The Location for the San Francisco Workshops

Our San Francisco programs are held at beautiful Fort Mason, a historic military garrison that now houses arts organizations, the world-famous Greens restaurant, reception facilities and more.

Fort Mason is situated right on the San Francisco Bay, with stunning views of the Golden Gate Bridge and Alcatraz Island. The rest of San Francisco is just a bus or a taxi ride away.

About San Francisco

We recommend that you take our seminar and stay for a vacation.

Whether you are walking, riding in a taxi or car or taking public transportation, San Francisco is an easy to navigate city, with nothing being very far from anything else.

Visit Chinatown for a dim sum lunch, Japantown's Kabuki Hot Springs spa, shop at Union Square's major department and specialty stores, walk along the historic Waterfront, have a cappuccino and watch the world go by in the North Beach Italian district, visit South of Market to see a changing community, from artists and manufacturing facilities to upscale lofts and web-based companies, the Mission District with its distinctly Central and South American feel and its wonderful murals, and the gay-friendly Castro District -- or take a stroll through Golden Gate Park. Across the Bay Bridge to the east and also available by public transportation is the University of California Berkeley campus, home of the free speech movement. Across the Golden Gate Bridge to the north is the beautiful Marin Headlands nature area. With a short car ride you can enjoy the Napa and Sonoma County winemaking region or visit the elephant seals at Ano Nuevo beach.

Hint: Make sure you check the weather for San Francisco on the Internet so you can pack the right clothes for our neighborhood "microclimates".

Some web sites you may wish to visit in your preparation to visit San Francisco: (Note: these sites contain graphics which may result in very slow downloading for some people)

Hosteling International - go to the San Francisco / Fisherman's Wharf page (Fort Mason is our workshop site)
http://www.hiayh.org/home.shtml -- The hostel is just up a grassy hill from the workshop

San Francisco Convention and Visitors Bureau
http://www.sfvisitor.org/

Bed and Breakfast San Francisco
http://www.bbsf.com/
Phone: (+01) 415-899-0060 Fax: 415-899-9923 | E-mail: reservations@bbsf.com

Rough Guide San Francisco (a travel book series with excerpts available on-line)
http://travel.roughguides.com/content/3697/

SFGate (for ideas on events and sightseeing during your stay)
http://sfgate.com/

Fort Mason - our San Francisco workshop site
http://www.fortmason.org/about/index.html

Greens Restaurant - at Fort Mason
http://greensrest.citysearch.com/1.html

Participants in the San Francisco workshop are responsible for finding and reserving their own accommodations. Click on the Visitors Bureau above and you will see a hotel reservation system plus some other helpful items.

For more information about these seminars, contact workshop facilitator Lisa Heft at lisaheft@openingspace.net