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DESCRIPTION:FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  Project by Candacy Taylor  Slinging Power 
 Productions  E-mail: slingingpower@yahoo.com  Photo/Multimedia 
 Exhibition– Making Connections:  Career Waitresses of San Francisco to be 
 held on  Friday, April 8th, 2005 at 7pm at The San Francisco  Arts 
 Commission Gallery at 401 Van Ness Ave  (@ McCallister).  The public is 
 invited to attend this event. Admission  is free. Please RSVP to Candacy 
 Taylor at  slingingpower@yahoo.com.  San Francisco, CA  – A 
 photo/multimedia exhibition  will be presented documenting career 
 waitresses and  their impact on their communities. The project  director, 
 Candacy Taylor will speak about the project  and local career waitresses 
 profiled in the show will  be invited to bring their regular customers. The 
 show  will include an audio/visual show, approximately 30  photographs, and 
 audio stations to listen to the  interviews of the waitresses.  Wine will 
 be donated by White Rock Vineyards.  Photographs will be for sale.   
 Candacy Taylor is a cultural critic, writer and visual  artist who traveled 
 over 5000 miles documenting career  waitresses throughout the West Coast 
 and in  Massachusetts.  She received her masters from the  California 
 College of the Arts in the Visual Criticism  program.       Making 
 Connections: Career Waitresses of San Francisco  is an multimedia project 
 that documents older career  waitresses and their contribution to the San 
 Francisco  community. The project reveals that these women do a  lot more 
 than just serve food. Most of them aged 50 to  84 have been working in the 
 same restaurant for up to  55 years and have become respected, trusted and 
 loved  by the locals. Making Connections is partially funded  by the 
 California Council for the Humanities, fiscally  sponsored by the Institute 
 on Aging and will be  archived at the San Francisco Labor Archives and  
 Research Center. The photos from the project exhibited  at the San 
 Francisco Arts Commission Gallery on April  8-9, 2005, will hang in City 
 Hall from April 13th  through June 22nd. Weekend America, a radio show 
 based  interviewed for this project. The radio show is  archived on 
 http://www.weekendamerica.org.     For more information on this project, 
 please visit  http://www.careerwaitresses.com or call 415.994.3840.    \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2005/03/16/60553.php
SUMMARY:Making Connections: Career Waitresses of San Francisco
LOCATION:SF Arts Commission Gallery  401 Van Ness @ McAllister  SF, Ca 94102
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2005/03/16/60553.php
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