What's New at A Living Library ? 

State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Jack O’Connell, Appoints Bonnie Ora Sherk to California School Garden Advisory Group.
San Francisco, July 2007
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The April/June 07 issue of Bay Nature Magazine highlights the work of Life Frames, Inc. & A Living Library on its inside cover, sponsored by San Francisco Honda.
San Francisco, April 2007
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Bonnie Ora Sherk, Founder & Director of Life Frames, Inc. & A Living Library Has Special Art Installation on The Farm shown as part of California College of the Arts (CCA) Exhibit
San Francisco, November 28, 2006- February 24, 2007
Life Frames, Inc. & A Living Library are pleased to invite you to view a special arts installation as part of the California College of the Arts (CCA) exhibit, by its Founder & Director, Bonnie Ora Sherk, on Crossroads Community (the farm), an early Life Frame.

The exhibit is titled: How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart in Two Days. To read more about the exhibit and The Farm, click here.

The California State Department of Forestry and Fire Protection Urban Forestry Program Features Life Frames, Inc. and A Living Library in their most recent newsletter, California Shade
San Francisco, November 2006
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Life Frames, Inc. & A Living Library Participate and Contribute to 59th Annual DPI/NGO Conference at the United Nations
New York, September 6 - 8, 2006
Life Frames, Inc. & A Living Library are proud to announce their participation and contribution, in conjunction with the World Council of Peoples for the United Nations, in the 59th Annual DPI/NGO Conference at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City, 6-8 September 2006.
Read more about the 59th Annual DPI/NGO Conference at the United Nations.

Mad Hatters Herbal Tea Party & Open House
San Francisco, September 17, 2006
Come join us Sunday, September 17, 2006 from 2 pm - 5 pm for our Mad Hatters Herbal Tea Party & Open House. See children's performances, view beautiful gardens, artworks, and future plans. Refreshments and herbal tea from the gardens will be served. Wear a special hat, bring your teapot and invite your friends and family! All ages are welcome.

This event will be held at OMI - Excelsior Living Library Gardens between 333-241 Oneida Avenue off San Jose/300 Seneca/241 Oneida, San Francisco 94112, near Balboa BART. For more information, call (415) 206-9710 or email alivinglibrary@alivinglibrary.org.

View invitation to the Mad Hatters Herbal Tea Party & Open House

Environmental Skills/Green Job Training for Adults
San Francisco, August 15, 2006
The Environmental Skills / Green Job Training Program is a hands-on program for low-income adults and 18-24 year olds residing in Excelsior, OMI, Glen Park, Bernal Heights, Mission, Potrero Hill, Bay View, and Hunter's Point, who are primarily immigrants from diverse cultures. This program is organized in conjunction with City College and the SF Recreation and Park Department among other collaborative partners.

Skills and topics that will be covered in the class include: Horticulture & Urban Agriculture, Multicultural Gardening, Plant Propagation/Nursery, Composting/Soil Building, Tree Planting & Pruning, Animals/Aquaculture, Ecological Restoration, California Native Plants, Green Design & Careers, Natural & Recycled Building, Water & Energy Conservation, Irrigation/Gray Water, Solar & Wind Energy, Bio-Diesel Fuel Production, Computer Training, and ESL Training.

For more information, please contact Babak Jacinto Tondre at (510) 547-8715 or tondre@alivinglibrary.org.

View flyer for this Training Program.

Director of Life Frames, Inc. & A Living Library Appointed to San Francisco Urban Forestry Council
San Francisco, July 21, 2006

Life Frames, Inc. and A Living Library are pleased to announce that its Founder and Director, Bonnie Ora Sherk, has been appointed by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors to the San Francisco Urban Forestry Council. The Urban Forestry Council helps set city policy to plant and protect trees in San Francisco.

View article in San Francisco Examiner - July 18, 2006

Current Exemplary Work of Life Frames, Inc. & A Living Library:

Before and After Photos of OMI/Excelsior Living Library & Think Park Showing Streetscape Transformation with California Native Trees, Understory, and Children's Artworks: 1999 - 2006 (San Francisco, CA)

A Living Library Frames the Islais Creek Watershed © 2005 (San Francisco, CA)
Read Narrative

A Living Library is Built on Roosevelt Island,
New York City
Roosevelt Island Day, June 10, 2006
Residents of Roosevelt Island, patients from Coler-Goldwater Hospital, and students from PS/IS 217 joined together to create A Living Library Garden at PS/IS 217 on Roosevelt Island Day. To view photos of the event, click here

San Francisco Department of Public Works and College Students Help the OMI/Excelsior
Community Transform Drab School Yard Into
Green Native Oasis.
press release and before and after photos

Adult and Youth Volunteer Positions available Tuesdays - Saturdays
Adult and Youth Volunteers needed to continue transforming acres of asphalt and concrete into the OMI / Excelsior Living Library & Think Park with Learning Zones based on the ecological, built, and multicultural resources of the area - past, present
and future.

Join us to help with our newly planted California Natives, bringing ourselves and children closer to understanding our environment and healing our local place.

Learn about the local watershed, natives, medicinal plants, organic gardening, permaculture, nutrition, the arts, and much, much more.

Please contact michelle@alivinglibrary.org or bonnieora@alivinglibrary.org.

Summer Youth Mentor Program Tuesday - Friday
OMI / Excelsior Living Library & Think Park
Bernal Heights Living Library & Think Park
Organic gardening, native plant care, cooking/nutrition - delicious snacks, media and arts working with young children.

Please contact michelle@alivinglibrary.org.  

Living Roof Toolshed
OMI / Excelsior Living Library - San Miguel Child Development Center
(300 Seneca, off San Jose Ave.)
Help build a living roof toolshed.

Call Michelle at (415) 819-8270 for volunteer dates!!

LIFE FRAMES, A LIVING LIBRARY, & BONNIE ORA SHERK
past, present, future press release       announcement
Braunstein / Quay Gallery 430 Clementina St., San Francisco, CA 94103
Evolution of Life Frames & A Living Library Exhibition Text

CHANGING TIDES II
Envisioning the Future of the East River, NYC
Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance a project of The Municipal Art Society
The Roosevelt Island Living Library & Think Park Plan for Southpoint, Developed with the Local Community and
Supported by The Ford Foundation, is exhibited.
457 Madison Avenue at 51 Street, New York City
Gallery closed Thursdays / Exhibition runs through August 8th, 2005