Featured in ArtPractical.com, 2010 (San Francisco)
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Article: Farm Fresh Art: Food, Art, Politics, and the Blossoming of Social Practice
Featured in FogCityJournal.com, April 27, 2010 (San Francisco)
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Article: If Moses Was a Cab Driver
Reported by Associated Press, April 24, 2010 (San Francisco)
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Article: Plans Percolate to Revive Some SF Native Creeks
Featured in San Francisco Chronicle, April 16, 2010 (San Francisco)
Op-Ed piece by Bonnie Ora Sherk, Carole Schemmerling, and Jennifer Clary
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Featured in VISION, 2009 (San Francisco)
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Article: A Publication of the Arizona Chapter, American Planning Association See discussion and drawings of Bonnie Ora Sherk's early Life Frame: The Farm on pages 32-33
Roosevelt Island LIVING LIBRARY Students Featured On Front Page Of Main Street Wire, November 21, 2009 (New York City)
Students from A Living Library at PS/IS 217 Plant Native Pin Oaks on Main Street Across From School on Roosevelt Island
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A LIVING LIBRARY Featured In UN / NGO Conference Journal For 08 / 09 Conference Theme: 9/08, HUMAN RIGHTS, UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France Conference Theme: 9/09, DISARMAMENT, Mexico City, Mexico
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View Our Chinatown Branch Living Library Blog & See The Student's Great Work ! http://allchinatown.blogspot.com/
Chinese
Media Coverage: Community Work & Play Day -
ART, ECOLOGY, GARDEN: THINK, TALK & DO, May 30, 2009
(San
Francisco)
World Journal: May 30, 2009
KTSF News Clip
San
Francisco Chronicle, January 14, 2009
S.F.
history lesson runs through Islais Creek
Article on Bernal Heights Living Library & Think Park Nature
Walk, Islais Creek, and Bonnie Ora Sherk's current and earlier
work with Islais Creek Watershed is featured.
San
Francisco Chronicle, January 7, 2009
Urban
students get to study at living library
Article on the impact and importance that the OMI / Excelsior
Living Library & Think Park is having in the development and
education of urban youth in San Francisco.
Chinese
Media Coverage: Community Work & Play Day, June 7, 2008
(San
Francisco)
Sing
Tao Daily News: June 7, 2008
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June 7, 2008 Press Advisory
Chinese
Media Coverage: Sawing & Removal of Asphalt & Concrete,
Chinatown Living Library & Think Park, May 29,2008 (San Francisco)
Sing
Tao Radio Broadcast: May 30, 2008
Sing
Tao Daily News: May 30, 2008
Ming
Pao SF: May 30, 2008
World News: May 30, 2008
Channel
26 TV Coverage of Breaking Ground at Chinatown A Living Library
& Think Park, May 29, 2008
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May 29, 2008 Press Advisory
Journal
for United Nations NGO/DPI Conference Devoted to Climate Change (New York)
A
Living Library & Think Park: Place-Based, Ecological Transformation
of Schools & Communities
Article On
Local & Global Vision of A Living Library Published in 60th
Anniversary Journal for United Nations NGO/DPI Conference
September 5-7, 2007, United Nations, New York
San
Francisco Chronicle
Street Dreams: Can One Woman's
Beautiful Vision Bring Life Back to Cesar Chavez Street?
Article on efforts of Bonnie Ora Sherk, Founder and Director
of Life Frames, Inc. & A Living Library, and community
group CC Puede, to Green Cesar Chavez Street and Freeway
Interchange in San Francisco.
November 17, 2007
Bay
Nature Magazine (San Francisco)
The
April/June 07 issue of Bay Nature Magazine highlights the work
of Life Frames, Inc. & A Living Library on its inside cover,
sponsored by San Francisco Honda.
California
Shade: A Newsletter from the California Department of Forestry
and Fire Protection Urban Forestry Program (Sacramento)
Life
Frames Inc. Uses Urban Forestry Grant to Plant 200 Trees at
San Miguel Child Development Center in San Francisco
The California State Department of Forestry
and Fire Protection Urban Forestry Program Features Life Frames,
Inc. and A Living Library in their most recent newsletter, California
Shade. (Front Page & Page 2.)
