20,000 Sunday sunners boog¬ ied as Sylvester and His Hot Band sizzled, belly dancers wriggled, jugglers juggled and Beach Blanket Babylon went Bananas on two mellow blocks of Castro Street Sun¬ day. The occasion was the Second Annual Castro Village street fair, that paragon of merchant /artist symbiosis.

The festival, held on Cas¬ tro St. between Market and 19th, was to begin at noon, but by eleven the block was al¬ ready teeming with carousers under a hot August sun. They found almost 150 booths offer¬ ing art, crafts, and home¬ made food. There were also three bandstands ready for an afternoon of free entertain¬ ment, supplemented of course by street dancers, jugglers, mimes and musicians, plus PolkStreet's most outrageous drag queens.

By noon the fair was in full boogie; new arrivals quickly picked up on the carnival at¬ mosphere, breaking out wide smiles and moving to the

Volume I Issue 5 LATE-SUMMER EDITION © The San Francisco Street Artist Guild, 1975 |

MERCHANTS FOR

STREET ARTISTS

Dear Street Artists :

The Visitation Valley Mer¬ chants Association is planning a sidewalk sales and festivi¬ ties once or twice a month for the next six months, be¬ ginning September 6, 1975.

To kick off our first attempt we would like to include mem - bers of the San Francisco Street Artist Guild. It is our feeling that the street artists are essential to round out the activities of the day. They provide a unique attraction not found in this area of the city. We expect a substantial turnout of our community, es¬ pecially to this Visitation Val - ley first. Our publicity com¬ mittee is currently contacting the news media and will be covering the community with handbills and pesters.

We look forward to your organization joining our or¬ ganization for this affair.

Sincerely,

Jack Creighton President, Visitation Valley Merchants Assc.

photo by Emily Kretz

Tricky Dick makes a surprise appearance at the Castro Street Fair.

nearest music. Dozens of neighbors hung out of their second story windows, many of which were decorated with balloons and streamers; one long silk and satin banner, suspended from a flat above the Eureka Arcade, warned; "An Army Of Lovers Shall Not Fail”. The festivities overflowed into the street's bars and shops, many of which stayed open for the Sunday fair and did a holiday busi¬ ness. Onstage there was soul, folk, and rock music from 5 area bands, readings by San Francisco poets, and hours of theater ranging from "Roll Over Alice", a space rock opera by Up In The Air, to "Beach Blanket Babylon Goes Bananas", a Dada musical re¬ vue. ‘At 19th St. the Kos Ka- • das bellydancing troupe ama¬ zed with a performance on a hand-held tightrope, while at Market St. the Wonder Follies Magic Circus kept hundreds laughing with a stone circus patter and slick tricks.

At three the police made an attempt to clear the street for Muni, maintaining that the permit had expired. They were unsuccessful and the party went on past five.

"What are you going to do with 20,000 dancing people?" shrugged a cop good-naturedly.

(continued on back page)

LIFE AMONG THE SAVAGES

or How to Become a Street Artist in 10 Easy Lessons

I, Jerico Lemoldo, take pen in hand to describe the foundation of my P 1 1 a lpb n t». . . Joyful-. . . My . . . well anyway the Being I am today.

WHAT IS A PAUL THOMAS? or SANDSTORMS IN MONTEREY, I CAN’T FIND MY DISPLAY.

After riding off into the sunset from Bryon I realized that things must get better, or else a job I must get ("Look, Martha, another unemployed hippie!") As mentioned, Mr. O'Cheddar after the traumatic shock of Bryon (Imagine, Bankrupt in Bryon ) retired from the streets and went on Sabbatical for three years so I could not follow his example or even ask his advice (Even thenl hadn't learned it was not the swiftest thing to ask O’Ched- dar's advice). So I turned (as multitudes of others did)to the ' Promotors of Fairs.

