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A LITTLE HISTORY

LOVE in ACTION Projects
events on the calendar that show this little red heart are what SF Heart calls Love in Action projects,benefits,volunteer,
fundraiser for good causes.

Please visit and support our local venues all of which have current calendars of upcoming events on their own websites.

Adobe Books
3130 24th Street
San Francisco
415 864-3936
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Alley Cat Bookstore and Gallery
3036 24th Street
San Francisco
415-824-1761
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Bazaar Cafe
5927 California St,
San Francisco
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The Beat Museum
540 Broadway @ Columbus Ave, S.F.
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Bird & Beckett Books & Records
653 Chenery St.
bet. Diamond and Castro,S.F.
(415 )586-3733
+LIVE MUSIC SERIES
and more.
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The Booksmith
1644 Haight St.
San Francisco
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THE BINDERY
1727 Haight Street
San Francisco
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Book Club of California
312 Sutter Street
San Francisco
(415) 781-7532
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Book Passage
1 Ferry Building
San Francisco
(415) 835-1020
San Francisco Events
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The Brava Theater
Women in the Arts
2781 24th Street
San Francisco
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Browser Bookstore
2195 Fillmore St,
San Francisco
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California Historical Society
678 Mission Street
San Francisco
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Clarion Music Center
2 Waverly Place
San Francisco
415-391-1317
Clara Hsu ~ Poetic Journey
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City Arts & Lectures
upcoming events
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City Lights Booksellers
261 Columbus Avenue
San Francisco
(415) 362-8193
events resume in Sept.
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Folio Books
3957 24th Street
San Francisco
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Galería de la Raza
2857 24th Street
San Francisco
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Green Apple Books
506 Clement St.
San Francisco
December Event calendar
for both Green Apple locations
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Green Apple Books/ 9th Ave
1231 9th Ave
San Francisco
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Goethe-Institut San Francisco
530 Bush Street, 2nd Floor
San Francisco
Events
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The Green Arcade
1680 Market Street @Gough
San Francisco
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Jewish Community Library
1835 Ellis Street
San Francisco
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La Promenade Cafe
3643 Balboa St.@38th Ave
San Francisco
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Mechanics' Institute Library
57 Post St.
San Francisco
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Mission Cultural Center
for Latino Arts
MCCLA
2868 Mission Street
San Francisco (map)
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Museum of the African Diaspora
685 Mission St (at 3rd)
San Francisco ~ Get directions
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The Sydney Goldstein Theater(formerly Nourse) 275 Hayes St,
San Francisco
(415) 392-4400
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The Poetry Center (SFSU)
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Red Poppy Arthouse
2698 Folsom St
San Francisco
(415) 826.2402
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Sacred Grounds Cafe
2095 Hayes @ Cole
San Francisco
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San Francisco Center for the Book
375 Rhode Island Street
San Francisco
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San Francisco Public Library
100 Larkin St
San Francisco
(415) 557-4400
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SF Live Arts at Cyprian’s
2097 Turk Street @ Lyon
San Francisco map
(415) 454.5238
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Conservatory of Flowers
100 John F. Kennedy Drive
Golden Gate Park
map - directions - parking
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San Francisco Botanical Garden
Golden Gate Park, near the corner of 9th Avenue and Lincoln Way.
Calendar of Events
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De Young Museum
50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Dr.
Golden Gate Park
San Francisco
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The Legion of Honor
100 34th Avenue
Lincoln Park
San Francisco

.GOME BEYOND

Dec. 10,1968 ~ Trappist monk, writer, poet Thomas Merton's life and career died at the age of 53, when he was accidentally electrocuted, stepping out of his bath in Bangkok, Thailand.

Love is our true destiny. We do not findthe meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another. ...Merton

Dec. 16, 2012
poet, artist and publisher, John Dowling died in his sleep at home in North Beach. John, was was a long time resident of San Francisco. He graduated from the University of Massachusetts School of Fine Arts in 197 and was an artist all his life. John Dowling was a gentle man and beloved by all who knew him
(photo of John by Rebecca Peters)

Dec. 24, 1914- John Muir died in Los Angeles, California, age 86. He was also known as "John of the Mountains", a Scottish American naturalist, author, environmental philosopher and early advocate of preservation of wilderness in the United States. “Let us do something to make the mountains glad.” So they founded the Sierra Club, the first major organization in the world dedicated to using and “preserving” wild nature.. John Muir (wikipedia)

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
~John Muir

Dec. 2012~ San Francisco native Dan Harrington, musicIan Music was Dan's life. He enjoyed sitting oustside the Trieste and playing one or more instruments from his large collection. He also wrote songs that were much appreciated by his fans. Dan was a quiet courteous man in this world but not of it. And he left the world as unobtrusively as he had lived in it.
Dan Harrington died a month after being diagnosed with Pancreatic Cancer. His music and his gentle ways are missed by his frirends and fans.

