Chris has just confirmed he’s going to come talk about his new book – Nowtopia: How Pirate Programmers, Outlaw Bicyclists, and Vacant-lot Gardeners are Inventing the Future Today – at the next league meeting.
I’m pretty stoked. I consider Chris one of San Francisco’s cultural treasures. Chris is one of the founders of Critical Mass and executive director of Shaping San Francisco – a multimedia social history of San Francisco. Chris’ work reclaims public spaces, public memory, and public phenomenon and challenges a market-driven society gone mad with more sensible and humane possibilities. Chris stands for what we have and what we can make together – as ordinary citizens – whether it’s celebrating conviviality, making room for bicycles on our streets, exploring the DIY movement, or uncovering the lost social history of those who made San Francisco before us.
I’ll share more about the upcoming meeting soon.
