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ART SHOWS ~ GALLERIES
FILM - local Theater links)
WEB LINKS

LITTLE HISTORY

VENUES

Please support our local venues in whatever way you can. some of them have donation links at this time, and /or pic-up offers~ online sales of books, online events while others have closed for now, and sadly we may find that some may never reopen.
The Beat Goes On!

Adobe Books
3130 24th Street
San Francisco
415 864-3936
Open In-Store Shopping
daily Noon to 7pm
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Alley Cat Bookstore and Gallerywill re open Thurs, Oct. 29,
Thurs thru Sun. (11 am to 7 pm)
3036 24th Street
San Francisco
415-824-1761
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The Beat Museum
540 Broadway @ Columbus Ave, S.F.
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Bird & Beckett Books
653 Chenery St.
bet. Diamond and Castro,S.F.
(415 )586-3733
open for curbside and in-store Tues.to Sun. 11am to 7pm
+online music events 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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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
Now Open Every Day, from12–8pm
everyone must wear a face mask covering both nose and mouth
at all times while in the bookstore.social-distancing measures in place,including a new Entrance
for one-way traffic.
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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
September 2020 Event calendar
for both Green Apple locations
In-Store every day 10am to 9pm
Browse Books
Green Apple Books/ 9th Ave
1231 9th Ave - San Francisco
open every day 10am to 8pm
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The Green Arcade
1680 Market Street @Gough
San Francisco
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Goethe-Institut San Francisco
530 Bush Street, 2nd Floor
San Francisco
Events
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Jewish Community Library
1835 Ellis Street
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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ONLINE
MoAD (Museum of the African Diaspora
Online Calendar or Events
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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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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 corner
of 9th Avenue & Lincoln Way.
The Garden is Now Open with additional safety measures
- More!
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The de Young and Legion of Honor are closed but closed to the public.

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

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To all the venues who have provided the spaces, and the organizers and promoters that have supported our artistic, literary community and all the wonderful people who will continue to attend their events online and support our local venues by contributing as they can to their fundraisers & buying your Books locally and supporting our outstanding local Artists communities, Thank you all for your support !

Happy Birthday (cont.)

Jan 19 1905 ~ Byron Anton Hunt
(Lord Byron) ~ artist, poet, filmmaker, ,mail art enthusist, mentor and spiritual advisor to artists and poets.
died: Jun 12 1993

In the San Francisco daylight
Stood a young man on the street
he was round & smily and wore glasses
This young man had wild eyes
and a room full of color
The real museum of Modern Art
yellow as the sun
red as trees and grass
blue as the sky
fuscia as a ladies behind
orange as the moon
He loves the moon
All in his room at the Goodman Hotel
A True Artist Byron Hunt
Humble man of the people and the street
To know this man is to know heart
by Jack Micheline,Sept. 7, 1977 SF

Obituary for Byron Alton Hunt by Tony Vaughan

Jan. 19, 1943

Happy Birthday-Janis

GONE BEYOND

Jan. 8, 1880 ~ America's greatest leader, " Norton I, Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico" was on his way to a lecture at the Academy of Natural Sciences in San Francisco when he dropped dead on Grant Avenue..
Norton's Decrees Le Roi Est Mort More on Joshua Norton More

Jan. 8, 1972 ~ Kenneth Patchen, American rebel poet and artist, died on this day at the age of 61.

Kenneth Patchen Poetry-Jazz days, 1957–1959
Kenneth Patchen Home Page

"I am the world crier, & this is my dangerous career . . .
I am the one to call your bluff,
& this is my climate."
— Kenneth Patchen
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Jan. 12, 1986 ~ Beat poet Bob Kaufman died in San Francisco.
The Funeral of Bob Kaufman by Allen Cohen Beatitude Poetry

"Bob Kaufman, the "black Rimbaud" of Beat San Francisco, passed away in his sleep Sunday morn January 12, 1986, passed on in a dream of Halley's Comet leaving our visibility. In the mosaic of the micro-environments of this penninsular city, his very presence would percolate events and cluster conversation. Bolts of insight and humor charging his public atmosphere, electric beat and dancer of his word that went out to the everyday lives, to stir us all. North Beach was his book, its streets his paper, to do his poems in person. For thirty years Bob was the beat Ulysses of North Beach in his dynamic trails and stops, those ports of call, portals of horn, that generated a poetic geography."
© Kush,excerpt from The Duende of Bob Kaufman,
Third Railrom, issue 6, 1987