Dec. 4, 1122
OMAR KHAYŸAM
Persian poet, mathematician, philosopher, astronomer and poet of wine, women & song.

"Ah, Love! could you and I with Fate conspire
To Grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire,
Would not we shatter it to bits-and then Remould it nearer to the heart`s desire!"
Written 1120 A.C.E

.Dec. 10,1964
Sam Cooke, popular & influential R&B singer, dies under mysterious circumstances in L.A.

Dec. 10,1968 ~ Trappist monk, writer, poet Thomas Merton's life and career died at the age of 53, when he was accidentally electrocuted, stepping out of his bath in Bangkok, Thailand.

Dec. 14, 2011 ~ PARIS — George Whitman, the American-born owner of Shakespeare & Company, a fabled English-language bookstore on the Left Bank in Paris and a magnet for writers, poets and tourists for close to 60 years, died on Wednesday in his apartment above the store. He was 98.
George Whitman (obituary, N. Y. Times)

Dec. 26, 1988 ~ Funeral of Chico Mendes ,(1944-1988) murdered by landowners for his leadership in the struggle against the destruction of Amazon rainforests.
Rubber Jungle ~Online Documentary

December 27, 2011, ~George Philip Peacock Feb. 3, 1942 - Dec. 27, 2011 In San Francisco.

Dec 31, 1997 ~ David Rosenbaum (82), jazz historian, died in Manteca. In the 60s, David ran the Melrose Record shop on Fillmore Street and Rhythm Records on Sutter Street. Poet Maya Angelou worked in his store when she was a Mission High schoolgirl then named Marguerite Johnson.

DECEMBER 2019

ONGOING 2019 thru New Year’s Day 2020
All Day | FREE!
All Over San Francisco
“Illuminate SF” Festival of Light
San Francisco's extraordinary light art scene.
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ONGOING hrough Jan 5, 2020
5 PM. – 11PM
Conservatory of Flowers
100 John F. Kennedy Drive
Golden Gate Park
map - directions - parking

Shining even brighter
NIGHT BLOOM
A Light and Sound Experience
returns this holiday season to
infuse the Conservatory of Flowers’
one-of-a-kind plant collection and its
iconic facade in a limited engagement.
Tickets

ATTENTION!
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Dear friends I will be on hiatus for the month
of December and will not be availabie to post
events Until further notice.
Nicole Savage, editor, sfheart.com

SAN FRANCISCO ART AND POETRY CALENDAR
For questions, comments, reports of errors or broken links, please CONTACT
Nicole Savage, editor, sfheart.com
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MON . TUES . WEDS . THURS . FRI . SAT . SUN

Please Support our creativeSan Francisco community of artists, authors, poets, musicians,performers, publishers, workers for change and framers of dreams by atttending and encouraging their works, supporting our local bookstores,and all venues that make it possible for them do what they love.

MONDAY

1st &3rd Monday December 16, 2019
7 PM – 9 PM
BIRD and BECKETT BOOKS
653 Chenery ~ San Francisco
between Diamond and Castro, San Francisco

POETS!
TBA
followed by an OPEN MIC
Hosted by SF Poet Laureate, Kim Shuck,
and Jerry Ferazz, resident Troubador
1ST & 3RD MONDAY POETRY SERIES

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TUESDAY

2nd Tuesday, 2019
PARK BRANCH LIBRARY
7:00 PM
1833 Page, between Cole & Shrader
San Francisco

ON THE PAGE OFF THE PAGE
Open Mic Poetry Series (and music)
As always, we'll have food for the body
the mind, and the spirit. Everybody
(performers, audience, and friends) welcome!
Hosted by RICHARD IVANHOE
SECOND TUESDAY MONTHLY POETRY SERIES~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Tuesday December 10, 2019
7 PM - 10 PM
San Francisco Jewish Community Center
3200 California St, San Francisco,

US POET LAUREATE, JOY HARJO
Joy Harjo is a member of the Mvskoke/Creek Nation, and made history this year when she became the
23rd US Poet Laureate, making her the first Native American poet to hold the honor.

