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“Street Utopia” – Film and Food Festival (North Beach)

11:31 AM PST on December 25, 2009

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.

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