We'll meet at the Park Branch Public Library (1833 Page St.) and visit sites related to the neighborhood's history and the amazing music it produced. Between stops, I'll play music from Jefferson Airplane, the Grateful Dead, Big Brother & The Holding Company and many others. The tours lasts about 2 hrs.

Click here for information on the music I play, neighborhood food choices, etc.

We'll meet at the Park Branch Public Library (1833 Page St.) and visit sites related to the neighborhood's history and the amazing music it produced. Between stops, I'll play music from Jefferson Airplane, the Grateful Dead, Big Brother & The Holding Company and many others. The tours lasts about 2 hrs.

Click here for information on the music I play, neighborhood food choices, etc.

Ballpark tours last 90 mins. They are offered through the SF Giants and require purchase of a ticket.  Click here for tickets and be sure to select a time when I’m scheduled to lead.

Ballpark tours last 90 mins. They are offered through the SF Giants and require purchase of a ticket.  Click here for tickets and be sure to select a time when I’m scheduled to lead.

The Around f.64 exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art focuses on a key moment in photographic history, celebrating the f.64 group—a collective of photographers who played a pivotal role in shaping the visual language of 20th-century photography. The exhibition often emphasizes the unique approach to clarity, sharpness, and attention to detail that these photographers brought to their work.  The exhibition includes images by Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham and Edward Weston as well as many other photographers they influenced.  Rodney Paul will be joined by Verena Lukas, Robert Tat and Charlie Goldberg to discuss their takeaways from this museum show.

We'll meet at the Park Branch Public Library (1833 Page St.) and visit sites related to the neighborhood's history and the amazing music it produced. Between stops, I'll play music from Jefferson Airplane, the Grateful Dead, Big Brother & The Holding Company and many others. The tours lasts about 2 hrs.

Click here for information on the music I play, neighborhood food choices, etc.

Ballpark tours last 90 mins. They are offered through the SF Giants and require purchase of a ticket.  Click here for tickets and be sure to select a time when I’m scheduled to lead.

Ballpark tours last 90 mins. They are offered through the SF Giants and require purchase of a ticket.  Click here for tickets and be sure to select a time when I’m scheduled to lead.

We'll meet at the Park Branch Public Library (1833 Page St.) and visit sites related to the neighborhood's history and the amazing music it produced. Between stops, I'll play music from Jefferson Airplane, the Grateful Dead, Big Brother & The Holding Company and many others. The tours lasts about 2 hrs.

Click here for information on the music I play, neighborhood food choices, etc.

We'll meet at the Park Branch Public Library (1833 Page St.) and visit sites related to the neighborhood's history and the amazing music it produced. Between stops, I'll play music from Jefferson Airplane, the Grateful Dead, Big Brother & The Holding Company and many others. The tours lasts about 2 hrs.

Click here for information on the music I play, neighborhood food choices, etc.

For most Americans, the term “suburbia” conjures single-family homes and uniform architecture in areas that are solely residential and reliant on car transportation. With its array of land uses and architectural styles, North Berkeley defies this stereotype. On this tour, we’ll visit its Tudor Revival public library, homes of different styles, a small but vibrant business district, and even a small agricultural site.

We’ll discuss the magnificent Queen Anne period hotel gracing the area in the late 19th century and the foibles of the stage actor who had it built. And we’ll see how the area’s layout is well designed for the community’s present-day needs and discuss examples of home hardening that help prepare it for the challenges of the future.

1.6 miles, 100 feet elevation gain, 2 hrs.

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For most Americans, the term “suburbia” conjures single-family homes and uniform architecture in areas that are solely residential and reliant on car transportation. With its array of land uses and architectural styles, North Berkeley defies this stereotype. On this tour, we’ll visit its Tudor Revival public library, homes of different styles, a small but vibrant business district, and even a small agricultural site.

We’ll discuss the magnificent Queen Anne period hotel gracing the area in the late 19th century and the foibles of the stage actor who had it built. And we’ll see how the area’s layout is well designed for the community’s present-day needs and discuss examples of home hardening that help prepare it for the challenges of the future.

1.6 miles, 100 feet elevation gain, 2 hrs.

Join us as we examine how doctors, nurses, and dentists have been portrayed in art through the years, sometimes positively, sometimes not so positively. Former Emergency Department Physician and Museum Guide Charlie Goldberg returns to Art Viewing Adventures to display and discuss images of doctors and medical science from such artists as Thomas Eakins, Pablo Picasso, Edouard Vuillard and others.

Ballpark tours last 90 mins. They are offered through the SF Giants and require purchase of a ticket.  Click here for tickets and be sure to select a time when I’m scheduled to lead.

Ballpark tours last 90 mins. They are offered through the SF Giants and require purchase of a ticket.  Click here for tickets and be sure to select a time when I’m scheduled to lead.

