heo and welcome. today we he anotheralented latina aist on our show, and tis the season t give. this is "comunid dell ville." we begin with our annual holiday food drive here. with me i katy jackson, wh the second harvest food bank, and ral fho i with theouth hayward paris that services a we keep talking about how the economy is improving

are we doing great inhis area? is. >> i think if you're invested in the stock market iteels that way, but there is a lot of as the economy imoves, . sotimes that means that people are having to payore for rent. they may find themselves having to go to the food bank to get food because they don't have enough dispose able catch. >> and w were talking about how the face of those in need are changing. tell us about -- put a face on poverty if you will. >> wre seeing way mor men coming in. tradionally it was senior citizen women and now we have moms and ds who were ld off. one n in particular, he was working medeto at $20 and now hes down t $10 an hour. and we have person that deals th investments who lost her children.se she had two sick a professnal woman getting

food because her benits ran out. >> that's incredible. the reason -- part of the reason 're doing this is we'reaving ournnual food drive along with safeway stores. there is one of my colleagues, daniel. we will be at every safeway lotion. i will be at the one on capital express way in san jose receiving your bagged donations. sohe need -how are donations, how are your donations at second rvest? >> it's a challenge. the need is high. part of it is peopl who hit a pothole in life like ral was describing and people also just having a hard time making ends meet they feel like they're doing everythingight but they can't get to where they need to be. we have seen o inventory dp

relative to what it normallyis, and here we are going io the holiday season. come at a bter time tha us. >> we' talking about a $10 bag that will be filled with whatan one of these gs do for a family? >> this is a tremendous collection o food. it's a lot of canned vegetables, past tomato uce, tuna, and peanut butter. if you want to just drop somethin into one of the barrels that you see, putn tuna, peanut butter, in the food bankingbusiness that is gold. what is your hope for your parish for the hodays? >> for t holidays, a couple

the food is great. we need it. people seem to forget that the cool programs, free luh, free reduce lunch and breakfast. they don't usually happ when schools are on break. so don't forget about the special dinner for the holidays, but ju that they're home f breakfas lunch, and dinner. it's a t. so anything people can do, going here -- this is a great way to a loved one, i tell people what that.heir favore fo, donate we don't have enough volunteers at this tim of year. >> every year, ery day is important, but again, the annual food dve at your localafeway starts. but log on to the website, cathy, any final thoughts? >> this is a time of giving.

about families and eating meals it wld beonderful if everyone listening and wating could help another familyo enjoy that closene this holiday. >> thank you for yr work. >> thank you for yoursupport. doing, appreciate .what you're up nt, literacy for adults. ♪ y, that's the last escent! oh, did you want it? yeah. we'll lit it. [ female aouncer ] made fsh, so light, buttery and fley.

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variety ways. due foring and what we have been doing as well lately for larger classrooms. events wherehey just go on from session to session and we have all dferent levels from beginners to advanced. >> why is there adult illiteracy. >> i think this is a very metro area. from asia, people from south ple americ mexico, russia, and it ranging from programmers, and those at google -- >> it's english illiterates, that they can't read in tir own language. >>correct. i work with them as autor and

i'm a board member been soo see the chaes they can mak in theirwn lives. and one of the things that drives these folks to do this and to learn english is to community with tir children. it is very frustrating. >> we talked about that on the last show last week. what do these ornames have to do? >> the a some of what we call a crowd sourcing campaign we're trying to generate funding from people i the community to bring the next,000 people through our program. in the bay area, and part of that i culminang in the test quarte, but alonghe way we have all of the beautiful ornaments here and we have tickets to the improv,

autographed book power lunch withhollywoo producer, and a wineparty, and as i said, we're going to have the vip ghering at the tesla show ro. get to take him home for the l weekend. >> rudy is now very literate, biterate, and he wrote a book, "hand to hand. ll us how difficult it was to learn th language as a adult. >> i tnk as an alt i faced the same problems that most of the people that are immigras from any place in the world

confront. you come into a difrent very difficult to survive.s through myxperience and being in the uted states thathere was one vantage. was born in tijuana, i realized immediately as a k how importantt was to learn englis a lot of people don't understand. they come to the united states and they put it aside. >> we make it easy for them to not hav to len english >> and also one factor, see, when you're a feigner and thi is something that aot of people his undersnd. they tnk you segregate yourself, and you d it bause yo tend to hg around with people of your own language. so it's not that you don't want to learn another language, or

whatever you're, but it's easier forou to communate. many peoe made the miste of sang on the sam roots for years while they should try to better themselves because nearing another language, it doesn't matr what it is, but it ismportant to learn the language of whatever count you're living. >> how soon, or how difficult i should s is o learn the english language if you recently arrived. >> it com downo the students themselves. many people are porking multiple jobs. have to do a lot of wor on we saw of your videos, they have to rea the road signs. >> ye, that's not scary enough. but you know, it's important for them to really try tout a much timen and outside of the

classroom. as rudy s saying, many would come out and it's triage. many of theorks done with themlves independently. when they're outside of the ass. so to your point, a lot of times they g home andverybody speaks -- i tried to learn atoolin foatool very difficu.efore, and it w it is aays a challenge to try position.urself in that but i think some of themake incredible strides. >> decemr 4th you said is the -- >> december 4th from 5: to 7:30 p.m. >> any final thoughts before we let you go? >> no, i think i can only

emphasize very simple people that i met during my life, but i remember carlos santana started playing mexico in tijuan a he bece so powerful, but he is absolutely bilingual. look at t status >> and he accrued an accent. he was absotely bilingual. ally impacted myife was marg arita who was ritaheywar >> visionliteracys the

website. up next, we'll look at another local latina artist.