At that time a number of craftspersons and also a number of not-craftspersons decided that it was easier to make money off the craftspersons than off the public - or in some cases both. This was all very good except when the Promotors would charge a fee and not advertise with the result that when the craftsperson would show up the customers would not (e.g. Mor¬ timer Peacemeadow once promoted a show in a shopping cen¬ ter without even consulting the merchants there and hence no customers, and no craftspersons since the merchants said , "Move!" (Honestly Mortimer has improved but in those days it was hectic. )

Paul Thomas was one of the original promotors and had a number of good locations tied up by the time I started fairs so to him I went - The first thing I learned about P.T. (as he is jovially known) is that unless he needs you - you don't get into his fairs. At that time I was still doing painted rocks and shell jewelry and after calling him for two months finally got an ap¬ pointment to see him (screen my stuff). Before he was always too busy and his shows were full. So anyway he looks at my stuff, says "Isn't that cute! Can you do a fair in Monterey?"

"Gosh Yes" I replied (thinking "Wow, getting into a PT show

and he likes iny stuff'). Later I found out he was supposed to supply 200 craftspersons and only had 125 and he was accep¬ ting any and every body. But off to Monterey I went. (Monterey is a very pretty area and they had a great free camp grounds there) and PT assigned me my spot. (You must understand that if PT likes you you get a good spot, if he doesn't like you or doesn't know you you get the leftovers - in this case the middle of a dirt field or so it seemed - What Paul Thomas did was to assign all the spots on the concrete to those he liked, assign all the spots on the perimiter of the dirt area to those he didn't like and put the people (customers) in the center of the dirt-— of course the disliked people knew PT and didn't show up leav¬ ing us new ones in the middle of nowhere.

Then the wind came up and the dust and and 20 feet away I couldn't see my stand and over it crashed and to be back in San Francisco and. . . But wait I thought why not move to the shelter of yon trees? So off I trotted (my running is slowing down) to P.T. "Mr. Thomas, can I move my stand?" I inquired.

"No!"

"No? Why?"

"Because I assigned all the spots!"

"But there is no one there, " I pointed out.

"Once I assign a spot it is permanent."

"But my stand is blowing over'.'

"You should have been prepared, " he said. What are you a troublemaker? If you want to work my shows you better stop rabble rousing. "

"Yes sir,” I said as I backed out of his presence. After an hour of trying to find my stand in the dust storm, I tripped over it and decided if I couldn’t see it - PT couldn't see me move it.

So under the cover of the wind and dust I moved to a safer spot closer to the customer flow where I commenced to sell some¬ thing. The wind also erased all of PT's markings as to spots.

So later when PT came by he asked how I was doing in my spot.

He didn't notice the difference.

"Fine," I said.

"See, just follow the rules and you'll do great,” he said as he wandered off. So I stayed and made the rent for that month.

next; THE EMBARCADERO REVISITED or PLEASE MR. VIGILANTE I DID MAKE IT MYSELF

STREET ART NEWS

LATE- SUMMER

NATION RALLIES BEHIND AHJ BY RON MATHIAS EN

It's a hot summer morning and you' re driving to work in Indianapolis. Out of the blue sky, the DJ starts rapping with the Automatic Human Jukebox over 2000 miles away in San Francisco. The con¬ versation is far-out-of -sight as Grimes Poznikov tells a- bout his trip with San Fran¬ cisco' s mercantile dominated policies and the City's bur¬ eaucratic circus (along with a pitch for the Society for the Advancement of Non-Verbal Communication). Then you are treated to a rendition of "1 Left My Heart in San Fran¬ cisco" from his famed trum¬ pet played over the telephone.

Such has been the life of our hero, the "anarchist mu¬ sician. "

It all started in a harmless way one Wednesday morning when reporter Carol Pogash of the San Francisco Exami¬ ner came down to Beach and Larkin to do a story on the Automatic Human Jukebox and its creator. Grimes. So un¬ ique a character was our he- roe and his philosophy that

the interview went on for o- ver an hour. The following Monday her excellent story ran on page 2, along with a picture of Grimes "doin' his thing" to the amusement of the tourists. The article in¬ formed the City and the Bay Area about Grimes' licensing problems. But that was only the beginning.

