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The First Ever Streaming Theatre Festival is Coming & It Looks Amazing
PlayGround is bringing the theatre to you! This month marks the 25th year of PlayGround’s commitment to producing new developed works for the stage! Twenty-five! That’s almost how old you are. Wow. Normally showcasing their new works on the San Francisco Potrero and Berkeley Rep stages, this quarantine time calls for a thoughtful restructuring. PlayGround presents their first ever Zoom theatre festival, coming to a home near you! And surprise – most of the programming is FREE!
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The New Murals Going Up On Bay Area Boarded-up Storefronts!
Street artists are used to wearing face coverings and spending long hours alone. In San Francisco, not even a pandemic is enough to stop artists from beautifying our city. In April we introduced you to the Paint the Void Project; ARTISTS ARE PAINTING THE BOARDED UP BUSINESSES IN SF. Arts
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The Safety Net of Bay Area Artists
This organization is putting real money in the hands of hundreds of local artists, and plans to sponsor incredible public art projects as well.
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Supervisor Preston Wants to Double Real Estate Tax for SF’s Most Wealthy
Dean Preston has always been on the side of renters in San Francisco. Before being elected to the Board of Supervisors he founded and ran Tenants Together, California’s only statewide renters’ rights organization. He was also instrumental in getting 2018’s Proposition F passed, which gave anyone in San Francisco facing
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Governor Newsom Announces 4 Part Plan to Reopen California
Update 4/29: Heather Knight at the Chronicle has some excellent breaking news about this: Thankfully, because of our state and local governments’ quick work shutting things down, California hasn’t been as hard hit as other states by the COVID-19 Pandemic. That said, everyone is wondering when the restrictions will
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The 2020 Census is Out & It’s Important
The 2020 Census is happening now. You can respond online, by phone, or by mail: https://www.2020census.gov/en/ways-to-respond.html This is the first census in history you can complete online here! The Census is really important to our Democracy. The more we know about our communities, the better decisions we can make as
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EDD Site Crashes as CA Self-Employed Try to File
Unemployment benefits have not been available self-employed people since the pandemic started. Naturally millions of Californians are poor, panicked, and pissed-off. Not just because it took 2 months to offer them help, but because the EDD site keeps crashing, now at the eleventh hour. Rent is due at the end of the month.
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Oakland Educators Discuss Joining Upcoming Rent Strike
Educators in Oakland met in an electronic town hall on Saturday, April 25, to discuss a raft of problems caused in large measure by the novel coronavirus. Around 80 faculty, staff and community members chatted via Zoom in a conference organized by the Oakland Education Association to organize participation in