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MEDIA CONTACT: Michelle Jeffers
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August 10, 2011
Author Mary Roach In Conversation with Mythbusters’ Adam Savage
San Francisco Public Library Announces 2011 One City One Book Event Schedule
The San Francisco Public Library invites San Franciscans to participate in programming celebrating and highlighting local author Mary Roach’s Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void, the 7th annual One City One Book: San Francisco Reads.
The main event will be on Wednesday, Nov. 2 at 6 p.m. at the
San Francisco Main Library, featuring the very smart and funny Mary Roach in
conversation with Adam Savage, well-known as co-host of Mythbusters.
Roach is the author of the bestselling books Stiff:
The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife, and Bonk: The Curious Coupling of
Science and Sex. She lives in Oakland, Calif. Adam Savage is an American industrial
design and special effects designer/fabricator, actor, educator, and co-host of
the Discovery Channel television series MythBusters.
Seating is limited. Doors will open at 5:45 p.m. Packing for Mars will be available for purchase from Readers Bookstore and Mary will be signing after the program.
One City One Book: San Francisco Reads is supported by Friends of the San Francisco Public Library and the Bay Area Science Festival.
For more information, visit the Library website at www.sfpl.org/onecityonebook. All programs at the Library are free.
Complete Program Schedule:
Mary Roach in
conversation with Adam Savage
Wednesday, Nov. 2 at 6 p.m., San Francisco Main Library, Koret Auditorium, 100
Larkin St., 557-4277
What happens when one of the funniest and smartest authors around gets
interviewed by a MythBuster? Find out tonight when we learn which space legends
might be as combustible as many urban ones are when Adam Savage and Mary Roach
chat it up about Packing for Mars: The
Curious Science of Life in the Void, San Francisco’s One City One Book
selection for 2011. Before the conversation, enjoy an eye-popping video tour of
1950s and 60s rocket dreams curated by author, archivist and space enthusiast
Megan Prelinger.
Packing for Mars will be available for purchase from Readers Bookstore and Mary will be signing after the program.
Note: Seating is limited. Doors will open at 5:45pm.
Books Inc., Opera Plaza - Author Reading
Monday, Sept. 12 at 7 p.m., 601
Van Ness Ave., 776-1111
The Booksmith – Author
Reading
Co-sponsored by Litquake
Wednesday, Oct. 12 at 7:30 p.m., 1644 Haight St., 863-8688
Book Passage Ferry Building – Author
Reading
Tuesday, Oct. 18 at 6 p.m., 1 Ferry Building #42, 835-1020
Wednesday, Sept. 21 at 6:30 pm
Glen Park Branch – 2825 Diamond St., 355-2858
Wednesday, Sept. 21 at 7 p.m.
Potrero Branch – 1616 20th St., 355-2822
Monday, Sept. 26 at 7 p.m.
Sunset Branch – 1305 18th Ave., 355-2808
Wednesday, Sept. 28 at 6:30 p.m.
Mission Bay Branch – 960 Fourth St., 355-2838
Wednesday, Sept. 28 at 6:30 p.m.
Excelsior Branch – 4400 Mission St., 355-2868
Tuesday, Oct. 11 at 6 p.m.
Presidio Branch – 3150 Sacramento St., 355-2880
Wednesday, Oct. 19 at 6:30 p.m.
Western Addition Branch – 1550 Scott St., 355-5727
Thursday, Oct. 20 at 2 p.m.
West Portal Branch – 190 Lenox Way, 355-2886
Tuesday, Oct. 25 at 6:30 p.m.
Merced Branch – 155 Winston Dr., 355-2825
Wednesday, Oct. 26 at 7pm
Parkside Branch– 1200 Taraval St., 355-5770
Saturday, Nov. 12 at 3:30 p.m.
Noe Valley Branch – 451 Jersey St., 355-5707
Life: A Cosmic Story
Tuesday, Sept. 6 at 6 p.m., San Francisco Main Library, Koret
Auditorium, 100 Larkin St.
Ryan Wyatt,
Director of Morrison Planetarium and Science Visualization
Jeroen Lapre, Senior
Technical Director, Morrison Planetarium - Visualization Studio
Get a behind-the-scenes look at the making of Life: A Cosmic Story, the
California Academy of Sciences’ all-digital planetarium show on the history of
life. Narrated by Jodie Foster, the show plays daily in the Morrison
Planetarium through May 2012. The show’s core concept is that all life on Earth
evolved from a common ancestor and that life’s origins begin with dark matter
and the first stars—a pedigree 13.7 billion years in the making. The Academy
drew on the expertise of outside advisers and its own scientists to ensure that
even the tiniest details were scientifically accurate. To produce the show’s
complex imagery, the Academy’s Visualization Studio, which includes veterans
from Industrial Light & Magic, Pixar, and Lucasfilm Animation, collaborated
with Stanford University and the National Center for Supercomputing
Applications. Reservations: Seating is limited. To reserve a place
today, visit http://bit.ly/mQKpwa or call 800-794-7576.
