Remembering Renee Edgington, North Park Lions Club

(David Klowden commemorates a San Diego punk pioneer and AIDS activist.)

Renee Edgington yearbook photoI was searching online for my former mentor, Renee Edgington, the founder of Shark Productions, who was responsible for creating so many cool shows in San Diego, and learned that she & her husband died in a car accident 10 years ago while vacationing in South Africa.

Anyone who attended a show at the North Park Lions Club between 1978 and 1981 has Renee to thank for making it happen.

I knew that she had been an AIDS activist in Los Angeles, but I didn’t know that she’d founded Clean Needles Now. Renee was a wonderful woman & I was deeply saddened to hear about this tragedy.

Shark Productions artifacts:

Detail: Germs/Middle Class/Standbys flyer (art by Gary Panter; collection David Klowden)Detail: XTC flyer (collection David Klowden)Detail: North Park Lions Club calendar (collection David Klowden)Detail: The Last/Black Flag/Urinals flyer (collection David Klowden)Detail: B-People/Human Hands flyer, Jan. 20, 1979 (collection David Klowden)Detail: Crowd/Blasters/Klan/Angry Samoans flyer, Jan. 12, 1980 (collection David Klowden)

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