San Francisco Center for the Book

Events and Public Programs
You'll find a wealth of public programs at the San Francisco Center for the Book. Many are free events. Events create opportunities for the community to cultivate ties with professional and amateur book artists, writers and scholars; share the pleasures of letterpress printing, bookbinding, letterforms and artists' books with a broader audience and create an exciting dialogue between makers, collectors and connoisseurs.

Street Fair: ROADWORKS STEAMROLLER PRINTS
Sunday/September 19/ 12 - 5 pm
Location: on Rhode Island St., between 16th and 17th Streets
FREE

Join us for the Center’s 7th Annual event. We’ll use a steamroller to make prints from large linoleum blocks carved especially for the occasion right on the street! The Roadworks Street Fair also features more than 80 artist vendors, a little linos print sale, kids activities, music and more.

Theresa Whitehill
Reading and Book Signing: A Grammar of Longing
Friday/ October 1/7-9 pm.
FREE

Ukiah Poet Laureate Theresa Whitehill reads from her newly published collection, A Grammar of Longing. Born in Sacramento in 1957, she studied at UC Santa Cruz and Mills College in the 1970s and early 80s. Since 1984, she has lived in Mendocino, and is the Poet Laureate for the city of Ukiah (2009-10).

Community Writing Workshop: Theresa Whitehill
Spontaneous & Collaborative Writing
Saturday, October 2/2-5 pm.
(http://sfcb.org/workshops/register)

This workshop encourages an ongoing practice of writing. Learn techniques and ideas for generating new writing, experiment with new techniques including using the surrealistic collaborative form “exquisite corpse.

EXHIBITION:Erratum: Brief Interruptions in the Waste Stream
Oct 15, 2010 to Jan 16, 2011
Lecture: Amy Franceschini and Michael Swaine
Friday/ October 15/ 6-7 pm
Opening Reception: Friday/October 15/7-9 pm
FREE

The 2010 IMPRINT AIR exhibition focuses on the process, production and finished work created by our 2010 artists in residence, Amy Franceschini and her collaborator Michael Swaine, in the context of related work that spans a broad range of media. Their work takes a visual approach to articulating perceived conflict between humans and nature, and the individual to a community. Check our website for more information: (sfcb.org/events)

EVENT: SF Loteria Live!
Thursday/Nov 18/6-8 pm
Tickets: $35 includes 2 drink tixs and 2 loteria cards/register on-line (need link)
Play the game of Loteria SF style, sip on Vandercook slings, buy contemporary loteria prints created at the 2010 Steamroller Street fair by local artists and support the SF Center for the Book!

EVENT: IMPRINT Publication Book Release Party
Friday/December 10/6-8 pm
View and buy the completed 2010 IMPRINT publication designed and produced by Amy Franceschini and collaborator Michael Swaine at the SFCB print studio.

EVENT: Holiday Fair
Friday/December 3/6-8 pm
Saturday/December 4/11 am - 4 pm
FREE

Join us for a holiday open house and find exquisite hand-made gifts by selected printers, bookbinders and other craftspeople - something for everyone on your holiday shopping list!