AP and UPI picked the story up and ran it on the overnight wires nationwide. Editors and broadcasters loved it. AHJ became a cause celebre and he was never to set his alarm clock again. He got calls and interviews from various parts of the country. UPI radio dispatched KFRC to do a story for a national feed. KNOX in St. Louie called its sister CBS station here asking how to find Grimes. Another St. Louis station also called.

A national crew from Public Broadcasting System flew out the next day from New York to do a story on Grimes and the AHJ. They almost pan¬ icked when they couldn't find him on Beach Street. (That

was the day Grimes and Juke¬ box were being wheeled into the Registrar of Voters office in City Hall to deliver the pe¬ titions.) A few days later they hired Grimes, Box and all, and shot over 2, 500 feet of film for a one hour program called "It's a living," a new series to debut this fall on PBS.

Incoming tourists were hep to what was going on. One little girl was running down Beach Street yelling, "Mom¬ my, Mommy, I found the auto¬ matic Human Jukebox!" No doubt she later played "Puff The Magic Dragon, " which is a favorite among the small tots. One tourist handed Grimes the front page of the Omaha World Herald which ran a story titled: "Human Jukebox puzzles City. " It mentions his trip, arrest, and goes on about how the City doesn't know how.

The following week, the L. A. Times ran a front-page scoop on the Jukebox. "S.F. Seeking to Pull Jukebox's Plug, But Street Musician Fights

Back," read the title. A re¬ porter from the Miami Her¬ ald came to Beach Street to interview Grimes. Street Art News received a phone - call from WNAP radio in In¬ dianapolis, with a voice at the other end saying, "Um. . .1. .

. . know this must be a silly question, but you couldn't by any chance tell me how to get ahold of the Automatic Human Jukebox?"

From New York to Seattle, they comment on the story. Grimes has even heard from longtime friends in Kansas and Salt Lake City. Needless to say, he is receiving even more tune requests than ever before, as the tourists put him on their "must see" lists.

Grimes also did a recent stint for National Public Radio . Speaking of radio, I got a kick out of some guy who brought a recorder and started saying into the mike, 'Vm now stan¬ ding here on the corner of Beach and Hyde in San Fran¬ cisco, and I'm standing next to the Automatic Humanjuke- box which has these tunes lis¬ ted . "

I should update the story of Grimes' licensing hassles from the last issue. The Board of Permit Appeals, u- pon discovering Grimes is a- mong the "Beach Street 27,” who were arrested for viola¬ ting the Kopp Ordinance last May 28, says it cannot con¬ sider any appeal until court action has been completed.

Then, Grimes can file a re¬ quest for them to reverse the Art Commission's decision to deny the Jukebox a street ar¬ tist certificate. The Francois anti-street -artist Proposition ("L") will not aid Grimes and his seven foot box in becom¬ ing "legal." Francois has e- ven said he considers street artist displays of seven feet as "too tall. " But he has no¬ thing against phone booths and flower stands. The street artists' initiative (Proposi¬ tion "M"), which isthe one you voters should vote YES on, will finally enable the Au¬ tomatic Human Jukebox to get a license.

After speaking to the Sa¬ turday morning lottery at Beach Street, Senator Mos- cone shook hands with Grimes , and they kidded about having Grimes and the Jukebox re- turntoCity Hall to play "Hail to the Chief" atMoscone's in- augeration as Mayor of San Francisco.

Grimes has done a lot for the street artist cause for many years, even though the only thing he "makes" is good vibes from a trumpet. It's gratifying to see our "anar¬ chist musician, " with a B. A. in psychology from Cornell University, get some deser¬ ved recognition. There is only one other city where Grimes could set up his Box — NeoDesha, Kansas. His father is the Automatic City Attorney there.

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27,000 SIGNATURES!

Yick Wong is a man who can appreciate a good media ploy when he sees one. Wong, the Deputy Registrar of Voters , listened to the street artists describe their plans and smiled; yes, he'd be happy to cooperate, now let's see , you’ll be bringing the Box in these doors. Are they wide enough, will you be able to get through? Don't want the door banged up. And the cameras - well, the light will be good here, and this is the button to push if you want to

get behind the counter _ So

at two o'clock he and Miriam Kunzell were in place as the TV lights glowed up to full and and the press turned expec¬ tantly to the tall double doors On the east side of the Regis¬ trar's office in City Hall.

