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CITY|SPACE presents a reconsideration of the experience, culture and meaning of our nation's least-loved transit mode. An art exibition and events including panel discussions and film screenings from June 16th to July 2nd in the Levin Brothers Warehouse, 2255 Third Street, betw. 19th and 20th Street, San Francisco. Opening night on Friday, June 16th, 7pm. FREE.
Please forward to anyone you think might be interested... Thanks!
www.city-space.org/events/g..._bus.html
About Get on the Bus
Get on the Bus will consider the experience, culture, and meaning of our nation’s least-loved transit mode. Stigmatized as the transit of last resort—the realm of the poor, elderly, and infirm—the bus nonetheless moves millions of people every day. On the cutting edge in some cities, marginalized in others, the bus evokes a surprising range of emotions for people, planners, cities and artists. Get on the Bus will begin to illuminate the world of the bus as a ubiquitous but neglected arena of city life.
An open call drew submissions from seven countries. Selected works are drawn from throughout the US, as well as Canada, Mexico, and the UK, and include fine art, documentary photography, lighthearted urban interventions, and a range of film and video projects. In addition innovative, historic, and artistically modified buses are anticipated to be on display at various times during the exhibition. CITY|SPACE is working with local transit agencies, including San Francisco MUNI, AC Transit, and the Metropolitan Transportation Commission and expects to collaborate with them on a variety of projects, including the donation of buses to the exhibit.
Get on the Bus will be on display at Levin Brothers Warehouse located at 2255 3rd St, in San Francisco's Dogpatch neighborhood. This striking 9000 square-foot renovated warehouse space, at the convergence of 3 major bus lines and adjacent to the San Francisco’s new third street light rail line, has been kindly donated for the exhibition by the Martin Building Company, and features a large yard that can accommodate several buses.
A panel discussion, entitled "No F#@*ing Way! Selling America on the Bus," will bring together marketing and public relations professionals to consider how bus transit might be creatively reimagined to broaden its appeal.
A second panel presented with SPUR and entitled the Future of the Bus, will consider the rapidly unfolding future of the bus, as Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) systems and new hybrid and fuel cell technologies alter the landscape of urban transportation.
CITY|SPACE will also present an evening of bus-related film, in the spirit of Asphalt Shorts, CITY|SPACE's popular annual festival of short films about cities and urbanism.
An additional component of Get on the Bus will be the publication of an anthology entitled "Get on the Bus: Short and True Tales of Bus Travel". The anthology will be self-published in conjunction with the exhibition, with future plans to develop a book proposal and approach publishers.
Get on the Bus is supported in part by generous grant from the LEF Foundation and by the donation of exhibition space by the Martin Building Company. CITY|SPACE is a fiscally sponsored project of Intersection for the Arts.
About CITY|SPACE
CITY|SPACE is a cultural organization dedicated to exploring the built environment through events and exhibitions in a wide range of disciplines, including design, visual art, cultural landscape research, and film. CITY|SPACE cuts across disciplinary boundaries to draw on a wide range of work: aesthetic, documentary, architectural, and beyond, that converges around the city as we find it, make it, and struggle with it. By engaging Bay Area audiences in complex and challenging questions about the cities we inhabit, we hope to deepen our communities' experience, understanding, and stewardship of urban places
CITY|SPACE was founded in 2002 by a group of urban designers, planners, artists, and enthusiasts of the urban landscape. Since 2003, CITY|SPACE has presented Asphalt Shorts, an annual program of short films on cities and urbanism projected on a parking lot wall in Downtown Oakland, creating an impromptu public space in a forgotten corner of the city. In 2004, CITY|SPACE mounted the exhibition Urban Legends: The City in Maps at Oakland's Oaklandish gallery.
For more information about CITY|SPACE visit: www.city-space.org
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Brian Cronin
Board Member
CITY|SPACE
1434 Shotwell Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
Tel.No. - +1 (415) 643.7387
Email - brian@city-space.org
Website - www.city-space.org
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Please forward to anyone you think might be interested... Thanks!
www.city-space.org/events/g..._bus.html
About Get on the Bus
Get on the Bus will consider the experience, culture, and meaning of our nation’s least-loved transit mode. Stigmatized as the transit of last resort—the realm of the poor, elderly, and infirm—the bus nonetheless moves millions of people every day. On the cutting edge in some cities, marginalized in others, the bus evokes a surprising range of emotions for people, planners, cities and artists. Get on the Bus will begin to illuminate the world of the bus as a ubiquitous but neglected arena of city life.
An open call drew submissions from seven countries. Selected works are drawn from throughout the US, as well as Canada, Mexico, and the UK, and include fine art, documentary photography, lighthearted urban interventions, and a range of film and video projects. In addition innovative, historic, and artistically modified buses are anticipated to be on display at various times during the exhibition. CITY|SPACE is working with local transit agencies, including San Francisco MUNI, AC Transit, and the Metropolitan Transportation Commission and expects to collaborate with them on a variety of projects, including the donation of buses to the exhibit.
