Canessa Park

Wednesday, April 11, 2007

It is time for another post on the history of the Canessa Park Reading Series, since there are rumors of a new director.

Ron Silliman on Rachel DuPlessis

The Grand Piano

Experiences at Canessa...

Spencer Selby is the author of eight poetry books, three compilations of visual work and a study of film noir. He coordinated The Canessa Park Reading Series for six years and created The List of Experimental Poetry/Art Magazines in 1993. He lives in Oakland, California.

25 FEBRUARY---sunday:
CENTRAL:
• Canessa Park Poetry presents John Sakkis and Megan Pruiett, To Music, guest curated by Tiff Dressen, Canessa Park, 708 Montgomery, at Columbus, SF, 3:00

Gratuitous reference to absinthe

Grand Piano -> Canessa Park

Colleen Lookingbill

Definitive history by the Black Cat (not to be confused with The Black Cat)

Saturday, February 24, 2007

Silliman's Blog has an article on recent doings of the antecedent of the Canessa Poetry Series, Grand Piano.

Saturday, January 20, 2007

A year of sunsets shows the aggregate time of sunset as it changes with the seasons.

Wednesday, January 03, 2007

Shaping San Francisco is a site that Chris Carlsson started to increase community involvement in the history of the city.

Wednesday, December 20, 2006

Transamerica Pyramid at winter solstice. Shadow at winter solstice in ArchiCAD sun study--used December 22, 2006. The large gray rectangular plaza is 5456' x 4038'.

Saturday, December 16, 2006

Mark Roller and Colette Crutcher, exhibiting Canessa artists from the past, successfully transform a park.

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Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Transamerica sun study, approximately the summer solstice, 2006.

Thursday, December 07, 2006

Hourly sun study of Transamerica pyramid, June 21, 2006, sunrise to sunset.

Monday, October 30, 2006

Luigi Mastropasqua, architect of Canessa after the 1906 earthquake and fire designed this little building on Kearny at Clay, once former Mayor Willie Brown's campaign headquarters.

Mastropasqua also designed at least two San Francisco landmarks, Julius's Castle, most easily reached by walking a few blocks up the hill from Canessa. If you can see the city below the rail of the Bay Bridge as you come into San Francisco, you can't miss Julius's Castle. "Built in 1922, this fanciful castle-as-restaurant was designed, not surprisingly, by an architect who moonlighted as a cartoonist, Louis Mastropasqua of la vita italiana. This crenellated edifice seems to hang like magic from its vantage point just below Telegraph Hill's other famous landmark, Coit Tower."

The other landmark is one of the twelve buildings on 15-84 Macondray Lane Roughly 900-982 Green at 1918-1960 Jones (National Register Landmark 87002286, Charles Bovone House, 68 Macondray.

Saturday, October 28, 2006

Avery Burns, who runs the Canessa Park Reading Series, contributes an eponymous poem to the new online-only format of Dirt :: A Journal of Minimalism, edited by Philip Primeau.

Sunday, October 08, 2006

Powerful work in Canessa's version of Oktoberfest...

Friday, October 06, 2006

Fog sculpture--not an especially original idea, but if a park on outer Columbus has one, then there'd be someplace reliably foggy accessible by cable car.