The February meeting will be generously hosted by 111 Minna Gallery

AGENDA

1. Better Market Street Plan
   Better Market Street will deliver transformative transportation, streetscape and safety improvements along 2.2. miles of Market Street between Octavia Boulevard and The Embarcadero.  The project will revitalize and improve San Francisco’s busiest pedestrian street, busiest bicycle thoroughfare and busiest transit corridor, making it safer and easier for people to get around and creating a vibrant and inclusive destination where people want to live, work and visit.Specifically, the project proposes a sidewalk level bicycle lane, private vehicle restrictions, streetscape improvements and extensive critical state-of-good-repair improvements, including the replacement of aging sewers, water mains, traffic signals, transit tracks and overhead wires.
2. 2nd Street Project
3. Cannabis in 2018 by the Cannabis Task Force
4. Hear from you, the neighborhood
5. Check out the 111 Minna Gallery Art

You can also find this event on Facebook. 

“Not Exactly Peaceable Kingdom” by Guy Colwell | Acrylic on Canvas | 52″ x 66″ | 2012 111 Minna Gallery eagerly awaits the introduction of it’s first exhibit of 2018, “Walking, Talking, Stalking” a retrospect show by Berkeley artist, Guy Colwell.Consisting of over 100 original paintings, drawings and illustrations from the 1990’s to present, the show offers a broad and poignant insight of the artists creative history, vision and social outlook. A gifted master of medium and technique, Colwell delivers unwavering individuality through a punctuated style all his own. Both retro and modern, the artist’s aesthetic and content is challenging, honest, provocative and disturbingly true to life.

“Okapi Lobby” by Guy Colwell | Acrylic on Canvas | 36″ x 50″ | 2006 “This artwork is outward looking. Confronting the world as it is and engaging in public discourse about it, are more important than exposing the inner self or producing beautiful spots of color to decorate walls. It is artwork that looks at the human world as we find it now in the early 21st century. It is artwork that looks at the natural world as it is, threatened and threatening. And, at its crucial heart, this artwork is an exploration of the relationship, or more precisely, the alienation that exists between these two worlds. These pictures from the early 1990’s until the present should each be read as an essay about the state of life from the perspective of one big primate at this moment in time.” – Guy Colwell “Vivid windows into an unfair world… more necessary than ever.” Sarah Burke, East Bay Express, 2016 “…conveying a sense of depth and history….” Matt Gonzales, Juxtapoz, 2012 “…challengingly uncomfortable…with cold moral confidence…steely-serious social commentary” Profanity Hill Blog, 2012 “…veteran aesthetic practitioner…” Alan Bamberger, Art Business, 2011 “…densely-peopled tableau of dramatically-pregnant life scenes…” Lou Stathis, High Times, 1991 “…an artist we should be watching as he develops….” Al Morch, SF Examiner, 1983 “…some of the finest American art…” Clay Geerdes, Cobblestone, 1976 “…there flows a kind of stoic faith in humanity rarely encountered in contemporary art….” Ken Osborne, Madrona Poetry Journal, 1971

Join us with Supervisor Jane Kim and the SF Chamber of Commerce hosted by Museum of the African Diaspora, please join us for a town hall to share ideas and know more.

Neighborhood Business Sumit

Wednesday, February 21, 2018
5:30-7:30 pm.
685 Mission Street

• Network with other merchants and local stakeholders
• Discuss issues facing small business
• Speak with officials about public policy

For questions, contact Alex Mitra at (415) 352-8808 or email amitra@sfchamber.com

Register for this event here.

Join us for the March neighborhood meeting.  Neighborhood meetings are for neighborhood stakeholders to be engaged and informed about neighborhood issues and great networking opportunities.

Thursday, March 1, 2018
8:45 to 10:00 am
W Hotel of San Francisco, 181 Third Street

AGENDA:

• About the W Hotel
• Folsom Howard Street-scape Plan Update
• Central SOMA Plan perspectives with John Elberling, president of TODCO
• Updates from the Cartoon Art Museum
• Hear from you, the neighborhood

All are welcome, refreshments generously provided by the W Hotel.

Thursday, April 5
Yerba Buena Gardens Ice Skating Rink
8:45-10:00 am
750 Folsom Street ( Enter by the Children’s’ Creativity Museum at 4th and Howard and walk towards the back corner of the Gardens to the skating center.
(will be cool, wear layers)
Agenda

• About the East Cut, new neighborhood CBD
• About hotels post Moscone Expansion, insight from the Hotel Council of San Francisco
• SF Beautiful programs and Event
• 19th annual How Weird Faire, Sunday, May 6
• Hear from you, the neighborhood

Next meeting:
Thursday, May 3
8:45-10:00 am
Museum of the African Disapora (MoAD)
685 Mission Street
Agenda TBA! Will include an update from the Moscone Expansion!

Yerba Buena Third Thursday

Enter each cultural organization for FREE for this special monthly neighborhood promotion

Third Thursday is a collaboration between the Yerba Buena’s cultural organizations who partner to attract new people to the cutting edge exhibitions in the neighborhood. Perhaps you have walked by a place 100 times and never been in, this is the chance to get in, explore and then get happy hour pricing at participating bars and restaurants.

