TREAT PAST PRESENT FUTURE at Carnaval 16th/Harrison St Gate
On your way to SF 2024 Carnaval swing by TREAT PAST PRESENT FUTURE to learn about the historic waterways and ecosystem that lived beneath the asphalt we see today at the 16th and Harrison Streets entrance.
This limited-time open-air museum display in the heart of the Northeast Mission District features dozens of historic prints, photographs, maps, and a comprehensive history of the land beneath Treat Plaza.
About Treat Plaza
Treat Plaza is in the Northeast Mission Industrial Neighborhood, situated on top of the historic tidal wetlands and Mission Creek which served as home for Ramaytush Ohlone people for thousands of years before Spanish settlement.
The Exhibit
Ranging from prehistoric times to First People, Spanish and United States colonization, and recent history of industrial growth, learn about how your favorite City came to be through interpretive panels and on-site Q&A from local historians.
Supported by Into the Streets and the Sierra Club SF Group, this is a unique moment in time to consider our past ahead of a billion-dollar project to dig up the Northeast Mission District to put in a new sewer line.
What should Treat look like in the future? Come share your ideas.
Artists and Historians:
Elizabeth Creely - local historian and green space advocate
Sam Conkling - materials artist and carpenter
Kieran Farr - green infrastructure activist
Partners and Sponsors:
We wish to thank Into the Streets and Sierra Club SF for their contribution to this project.
Treat Plaza programming is made possible with support from the SF Public Works, SF Planning Department, SF Office of Economic & Workforce Development.
Into The Streets is the on the ground partner helping community members bring their art, culture and fun into the plaza, with fiscal sponsorship provided by the nonprofit Livable City.