Harvey Milk Arts Center
Overlooking beautiful Duboce Park, the Harvey Milk Center for the Recreational Arts is as unique as the Civil Rights leader it was named for. Originally dedicated to the Performing Arts, the builiding, commonly called "Drama, Dance & Music", was headquarters for the Performing Arts Division of the Recreation and Park Department since its construction in 1954. Duboce Park itself, has been a location for arts programming since the early 1920's when the women volunteers of the San Francisco Urban Story League performed puppet shows and storytelling in the park for children.
Facilty Info & Hours
The 23, 125 sq ft center recently reopened to the public after an impressive $12 million renovation to the 55 year old building. Dedicated now to the Visual as well as the Performing Arts, the Harvey Milk Arts Center has quickly become the City's newest Digital Destination with state-of-the-art technological facilities including brand new Sound Recording Studio & Digital Labs.
Located in the southwestern side of Duboce Park, the Harvey Milk Recreational Arts Building is also home to the Recreation & Park Department's exceptional San Francisco Photo Center - the oldest (and one of the largest) public darkrooms for traditional black & white process printing still in existence in the United States. The building also features a multitude of arts & recreational programming in our expansive Ballroom, Dance Studio, Art Studios, multiple Exhibition Galleries and Scott Street Labyrinth.
Part of a quartet of Arts Centers, under the Cultural Arts Division, the building was officially re-dedicated in 1979 to Harvey Milk as t ribute to the slain City Supervisor after his assassination in 1978. The builiding's recent redesign plays homage to the storied history of the recreational center & Harvey Milk, himself, in the form of a San Francisco Arts Commission suite of permananet art installations conceived of by artists Michael Davis and Susan Schwartzenberg. One of those pieces, "The American Dream: A Tribute to Harvey Milk" memoralizes Milk's words, "The American Dream starts with the neighborhoods..." fittingly upon the building's Eastside.
Facility Hours
Monday to Friday: 9:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m.
Saturday: 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Sunday: Closed
Facility Coordinator: Position Open, (415) 554-8742
Young People's Teen Musical Theatre Company is a teenage arts company sponsored by the San Francisco Recreation and Park Department, and supported by Friends of the Company (FOTC). Members range in age from 13 - 18 and are selected by open audition held semi-annually in May and September. The Young People's Teen Musical Theatre Company provides San Francisco teenagers with an incredible opportunity to learn and grow within a musical theater setting.
The San Francisco Photography Center, located on the bottom
floor of the Harvey Milk Arts Center, is home to one largest and
last remaining traditional black and white darkroom in the city.
Come enjoy an array of fabulous arts and recreation activities in our newly renovated facility, overlooking lovely Duboce Park with views that stretch to the San Francisco Bay.
In its inaugural year, this summer marked the launch of the San Francisco Recreation & Park Department's first digital summer camp offering. Kids from all over the City, came to the Harvey Milk Arts Center to enjoy a summer full of fun with new technologies. Course offerings included Art Exploration, Dance Video, Digital Photography, Digital Sound Design, Digital Storytelling and Music Exploration.
THE NEW DIGITAL ARTS DESTINATION
Thanks to the generous support of fundraising efforts from the San Francisco Recreation & Park Department and the San Francisco Parks Trust, Harvey Milk Arts Center is proud to present our new Digital Labs and Sound Recording Studio. These facilities are open and affordable spaces for the public to explore digital technologies- visual and audio.
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