Harvey Smith, Project Advisor to the Living New Deal Project and president of the National New Deal Preservation Association will be speaking at Cornell University. Our present dire economic crisis invites comparison with the Depression era and calls for a… read more
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Time:
4:30 pm EDT - 6:00 pm EDT
Date:
Thu. Oct 18th, 2012 - Thu. Oct 18th, 2012 Location:
Anabel Taylor Hall, ATH 230, Cornell Univ. Ithaca, NY Coordinator:
Todd Arthur Bridges Coordinator Email:
tab259 (at) cornell.edu Coordinator phone:
607-255-7409 Registration:
https://events.cornell.edu/anabel_taylor
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
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Time:
5:30 pm PDT - 8:00 pm PDT
Date:
Thu. Sep 13th, 2012 Location:
Berkeley City Club
“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.
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Time:
12:00 am EDT
Date:
Wed. Sep 12th, 2012 - Fri. Oct 26th, 2012 Location:
Rotunda Gallery Coordinator Email:
[email protected] Registration:
www.newrochellearts.org Additional info:
Located at the New Rochelle Council on the Arts
Rotunda Gallery, City Hall
515 North Avenue, New Rochelle, NY 10801
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
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Date:
Sat. Jul 14th, 2012 - Sat. Jul 14th, 2012 Location:
Arthurdale, W. Va. Coordinator:
Arthurdale Heritage Registration:
https://www.arthurdaleheritage.org/ Event cost:
Free
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
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Date:
Sun. Jul 8th, 2012 - Sat. Jul 28th, 2012 Location:
Various SF sites Registration:
www.laborfest.net Event cost:
Mostly free
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
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Time:
7:00 pm PDT - 9:00 pm PDT
Date:
Thu. Jun 21st, 2012 - Thu. Jun 21st, 2012 Location:
Mark Taper Auditorium
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
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Date:
Sun. Jan 1st, 2012 - Mon. Dec 31st, 2012 Coordinator:
The Grammy Museum Registration:
https://www.woody100.com/
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
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Time:
1:00 pm PDT - 3:30 pm PDT
Location:
National Steinbeck Center Registration:
https://www.seemonterey.com/steinbeck-festival
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
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Time:
5:00 am PDT - 9:00 am PDT
Date:
Thu. Feb 2nd, 2012 - Tue. Jan 24th, 2012 Location:
Canessa Gallery Coordinator phone:
415-296-9029 Registration:
www.canessa.org Additional info:
Exhibit shown, other than opening day & Friday, Feb. 3d, by appointment only – 415-296-9029
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
Event details
Time:
7:00 pm PDT - 9:00 pm PDT
Date:
Fri. Jan 27th, 2012 Location:
Focus Gallery Additional info:
1534 Grant Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94133