Street artist spokesperson Jericho Lemoldo pushed open the doors and strode in fol¬ lowed by three people push¬ ing the Automatic Human Jukebox on a dolly. Lemoldo swaggered to the center of the room and imperiously unrol¬ led a proclamation, reading:

"Hear ye. Hear ye. Let it be known that the working ar¬ tists have scored another vic¬ tory over the monied inter¬ ests and abusers of political power. Let it be known that 27,000 voters have said: we want street artists in the city and not hidden away at Fort Mason. Regulation yes , eli¬ mination no!"

He folded the proclamation and the jukebox's door flipped open. Grimes Poznikov, the man in the box, whipped out a trumpet and blared out "Am¬ erica the Beautiful as he was wheeled up to the counter at a stately pace. Yick Wong beamed. At the counter. Grimes handed out bundle af¬ ter bundle of petitions to Dep¬ uty Registrars Wong and Kun-

photos by Chris FitzGerald

zell, ending the three week drive by Concerned San Fran¬ ciscans to Save the Street Artists.

Despite Terry Francois' KGO Radio pitch urging the public not to sign the street artists’ petition, they had gathered over 27,000 signa¬ tures by the August 6 deadline , one of the fastest petition drives in the city’s history. The group had collected more than twice the number of sig¬ natures required by law to get on the November ballot, be¬ cause many signatures are normally invalidated due to technicalities. If the required number of signatures are cer¬ tified, voters will have the op¬ portunity to choose in Novem¬ ber between two propositions concerning street artists.

Francois has indicated that he thinks the street artists have no right to compete with shop merchants on the streets, and that he would like to see them confined to some non- business area, possibly Fort Mason, a suggestion which has been endorsed by Super- visorQuentinKopp, the Fish¬ erman’s Wharf Merchants As¬ sociation, and the Downtown Association.

The measure proposed by the Concerned San Francis¬ cans to Save the Street Artists would allow street artists to continue selling on the city sidewalks, under regulations which would prevent them from interfering with pedes¬ trian traffic and assure the public that all goods displayed by street artists are hand¬ made.

Petitions delivered, the street artists and reporters filed out of the office, fol¬ lowed by Yick Wong, who shouted, "You can bring pe¬ titions in here anytime - You guys really got style!"

STARFEST

On Wednesday August 13, the S.F.S.A.G. officers, Sandra O' Brien, Jerry Lee, and Dale Axel rod, met with the staff of STARFEST, protesting the use of the name San Francis¬ co Street Artist in Col. Lieb Rosenblum's craft show and auction to be held in San Ma¬ teo this October. The offi¬ cers explained their objection to having their name used to promote a craft fair, while San Francisco street artists struggle to preserve their right to sell on the streets. As a result the group agreed todrop"San Francisco” from the title.

After hearing the purposes and future plans for Rosen¬ blum's fairs, the Guild has decided to recommend that any craftsperson who needs a vacation from the streets once in a while should call 457-6266 to explore an alter¬ nate type of selling.

The pilot production of STARFEST will be held at the Hall of Flowers, San Ma¬ teo County Fairgrounds, on Oct. 10, 11, and 12.

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After such examination, and for the purposes of furthef vestigation, the Advisory Committee may designate one (1) or Iprnore of its members and an expert in the particular art or craft p being considered to visit the studio or workshop of the applicant to 0 view the applicant's facilities and to further verify that the art or 0 craft item(s) for which the applicant seeks certification is of her/ lis own creation or that of the applicant’s family or handicapped jily unit.

parallel to the curb, when over five (5) feet mum height of seven (7) feet (puppet shov

the curbside of the sidewalk, no Street higher than five (5) feet.

No Street Artist shall place her/his display public sidewalk between the hours of (6) a. m.

