BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME:www.indybay.org PRODID:-//indybay/ical// v1.0//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:Indybay-18836745 SEQUENCE:18992705 CREATED:20200919T054800Z DESCRIPTION:9/27 Sunday SF History Days: LaborFest Panel\nSan Francisco Murals Under Assault - From The Arnautoff GWHS Murals To The UCSF Toland Hall Zakheim Murals \nwith \nNathan Zakheim, art restorer and son of mural artist Bernard Zakheim\nDr. Robert Cherney, Professor and author of Victor Arnautoff and the Politics of Art and \nLope Yap Jr. GWHS Alumni Association VP\nDewey Crumpler, Mural Artist Of GWHS Response Murals\nJackie Broxton, Relative of “Biddy” Mason and Biddy Mason Charitable Foundation\nGray Brechin, Art Historian, Founder of New Deal Project & Author of Imperial San Francisco\nCarol Lang, Professor CUNY, Member of AFT-PSC\n\nSan Francisco murals are threatened with destruction from the Victor Arnautoff murals at George Washington High to the Bernard Zakheim murals at\nToland Hall at the University of California. This panel will examine their history, why they are under attack today and what this means to working people and the public.\n\nTime: Sep 27, 2020 01:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)\n\nTo join event please register at:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUsdOiqrDsiGdMnFL7gMcar5ce_H3UQjoOq\nhttps://sfhistorydays.org/laborfest/\n\nLaborFest Event-San Francisco Murals Under Assault-From The Arnautoff GWHS Murals To The UCSF Toland Hall Bernard Zakheim Murals\n\nSep 27, 2020 01:00 PM in Pacific Time (US and Canada)\n\n\nAdditional information\n\nCA Black History Under Attack By UCSF Execs, Bernard Zakheim’s Murals & Bridget “Biddy” Mason\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJ-1jwjDC_s\n\nUniversity of California San Francisco executives are proposing the destruction of the historic Bernard Zakheim WPA UCSF Toland Hall murals. \n\nThey include the history of medicine in California including the role of Bridget "Biddy” Mason who came to California as a slave and worked as a midwife in California. She later became an important figure in Los Angeles and California history particularly for Black Californians.\n\nZakheim's murals at Coit Tower also came under attack and there was an effort to destroy them during the 1930’s because they included images of Karl Marx and the Daily Worker.\n\nNathan Zakheim, the son of Bernard Zakheim who worked on the UCSF murals talked about their construction and the reasons the University said they should be destroyed unless the family came up with $8 million.\n\nSpeakers in addition to Nathan Zackheim included Temi Washington – great great granddaughter of Bridget “Biddy” Mason, Lope Yap Jr. – Vice President GWHSAA, Adam Gottstein – a native San Franciscan and the grandson of Bernard Zakheim, Dr. Robert Sherins the author of The Story Behind The Toland Hall Murals and Dr. Robert Cherny, author of Victor Arnautoff and the Politics of Art.\n\nThis panel was part of 2020 Laborfest.net and was held on July 25, 2020.\n\nAdditional media:\n\nHistory of Medicine in California Articulated in Frescoes\nThe Story Behind the Murals of Toland Hall, UCSF\nhttp://robertssherinsmd.com/files/books/7-Toland%20Manuscript.4.pdf \n\nUCSF Toland Hall Bernard Zakheim mural tour by Chauncey Leake\nhttps://archive.org/details/cum_000015\n\nSan Francisco university in talks with US government about preserving New Deal-era murals slated for destruction\nhttps://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/san-francisco-university-in-talks-with-us-government-about-preserving-new-deal-era-murals-slated-for-destruction?