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Thursday, December 17th, 2009
The Shen Yun Performing Arts traveling show has been known as the Chinese Spectacular, Holiday Wonders, Divine Performing Arts, and other names since 2006, but some folks around town just call it the Falun Gong Show.
Well, they’re ba-aaaack for 2010, performing in San Francisco, San Jose, and Sacramento from January 2nd through January 10th.
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Check out the Wiki entry - it’s lays out the whole story well.
Anyway, they’re back “to hijack Chinese New Year“ - on the streets, on your bus, they’re everywhere.
Tags: 2006, China, chinese, communist, consulate, falun gong, falun gong show, government, live, party, performing arts, sfist, shen yun
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Wednesday, November 11th, 2009
Well, øh my! If you have any interest in Norway and/or art, you ought to mark your calendar for 6:00 PM tomorrow, November 12th, 2009, cause that’s when you can see Norwegian Instant Art at Dow Place, aka the little alley off of Second Street between Folsom and Harrison across the street from Maya. I hear they’ll have some vin there, plus the Honorable Consul General – he’ll be there, plus maybe you can buy some art. Check it:
“Norwegian artists painting in the streets of San Francisco. Four female Norwegian artists are exploring the local art scene in an on-site art project entitled Norwegian Instant Art. Their goal is to develop and present Norwegian contemporary art in San Francisco, and to fuel future cultural exchange by donating sales proceeds to the Norwegian American Cultural Foundation.”
Presenting, straight outta Oslo, artists Kristin Romberg, Ingrid A. Tronstad, Pippip Ferner and Kristine Maudal. Do you think they’re having fun in the 415? Anyway, they were painting up a storm yesterday afternoon:
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Everybody loves Norway, right? See you there!
Nov. 2-11: EXPLORE San Francisco and the Bay Area, and TRANSFORM impressions into art. Place: In and outside 77 Dow Place
Nov. 12: PERFORM by presenting the project and artwork to the public in an exhibition at Anodyne Designs premises
November 12, 2009, Anodyne Designs, 77 Dow Place, Suite 100
6:00 pm Mingling
6:30 pm Welcome/Official opening by the Norwegian Consul, Geir Tønnessen
7:00 pm Artists’ presentation and walk through exhibition. Enjoy the art/food/drinks/good friends
10:00 pm The end
Proceeds will be donated to the Norwegian American Cultural Foundation.
Sponsors:
NHF Cultural Grants, Norwegian House Foundation
Norwegian American Cultural Foundation
Norwegian Consulate
H&H Partners
ABB Norway
Moods of Norway
Jensen & Scheele bil as
Ferner Jacobsen
Kunst for Alle
GreatVibes Frogner
Shoelounge
These four contemporary artists, Ingrid A. Tronstad, Kristine Maudal, Pippip Ferner and Kristin Romberg, are all based in the Oslo area. They explain their project as starting on blank sheets of paper with four open minds. They do not really know what the actual outcome will be. The project thus is as much about exploring the process as it is about creating a result.
These are all well established artists withinteresting backgrounds – both educational and projectwise, with several solo/project exhibitions and group exhibitis. Their permanent installations in public or corporate spaces range from Kristine Maudal’s piece in the Cave Bar in Barcelona to Kristin Romberg’s works in the Norwegian Embassy in Riga (Latvia).
This is the third issue of the Instant Art project series. For ten days the artists will explore San Francisco and the Bay area and instantly transform their impressions into art. There will be a project exhibition on November 12, hosted by the Norwegian Consulate, and opened by the Norwegian Consul Geir Tønnesen. The event will take place at Anodyne Designs premises on 77 Dow Place at 6pm-10pm.
To the general public, this project is unique in that it offers a chance to meet four individually different Norwegian artists in one show. Also, people are invited to participate in the creative process from start to finish, either through the project blog or by dropping in while they work.
The project is sponsored locally by Norway House Foundation and the Norwegian Consulate in addition to commercial investors H&H partners.
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Friday, June 5th, 2009
This was the scene last night in Chinatown, where people turned out with their candles to mark the 20th Anniversary of Tiananmen Square Massacre.
All photos by Whole Wheat Toast. See more at the Toasted Blog.
Portsmouth Square, San Francisco:
The Goddess of Democracy:
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Thursday, June 4th, 2009
There doesn’t appear to be a whole lot going on to mark the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre (aka June 4 Incident, aka “6-4“) around San Francisco today so far.
This is the scene at the sometimes-busy Chinese consulate in the Western Addition – barricades are ready to be used if needed.
Appears as if there’ll be a candlelight vigil in Chinatown’s Portsmouth Square at the Goddess of Democracy statue around 7:30 or 8:00 PM tonight.
“Candlelight vigil 4th June at 8p at Portsmouth Sq, Chinatown, San Francisco re: Tiananmen Square”
Here she is, the GoD, being ignored last year by Mayor Gavin Newsom in all the excitement leading up to the international Olympic Torch Relay fiasco of 2008. (Don’t look forward to any more of those international relays – they’re cancelled forever by the International Olympic Committee due to actions from the Sacred Flame Protection Squad, etc.)
June 4th is being remembered in San Francisco, but it doesn’t seem to be that big a deal at this point. Here’s one account from Tiananmen, in the virtual pages of SFGate:
“Our eyes locked. He was attractive in a stern sort of way, with wide-set eyes and a strong, dimpled chin. He was probably four or five years my junior. We looked into one another’s eyes for a few seconds, our limbs locked in this aggressive parody of a dance. I had an absurd memory of senior prom…” On it goes.
Anyway, it looks like Chinatown will be the venue for the biggest 6-4 observation in town today.
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Saturday, March 28th, 2009
Get up to speed on the Orwellian Serf’s Emancipation Day here. Today’s protest at the Chinese consulate was relatively small, with about 200 fired-up Tibetans chanting and singing.
Only one lane of Geary Boulevard was shut down to traffic today, as opposed to all four during the last go around: Click to expand:
Fifty years of resistance, 1959-2009:
The horn-honking of solidarity with the protesting crowd from passing traffic was infectious:
A perspective on public relations:
From the Chinese point of view there are perfectly legitimate internal communications (or propaganda, if you prefer) reasons to designate this holiday. It’s a high-profile re-statement of the official Chinese “emancipation” narrative on the annexation of Tibet, an important pillar of legitimacy and a cornerstone of the messaging that is used to this day to justify that annexation to both internal and external audiences. Unfortunately, loaded with unintentional irony as it is, “Serf Emancipation Day” is going to enter foreign ears like a butcher knife coated in rock salt.”
Tags: $28, 28th, avenue, Berkeley, boulevard, China, chinese, consulate, day, department, Emancipation, geary, laguna, liberation, march, niku no hi, police, protest, San Francisco, Serf, serf's, SFPD, street, surf, team, Tibet, Tibetan, union square, Youth Congress, 农奴解放日, 農奴解放日
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Friday, March 27th, 2009
Well rejoice, damn you, March 28 is now officially Serf’s Emancipation Day (農奴解放日 / 农奴解放日). The powers that be in China have blocked the YouTube, possibly to avoid the viewing of this particular video (although there could be a host of non Tibet-related reasons for this YT blockage). For her part, “disgusting” Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is still hammering China this month about the Tibetan issue.
More locally, there’ll be a few folks in San Francisco commemorating March 28, but they won’t be in a celebratory mood. San Francisco Team Tibet has a bit of info about what will occur at the San Francisco Chinese Consulate tomorrow.
Hopefully people from one side won’t start hanging themselves off of the consulate 30 feet in the air and people from the other side won’t cut any ropes, you know, the way it went down last year on Laguna Street.
50 Years of Enslavement – March 28
Peace March for Tibet (Berkeley Downtown Bart Station) 10 – 12pm
- Tibetan National Anthem
- Opening Statement
- Memang Langlu
- Peace March Begins
- Rally Back at Berkeley Downtown Bart Station
- Announce next programs in SF.
Chinese Consulate Protest (Laguna & Geary St) 2pm – 3:30pm
- Shout Slogans
- Speech by Vice President of Tibetan Youth Congress
- Memang Langlu
- Shout Slogans
- Dentsi Monlam
- March to Union Square in Small Groups without Banners.
- Union Square Event 4:30pm – 6:30pm
- Introduction by MC – Sonam Lama
- Tibetan National Anthem
- Opening Statement (Chemi)
- TANC Executive Member
- TANC Dance group
- BAFOT President
- Vice President of Tibetan Youth Congress (Dhondup Dorjee la)
- Marian Wong (Chinese American)
- SFRTYC (Tsering Choeden)
- Political Theater
- Memang Langlu
- Former President of SFRTYC (Dasang la)
- SFT Speaker
- Candle Light Vigil
- Word of Thanks (SFRTYC – Tsedor)
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Tuesday, March 10th, 2009
A crowd of about 400 (300 per AP, seemed a bit more than that though) is marching all around San Francisco today – see them in front of the always-busy Chinese Consulate below. To get up to speed, here’s a nice bit from Matt O’Brien about the 50th anniversary of the failed uprising that led to the exile of the Dalai Lama.