Millions of years before its first human inhabitants arrived, North Berkeley was strewn with fascinating rock formations. Today, the area includes a set of lovely parks where these remnants of its geologic past can be seen. We'll talk about the Native American presence in the area and how the rocks were used by these first inhabitants. We'll also discuss the creation of the parks and their role when the first housing developments were created.

We meet in amphitheater of John Hinkle Park (41 Somerset Pl, Berkeley). The tour ends at the Great Stoneface Park, a 10 to15 min. walk from our start point.

2.0 miles, 300 feet elevation gain, 2 hours

REGISTRATION REQUIRED!

We'll meet at the Park Branch Public Library (1833 Page St.) and visit sites related to the neighborhood's history and the amazing music it produced. Between stops, I'll play music from Jefferson Airplane, the Grateful Dead, Big Brother & The Holding Company and many others. The tours lasts about 2 hrs.

Click here for information on the music I play, neighborhood food choices, etc.

Ballpark tours last 90 mins. They are offered through the SF Giants and require purchase of a ticket.  Click here for tickets and be sure to select a time when I’m scheduled to lead.

Ballpark tours last 90 mins. They are offered through the SF Giants and require purchase of a ticket.  Click here for tickets and be sure to select a time when I’m scheduled to lead.

We'll meet at the Park Branch Public Library (1833 Page St.) and visit sites related to the neighborhood's history and the amazing music it produced. Between stops, I'll play music from Jefferson Airplane, the Grateful Dead, Big Brother & The Holding Company and many others. The tours lasts about 2 hrs.

Click here for information on the music I play, neighborhood food choices, etc.

Bernice Iwamoto returns to Art Viewing Adventures for a presentation delving into the fascinating life and groundbreaking artistry of Suzanne Valadon, one of the most remarkable figures in modern art history. From her humble beginnings as a circus performer and sought-after artists’ model to her transformation into a celebrated painter, Valadon defied societal expectations and carved out a place for herself in the male-dominated world of post-Impressionism.

The Salesforce Transit Center is an important and exciting new building designed to meet a great many needs for San Francisco’s present and future. We’ll also talk about its neighborhood’s rich history and central role in the development of the city. This San francisco City Guides walking tour is 1.5 hrs. and is well-suited for people of all ages and mobility capabilities.

Ballpark tours last 90 mins. They are offered through the SF Giants and require purchase of a ticket.  Click here for tickets and be sure to select a time when I’m scheduled to lead.

Ballpark tours last 90 mins. They are offered through the SF Giants and require purchase of a ticket.  Click here for tickets and be sure to select a time when I’m scheduled to lead.

Learn about MacArthur Foundation award winner Kara Walker and her current installation at SFMOMA, Fortuna and the Immortality Garden (Machine). With wit and elegance, Walker’s fantastic automatons confront troubling histories of race and gender and transmit the power of the human soul. Inspired by medieval mechanical icons, dolls, Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower, and situated in a field of black obsidian from Lake County’s Mt Konocti, the installation is free to view in the Roberts Family Gallery until Spring 2026.

Walker has created a powerful body of work by examining “the peculiar institution” at the center of the American experience: the enslavement of African Americans. Well known for her silhouetted figures, Walker has expanded into large-scale public projects, such as 2014’s A Subtlety: Or…the Marvelous Sugar Baby at the abandoned Domino Sugar Plant in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and Fons Americanus, a four-tiered fountain “counter monument” at London’s Tate Modern that she described as “a gift…to the heart of an Empire that redirected the fates of the world.” Inspired by art history, folklore, tradition, technology, and philosophy, Walker’s art inspires hope in a fragmented world. 

Art Educator and Museum Guide Avril Angevine returns to Art Viewing Adventures to discuss this fascinating artist.

Ballpark tours last 90 mins. They are offered through the SF Giants and require purchase of a ticket.  Click here for tickets and be sure to select a time when I’m scheduled to lead.

Ballpark tours last 90 mins. They are offered through the SF Giants and require purchase of a ticket.  Click here for tickets and be sure to select a time when I’m scheduled to lead.

We'll meet at the Park Branch Public Library (1833 Page St.) and visit sites related to the neighborhood's history and the amazing music it produced. Between stops, I'll play music from Jefferson Airplane, the Grateful Dead, Big Brother & The Holding Company and many others. The tours lasts about 2 hrs.

Click here for information on the music I play, neighborhood food choices, etc.

Ballpark tours last 90 mins. They are offered through the SF Giants and require purchase of a ticket.  Click here for tickets and be sure to select a time when I’m scheduled to lead.

Ballpark tours last 90 mins. They are offered through the SF Giants and require purchase of a ticket.  Click here for tickets and be sure to select a time when I’m scheduled to lead.