Harjo has championed the art of poetry – "soul talk,”
as she calls it – for over four decades. To her, poems are “carriers of dreams, knowledge and wisdom,”
and through them, she tells an American story of tradition and loss, reckoning and myth-making. Her work powerfully connects us to the earth and the spiritual world with direct, inventive lyricism that
helps us reimagine who we are.

Tuesday December 10, 2019
6 PM TO 9PM
VESUVIO CAFE!
LOCAL ARTISTS ART SHOW

Reception Tuesday December 10, 6 to 10 pm, myself, hosted by Josephine Ramos and Rebecca Peters.
Photography, collage, representational as well as expressionism, surrealism and contemporary pixelation, an expression of the dreamers as we live our creative lives amongst the trappings of the modern age. Pieces for sale, commission a work, get the contact info and share with all those interested in
North Beach/San Francisco Art scene. ..
Show is up December 1st through to New Years...

3rd Tuesday,December 2019
7:30 PM – 9:30 PM
PianoFight
144 Taylor St, San Francisco

THE WORD PARTY
Feature TBA
Hosted by Jennifer Barone, Ingrid Keir, live jazz with Daniel Heffez, Geordie Van Der Bosch and friends. Open Mic sign-up for poetry only starts at 7:15pm
– 3min time limit, pick your best poem to read
with live jazz accompaniment,
FREE admission. Full menu and bar available.
3RD TUESDAY POETRY/ OPEN MIC AND JAZZ SERIES

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WEDNESDAY

Weekly Wednesday 7, 2019
Open mic sign up at 7; feature at 8.
Come at 7 and sign up. We’d love to hear you.
at SACRED GROUNDS CAFE
2095 Hayes @ Cole ~ San Francisco

SACRED GROUNDS
POETRY READING SERIES (1972)
hosted by Dan Brady
Featurng Georgette Howington
WEEKLY SACRED GROUNDS POETRY READING + OPEN MIC

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THURSDAY

Dec 12 – Dec 22
SF Live Worms Gallery
Gallery Hours 2 ~ 7PM
1345 Grant Avenue, San Francisco

OPENING CELEBRATION December 15, 3-9 pm

NORTH BEACH WINTER SALON
Featuring 26 local artist - CJ Schake, John Perino, Rosemary Manno, Roger Strobel, George Long, James Redo, Mauro Ffortissimo, Fanny Renoir, Victoria Brill, Elizabeth Ashcroft, Marc Brown, Mahnez Badihian, Katharine Snyder, Jeffrey Thompson, Rebecca Peters, Ronald Sauer, Tina Tarnoff, Sherry O'Donnell, James Cha, Romalyn Schmaltz, Howard Whitehouse, Jack Hirschman, Ruth Caprow, Agneta Falk, Elly Simmons, Nancy Calef
Hosted by SF Live Worms Gallery

2nd Thursday,December 2019
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC LIBRARY
Latino/Hispanic Room (Lower LeveL
100 Larkin Street ~ San Francisco

POEM JAM
Join San Francisco Poet Laureate
KIM SHUCK and special guests,
for a Poetry Reading
Mark your Calendars. Free!
2ND THURSDAY MONTHLY POETRY READING SERIES

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FRIDAY

3RD Friday,December 2019
7:00 PM

HAIGHT ASHBURY PEACE VIGIL
corner of Masonic and Fell, Golden Gate Park Panhandle. We will have our usual signs, music, candles, and snacks. Join us for the whole two hours or for just five minutes. Everybody welcome!
If you join us, please dress for the weather.
Pictures from past vigils can be seen here
3RD FRIDAY PEACE VIGIL
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SATURDAY

EVERY SATURDAY is FREE MUSEUM DAY
at the De Young &The Legion of Honor
9:30 am to 5:15 pm

FIRST SATURDAY each month:
(Dogpatch, Potrero, Mission)
MINNESOTA PROJECT GALLERIES
1275 Minnesota St. and 1150 25th St.
and select other SFADA member galleries present special opportunities to connect with artists or learn more about current exhibitions. Events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted. Check
back often as these events are continually updated!

1st Saturday, JANUARY, 2019
7-9:30 PM
LA PROMENADE CAFE
Good food at reasonable prices!
3643 Balboa St. Ave.near 38th Ave
-across from Balboa Theatre
San Francisco

1st Saturday San Francisco Poetry readiing
Hosted by STEPHANIE MANNING
Feature TBA
Followed by an open mic!
Come One! Come All!
FIRST SATURDAY POETRY READING SERIES

1st Saturday,JANUARY 2019
Doors -- 7:30 pm.
BLACK & BROWN SOCIAL CLUB
476 Valencia street~San Francisco
Mission District

The Black & Brown Social Club presents
Black & Brown for Justice, Peace and Equality
Feature TBA
1ST SAT. OF THE MONTH POETRY SERIES

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SUNDAY

Sunday December , 2019
12 PM – 2 PM
BIRD and BECKETT BOOKS
653 Chenery ~ San Francisco
between Diamond and Castro,
San Francisco

Visit link above to check out the many choice events available most every day at the legendary
BIRD & BECKETT BOOKS & RECORDS
the abundance of outstanding
LITERARY, COMMUNITY, +LIVE MUSIC SERIES
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Sunday, December 15, 2019,
2 PM - 5 PM
San Francisco Main Library
Koret Auditorium
100 Larkin St. ~ San Francisco

San Francisco Poet Laureate, Kim Shuck
Book Launch Celebration
KIM SHUCK, has two new books out this season.
DEER TRAIL, the latest in the laureate series from City Lights Press is a love letter to the city of San Francisco. MURDERED MISSING is a chapbook on the subject of murdered and missing Indigenous women from FootHills Publishing. Kim and some of her friends will be reading poems in celebration of these books.
A book sale and signing follows the program.

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December flower is NARCISSIS,
commonly called Daffodil paperwhit narcissis
The genus name ‘Narcissus‘ derives from the Greek myth of Narcissus, who fell in love with his own reflection, perishing from staring at it in a pool of
water(dying either by drowning or starvation).
Legend has it that the first daffodil plant sprang
up from the place where he died

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KENNETH PATCHEN
(December 13, 1911 – January 8, 1972)

Dec. 13, 1911 ~ Happy Birthday
Kenneth Patchen, a true “people’s poet,” prolific writer, visual artist and performer whose art celebrates spontaneity and attacks injustices, materialism, and war.
Kenneth Patchen Home Page
Kenneth Patchen Poem Paintings

23RD STREET RUNS INTO HEAVEN poems read aloud
by the author (youtube)
IN THIS TIME OF TROUBLE
At The New Year
A Poem by Kenneth Patchen

O take heart, my brothers. Even now... with every leader & every resource & every strategy of every nation on Earth arrayed against Her - Even now, O even now, my brothers, Life is in no danger of losing the argument! - For after all .... (as will be shown)
She has only to change the subject.
...Kenneth Patchen
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SAN FRANCISCO POETS

Susan Birkeland 1961 ~ 2006
City of Love
Tony Vaughan1947 ~ 2008
After An Evening of Poetry
and Wine & Approaching Desire
George Tsongas
(1927 - Jan. 2010)
The City is a Dream
John Dowling
(Aug. 7, 1956 -. Dec.16, 2012)
The Revolution in North Beach
Joie Cook
(Nov. 4, 1951 ~ Feb. 24, 2013)
There Are Nights in San Francisco
Micheline
Don Brennan
(Sept. 27, 1935 ~ Mar. 18, 2013)
Spirit Walk &
Old World Cafes
Leonard Irving
Bleak Morning on Jones Street
Vince Storti
June 9, 1944 ~March 2017
Walking Woman 1 &
Mime Troupe Witness 1
Peter Sherburn-Zimmer
Dec.1944)~ Feb.2019
Broadway Queen &
what may a poem be?
Ronald Sauer
The San Francisco Renaissance
Rebecca (an acrostic poem)

Don Altadena
Foghorns bloom,
we break upon meaning
Jerry Ferraz
Guitara
Richard Hack
Three poems
Paul Leclerc
Porter prospectus
Rosemary Manno
What the Beatniks Saw in North Beach
& Ode To Michelangelo Park at Twilight
Bill Mercer
Vesuvio's North Beach
Jane Rades
My Adopted City
Mark Schwartz
All the Critical Mass bicycles
confiscated should be: &
There was a little alley
in San Francisco
Kim Shuck
On Columbus
Mike Aguzin
420 and a Vision & Cheer
Mia Kirsi Stageberg
Angels of San Francisco

IN MEMORIAM

ALLEN COHEN Poetry
April 23,1941~April 30, 2004
The Decline & Fall of San Francisco by Allen Cohen

Dan Harrington (Dec 12 2012)
Offering For A Friend by Jerry Ferraz and Enchantment by Peter Sherburn Zimmer

