it's a tree of life. this is something very mexican from the state of mexico. that's the place where they hello and welcome to usually make these beautiful trees of life. there are some others. we need works of art that you "comunidad del valle." damian trujillo. can -- if you go to mexico city, you can see them in the museum >> announcer: nbc bay area presents "comunidad del valle" with damian ftrujillo. of happened crafof hand craft, >> we begin in san francisco with my guest once again at popular hand craft. it shows how we came into the world, the tree of life. "comunidad del valle." welcome again back to the show. what we have here is the >> thank you. i'm very pleased to be with you again. >> one thing that's very beautiful -- of our culture. important, constance, to for the people that have to stay at home. demonstrate is before you went they have their kids, their on the air today, mask. talk about the importance of you children. if you visit our web page, we still doing it there in your have different options o spanis consular offices. >> thank you. for your kids so the beautiful mexican culture. well, yeah, we opened again for >> that was going to be my next

core services on june 1st. all of these cultural and but we need to follow the protocols to prevent the festival events you're used to spreading of the coronavirus. having at museums around the so everybody here is wearing the city and different parts of your safe mace being and we are area? it must be not easy to not have asking everybody come to the these face-to-face events so you office with a safe mask -- a can share the richness of the culture that you bring from safe mask, their own pen because mexico. >> you're absolutely right. we shouldn't be allowing or allow -- giving the people our but the option of technology, same pen because it's a means of virtually enjoying the scenes. there are many activities on our contamination. web page for kids to practice. then also that everyone keeps their distance. there are many places that you remember, 6 feet. we want to tell everyone that can go for free and visit the galleries or the museum. it's very important that we remind the cases are going up. that unfortunately between 40 and i just want remito remind af and 50% in the county in the bay you that the birthday of the area are latinos who are being great artist that many people know about, because she he is h follow the procedures to prevent the spreading of the coronavirus. >> and we talked about this in san francisco along with his

before, but why are latinos at husband, one of the great the top of the list? is it because we're essential muralists of san francisco. workers who are out there and we can't really isolate at home because we're the essential 1940. the time they were here, they workers? >> yeah, yes. had some things, and here there are three big murals of diego i want to thank all of the rivera. they got married the second essential workers, not only time. in 1940 they got divorced and in latinos, but the portion of 1940 they got married again latinos. thank you for helping, for going to work, and allowing us to have food and allowing us to have the here. so those people had a lot of influence in the culture of san services, many services that you francisco. and because of that, we will provide. construction, cleaning. but you need to take care of name our gallery as the gallery your health, so please, a very of diego rivera and freda carla. important thing is to wear a face mask all the time, and keeping the distance, washing your hands, but face mask is we invite you for that. >> thank you for that utmost importance. >> one thing we've mentioned invitation. we're doing it virtually, we'll overyou have a matter before th get blips here and there.u're s consulate and it's not urgent,

put it off for a month or two so the culture virtually or whichever way you can till things go back to normal. we can get the urgent matters addressed first. >> we will have to only be >> yes, please. i want to remind everyone, even the people, the american virtual. when we invite you not the citizens that want to come to get a visa, to go to mexico, opening, but the naming of the gallery, diego, you can learn many of them for temporary residence in mexico. they are looking for an more about it here in san appointment. francisco and the impact. so you can get the appointment through mexitel on internet, but >> thank you very much, consular from san francisco, mexico. any final thoughts before we let it's very important to remind you go today? >> please, keep yourself safe that so far we are assisting the people that we have to cancel, and healthy, and a lot depends they had previously between on you. march 17 and may 31st. please wear a face mask just like we do here at the consular. we are still dealing with those people. and please, if you don't have an >> there you go. you were wearing that before we started our interview and you're emergency appointment or you back with it. thank you so much, madam consular. we appreciate your time, once again, and be healthy. >> thank you. till we finish >> thank you very much. we'll be back for "comunidad del assisting the people that come.

valle" and partnering with a special rock and roller. probably by august we will have stay with us. ♪ ♪ more appointments we need for people that didn't come or didn't have their appointment before. just be patient. but if you have an emergency, please let us know. we will try to assist you the best way we can. >> what have you seen in your office from your mexican citizens? are they finding out that the services to treat covid are not there, that the instruments to test covid are not there for them? what kind of concerns are you hearing from your clients? >> well, it's the lack of -- at times they are confused. i have lots of information from the internet, but which is the best information? please, the information that is produced by the health authority. in that way that's the type of information that we publish.

