9/13/2012 - 5 pm
Rediscovering the New Deal — In Libraries and in the Field – Dr. Gray Brechin Author, Historian, and Lecturer Thursday, September 13, 2012, 5:30 – 8:00 PM 2315 Durant Avenue, Berkeley
9/12/2012 - 12 am
“Celebrating American Workers Surviving the Great Depression: A nation-wide portrait of workers and the dispossessed, captured in photographs for the U.S. Farm Security Administration, by a leading 20th century documentary photographer.” Reception, September 12, 6 – 8 pm.
7/14/2012
Arthurdale, West Virginia, is holding its annual New Deal Festival on Saturday, July 14th. What a lovely idea! The festival features artisan demonstrations, craft market, children’s activities, the New Deal Homestead Museum, tours of the Historic District, a visit from Eleanor… read more
7/8/2012
Harvey Smith and Gray Brechin are featured in seven (!) events at the annual San Francisco Labor Fest, between July 8th and 28th. All but the maritime tour are free. Smith and Brechin are leading a WPA Bus Tour, a… read more
6/21/2012 - 7 pm
Author David Kipen and LND’s Gray Brechin in conversation In less than a decade, President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal agencies radically transformed Los Angeles as they did other American cities in a successful, but largely forgotten, effort to extricate… read more
1/1/2012
A year-long celebration of the centennial of Woody Guthrie’s birth will include a host of concerts, programs and events around the world. A key locus of celebration will be the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles, CA. “To Woody, poet of… read more
5/6/2012 - 1 pm
A talk by Mike Martin at the 2012 Annual Steinbeck Festival in Monterey, CA, featuring: “A multi-generational account of the experiences of a family that departed from a small farm town in rural Oklahoma as migrants during the Thirties and… read more
2/2/2012 - 5 am
The Public Works of Sargent Johnson Photographed by Duane Conliffe February 2 – 24, 2012 Opening Reception Thursday, February 2 5-9 pm Canessa Gallery, 708 Montgomery Street (at Washington and Columbus) Duane Conliffe’s gorgeous large-scale photographs depict Sargent Johnson’s… read more
1/27/2012 - 7 pm
The Revolutionary Poets Brigade presents a POETRY READING and FUNDRAISER TO BENEFIT THE PROTECT COIT TOWER COMMITTEE. “Artists and Poets Join Together to Protect Coit Tower and its WPA Murals from the Dangers of Neglect and Over-Commercialization.” Friday Jan. 27,… read more
1/20/2012 - 10 am
Gray Brechin will appear on KQED, 88.5 FM (San Francisco), in a discussion of the great Coit Tower murals and their imminent restoration after years of heavy public viewing. Friday, January 20, 2012, 10-11 am.
