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- Summer Salon for Lady Content Creators
Design by Carmel Hagen; photo by Selvaprakash Lakshmanan Smarties: please join us for a Sunday tea date at Dartealing on September 26 for the sake of welcoming the (alleged) start of summer in SF. Join writers, illustrators, designers, programmers, and activists over scones for a bit of creative brainstorming to benefit the International Museum of [...]
- SFMADE on Branding Local Products
You may hear “California public benefit corporation,” but what local group SFMADE actually advocates for is local manufacturing that makes good economic sense. Enter an event series that includes manufacturing best practices and marketing tips for companies with local roots. This Thursday, Rickshaw Bags founder and former Timbuk2 head Mark Dwight will speak in the [...]
- Exploring Urban Futures at GAFFTA
Starting tonight at 6 Pacific time, the Gray Area Foundation for the Arts will be presenting a second set of SENSEable Cities talks in conjunction with the digital art space’s partnership with MIT. After yesterday’s “New York Talk Exchange” visualization, I’m upset to miss these two talks tonight especially: Trash Track foreshadows the internet of [...]
- Intersection Highlights Trash Turned Treasure
Some of the most fun I had during my first year in advertising involved working with two artists in the SF Dump’s Artist in Residency program (count on our fair city to be one of the only ones nationwide that gives artists the privilege). Tables with bike wheels, sod couches and bulletproof benches were among [...]
- Introducing the Social Impact Challenge
In advance of its October conference around financial opportunities for enterprise organizations, SoCap (social capital markets “at the intersection of money and meaning”) is co-sponsoring a challenge to address what’s next for impact investment. In collaboration with the sustainably-minded business company Triple Pundit and the Myoo platform, the conference will be awarding a free pass [...]
- The Causemopolitan >> A Do Good Summer Reading List
hen Sloane Berrent of the cause-filled living site The Causemopolitan invited me to take part in her summer contributor series, I was excited to be involved and start penning a favorite reads wrapup. And in celebration of the overturning of Prop. 8, I had to include a colorful Daily Drop Cap courtesy of designer Jessica [...]
- “Tapestries of Hope” Documentary for Zimbabwean Girls
The trailer for “Tapestries of Hope,” a feature-length documentary that exposes the myth behind the abuse of young girls in Zimbabwe, is well worth your sub-three minutes. It shows filmmaker Michealene Cristini Risley’s sojourn to Africa as she investigates longstanding myths about the power of virgin blood and the work of the Girl Child Network: [...]
- Solarthon to Outfit Area Homes
The Bay Area will be joined by San Diego, Fresno, LA and other cities in hosting summer “solarthons”–solar installations and block party fundraisers hosted by GRID Alternatives. The idea behind the events is to gather teams of work crews to install solar electric systems for low-income area families (who work alongside the amateur installers). While [...]
- Mission Mercado, Edición Dos
San Franciscans need not wait until the weekend for farm fresh comida thanks to a new Mission Community Market on Thursday nights. Today marks the second week for a non-profit marketplace that includes products from Yerena Farms, Rubber Ducky Soap, Twin Girls Farm, and Rainbow Orchards among others. Musicians will be on hand tonight to [...]
- Dancing Yoga into Schools
Just as the cool summer weather starts to warm and Kombucha makes its way back to store shelves in SF (a girl can dream), Flavorpill is planning a dance party this Saturday at YogaWorks on Divisadero. The $15 fee for Get Your Dance On will benefit Headstand.org, an organization that brings yoga into Bay Area [...]
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