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APHA's regional chapters
sponsor lectures, fields trips and other opportunities to meet fellow
members on
an informal basis. APHA's Northern California Chapter has a page of
NorCal current news as well as its own website,
which should be consulted for more information.
June 12, 2004 -- APHA-NorCal
Picnic and Field trip to M & H Typefoundry,
M & H Type, 1802 Hays Street, The Presidio, San Francisco, California 94129.
The next meeting
will be our annual picnic, proceeded by a behind-the-scenes tour of M&H
Type, the venerable type foundry located in the historic Presidio district
of San Francisco. Our host will be Andrew Hoyem, whose Arion Press is
housed with M&H and its non-profit arm, the Grabhorn Institute. The tour and pot-luck
picnic will begin at 11am on Saturday, June 11. FREE to APHA-NorCal members $10 for
non-members (so why not join at the tour?) Please e-mail RSVP.
Details about the event...
Saturday, September 6
APHA goes "Monotype"
Patrick & Maxine Reagh invite APHA members and their guests to an afternoon
of barbeque & Monotype at their rur-burb acres, 96 Bloomfield Road, Sebastopol.
Both the grill and the Monotype caster (one of four from the Plantin Press)
will be fired up. Bring food to share and something for the grill.
Mr Reagh will publish The Bibliography of The Plantin Press next
spring, letterpress from English Monotype, in Bembo and Fairbank Italic (Narrow
Bembo), the house style of Saul & Lillian Marks. See the proofs of this
important book that very day. Othmar Peters, monotypist extraordinaire & former
proprietor of Mackenzie & Harris, will be at the keyboard.
RSVP to: American Printing History Association (Northern California
chapter), John McBride, chair (510) 527-1018 or 527-6835 (voice mail) OR
e-mail: johnmcbride94702@aol.com. WHEN YOU RSVP, YOUR NAME(S) WILL BE CAST IN
LEAD. THE SOBER WILL PULL PROOFS LATER IN THE PM.
DIRECTIONS: North on Highway 101, exit on Highway 116 (Sebastopol/Rohnert
Park) and turn left under the freeway. Proceed west on 116 about 6 miles to
Bloomfield Road intersection, where you'll see the Basssignani Nursery on your
right, and the Hard-Core Coffee Stand at your left. Turn left at the light, 96
Bloomfield is a few hundred feet from the intersection. Park on the roadway if
the driveway is full. Watch for speedy rur-burb drivers.
December 7, 2002 Annual Meeting
Be of Good Cheer was the theme of APHA NorCal's annual meeting, which was
held in the elegant surroundings of Barbara and Fred Voltmer's Havilah Press in
Emeryville on Saturday, December 7th. Our first order of business was to
install our chapter's new officers: John McBride, president; Linnea Lundquist,
vice president; Greg Graalfs, secretary; Chris Kox, treasurer. A discussion of
our chapter's goals for new membership yielded the hope that APHA would
continue to include the engaged amateur or hobbyist among its core
constituency. Here in Northern California there is a strong and vital presence
of amateur printers, and we very much would like to see that group continue to
be important to APHA as it moves forward with its plans for revitalization.
Several members brought work for the group to look at. Members had a chance
for fabulous door prizes, which ranged from wood type (the Voltmers) to a book
of Civil War photographs (Mills College) to special back issues of Printing
History (APHA and Steve Crook). Now we look forward to a year of new activities
under the leadership of John McBride and his fellow and sister officers.
Kathy Walkup
Retiring President
December 13, 2002
September 26, 2002
Reception and Opening: Recent acquisitions from
the collection of Gale and Dorothy Herrick.
Gleeson Library
University of San Francisco
San Francisco, CA. 6 p.m.
APHA NorCal joins the Friends of the Gleeson Library, University of San
Francisco, at a reception for an exhibition of recent acquisitions from the
collection of Gale and Dorothy Herrick.
![[Jack-CHS Logo]](jack-chs.jpg)
June 8, 2002 -- Stauffacher
Collection Visit and Exhibition Tour
California Historical Society, North Baker Research Library
678 Mission Street, San Francisco (10:30 am)
And
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
151 Third Street, San Francisco (1:00 pm)
Join us for a visit to the North Baker Research Library at the California
Historical Society, followed by an exhibition walk-thru with Jack Stauffacher
at his SFMOMA show. Download the flyer.
10:30 am North Baker Research Library California Historical Society,
678 Mission Street, San Francisco (near Third). Our hosts at the California
Historical Society will introduce us to the Kemble Collection on Western
Printing and Publishing. We will then be able to view the current exhibition
in the CHS gallery, "California in Time." Admission will be free for APHA
NorCal members, although donations to CHS are welcome. 11:30 am
Exhibition, CHS museum shop & lunch on your own.