Out of this World: Explore
Outer Space in Classical Music with Salon97
Tuesday, Sept. 27 at 7 p.m., Park
Branch Library - 1833 Page St., 355-5656
We'll listen to and share thoughts on musical segments chosen as an
accompaniment to Packing for Mars,
this year's One City One Book selection. No knowledge of classical music is
necessary and everyone is welcome! We'll also save time for mixing and
mingling. Who knows who you'll meet when you're here? Friendships,
business partnerships, and artistic collaborations have been forged over the
past three years of Salon97 listening parties. Join us for a fun evening of
classical music, friends and refreshments!
Another Science Fiction: Advertising the
Space Race
Monday, Oct. 17 at 6:30 p.m., Richmond Branch Library – 351 9th
Ave., 355-5600
Local author Megan Prelinger will present a vivid slideshow of newly revealed
space art from her recent book. She will explain how rockets and spaceships
were imagined before they were real, and how some fantasies of 50 years ago
have taken to the sky while others live only in science fiction. Her book is
based on the hundreds of lushly illustrated recruitment advertisements that
appeared in the rocketry and aeronautics magazines in the 1950s and 60s.
Dark Energy and the Runaway
Universe
Wednesday, Oct. 26 at 6:15 p.m.,
San Francisco Main Library - Koret Auditorium, 100 Larkin St.
Join us for this fascinating talk from Alex Filippenko, Professor of Astronomy
at UC Berkeley, currently the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Distinguished Professor
in the Physical Sciences and one of the world's most highly cited astronomers.
Observations of very distant exploding stars (supernovae) show that the expansion
of the Universe is now speeding up, rather than slowing down due to gravity as
expected. Other, completely independent data strongly support this amazing
conclusion. Dr. Filippenko’s talk explores how over the largest distances, our
Universe seems to be dominated by a repulsive "dark energy" which
stretches the very fabric of space itself faster and faster with time.
Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science
Tuesday, Nov. 15 at 6:30 p.m., San Francisco Main Library Latino/Hispanic Meeting
Room, 100 Larkin St.
Author talk from Michael Nielsen , one of the pioneers of quantum computing. Nielsen argues that we are living at the dawn of the most dramatic change in
science in more than 300 years. This change is
being driven by powerful new cognitive tools,
enabled by the internet, which are greatly
accelerating scientific discovery. Learn, for
example, how 250,000 amateur astronomers are working together in a project called Galaxy Zoo to understand the
large-scale structure of the Universe, and how
they are making astonishing discoveries,
including an entirely new kind of galaxy.
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SpaceCraft: Mini Plushie
Workshop
Excited to make your own cuddly plushie but don’t
want another teddy bear? This is the workshop for you! In this fun
hand-sewing workshop GoGo Craft will teach you how to make your very own
space-themed mini felt astronaut, retro rocket ship, planet, or alien that is
perfect for gift-giving (if you can bear to part with it, that is).
Perfect for crafters of any level! Materials, tips, and tricks
provided.
Monday, Sept. 12 at 4-5:30 p.m.
Visitacion Valley Branch – 201 Leland Ave., SF
Limited to 15 participants. Call 355.2848 to reserve a spot.
Sunday, Sept. 18 at 2-3:30 p.m.
Ingleside Branch – 1298 Ocean Ave., SF
Limited
to 15 participants. Call 355.2898 to reserve a spot.
SpaceCraft: Upcycled Cup Cozy
Your favorite sweater snuck into the dryer and now
it will only fit your dog? Not to worry! In this workshop GoGo Craft will
teach you how to make a recycled sweater into a cup cozy that will make you the
talk of the coffee shop! Decorate your cup cozy with space-themed felt
rocket ship or constellation to make it out of this world! Perfect for
crafters of any level! Materials, tips, and tricks provided.
Sunday, Oct. 30 – 2-3:30 p.m.
Presidio Branch – 3150 Sacramento St., SF
Limited
to 15 participants. Call 355.2880 to reserve a spot.
Monday,
Nov. 7th - 6:30-8 p.m.
Sunset Branch – 1305 18th Ave., SF
Limited to 15 participants. Call 355.2808 to
reserve a spot.
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One City, Three
Films: Space Travel
Large Screen Videos in San Francisco Main Library, Koret Auditorium –
Thursdays at Noon
Nov. 3
The Right Stuff
Covering some 15 years, The Right Stuff recounts the formation of
America's space program, concentrating on the original Mercury astronauts,
including Alan Shepard, the first American in space, and John Glenn, the first
American to orbit the earth.
Nov. 10
Apollo 13
True story of the moon-bound NASA mission that developed severe trouble
and was stranded 200,000 miles from Earth in a crippled spacecraft, radioing
back to earth, “Houston, we have a problem.” Astronauts and ground crew race
against time and the odds to bring ship and crew safely back to Earth.
Nov. 17
Wall-E
Disney and Pixar join forces for this computer-animated tale about a
wide-eyed robot who travels to the deepest reaches of outer space in search of
a newfound friend.
