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Tom Maguire: An Irish Impresario in 19th Century San Francisco

Mechanics' Institute 3rd Floor Library 57 Post Street , San Francisco

In partnership with Hinterland. Glen Gendzel, San Jose State University historian, looks at the rollercoaster career of Tom Maguire, son of New York Irish pre-Famine immigrants. Maguire was an illiterate taxi driver when he joined the California Gold Rush. He then rose to the top of the theater business in…

$10

Adapting STRIKING BACK

Mechanics' Institute 3rd Floor Library 57 Post Street , San Francisco

In partnership with Hinterland. Kellie Hughes (Irish theatre director) and Matt Spangler (The Kite Runner) discuss their stage adaptation of Mary Manning's saga of her role in the 1984 anti-Apartheid supermarket produce strike, a creative process that began at Hinterland (Kells) in 2018, and moved forward with a rehearsed reading…

$15

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