if you have any doubt, please go to our web page. we are letting you know information from the california department of health and also from the office of emergency services from the governor of california. those are the trusted sources for any concerns that you have about coronavirus or your health. so please just look into those first. >> the other important message that we've been repeating is bring your patience because you do have to practice social distancing. you have to spread out your appointments and so things will not run as smoothly as perhaps they were back in january. >> yeah, but, i mean, what i perceive is that the people that can come here, they can go very fast because that's what we are trying, not to keep people for a long time here at the consulate. so it takes -- once they get

assisted, like an hour. i also ask the people don't go too early. some people were arriving too early in advance of their appointment. don't do that because we won't be able to assist you. there is no more waiting room and we're back here on here, so only the people that we "comunidad del valle." we're joined bayou jey eugene are assisting. and we don't want you to be waiting in line outside in the rodriguez. welcome to the show. streets. only arrive like 15 minutes >> thank you very much. it's great to be here. before your appointment, and that will be fine, and you'll be >> tell us about the program. able to leave early if you have all the documents, to get your documents, your consular >> i began over 30 years ago to documents, then you will be out help kids in our neighborhood, in about one hour. learn about mexican tradition, >> not bad at all. music, dance, arts and crafts. we're talking with the consular it's grown and still remain very of mexico in san francisco. committed to the children in our neighborhood. >> now, you just committed a we'll be back with these message ands talk with our guest about these important topics. stay with us. ame in. coup. you were able to recruit a legend in the music of rock and roll industry. what did you do? >> we're working on a video for our churchill children. we had to cancel our spring recital because of the covid and we've been working online with

the kids. and so i thought it would be nice to do something special for them, to celebrate their accomplishment. so we made a video. everybody socially distanced from each other, all participating together, and we reached out to our friend david what's on your mind? can you help keep these guys protected online? hidalgo, who is the legendary singer frontman for los lobos to easy. connect to the xfi gateway. what about wireless data options for the family? see if he would join you can customize and save. what about internet speeds so it was -- we sent a hazmat that can keep up with my gaming? let's hook you up with the fastest internet from xfinity. team down there with a camera. and now with our stores reopening, we're putting healthy practices in place. and he joined in on the song and come visit a store today. made a beautiful movie together. stop in or book an appointment online at a time that works for you. >> it sounds like it wasn't that now that's simple, easy, awesome. difficult to convince him to go ask. shop. discover at your local xfinity store today. ahead and pitch in. >> you know, david has been a very dear friend of ours for a very long time. he's very often on the road, so he can't always join us for special projects. and we're back with the but on this one, lobos aren't consular general of mexico in touring because of the pandemic. san francisco. so he jumped in right away and

we appreciate that very much. the consular here on "comunidad >> all right. del valle." before we get into more of the we're going to be showing that issues here, on your left is video in its entirety in our that beautiful painting, it's a. next segment. who should be watching this video? what should they be getting out of it? >> well, i think what's important is that we remember that our children need space for joy. children need space for expression, and we're all, our stress. but we need to always cultivate that little magic inside of our kids' imaginations and help them cultivate the tools to express that magic. >> like a lot of families, mine included, it's all distance learning and it's not the same. my girls dance, and their practice sessions are the way you and i are doing this interview right now. it's all virtual. you don't get the same feel of that face-to-face instruction. how difficult has it been for your kids there? >> it is actually very

challenging as you know. however, one advantage that we have is that most of our students have been with us since they were 4 or 5, and now they're pre-teens or teenagers. many of them also attend for their entire lives with their siblings. so what we've done is basically are training them as little family groups. so they'll practice at home with their sibling playing music, dancing, things. that's been an advantage for us. in fact, last month, we took a production crew to the homes of our children and we recorded them on their front porch. we called it the front porch series. that was very successful. great to see them even if it was from a distance, but it was also a really wonderful opportunity for us all to be together, through production technology. >> eugene, tell us, i mean, it would be easy for any group like yours to throw your hands in the air and say, you know what, we're in the middle of a pandemic. we're going to cancel classes

until further notice. maybe until 2021. but obviously you all decided not to do that. >> well, as i said, i've been doing this for over 30 years, and the people that teach the classes began in our program when they were teenagers. they've been with me 25 years. i call ourselves lifers. we're not going to go anywhere and do anything else. it never occurred to us to not do classes. not only did we do the online classes immediately. we gave the children more individual time and we provide the classes for free. we always have had a modest fee for the classes, but we eliminated that and just took it upon ourselves to find the resources to give these kids the support they need. and it's good for us, too. with all the things going on in the world, for me just to see a smile and the expression of a child grow is comfort for me and the teachers as well. >> what happens to the video, it becomes a marketing tool? it's great to put on the youtub and watch it, right?