Jan. 15, 2010, legendary North Beach Poet George Tsongas died on this day,
George Tsongas Obituary by Carl Nolte. in sfgate
Collection of George Tsongas Visual Poetry
George Tsongas - San Francisco Poet

Jan. 17, 2001 ~ Beat poet,Gregory Corso, the permanently acting-out bad boy of the Beats; the classical street-wise scholar; the juvenile delinquent with a prison record; the Catholic who died in Minneapolis in 2001 – how did he come to be buried at the rather exclusive Cimitero Acattolico – non-Catholic Cemetery in Rome? Was this urn burial the ultimate antic and final hustle?
The Romance of Gregory Corso: Cypress, Marble, Moon!..

Jan. 17, 20i1 ~ poet, Rebel journalist, prize winning chronicler of indigenous struggles and proud radical activist, John Ross, died in his beloved Mexico. (Mar. 11, 1938 – Jan. 17, 2011)
videos ~ * john ross poeta periodista ~ *John Ross at the San Francisco ~ Board of Supervisors ~
FREEDOM RIDE In Memory of John Ross by Jorge Argueta.

Jan. 23, 1988 ~ Royalist surrealist Salvador Dali died of heart failure at age 86. In his later life, Dali lived in the tower of his museum in Figueras.

still a work in pregress!

Due to personal matters requiring my complete attention this month, I will not be available to post as many summitted events -this month on San Francisco Art and Poetry Calendar,
Nicole Savage,editor, www.sfheart.com

SAN FRANCISCO ART AND POETRY

JANUARY 2021

2021 is the 23rd Anniversary of
sfheart.com. and the 15th Anniversary of this San Francisco Art and Poetry Calendar.

wash hands & wear masks
protect ourselves & others
Practice Loving Kindness
Stay the course for Peace and Justice

POEM OF THE DAY
San Francisco Poet Laureate KIM SHUCK curated a Poem of the Day with San Francisco Public Library for every day during the COVID-19 pandemic. Check back daily for the offerings
from assorted local poets.
view the archive of previous day's poems.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic
SAN FRANCISCO MAIN PUBLIC LIBRARY implemented SFPL To Go, and slowly and safely other Branches are making it available.

Friday, Dec 18, 2020 - Sunday, Jan 10, 2021
Hours: Friday 3-7pm, Saturday & Sunday 2-6pm,
Wednesday &Thursday 3-6
Monday/Tuesday Closed or by appointment

The Creative Revel
Live Worms Gallery is sending out a huge‘Thank You’ to everyone who has helped us
get this gallery off the ground!

To celebrate bidding ‘Adieu’ to 2020, and to welcome in the possibilities of 2021, we invited visual artists & writers to participate in a late December/early January exhibition, ‘The Creative Revel’. We want to REVEL in their talents and commitment to the creative paths that they pursue with such passion and vigor.
Eclectic is how best to describe the array of works on display – painting, prints, sculpture, assemblage, mixed media, glass….
even a painted guitar!

Through - JAN 31st, 2021
On being seen: Online MoAD exhibition showcases the work of San Quentin artists.
"Meet Us Quickly: Painting for Justice from Prison"
See the work of twelve artists incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison, the site of one of the nation's most deadly COVID-19 outbreaks. The works are presented with accompanying statements written by each artist, allowing these incarcerated men to speak for themselves and share their vision and perspectives in their own words.

MON. TUES. WEDS. THURS FRI. SAT. SUN.

MONDAY

Monday,January 11, 2021
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Boomer Music Talk with Richie Unterberger:
The Peak Achievements of Phil Spector (Virtual)

Join rock historian and author Richie Unterberger for a program spotlighting the peak achievements of Phil Spector, the most famous rock record producer of the 1960s. A pioneer of combining…
Find out more
Virtual: CLC Activities Zoom, San Francisco, CA

Monday, January 11,2021
7 PM
Bird & Beckett Poetry Series
On Zoom

Q. R. Hand was a hip & humble & towering figure among San Francisco poets for decades,
since his arrival from Brooklyn in 1970.
We’ve just lost him at age 83.
San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck
hosts a reading in tribute to Q. R.
featuring a number of poets who knew him well.There will not be the usual open mic component tonight,so that we can better focus our thoughts on a poet who meant so much to us in life.
There will not be the usual open mic component tonight, so that we can better focus our thoughts on a poet who meant so much to us in life.

