Stories in Action

We are sad to report that Filipino American activist Bill Sorro died of cancer on Aug. 27 at age 68. Sorro dedicated his life to working for social and economic justice, and was, perhaps, best known for his perseverance in the fight for San Francisco’s International Hotel. A Council-supported exhibit on Bill Sorro’s life opened a few weeks before his death at the Manilatown Center in the I-Hotel, 868 Kearny St, San Francisco. The public is invited to a celebration of Sorro’s life from 2 to 5 pm, this coming Sat., Sept. 29, Horace Mann Middle School, 3351 23rd St (at Valencia), San Francisco. The exhibit at the Manilaltown Center is open 1-6 pm, Tues.-Sat. (except Sept. 29) until Oct. 6. More…

Exciting news from Candacy Taylor. Cornell University Press is publishing “Counter Culture: The American Coffee Shop Waitress,” a book about career waitresses she has been working on. The book will contain about 90 photographs and 50,000 words and be released in spring 2009. Taylor has spent six years traveling the country, photographing and interviewing waitresses, and the book will be based on that work.

Also, look for Taylor’s work at the Santa Barbara Arts Commission Gallery this November. She has been commissioned to photograph waitresses in Santa Barbara for a show to be mounted in November that she will also curate. Taylor is an alum of the California Story Fund, having directed a project on career waitresses in San Francisco in 2005.