costume (applause).

>> hello and welcome to the mo magic show case 2007. i am here with 11 other girls like myself from sacred heart schools around the nation. we have been here for the past two weeks experiencing this culture filled city. we are proud to be working with the children at the african-american culture center

in the days we have been there. the kids from the center have been working hard this summer and excited to working with the organization today. thank you for coming out here today and enjoy the show. (applause). are you sure? >> thank you nicole. it is truly my privilege to be here with today as the director of the scai sacred heart schools as nicole said we have been here for the past two weeks and with the ko kof vent and help to make the summer here a fun and safe place for your children for the city of san francisco. we have 21 schools around the country

and we feel too that summer should be a safe time and fun for all children and people and therefore we sponsor projects throughout the country from seattle to michigan to chicago all over our country to make those people in our country and enjoy the summer just as you are trying to do here in the city of san francisco, so for all of the sacred heart schools doing projects around the country we thank you and sister davis and her family and the city of san francisco and to help you make this a wonderful summer. thank you. (applause). >> and thanks everyone for coming.

>> god bless and we thank that you are here. will you do me a favor? will you touch someone next to you and let us bow for a moment of prepar prayer. we thank your this time and thank you for the friendship and this fellowship. bless this organization and everyone that is present. thank you for the children and what are you doing in our lives. in advance we say we are grateful and much obliged to what you're going to do in jesus name we pray. amen. come on let's give

ourselves a hand of faith. (applause). >> sometimes in our lives, and especially as a preacher and a pastor i am never at a lost for words, but right now i don't know what i can say about this particular man who means so much to not only the city, not only the board of supervisors, but especially he means so much to district five. what can i say about this man who walks with us in our rallies, who comes to our homes, who helps us in our projects, and who even gets down in the dirt and help us plant flowers in our houses and neighborhoods to beautify where we live? what can i say about this man

whom is the model for all supervisors in not just san francisco but every city in northern california? what can i say about this man? other than welcome, our supervisor district five ross mirkarimi. (applause). i'm going to -- i'm a little stunned. i am so absolutely delightd and honored to be welcoming all of you here for the second annual summer youth show case to city hall. everybody should give themselves a really strong round of applause. (applause). >> now, we know that most of the

organizations and most of the youth that are here are from district five and the western edition but it is also a growing family, a impressive growing family and just one year ago we were here and did not know what the word mo magic was and if it wasn't for the persistence and tenaisity of the community partners today we wouldn't be here for the second annual summer show case. this isn't just about non violence and restorative justice. this isn't just about hope and having fun in the summertime. this is about community. this is about building community. this is about doing something with consistency and love and being able to shine in city hall and broadcast exactly how we feel

about great programs and our kids and the future in doing so in a wonderful atmosphere today i want to say thank you to mo magic and all the ceo's that made this happen and thank you for being here and supporting our children and our wonderful organizations. thank you very much. (applause). >> i think i am bringing up assembly member mark leno who has been steadfast in his championing and violence prevention and the support we need in the community and help programs like ours that we are honoring and make happen. please welcome assembly man mark leno. >> good afternoon everybody. mo magic rocks. this is so great to be here this afternoon. congratulations on your second

anniversary. we have a lot to celebrate and let me thank supervisor mirkarimi for your extraordinary leadership and making this happen and following in our public defender jeff and mo magic in the bay view -- >> our inspiration. >> and upon which it is all based and ross said all of the words and i want to ground what we're doing here a little bit in some facts and figures. we know that children, students that study art and music and dance and poetry and spoken word test better in reading, math and science. no big surprise to us that these students have higher self esteem and lower rates of dropping out, and that is so very important when we are talking about the context of the safety of our communities and the wholeness of our family, and

we also know that if a child doesn't graduate high school they have a seven times more likelihood in finding their way into our criminal justice system and all of the pieces fit together and what you are celebrating today and offering to our children and offering inspiration and leadership and that's the way to go and i want to congratulate you all and bring love from the california assembly and congratulate cheryl davis in her center and the show case. (applause). >> with this proclamation from the assembly and congratulating mo magic show case and wishing you continued success and express our appreciation as you show the way. congratulations. (applause). >> i also want to make a quick

announcement and it's so important to us as everyone knows and what we do to try to make our community safe. we believe a safe community is an organized community and on august 7 we are having our event in the district five in the western edition at 5:00 p.m. at the hay's play ground and please join us and it's another event like this but it's outside and let's make our community safe. let's make them happy and positive. thank you. (applause).

