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January 2005:
25 YEARS AGO TODAY…The People’s Theatre
Coalition was born at Fort Mason Center in January 1980.
The 12 who joined and performed at what was then called the
Marina Theatre, were Asian American Theatre Workshop, San
Francisco Mime Troupe, Teatro Gusto, Lilith, Moving Men, It’s
Just a Stage, Gay Theatre Collective, Tale Spinners, Make-a-Circus,
Eva Sisters, Theatre Unlimited, and Haight Ashbury Theatre
Workshop. Playing at the Magic Theatre that month was
Emperor Norton.
WINNERS & WINNERS…Graphic designer Michael
Schwab, who created the Fort Mason Center (FMC) logo,
was among the many honored last month at the "Grown In
California" graphic arts show at the Herbst International
Exhibition Hall. Happy Birthday to BATS Improv. They
turned 18 recently. David Wiegand at the San Francisco
Chronicle reports that Fort Mason Center’s Young
Performers Theatre of San Francisco will be able to offer
free theater workshops to 20 high school students thanks to
a grant by the Miranda Lux Foundation.
PLUGGING A BENEFACTOR… Photographer Michael
Kenna, who graciously donated prints to the Fort Mason
Foundation to help preservation fund-raising, has just released
a haunting new book. Ratcliffe Power Station is at
fine bookstores now. His work can be viewed at San Francisco’s
Stephen Wirtz Gallery. The Foundation still has a few
signed, numbered prints of his striking night photograph of
Pier One available for purchase. Give us a call.
IT’S OFFICIAL…The Nonprofit Centers Network
(NCN) exists, and it has named its first board chair. Fort
Mason Center’s Alexander Zwissler has the gavel.
The NCN is not a fledgling, though. An organization of multi-tenant
nonprofit centers from around the US, NCN has been around
unofficially for a few years and will host its third biannual
conference in May. Where? At the multi-tenant nonprofit Fort
Mason Center (FMC). Check www.nonprofitcenters.org
for more details.
NONPROFIT PROPHETS…Speak-ing of multi-tenant
nonprofit centers – and it rolls trippingly off the tongue,
doesn’t it? – Alan Ziter visited FMC, successfully
converted from a military base 27 years ago, to take a look
around. He is the new executive director of the Promenade
at Liberty Station, a military base conversion in progress
in San Diego. Former Fort Mason Foundation executive director
Marc Kasky has been working with the project.
MORE PARK NEWS…Folks from national parks around
the country converged here recently to share knowledge and
experience. Among them were National Park Service Director
Fran Mainella and Robert Lamb, from the Department
of the Interior. This was a meeting of the National Park Friends
Alliance.
– Staff
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