Streets of san francisco pop-up
Two Days Only
Sat june 29th 12-4
sun june 30th 12-7
In historic Jack Kerouac Alley, N.B.
free
Could it be the weather?
It’s certainly possible. But whether it’s staging the General Strike walkout of 1934, or queueing-up to wait hours for a Sunday brunch, San Franciscans have a thing for the streets. In fact, from The Golden Gate Bridge to Lombard (and even a cheesy hit television show in the seventies), the streets of San Francisco have an international reputation like no place else on Earth. But it’s not always because of its scenic vistas and massive food truck meetups; the promise of a groovy time flooded these streets with runaways and drug pushers in the 1960’s and 70’s, and growing income disparity has led to today’s urban campgrounds that rival some national parks in size and scale. And it turns out that none of this is anything new.
Join The San Francisco Cultural History Museum when we celebrate decades of creativity, and examine generations of strife, as lived out of doors in one of the world’s great cities. Streets of San Francisco will bring objects and artifacts from our permanent collection into the wild over the weekend of June 29th and 30th, when we transform Kerouac Alley into a pop-up exhibition and performance space. This free event will feature readers and speakers, musicians and dancers, artists and photographers, as well as just everyday people, sharing their experiences about the highs and lows of San Francisco street culture. Relics of display will include protest signs, motorcycle club paraphernalia, Carnival costumes, punk rock handbills, and even the original ‘Automatic Human Jukebox’. It will be a bona-fide “happening”. It will intrigue and educate. It will be historic.
Join The San Francisco Cultural History Museum when we celebrate decades of creativity, and examine generations of strife, as lived out of doors in one of the world’s great cities. Streets of San Francisco will bring objects and artifacts from our permanent collection into the wild over the weekend of June 29th and 30th, when we transform Kerouac Alley into a pop-up exhibition and performance space. This free event will feature readers and speakers, musicians and dancers, artists and photographers, as well as just everyday people, sharing their experiences about the highs and lows of San Francisco street culture. Relics of display will include protest signs, motorcycle club paraphernalia, Carnival costumes, punk rock handbills, and even the original ‘Automatic Human Jukebox’. It will be a bona-fide “happening”. It will intrigue and educate. It will be historic.
