SF History Live! Curtain Going Up: Objects and Images from the Rich Mosaic That Has Defined Performances in San Francisco Over the Decades
Presented by Professor William Eddelman (Ph.D)
Tues, July 9th @ 6:30pm PDT
Tickets Free (Livestream & In-person); Donations Appreciated!

Historic objects bring together all the performing arts in their complexity: a complexity that has celebrated the most esoteric and challenging to the most banal. In every instance we have celebrated the ways that the performing arts have opened our emotions and given us insights into aspects of our lives. We live through the performing arts, and they in return enrich us.

These remaining objects and images, although inert, are the things that can give us some of the memories that have marked so many performances experienced and enjoyed. San Francisco has given us all of these. Please join us on July 9 as William Eddelman presents treasures from the Museum of Performance + Design and the stories they represent about the history of performing arts in San Francisco.

About Professor William Eddelman (Ph.D)

William Eddelman (Ph.D.), Associate Professor Emeritus of Theatre History and Design, Stanford University, is a specialist in international theatrical design. During his teaching career at Stanford University, he combined both the creative and academic worlds through practical stage design work and classroom teachings. His courses included theatre, art and cultural history, costume and scenic design, dramatic literature, theatre aesthetics and politics, opera, musical theatre, and the psychology of clothes. He taught at the Stanford Berlin Center, has led study tours to northern Italy, and designed professional productions in the San Francisco Bay Area.

He is currently working on two major projects: a research library and collection in international theatrical design for the Achenbach Graphic Arts Foundation of the San Francisco Fine Arts Museums, and a special research project for the Prague Quadrennials – held every four years in the Czech Republic – that showcase international exhibitions of theatrical design.

Register for your free ticket here: www.SFHistory.org/CurtainGoingUp