January 2007
UN
Chronicle Online Edition (New
York)
A
Living Library: A Global Ecological Network of Diversity and Commonality
Bonnie Ora Sherk, Founder & Director of Life Frames, Inc.
& A Living Library, has written an article entitled:
"A Living Library: A Global Ecological Network of Diversity
and Commonality" that was recently published in the UN Chronicle
Online Edition.
December 20, 2006
San
Francisco Examiner
Today's
Newsmakers: Bonnie Ora Sherk
Bonnie Ora Sherk, Founder and Director of Life Frames, Inc.
& A Living Library, is appointed by the San Francisco Board
of Supervisors to the San Francisco Urban Forestry Council
July 18, 2006
New
Bernal Journal (San Francisco)
BERNAL COMMUNITY:
Bernal Heights
Living Library & Think Park Nature Walk
Volume 42: Number 5
December 2005 - January 2006
frieze: Contemporary Art and Culture
Let
It Grow
From her 'Portable Parks' to the 'Living Library', for over
30 years Bonnie Sherk has aspired to 'expand the concept of art
to include, and even be life' by Will Bradley
Issue 94 October 2005 UK publication
Centerpoint Now: 60th Anniversary of
United Nations Commemorative Journal
Presented to World Leaders & Heads of State
coinciding with the World Summit & Opening of General Assembly
of the United Nations in New York
Cover & Article: A Living Library:
A Global Network of Diversity & Commonality
September 2005
The San Francisco Chronicle Magazine - Cover & Article
Land Art / Living Truths
A Performance Artist-Turned-Educator
Sheds Light on the Islais Creek
May 22, 2005
UN Habitat Best Practices Database In Improving The Living Environment
Read About It
United Nations, New York, 2004
The
San Francisco Examiner
Living the Life
Gardens teach city kids, adults about nature
August 5, 2004
The
San Francisco Examiner
Roots of the Problem
Environmentalist says trees could reduce flooding.
May 25, 2004
The
Main St. Wire
Letter to the Editor concerning
Article on A Living Library Plan for Southpoint, pg.6
by Dr. Noel J. Brown, President and CEO,
Friends of the United Nations
April 3, 2004
The
Main Street Wire
Living Library Releases
Plan For Cultural Park at Southpoint
Cover Story; pages 1 & 10
Centerfold; pages 8 & 9
March 20, 2004
Sing
Tao Daily News
A Living Library
January 29, 2004
Asahi
Shimbun
Japan's Leading National
Newspaper
October 22, 2003
Manila
Bulletin USA
Kababayan Edition Insert Cover Story:
The Community's Garden of
Hope
Volume 11, No. 34 (Cover + 2 pages)
A companion piece to this article -- a television interview with
Bonnie Ora Sherk and children working in the garden -- appeared
on The Filipino Channel, a subscription channel broadcast internationally.
August 14-20, 2003
San
Francisco Unified School District Press Release
SFUSD Students Help Create Environmental Learning Center
June, 2003
Landscape
& Art:
The Journal of the Landscape & Arts Network
Land And Eco Art in the
USA
UK American Edition, No. 29 -- Summer 2003
El Reportero,
Vol. 13, Ed. 15
Estudiantes
de San Francisco se involucran
en proyecto ambiental
June 11-19, 2003
Sing
Tao Daily News
A Living Library
May 8, 2003
Recycle
Today
Sunset
Scavenger
January-March 2003 article about A Living Library
(Page 2 of this publication)
The Wire
"Living
Library" Planned for Roosevelt Island, NYC
January 11, 2003
San
Francisco Chronicle
Living
OMI/Excelsior Living Library and Think Park, A New Way to Frame
Life by Deborah Rich
May 8th, 2002
New Horizons For Learning Journal website
Creating A Living Library
and Celebrating the Human Garden
Bonnie Ora Sherk, 2001
Published online
San Francisco Chronicle
Living
Library students transform a neighborhood schoolyard
by Laura Thomas -- May 5th, 2001
Artweek Volume 31, Issue 12
Re-envisioning Our Urban Ecology:
Bonnie Sherk's Rural Enclaves
Terri Cohn, December 2000
The Neighborhood Reporter
Garden project
greens up three school campuses in
Outer Mission
April 4, 2000
US Department of Education Community
Update Newsletter
Partnership for
Family Involvement: PFIE Partner Nominated for Smithsonian Award
May 2000
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