From language to cultural collision: the story of how humans invented history, from the Stone Age to the Virtual Age.
Learn more about the upcoming census effort and the challenge of enumerating San Francisco.
If you are a new, long-time, or prospective member the Tour of the Institute will orient you to our building, include an overview of our history and mission, and outline our current services and the benefits of membership.
A highly engaging tour through history to understand computing, social movements, common good, and the future of our digital world.
Contributing writers W.S. Di Piero, Gloria Frym, Michael Sears, and Luiza Flynn-Goodlett read from their work in this Bay Area issue!
Richard Everett (former curator of the SF Maritime Museum) will present best photographs, drawings, and stories about the buried ships of San Francisco and what was buried and found with them.
The musical and cultural history of the Fillmore is celebrated with a slide show and talk with authors and a Jazz performance!
Are you overwhelmed with managing your writing life? Research that needs to be done, tweets that should be sent, drafts, character summaries, scene details…the list of things that writers need to keep track of in order to produce a finished work is endless. How do you manage the chaos without losing your mind and muse? MI authors Eileen Hirst, Kristina Brown and Rick Homan; and librarian Taryn Edwards will share their preferred techniques and weigh in on the value of using software like Scrivener and Evernote. Come prepared to participate in the conversation with your own experiences.
Will you be looking for a new job in the new year? Join a group of career changers in an immersive resume makeover clinic with fellow job seekers. We will focus on creative techniques that can power you ahead as you transition to a new job function or industry. In your future job search you will be competing with applicants who have been there, done that, and have won awards doing it. Your successful career transition will require you to do more, and do things differently.
One of America’s most powerful literary voices is honored by writers Sarah Lapido Manyika, Michael Chabon, Natalie Baszile, Tongo Eisen-Martin, and Stanford Professor Ato Quayson.
Emily Freeman’s book Failure to Appear will be published on March 2nd, 2020 by Regal Crest. The road to publication was not easy but she did it with hard work and with the help of her teachers. In this panel discussion you will learn about how Emily, a newbie to memoir writing, had a burning desire to tell her story and get it out in the world.
If you are a new, long-time, or prospective member the Tour of the Institute will orient you to our building, include an overview of our history and mission, and outline our current services and the benefits of membership.
If you are a new, long-time, or prospective member the Tour of the Institute will orient you to our building, include an overview of our history and mission, and outline our current services and the benefits of membership.
