Making Connections: Career Waitresses of San Francisco

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.