Upcoming Events:
Fall 2019
Our Fall Talks Series coming soon!
We are hard at work on planning our Fall Talks and Tours. We will have a confirmed calendar done by mid-July so check back here around then, and if you're on our mailing list, you'll get a print copy in August some time. We are preparing talks celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Indian occupation of Alcatraz, SF Poster Syndicate, 140th anniversary of Henry George's Poverty and Progress, Storytelling and Memory Keepers, Memory and Ecology in Neighborhood Corridors, 250th anniverary of Portola's sighting of the Bay, and MORE!
Walking Tours — Spring 2019
Social, historical, and critical tours through San Francisco.
Saturday, April 13—Market Street: The Contested Boulevard
Saturday,May 11—New Deal Murals, Italian SF, and Trash!
Saturday, May 18 CANCELLED! Saturday June 15 CANCELLED!—Beer, Dunes, and Trains
Saturday, June 1—Fort Mason & North Shore
Bicycle Tours
“Cycles of History,” our social, historical, and critical tours through San Francisco by bicycle.
Our fabulous bicycle tours are led by Critical Mass co-founder Chris Carlsson, with help from LisaRuth Elliott.
Join our list or like us on Facebook to be notified about upcoming tours!
NEXT BIKE TOUR »Saturday, July 6, 2019, 12pm-4pm
Labor History
RSVP shaping@foundsf.org
Explore Shaping San Francisco:
Ecology Emerges
Discussions and reflections on the history of Bay Area ecological activism, based on oral histories documenting the past 50 years.
Ecology Emerges is an oral history gathering project to explore the past 50 years of ecological activism in the Bay Area and the role that individual and institutional memories play in the development, policy proposals, and interrelationships that together make up the existing networks of ecological politics. We document the living ecological activist movement, in their own words, but also in a larger context of urban growth and globalization.
Oral Histories
Shaping San Francisco, as part of our ongoing work, sits down with people who have stories to tell and conducts oral history interviews.
Check them out here.
"Editor's Pick Tour" from FoundSF.org
Comprised of over 1,400 pages, and 2,500 historical photos, the wiki-based archive FoundSF.org is the product of hundreds of contributors, regular people who were compelled by the chance to investigate some piece of this City's past.