clapping good morning. Good morning. Thank you, don for that introduction im glad to be here at the tonight center again. Its also great to be here. I was telling me our deputy secretary marie this this was one of the first when we went through the translation of that to use the arresting are a fund it was such an enlightening positive effort in the tenderloin to use the federal program that president obama gave us. Im here to welcome you to San Francisco and thank you for being here for the home matters for health symposium. It is the right place to be because t n d c has been a powerful change and im glad their championinging the center between health. No one else can do that because youve got it it right here in the community. Todays symposium is part of a commitment that our city is making. I wanted to let you know all the things were going to continue the housing for everybody. Last week, we you wanted up the helen rogers and my good friend reverend hall was under its a Publicpriv
Recent luminaries have included david meltzer, steve dixon, and jack hirsch man. You can black as out of the press, blog and arrest us, tear gas, mace, and shoot us, as we know very well, you will, but this time were not turning back. We know you are finished. Desperate, near the end. Hysterical in your flabbergastlyness. Amen. After the readings, the crowd headed to a reception upstairs by wandering through the other gallery rooms in the historic home. The third floor is not usually reserved for just parties, however. It is the stage for live performances. Under the guidance of musical curators, these three, meridian has maintained a strong commitment to new music, compositions that are innovative, experimental, and sometimes challenging. Sound art is an artistic and event that usually receives short shrift from most galleries because San Francisco is musicians have responded by showing strong support for the programming. Looking into meridians future, she says she wants to keep doing
Base guitarist. My first show was at the shop many years ago. Speaking about the arts in the 2000 i cofounded a space here in San Francisco in south of market. I remember having a Performance Arts space, we moved three times in 6 years and finding spaces to support them was in incredibly challenging during that time. We were eventually able to share spaces through other Arts Organizations, but i do remember how important permanent physical space was. Thats why its so exciting to be here 13 years later to celebrate the acquisition of two very important buildings here in the tenderloin and midmarket for two organizations that have held strong in the midmarket area for a long time and thats leading and luggage store gallery, i want to recognize mr. Smith and jessica from counter paul. Its so fun to be able to kind of switch roles as our Arts Community grows. I remember going to the intersection of the arts and now they are here a block away at 5 m and dr. Cohen is now the director of Yerb
Street or alley wide enough you can comply with it. You can also comply with it if it faces a code compliance rear yard. We dont have a code compliant rear yard because we have this modified one. So due to the technical requirement of the code, you need to get an exception. But again this building is facing the rear yard that has more depth to it and more separation than a code compliant rear yard would. Actually, let me illustrate it for you if you are interested in seeing that. Sure. Here is mariposa and portrero. A traditional rear yard would be 25 feet from here all the way across all the way to mariposa street. The modification is that the building wraps all the way around to meet the next building over. So because this is technically not the 25 percent depth for the entire width of the lot rear yard, we needed an exception for the rear yard and also for the dwelling unit exposure because this faces technically not a rear yard. Its through the eastern neighborhoods large project a
For San Francisco, they are part of the culture, they are part of the International Flavor of San Francisco. We are going to continue doing everything we can to support their existence, their survival and their success. When we drafted the Market Street economic strategy, we had arts right there focused. Now weve got some answers, now weve got some models to exhibit out there. So these first two successful Building Owner ships are just the beginning. When the arts programs established themselves as part owner of these wonderful buildings we have here, they are going to also need the continued support of our city, of our residents, of the tech workers up and down and Small Businesses up and down Market Street to not only continue with performances but to support them. Arts is about Community Action and support. I want to thank the arts, the Arts Commission for being great partners with this and they are also the effort. And i want to thank karen as well. Shes been a strong leader to mak