(A) Street Artists shall engage in their activities on '"sidewalks of the City and County of San Francisco pursuant to

provisions of this ordinance in such a manner that at all times there shall, in front of any Street Artist's Display, remain open for the passage of pedestrians, a single corridor parallel to the curbline of no less than three-fourths (3/4) the width of the side¬ walk or six (6) feet, whichever shall be greater.

(B) No Street Artist Display shall be located in the follow]

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The following ordinance, which the Board of Supervisors has placed on the November ballot, is almost identical to Article 24 of the San Francisco Police Code, a law which has been in effect since 1972. Article 24 established the Art Commission's "Advisory Committee", which currently screens and certifies artists, allowing them to sell their work on the streets, as well as in areas designated by the Board of Supervisors for art and craft sales (like Embarcadero Plaza).

To enable our readers to focus on the few sections of the Supervisors' ballot proposal which constitute changes in Article 24 , those words or sections which have been added by Terry Francois, the author of the Supervisors' ballot proposal, have been underlined.

Editor's note: The use of the word "may" in this proposal (see Section 7, part (c) and Section 8, line 2) indicates that the Board of Supervisors will not be required to designate any sales areas or to allocate any funds for the administration of the street artists program. This means that we will have a situation where the street artists will be operating at the mercy of the Board of Supervisors (and the large merchants).

Concerning Mr. Francois' addition of the line at the end of Section 8 which bars street artists in areas where they might "interfere with the view of public parks", it seems to us that the intention here is to provide justification for eliminating street artists from the 800 block of Beach Street, between the Cannery and Ghirardelli Square, since that strip of pavement borders on Aquatic Park.

STREET ART NEWS

LATE - SUMMER

A QUESTION OF INTEGRITY?

TACKLING THE STREET ARTISTS' INITIATIVE

A further example of Super¬ visor Francois' cavalier dis¬

Withallthe finesse and el¬ oquence chat can be expectec of a man of his stature, Ter¬ ry Francois launched his at¬ tack against the street artists initiative by calling the art ists "out and out liars , " b} warning the public that they were being "tricked" intc signingthe street artists' pe¬ tition, and by suggesting that his "old friend and seat -mate on the Board of Supervisors," Senator George Moscone, had perhaps failed to read the "deceptive" street artists' or¬ dinance before pledging them his support.

Mr. Francois' apparent lack of respect for the intel¬ ligence of voters and elected officials might explain the Su¬ pervisor's flagrant disregard for fact in his recent appear¬ ances on radio and TV . While attacking the street artists' integrity, Francois has made every attempt to mis represent the street artists' ordinance to the public.

The most notorious of the Francois myths was aired on Channel 4' s evening news on August 6tb : "They will allow in most places where they will be doing business only six feet of space for pedestrian traffic." In fact, the street artists’ ordinance (and the synopsis of it which Mr. Fran¬ cois claims to have read in Street Art News) specifies that at least "3/4 the width of the sidewalk or six feet, whichever shall be greater, " must be left open for pedes¬ trians .

Translating that into num¬ bers, the street artists' ordi¬ nance would require that 15 feet be left open for pedestri¬ ans on Beach Street, 11 feet would be left open on Stock - ton and Geary Streets, and 7&1/2 feet would be left open around Union Square, one of the narrowest sidewalks in San Francisco likely to attract street artists.

regard for fact is a statement he made July 27th on Ron Wolfe's Sunday night talk show on KGO radio: "I want every¬ body to know who signs that petition, they’re advocating tjiat they be allowed to have stands 7 feet in height at curb -side; that's one of the provi¬ sions!'

In fact, the height limit for curb-side stands set by the street artists' ordinance is 5 feet, the same figure set by the Kopp Ordinance. " Only on the non-curb side of the walk could a stand be 7 feet tall. (That provision was in¬ cluded to enable the Automa¬ tic Human Jukebox and other entertainers to perform with - out having to stand on their knees or chop off their heads.) It seems doubtful that many artists, other than performers, would opt to build stands 7 feet tall, when that choice would limit the length of their displays to 4 feet.

