To see these races from the shore. The book to use the technology to get the excitement down, right on the boat itself. With that, i would like to welcome, and then i look forward not only to this race and next year, for the Louis Vuitton cup and americas cup, but i look for to announcing that this is, in addition to the third fourth america cup, it will be the San Francisco americas cup. Thank you and welcome. Thank you. Good evening and welcome to the San Francisco public library. Im joan jasper and im with the department of exhibitions and Public Programs at the library and i want to welcome you it our program tonight, our incredible evening with playwright and author phillip congatongas. This program is in connection with an exhibit, two exhibits, that we have up on the 6th floor. The first one is called if they came for me today, the japanese american internment project, and also we have another exhibition called relocation and resiliency, the japanese american internment in calif
Good morning, im pleased it call this subcommittee competing on conservation climate forestry and Natural Resources and grateful the Ranking Member marshall for his partnership in organizing the hearing on with respect water reulgts. I know he shares my concern about the unprecedented drought the west faces as it is relates it declining water levels in the aquifer. Spourp simple. To sound the locker room about the water crisis in the American West. It has not been there dry in 1200 years. If we dont get our act together here it will not only put our with respect agriculture at risk but the American West. My state is at the head waters of the Colorado River which starts as snow melt before cutting across 1400 miles to the sea offer tez the river basin is the life blood and provides the Drinking Water for 40 Million People over s states. It irgates favor million acres of agriculture and under pins the 26 billion and running out of water. The two largest reservoirs lake powell and lake im
Good evening and welcome to the San Francisco public library. Im joan jasper and im with the department of exhibitions and Public Programs at the library and i want to welcome you it our program tonight, our incredible evening with playwright and author phillip congatongas. This program is in connection with an exhibit, two exhibits, that we have up on the 6th floor. The first one is called if they came for me today, the japanese american internment project, and also we have another exhibition called relocation and resiliency, the japanese american internment in california. And both of those are up on the 6th floor and this is the last week, so if you havent a chance to see these exhibits yet, we really encourage you to go on up and see them because they will be closing on sunday. We really want to thank Community Works for bringing the exhibit if they came for me today to the San Francisco public library. And here to tell you a little bit more about Community Works is ruth morgan, so
Television is happening, advertising, this whole advertising thing is happening. So you have these marginalized peoples and what happens, is it possible to develop a kind of at that moment a crossCultural Community . Is it possible to have kind of a multi Cultural Community that emerged from that moment . And so, in particular, thats what i wanted to explore. And part of the back drop is there was this extraordinary jazz scene happening in that area. Theres this wonderful book called Fillmore Harlem west and also theres several other books that are about that particular era. But thats all happening too, people like billie holiday, count basie, duke ellington, they were all playing in the fillmore district, bop city, plantation club, jacks tavern. Thats another world that i was intrigued by and the fact that there were neisei jazz musicians. Also the no no boys, which im not sure if you are aware of, but one of the story lines in the play is about the character called chet monkawa and h
Good morning, im pleased it call this subcommittee competing on conservation climate forestry and Natural Resources and grateful the Ranking Member marshall for his partnership in organizing the hearing on with respect water reulgts. I know he shares my concern about the unprecedented drought the west faces as it is relates it declining water levels in the aquifer. Spourp simple. To sound the locker room about the water crisis in the American West. It has not been there dry in 1200 years. If we dont get our act together here it will not only put our with respect agriculture at risk but the American West. My state is at the head waters of the Colorado River which starts as snow melt before cutting across 1400 miles to the sea offer tez the river basin is the life blood and provides the Drinking Water for 40 Million People over s states. It irgates favor million acres of agriculture and under pins the 26 billion and running out of water. The two largest reservoirs lake powell and lake im