* John Ross (1938-2011)
* Victor Martinez (1954-2011)
* Carlos Ramirez (1938-2013)
by Jorge Argueta
Jehanah Wedgewood
(1941- Nov, 2010)
George Tsongas
(1927 - January 2010)
Patricia Carr Lamerdin
(Aug. 15, 1926 - Nov. 9, 2009
Bill Witherup
Mar. 24, 1935- June 3, 2009
Harold Norse
July 6, 1916 - June 8, 2009
by Neeli Cherkovski
Vampyre Mike
Dec. 3, 1953 - Mar. 22, 2008
Poet OZZY
Nov. 1940 - May 2007

The Cool Grey City of Love
by George Sterling
Legends of San Francisco
by George W. Caldwell, M.D.(1919)

A LITTLE HISTORY

Dec. 2, 1964
Sproul Hall sit-in, Berkeley, California.
Joan Baez sings on Sproul Hall steps.
Free Speech Movement holds an overnight sit-in protesting the disciplining of four students who took part in the October police car sit-in; 800 arrests result. The next day,Police arrest 773 to end the Free Speech Occupation the U.C Berkeley Campus.

Dec. 7, 1964: Mario Savio, leader of Berkeley Free Speech Movement, arrested. Univ. of California-Berkeley administration makes a presentation at the Greek Theatre to 18,000 students; followed by strike by 9,000 of the 27,000 students, and a faculty resolution (824 to 115) supporting the rapidly growing Free Speech Movement.

"There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part; and you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus and you've got to make it stop.`~ ario Savio

Dec. 14,1938 Stewart Brand, author, editor, and creator of the bestselling huge book, the Whole Earth Catalog and the journal, CoEvolution Quarterly.

Dec. 15, 1893 -- "La Revue Libertaire" was published under the direction of Charles Chatel, Henri Gauche & Henri Guerin, in Paris fell victim of the anti-anarchist laws ("lois scélérates"), and was shut down after just five issues. The epigraph for the first number (which changed each issue) is from Henrik Ibsen:

"The State is the curse of the individual"

Dec 16, 1966
Mime Troupe Carolers Arrested. Ten members of the Mime Troupe were arrested for begging while singing Christmas carols outside the Condor.
San Francisco Mime Troupe History

Dec. 17, 1966
Benefit for Legalization of Marijuana (LEMAR) at California Hall. Country Joe and the Fish entertained. (46 years ago)

“As long as the government can arbitrarily decide which substances are legal and which are illegal, then those who remain behind bars for illegal substances are political prisoners”
~ Paul Krassner.

Dec. 19, 1732
Benjamin Franklin begins publication of Poor Richard's Almanack (-1757).
Poor Richards Almanac on sfheart.com

Dec 20, 1998
Snow flakes fell in SF and low temperature records were made around the Bay with 40 degrees in SF and 35 in Fremont.

Dec. 22, 1969
Radio Free Alcatraz broadcast its first live broadcast from Alcatraz, under the direction of John Trudell, a Santee Sioux from Nebraska who was relocated to the Bay Area with his wife and two children.

Dec. 24,1955
Writer, pacifist, and political radical Aldous Huxley ("Brave New World"
( takes his first acid (LSD) trip.

Dec. 28, 1973 - Alexander Solzhenitsyn publishes Gulag Archipelago.

"One word of truth shall outweigh the whole world.Wherever else it fails, art always has won its fight against lies, & it always will."

Dec. 31, 1967:
Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Paul Krassner, Dick Gregory, and friends pronounce themselves "Yippies."

I wouldn't mind paying taxes - if I knew they were going to a friendly country.~ Dick Gregory

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

December 1, 1893,.
Ernest Toller Province of Posen, Poland. Died: May 22, 1939, New York, .Leader of the Munich "soviet" of 1919.
Playwright, poet, bohemian, anarchist, hounded to death by the Nazis.

Dec. 5, 1875 ~ poet Rainier Maria Rilke in Prague, Austria-Hungary. Orphic voice of the mystic poet as creator of worlds. the greatest lyric poet of modern Germany.(Dec. 5, 1875-Dec. 29, 1926)
Good site of Rilke pictures and recorded poetry in Engish and German

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation
...Rainer Maria Rilke

Dec. 8, 1943 ~ born, Jim Morrison,American Rock Star, songwriter, poet, filmmaker, actor. Morrison was known for often improvising 'spoken word' passages while the Doors band played live. In 1964, he moving to Los Angeles
to attend UCLA and enrolled in Jack Hirschman's class on Antonin Artaud in the Comparative Literature program.
Morrison was influenced by Nietzsche, Rimbaud, the French existentialist philosophers, Kerouac, Ginsberg Ferlinghetti and his friend Michael McClure.
two small early poems from Wilderness: The Lost Writings Of Jim Morrison (1988)