Despite the fact that the street artists' ordinance is made up almost entirely of re¬ gulations, Mr. Francois made the following statement on KGO : "The street artists want a special privilege. They want to operate without any regulation. And this is what makes their position so unreasonable. " He went on to say, "There's no limitation on numbers, " another error , since Section 7 of the street artists' ordinance places a specific limit on the number of licenses to be issued per month.

Although Francois claims that the street artists’ are de¬ ceiving the pdblic in their contention that he wants them off the sidewalks, his own suggestions as to how many artists might be allowed to operate if his ordinance were

passed are hardly reassuring After asking a telephone cal¬ ler on the Ron Wolfe show il she would be in favor of lim¬ iting the number of street ar¬ tists to twelve (the same at the city's flower stands) he offered this proposal :

"We can create the same kind of situation with the street artists - just limit the number, and they'll make a lot of money too — Well, if you can get the Street Artist Guild to go along with that, that would solve everybody's problem. I think the mer¬ chants would be happy, and the people who were inconven¬ ienced at Union Square would be happy if we had twelve street artist locations on twelve public sidewalks in San Francisco. "

Later that evening. Super¬ visor John Barbagelata called the program to say that he felt the street artists were somewhat justified in their reluctance to trust the Super¬ visors. Commenting that he knew of no group that had been "treated as shabbily by the Board, " Barbagelata explained a proposal previously rejec¬ ted by the Board that would have allowed one street artist per square block (or 85 ar¬ tists in the whole city).

Francois concurred that the Board had been rather stringent in the past. He add¬ ed, however, that he thought 85 spaces for street artists was an "over generous" allot¬ ment.

Although the Francois pro¬ posal does little more than repeat old laws concerning street artist certification, while repealing Proposition "J” and enabling the Board of Supervisors to regain total control over art and craft sales in public places, he con¬ tends that the street artists’ more specific ordinance is an

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attempt by the artists to con¬ fuse the voters. In the Pro¬ gress on August 8th. Fran¬ cois accused the street artists of copying his proposal: "The ordinance authored by the street artists is 'designed to be confused with the Super¬ visor's ordinance, ' he said, since it contains much the same wording and, 'as many sections of the supervisors’ ordinance as possible. ' "

The artists, however, say their proposal is designed to clarify the issues, to enable the voters to focus on the dif¬ ferences between the two pro¬ posals. The sections of the two which overlap are merely parts of Article 24 of the Po¬ lice Code that established the Street Artist Certification Program back in 1972.

Aside from the Certifica¬ tion Program, itwould be dif¬ ficult for anyone who can read to confuse the Supervisors' ordinance (which includes no regulations, but merely gives blanket authority to the Board) with the street artists' ordi¬ nance (which includes nume¬ rous regulations pertaining to the sidewalk sale of arts and crafts).

In view of the many slan¬ derous accusations and fac¬ tual errors which Supervisor Francois has recently tried to shove down the public throat, the Supervisor would do well to contemplate his own words until he has learned to mind his tongue — "Nowl'd like to suggest to the street artists, that from here on in, let's stick to the truth, because I am going toexpose every lie that you tell and sooner or la¬ ter, the people of San Fran¬ cisco will find out that there is a complete lacking of in¬ tegrity in your approach to them. "

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ART AND CRAFT CLASSES

These class listings are free of charge to anyone teaching a class which might further the deve¬ lopment of art on the streets. If you wish to be listed as a teacher, send a brief description of your class to: STREET ART NEWS, S.F.S.A.G., Box 42009, S.F., CA 94142. _

GLASS

Traditional Leaded Stained Glass Workshop. Personal¬ ized instruction in the design and construction of your one foot square panel in one day. Class-size, 3 people. Course covers all essentials, so at the end of the day, you will have a window and the skill and confidence to make win¬ dows, lamps, whatever. The $33 cost includes all materi¬ als and tool use. Ray & Linda Cooke. For schedule and in¬ formation, call 626-6465.

