UnSettlers of the Mission
Wednesday, October 16th 2013  7:30pm
San Francisco, CA

http://shapingsf.org/public-talks/index.html#unsettlers

Wed. Oct. 16, 7:30 pm Unsettlers of the Mission In Adriana Camarena's new work the most precarious residents of the Mission are the central storytellers. This will be the latest presentation of her ongoing work-in-progress, covering a range of their historic tales of Californian daily life: Indigenous migrants on their day off from construction or cooking on the line, watch movies inside their shared group apartments. Parents, raising children in the Mission, fend off poverty by working hard, with the result that their dutifulness sometimes translates into absence for their kids. Lost in plain sight, young kids in gangs troll the neighborhood flexing their muscles over territorial disputes, and seasoned convicts in their twenties run the drug exchange at corner depots. War veterans and the mentally ill fill the neighborhood shelters, while the neighborhood gentrifies around them. These are stories of abandon, but also of love, loyalty, laughter, and a fierce will to survive adversity.

Location:
Shaping San Francisco
518 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA