Osborn/Woods Poster Show

GRAVEL & GOLD is delighted to present a collection of original OSBORN/WOODS prints from the 1960s.

Please join us for an opening reception with Charles Woods on Friday, February 19th from 6 to 9pm.

For over fifty years, David Osborn and Charles Woods have been an artistic force in Nevada City, CA. They landed in the old mining town in 1957 after meeting as graduate students at UC Berkeley and went on to run a design and print shop, found the American Victorian Museum, and begin broadcasting the community radio station KVMR. Their bright, enthusiastic lithographs are reminiscent of Sister Corita Kent and the best of 1960s design. Gravel & Gold has assembled 19 original prints from the Seasonal, Ocean, Natural Guide, Travel, and Apocalypse series. They have been framed by Oakland musician Elias Reitz of Gojogo.

This is a very special show for us. It’s been a dream of ours to present such a collection since we first got started with the shop. And a special show takes special thanks. Praise be to Joe Meade for turning us on to Osborn/Woods and for being such a tremendous support to us and the shop.

Potion Making with Dori Midnight, Neighborhood Witch

Yosh Smells So Good or Kimia is Persian for Alchemy

Come Join Lady Yosh

for a Vibrational Perfumery Workshop

At Gravel & Gold

Friday, Jan 29th, 2009 6:00 – 7:30 pm

Suggested donation $20 – $40

If you can make it, do let us know!

Introducing Kimia by Y O S H olfactory sense. Kimia comes from the Persian word for Alchemy. Fragrances in the Kimia series are experimental in nature and will change seasonally. They are limited edition perfumes intended to transform the spirit. To launch this series, we invite you to a Vibrational Perfumery workshop.     In this aromatic workshop, we will smell over 30 materials and also explore basic perfume design. We will cover a little history and cover top notes, middle notes and base notes as well as fragrance families. With an emphasis on aromas that balance chakra energies, we will do Aromatic Attunements: guided meditations using essences.

The workshop will also focus its attention on Love & Compassion: 4th chakra and the heart. Attendees: please come prepared with a question or affirmation about Love. We will anchor a fragrance of your choosing to shift your energy around this issue. Special fragrances inspired by Gravel & Gold will be for sale that evening.

Yosh Han is the creator of YOSH olfactory sense, a boutique fragrance company and consultancy specializing in artisanal perfumes combining the art of perfumery with aromachology. Based on moods, personalities and intuition, each perfume embraces spiritual connection and energetic alignment with a core message to bridge inner beauty and outer beauty together. YOSH perfumes can be found at the most exclusive boutiques around the world.   Conceptual commissions include fragrances for the Bureau of Urban Secrets, Faith Popcorn’s Brain Reserve and The Pirate Store. Other clients include SF Opera, Lemony Snicket and Alanis Morisette. Her work has been featured in Vanity Fair, Town & Country, Ready Made and distinguished publications. More info at www.eaudeyosh.com

Meet Your Makers

Tonight we’re throwing a Solstice Party in honor of our dear Makers. It’s a SALE PARTY y’all.

7 to 8 pm : 10% discount
8 to 9 pm : 20% sale
9 to 10 pm : 30% OFF

True Geomance

Friends! Please join us tomorrow evening to celebrate the opening of Brook Schneider’s installation at Gravel & Gold, TRUE GEOMANCE, featuring jars, drawings, assortments, shapes that inspire light, and otherworldly landscapes. We’ll be here all day getting in real close to the window box, and especially so after 8 pm.

End of Harvest Pickling Workshop

Grab a jar and your favorite vegetables and come hone your pickling skills.
Journalist and pickling expert Eric Smilie will be showing us how it’s done.

Bring along a wide-mouth Mason jar + veggies. Or, for a mere ten dollars, we’ll be happy provide you with a jar plus organic produce.
Please let us know if you plan to attend by Saturday, November 7th by emailing lisa@gravelandgold.com

Good Veggies (It takes all kinds.):
cucumbers
soft squashes and zucchinis
radishes
turnips
carrots
beets
burdock/gobo root
peppers
cabbage
bok choy or Nappa cabbage
brussels sprouts
other hardy leafy greens – mustard, kale, collards

Not So Good Veggies:
potatoes
yams
hard squashes

Regardless of whether you’re able to join us, be sure to examine Awesome Pickle, Eric’s fermentation chronicle.
Also, his sauerkraut will be featured at Y2Y Gallery’s Non*Mart show, opening this Friday.

Ira at Work

Ira Coyne, sign/car painter extraordinaire, has set up his station outside the shop. At present he’s working on some beautiful Ouija boards that will soon be for sale here. If you’re in the market for some custom old school adornment, drop us a line and we’ll set up an appointment for you….

Andy Cabic + Britt Govea

Tuesday, October 20th from 8 to 10 pm
Andy Cabic of Vetiver and Britt Govea of FolkYeah! will DJ at Gravel & Gold.
Come shake your groove thang to the finest selects of 70’s lady records. Awe-some!

Our thanks to Alissa Anderson for the peace out Andy pic.

Lit Crawl Ping-Pong

Gravel & Gold is will be serving as a Phase 3 (8:30-9:30) destination during the Litcrawl this coming Saturday night, October 17th. This is the tenth annual Litquake festival on record and incredible readings and events have been going on all week throughout the city. The crawl on Saturday will the culmination of all the literary happenings, with folks dashing between events at various Mission District locations until they settle at our house for their final face to face encounter with literary awesomeness.

Given all this ping-ponging about the neighborhood, we thought it only right to partner with the Henry Miller Library to present group of poets and writers from the Ping-Pong journal of art and literature. In just one short hour, you’ll hear from the likes of James Maughn, Dan Linehan, Kimberly Jean Smith, Charlie Anders, and Maria Garcia Teutsch, the Editor-in-Chief of Ping-Pong.

We’re really looking forward to participating in this landmark year of Litquake magic and look forward to seeing you Saturday night!

Agrarian Art Lab Eats + BYOB Happy Hour

Join us on October 16th from 5 pm to 7 pm as we celebrate Food + Sex Magazine’s end of tour foodie party and BYOB Happy Hour with Gallo Pinto from The Spotted Rooster, supreme Pesto from World Champion Pesto maker Danny Bowien, and Tartine Bread.  Afterward, be sure to slither down to Amnesia to catch the Lemonade show with Rubies/Fleshtone/Dominant Legs/Neal Morgan at Amnesia from 9 pm to 2 am!!

Ed Masuga + BKP

Join us this Friday, October 9th at 7pm to hear Ed Masuga play, along with occasional collaborator, BKP.

Ed’s been a part of the Gravel & Gold family since we first got started. His acoustic guitar playing and singing is always a treat to hear, and it’s especially nice to have him back in the Bay, and back at the shop, after his sojourn East.

Do remember that music tends to sound even better with Serrano’s pizza in hand, so leave time to order up a slice for yourself.

UnbeWeavings

The white, lonesome walls at the shop are awash with color. Tireless stripey shirt uniform wearer, fellow neighborhood shopkeeper, and friend Rory Rabut has kindly installed a group of gorgeous North American Indian and Central American woven textiles. Each piece in his collection—ten years in the making—was selected for its vibrant colors and bold graphic design. The show does include several collectible Yei rugs and fine saddle blankets, however Rory’s emphasis is on the immediate appeal of the weavings as beautiful objects, regardless of their pedigree.

Rory and his fantastic wife Ria run a vintage store called The Good Shop over on Folsom @ 22nd Street. Check them out!

Bean-Out

Tomorrow’s Bean Wednesday will feature red beans and rice with crystal sauce by The Spotted Rooster and a pot of special beans by Danny Bowien of Good Evening Thursday and Mission Burger. Also, we’ll be offering fresh strawberry tarts by Vanessa Lavorato of Berry Tasty Pies.

BYOBowl if you gots one, we’ll have utensils on hand. See you for lunch, between noon and 3.

Smells Like Goddess Spirit

Leila Castle, maker of the transportive West Marine Bath Salts you may have sniffed in the shop, is offering up a workshop on goddess traditions and aromatherapy next Friday, August 28th.

A rich legacy of sacred feminine traditions flourishes in our present use of aromatherapy and essential oils. Leila interweaves mythology and practices from Wiccan, Western magical and Tantric sources and makes use of botanical fragrance as a way to connect with and empower our own sacred feminine nature. She will lead an exploration and discussion of essential oils that unlock the goddess potential in each of us.

Leila will also be available after the workshop to schedule a personalized scent consultation, an opportunity that should not be missed.

August 28th at 6pm
Sliding scale payment from $15 on up.
We will cap the class at 18 people. All ages welcome, with bonus goddess loves for mama/daughter duos.
Please reserve your spot by emailing lisa@gravelandgold.com.  Of course, you are also welcome to sign up in person at the shop or by giving us a call, (415) 552-0112.

Bouwerie Beans

This Wednesday lunch hour, please join us for an inaugural bowl of delicious beans served up by Mark Andrew Gravel. Type of bean TBA, either Black Beans and Rice or Gallo Pinto, subject to whim, and available from noon to 3 pm, or until he runs out.

Gravel heads up the Agrarian Art Lab and works with Meatpaper and many of the Mission’s finest underground food projects. His ongoing pot of Wednesday beans will serve as a compliment to all the lovely vegetables our designated Eatwell CSA members will be picking up that same day. By all means, come for the beans, stay for the conversation, and of course go home with a new stripey T.

Inside Outside

Pool
oil on panel

This Saturday, August 8th we invite you to the shop for a celebration of our first art installation by Sara Bright. The opening reception will run from 6:00 to 9:00.

Sara Bright is a San Francisco Bay Area based painter whose practice involves making process-oriented paintings of interior landscapes. She recently received her MFA in Art Practice from the University of California Berkeley.

Tomorrizzle

We’re so looking forward to opening our doors to everyone tomorrow. A great many neighborhood folks have been trying to elbow their way through as we’ve been working through the last details today. Soon, bunnies!

tuesdayTUESDAYtuesday

This Tuesday, August 4th, we will open our doors.

At this very moment, items are being arranged, art is being hung, and stripey shirts in all styles and sizes are being cannolied and stacked. We can’t wait to share it all with you.

Shhhhh!

The new shop is (softly) opening.
Come see us soon!