What We Carry With Us: Refugee Storylabs Young refugee storytellers curate their own prized possessions. Then, they collaborate with a team of digital artists and documentarians on a series of short films and “show and tell” multimedia events. For example, a shipping...
ABOUT EUGENE E. WHITE Born in Ozan, Arkansas in 1933, White traveled the world observing and documenting the Black experience from Nigeria to France to Chicago. He arrived in the Bay Area in 1958, and opened the first Black owned art gallery in San Francisco. He...
Lucia Berlin - Pen Pals Lucia Berlin - Mama Lucia Berlin - UnmanageableLucia Berlin - My JockeyLucia Berlin - Angels Laundromat ABOUT LUCIA BERLIN Legendary short story writer Lucia Berlin (1936-2004) captured moments of grace in the cafeterias and laundromats of the...
ABOUT THE RIFLEMAN’S VIOLIN In July 1945, 19-year-old rifleman Stuart Canin found himself on the veranda of President Harry S. Truman’s temporary “little White House” in Potsdam, Germany. The president asked Canin to play the violin in order to break the ice of...
ABOUT BUCHANAN STORIES / BUCHANAN CHANGE Buchanan Mall is five consecutive blocks of public parkland in the heart of San Francisco’s Western Addition. 7,000 low-income residents who live adjacent to Buchanan Mall face acute challenges: recent, rapid gentrification and...
