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March 2019 Vol. 50 No. 3 HERstory: Past, Present, Future n March, we present HERstory, our celebration of Women’s History Month, honoring and acknowledging the contributions of women and the unique experience of being female today. The Library frequently champions women as writers, artists, and intellectuals, and now, with the re-energizing of the women’s movement, is offering a month-long celebration of women through a diverse array of lectures, films and Iprograms for all ages at every library location. During HERstory, attend a discussion on the perceptions of women as decision makers; get sexually Rad Women Live at SFMOMA healthy with Good Vibrations; discuss women rockers of the ‘60s and ‘70s; meet our HERstory artist Miriam Klein Stahl; discover women who tackle big wave surfing; learn about the iconic MaestraPeace mural; hear Meet author Kate Schatz from local woman entrepreneurs; learn to soul line dance with your neighbors; and much more. and artist Miriam Klein Stahl, HERstory offerings are just as inspiring for family and youth audiences. Youth can experience a rollicking the awe-inspiring women music concert featuring songs about American women; rock out to Pip Squeak A Go Go with the Devil-Ettes; behind the New York Times and hear inspiring stories of little known brave women in history. Learn first-hand about the forthcoming best-selling books Rad book for young readers, Biddy Mason Speaks Up, in the Fighting for Justice series. Teens and tweens can create American Women A to Z, Rad paintings inspired by female artists; experience the science behind the chocolate chip cookie; and tech-out Women Worldwide and Rad with the Exploratorium and Jie Qi LED crafts. Girls Can. Come for a lively With HERstory, we invite everyone—female, male, and non-binary—to join us in celebration of women event filled with real stories leaders, inventors, artists, mothers, daughters, sisters, and human beings, and to enjoy the many women-led of amazing women and and focused events. See sfpl.org/herstory and pages 3–6 for the full calendar. make art celebrating the rad women in your life. Book Sex Positivity/Positive Sexuality – March 2, 2 p.m., Golden Gate Valley sale and signing hosted by Friends of San Francisco Paint Like a Woman! – March 10, 2 p.m., Main Library, The Mix Public Library. For all ages. Biddy Mason Speaks Up – March 13, 10 a.m., West Portal Thursday, March 21, 4 p.m., SheChange Slideshow & Lecture – March 13, 6:30 p.m., Ortega Public Knowledge Branch, How to Promote More Women in Power – March 20, 6 p.m., Main Library, Koret Auditorium SFMOMA, 151 3rd St. Soul Line Dance Explosion – March 23, 3 p.m., Portola and March 31, 2 p.m., Western Addition Bay Area Female Entrepreneurs – March 26, 5 p.m., Main Library, Latino/Hispanic Community Room Museum Family Free Days Party of the Museums and libraries are like PB&J. Two longstanding museum partners offer Century! free admission on select Sundays and the library will be there too. While both Lawrence Ferlinghetti museums are always free for visitors 18 and younger, on Family Day they are turns 100 years old on also free for up to two adults accompanying each visitor under 18. Tickets can March 24! The celebrated be claimed in person on the day of the event. If you miss these special days, poet, artist, publisher, you can always reserve free passes from Discover & Go with your library card. activist and founder of City Lawrence Ferlinghetti SFMOMA – March 10, 10 a.m.–4 p.m. Activities include in-gallery activities, a Lights Books will celebrate special screening of Wonderstruck in collaboration with SFFILM, storytime and this special year as poets Jack Hirschman, Aggie activities with SFPL librarians, and a drop-in project focused on the WPA scale Falk-Hirschman, Janice Mirikitani, Alejandro model of San Francisco in the Public Knowledge Branch. Murgía, Kim Shuck, Linda Noel, devorah major, photo: Beth LaBerge Ginny Lim, Dean Rader and Tongo Eisen Martin Contemporary Jewish Museum – March 17, 10 a.m.–3 p.m. tell their favorite stories of Lawrence, read his Catch the Fratello Marionettes’ puppet show, take a movement poetry and share some of their poetry, too. workshop with Antoine Hunter’s Urban Jazz Dance Company, sign up for ASL guide tour of an exhibition, check out handmade books by SFUSD students featured in the Happy Birthday Lawrence Ferlinghetti! – Ezra Jack Keats Booking Celebration exhibition, visit our Bookmobile and more. March 17, 1 p.m., Main Library, Koret Auditorium photos: left three: Jason Doiy; right: Matthias Carette, courtesy of the French Consulate in San Francisco Night of Ideas More than 6,000 people braved the rain to enjoy a late night plethora of talks, performances and discussions on the “City of the Future.” Co-sponsored with the French Consulate and SFMOMA, the crowd enjoyed artist