Dec. 9, 1608 ~born, John Milton lives, Bread Street, Cheapside, London. "Paradise Lost" epic writer

Dec. 10,1830 ~ Born in Amherst, Massachusetts, to a successful family with strong community ties, poet, recluse Emily Dickinson lived a mostly introverted and reclusive life. While Dickinson was a prolific private poet, fewer than a dozen of her nearly eighteen hundred poems were published during her lifetime.
The poems of Emily Dickinson
Dec. 10,1830 ~ born, poet, recluse
Emily Dickinson

"If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry."

Dec. 9, 1608 ~ John Milton lives, Bread Street, Cheapside, London. "Paradise Lost": epic writer.

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
...Milton

Dec. 13, 1933 ~ born, Jack Hirschman in New York City. San Francisco's 4th Poet Laureate. Jack Hirschman has written more than 50 volumes of poetry and essays and is a founder of the The Revolutionary Poets Brigade.
Jack Hirschman (wikipedia)
Jack Hirschman Remembers Rexroth the Beats

Dec. 16,1770
born, Ludwig van Beethoven
Bonn Germany, composer
(Ode to Joy) youtube

Dec. 18, 1879 ~ born,
Paul Klee Swiss graphic artist & painter in Munchen-Buchesee, Switzerland. Klee's art has been called visual music.
"Art does not reproduce the visible.
Art makes visible".

Stop the Violence Increase the Peace

War is not healthy for children and other living things

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MONTHLY ART EVENTS

19TH ANNUAL PRISON ART SHOW
The show is available for walk-in viewing from Oct. 21, to Dec. 23,
Monday through Friday ~9PM - 5PM
TONY'SERRA'S PIER 5 LAW OFFICES
3330 Geary Boulevard, 3rd Floor East,
San Francisco

FIRST THURSDAY each month
Visit SFADA.com for a full list of galleries, exhibitions, and SDFA EVENTS throughout
We look forward to seeing you
in our galleries. FIRST THURSDAY
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FIRST FRIDAY IN NORTH BEACH

FIRST SATURDAY each month:
(Dogpatch, Potrero, Mission)
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MINNESOTA PROJECT GALLERIES
1275 Minnesota St. and 1150 25th St.
and select other SFADA member galleries present special opportunities to connect with artists or learn more about current exhibitions. Events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted. Check back often as these events are continually updated!

ART CHANGES LIVES, you can, too.
Creativity Explored ~
3245 Sixteenth St ~SF, (map)
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San Francisco Museums for All offers opportunities to experience art and educational enrichment at more than 15 museums and cultural centers by providing free entry to residents participating in public benefit programs offered by the Human Services Agency.

In San Francisco
California Academy of Sciences
Children’s Creativity Museum
de Young Museum
Exploratorium

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MUSEUMS
Asian Art Museum
200 Larkin St.
San Francisco
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Museum of the African Diaspora
685 Mission St.
San Francisco
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Contemporary Jewish Museum
736 Mission Street
San Francisco
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De Young Museum
50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Dr.
Golden Gate Park
San Francisco
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The Legion of Honor
100 34th Avenue
San Francisco map
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SFMOMA
Modern Art Museum
151 Third Street
San Francisco
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Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
701 Mission Street
San Francisco
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SF Opera ~ SF Ballet
SF Symphony
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GALLERIES

CANESSA GALLERY
708 Montgomery St, SF
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CITYART
Cooperative Gallery
828 Valencia Street, SF
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DOLBY CHADWICK GALLERY
210 Post Street, SF

EDEN FINE ART GALLERY
223 Jefferson St, SF
(415) 908-1007
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FAR OUT GALLERY
3004 Taraval St @ 40th Ave.
San Francisco
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FORT MASON CAMPUS
2 Marina Boulevard, Pier 2, SF
Directions
Exhibitions -Public Events
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GREY CITY GALLERY (facebook)
250 Columbus #202
Saroyan Place
North Beach ~ San Francisco
North Beach First Friday.
www.artbyashcroft.com
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SAN FRANCISCO WOMEN ARTISTS
647 Irving St.,SF
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Please give your SUPPORT to our independent Theaters

***RADIO ONLINE***

EVERY FRIDAY~ Noon to 3pm
www.KPOO.com or 89.5FM in San Francisco
LA VERDAD MUSICAL (THE MUSICAL TRUTH)
AVOTCJA (pronounced Avacha)
playing the best of African, Caribbean,Jazz, Bomba ,
Plena & Latin dance.

