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CounterPULSE Projects: Shaping San Francisco
In addition to the many events and programs at our
facility at 1310 Mission, CounterPULSE is the home of a variety of arts
and media projects.
Shaping San Francisco,
founded in 1994, is one of CounterPULSE's most publicly known projects,
and has just completed its initial conversion to the web.
We are beginning a double revamping of
the project now and need your help!
The first 24 half hour radio shows derived from our ongoing Public Talks series are now archived permanently online, thanks to the Internet Archive.
Shaping San Francisco is a digital archive of San Francisco's lost
history, ranging across the often overlooked chapters of ecological
history, labor history, underground music, public art, immigrant groups,
transportation, housing and much more.
This image is of the corner of 9th and Mission
where CounterPULSE sits today (CounterPULSE would be on the sanddune
that rises at the right side of the picture).
Mission Street southwest at 9th, 2007
Shaping San Francisco has been going for almost
a decade on a shoestring.
We've launched a fundraising campaign to raise $10,000 and have already
acquired $2,300 of that, so we're off to a good start. Please donate
to the project for several specific purposes. We are on the cusp of
a whole new on-line presence that will include both a new, open
wiki version, and a more carefully
curated collection (pdf) that we'll be creating over the next few
months.
We maintain our current website as well as two public kiosks
at the Main Library and New College. We have our ongoing series
of Talks at CounterPULSE two Wednesdays every month, recorded
and broadcast on KUSF, 90.3 FM on Thursday nights at 10:30 p.m. And
we also take history to the public regularly by way of our ongoing
bicycle history tours that are offered 8-10 times a year.
We've done a great job of keeping these balls in the air
all these years with entirely volunteer labor. That is becoming impossible
to sustain. Now we come to you with hat in hand.
We are raising money to pay for the radio time (very inexpensive at
$25 per show) and to help pay for the extensive editing time it takes
to turn our 2+ hour Talks into half-hour radio shows. We are also raising
money to pay a programming team to convert our existing content to a
new system that will allow us to finally have easy access to updating
and fixing and improving our collection on-line. And we hope it will
also recapture some of the multimedia magic we created in our original
version that sadly was made obsolete by changes in the Windows operating
system…
Donations to Shaping San Francisco can be made by sending a check made
out to "CounterPULSE" and earmarked for Shaping San Francisco
to 1310 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94103. Or you can visit the
Shaping San Francisco website and donate via our paypal donation button
right on the home page.
Help us jump up to the next level!
Keep Shaping San Francisco thriving and growing for another 10 years!
CounterPULSE and Shaping San Francisco director Chris
Carlsson conducts 4-hour historical tours of San Francisco by bicycle.
Bring a snack and water, and reserve your
spot now! Meet at CounterPULSE, at noon on the dates below.
Fall 2008
Sun., Sept. 21, noon: Ecological History (north)
Sat., Oct. 11, noon: Dissent
Sat., Nov. 8, noon: Labor history
Sat., Nov. 22, noon: Transit
Sat., Dec. 13, noon: Ecological History (south)
Reservations helpful: 415.608.9035
sliding scale $15-50
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