1:00 pm Jack Stauffacher*, "25 Prints," San Francisco Museum of
Modern Art, 151 Third Street, San Francisco. Printer typographer Jack
Stauffacher will take us on a walk-through of his exhibition of 25
experimental typographic prints from MOMA's permanent collection, which are on
view in the museum. A group admission rate of $8 ($5 for seniors) will be
available when we all enter SFMOMA together (as a group)--cash or check only.
Getting there: Buses: 9x 14, 15, 30 BART: Montgomery Street Station.
Parking: Fifth and Mission garage.
Please visit www.californiahistoricalsociety.org for detailed
transportation and parking information as well as for restaurant
recommendations.
For more information, contact: Kathy Walkup kwalk@mills.edu
or at 510 430 2001.
Grateful thanks to Linnea Lundquist for her inspiration and for her
arrangements with the California Historical Society.
*Hot off the press! Jack Stauffacher is the American Printing History
Association's 2002 Lieberman Lecturer. He will be in conversation with type
designer extraordinaire Matthew Carter on Thursday, October 24, 2002 at the
Getty Center, Los Angeles. APHA NorCal plans to be there to cheer our
home-town hero. Please join us!
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May 11, 2002
Summer Picnic at the Stone Type Foundry Orchards
Capay Valley, CA
12 noon.
Share Conviviality & Food with APHA members. Nothing formal, just a good time,
though there may be some animated printing & typography chat, discussion about
how to graft walnut trees, speculation on the history of printing in the Capay
Valley, and/or an exchange of organic cooking recipes and gardening tips. If
we're lucky, we may also get a glimpse of sheep, llamas, and wild turkeys.
Sumner Stone's Walnut Orchard in the Capay Valley Saturday, May 11. Rendezvous
in the orchard at Noon. Expect to relax and stay for 2 or 3 hours. It will be
warm! Bring sunscreen & wear light clothing. It's a potluck picnic so RSVP
with the dish you will be bringing to share. Suggestions for things that taste
good on a warm day. veggies with dip, salads, chicken, exotic sausages, tofu
burgers, fruit tarts, or light cheeses. Sumner will provide a grill and hot
coals. APHA will provide plates, forks, drinking vessels and cold drinks
(lemonade, white wine, and water).
Directions to Stone Type Foundry Orchards: From the Bay Area
take Highway 80 toward Sacramento. At Vacaville take 505 North then take
Highway 16 to Madison, Esparto, the Indian Bingo, & Brooks. Another 11 miles
will bring you to Rumsey. You will pass Rumsey Hall (built 1903) and then you
will pass Road 41 on the right. In 1/2 mile you will see a white post on the
left which reads 3050. This is the driveway. If you find yourself in Cache
Creek Canyon, you have gone too far.
RSVP required! Email or call Linnea Lundquist:
LL@AtelierGargoyle.com or
415-864-2928. Carpool coordination, contact Kathy Walkup:
kwalk@mills.edu or call 510-430-2001.
View or download the flyer (Adobe Acrobat
required).
September 2001 -- ZAPFEST
In September APHA NoCal will join other community groups
in the Bay Area to help sponsor “ZAPFEST :A Celebration of the life and work
of Hermann and Gudrun Zapf.” Members will receive a special VIP tour of the
exhibition organized by the Friends of Calligraphy at the San Francisco Public
Library. Other events include lectures, receptions, and a conversation at
Mills College on Sunday September 9, with Gudrun Zapf von Hesse, Anna Wolf,
Georgianna Greenwood and Zapfest organizer Linnea Lundquist. 2pm, Olin Library.
For more information visit contact Kathy Walkup kwalk@mills.edu
or at (510) 430 2001. (Offsite
photo gallery
maintained by Jill Bell)
September 15, 2000
San Francisco Center for the Book
300 DeHaro Street
6 p.m., reception for APHA members, including an informal gallery walk-through
of "What IS Reading?"
7 p.m., Rich Gold on "Further into the Future of Reading"
Cost: both events are free (a small donation may be requested for the
talk)
Information and directions from Kathy Walkup kwalk@mills.edu
or at 510 430 2001.
September 2, 2000
San Jose Tech Museum of Innovation
San Jose, CA
11 a.m.
Cost: Museum entrance fee
We will meet at the museum for an informal tour of "The Future of
Reading," an exhibition organized by Xerox Palo Alto Research Center.
This fascinating exhibition includes Xerox PARC's research into what reading
might be like in the future, including wonders such as the book you can hear
as you rub your hand over the pages. The tour will include a stop at the
artists' book studio, a part of the exhibition sponsored by the San Francisco
Center for the Book. We will have a no-host lunch after the tour. Information and directions from Kathy Walkup kwalk@mills.edu
or at 510 430 2001.
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