Get on the Bus will be on display at Levin Brothers Warehouse located at 2255 3rd St, in San Francisco's Dogpatch neighborhood. This striking 9000 square-foot renovated warehouse space, at the convergence of 3 major bus lines and adjacent to the San Francisco’s new third street light rail line, has been kindly donated for the exhibition by the Martin Building Company, and features a large yard that can accommodate several buses.
A panel discussion, entitled "No F#@*ing Way! Selling America on the Bus," will bring together marketing and public relations professionals to consider how bus transit might be creatively reimagined to broaden its appeal.
A second panel presented with SPUR and entitled the Future of the Bus, will consider the rapidly unfolding future of the bus, as Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) systems and new hybrid and fuel cell technologies alter the landscape of urban transportation.
CITY|SPACE will also present an evening of bus-related film, in the spirit of Asphalt Shorts, CITY|SPACE's popular annual festival of short films about cities and urbanism.
An additional component of Get on the Bus will be the publication of an anthology entitled "Get on the Bus: Short and True Tales of Bus Travel". The anthology will be self-published in conjunction with the exhibition, with future plans to develop a book proposal and approach publishers.
Get on the Bus is supported in part by generous grant from the LEF Foundation and by the donation of exhibition space by the Martin Building Company. CITY|SPACE is a fiscally sponsored project of Intersection for the Arts.
About CITY|SPACE
CITY|SPACE is a cultural organization dedicated to exploring the built environment through events and exhibitions in a wide range of disciplines, including design, visual art, cultural landscape research, and film. CITY|SPACE cuts across disciplinary boundaries to draw on a wide range of work: aesthetic, documentary, architectural, and beyond, that converges around the city as we find it, make it, and struggle with it. By engaging Bay Area audiences in complex and challenging questions about the cities we inhabit, we hope to deepen our communities' experience, understanding, and stewardship of urban places
CITY|SPACE was founded in 2002 by a group of urban designers, planners, artists, and enthusiasts of the urban landscape. Since 2003, CITY|SPACE has presented Asphalt Shorts, an annual program of short films on cities and urbanism projected on a parking lot wall in Downtown Oakland, creating an impromptu public space in a forgotten corner of the city. In 2004, CITY|SPACE mounted the exhibition Urban Legends: The City in Maps at Oakland's Oaklandish gallery.
For more information about CITY|SPACE visit: www.city-space.org
____________________________________________
Brian Cronin
Board Member
CITY|SPACE
1434 Shotwell Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
Tel.No. - +1 (415) 643.7387
Email - brian@city-space.org
Website - www.city-space.org
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Re: CITY|SPACE presents Get on the Bus :: Opening Night June 16th in San Francisco!
Wed, June 14, 2006 - 11:50 AM"Stigmatized as the transit of last resort—the realm of the poor, elderly, and infirm—the bus nonetheless moves millions of people every day."
The writer, the curator, or SOMEbody apparently doesn't have a CLUE about San Francisco. Our buses are not the repository of the poor, elderly, and infirm, but of everyone from high-priced attorneys to Mission scenesters to SF's middle class. I think it's insulting for someone to curate a show show that purports to represent San Francisco and simply not even try to get a clue about how life really is in SF.
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Re: CITY|SPACE presents Get on the Bus :: Opening Night June 16th in San Francisco!
Wed, June 14, 2006 - 2:02 PMThanks David for your interest in the show. In putting on this show we felt wanted to examine the way urban bus travel was represented in many environments. While your point is well taken that San Francisco's high ridership is spread across many ethnic, economic, and age groups in many other communities (especially within the Unisted States) this is not the case.
So if you think about this subject from beyond our just the City of San Francisco then, perhaps, it makes more sense.
I also want to thank you for responding to the info@city-space.org email which has given us the opprotunity to respond to your comments. It was very generous of you as we are so busy preparing for the show we would have otherwise missed it!
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Re: CITY|SPACE presents Get on the Bus :: Opening Night June 16th in San Francisco!
Thu, June 15, 2006 - 1:41 PM"While your point is well taken that San Francisco's high ridership is spread across many ethnic, economic, and age groups in many other communities (especially within the Unisted States) this is not the case. "
Why do we in SF care about how urban mass transit is represented elsewhere? SF is always the leader in these kinds of things. The Muni was the first government-run mass transit agency. Critical Mass started here. Freeways were blocked here way back in the 1960s when freeway mania was everywhere else.
My point is that the show is really inappropriate to the SF experience. I feel that art should reflect the community in which it exists, otherwise it is of no consequence to that community. I just can't help but feel that this project was put together by outsiders trying to tell us how to run our city, that's all (and that is often the case). If that is not the case, then I'm sorry I jumped to a conclusion.
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Re: CITY|SPACE presents Get on the Bus :: Opening Night June 16th in San Francisco!
Thu, June 15, 2006 - 8:41 PMIt sounds to me like the show is trying to explore issues related to bus ridership nationally (e.g., transportation of last resort in many places), as well as discuss issues pertaining more specifically to San Francisco (e.g., Bus Rapid Transit for San Francisco, which SPUR and local transit groups support). It seems possible to do both.
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