Lectures & Workshops
Thursday, September 2
Whisky specialist Mark Cassidy is in demand throughout the year for his private Scotch whisky tastings. Mark will introduce a few of his favorite bottles; discuss the six distilling regions in Scotland and the growing trend towards Organic Scotch (which you’ll taste)!
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Saturday, September 4
How can a 50-ton gun simply disappear? Learn this and other factoids while helping load and aim the last operational gun of its kind.
The Army built Battery Chamberlin, just above Baker Beach, in 1904 to protect the harbor’s minefields. The battery’s “disappearing” guns could be …
Want to learn about beekeeping and making honey in Oakland? Khaled Almaghafi, 4th generation bee keeper, and owner of Queen Sheba Farms is a successful urban bay area bee keeper. He will be bringing a small colony for a live demo.
Source: SFBG
Sunday, September 5
SF Zine Fest is a free annual two-day conference for independent and underground publishing. Exhibitors come from all over the West Coast, and while the focus is on zines, all walks of DIY life are represented — comics, arts and crafts, literary presses, and more.
San …
Celebrate life … dance tango! There will be free introductory lessons in milonga, tango & vals (tango waltz). With open dance floor and performances every first Sunday of the month, June through October.
Sunday, September 5
2pm- 4pm
Tango in the Square
Tuesday, September 7
FoundSF is a new interactive website that invites history buffs and all San Franciscans to share their unique stories, images, and videos from the past and present. The growing online archive provides people with access to the city’s lost …
Wednesday, September 8
Local amateur astronomer Douglas Smith will explain basic optics, discuss the different types of telescopes and their components, and demonstrate the process of making those components. He has recently completed FirstLight — a 16.5″ primary mirror Dobsonian truss-tube telescope which will be exhibited at this …
Thursday, September 9
In Food Heroes, Pellegrini introduces readers to the lively stories of artisanal food devotees such as New York mushroom forager Marion Burroughs, French fig collector Francis Honore, fish missionary Jon Rowley in Washington State, and Ugo Buzzio in New York City, one of the last …
Saturday, September 11
“What Cannot Be Taken Away” is a visual arts workshop with Evan Bissell for artists of all levels (minors must be accompanied by an adult). Please bring a photograph, poem, lyric, writing, article, or fact relating to healing and justice.
All ages welcome. Event is freeE …
Tuesday, October 19
In this free course offered at City College of SF, students will learn how to create a personal or business website using Adobe’s DreamWeaver CS4. We will explore the core aspects of new site creation, editing, and maintenance. This includes learning how to read and …



