City Arts & Lectures

City Arts & Lectures is a San Francisco-based nonprofit that has offered programs with leading figures in arts and ideas since 1980. In a given year, there are roughly fifty lectures and onstage conversations (as well as occasional surprise performances, film tributes, and concerts) with prominent writers, critics, scientists, performing artists, and cultural figures from around the world.

Events are held in the historic Sydney Goldstein (formerly Nourse) Theater, with online access. Programs can be listened to in edited broadcasts on more than 130 public radio stations across the country, co-produced with KQED 88.5 FM in San Francisco, as well as on the dedicated podcast.

The 1,687-seat Nourse Theater was restored in 2013, and is now the main venue for City Arts and Lectures events. It was renamed for its progenitor following her death in 2018.

References

↑ Seelye, Katharine (October 5, 2018). "Sydney Goldstein, Maestro of Public Conversation, Dies at 73". nytimes.com.
↑ "Nourse auditorium reborn as theater". May 2, 2013. Retrieved May 6, 2026.
↑ Hartlaub, Peter (January 8, 2012). "Sydney Goldstein readying new space for City Arts". SFGATE. Retrieved May 6, 2026.
↑ "Au Revoir Herbst, Bienvenu Nourse". Retrieved April 4, 2013.
↑ "About the Sydney Goldstein Theater | City Arts & Lectures".

External links

Official website
"City Arts & Lectures collection". The Bancroft Library, University of California Berkeley. Archived from the original on March 11, 2010. Retrieved October 5, 2015.
"Why City Arts & Lectures Succeeds" Nob Hill Gazette, January 3, 2024
"It hosted Robin Williams and Truman Capote. How a lecture series captured S.F.’s cultural zeitgeist" San Francisco Chronicle, October 18, 2023

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[1] Seelye, Katharine (October 5, 2018). "Sydney Goldstein, Maestro of Public Conversation, Dies at 73". nytimes.com.

[2] "Nourse auditorium reborn as theater". May 2, 2013. Retrieved May 6, 2026.

[3] Hartlaub, Peter (January 8, 2012). "Sydney Goldstein readying new space for City Arts". SFGATE. Retrieved May 6, 2026.

[4] "Au Revoir Herbst, Bienvenu Nourse". Retrieved April 4, 2013.

[5] "About the Sydney Goldstein Theater | City Arts & Lectures".