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DESCRIPTION:About Get on the Bus  Get on the Bus will consider the experience, culture, 
 and meaning of our nation’s least-loved transit mode. Stigmatized as the 
 transit of last resort—the realm of the poor, elderly, and infirm—the 
 bus nonetheless moves millions of people every day. On the cutting edge in 
 some cities, marginalized in others, the bus evokes a surprising range of 
 emotions for people, planners, cities and artists. Get on the Bus will 
 begin to illuminate the world of the bus as a ubiquitous but neglected 
 arena of city life.  An open call drew submissions from seven countries. 
 Selected works are drawn from throughout the US, as well as Canada, Mexico, 
 and the UK, and include fine art, documentary photography, lighthearted 
 urban interventions, and a range of film and video projects. In addition 
 innovative, historic, and artistically modified buses are anticipated to be 
 on display at various times during the exhibition. CITY|SPACE is working 
 with local transit agencies, including San Francisco MUNI, AC Transit, and 
 the Metropolitan Transportation Commission and expects to collaborate with 
 them on a variety of projects, including the donation of buses to the 
 exhibit.   Get on the Bus will be on display at Levin Brothers Warehouse 
 located at 2255 3rd St, in San Francisco's Dogpatch neighborhood. This 
 striking 9000 square-foot renovated warehouse space, at the convergence of 
 3 major bus lines and adjacent to the San Francisco’s new third street 
 light rail line, has been kindly donated for the exhibition by the Martin 
 Building Company, and features a large yard that can accommodate several 
 buses.  A panel discussion, entitled "No F#@*ing Way! Selling America on 
 the Bus," will bring together marketing and public relations professionals 
 to consider how bus transit might be creatively reimagined to broaden its 
 appeal.  A second panel presented with SPUR and entitled the Future of the 
 Bus, will consider the rapidly unfolding future of the bus, as Bus Rapid 
 Transit (BRT) systems and new hybrid and fuel cell technologies alter the 
 landscape of urban transportation.  CITY|SPACE will also present an evening 
 of bus-related film, in the spirit of Asphalt Shorts, CITY|SPACE's popular 
 annual festival of short films about cities and urbanism.  An additional 
 component of Get on the Bus will be the publication of an anthology 
 entitled "Get on the Bus: Short and True Tales of Bus Travel". The 
 anthology will be self-published in conjunction with the exhibition, with 
 future plans to develop a book proposal and approach publishers.  Get on 
 the Bus is supported in part by generous grant from the LEF Foundation and 
 by the donation of exhibition space by the Martin Building Company. 
 CITY|SPACE is a fiscally sponsored project of Intersection for the Arts.    
 About CITY|SPACE  CITY|SPACE is a cultural organization dedicated to 
 exploring the built environment through events and exhibitions in a wide 
 range of disciplines, including design, visual art, cultural landscape 
 research, and film. CITY|SPACE cuts across disciplinary boundaries to draw 
 on a wide range of work: aesthetic, documentary, architectural, and beyond, 
 that converges around the city as we find it, make it, and struggle with 
 it. By engaging Bay Area audiences in complex and challenging questions 
 about the cities we inhabit, we hope to deepen our communities' experience, 
 understanding, and stewardship of urban places  CITY|SPACE was founded in 
 2002 by a group of urban designers, planners, artists, and enthusiasts of 
 the urban landscape. Since 2003, CITY|SPACE has presented Asphalt Shorts, 
 an annual program of short films on cities and urbanism projected on a 
 parking lot wall in Downtown Oakland, creating an impromptu public space in 
 a forgotten corner of the city. In 2004, CITY|SPACE mounted the exhibition 
 Urban Legends: The City in Maps at Oakland's Oaklandish gallery.  For more 
 information about CITY|SPACE visit: http://www.city-space.org  \n 
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SUMMARY:Get on the Bus
LOCATION:The Levin Brothers Warehouse  2255 Third Street  San Francisco
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/05/21/102653.php
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