Transcripts For SFGTV 20130330 : vimarsana.com

what a glorious day. welcome to the library. it is my pleasure to be here for today s celebration. i would like to thank our people from the opera house. in particular i would like to give the executive director of the opera house a round of applause here. where are you? how about that wonderful &m. music. they are led by mohammed bhangra. let s give them a round of applause. it wasn t too long ago that we had our wonderful ground breaking ceremony and at that ceremony we were led in a beautiful invocation by the past or oral yus walker. he s back to lead us. with that, pastor walk er. to our distinguished leaders and city officials, brothers and sisters. before i do the invocation i would like to talk real quickly, a young man in the greek culture, he wanted to be wide and was determined to gain wisdom. so socrates, he said i want wisdom. socrates walked down to the beach, walked to the water and deducted him in the water and said what do you want. he said noble socrates, i want wisdom. when he came up, he said, i want i want he said when you want wisdom, you are going to get wisdom. that s why we have this great facility here today to change the image of this community from violence and killing and all those negative things to positive wisdom for the glory of god. would you be so kind to join me in the word of prayer. we are here today in the community. we want to this you forgiving the city officials, the people, all those responsible for beginning this process and you have completed, that s the joy of completion. and you said like wisdom, let him ask you give us all men wisdom is more precious than gold and silver. god we claim that and thank you for this neighborhood and for those responsible in thy name we pray, in god, amenen. thank you pastor walker. and we would like to thank pastor bailey from the church and for an allowing us to have this construction site on their parking lot. thank you to baptist church for today s celebration as well. thank you very much let s now take a moment to hear from our library neighbor. it s always wonderful to celebrate with poetry. i would like to introduce alejandro thank you. you cannot imagine how happy i am here today. i remember whether the opera opened and what a day with the community and with the bay view opera house and the bay view library here, anchoring this community with our young people with hope, with poetry and literacy, that this will be the new creative center of san francisco where poets, artist and musicians are welcomed and can find to spirit to change the perception of the neighborhood as the reverend said . i want to offer a program, the initiative to create murals with poems of your people all over this neighborhood and that will be one of the projects i hope to launch in the coming months. now full permit me i will do a poem in on of the bay view library. today i m going to wear a hat. wave hello to the world or maybe a mysterious fad era brim down low. i would investigate the missing brown buffalo. or perhaps a greek fisher man s cap in honor of the sirens and mermaids rocking me or a big mexican so sombrero would do, or i could make a crazy cat hat with balloons and then i stroll down third street or a brown berate and shout power to the people and other slogans i forget. i could try a cloud with a blue ribbon wrapped around it like a song or none of that. today, in honor of the new brand new bay view library, today, i m going to wear the sky as my hat and then i will pass it on to you so you can wear it too