Redlining Redefined: Neighborhood Soundwalk
Saturday, October 8, 2022
2PM - 4PM
Golden Gate Library, 5606 San Pablo Avenue & Temescal Creek Park
In a truly dynamic, experiential experience of aural understanding into urban landscapes, new neighbor and sound artist Gabby Wen shared their latest soundscape about the impacts of redlining in the Golden Gate neighborhood. Gabby has created site-specific audio collages made solely from local field recordings and led a short, intentional walk from the Golden Gate Branch Library to Temescal Creek Park to listen closely to the sounds of the neighborhood.
This event was a part of a larger project coordinated by Thingamajigs, “a genre-crossing arts organization that promotes music and other art forms created with made and found materials or alternate tuning systems.”
What’s your favorite sound in the neighborhood?
How do you think redlining still affects our neighborhood today?
Listen to the audioscape, read the poem.
Like the shorebirds
Coming and going
Like the tidal waves
Rising and falling
The remaining trees
Swaying with time
Take the precious ones under your wings Deconstruction and reconstruction
What’s familiar is ever-changing
There’s only one way to feel about it
Yet there are still things not to be abandoned
The warmth of the bonds and the wisdom of kindness
Recipes from the elderlies
Carrying memories from the beginning of the journey
Diaspora may not be a choice
It could even be the result of mistakes
Propagated and cultivated
Healing for real
Then the new branches flourish
Offering sweeter fruits
Fruition brings yet another cycle
Roots reaching the water body that was once forgotten Remembering what the land and the people before us had offered
Paying it forward, and it’s our turn to offer the land
Wealth does not bring true self-sufficiency
Only mutual assistance - sharing of knowledge, resources
And good hangs on Saturday afternoons