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Making Connections: Career Waitresses of San Francisco | |
Date | Friday April 08 |
Time | 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM |
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Location Details | |
SF Arts Commission Gallery 401 Van Ness @ McAllister SF, Ca 94102 |
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Event Type | Other |
Organizer/Author | Candacy Taylor |
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. |
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