3/7/2023
Talk with Richard Walker, Living New Deal Director “How the New Deal Helped Launch California’s Parks” Marin Municipal Water District March 7, 2023, 12:00 PM PDT The New Deal played a crucial role in developing all of California’s national, state… read more
2/1/2023
Cal State East Bay Price for Members: $42 Price for Non-Members: $64 Date/Time: Wednesdays, February 1, 15 & 22 1:00 – 3:00 No Class on 2/8 Instructor: Charlie Goldberg, docent SFMOMA, MOAD Location: Concord Campus, In-Person Course Description We’ll explore this unique governmental program that… read more
12/7/2022
COVID-19, the Great Depression, and the Battle between Memory and Forgetting Wednesday, December 7, 8:00 p.m. Eastern/5:00 p.m. Pacific Organized by Living New Deal-NYC Both the Great Depression and the COVID-19 pandemic raised profound questions about government responsibility for public… read more
11/10/2022
In Person Benefit for Living New Deal—November 10 (Thursday), 6:45pm. Filmmakers Deborah Kaufman and Alan Snitow will show their new film, Town Destroyer, about the controversy of the George Washington High School murals, as a benefit for the he Living… read more
11/11/2022
JOIN US via ZOOM Living New Deal Webinars Tuesday, October 11, 2022, 5pm-6pm PDT (8pm EDT) “The Federal Theatre: Revisiting the Dream” with Susan Quinn and Dan Jacobs The Federal Theater Project put starving unemployed actors, directors,… read more
11/3/2022
ILL-HOUSED: THEN AND NOW Thursday, November 3, 2022, 8:00 p.m. ET/5:00 p.m. PT Join the Living New Deal’s NYC Chapter on Thursday, November 3rd at 8pm EST for a virtual roundtable discussion on New Deal housing programs and policies and their implications for… read more
11/29/2022
“TOWN DESTROYER” A film by Deborah Kaufman and Alan SnitowThursday, November 10, 6:45pm The Roxie, San Francisco’s Iconic Nonprofit CinemaA Benefit for the Living New Deal What happens when art no longer reflects current societal views? This is… read more
12/6/2022
Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5pm-6pm PST “Reality Makes Them Dream: Revisiting New Deal-Era Photography” with Josie Johnson and Emilia Mickevicius Photography from the New Deal-era is often associated with mirroring the bleak realities of the Great Depression. Yet, the… read more
10/3/2022
The Unfinished Business of the New Deal A Roundtable Discussion led by Kevin BakerMonday, October 3, 2022, 8:00 ET/5:00 PT RSVP Here The New Deal transformed America, putting in place policies, programs, and massive building projects that endure to this… read more
6/18/2022
Our first Annual New Deal Book Award was presented on June 18th to Scott Borchert, author of Republic of Detours: How the New Deal Paid Broke Writers to Rediscover America. The award ceremony was part of the FDR Library’s Annual Roosevelt Reading… read more