\nfbclid=IwAR12UWwksSyYJh08fwOizcpVKEhDTfFSUuEpOSstpfewdgLrvvf5lGUC9Eo\n\nThe Biddy Mason Story\nhttps://youtu.be/uvlXfCuCVAY\n\nBridget "Biddy" Mason (U.S. National Park Service)\nhttps://www.nps.gov/people/biddymason.htm\n\nLaborFest.net\nProduction of Labor Video Project\nwww.laborvideo.org\n\nThe GWHS Murals &The Life of Victor Arnautoff\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ua-M4D67tI0\nThe issue of the San Francisco George Washington High murals and the life of Victor Arnautoff was the focus of a panel during July 22, 2020. \n\nArtist Dewey Crumpler who painted response mural at George Washington High in San Francisco spoke about past struggles to defend the murals and today's Black Lives Matter movement. The panel also made the connections between the attack on the Victor Arnautoff murals and the Bernard Zakheim murals that are threatend with destruction at UCSF.\n\nOther speakers included Nathan Zakheim, Dr. Robert Cherney, Jack Heyman, Gray Brechin, Carol Denney, Tamaka Bailey, Robin Rome and Lope Lap Jr.\nThis was part of LaborFest is 2020.\nAdditional media:\nCA Black History Under Attack By UCSF Execs, Bernard Zakheim’s Murals & Bridget “Biddy” Mason\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJ-1jwjDC_s\n\nThe Arnautoff GWHS Murals, Identity Politics, Privatization & Public Education\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVF0eDdK5iw&t=29s\n\nAlice Walker "They should leave the mural and explain the mural to the children" The Destruction Of The George Washington High Victor Arnautoff Murals\nhttps://youtu.be/XPFPTB_XZ6U\n\nSFUSD Board & Superintendent Matthews Cutting $300,000 From MLK Middle School While Spending $850,000 To Censor GWHS Arnautoff Murals\nhttps://youtu.be/Y5_NooOFegk\n\nCensorship, Not Destruction? SFUSD Votes To Censor Arnautoff Murals\nhttps://youtu.be/_UmLd091oFU\n\n"Paint It Down" Rightists Disrupt Victor Arnautoff Mural Meeting In San Francisco\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2CRDg4nBCg&feature=youtu.be\n\nDestroying Arnautoff Murals As Payment For "Reparations"? SFUSD Bd Votes To Paint Over Historic Murals\nhttps://youtu.be/fPpm8FUPC2c\n\nSF Debates Removal Of Victor Arnautoff Murals At GWH\nhttps://youtu.be/rG6x4JS76j0\n\n"Erasing History" SF Washington High & The Victor Arnautoff Murals\nhttps://youtu.be/sxHijlewzoQ\n\nVictor Arnautoff: San Francisco's Master Muralist of the 1930's\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5aYXYqcDNg&t=7s\n\nWhen conservatives went to war over SF post office murals\nhttps://www.sfchronicle.com/chronicle_vault/article/When-conservatives-went-to-war-over-SF-post-13912445.php\n\nThese High School Murals Depict an Ugly History. Should They Go?\nhttps://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/11/arts/design/george-washington-murals-ugly-history-debated.html\n\nMurals at Washington High School Stoke Debate: Board to Decide Their Fate\nhttps://sfrichmondreview.com/2019/04/30/murals-at-washington-high-school-stoke-debate-board-to-decide-their-fate/\n\nMurals at Washington High School Stoke Debate: Board to Decide Their Fate\nhttps://sfrichmondreview.com/2019/04/30/murals-at-washington-high-school-stoke-debate-board-to-decide-their-fate/\n\nLaborFest\nwww.laborfest.net\nProduction of Labor Video Project\nwww.laborvideo.org\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/09/18/18836745.php SUMMARY:SF Murals Under Assault - From The Arnautoff GWHS Murals To The UCSF Toland Hal LOCATION:A LaborFest panel which is part of San Francisco Days Of History will present a panel on San Francisco Murals Under Assault - From The Arnautoff GWHS Murals To The UCSF Toland Hall Zakheim Murals URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/09/18/18836745.php DTSTART:20200927T200000Z DTEND:20200927T220000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR