Good evening ladies and gentlemen. Oh yes its time to get ready. Indeed. Ive giving you a heads up if you could take your seats. Were going to start our program in a few minutes. Thank you so much. Everyone looks fantastic today. Thank you very much. All right. Hows everybody doing . Yes thank you all for joining us here in beautiful city hall in San Francisco and first off lets give a big round of applause to the bay area Players Group association for the opening music here today. [applause] thank you so much, and were definitely going to celebrate and have a great time. My name is franco finn. Im the warriors emcee for the past 12 seasons . How many warrior fans in the house . I know mayor lee is and proud to say world champions Golden State Warriors and Opening Night last night to the bay area team. We cant wait to bring their team back. Its going to be fantastic in the works, a lot of exciting things. I have been blessed to be part of the a great season and i hope to see you as we defend the season as they say and definitely a roller coaster read and it was fan taftd and i can before introductions we want to start with the National Anthem here folks and so im going to bring out fatima yusuf. Come on up. [applause] singing both the National Anthem and the philippine National Anthem. Lets give you a round of applause. [applause] oh say can you see by the dawns early light what so proudly we hailed at the twilights last gleaming whose broad bright stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight for the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming and the rockets red glare, the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. Oh say does that star spangled banner yet way for the land of the free, and the home of the brave. [applause] thank you. filipino National Anthem . Thank you. [applause] thank you fatima. Shes been performing for a long time for the Filipino Community so thank you. That was beautiful so welcome again to city hall. Of course were celebratings Filipino AmericanHistory Month, the month of october. Yes indeed, very proud. [applause] and i was very excited when i got the phone call from al. I have the chance to wear this outfit here. I actually went to the philippines and what occasion can i use it for so its brandnew, ready to go. I didnt realize how expensive they are, the good ones at least in the philippines and i am excited in honor of Filipino AmericanHistory Month. Thats going to be great, the reason were here and october declared as Filipino AmericanHistory Month. Not only are we celebrating the contributions of filipinos and Filipino Americans in San Francisco and california but also in the United States entirety, so this is fantastic. On october 25 we also celebrated larryitylong day also and thank you for the contribution to the labor workers and we will have the speakers touch about that and the importance of him and we want to thank the Mayors Office of Neighborhood Services director. Thank you very much and the Mayors Office and hydra mendoza and flora cortese and the asian art commissioner. Exposition. Lets give them a hand and the food and drink provided by ramar foods international, goldilocks, heavenly, spintronix, sun tropics and den veef blinds and for the mackenzie and i have a lot of the stuff at home so we want to thank the following for their support for the support and Manila Sister City Committee and our elected officials Assemblymember Rob bonta in the house tonight. [applause]. We will hear from rob in a little bit here. We also have in the house scott wiener from the San Francisco board of supervisors. [applause] norman yee sf board of supervisors here as well. Please wave. Gabriel sintdo from elser rilto. Thank you very much. Mira representing the city of hercules. Mark that golace, representative for congresswoman jackie spears here representing her office. Gloria lee for the board of equalization is here as well representing. And alice Walker District representative Assemblymember Phil king representing here. Also we want to thank the Sf School Board president emily meracey and a round of applause there and the philippine consulate of San Francisco as well and the consul general and the dj group spintronix and doing a lot for the community and for the lighting tonight and they are here. Chief administrative judge of the Public Utilities commission as well. Lets give a rown of applause and joseph der relo from the global philippines 2014 is also here as well representing. Joseph thank you so much and now i would like to introduce the man who is a big time warrior fan and hes as excited i am and we could talk basketball all day long and excited when the warriors get in in 2018 is the goal and a friend of the Community Ladies and gentlemen the honorable mayor ed lee. Lets give a round of applause. [applause] thank you for that introduction. Good evening everyone. Welcome to the peoples palace and franco i wanted to say thank you. Youre such full of enthusiasm and i dont know of you that have been to a warriors game and its doubly excited when he is doing his thing in the crowd pumping up everybody being the hype man but you have seen him in the community as well and i want to say thank you and on behalf of our city we know that the warriors have a lot of people around them but when you do things in the community we feel it very much as well, and no less than your leadership in the Filipino Community but the entire community of youth, of education leaders. Youre number one so thank you franco for all your good work. Lets give another hand for franco. [applause] by the way i am trying to look and see where you got that nba ring. Do you have that on you somewhere . Well, i wanted to welcome all of you here. Its exciting again the 11th celebration of our Filipino AmericanHistory Month here at city hall and i want to thank my staff. I know derek worked really hard and we cohosted with the community here and an invaluable time here for many reasons. Were celebrating not just this time with our Filipino American community but for all the years past, and i just wanted to single out my good friend rob bonta and just a couple of years ago you got the governor to sign off on ab123 and just when you were there and this is true for a lot of us minority folks we want have to remind people of the history and its invaluable and not just to the region but the state of california, and many of you recall this is the second year that celebration of the Assembly Bill 123 and we recognized the movement of the farm workers and how the filipino people were valuable in that movement and thank you for putting that on the History Month and making sure all of the education institutions recognize that as they read the history of the great state. That is important to every Minority Community but we celebrate today because you did it and lead that effort so thank you assemblymember. [applause]. I also know and i know as part of the filipino history we celebrate and recognize again some 50 years ago with the dellano grape strike and how important it was to the families of the filipino heritage. That is important to remember as well because from that grew a strong movement, and i was born in seattle and that Filipino AmericanLabor Movement was strong in seattle as it was in San Francisco as the valley as it was all along the entire west coast, and the Filipino American community has been so much at the center of our Labor Movement and i wanted to make sure that we paid attention to the dellano grape strike because though were very difficult times and when people stood up lives were threatened at that time and it wasnt easy to stand up for rights 50 years ago as it is today that we have elected officials from all over the bay area who are here and protecting peoples rights. We didnt have relationship and elected officials at the time so its my privilege as the first Asian American that here in San Francisco along with the board of supervisors recognize the rich history that Filipino Americans give and thats why we will continue making great appointments in our city to represent the Filipino American community. By the way if you havent noticed its close to being election time but i wanted to let you know that as part of the election maybe your absentee ballots were thicker this time because for the first time in our citys history based on the agreement with the board of supervisors we have tagalog as part of the official election document. Thats important. [applause] that is really important to do, and its not history. Its looking forward. Its our future. The filipino population is growing. I want to make sure it grows here in San Francisco more than even daly city but i know thats where the Affordable Housing has been and we will do our best here to build and rehab and protect Affordable Housing because i know its important to everybody that the working class families have that housing and thats no different than all the other immigrant families that we celebrate and support as well. Thats why i have a 310 milliondollar housing bond and making transportation affordable. Thank you to supervisor wiener to make sure that we have a great Transportation System and now i think were right. I think were the only jurisdiction that has free muni for low income youth and people with disabilities. [applause] thats another incredible contribution that we can boast about. Were doing a lot for our education as well and norman yee was on the school board and norman is admitting we never had this level of investment in the history in the Public Schools and thats because its the best School System for all of the families to grow up in and make sure theyre successful. Were also looking forward to make sure our city honors our south of Market Community by establishing the first filipino heritage district in the history of San Francisco. [applause] we will do that. We will do that, and its not just to preserve the history. Preservation has its role but its also to take care of the future of families of filipino descent in the community as well and theyre struggling and working class families are struggling. We will do more in that regard and preserve and stabilize and protect the future. This is what we have going in San Francisco. I am excite our future but i know we have to Work Together to make it happen. We all have to make sure it is not just political positions that we take, but its the embracement of each other as people. We also recognize that people came from somewhere, and more and more that recognition in these wonderful Cultural Heritage months are part of what we do here in the city. We celebrate our diversity. We make sure that we understand where people came from, and whether it was the philippines or other countries across the globe. When they get here to San Francisco we want to honor their dreams of success. We want to honor their generations of families that have been here, and if we can make an even better connection with a home country we will do so with the effective leadership of the consul general. Thank you for your leadership as well helping so many families be successful here so with they look forward to working with all of you. I already prom i guessed carmen and the Sister City Community and next year anita and i and others will make a historic trip back to the philippines to practice my tagalog to represent our pride and to make sure that Everybody Knows this wonderful city is a world class city for everybody to be in. We are proud of all of our ethnic heritage and honor and salute them but work collaboratively with all of the communities as they grow and with that i would like to invite the consul jfnl up here and proclaim with all of you that the month of october as Filipino AmericanHistory Month in San Francisco. [applause] all right. Well stay right there, stay right there henry. Were going to have some of the vips to come up and join for the photoop with mayor ed lee. First Lady Anita Lee come up, honorary members from the office of Community Investment and infrastructure, incentive come up and Rebecca Delgado rottman come up and San Francisco fire chief ray guzman. Asian art commissioner carmen colet. Scott wiener come on up from the board of supervisors and from the emily come on up and Assemblymember Rob bonta. We will take a group photo here. Supervisor norman yee come on up. [inaudible] [laughter] hercules city council. El cerrito and also raphael come on up as well and jim from the Alameda City Council is here as well so come on up jim. All right. Thank you so much. [applause] consul general stay right here. Thank you very much. All right. Thank you mayor lee. You look good in your outfit. You really. Do all right. So im going to introduce of course our philippine general consul and assumed his post in 2014 and integrated member of the bar in the philippines and his prior 3069 was assistant secretary of the Philippines Center of Foreign Affairs and she has one son and ladies and gentlemen please welcome our consul general henry bonserto. Philippine proud of us. [applause] im not cheerleader from the Golden State Warriors but i want to make sure we know why were here and what were celebrating and thats why i had to do that. The honorable mayor edwin lee and mrs. Anita lee, Assemblymember Rob bonta, board of education commissioner hydra mendoza mcdonald. The Honorary Host Committee for Filipino AmericanHistory Month. Our esteemed Filipino American elected and appointed officials. Honorable members of San Franciscos board of supervisors supervisors. Ms. Carmen colet from the sister committee. Colleagues from the philippine consul general and colleagues. Happy filipinoamerican History Month. [applause] this reception is a great way of ending october. A month that has been filled with celebrations by various Filipino American communities all over the bay area, and beyond to highlight the vital contributions of Filipino Americans to the history, culture, and progress of the United States of america and to show case the best of filipino heritage and culture. Thank you mr. Mayor. Our adopted father of the Filipino Community in San Francisco. [applause] thank you to the Host Committee for holding this reception. This year we celebrate several important milestones. First, the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders celebrated Filipino AmericanHistory Month at the white house for the first time, and will not be the last time. The power of the United States recognized that the filipinos played a crucial role in the nation building of this great country. Second, governor jerry brown signed a bill introduced by Assemblymember Rob bonta. Please give him an applause. [applause] declaring october 25 as the larryitlong day and the bill gives a complete picture of the Filipino Farmers during the strike and how the partnership between the filipino and mexican laborers sparked wide sweeping reforms in the u. S. Agricultural sector. Third, i was deeply honored to be invited yesterday to speak at the steps of city hall to celebrate the San Francisco board of supervisors support of House Resolution 2737, a legislation that seeks to award the congressional gold medal to filipino soldiers who fought along american soldiers during world war ii recognizing the pivotal role in turning the war towards an allied victory. [applause] lastly, we also celebrate the proposed legislation to establish soma filipino Cultural Heritage district and preserve the Filipino American south of market with the support of board of supervisors jane kim, john avalos and eric mar. We hope that the other board supervisors would also endorse soma filipinas. [applause] this legislation have been a long time in coming with the various organizations in the bay area working hard for this recognition. Yesterday was an assurance to the Filipino American community that we have been and still are a vital and productive member of the San Francisco community. It will allow us to move forward toward other dreams and ideals. The hard work that we put in today becomes the foundation on which our children will build their future, children who can now go beyond their needs and dream of becoming a legislator, a supervisor, a commissioner maybe even a mayor, but in the future. [laughter] we also wish to recognize and honor the honorable mayor lee and his family and his whole team in the city hall for their unwavering support to the Filipino Community. Mr. Mayor, you really are the adopted father of the Filipino American community here in the bay area, not just San Francisco. [applause] none of these could have happened with so much speed without the mayors acting and i must tell you very personal involvement. San franciscos recognition of filipino heritage and Filipino American history serve as an encouragement for the whole community. Indeed we come to realize how powerful a United Community can be and how much can be accomplished if we set our minds to achieving our goals together. There are 649,000 filipinos in Northern California alone. Around 44,000 of whom live in San Francisco. With the number of fills that work in the filipinos that work in the Health Care Industry were the second top earns in the Asian Americans. We are well educated and homeowners. Filipinos are the second largest asian population in california and the population growing 34 between 2000 and 2010 faster than the other communities and asian populations. This numbers suggest that filipinos can no longer be ignored. We have become a gentle giant that has awakened, more assured and confident than before, yet this is very important, remaining humble and true to our character of being men and women for god, country, community and family. [applause] it has been a fruitful year filled with Memorable Events that have deepened even further relations between the Filipino American communities in San Francisco and beyond, and between the Filipino American community and that of San Francisco as a whole. I am honored to be witness to these unfolding developments, and i congratulate each and every one here for your heart of service and your will for positive change. [speaking foreign language] [applause]. Thank you. Thank you so much. Fantastic. All right next one of our keynote speakers here tonight. Hes the author of ab7 and 123 and celebrating the awareness of Filipino Americans in california and a author and deputy City Attorney for the city and county of San Francisco formerly and vice mayor of alameda. Hes a lawyer and graduated from yale law and under grad at oxford and represents the 18th district in california and proud to say first and only Filipino American elected to the california state assembly. Ladies and gentlemen mr. Rob bonta. [applause] good evening. How are you tonight . Happy Filipino AmericanHistory Month and larry itlong day. Its an honor to be here and thank the mayor for his kind words and hosting this event once again and the tremendous leadership hes provided here, not just in the city and county of San Francisco but throughout the region and really appreciate his friendship and his leadership and in particular his friendship of the Filipino American community. And again i am rob bonta. I am honored to serve in the California Assembly and the 18th district and across the bay bridge, oakland, alameda and sanlyand dro and there is a lot to celebrate this month regarding what has transpired this past year. The 50th anniversary of the delano grape strike, the first celebration of larry itlong day on the 25 ghtsd and its an exciting time to be here in the final week of Filipino AmericanHistory Month and i just want to say a few words about San Francisco which has a special place in my heart. I worked here in San Francisco for 15 years. I was a deputy City Attorney here. I worked with Supervisor Scott Wiener for a number of years in fox plaza and before that in private practice and San Francisco is not just a special place for me but a special place for the Filipino American community with the history of the international hotel, a flash point in filipino civil rights history, a place of deep significance and identity for the Filipino American community, and certainly with respect to San Franciscos certifying tagalog as an official language and the commitments of the Filipino American community is deep and strong, and i just want to tell you a story about how i came about introducing ab123 and ab7. I was born in the philippines and came here to the United States when i was two monthsol. My mother is an immigrant and came to california as an adult seeking new opportunity, and the hope of fulfilling her dreams, and when i was a young boy my parents worked with the united farm workers of america and were farm labor organizers and we lived in the headquarters of that beautiful movement, a movement they believe is the greatest social Justice Movement of the state and of the country and we lived in a trailer, my mother and father and brother and sister and 100yards from cesar chavez and dolores was there and [inaudible] pete was there and the filipino leaders to create one of the great movements that our state and nation have ever seen, so i grew up knowing about those contributions, talking about them at the breakfast and dinner table with my parents, and then i went away to college, and i had not studied any of this in high school or before because it was never in the textbooks and then i went away to college and i studied history, and again the contributions of Filipino Americans to this Amazing Movement were not being told so my focus as a history major in college was to give voice to this in history to tell stories of events and struggles and leaders that occurred in history but werent being told because that was important. If we dont tell those stories to our children and their children then they become forgotten, and so when i got to California State Legislature one of the first bills i interviewed was ab123. I wanted to make sure that the contributions of Filipino Americans to the california farm Labor Movement were told, and it was important to me for two reasons. One, it assumed fundamentally wrong this important chapter in history wasnt being told and also was important is the fact that our mano who show courage and sacrifice and struggle so hard for so long was being forgotten. [applause] and they deserve better, and i also wanted children throughout california and their children to learn about this story because to me its an inspiring story. Its a story of courage and struggle and sacrifice and its also a story of collaboration, of what you can accomplish when you Work Together side by side, latinos, filipinos, leaders, representatives from every ethnic group which created the great farm Labor Movement that we all know about today, and so that was critical to me, and i was proud that the legislature was supportive of the board and the governor helped by signing it and we accomplished that in year one and to me that wasnt enough. I also wanted to make sure that the great larry itlong who help launch this movement, a leader of the Agricultural Workers organizing committee and who helped launch the delano grape strike in 1965 that he be remembered. He was [applause] and of course hes a california hero. Hes a Filipino American hero, and might be an American Hero and his story of struggle against the odds, his courage, and spark he sparked a movement is something that should be honored andup liftded and recognized in the state so this year we introduced ab7 which we recognize have a special day of recognition for him every october 25 which is his birthday so we had the first commemoration this year and it says important things. It tells pee what we can accomplish as a Filipino American community and come together and give voice to our values and what we care about. I cant tell you how many letters and phone calls of support that i got for these two bills. How many websites were created to pass ab123 and ab seven, how Many Organizations were supportive in the state and it speaks to what was discussed earlier about the Sleeping Giant of the Filipino American community. We are 1. 5 million strong in california. We are the largest Asian American group in the state of california. We are the Fastest Growing and a full 4 of californias population, and when we come together, and we awaken our power and our strength we can accomplish great things and ab123 and ab7 are a testament to our Community Coming together and standing up and saying this is important to us and we need to get these items passed, and i want to share a quick story as i end about the 50th anniversary of the delano grape strike. I had the opportunity this september to go down to delano and help commemmate in honor the grape strike and went to the Filipino Community hall where it all started where those toiling in the fields all alone being maltreated decided to come together and make a decision. They were fighting for greater dignity, fair wages, fair working conditions and they came together in this hall, and when i was there i could almost feel the ghosts of them there as they made that decision, and it was a moment in time where they could have no idea whether or not their effort was going to be successful, whether the decision they were about to make would fall flat on its face or make real change, and i am sure they were scared, worried about their jobs, worried about their families, but even with all of that they decided to stand up and fight for what was right. They had righteousness on their side, justice and erks quality and equity on their side so they made the decision to strike, and little did they know how monumental a decision that was how they started a movement and launched a movement and one week later the United Farm Workers Association lead by the great cesar chavez would join their efforts and for the first time they would have a movement and not be divided. In the past growers would pit the latinos against filipinos and it grew to the movement that we now know, and to me the Filipino Community hall is a very special place. Its a symbolic place. Its a place thats for our community is more than just a physical place, a place on a map. Its a place in our heart. Its a place of inspiration. Its a place that stands for change and justice and the struggle that is required to achieve that justice, and you know there are other places that we often talk about in similar terms that are symbolic for what they meant. Places like lapaz where i grew up and the headquarter the movement and Little Rock High School and fight of desegregation of education and the bridge in alabama and stood there and other places that stood up for lgbt rights in the nation so selaneo was that place and i talk about delano in the Closing Remarks because i want it on an ongoing source of inspiration and to move forward and we live on a continuum of change. We have come a long way and the movement has created change but we have challenges for the Filipino AmericanCommunity Like making sure our filipino war veterans achieve equity like making sure that larry itlong has honor and we have Affordable Housing issues and fair pay issues and all sorts of challenges so each of us can and should be inspired by delano and by the Filipino Community hall and i want us as we move forward to continue to empower the american more than community in so many ways in the state and fighting the fight and, wog together. I want us to remember that inspiration as we reflect on Filipino AmericanHistory Month, on larry itlong day and the delano grape strike and the Filipino Community hall and its an honor to serve you and thank you for achieving something critical in the community and breaking the Glass Ceiling and having a filipino leader in the state and i am honored to be the first but committed to not be the last and we have an opportunity this year to get more into the state legislature so thank you for the work that you do. Thank you for your commitment. I look forward to working with and for all of you as we move forward. Thank you. [applause] lets hear it one more time. Assemblymember rob bonta. Lets hear it. Thank you for sharing that rob. Fantastic. As we transition we have entertainment lined up in a bit and food and i will announce that in a bit but right now i upon the d to let you know there are community events. I know one is in my backyard at oracle arena and one sold out for filipino heritage night, the first one there, on the 14th and another night with the warriors. Its on sale still. And cal bears. That has been successful and the filipino heritage night and saturday the 19th at the pavilion and a lot of fun and world war ii exhibit from the Historical Society is on display on the Public Library on the third floor around here and the exhibition is going to the ninth and check out the world war ii in the filipino exhibit by the Historical Society and we have all of those great events come up and mark your commission. I know the Entertainment Commission has done a wonderful job and the nights have grown and please support. We need your support there we come in numbers as we always to and fantastic to see that represented so without further adieu were going to have some entertainment in honor of our celebration of Filipino AmericanHistory Month. We have first up we have from the cast of monorious and at the conservatory strand theater please welcome melody butiu. [applause] singing in filipino . [applause] thank you very much. I am in the cast of monstrous which Say Commission play, two filipino short stories that really celebrate the filipino importance in america and in particular San Francisco, and the history of the iho hotel and immigration and going after your American Dreams so we invite you to come out. Were running through november 22 at the strand theater and i will be singing another song from the show. This is the very thought of you. The very thought of you and i forget to do the ordinary things that everyone ought to do. I am living in a kind of day dream. Im happy as a queen, and foolish though it may seem to me thats everything the mere ideal view. The longing here for you. You will never know how slow the moments go until i am near to you. I see your face in every flower, your eyes in the stars above. Its just the thought of you, the very thought of you. My love. [applause] all right. Great job melody. Next we have from soma are the cannon kip dancers, seniors of San Francisco. Lets give them a big round of applause ladies and gentlemen. [applause] all right. Fantastic. A little dancing. I love it. Good job. [applause] festive spirits indeed. Next we have a brother and sister duo, yes, performing artists. Now monicaclaire charlz is one of the finalists of American Idol top 48 last season and both are known over social media and the viral medias and in the millions of views. Theyre very popular and here right now to perform monicaclaire charlz. [applause] good evening. [speaking foreign language]. I will be performing a song thats produced by a fellow filipino. His name is mark feast and a song on the top charts in the Music Industry and its called emotions by stephanie chow. The heartache lives on inside, and whose the one youre clinging to instead of me tonight . I need you. Tearos my pillow. Wherever you go. Cry me a river. To the ocean. You never seen me in the words of a broken heart its just emotion taking me over all caught in sorrow lost in a song, but if you dont come back home it to me darling imoant you dont you know. Dont you know good night. Good night. I am there at your side thinking of all the things you are [inaudible] you know youre going to miss me. Tears on my pillow. Wherever i go. Cry me a river. Lead to your ocean. You never going to see me fall apart. In the words of a broken heart its just emotion taking me over caught up in sorrow lost in a song, but if you dont come back come to me darling dont you know that nobody else is going to hold you tight. Dont you know that no one else is going to hold you tight good night. Where are you now . Now that i need you. Tears on my pillow. Oh yeah dont go. Cry me a river. Through the ocean. You never see me fall apart in the words of a broken heart its just emotion taking me over caught up in sorrow [inaudible] nobody going to hold me tight. Nobody left in this world to hold me tight. Good night. Good night. Thank you. Thank you. [applause] all right. Wow that is amazing. Were going to continue the celebration here tonight. We have our group here, Folk Dance Group based in the bay area area that will inspire introducing parangal. [applause] [applause] [applause] all right. Lets hear it for parangal everybody. Wow what a way to close out our celebration. By the way 33 traveling to new york to msm in karn he hall this weekend to represent Filipino Americans want wow that was fantastic. Lets give a round of applause to the performers, fantastic talent in our community. I want to thank each of you as we close it out, our food and drink sponsors and lets give a hand to ramar foods international, goldilocks, hana zen, heavenly, sun tropics, genevieve wine and fortmckinley. Spintronix for the lighting and jack from sfgtv. Thank you for filming here tonight. Its broadcasted live on sfgtv. Bay area provided by bay area communication access and sign language introduction provided by the Mayors Office on disabilities and thank the filipino consulate. Thank you very much for coming by and putting this wonderful event together and the Production Team and all of the workers. Darryl honda and the whole Production Team. To the Filipino Community always doing the greatest events. Also we want to thank the events department, the Sheriffs Department as well, the facilities department. Lets give them a round of applause. [applause] of course our volunteers who work countless hours to make this event possible. Lets give a round of applause to the volunteers. Raise your hand if youre a volunteer, over there and over there, all of the volunteers and a photo booth that is located around the corner for the photo booth. Also we have a great silent Auction Going on in the corner and hotel night days and art work and benefits the Filipino American commission and help support these groups. Theres a silent auction there so bid and you might take home some amazing prizes and i want to give you an applause for supporting Filipino AmericanHistory Month. Were proud as a fellow Filipino American born and raised in San Francisco. This means a lot to see this and mayor lee for celebrating and commemorating this special day and my favorite part food and drinks available right now ladies and gentlemen, so lets eat. Thank you everybody. Thank you and i am franco finn with the Golden State Warriors and lets have a good night and doing what we do each and every day. 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Its built for all people. This building is beautiful art. Those are architecture at the time when city hall was built, San Francisco had an enormous french population. Therefore building a palace in the art tradition is not unusual. Jimmie was an incredible individual he knew that San Francisco had to regain its place in the world. He decided to have the tallest dome built in the United States. Its now stands 307 feet 6 inches from the ground 40 feet taller than the United States capital. You could spend days going around the building and finding something new. The embellishment, the carvings, it represents commerce, navigation, all of the things that San Francisco is famous for. The wood you see in the board of supervisors chambers is oak and all hand carved on site. Interesting thing about the oak is there isnt anymore in the entire world. The floors in china was cleard and never replanted. If you look up at the seceiling you would believe thats hand kof carved out of wood and it is a cast plaster sealing and the only spanish design in an arts building. There are no records about how many people worked on this building. The workman who worked on this building did not all speak the same language. And what happened was the person working next to the other person respected a skill a skill that was so wonderful that we have this masterpiece to show the world today. 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The upcoming visit the plans and programs package of our we are talking about with our feedback and participation that is important to us not everyone takes this so be proud of taking ann welcome to culturewire. Today we are at recology. They are celebrate 20 years of one of the most incredibly unique Artist Residency programs. We are here to learn more from one of the resident artists. Welcome to the show, deborah. Tell us how this Program Began 20 years ago. The Program Began 20 years ago. Our founder was an environmentalist and an activist and an artist in the 1970s. She started these street sweeping campaigns in the city. She started with kids. They had an exhibition at city hall. City officials heard about her efforts and they invited her to this facility. We thought it would coincide with our efforts to get folks to recycle, it is a great educational tool. Since then, we have had 95 professional artists come through. How has the Program Changed over the years . How has the program what can the public has an artist engage with . For the most part, we worked with metal and wood, what you would expect from a program like ours. Over the years, we tried to include artists and all types of mediums. Conceptual artists, at installation, photographers, videographers. That has really expanded the program out. It is becoming so dynamic right now with your vision of interesting artists in gauging here. Why would an artist when to come here . Mainly, access to the materials. We also give them a lot of support. When they start, it is an empty studio. They go out to the public area and we call it the big store. They go out shopping, take the materials that, and get to work. It is kind of like a reprieve, so they can really focus on their body of work. When you are talking about recology, do you have the only Sculpture Garden at the top . It is based on work that was done many years ago in new york. It is the only kind of structured, artist program. Weit is beautiful. A lot of the plants you see were pulled out of the garbage, and we use our compost to transplant them. The pathway is lined with rubble from the earthquake from the freeways we tour about 5000 people a year to our facility, adults and children. We talk about recycling and conservation. They can meet the artists. Fantastic. Lets go meet some of your current artists. Here we are with lauren. Can you tell us how long have been here so far and what youre working on . We started our residency on june 1, so we came into the studio then and spent most of the first couple weeks just digging around in the trash. I am continuing my body of work, kind of making these hand embroidered objects from our daytoday life. Can you describe some of the things you have been making here . This is amazing. I think i started a lot of my work about the qualities of light is in the weight. I have been thinking a lot about things floating through the air. It is also very windy down here. There is a piece of sheet music up there that i have embroidered third. There is a pamphlet about hearing dea nearing death. This is a dead rabbit. This is what i am working on now. This is a greeting card that i found, making it embroidered. It is for a very special friend. While we were looking at this, i glanced down and this is amazing, and it is on top of a book, it is ridiculous and amazing. I am interested in the serendipity of these still life compositions. When he got to the garbage and to see the arrangement of objects that is completely spontaneous. It is probably one of the least thought of compositions. People are getting rid of this stuff. It holds no real value to them, because theyre disposing of it. Were here in another recology studio with abel. What attracted you to apply for this special program . Who would not want to come to the dump . But is the first question. For me, being in a situation that youre not comfortable in has always been the best. What materials were you immediately attracted to when you started and so what was available here . There are a lot of books. That is one of the thing that hits me the most. Books are good for understanding, language, and art in general. Also being a graphic designer, going straight to the magazines and seeing all this printed material being discarded has also been part of my work. Of course, always wood or any kind of plastic form or anything like that. Job mr. Some of the pieces you have made while you have been here. Taught me through some of the pieces you have made while you have been here. The first thing that attracted me to this was the printed surface. It was actually a poster. It was a silk screen watercolor, about 8 feet long. In terms of the flatwork, i work with a lot of cloddish. So being able to cut into it come at into it, removed parts, it is part of the process of negotiating the final form. How do you jump from the two dimensional work that you create to the threedimensional . Maybe going back from the 3f to 2d. Everything is in the process of becoming. Things are never said or settled. The sculptures are being made while i am doing the collages, and vice versa. It becomes a part of something else. Theres always this figuring out of where things belong or where they could parapets something else. At the end goal is to possibly see one of these collage plans be built out and create a structure that reflects back into the flat work. Thank you so much for allowing culturewire to visit this amazing facility and to learn more about the artists in residence program. Is there anything you like our viewers to know . We have art exhibitions every four months, and a win by the public to come out. Everybody is welcome to come out. We have food. Sometimes we have gains and bands. It is great time. From june to september, we accept applications from bay area artists. We encouraged artists from all mediums to apply. We want as many artists from the bay area out here so they can have the same experience. How many artists to do your host here . 6 artist a year, and we receive about 108 applications. Very competitive. But everyone should be encouraged to apply. Thank you again for hosting us. Thank you for including us in culturewire. clapping. the airport it where i know to mind visions of traffic romance and excitement and gourmet can you limousine were at San Francisco inspirational airport to discover the awardwinning concession that conspiracies us around the world. Sfo serves are more 40 million travelers a year and a lot of the them are hungry theres many restaurant and nearly all are restaurant and cafe thats right even the airport is a diane designation. So tell me a little bit the food program at sfo and what makes this so special well, we have a we have food and Beverage Program at sfo we trivia important the sustainable organic produce and our objective to be a nonterminal and bring in the best food of San Francisco for our passengers. I like this its is inaudible i thank my parents for bringing me here. This the definitely better than the la airport one thousand times better than. I have a double knees burger with bacon. I realize im on a diet but im hoping this will be good. It total is San Francisco experience because theres so many people and nationalities in this town to come to the airport especially everyone what have what they wanted. Are repioneering or is this a model. Were definitely pioneers and in airport commemoration at least nationally if not intvrl we have many folks asking our our process and how we select our great operators. The food option in San Francisco airport are phenomenal thats if it a lot of the airports yeah. You dont have the choice. Some airports are all about food this is not many and this particular airport are amazing especially at the tirnl indicating and corey is my favorite i come one or two hours before my flight this is the life. We definitely try to use as many local grirnts as we can we use the goat cheese and we also use local vendors we use greenly produce they summarize the local soured products and the last one had 97 percent open that. Wow. Have you taken up anything unique or odd here. Ive picked up a few things in napa valley i love checking chocolates theres a lot of types of chocolate and caramel corn. Now this is a given right there. Im curious about the customer externals and how people are richmond to this collection of cities youve put together not only of San Francisco food in San Francisco but food across the bay area. This type of market with the local savors the highend products is great. I know people cant believe theyre in an airport i really joy people picking up things for their friends and family and wait i dont have to be shopping now we want people take the opportunity at our location. How long has this been operating in San Francisco and the late 18 hours it is one of the best places to get it coffee. We have intrrnl consumers that know of this original outlet here and come here for the coffee. So lets talk sandwiches. Uhhuh. Can you tell me how you came about naming our sandwiches from the katrero hills or 27 years i thought okay neighborhood and how do you keep it fresh you can answer that mia anyway you want. Our broadened is were going not irving preserves or packaged goods we take the time to incubate our jogger art if scratch people appreciate our work here. So you feel like out of captured the airport atmosphere. This is its own the city the Airline Crews and the bag handlers and the frequent travels travelers and weve established relationships it feels good. When i get lunch or come to eat the food i feel like im not city. I was kind of under the assumption you want to be done with our gifts you are down one time not true we have a lot of regulars we didnt think wed find that here at the airport. People come in at least one a week for that the food and service and the atmosphere. The food is great in San Francisco its a coffee and i took an e calorie home every couple of weeks. Im impressed i might come here on my own without a trip, you know, we have kids we could get a babysitter and have diner at the airport. This is a little bit of things for everybody theres plenty of restaurant to grab something and go otherwise in you want to sit you can enjoy the experience of local food. Tell me about the future food. Were hoping to bring newer concepts out in San Francisco and what our passengers want. I look forward to see what your cooking up laughter today weve shown you the only restaurant in San Francisco from the comfortableing old stand but you dont have to be hungry sfo has changed what it is like to eat another an airport check out our oblige at tumbler dating. Com. Working for the city and county of San Francisco will immerse you in a vibrate and dynamic city on sfroert of the art and social change weve been on the edge after all were at the meeting of land and sea worldclass style it is the burn of blew jeans where the rock holds court over the harbor the citys Information Technology xoflz work on the rulers project for free wifi and developing projects and insuring patient state of at San FranciscoGeneral Hospital our it professionals make guilty or innocent available and support the house Senate Regional wearout system your our employees joy excessive salaries but working for the city and county of San Francisco give us employees the unities to contribute their ideas and energy and commitment to shape the citys future but for considering a career with the city and county of san francisc hi. Welcome to San Francisco. Stay safe and exploring how you can stay in your home safely after an earthquake. Lets look at common earthquake myths. We are here at the urban center on Mission Street in San Francisco. We have 3 guest today. We have david constructional engineer and bill harvey. I want to talk about urban myths. What do you think about earthquakes, can you tell if they are coming in advance . Hes sleeping during those earthquakes . Have you noticed him take any special . No. He sleeps right through them. There is no truth that im aware of with harvey that dogs are aware of an impending earthquake. You hear the myth all the time. Suppose the dog helps you get up, is it going to help you do something i hear they are aware of small vibrations. But yes, i read extensively that dogs cannot realize earthquakes. Today is a spectacular day in San Francisco and sometimes people would say this is earthquake weather. Is this earthquake weather . No. Not that i have heard of. No such thing. There is no such thing. We are talking about the weather in a daily or weekly cycle. There is no relationship. I have heard its hot or cold weather or rain. Im not sure which is the myth. How about time of day . Yes. It happens when its least convenient. When it happens people say we were lucky and when they dont. Its terrible timing. Its never a good time for an earthquake. But we are going to have one. How about the ground swallowing people into the ground . Like the earth that collapsed . Its not like the tv shows. The earth does move and it bumps up and you get a ground fracture but its not something that opens up and sucks you up into haddes. Its not going anywhere. We are going to have a lot of damage, but this myth that california is going to the ocean is not real. Southern california is moving north. Its coming up from the south to the north. You would have to invest the million year cycle, not weeks or years. Maybe millions of years from now, part of los angeles will be in the bay area. For better or worse. Yes. This is a tough question. Those other ones werent tough. This is a really easy challenge. Are the smaller ones less stress . Yes. The amount released in small earthquakes is that they are so small in you need many of those. I think would you probably have to have maybe hundreds of magnitude earthquakes of 4. 7. So small earthquakes are not making our lives better in the future . Not anyway that you can count on. I have heard that buildings in San Francisco are on rollers and isolated . Its not true. Its a conventional Foundation Like almost all the circumstances buildings in San Francisco. The transamerica was built way before. Its a pretty conventional foundation design. I have heard about this thing called the triangle of life and up you are supposed to go to the edge of your bed to save yourself. Is there anything of value to that . Yes, if you are in your room. You should drop, cover and hold onto something. If you are in school, same thing, kitchen same thing. If you happen to be in your bed, and you rollover your bed, its not a bad place to be. The reality is when we have a major earthquake the ground shaking so pronounced that you are not going to be able to get up and go anywhere. You are pretty much staying where you are when that earthquake hits. You are not going to be able to stand up and run with gravity. You want to get under the door frame but you are not moving to great distances. Where can i buy a Richter Scale . Mr. Richter is selling it. We are going to put a plug in for cold hardware. They are not available. Its a rather complex. In fact we dont even use the Richter Scale anymore. We use a moment magnitude. The Richter Scale was early technology. Probably a myth that i hear most often is my building is just fine in the loma prieta earthquake so everything is fine. Is that true . Loma prieta was different. The ground acceleration here was quite moderate and the duration was moderate. So anyone that believes they survived a big earthquake and their building has been tested is sadly mistaken. We are planning for the bigger earthquake closer to San Francisco and a fault totally independent. Much stronger than the loma prieta earthquake. So people who were here in 89 they should say 3 times as strong and twice as long and that will give them more of an occasion of the earthquake we would have. 10 percent isnt really the threshold of damage. When you triple it you cross that line. Its much more damage in earthquake. I want to thank you, harvey, thanks pat for this coffee memory i remember having coffee with any grappled. In the old days myelogram ma get together i was six or seven i made a faces a good face. When i was younger i know it did something to my body. Ive been Drinking Coffee since i was 17 really the only thing im good at i was trying to find out what i was good at i got a job at the coffee shop i decided to do that the rest of my life. I like the process of the coffee and what are those beans where do they come from oh, they come from a fruit. The coffee stays with me since i was a kid i grew up and opened coffee shops everybody. In the 8 i visited over 11 hundred coffee shops maybe more to see why people go to coffee shops were searched the beans all over the world from east afghan and tokyo. When i wanted