Each month on the 3rd Thursday
May to October there is live music programed by the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival in Jessie Square 

Participating Institutions:

1. California Historical Society
2. The Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD)
3. The Contemporary Jewish Museum
4. YBCA
5. Yerba Buena Gardens Festival (May to October)

Enter one of the cultural institutions and receive a yellow sticker that you show the bars to get exclusive discounts and happy hour pricing at the following locations:

Bars & Restaurants

1. B Restaurant and Bar in Yerba Buena Gardens
2. Novela
3. Thirsty Bear 

See more by following the Facebook page for Third Thursday. 

Yerba Buena Third Thursday

Enter each cultural organization for FREE for this special monthly neighborhood promotion

Third Thursday is a collaboration between the Yerba Buena’s cultural organizations who partner to attract new people to the cutting edge exhibitions in the neighborhood. Perhaps you have walked by a place 100 times and never been in, this is the chance to get in, explore and then get happy hour pricing at participating bars and restaurants.

Each month on the 3rd Thursday
May to October there is live music programed by the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival in Jessie Square 

Participating Institutions:

1. California Historical Society
2. The Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD)
3. The Contemporary Jewish Museum
4. YBCA
5. Yerba Buena Gardens Festival (May to October)

Enter one of the cultural institutions and receive a yellow sticker that you show the bars to get exclusive discounts and happy hour pricing at the following locations:

Bars & Restaurants

1. B Restaurant and Bar in Yerba Buena Gardens
2. Novela
3. Thirsty Bear 

See more by following the Facebook page for Third Thursday. 

Yerba Buena Third Thursday

Enter each cultural organization for FREE for this special monthly neighborhood promotion

Third Thursday is a collaboration between the Yerba Buena’s cultural organizations who partner to attract new people to the cutting edge exhibitions in the neighborhood. Perhaps you have walked by a place 100 times and never been in, this is the chance to get in, explore and then get happy hour pricing at participating bars and restaurants.

Each month on the 3rd Thursday
May to October there is live music programed by the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival in Jessie Square 

Participating Institutions:

1. California Historical Society
2. The Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD)
3. The Contemporary Jewish Museum
4. YBCA
5. Yerba Buena Gardens Festival (May to October)

Enter one of the cultural institutions and receive a yellow sticker that you show the bars to get exclusive discounts and happy hour pricing at the following locations:

Bars & Restaurants

1. B Restaurant and Bar in Yerba Buena Gardens
2. Novela
3. Thirsty Bear 

See more by following the Facebook page for Third Thursday. 

Thursday, May 3
8:45-10:00 am
Museum of the African Disapora (MoAD)
685 Mission Street
Agenda TBA!

Will include an update from the Moscone Expansion!

We will also hear about the 2018 season of the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival, programming in Yerba Buena Gardens from May to October

Also don’t forget Sunday, May 6th is the How Weird Street Faire from noon to 8pm.

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY CJM! Celebrating 10 years in the Yerba Buena!

Agenda:

1. About the CJM and 10 year anniversary festivities
2. About the Yerba Buena Art Walk, Saturday, June 9th
3. Moscone Expansion update
4. Bart safety and improvement update
5. Hear from you, the neighborhood

Enter at the back of the CJM on Stevenson Street and please be prepared to show your ID.

Refreshments generously provided by The CJM

Next meeting: Moved Thursday, July 12th due to the 4th of July holiday
July 12th location: We Work San Francisco, 156 2nd Street

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Saturday, June 9, 2018

Experience the Art Heart of downtown San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Neighborhood

Pick up your Yerba Buena Art Walk Passport to get stamped at each location. Get stamped at each location to be entered to win the grand prize, a pair of guest passes to each participating institution.

Yerba Buena Art Walk Schedule of Events

1:00-2:30 pm

Yerba Buena Garden Festival

Traditional Balinese Music & Dance with Gamelan Sekar Jaya

Legendary Bay Area arts and culture organization http://www.gsj.org

2:00-3:00 pm

Pre Art Walk Event Reception

California Historical Society

678 Mission Street, San Francisco

3:00 – 6:00 pm

Yerba Buena Art Walk

6:00-7:30 pm

Yerba Buena Art Walk After Party & Prize Drawing

American Bookbinders Museum

355 Clementina Street, San Francisco

Eight Participating Institutions

1. 111 Minna Gallery
   111 Minna Street 111minnagallery.com 
2. American BookBinders Museum
   355 Clementina Street, bookbindersmuseum.org 
3. California Historical Society
   678 Mission Street californiahistoricalsociety.org 
4. Mirus Gallery
   540 Howard Street mirusgallery.com 
5. Museum of the African Diaspora
   685 Mission Street moadsf.org 
6. SFMOMA*
   151 Third Street sfmoma.org
   Free admission only includes access to the public spaces sfmoma.org/visit/free-to-see 
7. Yerba Buena Gardens Festival
   Yerba Buena Gardens on Mission between Third and Fourth Streets ybgfestival.org 
8. Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
   701 Mission Street ybca.org

Please note typically the Contemporary Jewish Museum is part of the Art Walk, however this is the same date as their annual gala, so the museum is closed. Check their website for other community events in line with their 10th anniversary. Thecjm.org

*SFMOMA closes at 5pm, so part of the Art Walk for their free public spaces only from 3:00-5:00 pm.