>> now, coming up the aaacc dancers. (applause). (music) "shake, shake, shake

your body. work, work, work your body. work it all the time" (music) ♪

(applause). >> let's hear it for our dancers all over again. (applause). >> did you happen to see their t shirts they were wearing? they made those t shirts. i would like one of those t shir shirts. so the second person i'm going to bring up is no

stranger to any of us because he is a deep friend to our community, whether it's western edition or bay view throughout san francisco. he fights us with true grit and somebody we can depend on and make magic what it is today and starting at bayview hunters point and that was my vision and start in the western edition and i want you to give a nice round of applause for jeff hadachi. >> thank you very much supervisor mirkarimi. does anybody know what magic is? well, it's something that's inexplikcable and super natural and that's what we're here today and experience the magic of the young people and the promise and

hope they provide. when magic started it was just an effort to bring together an organic community effort and recognizing that the strongest leadership comes from within the community not from city hall or the pol politicians but from the youth and the families and i think magic is a recognition of that. i want to acknowledge all of the community leaders that meet every other week diligently and everyone is invited and i wan wd to acknowledge cheryl and robin from my staff and supervisor mirkarimi that wanted to bring magic to the western edition. we have so much planned this year and did everyone come for the back pack give away and we're doing in collaboration with the mayor's office and mayor newsom is here and today

is about celebrating all of your talent and the promise that you provide not only for san francisco in the western edition but also looking to solving all of the problems of our communities. thank you very much. (applause). >> now, i want to bring up adriane williams and the village project. she founded and is leading the project and growing one in district five and they're going to sing us the black negro national anthem. >> come on guys. hi everybody i guess we are the baby organization in the western edition. last summer we started the village project in an effort

to make sure that the bay view was fed and it started with one field trip a week but we couldn't stop, so last year we also was partnership with the african-american arts and cultural complex. made history in the city by doing seven days of kwanza and at each cell brigz the kids sang and we are going to do all three verses today with your help. ignore my voice okay. can you do something with this? >> ♪ (seven days of kwanza).

(applause). >> let's hear it one more time for the village project. (applause). >> thank you adriane for all the great work you're doing in the western edition and the fill more. now someone that is a star not just in san francisco but well known nationally let's give it up for our mayor, mayor gavin newsom and to add to the

star value here the executive director of the african-american arts and cultural center commissioner london breeze. >> thank you supervisor. thank you for coming out here and i'm going to let london speak first and i want to thank you for his dedication and there are a special presentations and i will conclude with a few thoughts for this afternoon. >> thank you mayor newsom. i am here to give acknowledgment but first of all. are you guys having a good time? >> yeah ! >> are you guys having a good time? >> yeah ! >> we have some more performances and be patient and we want everyone to know this effort is a collaboration among many and i want to take this opportunity to thank many people

and bear with me and i want to thank our mayor for his hard work in san francisco and specifically in district five i want to thank our wonderful supervisor ross mirkarimi for working tirelessly and for the directors that started magic in the first place and now we have mo magic because of it, and i wanted to thank sister davis and she is running around here crazy and she works tirelessly with this and making it work. schools of the sacred heart have been a partner of ours for many years and thanks for their commitment. we want to thank

our new partners and trash and match up and adriane williams and the village project, ms. reynolds and the staff at the african-american art complex, huckleberry for their willingness to take on programs, carmen johnson and jaunita for their dedication and to the others that have shared their message of peace and donna williams and her flexibility and moving to the african-american arts culture complex. and miriam do ming guess for all of her hard work. erica green at urban solutions and the classes and she has been working with our kids and teaching them

entrepreneur skills and the others for their support. (applause). thank you for bearing with me. as you know the african-american art and culture complex has gone through a major transition. we went from a place that no one participates in programs and everything else to this absolutely gorgeous beautiful amazing facility i am proud to call my home and i have to say if it wasn't for one person in particular -- and i have a great staff and community that has always 17 supported me and there is one person that stands out and he deals with my tantrums and demands and he continues to work hard and bust his butt and the center would not look as beautiful if it

wasn't for his work and today we honor earl hall. (applause). and his family is here and he didn't know they were going to be here. he didn't know he was going to get an award. (applause). and i got to tell you guys we are so blessed to have him in our community. he not only takes care of everything in the facility -- i mean from light fixtures to electricity to anything that you name in that facility he deals with, but he also takes care of our kids. and i am truly blessed to have

him part of my staff at the african-american arts and culture complex and today me gets an award for his extraordinary commitment to the african-american arts and culture complex. so when you see him give him hugs and give him love and this man is extraordinary for what he does to our community and i wanted to surprise him and say thank you. he doesn't like the spotlight but sometimes these are the most important people in the community. thank you very much do you want to say something? >> first of all i want to thank everything that came out for this occasion, and i especially want to thank my immediate boss london and she pulle pulled oner on me and i am happy and this is a labor of love that i have for

these kids and everything i engage in is very special to me and i am getting more out of this than i am giving so thank you very much. thank you mr mr. mayor and good luck. >> all right. thank you guys. i want to thank you all very much. once again i want to thank everybody for coming out here today. we had a chance yesterday to be out in hunter's point and right here and devil's rock and we celebrated graduation of heritage camp and kids and celebrating eight week intensive camp experience that we started last year. it's interesting last year we celebrated as we celebrated this event for a celebration for what is right in the community of san francisco and not always to focus on what is wrong. this year we have more