelic painted Rolls-Royce. July 6, 1911 ~ Joe Hill's song "The Preacher & the Slave" first appears in the Little Red Song Book Long-haired preachers July 6, 1957 ~ John Lennon meets Paul McCartney at a church picnic in Woolton, a suburb of Liverpool. In the church basement between sets, 14 year old McCartney teaches a 16 year old Lennon Eddie Cochran's, "Twenty Flight Rock" & Gene Vincent's "Be-Bop-A-Lula." July 9, 1968
July 11, 1967 1921 -- France: Man Ray, artist, anarchist & photographer, arrives in Paris where Marcel Duchamp introduces him to Dadaists. July 23, 1967 July 24, 1966 HAPPY BIRTHDAY
July 1,1983 - July 1, 1983 (aged 87) "Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease. ~ poet Bucky Fuller
Our mind is capable
CHILDREN OF OUR AGE We are children of our age, Wislawa Szymborska
July 4, 1804 ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne, was an American novelist, and short story writer. His themes often center on the inherent evil and sin of humanity. His book The Scarlet Letter was one of the first mass-produced books in America. It was popular when first published and is considered a classic work today
July 6, 1907 ~ Surrealist artist Frida Kahlo was born in Coyoacán, a small town on the outskirts of Mexico City. Twice married to artist Diego Rivera. Kahlo's works are often characterized by their stark portrayals of pain. Of her 143 paintings, 55 are self-portraits which often incorporate symbolic portrayals of physical and psychological wounds. (July 6, 1907-July 13, 1954)
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Marc Chagall
July 9,1830 ~ born, 
transcendentalist, He was best known for his book Walden, and his essay, Civil Disobedience. 
July 12, 1904~Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basoalto was born, in Chile. He wrote his first poet at age 11. His father disapproved of his desire to be a poet. In 1949, He chose his pen name after Czech poet Jan Neruda. Pablo Neruda won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1971. When Neruda returned to Chile after his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Allende invited him to read at the Estadio Nacional before 70,000 people. Neruda was Chile's ambassador to France (1970-72) Neruda died of a heart attack on Sept. 23, 1973.
July 14, 1912~ born on this day in Okemah, Oklahoma, Woody Guthrie was an extremely prolific musician and artist who composed thousands of songs during his lifetime. His songs were about the real experiences of the American disfranchised and uprooted. 
July 21, 1899 ~ Ernest Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois.In the nearly sixty two years of his life that followed he forged a literary reputation unsurpassed in the twentieth century. In doing so, he also created a mythological hero in himself that captivated (and at times confounded) not only serious literary critics but the average man as well. In a word, he was a star.
July 25 , 1870 ~ (1870 - 1966) ,American painter and illustrator Maxfield Parrish developed his own original and individual style and his work helped shape the Golden Age of illustration and the future of American visual arts. His career lasted more than half a century and he was able to continue painting until he was about 90 years old. He died at age 96. 
July 29, 1905 ~ American Poet, editor, essayist, and translator Stanley Kunitz's, career spanned nearly 80 years. Kunitz received the Pulitzer for "Selected Poems: 1928-1958 , and was, poet laureate of the United States - twice, the first time from 1974 to 1976, when the title was "consultant in poetry," the second in 2000 he became the 10th US Poet Laureate at the age of 95, succeeding Robert Pinsky, Stanley Kunitz died at the age of 100 in 2006. 
Watch the film (95 minutes) and afterwards participate in a discussion with Robert Scheer himself, as well as his friends, and the directors of the film. Moderated by Peter Richardson.
ALLEN COHEN Poetry
Quicksilver Messenger Service, Big Brother, and Jaywalkers at the Fillmore Auditorium.
Grateful
Electric Flag, Buddy Guy, Freddie King, Blue Cheer,Ike and Tina Turner, and Holy See 1968 Blues Bash @Fillmore West 
The Paul Butterfield Blues Band,
Allen Ginsberg read poetry and performed in concert at the Fillmore, to Benefit for ArtistReorganization throughout San Francisco A.R.T.S. Gary Goodrow of The Committee emceed. Artist: Wes Wilson 
The American Theatre
July 1, 1804 ~French Romantic writer,
July 2, 1877 ~ German poet, novelist and artist, Hermann Hesse (1877-1962 )was born near the Black Forest. His best known works include Siddhartha, Steppenwolf, Narcissus and Goldmund, Demian, and The Glass Bead Game (also known as Magister Ludi, all of which explore an individual's search for spirituality.
July 2, 1923 ~ Wisława Szymborska-Włodek was a Polish poet and recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature "for poetry that with ironic precision allows the historical and biological context to come to light in fragments of human reality." She was described as a "Mozart of Poetry". Wislawa Szymborska died in her sleep at age, 88. 
July 3, 1883 ~ 
July 5, 1889~born, -Jean Cocteau, French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager, playwright, artist and filmmaker. died
(Oct. 11, 1963) 
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