Hi there,

I’m in San Francisco this month and wanted to let you know about a couple of exciting events I’m doing at the Exploratorium and Yerba Buena this week. On Wednesday, I’ll be in conversation with National Weather Service Meteorologist Larry Smith — talking about fog! Then on Thursday and Saturday, Dave Cerf and I are doing a couple of new “live documentaries” as part of the Bay Area Now 6 show. This should be especially good because in our new piece about the Voyager spacecraft, Dave Cerf will be on the mic!

Hope to see you,
Sam Green
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CONVERSATIONS ABOUT LANDSCAPE: SAM GREEN AND LARRY SMITH
Sep 21, 2011 7:00–9:00 p.m
Light refreshments will be provided from 7:00-8:00
Film screening and conversation begins promptly @ 8:00
Pier 3 Temporary Exhibit Space (The Embarcadero near Washington Street just north of La Mar restaurant)
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FOG CITY is a work-in-progress using the visual splendor of San Francisco’s fog and the fascinating ways it intersects our lives to raise awareness about climate and environmental issues—subjects that can often seem abstract and overwhelming. Fog City creates a portrait as varied and rich as the feelings stirred by the fog itself: from the sublime to the quirky to the deeply existential. At the same time, the film aims to make us more aware of the complex systems of wind, air, and water that surround us. Fog City is being produced in conjunction with the Exploratorium and is funded by grants from the San Francisco Arts Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts.

“There is nothing on Earth exactly like the fog of San Francisco Bay. None of the thousand evanescent forms of air and water that move across the globe between the equator and the poles is as fantastic in shape and motion yet as tangible and intimate as the thick white vapor that rolls through the Golden Gate in summertime.” —Harold Gilliam

GREETINGS ON BEHALF OF THE PEOPLE OF OUR PLANET!
Sep 22, 2011 7:30pm
Sep 24, 2011 7:30pm
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
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Cerf and Green present three short “live documentaries” which combine film, live narration, and sound mixing. In the local premiere of The Voyager Spacecraft, Green and Cerf use the materials of the “Golden Record,” a collection of photographs, natural sounds, and music compiled by astronomer Carl Sagan for a time capsule inside the unmanned interstellar Voyager Spacecraft. They will also present: The World’s Largest Shopping Mall, in which images of the South China Mall outside of Guangzhou, China, a huge mall without customers, are juxtaposed with reflections on globalization; and a new piece about time capsules.