Events Calendar


Urban Beast or Urbane Beauty:
Planning the City Beautiful

20 May–15 September 2009
Volkmann Reading Room
Environmental Design Library
(hours)
210 Wurster Hall
University of California, Berkeley

One hundred years ago, Daniel Burnham and Edward Bennett published a vision of Chicago that reflected the early stages of big city planning. The City Beautiful Movement, spurred by Baron Haussmann’s remaking of Paris in the 1860s and the Progressive Movement in America, was intended to create a rational, classical city to replace the crowded, unplanned Victorian city common in the 19th century. The 1909 Plan for Chicago, although never fully realized, is heralded as the apex of the City Beautiful Movement that found echoes in plans for the San Francisco Civic Center, Oakland’s City Center, and urban planning from Manila to Canberra, Australia. This exhibit explores the City Beautiful Movement as manifested in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Up Against the Wall: Berkeley Posters from the 1960s

19 April 2009–26 September 2009
Berkeley History Center
Veterans Memorial Building
1931 Center Street

A new exhibit at the Berkeley Historical Society examines the political posters of the 1960s. Spurred by the success of local rock and counterculture posters, political posters were vibrant public documents that promoted a wide range of social issues.

Curated by archivist and poster scholar Lincoln Cushing, this exhibition is drawn from a unique private Berkeley collection of over 25,000 posters assembled by Free Speech Movement activist Michael Rossman.

Opening reception on 19 April 2009 from 3 to 5 pm.

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OHA Summer Walking Tours

For starting locations, see the OHA Calendar.

$10 OHA members, $15 general for most tours. Members may purchase a 5-tour pass for $40. Sign up or renew your membership on the day of the tour, and the tour is free.

Reservations required for the Fox Theater/uptown art deco tour. $20.00 members, $25.00 general. To sign up, call (510) 763-9218.

Saturday, July 11
10 am–12:30 pm
Mountain View Cemetery
Sunday, July 12
10 am–12:30 pm
Amelia’s Airport: Oakland’s Historic North Field
Saturday, July 18
10 am–12 pm
F. M. “Borax” Smith Estate
Sunday, July 19
10 am–12:30 pm
Laurel: Cherries, Dairies, and Bungalows
Saturday, July 25
10 am–12:00 pm
The Fox Oakland Theater and Uptown Art Deco
Saturday, July 25
2:00 pm–4:30 pm
The Bungalows of Fairview Park
Sunday, July 26
10 am–12:30 pm
Jingletown: Industry to Art
Saturday, August 1
10 am–12:30 pm
Rezoning: Facing Oakland’s Future
Sunday, August 2
11 am–1 pm
20 Years Later: Loma Prieta And Oakland’s Downtown
Saturday, August 8
2 pm–4 pm
Piedmont Avenue
Sunday, August 9
10 am–12:30 pm*
Chinatown Oakland
Saturday, August 15
10 am–12:00 noon*
Walking the Key System’s C Line
Sunday, August 16
10 am–1:30 pm
Scaling Leona Heights
Saturday, August 22
10 am–12:30 pm
Rail Meets Water: Then and Now
Sunday, August 23
1pm–3:30 pm
Montclair Village: Oakland’s Early Hill Town
Saturday, August 29
10 am–12 noon
Stroll Along a Transformed Shoreline
Sunday, August 30
10 am–12:30 pm
Oakland Point and the West Oakland Marsh
Saturday, September 12
10 am–1:00 pm
Temescal: A Bit of Old Italy
Sunday, September 13
2 pm–4 pm
Mills College Campus
Saturday, September 19
11 am–1:30 pm
Oakland’s Historic Town Squares
Sunday, September 20
10 am–1:30 pm
The Civil War at Mountain View Cemetery

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Alameda Museum Lectures

All lectures start at 7:00 pm at the Alameda Museum, 2324 Alameda Avenue near Park Street. No reserved seats; come early to save a place and enjoy the exhibits in the History Hall and the Art Gallery. Admission is free for Museum members and $5 for others. Topics may change without notice. For lecture information, leave a message at (510) 748-0796 or check alamedamuseum.org.

Thursday, 25 June 2009
Pioneer Families of Alameda, presented by Dennis Evanosky and Eric Kos, coauthors of San Francisco in Photographs and East Bay Then and Now.

Thursday, 30 July 2009
Winslow Homer and the Post Civil War Era in America, Art historian Colette Colester returns with another dynamic lecture.

Thursday, 27 August 2009
Just Across the Pond: Oakland Point and the West Oakland Marsh by architectural historian Betty Marvin.

Thursday, 24 September 2009
Alameda Album, an illustrated talk by Paul Roberts based on two recently discovered vintage photo albums from the 1890s.

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Oakland Heritage Alliance House & Garden Tour

Oakland’s Fernwood Neighborhood

Sunday, 4 October 2009
1:00 to 5:30 pm

This charming section of the Montclair district was formed in 1852, just as Oakland (then four miles away) was being incorporated. Once an isolated community near the headwaters of Temescal Creek, known for exotic wildlife and an abundance of Redwoods, Fernwood as we know it grew out of the real estate boom of the 1920s, when Period Revival homes were built and marketed to people “of average means.”

The tour incudes eight Fernwood homes in Tudor, Spanish, French and Colonial revival styles.

For more information, contact OHA at (510) 763-9218 or visit oaklandheritage.org.

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Guided Tours of the Paramount Theatre

Public tours of the Paramount Theatre are given on the first and third Saturdays of each month, excluding holidays and holiday weekends. No reservations are necessary. Tours begin promptly at 10:00 am at the Box Office entrance on 21st Street near Broadway. The tour lasts about 2 hours and provides a full and informative view of the Theatre. Cameras are allowed. Admission is $5.00 per person. Children must be at least 10 years old, and adult chaperones are required. Please note that some areas of the tour are not wheelchair accessible.

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