WEAVING

'Weaving class. All materi¬ als and loom included in fee $50 for six lessons twice a week, Monday and Wednes¬ day. day or evening. Class is 3 hours long. Taught by Susan Levitt. Call 626-1777. Other textile and weaving classes also available.

STITCHERY

Nets and Lace. A contempo¬ rary approach. A variety of netting and lace techniques, including knotted & knotless netting, bobbin lace and need- lemadelace, will be the basis for studying the structures of open fabrics as a contempo¬ rary textile form. Inger Jen¬ sen, instructor. 21 hrs : $44. 526-9836.

Needlepoint. Students will start with basic stitches and go on to design, blocking, and working with 40-mesh and ot¬ her little -known aspects of the craft. 5 lessons, 2 hrs. per week'. Mon. 7: 30-9: 30 pm Tues. 7:30-9: 30 pm, W. 4-6. Jean Moshofsky, 387-4146.

Quilting taught by Helen Win¬ ter in Alameda. 6wks./$35. Classes begin Wed. Sept. 10 & Oct. 29, 7-9:30 p.m. Foi information, call 522-3353.

DYEING

All day Saturday or Sunday workshops geared to teach all the basics of working with natural dyes. Class includes preparation of wool, mordan¬ ting and dyeing with local and exotic plant dyes. $15 covers all expenses except wool. Call Rhonda Zobel, 661-5124 eve.

PHOTOGRAPHY

Photographic classes in color and b&w, for beg. &adv. stu¬ dents. All aspects of photo¬ graphy examined, technically and aesthetically. Written material covering the demon¬ stration of the camera , devel¬ opment of film, printing and mounting is given out each class. Instructors have M. A. in photography; David Howard 824-5647.

PAINTING

Instruction with a profession¬ al illustrator. A course in drawing, perspective, and composition of your drawings and painting to enable you to transform a visual experience into a strong pictoral com¬ position. Take home a paint¬ ing in a few weeks. 12 wks/$50, paid in advance - no refunds for days missed - W. 7 - 9: 30 Phone Felix Ferrero for reg¬ istration & materials, 981 -11 64.

Painting classes in oils and watercolors: portrait and landscape. Teacher has ex¬ hibited work at the Royal So¬ ciety of Portrait Painters in London, the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh, and the DeYoung Museum. Class fee is $5 for 3 hours. Tues¬ day 7-10, Thursday 1-4, and Friday 1-4. Hilda Kidder. 771-6394.

Life Drawing and Painting Studio; sessions Th. evenings. Not a class - some instruc-’ tion on request on the use of materials. $40.00 plus mo¬ del fee for 8 weeks. Use your own materials. No refunds for classes missed. Felix Ferrero, 981-1164.

MIME

Professional Mime teacher and street performer who has studied in Europe and taught two years in Berkeley offers: Improvisation, Mime Tech¬ niques, French Method. Two five week courses start Mon. Aug 4 at IIII Geary St. M-Th 9-11:30 a. m./$75 or M, T, Th 5:45 - 7:30 p. m./$50. Also children's mime classes (6- 12 years) starting Th. Aug. 7,' 4-5 p.m., once a week for 5 weeks/$15. CallPancho Poor- mand, 771-7279.

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UNITED FARM¬ WORKERS FAIR

Sunday August 24th, 11 AM- 7 PM at St. Peter's Church hall, Alabama & 24th Streets, the San Francisco Boycott (against Gallo wine, Lucky stores, non-UFW head let¬ tuce and grapes) Committee will have an arts and crafts fair. Handcrafted goods don¬ ated by local street artists will be on sale. Live music and family entertainment pro¬ vided by Shoot for the Stars Productions, hot food and re¬ freshments! Come one, come all. (There are still 10 $4 spaces in the hall available for craftspeople; for info call 824-6616.)

The San Francisco Street Artist Guild is dedicated to encouraging the creative and cultural development of the community by promoting arts . crafts, music, and theater in the open areas of the city; and to relieving unemploy¬ ment by maintaining oppor¬ tunities for people to display , sell, and perform their art.

