Upcoming Events:
Fall 2016 Coming Soon!
We'll post our Fall Talks calendar here some time in the summer. We have a great line-up in the works, including a look back at some major 50th anniversaries—1966 was a big year! The Hunter's Point Riot, the Diggers and their "Death of Money" march, the Compton's Cafeteria riot that heralded the beginnings of Transgender politics, and much more... Stay tuned!
Walking Tours
Social, historical, and critical tours through San Francisco.Fall 2016 3rd Saturday walking tour schedule
Coming soon!
Saturday September 17
Saturday October 17
Saturday November 19
Saturday December 10
Bicycle Tours
“Cycles of History,” our social, historical, and critical tours through San Francisco by bicycle.
Our fabulous bicycle tours are led by Critical Mass co-founder Chris Carlsson.
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NEXT BIKE TOUR » Saturday June 26, 2016
Labor History
From the pre-urban history of Indian Slavery to the earliest 8-hour day movement in the U.S., the ebb and flow of class war is traced. SF's radical working class organizations are shaped in part by racist complicity in genocide and slavery, but from the 1870s to the 1940s there are dozens of epic battles between owners and workers, culminating in the 1934 General Strike and its aftermath. This is an entirely different look, during a four hour bike tour, at San Francisco labor history. Tour ends at Spear and Market.
RSVP shaping@foundsf.orgPlease email us to RSVP, less than five people cancels!
Explore Shaping San Francisco:
Ecology Emerges
Discussions and reflections on the history of Bay Area ecological activism, based on oral histories documenting the past 50 years.
Ecology Emerges is an oral history gathering project to explore the past 50 years of ecological activism in the Bay Area and the role that individual and institutional memories play in the development, policy proposals, and interrelationships that together make up the existing networks of ecological politics. We document the living ecological activist movement, in their own words, but also in a larger context of urban growth and globalization.
Oral Histories
Shaping San Francisco, as part of our ongoing work, sits down with people who have stories to tell and conducts oral history interviews.
Check them out here.
"Editor's Pick Tour" from FoundSF.org
Comprised of over 1,400 pages, and 2,500 historical photos, the wiki-based archive FoundSF.org is the product of hundreds of contributors, regular people who were compelled by the chance to investigate some piece of this City's past.