>> right. it's a great source of pride for the kids. a great source of pride for their families. but we've always used media to help amplify our message because our focus is on our neighborhood, but we're also thinking about everybody in the country, everybody in mexico, everybody in the world. it's a way for us to get together to support culture and support children. >> you kind of touched on it. how big of a boost is it to have the lead singer to come in and join you in your jam? >> well, having dave part of our project, when he comes to our center, we have a little store front that used to be a liquor store. we turned it into a beautiful little cultural center. when dave comes, he takes that 16 foot ceiling and raises it another 100 feet. his creativity and generosity is infectious. working with dave has taken us to all sorts of levels. he's creative, but he's also

very humble. he ends up thanking us. he's like a brother, like a brother in the best way. >> that's my next question. i've met him a couple times. he seems quiet, modest, like you said, humble. not hey, i'm los lobos. i'm one of you guys. >> that's right, he is one of us. we love him as a brother. we're really appreciative that, once again, he comes out and makes music with us. >> all right. well, we're going to watch this video in its entirety in our next segment. we're talking with eugene. stay with us.

sweer bawe're back with eug rodriguez at san pablo here. some of have lost their music program. this is music -- kids need an avenue, escape avenue. music is one of those that allows them to expand, maybe some talents that are hidden

inside. >> yeah, you know, when i started working over 30 years ago in the bay area, we had a very robust music program in the richmond school. and it was great, you know. the kids would come in already knowing the basics of the violin, the clarinet or the trumpet. when that fell apart, it just became very difficult for agencies like us to kind of take up the slack and teach kids from the very beginning. that's not what we're designed to do really. but we did. we did the best that we could. and i think that it's really important that our children can learn music, learn arts in the school sequentially, from kindergarten all the way till they graduate. it's not an escape, but it's also an incredible way for them to learn other subjects as well and to learn about themselves and about their families. >> who can sign up, who can come in and say i want to be part of this? >> anybody can come and take classes. when we're working online, it's a little bit trickier. when we're working in person,

you know, the only really draw back for people is the traffic if you're trying to come from hayward or something. it can become a little maddening. so usually people local, you know, come. but everybody is welcome to come ages 4 and up. just give us a call. >> and what is it about it you think -- you said a lot of your former students are now back and teaching the classes. sounds like a familia type of environment there. >> it was. i was fortunate to have music in my home. not everybody has that in their home. for those who want it, this is a great place for them to feel connected. kids come when they're 4. they stay till they graduate. some keep oncoming back. i think it's really about letting them explore the arts. as a discipline, the arts are a discipline, but also in a fun and social way. >> and one thing you could have done is have the kids shoot their own stuff. everybody has an iphone.

shoot their own parts. this is high-quality video that you have. >> well, yes. we have a wonderful network of production people and, you know, we like to do phone videos. we do that as well. we have a lot of very active facebook account and instagram. you know, right now even people who make video are maybe not working as much. so i'm happy to just make everything look as good as we possibly can within our resources. of course, people give us a break because they love the work. they love the vibe. >> absolutely. anything else that you'd like to share before we let you go, eugene? >> i just want to thank you for having us on. los anselmos, our kids and the families, i appreciate the invitation. >> thank you so much. and

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i'm sara gore and this is "open house." this week we're shining the spotlight on modern takes on classic architecture and design.

we visit architect winka dubbeldam's reimagined brooklyn heights loft, and the hamptons escape of architect bryan young. we're in the los feliz neighborhood of los angeles for a rare look at the unique ennis house. plus, a custom built homage to the amalfi coast right in bel air. but first we are with in-demand la architect, paul mcclean, in the hollywood hills. so here it is, the view. why people want to live in the hollywood hills. you can see all the way from downtown la all the way through to the ocean. [music playing]