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TUESDAY

EVERY TuesdayJanuary,2021
RADIO~~~~KPFA 94.1
COVER TO COVER
A celebration of the art of poetry and prose
with JACK FOLEY AND NINA SERRANO,
JOVELYN RICHARDS and JENNIFER STONE
EVERY WEDNESDAY POETRY SHOW

2NDTuesday January, 2021
ON THE PAGE ~ OFF THE PAGE
ONLINE OPEN MIC POETRY (and music)
hosted BY RICHARD IVANHOE

We will start at 7PM.
End time will depend on how many participate.
This month if you are connecting with a computer or with a smartphone, just click on this link to
1.Join Zoom Meeting
Click on this link:
The passcode is 505612
Everyone welcome!!!
SECOND TUESDAY MONTHLY POETRY SERIES

RADIO~~~~KPFA 94.1
Tuesdays, January 2021
8 PM~10PM
BEBOP, CUBOP AND THE MUSICAL TRUTH
Exploring a variety of textures with a cross pollination of jazz, world, and Latin influences,
WEEKLY SERIES RADIO hosted by AVOTCJA

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WEDNESDAY

Wednesdays, January 13, 2021
7 PM sign-in
WEEKLY SACRED GROUNDS POETRY READING AND VIRTUAL OPEN MIC
Featuring this evening is Dr.Nandini Bhattacharya, Professor of English at Texas A&M University; Novelist; Editor; Environmental Activist; Child and Human Rights Activist; Speaker and Online Educator. She was awarded a funded residency at the Vermont Studio Center in 2019. Thus far, she has published four short stories; her novel, Love’s Garden was published in October 2020, and a second novel manuscript is in progress.
Mini feature will be John Curl.
EACH WEDS SACRED GROUNDS POETRY READING SERIES SINCE 1972

THE GLOBAL OPEN MIC is a place where poets and people interested in poetry, can find live streaming, open mic poetry from any place at any time. The explanatory links and more can be current effort for the Global Open Mic as it is now.To get in touch with Dan Brennan,
email is best and the best way to do that is
to visit >>this page, for explanatory links and
a little more for those interested in learning about
WEEKLY SACRED GROUNDS POETRY- READING
+ OPEN MIC

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THURSDAY

Thursday, January 14, 2021
6:00 - 7:00 PM
Virtual Library Performance
POEM JAM
A monthly poetry reading lead by Kim Shuck,
the current Poet Laureate of San Francisco
Kim Shuck and special guests open the door to an evening of Afrofuturistic poetry. Poets include Ishmael Reed, Staajabu, devorah major, Tureeda Mikell, Avotcja and Dr. Glenn Parris for a special celebration of African American literature.
(preview) YouTube Live
~ REGISTER

Friday January 8, 7:30pm – 9:00pm
BIRD AND BECKETT BOOKS AND RECORDS
Live Streamed Event
Dan Neville Quartet - jazz live streamed from the bookshop every Friday evening
take in the shows on YouTube or Facebook

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FRIDAY

Friday January 8, 7:30pm – 9:00pm
BIRD AND BECKETT BOOKS AND RECORDS
Live Streamed Event
Dan Neville Quartet - jazz live streamed from the bookshop every Friday evening
take in the shows on YouTube or Facebook=
$20 suggested donation / pay what you can at this link

3rd Friday January 2021
7 PM – 8 PM
Online Event
HAIGHT ASHBURY PEACE VIGIL
which is now done from home and
You are invited to join us
beginning around 7 PM
THIRD FRIDAY OF THE MONTH

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SATURDAY

FOG~Far Out Gallery
Open Thursday - Sunday, 12-6 pm
or by appointment:
email Anne or call at 415-463-5537
3004 Taraval @ 40th Avenue
Anne Marguerite Herbst
Bird's Eye View
ART EXHIBITION

SAN FRANCISCO WOMEN ARTISTS,
647 Irving Street at 8th Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94122
415.566.8550

View
GIFT OF ART
Bay Area Artists Invitational Juried Exhibition
December 8 – January 8 , 2021
All work available for purchase.
Contact the SFWA Gallery

photograph-12in.x12in.
SFWA Member’s Juried Exhibition
Juror: DeWitt Cheng, San Francisco-based critic, curator, teacher, and blogger
All work available for purchase.
Contact the SFWA Gallery
VIEW 3D VIRTUAL GALLERY OF SHOW
To keep guests and members safe,
We request safety protocol/Face Coverings,
Hand Sanitizer, Social Distancing.