Membership is open to anyone who earns his or her living, in whole or in part, by displaying, selling or performing their art on the streets or in the open areas of the city. Any person in¬ terested in joining the Guild should write to the above ad¬ dress or contact any of the following Guild members on Beach Street : Bill or Sandra O'Brien, Jerry Lee, Dave Be¬ nitez, or David Browda,

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STREET ART NEWS is published, each month by the San Francisco Street Ar¬ tist Guild, Box 42009. San Francisco. CA 94142. (415) 441-5597. If you wish to subscribe to the paper, send $2. 50 (to cover mailing costs for one year) to the above address.

We welcome all submissions of let¬ ters, manuscripts, art -work, photo¬ graphs. etc. and will take all reason¬ able care with them, but we can assume no responsibility for unsolicited mater¬ ials. Please attach name, address, and telephone number to any submission and include an adequately stamped, self-ad¬ dressed envelope if you wish it to be re¬ turned. This edition is published in Late-Summer 1975 for distribution from August 20 to September 20. The deadline for the next issue is September 10, 1975.

Editor . Cynthia Green

Art Director . Dale Axelrod

Assistant Editor . Chris FitzGerald

Business Manager . . Chris FitzGerald

Contributors . Jerry Lee

. Ron Mathiasen

. . . . . . Eric Berg

DON'T KOPP OUT ! VOTE FARBER

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Adjusted Utility Rates for Senior Citizens and the Poor.

Adequate Health Care Centers for the elderly and disadvantaged.

Strict enforcement of the present City Charter in regard to discrimination against women and sexual orientation in employment.

A City Ordinance prohibiting landlords from discriminating against families with children.

Adequate Child Care Centers for women supporting their families, or attending school.

Rent Control Laws.

An immediate end to discrimination in regard to race, creed, color, age. sex. or sexual orientation throughout the city.

City Charter Laws to ban discrimination against parolees in employment.

Bilingual Education, and Cultural Study programs in our schools.

Strict Housing Inspection Laws to enforce tenants rights.

Complete support of the Street Artists.

Complete support of the Gallo Wine and Coors Beer Boycott.

Sidewalk ramps installed for the elderly and the handicapped.

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Crafts Faire in Vancouver, B.C., Canada - 1st week in Oct. Similar to Renaissance Faire - for info: Ken McLeod 2057 West 43rd. Ave. , Van¬ couver, B.C.

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The Castro Village Fair was a phenomenom of a re¬ markable cooperation between merchants and artists, and beyond that of the renaissance of the Eureka and Noe Valley neighborhoods. Recently the valleys have enjoyed new pop¬ ularity and vitality as renters and new homeowners repaired and repainted the old Victor¬ ians. The last two years have seen Castro St. and 24th St. become the revitalized cen¬ ters of the neighborhoods, with new restaurants, shops, and cafes opening monthly. Last year Harvey Milk, own¬ er of Castro Camera, founded the Castro Village Association because he felt discoursed by the narrowness and con¬ servatism of the existing mer¬ chant association. Starting with 13 members in February 1974, the new group now has 70 members, including two of the street's three banks.

"I got bored last year," says Harvey, speaking of the fair's genesis, "I wanted to do something to promote the area. I put up some posters, but I forgot to say who to con¬ tact on the poster. The crafts¬ people started to come in any¬ way, all by word of mouth. I knew Rick Slick was in touch with a lot of local music peo¬ ple - he used to sing up at Fisherman's Wharf - and he offered to handle the enter¬ tainment. And it happened. "

The fair was a monster suc¬ cess, with over 10, 000 in at¬ tendance, and this year that figure was doubled; hundreds of craftspeople had to be turn¬ ed down even after the screen¬ ing. The entertainment at the 18th and Market street stages was coordinated by Rick Slick and the Island fa¬ mily, while Lee Mentley and the Eureka Valley Artists Coalition put on the show at 19th street stage.

"Next year," promises Har¬ vey with a glint in his eye, "every store on the street is going to get a big piece of machinery. And on Sunday morning they’ll all hook to¬ gether and the whole valley will turn into a giant roller coaster. "

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