{"id":7429,"date":"2017-07-29T15:30:47","date_gmt":"2017-07-29T22:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alivinglibrary.org\/archive-site\/?p=7429"},"modified":"2018-06-08T06:12:02","modified_gmt":"2018-06-08T13:12:02","slug":"bonnie-ora-sherk-public-talk-sfai-2017-summer-symposiumdraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alivinglibrary.org\/archive-site\/islais-creek-watershed\/bonnie-ora-sherk-public-talk-sfai-2017-summer-symposiumdraft","title":{"rendered":"Bonnie Ora Sherk \u2013 Public Talk at SFAI 2017 Summer Symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Bonnie Ora Sherk<\/b><\/a><\/span>,<\/b>\u00a0long-time ecological artist, landscape architect, planner, educator, and Founder & Director of Life Frames, Inc<\/strong>. &\u00a0A Living Library<\/strong>,\u00a0<\/i>presented\u00a0 her pioneering work at\u00a0the San Francisco Art Institute 2017 Summer Symposium,\u00a0I Object !\u00a0 Self Organization + Political Agency as Aesthetic Practice<\/i>, in conjunction with Cuban Artist,\u00a0\u00a0Tania Bruguera<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/b>and others, on Saturday, July 15, at the San Francisco Art Institute.\u00a0 This Symposium was also in conjunction with Bruguera\u2019s exhibition at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco.<\/p>\n

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Bonnie Ora Sherk<\/strong>\u00a0will also give another lecture at\u00a0Yerba Buena Center for the Arts on\u00a0August 2, 6:30 pm<\/strong>\u00a0as part of \u00a0Escuela Arte Util\u00a0<\/i>(School of Useful Art), also part of Bruguera\u2019s exhibition, and was additionally\u00a0featured on a KQED radio broadcast and website<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0about the exhibition and\u00a0Arte Util.<\/i><\/p>\n

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At the SFAI talk, she presented\u00a0her local and global, planetary genre,\u00a0A Living Library<\/strong>,<\/i>\u00a0as\u00a0Funcshuional Art<\/i><\/a>,<\/strong>\u00a0a term she invented, that marries East and West, North and South, with it\u2019s multiple, practical, systemic processes, creative solutions and strategies that transform the environment, address climate change and flood mitigation among other benefits, while also educating all ages about natural systems and ecological stewardship.<\/p>\n

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Her presentation at SFAI included examples of\u00a0Branch Living Library & Think Parks<\/i>\u00a0in the\u00a0Islais Creek Watershed<\/em>, the largest in San Francisco, including the\u00a0OMI\/Excelsior Living Library & Think Park<\/i>\u00a0that is transforming four contiguous SFUSD schools and campuses with integrated learning for PreK-12 students (Leadership High School, San Miguel Early Education School, James Denman Middle School, Balboa High School), and the prototype Bernal Heights Living Library & Think Park Nature Walk\u00a0<\/i>that is interconnecting multiple schools, parks, public housing, streets, and other open spaces through development of a new, narrative resilient landscape of California native trees and understory with interpretive signage leading to the currently hidden Islais Creek at the south side of St. Mary\u2019s Park and Highway 280.<\/p>\n

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This\u00a0Nature Walk<\/i>\u00a0will be expanded throughout the Watershed, to interconnect its eleven neighborhoods: \u00a0Noe Valley, Mission, Bernal Heights, Potrero Hill, Portola, Crocker-Amazon, Excelsior, OMI, Sunnyside, Glen Park.\u00a0 Also proposed is transformation of the currently derelict and flooding, Chavez\/101 Freeway and Alemany\/101 Freeway Interchanges into\u00a0Northern & Southern Gateways to the Watershed.<\/i><\/p>\n

Please come to Yerba Center for the Arts in SF on August 2 at 6:30 pm to learn more about Sherk’s work with Funcshuional Art<\/em> and A Living Library.\u00a0 <\/em><\/strong>This talk is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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