Saturday, January 9 – 7:30pm
Live on Bird & Beckett’s Facebook page and YouTube channel. $20 suggested donation /
Eric & the In Crowd
Eric Shifrin, jazz pianist par excellence and free spirit, has gathered the In Crowd in the City’s saloons and salons for decades. Tonight, he’s bringing in Ollie Dudek on bass and Mark Lee on drums for two eclectic sets of jazz pearls, pop tunes and your occasional novelty number.

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SUNDAY

(Dec. 2020 – Feb. 28, 2021)
An Amazing “Lighted Forest”
“Entwined,”by San Francisco artist Charles Gadeken, will honor Golden Gate Park’s 150th Anniversary. Sundown to 9:45pm ~ 2021 Peacock Meadow(between McLaren Lodge & Conservatory of Flowers) Golden Gate Park, San Francisco~FREE.
*****see updates

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LOS MUERTOS

After they had waited on line

for nearly eight straight hours

to vote for the candidate of their choice,

The Dead were finally informed

that they were no longer inscribed

upon the precinct lists of the Republic.

But we have only come to exercise

our rights as responsible citizens

The Dead complained bitterly

for it seemed to them that the President

in the spirit of national unity

had called upon all the people

to cast their ballots

as is the democratic norm.

The official registrar

who was still quite alive

could only explain

the exclusion of the calacas

with platitudes about Morality.

Oh said The Dead and voted anyway.

But your votes are clearly illegal

winced the official Official,

they can't be counted in this election.

You have a point The Dead replied,

maybe they won't be counted now

but surely you will count them later.

© John Ross

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Believe, Believe

Believe in this. Young apple seeds,

In blue skies, radiating young breast,

Not in blue-suited insects,

Infesting society’s garments.

Believe in the swinging sounds of jazz,

Tearing the night into intricate shreds,

Putting it back together again,

In cool logical patterns,

Not in the sick controllers,

Who created only the Bomb.

Let the voices of dead poets

Ring louder in your ears

Than the screechings mouthed

In mildewed editorials

Listen to the music of centuries,

Rising above the mushroom time.

Bob Kaufman

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

A LITTLE HISTORY

January 5, 1966

San Francisco Mime Troupe
Encore Theatre

January 7, 1968
San Francisco’s KMPX-FM, a pioneering ‘underground’ radio stations, held a ‘grass ballot’ vote among its listeners.
Among those elected were:
Bob Dylan ~ (President)
Paul Butterfield ~ (Vice-President)
George Harrison ~ (UN Ambassador)
Jefferson Airplane ~ (Secretary of Transportation)

January 7, 1968
Benefit for "Stop the Draft" Week
Phil Ochs
The Loading Zone
Blue Cheer
Venue: Fillmore Auditorium

Jan. 12, 1967 ~ Beat poets hold a free benefit for the Diggers. Held at Gino & Carlo's Tavern, billed as "the first San Francisco Poets 'Thank You' to the Diggers." Included were "Gary Snyder, Lenore Kandel, George Stanley, Ron Lowensohn, Lew Welch, Richard Brautigan, David Meltzer and William Fritchey."
The Diggers, true to form, refuse to accept cash donations collected at the event.

Jan 12, 1967

Jerry Rubin
Gary Snyder
Allen Cohen
@ 1542 Haight Street
photographer: Gene Anthony

Jan 14, 1967-Human Be-In

Allen Ginsberg
Richard Alpert
Dick Gregory
Jack Weinberg
Timothy Leary
Jerry Rubin
Gary Snyder,
Lenore Kandel,

A.k.a. the "Gathering of the Tribes", this event, which took place in the Polo Field of Golden Gate Park, was the prototype of all Sixties Counterculture celebratory events. The Diggers provided Free Food.

The Be-In was a blossom.
It was a flower.
It was out in the weather.
It didn't have all its petals.
There were worms in the rose.
It was perfect in its imperfections.
It was what it was -
and there had never been
anything like it before.
- Michael McClure
(The Summer of Love)

January 16, 1966
Joan Baez is jailed for 10 days for Vietnam antiwar protest during a demonstration, Oakland, California.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Jan. 1, 1942

Country Joe McDonald
(born in El Monte, Ca. , at 17, he enlisted in the U. S. Navy for three years . In the early '60s, he began busking on the Telegraph Ave.in Berkeley, Ca. On Jan. 16, 1968, the Youth International Party (Y.I.P.)was founded by Country Joe & Fish, Fugs (includes Tuli Kupferberg, "one of the leading Anarchist theorists of our time" & Ed Sanders, poet, editor, owner of the fabled Peace Eye Book Store),Allen Ginsberg, Arlo Guthrie, Abbie Hoffman, Paul Krassner, Phil Ochs, Jerry Rubin (25 artists, writers & revolutionaries). No anarchist Yuppies allowed.