Dave Common Thread Collective
~*~ 2nd Saturdays 8-10pm ~*~on
www.MutinyRadio.fm
OPEN MIC w/ co-host Global Val
Commom Thread Collective

DeafMovies.org
(aka the Deaf Cinema List),a collection of films in ASL & other Sign Languages.
Thanks to John Lubostky who researched and compiled this DeafMovies list!
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FILMS
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Tuesday French Movie Night:
The Alliance Française of San Francisco
one Tuesday each month we organize a screening of a Francophone movie with English subtitles.
1345 Bush Street ~ San Francisco map
MONTHLY TUESDAY FILM SERIES ~*~*~*~*~*~

~* FREE MUSEUMS ON SATURDAY*~
Every Saturday the DE YOUNG and LEGION OF HONOR Museums offer free general admission to all residents of the nine Bay Area counties, featuring engaging art experiences for the entire family, including art making, gallery guides, and tours with discussion including free entry to Soul of a Nation, for all visitors on four Sat. throughout the run of the exhibition.
Please read New information

ACCESSIBILITY SERVICES
at SAN FRANCISCO LIBRARY
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FILM
(Ongoing Current Calendar Links)

Please give your SUPPORT to our independent Theaters

Balboa Theatre
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Vogue Theater
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Castro Theatre
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Roxie Theater
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Clay Theatre
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Lee Neighborhood Theaters
Four Star Marina Presidio
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OPERA PLAZA CINEMA
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Embarcadero Center Cinema
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Alamo Drafthouse

San Francisco Film Society
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Silent Film Festival
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Cinemalit
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Bamfa
(UC Berkeley Art Museum
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The Prisoners Literature Project
Volunteer With Us
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California Poets in the Schools
Since 1964, CPITS has become one of the largest writers-in-the-schools programs in the nation, serving students K-12 in districts both urban and rural.
California Poets in the Schools empowers students of all ages throughout California to express their creativity, imagination, and intellectual curiosity through writing, performing and publishing their own poetry. We train and coordinate a multicultural network of published poets, who bring their passion and craft to public and private schools, juvenile halls, hospitals, libraries and other community settings.
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LOVE IN ACTION

These special programs are
LOVE IN ACTION

826 VALENCIA
826 Valencia the Writing Center

828 mission statement
Since opening in 2006, this nonprofit organization has enlisted help from hundreds of qualified volunteer tutors eager to teach students in the area.
Volunteer now »

The Imagine Bus
bringing arts education
where it's needed most
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ART CHANGES LIVES
you can, too.
Creativity Explored ~
(where art changes lives)
3245 Sixteenth St ~
San Francisco (map)

Children's Creativity Museum
221 Fourth Street
San Francisco
Children’s Creativity Museum is a non-profit organization that offers is a hands-on, multimedia arts and technology experience for kids.
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THE RANDALL MUSEUM
Natural History Museum, Science Museum & Arts Center Open Tues. through Sat. ~ 10 am – 5 pm

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~ WEB LINKS~ ♥´¯) ¸.♥´¯)¸.♥´¯) (¸♥´ (¸.♥´ (¸♥´ (¸.♥´¯`•.✿◠‿◠✿¸¸.♥ Enjoy!
Poets: Here Now and There Then, Beats and Otherwise, Artist Friends, Odds and Ends

POETS
Jennifer Barone
Charles Curtis Blackwell artist poet

Charles is (.mini documentary of the painter Charles Curtis Blackwell)
Bob Booker @ The 8th Annual Beat
Museum Poetry Festival (youtube)

Neeli Cherkovski
Ana Elsner poem for George Tsongas
Auto/Biographical Sketch of Jack Hirschman by Matt Gonzalez
Clare Hsu ~poet/ president of Clarion Music, Performing Arts Center
Diamond Dave, S. F. Rabble Rouser and Revolutionary Rebel By Hugh Dander
Fifteen Poems Jack Hirschman
Q R Hand
Phil Deal poet, artist, musician, inventor
Fifteen Poems Jack Hirschman
devorah major
David Meltzer
A Tribute to David Meltzer
THE ART / THE VEIL:Meltzer
Ed MyCue
Diane di Prima
Diane di Prima Lunch Poems - video
Gary Snyder
Kim Shuck -S.F. Poet Laureate
George Tsongas North Beach Poet
Cara Vida
Mel C. Thompson
Cara Vida
A.D.Winans Fansite

