It’s been a long road, but the new artwork on the front of the Bernal Heights Branch Library is more or less complete, and it looks rather spiffy. Next up comes the planning for the art that will go on the back of the library, facing the playground. The library task force has chosen Johanna Poethig … Continue reading What Kind of Art Belongs on the Back of the Bernal Library?
Last weekend there was a full team from Precita Eyes Murals on hand at the Bernal Heights Library to install the new artwork on the Cortland facade. What’s interesting is that — as you can see — the art is less of a mural, and more of an intricate mixed-media and tile installation. Interesting. PHOTOS: … Continue reading Remuralizing Now Fully Underway at the Bernal Library
Some will cheer, and some will jeer, but destiny will run its course regardless; now, as planned, the beginnings of the new Bernal Heights Library mural are in place on the building’s Cortland facade. Here’s where it will ultimately end up: PHOTO: Top, Neighbor Anita. Below, he free-range We Built This City
Bernal Heights Library manager Melissa Gooch apologizes for the late notice, but she invites one and all to attend the library’s Winter Celebration tonight at 6:30 pm: Come join your neighbors for holiday festivities at the Bernal Heights Library. Upstairs we will feature The Bernal Jazz Quintet in concert and downstairs there will be crafts … Continue reading Tonight: Winter Celebration (and Jazz) at the Bernal Library
If you’re one of those people who spent the last decade or two wondering what the Bernal Height library would look like if it didn’t have a mural painted on its facade, you’re now in luck. The old mural was removed last month and the new mural will go up sometime in the months ahead. … Continue reading Bernal Library Reveals Unadorned Facade During Mural-Free Interlude
Ms. Valerie, the Children’s Librarian at the Bernal Branch Library, invites one and all to attend an important meeting tomorrow evening to discuss the library’s operating hours: We Need Your Input on our Public Service Hours! SFPL Bernal Branch Public Hearing Tuesday, October 2nd from 6:00-8:00 p.m. Refreshments will be served Bernal Heights Library Meeting … Continue reading Tomorrow: A Meeting About the State of the Bernal Library
Just like Lindsay Lohan, the proposal to create a new mural for the Bernal Heights Library has a talent for attracting controversy. Right now, the library is covered in scaffolding and repainting was supposed to have started this week. Instead, the project is on hold because the estate of Arch Williams, the artist who co-created … Continue reading Controversial Bernal Library Mural Cloaked in New Controversy
If you visited Cortland Street this weekend, you might have noticed the new scaffolding that surrounds the Bernal Heights Branch Library. The remuraling of the library is now set to get underway: The waiting is over! Implementation of Phase One will proceed as follows: JUNE 8-9 set up scaffolding JUNE 11 City building maintenance crew … Continue reading Work Begins (and Artists Wanted) for New Bernal Library Mural
Neighbor Demece from Precita Valley Neighbors sends along this announcement about a craft-based fundraiser for the Bernal Library mural facade: Precita Valley Neighbors invites you, your family, your dogs to the… Paint-A-Tile Fundraiser at Precita Mural Eyes! Who: Fundraiser for the Precita Mural Eyes’ Mural Facade on the Bernal Library! Donations of $100 per tile are … Continue reading Paint-A-Tile Fundraiser for the Bernal Library, Saturday
Hey cool cats, Michael Gold let loose an announcement about a Bernal Jazz Quintet gig happening tomorrow night at the Bernal branch library. Dig it: The Bernal Jazz Quintet returns to the neighborhood library with music to get your toe tapping and your hat size expanding. We’ll be playing familiar standards as well as some … Continue reading Dig It: Bernal Jazz Quintet at the Bernal Library, Tomorrow
Carlos Santana once lived in Bernal. But James Brown? Alas, no. Ray Charles? Sorry. Aretha Franklin? Err, not so much. Regardless, there’s a terrific program about “The Golden Age of Soul” on the calendar tomorrow night at the Bernal Heights Branch Library: When: Wed, 2/08/2012, 6:30 – 8:30 Richie Unterberger will present “The Golden Age … Continue reading “The Golden Age of Soul,” at the Bernal Library, Tomorrow
Neighbor Brandon dialed the Bernalwood hotline this morning to alert us to a raffle that’s being held this week to benefit the new mural on the Bernal Heights Branch Library: You can win awesome prizes from local merchants (and a certain neighborhood dads group…) in the Bernal Library Artwork Project’s holiday raffle! Tickets are 5 for … Continue reading This Week: Raffle to Benefit Bernal Library Mural Project
If you think the debate currently taking place in Washington DC over raising the federal debt ceiling is a sticky bit of politics, you’ll no doubt enjoy catching up on the latest details of the plan to paint a new mural on the facade of the Bernal Heights Branch of the San Francisco Public Library … Continue reading Say Hello to the Proposed Design for the Bernal Library Mural
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