to do was get into aspect of the personal coffee and the processing and Everything Else there was multiple steps in making coffee and we did have a lighter roost because of the qualities of the keep once you roost it it home gisz the coffee. One thing about the coffee they were special blends and i spent seven years on one blend so thats my pleasure. Each bean they were all chosen and blended with each with different cultural and beans is like people and those people give me a reputation i cant buy. People love you my clients love me they take me to the moves movies. Fell in love with coffee and went to the coffee shops the Community Aspect i really enjoyed. I think its important to have a place for people to show up and talk to their neighbors and recorrect. Your surrounded with all those behalf communicated i communities i love my city San Francisco has a good name my has every cultural in this planet living in San Francisco its a small city 7 by 7 but its huge. I really like the idea of staying in the neighborhood and living in the mission ive lived here the whole time and the community really stick to it people talk about seattle and portland now they talk about seattle and San Francisco. Or portland and San Francisco but San Francisco is definitely on the cuttingedge of the coffee scene in the entire nation. Theres so many romance in coffee is surrounds the sourcing of that and thinking about where it came from and how and coffee is wonderful. I know for a fact i was born to make coffee. I have a notice from the dad let the life i live speak for me and lets have a cup of coffee and talk about it. Hi, im corn field and welcome to doing building San Francisco, we are doing a special series, called stay safe, how you can stay in your home safely and comfortable, and we know that an earthquake is coming and there are things that you can do to reduce the effects of the earthquake on your home. Lets take a look at that. Here at the spur urban center on Mission Street in San Francisco talking about staying in your home after an earthquake. I have guests today, pat buscavich and his dog, harvey and david, and both Structural Engineers and we want to talk about things that you might do before an earthquake to your home to make it more likely that your home will be ha bitable after an earthquake, what should we do . Both structural and maybe even important nonstructural things. You hear about how to prepare an earthquake kit and brace your book shelves and water tank and that is important. What you have to be careful is make sure that you are not going the easy things to make yourself feel better. If you have a bad structure, a bad building, then you need to be looking at that and everything that you do to keep your collectables in place is small and compared. If you have taken care of your structure, then there is a lot of stuff that you can do in your house that is nonstructural and your chimney and water tank. Lets talk about what the structural things might be. And he is exactly right. You dont want to make the deck chairs safe on the titanic, it is going down, you are going down, you have to make sure that your house is safe. There are basic things that you need to do including bracing the water heater, not just because of fire hazard but because of the water source and the damage, but basic things are installing anchor bolts, and adding plywood and strapping your beams to column and posts to footings and foundations are really easy things to do and most contractors can do the Building Department is set up to approve this work, and these are things that every home owner should do, and it is a little harder because you have to get a Building Permit and hire a contractor. But you want to be able to after a big earthquake to climb in bed that night and pull the covers up and say i dont have to worry about going to a government shelter. That is the main focus that it is great to have an earthquake kit to be able to bug out for 72 hours. Here is a better idea, stay in your own home and in order to do that you have to be make sure that your structure is okay. If you have a house, the easy things to do with the wood construction is feasible. If you have a renter or you live in a concrete building, you need to talk to the building own , and make sure they have done their Due Diligence and find out what the deficiencies are. When i have looked at damaged buildings,vy seen that a little bit of investment in time and money and structural work provides great dividends. Especially if it is the wood frame, typical house that you can do the things that i was talking about, the anchor and the plywood in the first garage area, you know if you refinanced in the last three years, get some of that savings and it is a really good investment. And the other thing that i try to tell people, earthquake insurance is not the solution to the shelter in place, if there is a big earthquake and your building is damaged, you are not in your house, you may be somewhere else, if you work in the city, it is going to be really hard to commute from sonoma, you want to do what is necessary so that your house is retrofitted and a couple of years of earthquake premium could get you to a level that you could be in the house after a significant earthquake and it may have damage and there is still a shelter in place where you are at home and you are not worried for the government taking care of you and you are living in a place where you can go to work and you want to have your wood frame house is really easy to get to that level. On top of the wood frame house, i mean every wood frame house in the west half of the city have a water tank and the water tank fall over because they are gas fired and start fires. And that is something that you could do for yourself, and for your neighbors and for the whole city is make sure that your water tank is braced. If you look at the studies that are predicting on fires, we are going to have a lot of fires and for every water tank that is braced there is a potential of one less fire that the Fire Department is going to have to fight and we dont want to have any more fires than we need to. So bracing the water heater is the first thing that you want to do. And so easy, and you go online and you google, earthquake, water and heater and you google the sites where you can find the details and you can put them out there on the Hardware Store and you can hire a small contract tore do that for you. That is a couple of hundred bucks, the best investment. If you are in other types of building it is complicated. If you are in a highrise building you just cant anchor your building down because there are no anchor bolts, but at that point, the tenant should be asking questions of the owners and the managers about earthquake preparedness and dont take the easy answer, oh, our building is safe it was designed to code. That is not the right answer, ask the tough questions and see if you can get a report that has been given to you. What is the right question . Will i be able to stay in my home after the expected earthquake . Is that a good question to ask . Yeah, you may be more specific if you talk to the owner, if it is not a recent building, if it is ten or 20 years old see if they had an inspection done and there you will have a written before that will tell you all about the structure. Thanks, pat. Thanks, harvey. And thanks david for joining us and thank you for joining us on ladies and gentlemen and welcome to the San Francisco board of supervisors meeting. Madam clerk, can you please call the roll. Thank you madam