JR, a KQED Live Forum broadcast, Bandaloop dancing off the atrium walls and abundant festivities till 2 a.m. in the Main Library. Coming Up: APRIL 1–MAY 31 APRIL 6 APRIL 16 APRIL 28 When We Were Very Talking with Kids National Health Día de los Niños/Día de los Libros Young Children’s Books about Race Care Decisions Day 20th Anniversary Celebration from the Schmulowitz Main Library, Main Library Parque Niños Unidos, Collection of Wit & Humor Koret Auditorium 12-4 p.m. Main Library, Skylight Gallery with guest Emilio Estevez The Public SFPL.ORG View MARCH 2019 1 March 10, 5 p.m., Glide Memorial, 330 Ellis St. get social! SFPL.ORG Collections and Services facebook.com/sfpl.org twitter.com/SFPublicLibrary instagram.com/sfpubliclibrary Talking Books and Braille Center youtube.com/user/SanFranciscoLibrary A new name for the Library for the Blind and Print Disabled n 1931, the Library of Congress Bookmobile established the National Library Service for the Blind. Now, 88 years later, the Schedules Library’s Talking Books and Braille Center offers a large digital collection Early Literacy Mobile Iof both talking books and braille, which Schedule of child care center visits at sfpl.org. can be accessed through a computer or San Francisco Zoo a smartphone. Patrons can receive items postage-free through the mail, or by visiting Entrance to Children’s Zoo, Sloat Blvd. and the Center. Great Hwy. 1st Wednesday of each month, If you can’t read regular print, even with 10 a.m.–2 p.m. Free Admission for San Francisco glasses; have a reading disability; or cannot residents. Check sfzoo.org to verify. hold a book and/or turn the pages; you are probably one of the approximately 80,000 Swing Into Stories San Franciscans eligible for Talking Books. Park visits: Tuesdays, 9:30 a.m.–12 p.m. We have changed our Center’s name to reflect the collections we offer rather than describing the people Storytimes start at 10:30 a.m. we serve. Instead of labelling people with an attribute “the Blind” we are focusing on the services we provide. Golden Gate Park Children’s Playground Our Center continues to welcome people to programs such as book clubs, karaoke, music jams and tactile 295 Bowling Green Drive (off Martin Luther exhibitions. We also offer technology to magnify or read text aloud, and write and display braille. King Jr. Drive), Tuesday, March 5 Come and celebrate our new name, and the 88th Anniversary of the National Library Service for the Blind. Parque Niños Unidos Open House & Naming Celebration – March 3, 12–3 p.m., Main Library, Talking Books and Braille Center, 3090 23rd St. (Between Folsom St. and 2nd Floor Treat Ave.), Tuesday, March 12 Cayuga Playground 301 Naglee Ave., Tuesday, March 19 Dive into HERstory with Women’s Helen Wills Playground Broadway and Larkin streets, Tuesday, March 26 Magazines and Books for All Ages Library on Wheels/Senior Bookmobile s we celebrate women with our HERstory programs, you can also study social history, fashion, Schedule of service locations at sfpl.org. politics and popular culture in the pages of the Women’s Magazine Archive. It contains full color scans of popular magazines such as: Ladies Home Journal, Good Housekeeping, Chatelaine and Better Treasure Island Bookmobile Homes and Gardens. Coverage begins in 1885 and continues up to 2005. Articles written by Eleanor Chapel Parking Lot West at California Ave. ARoosevelt, Jackie Kennedy and Lady Bird Johnson reveal the expectations of the ideal American woman, and Avenue of the Palms including the cultural expectations of dress, child-rearing, gender roles and education. This archive continues Tuesdays, 2–5 p.m.; Thursdays, 1–5 p.m. to expand and diversify, as future titles like Essence (1970-2005) and Women’s International Network News (1975 to 2003) are digitized. Special Events Dive into the history of the life of the middle class American woman by visiting our Articles & Databases Family ArtBash Sunday: page at sfpl.org/databases and look under “W” for Women’s Magazine Archive. Celebrating Authors Big and Small Contemporary Jewish Museum Sunday, March 17, 10 a.m. – 3 p.m., 736 Mission Street Be Smart with your Money BOOKS FOR KIDS: BOOKS FOR TEENS: BOOKS FOR ADULTS: Looking forward to retirement? Then check Rad Girls Can: Stories of Bold, Far From the Tree Not That Bad by Roxane Gay out Money Smart Week, Brave, and Brilliant Young by Robin Benway An incredibly powerful collection a series of financial workshops, presented by the nonprofit BetterInvesting, to help you prepare Women by Kate Schatz, illus- Three teens, who have the same of essays that tackle rape, for your retirement and make smart choices trated by Miriam Klein Stahl biological mother, never knew harassment and sexual assault when selecting and evaluating stocks, ETFs and Amazing stories of girls who are they had siblings until Grace head-on from a diverse group mutual funds.