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Homesy who is the originator of this. Thank you, daniel. applause also i want to acknowledge his right hand christina palone, the new director, mon, Mayors OfficeNeighborhood Services over there in that corner. applause and for those of you that dont know, i represent district 10, thats the southeast neighborhoods. Thats bayview, thats potrero hill, visitacion valley, its a little hollywood, its dogpatch. It used to be the portola, half of it. My heart is still with you, but im glad like the speaker said, it is whole. And that is whats important, is that that neighborhood remains whole so that our city will be whole. You agree . [cheering and applauding] cheers so, a few years back there was this little idea to take back the bayview and really began to rewrite the history and the narrative that we often hear about in bayview. And it actually started, ironically, with a ....
Go on and on and on about this but im not. Well have a little q and a session after this. Can you hear me . Im an actor, i dont need this. Well answer questions about how it got going and what its about. The way we start this out at the schools is i come out and introduce myself, introduce the guys a little bit, these are my students at Sacramento City college then kick it off, hello, local celebrity, a guy from sacramento who does performances in poetry, hes an actor, he does rap music, all kinds of stuff, he doesnt juggle but he has a lot of talent and im sure he could. Now well go to the spoken word with lsg wow, once you learn something, you own it. You can share it, no one can take it from you. I want you to leave here with something today. I want you to leave here with some of our knowledge. We are a group of actors, rappers, dancers and poets and if they will allow them to, all of them will sing you a chorus. This is based ....
Are not painters we abate graffiti. We are abaters not painters. Get that out of the way and keep moving. How many of these do you do a day . How many poles we do a day . Yeah. Depends on the location. May be 20. Do you like working with the team . Yes because im a people person. I like being outside and interacting with the public and i like the response we get especially from the good job we do in the community. Goodbye. The project all started from the brain child over here, noelexsavio of the city of San FranciscoCode Enforcement department. applause . Early 2007 gave me a call, he said, hey, i got this funding for a really cool project, can you help me out, i dont do theater. So we got together, we put together a script and weve been touring every since. We hope its doing some good. We hope its changing some lives. I could go on and on and on about this but im not. Wel ....
Doing some good. We hope its changing some lives. I could go on and on and on about this but im not. Well have a little q and a session after this. Can you hear me . Im an actor, i dont need this. Well answer questions about how it got going and what its about. The way we start this out at the schools is i come out and introduce myself, introduce the guys a little bit, these are my students at Sacramento City college then kick it off, hello, local celebrity, a guy from sacramento who does performances in poetry, hes an actor, he does rap music, all kinds of stuff, he doesnt juggle but he has a lot of talent and im sure he could. Now well go to the spoken word with lsg wow, once you learn something, you own it. You can share it, no one can take it from you. I want you to leave here with something today. I want you to leave here with some of our knowledge. We are a group of actors, rappers, dancers and poets and if they will allow ....
Talent and im sure he could. Now well go to the spoken word with lsg wow, once you learn something, you own it. You can share it, no one can take it from you. I want you to leave here with something today. I want you to leave here with some of our knowledge. We are a group of actors, rappers, dancers and poets and if they will allow them to, all of them will sing you a chorus. This is based on true, real life stories, stories about kids just like you. Kids have to make decisions every day like who are you going to be friends with, paying attention in class or even showing up are all choices you have to make every day. So i want you to Pay Attention to the choices that are made in this play so that later, when we come talk to you, you can tell us how you would handle these situations. So its time for you to use your mind and listen so you can learn how to make the wise choice, the right choice, to be leaders instead of followers. Di ....