Craft and Design in a Box

The Museum of Craft and Design (MCD) in San Francisco is hosting it popular MakeArt workshops and Speaker Series, presented in conjunction with its third pop-up museum exhibition, “Place Making: Installations at Hayes and Octavia,” on view through October 15, … Read More

Join HVNA at the Mayoral Forum on Sept. 22nd

This month the HVNA general meeting (usually the fourth Thursday evening of the month) will be a mayoral forum. HVNA and several other District Five neighborhood organizations are co-sponsoring a Mayoral Forum from 7-9pm at University of California at San … Read More

Request for Landscape Design services for our public schools

by Lori Shelton The San Francisco Unified School District’s Proposition A 2006 Bond Green Schoolyard Program allows us to announce that we are accepting Statements of Qualifications (SOQ) for Landscape Design Services for several of our elementary schools. Please review … Read More

Uncovered this week

Image courtesy of Henry Ostendorf An old advertisement on the side of a building at Franklin and Market was uncovered this week.

CommunityGrows Garden Work Party

This Saturday – August 27th – at Rosa Parks Elementary School, CommunityGrows will be hosting a garden workday. Contact nora@communitygrows.org for more information

Center for Young Women’s Development Earns Matching Grant

Young Women-Led Organization Awarded $425,000 Matching Grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for New Education Initiative San Francisco, CA August 24, 2011 –The Center for Young Women’s Development, an organization led by formerly incarcerated young women, announces today that … Read More

General Meeting 8/25/11 at Hayes Valley Farm

Come join us for our Hayes Valley Neighborhood Association General Meeting. The meeting will be at a special location: the Hayes Valley Farm. Prior to the 7PM meeting, there will be a community potluck starting at 5:30PM. Bring a dish … Read More

DOGMA : Live in SF, Love in SF, Made in SF

Saturday, September 24, 2011, 11am – 3pm Patricia’s Green, Hayes Valley, San Francisco (Octavia between Hayes & Fell) 7×7.com Dogma Two legs, four legs, two wings, big tail… all are welcome at the SF SPCA’s San Francisco street party—a pet … Read More

Independent Artists’ Week – Sept. 5-11

Fillmore District’s 4th Annual Independent Artists’ Week is coming up. Independent Artists’ Week (IAW) is a weeklong celebration dedicated to ensuring that artists, arts organizations, and the businesses that support them have a means to celebrate and network. This week … Read More

Park(ing) Day 2011 Sept. 16

Park(ing) Day on Hayes Street from last year. In cities around the globe artists, activists and citizens will temporarily transform metered parking spaces into public parks and other social spaces, as part of an annual event called PARK(ing) Day. Originally … Read More