Jan. 3, 1892 ~ born in South Africa, J.R.R. Tolkien British philologist and author He was Professor of Anglo-Saxon at the University of Oxford and a Professor of English Language and Literature.
Tolkien worked on the New English Dictionary, and was a professor of languages. His interest in linguistics inspired him to invent fifteen artificial languages (most famously the two Elvish languages from Lord of the Rings, Quenya and Sindarin.

"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world".
~ J. R.R. Tolkien

Jan. 6, 1706 ~born, Benjamin Franklin, electrician, printer, statesman, philosopher, writer, kite-flyer.
Franklin's Thirteen Virtues
The Electric Ben Franklin

January 6, 1883 ~ born in Lebanon, Poet Kahlil Gibran (The Prophet )
"On Love"

Jan. 6, 1832 ~ born in Strasbourg, France, artist Gustave Doré worked primarily with wood and steel engraving. By the age
of 22, had already published 700 drawings as well as five albums of artwork.In 1853, Doré has remained for many the most renowned of illustrators. In the forty year period from 1860-1900 a new Doré illustrated edition was published every eight days! When Gustave Dore died Jan. 23, 1883 at age 51 in Paris, his completed works included 200 books (some with 500 plates), 280 watercolours, 100 lithographs and etchings, 500 drawings, 50 sculptures, 100 paintings - in total some 10,000 works.
Gustave Doré (1832--1883): Master of Imagination (youtube)

Jan. 6, 1878.~ born, Carl Sandburg in Galesburg, Illinois. American poet, historian, novelist & folklorist.Chicago Poems

I AM THE PEOPLE, THE MOB
by Carl Sandburg

January 6, 1883 ~ born in Lebanon , Poet Kahlil Gibran
(The Prophet)

Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.
But your ears thirst for the sound of your heart's knowledge.
You would know in words that which you have always know in thought.
You would touch with your fingers the naked body of your dreams.
And it is well you should. ...

Jan. 8, 1935 ~ born in Tupelo, Mississippi, Elvis Presley, "the King" of Roll & Roll.
(d.August 16, 1977)

January 12, 1876 ~ Jack London,
(born John Griffith Chaney.
Jack London was one of the most successful writer in America in the early 20th Century. An illegitimate child, London passed his childhood in poverty in the Oakland slums. At the age of 17, he ventured to sea on a sealing ship. The turning point of his life was a thirty-day imprisonment that was so degrading it made him decide to turn to education and pursue a career in writing.

You look back and see how hard you worked and how poor you were, and how desperately anxious you were to succeed, and all you can remember is how happy you were." Jack London,
San Francisco Quotes

Lenore Kandel (1932–2009) was born in New York City and wrote poetry from childhood. She was reading about Buddhism and world religion when she was 12 years old. In 1959. her writings An Exquisite Navel, A Passing Dragon and Passing Dragon Seen Again appeared,(to be continued)

Jan. 18, 1962 ~ San Francisco Poet and artist,Susan Birkeland
was born in Hibbing,Minnesota. Susan grew up in Texas, left home to live in Austin and then followed her heart to San Francisco where she lived in the mission district and became a beloved voice among San Francisco's poetic artistic North Beach community. Susan was 45 when she died of Nov. 2006 of Breast Cancer.

“Love is no matter what
Mercy is no matter how
Justice is no matter who
Hope is no matter when.”
-Susan Birkeland
(Jan. 18, 1961- Nov. 18, 2006)

"The Bruised Angel Almanac" (2006) chapbook of poetry and drawings

I AM THE PEOPLE, THE MOB

I am the people—the mob—the crowd—the mass.
Do you know that all the great work of the world is done through me?
I am the workingman, the inventor, the maker of the world’s food and clothes.
I am the audience that witnesses history. The Napoleons come from me and the Lincolns. They die. And then I send forth more Napoleons and Lincolns.
I am the seed ground. I am a prairie that will stand for much plowing. Terrible storms pass over me. I forget. The best of me is sucked out and wasted. I forget. Everything but Death comes to me and makes me work and give up what I have. And I forget.
Sometimes I growl, shake myself and spatter a few red drops for history to remember. Then—I forget.
When I, the People, learn to remember, when I, the People, use the lessons of yesterday and no longer forget who robbed me last year, who played me for a fool—then there will be no speaker in all the world say the name: “The People,” with any fleck of a sneer in his voice or any far-off smile of derision.
The mob—the crowd—the mass—will arrive then.

