“Street Utopia” – Film and Food Festival (North Beach)
- When
- January 9, 2010 5:30 pm - 9:00 pm
- Where
- 1 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco (five minute walk from Montgomery BART)
- Cost
- Free.
- More Info
- Website: http://streetutopia.org.
Email: hank@streetutopia.org. - Notes
- Check out the poster here
Street Utopia is an urban design festival showcasing film, food, and art that promotes Democracy & Egalitarianism in the public spaces of North Beach. The multi-media presentation offers:
* Two screens of International Films from Samso and Copenhagen (Denmark), Bogota (Colombia), Amsterdam (The Netherlands), Portland (Oregon), Budapest (Hungary), Curitiba (Brazil), and other cities that utilize environmentally sustainable and people-friendly policies.
* New art presented by North Beach residents: painter Lutzka Zivny, photographer Chris Ferris, and the children of Destination Art.
* Wall displays by Urban Ecology of proposed utopian building and redesign projects in North Beach: Vehicle-free Grant Avenue? "Poet's Plaza" on car-free Vallejo between Columbus and Grant? Plant 500 trees? Repair & beautify Washington Square, for environmentally-friendly events? Widen sidewalks on Columbus? Audience opinions & suggestions will be solicited.
* "Street Food" by mobile sidewalk vendors: The Girl From Empanada, Bike Basket Pies, The Hot Dog Man.
* Brief public speeches, testimonies and manifestos presented orally by local street freedom activists.

