From San Francisco’s iconic Coit Tower to its free-spirited festivals, San Francisco: Arts for the City—Civic Art and Urban Change, 1932-2012 celebrates the events, politics and creativity that have made the city the cultural icon it is today. Hear the book’s author Susan Wels recount some of the most important moments in the San Francisco Arts Commission’s eighty-year history of shaping the city’s cultural and physical landscape and from the Director of Cultural Affairs Tom DeCaigny and Commission President JD Beltran. A book sale by Readers Books follows the event.
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Main Library, Latino/Hispanic Rms A & B - Chinese eBook Fair
- Saturday, June 22, 2013
Main Library, Latino/Hispanic Rms A & B - Radar Reading
- Tuesday, July 9, 2013
Main Library, Latino/Hispanic B - Open Books: C.W. Gortner
- Wednesday, July 10, 2013
Main Library, Latino/Hispanic Rms A & B - San Francisco's West of Twin Peaks
- Wednesday, July 10, 2013
Merced - Islands of San Francisco Bay
- Tuesday, July 16, 2013
Eureka Valley/Harvey Milk Memorial - A Vision of Angels
- Tuesday, July 16, 2013
Main Library, Gay & Lesbian Center - Season of the Witch
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Excelsior - Bay Area Beauty
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Visitacion Valley - Petals in the Dust: The Endangered Indian Girls
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Main Library, Koret Auditorium