by Carl Sandburg

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ONGOING

MONTHLY ART EVENTS

FIRST THURSDAY Bay Area art walks have been cancelled while COVID-19 “shelter in place” mandates are in effect. All SFADA galleries are honoring California's "Shelter in place" orders.
Online Exhibitions & Features

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 check for possible virtual events

Visit the excellent
ART EXHIBITION at
LIVEWORMS GALLERY
on Grant Ave.betw.Vallejo & Green St, North Beach,SF
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Many San Francisco Museums and Galleries are now closed due to covid
check online for possible Virtual events

December 30, 2020 - February 14,2021
Joan Baez: Mischief Makers 2 new art show at Seager Gray Gallery in Mill Valley features portraits of her favorite change-makers. characterful portraits of the likes of Anthony Fauci, Kamala Harris, Greta Thunberg and Colin Kaepernick.

Our Iconic museum, SF’s “Legion of Honor”in Lincoln Park
The Legion of Honor
de Young Museum
Japanese Tea Garden
Conservatory of Flowers
San Francisco Botanical Garden
California Academy of Sciences
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SFMOMA
Asian Art Museum
Contemporary Jewish Museum
MoAD (Museum of the African Diaspora
online event calendar
GLBT Historical Society Museum
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GALLERIES

CANESSA GALLERY
708 Montgomery St, SF
ONLINE
Emotional Hieroglyphic Studies
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CITY ART GALLERY
828 Valencia Street, SF
GROUP EXHIBITION
Through- Jan 31st 2021
SEE ARTISTS
Open: Sun/Wed/Thur 12-9pm
Fri/Sat12-9pm

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FAR OUT GALLERY
3004 Taraval St @ 40th Ave.,SF
FOG's phone-415-463-5537
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Avenue 12 Gallery
1101 Lake Street @ 12th Avenue,SF
415-750-9955 Located on beautiful Lake Street in San Francisco at the corner of 12th Avenue.Open most afternoons by appointment during Covid. Window viewing 24/7

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Please give your SUPPORT to our independent Theaters

***RADIO ONLINE***

KPFA 94.1
Diamond Dave Whitaker and
Val Ibarra

Dave Whitaker and the Three Generation Rainbow

RADIO~~~~KPFA 94.1
EVERY Tuesday
8 PM~10PM
BEBOP, CUBOP AND THE MUSICAL TRUTH
Exploring a variety of textures with a cross pollination of jazz, world, and Latin influences, hosted by AVOTCJA

FILMS
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San Francisco Public Library
KANOPLY is free Films for users with
a library card

YOUTUBE (Free Full Movies)

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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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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FILM

San Francisco Movie Theaters closed due to the Coronavirus tho some have excellent titles in Virtual Screening Rooms available

Balboa Theatre
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Vogue Theater
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Roxie Theater
Moving pictures since 1909. An arthouse in 1976. Nonprofit since 2008. The Roxie brings you the best/coolest/weirdest/rarest/most thought-provoking movies of the past, present and future!
Roxie Virtual Theatre
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ACCESSIBILITY SERVICES
at SAN FRANCISCO LIBRARY
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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.
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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.

ART CHANGES LIVES
you can, too.
Creativity Explored ~
(where art changes lives)
3245 Sixteenth St ~
San Francisco (map)
offers Art for sale online at this time.
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Children’s Creativity Museum
Exploratorium
For All Ages.
Online experiences.
Fun with Science.
Ignite Curiosity.
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THE RANDALL MUSEUM
Natural History Museum,
Science Museum & Arts Center
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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 Ambush Review
Bob Booker @ The 8th Annual Beat
Museum Poetry Festival (youtube)

Neeli Cherkovski
Ana Elsner poem for George Tsongas
Ferlinghetti
Auto/Biographical Sketch of Jack Hirschman by Matt Gonzalez
Clare Hsu ~poet/ president of ClarionMusic, 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:
Beat SuperNova
Cultural Chronology of Early Beat Generation Literature
Cosmic Baseball Association
How Beat Happened
Lit Kicks

Naropa U. Internet Archive
Harry Redl : Portraits of Beat Generation
Beat Generation literary journal
Beatdom

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

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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