Last June, I called my friend Playa Jewel and said, “whatchadoin?
Let’s go on an art adventure.” I had been putting
together some photos for the Black Rock Arts Foundation so we
started at the Panhandle Bandshell in San Francisco, and is it
ever gorgeous?
The Panhandle Bandshell is a full-scale performance stage
constructed almost entirely out of reclaimed and repurposed
materials, including 65 automobile hoods, hundreds of computer
circuit boards, 3,000 plastic water bottles, French doors,
reclaimed wood, and recycled structural steel. As a fully
modular structure, it can easily be dismantled, moved and
re-assembled anywhere.ScrapEdenSF, artist’s collectives,
The Finch Mob and REBAR, partnered with Christopher Guillard
of CMG Landscape Architecture to construct the bandshell
entirely from reclaimed materials, ultimately diverting 18
tons of waste from landfills.
Perfomers were able to self-scheduled acoustic performances
throughout the summer of 2007.
As you can see the sound baffling is made of reclaimed water
bottles. ScrapEdenSF is a project of the Black Rock Arts
Foundation, was supported by a Zero Waste Grant from the San
Francisco Department of the Environment and by grants from The
San Francisco Foundation, The Darby Foundation and The Mental
Insight Foundation.
The Panhandle Bandshell was moved to Treasure Island in the spring of 2008.
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photos: Melissa Alexander, Melissa Alexander,
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