Thinkwalks Social Justice Mural Bike Ride

Join other bicyclists for a survey of more than a dozen murals addressing a variety of social issues. We’ll look at the art, the politics and the neighborhood issues, and we’ll examine public art organizing techniques, stories from your favorite murals, and the complex issues of expressing justice themes through art. Meet at Mona Caron’s Market Street Railway mural on Church at 15th Street at 10:30am. We’ll cover easy territory from the Mission District to the Castro with no steep hills.

Cost: $30. Scholarships available for those who need them.

RSVP required

Thinkwalks: Nerdy Tours for San Franciscans

ALSO ON STREETSBLOG

This Week in Livable Streets Events

By Aaron Bialick |
This week, the SF Board of Supervisors considers a proposal to make it illegal to park unauthorized vehicles in car-sharing spaces, SPUR discusses landscape urbanism, the East Bay Bike Coalition celebrates the renovation of the old 16th Street Station, Thinkwalks takes a tour of social justice murals, and a park ranger leads a bike ride […]

Social Justice Mural Bike Tour

By Aaron Bialick |
Join other bicyclists for a survey of more than a dozen murals addressing a variety of social issues. We’ll look at the art, the politics and the neighborhood issues, and we’ll examine public art organizing techniques, stories from your favorite murals, and the complex issues of expressing justice themes through art. We’ll cover easy territory […]

Sidewalk Thinktalk: The History of SF Mural Culture

By Aaron Bialick |
From Thinkwalks: For this free Thinkwalks event, Joel will be hanging out at the corner of Valencia Street  and Clarion Alley bringing it to the people. He’ll make a series of short presentations covering various topics like Coit Tower murals, the “Mission School” of muraling, Ohlone murals in the Mission Dolores, Clarion and Balmy Alley […]

Thinkwalks: Wiggle Walk

By Aaron Bialick |
From Thinkwalks: Yes, true, the Wiggle is named due to the zigzag of bike route #30 through the neighborhood and avoiding hills. But is there more to it than that? We’ll explore the ‘hood from this, that and askew angles: geology, activism history, water, and native tribes. Highlights include: Market Street punched through rock, 1928 […]

This Week in Livable Streets Events

By Aaron Bialick |
It’s a week packed with everything from holiday bashes to useful workshops. Check out BART’s plans for bikes, get your bike ready for the weather, reimagine the streets of SoMa, speak up at some important meetings, and hop on your bike this weekend for the opening of a bike-ped tunnel or tours in the city. […]

Thinkwalks Tour

By Aaron Bialick |
Before bikes were even invented, the popular Wiggle bike route was a foot trail to avoid these same hills. The very latest research on Mission Dolores suggest it was founded in the Wiggle. Later, the city expanded to fill the valley with houses, but why? And what was there first? Change the way you see […]