Keep up on developments at SF Team Tibet, the International Support Tibet Network, Save Tibet, the Tibetan Association of Northern California, and Students for a Free Tibet. The candlelight vigil will start at 5:00 PM in Union Square.
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WHEN & WHERE:
8:00-9:00am Tibetan Flag Raising Ceremony @ Berkeley City Hall, Berkeley
10:00-10:30am Rally at @ Justin Herman Plaza, San Francisco
10:30-11:30am March from Justin Herman Plaza to City Hall, San Francisco
11:30am-12:45pm Rally & Political Theater @ City Hall, San Francisco
12:45-1:30pm March from City Hall to Chinese Consulate, San Francisco
1:30-3:30pm Protest & Rally @ Chinese Consulate, Laguna & Geary, San Francisco
5:00-9:00pm Rangzen Concert and Candlelight Vigil @ Union Square, San Francisco
The protesters always make sure to carry American flags..
…as well as Tibetan:
The SFPD didn’t bring the S.W.A.T. team along this time the way they did last year with the Olympic protests.
The Feds, fresh from the Sunglass Hut. Apparently, one of them lost a bet so he had to shave off his facial hair:
Not sure what this means:
The next big day appears to be March 28, 2009.
To be continued…
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Friday, February 20th, 2009
Of course last year’s Olympic protests around the Chinese Consulate at 1450 Laguna near Geary really livlied up the Western Addition / Japantown area in 2008. Let’s review and then see what’s coming up for 2009.
Did this really happen last year? Yes it did. It’s U.C. Davis grad / protest artist Nyendak Wangden hanging off the side of the gosh darn building. It’s supposed to look like she was hung by the neck, but she was safe under the robes in her climbing harness. Safe until somebody on the roof hacked at the red rope causing her to fall. Ouch. Click to expand:
Source unknown This could be a one-of-a-kind photo
How long a fall to the balcony would you say that was? 15 feet or so? Note the absence of the flagpoles in this later photo – those poles got nubbed shortly after the rope cutting incident.
The mise-en-scene from before the rope thang. (NB: The next time you illegally suspend yourself from a building to make a political point, do it above a balcony – it can be a long way to sidewalk otherwise:
But that was then, this is now. More recently, “serial package thrower” Aaron Bassler made the news by throwing items containing wacky stuff (something to do with the “Martian military”) over the fence of the consulate. These objects were treated as bombs by the SFPD. Thusly:
That crime wave is over. What’s coming up in 2009? Well, stuff to do with Tibet – read on after the jump.
And of course, the 20th anniversary of Tiananmen Square is coming up on June 4, 2009 as well. Just saying.
Concertina wire up on the roof and a decrease in flagpoles are two of the more obvious changes the past year. A recent photo:
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Tags: 2008, 2009, Add new tag, beijing, california, China, chinese, consulate, cut, free, Kendra Zanotto, Nyendak Wangden, Olympics, protest, rope, San Francisco, Square, team, Tiananmen, Tibet
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Friday, January 16th, 2009
Well there was a report of a Suspicious Package Outside Chinese Consulate at Geary and Laguna so the SFPD sent over some officers and the bomb squad.
The passersby in Japantown favored sending a bomb destroying robot, but this fellow from the bomb squad stepped up, donned a massive helmet, and sauntered on over to the item that tied up traffic all over.
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Just another day for the SFPD…
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Sunday, August 24th, 2008
This was the scene yesterday in the Western Addition, where hundreds of protesters blocked traffic in front of the Chinese Consulate. Drivers on the Geary Expressway, already wary of dangerous all-electric supercars, should experience a similar gauntlet today.
And then the action heads over to the East Bay.
This was yesterday’s schedule from Team Tibet SF:
In San Francisco
11:30-12:00 PRESS CONFERENCE
12:00-1:30 Peace Rally, Concert at Union Square
March to City hall
2:00-2:30 Rally at City Hall
March to Chinese Consulate
3:30-4:30 Protest at Chinese Consulate
4:30-5:15 Walk back to Union Sqaure
5:15-7:00pm Break. Food and Beverages provided by SF TEAM TIBET
7:00-9:00pm Candle Light Vigil w/ Cultural Show at Union Square
Here is today’s
August 24
12:00-3:00pm Protest at the Chinese Consulate
Evening event at Finnish Brotherhood Church in Berkeley on University Ave and cross
street at Chestnut Ave.
Program: 6:00-10:00pm Dinner, Annual Report, Film, Short Presentation
Tags: 2008, Add new tag, beijing, Berkeley, brotherhood, China, chinese, church, City Hall, civic center, consulate, finish, finnish, march, Olympics, protest, San Francisco, SF, SFPD, team, Tibet
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