Antonin Artaud mad as hell
Anais Nin
Baudelaire -Les Fleurs du mal
William Blake Archive
Ira Cohen
Ira Cohen youtube videos
Robert Creeley
ee cummings paintings
Hermann Hesse and Paintings
Krishnamurti
Robert Lax
Robert Lax poetry
Pablo Neruda poems
Charles Olson reads 'Maximus to Gloucester, Letter 27
Ezra Pound's "Cantos," section LXXXI
read by the poet

BEATS gone/ gone/ gone beyond
Allen Ginsberg
Allen Ginsberg performs William Blake
Richard Brautigan
Richard Brautigan poems

Charles Bukowski
William Burroughs
William Burroughs Reality Studio
Howard Hart by Armour Garland
Kenneth Rexroth Archive
(David Meltzer, Summer 1969)
Jack Hirschman Remembers:
Kenneth Rexroth and the Beats
Interview with Kenneth Rexroth
Gregory Corso
Herbert E. Huncke
Kirby Doyle links:
obituary, & announcement of memorial readingS F Chronicle, 05.14.03
Kirby Doyle page
Hammond Guthrie's Third Page
"The Birth of Digger Batman" by Kirby Doyle,as published in The Digger Papers
Remembrances of Kirby Doyle by McClure, Peter Coyote,Tisa Walden, Philomene Long and John Thomas, and Claude Hayward.
Jack Kerouac
Bob Kaufman (1925-1986)
Philip Lamantia

In memory of Jack Micheline Poet-
by Jack Hirschman
Harold Norse July 6, 1916 - June 8, 2009
Charles Olson
Jack Spicer

Philip Whalen
Philip Whalen chapbook
Mark Other Place by Phillip Whalen
Academy of Beat Poets
American Museum of Beat Art
The Beat Generation:
Cultural Chronology of Early Beat Generation Literature
Cosmic Baseball Association
How Beat Happened
Lit Kicks
Decade of Bebop, Beatniks & Painting
Arthur Monroe1998
Naropa U. Internet Archive
Harry Redl : Portraits of Beat Generation
Beat Generation/Bohemian Dialectic
Why the Beats Still Matter

Kenneth Patchen links
Kenneth Patchen;
Poetry and Jazz days, 1957–1959
Kenneth Patchen Home Page
A Letter to God by Kenneth Patchen

Shig Murao: The Enigmatic Soul of City Lights and the San Francisco
BJ PAPA Interview by Catz Forsman.

Kenneth Patchen:Journal of Albion Moonlight (1941)

Kenneth Patchen -- In Order To

Kenneth Patchen – Reads His Poetry with the Chamber Jazz Sextet
As I Opened the Window

Kenneth Patchen - Do The Dead Know What Time It Is?-
Kenneth Patchen Reads With Jazz In Canada.-

Beautiful You Are (Poem by Kenneth Patchen)


kenneth patchen poems
kenneth patchen youtube

Harry Smith Archives (1923-1991)
M.C. Escher Gallery

Vincent van Gogh Gallery
Vincent van Gogh Letters

Literary stamps
Art Crimes Writing on the Wall
Art Daily

Women in the Arts National Museum
Women Painters Index: 1893 Expo
Women in Art video
Women are Art - Corot video
Women of the Beat Generation
The Golda Foundation presents
Vali Myers, a Memoir

Project Gutenberg
Poetry through the Ages
Poetry Foundation
*UBUWEB*
*Aspen web version - multimedia magazine in a box
surrealist.com ~ A history of surrealism, surreal art, and the artists involved in the surrealist art movement. A definitive history of the surrealist movement.

ODDS & ENDS
International SurreaLists Art
the ART STORY Modern Art Insight (new)
A Book Lover's San Francisco - The New York Times

Fusion Anomaly objects that were found, mixed and compiled by Atomjack
Light and Dust Anthology
Institute for study of Bohemian Literature
Open Culture
the best free cultural and education media on the web

Transcendental Biographies:
The effect of the Transcendental Planet in the lives of historical, cultural and artistic personalities
Neurotic Poets

Political Writings of George Orwell
Essays, newspaper columns, letters and editorials.
George Orwell complete works,photos
Oscar Wilde

For the Love of Beauty!
On The Edge The Hidden Art of Fore-Edge Book Painting

A Book Lover's San Francisco - The New York Times (2005)

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All products and company names mentioned herein are the trademarks of their respective owners.