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
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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
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.
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Time:
10:00 am PDT - 11:00 am PDT
Date:
Fri. Jan 20th, 2012 - Fri. Jan 20th, 2012 Location:
KQED-FM radio 88.5, San Francisco
Kirstin Downey is leading a forum at Adelphi University, Feb. 20-21, 2012
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Date:
Fri. Jan 20th, 2012 - Sat. Jan 21st, 2012 Location:
Adelphi University, New York City Registration:
https://adelphi.edu/frances-perkins/ Event cost:
$150
Standing in the Ruins of What We Built: New Deal Expansion of Public Education During the Great Depression and Its Contraction Today Conference: 1935: The Reality and the Promise
Event details
Time:
7:00 pm PDT
Location:
Hofstra Cultural Center, Hofstra University Registration:
https://www.hofstra.edu/Events/allday.cfm?da=7&mo=4&ye=2011&et=0&mode=m