she has been painting up colorful dancers. we're proud to have elizabeth, a local artist with a local exhibition. and is is one of your beautifuand colorful pieces of art. tell us about this. how long it took you, and wt e message behindt is. >> this is one of my paintings of aztec dancers. d i take forecasts of them in the bay area when they're dancing an the i paint on a canvas with o point. and i bui up a texture.

this o took me about ree weeks was working on it, and i ve been changing a few things. i have been on this workor about four years. i have about 20 paintin in this ste. >> is this something you do on e side or ishis full time? >> i consider mysel a professional artist, so io work almost wha you conside full-time hours, almost hours a week on tngs that are art related. and other parts of it are the buness aects of being a professional artist. >> how difcult or easy is that business aspect? cause if that is what you're doing, that's your livelood here. >> it s been a challenge. i did attend clege and i have

a bhelor in fine arts, but at was mostly on how to make theork stronger, and the indivial aspect of being an artist. and everything - a lot of things that i have to learn about the business of art. and i went through a few people that have beenery supportive to me. peop that are willing to do pofolio reviews for community artists ke george rivera. look up books and blogs and any information can do to promote my artwork to get i out there and sell it. here is the slideshow that you provided us. this is right nowhat you're displaying over at the cpa? yes. >> tellus about these. >> this is the exhibition, i ve ten paintings inn the

range of 30 by 40 inches. some are bigger and some are smalle they're all oil dancers.on canvas of the some go back as far as 2010. there is a couple i still have from then, and since the i think about five or s are from this year. and -- >> a lot of -- >> i see a lot of brightcolors, tell us about t colorfulness of your work. everywhere you work,here is many distinguished bright colo. >> yes, they are very important to me. at the beginning when i would ok at the dancers, that is part of wt attracted me, they have and whathey'ref what holding, it' very colorful, a the movement and the drums and it's all veryenergetic.

so when i started wking on this body of work i wanted to show that in the paintings and that color a per of the dance, lik to m it's a similarble ofhe mental strength of our ancestors that managed to keep their culture despite evething that happened througho history. ey managed to keep that and they're still passing it on and sharing it and promoting it, espeally here in the bay area, there is no my dancers still practicing, and the let people join and learn and pticipate in ceremonies. >> yeah, a lot of them -- >> let me show you elizeth's website. it is called our new sun. we'l be back to talkore abo how mu one of these pies can purchased for. stay with us. good morning nelly! ah.

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we're bk here with a local latino artist. we're talking aut her exhibiti at the center for performing art in mntain view. this one took you about three weeks. it has the dancers there, what woul one of these, andou do sellthem, wha do they sell for? >> the prices range according to size. and i have few in this size, a larger sizes, so the prices range from the typical size which is a littl smaller than this to like a five foot by so this particular size, i he a few at my solo exhibitn for the performing arts,nd right

now they're listed for $2,000 for this size painting. >> are people buying them or at kind of feedback to you get? st. >> i have be getting really good feed back frompele. a lot of people say they like the energy and t color and they like t havehem too. they say it helps themeel tter and it calms them, and pele who have purased them. so i d sell them. >> whas it like when you walk to the center for performing arts and you see you splays there? it's really exciting. >> i bet. >> it is one o my few solo ows i have had so far, and the place whe i have my solo show right now,heenter for performing arts, it's a very, very beautiful space, it's on very large curved wall, and the down and it makes my paintings

look even brighter. there is great light coming i there. >> so y'll be there --his is going on to december 8th, you will maken appearance there? >> ye i will be there on turday, november 23rd from 7:00 to8: p.m. it will be open to the public at thattime. so will be there and i'm letting peop know if they wt to meet me and ask questions they can go there that day. >> what is it about expressing yourself inhis form that makes u say i want to paint the next next one?he next one and the there is no limit to it. with eve painting i do there is always something different about it. some of them are very heavy texturedthroughout, and some of the newest ones, it's just the

first lay or so. that shows -- it creates more of a spacesing morebackgrnd, the bond areas, and the foreground and working with different colors and limiting my affect the painting,nd ll differentompositions from photographs itake. >> the theme about t dancers, is that just the theme for thi exhibiti or is that your theme that you carry? >> my main by of work is based on the danrs, and oil painting oncanvas, and that's at i have been exhibiting in my exhibitions throughout the bay area and out of state. and i do have a mixed media work, and i do some sir rcyrami did a per mache sculpture.

that took a long time. identity.gs that hav to do with >>nd any final advice to any latinas t there who might be watching that you have inspirie, worlof vice? >> any age, any gender, i continue making your work, and looking for opportunities, and go to shows, meet peop, and look online for opportuniti to show. like the show i have, my solo show, i had to make a proposal abou images, information about myselfand a statement, and they accepted it sometimes it's opptunities like that that open up and you have to be ready, have your work ready, and be ready -- >> and maybe one day you will sell yr work for$4,000.

th name of the exhibition at the center of performing arts i called "our new sun." she wil be there on saturda the 23rd, so after y donate at the safeway store go t the center f performing arts a go on to that website and see some ofer other artwork. thank you for the work that you're do. 's beautiful, colorful, a thank you for yr donation -- thank you. >>hank you. >> here what is happeningn your comunidad. ♪

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