have to say. micromanaging does not work for me. not at all. it weighs my time, drains my energy, frustrates me. i have tried to take the time to support other people's ideas so they can do their best. i have always been pleasantly surprised. member for, do not wait for leaders. do it alone person to person. it is easier to spot problems, complain about them come to blame others for them and expect others to solve them. what really matters is trying to come up with ideas that make things better and actually do something. it does not matter if they always work. we all have really big ideas for changing the world, and most of them will likely never bear

fruit. that is ok, because we can turn to our neighbors, community, even our city and help a little bit. that is what its most important. and number three, up be grateful for and honor the sacrifices of others. i honor and salute the veterans who served our country tonight, and i am tremendously moved by the words of my fellow honorees, but the person i tried to honor the most is my great grandmother. so far i have never found any records that she ever existed, but i am proof that she did. she was full blooded miami indian. she was married to a cruel and abusive man who happened to be my grandfather. and at 13-years-old to escape

her family's poverty, she married this man. her husband would never allow her to sit at the same table as her kids. kerry cash or further her education. when she eventually divorced him, she was ahead of her time, she worked at an orphanage to take care of those that had even less than she imagined. helps me remember and honor her sacrifices. [applause] be the way -- be the change you wish to see in the world. we do not have to look very far to what should be different or better. i realize i am preaching to the choir, because most of you live this every day with your volunteer service. i encourage you to continue to do that and encourage others to join you. number one, and this is the most

important thing, but this has been rolling around my head for most of my life, and it is if you have enough, you have enough to share. i am really grateful that my work continues to surround me with people who operate this as their guiding principle. we have been very lucky over the past decade. our budget has grown 10 or 15 fold, and we're in a rare position of being able to share instead of always being in a position of need, and i am very critical to have helped the director rick -- the agency and that way, and continue to be able to do that work and imagine a much healthier time for native americans in our country. thank you very much. [applause]

>> was the check? do you give money for winning? -- get money for winning? >can i have all of the other individuals in the past couple of years that her receive this award? go ahead and stand up please. >> [applause] 1 question to each of you, how do you get the fingerprints off this question? [laughter] congratulations. is there a special ring to be in this club? of password? secret handshake? good.

once again, calling our dancers out. come on out. how about a big round of applause for our host drums and the friendship house drummer. good singing. go win over to our singers. two starts on around damp round. ♪

this style of dance, depending on the song, this style of dance can be from the northern part of indian country, or they can be from the southern plains. in oklahoma style. how about a big round of applause for our round at the answers? looking good. good singing, good dancing. rocking city hall here in san francisco. good job, dancers. iall right, how about a big roud

of applause for our dancers and singers? [applause] this is one of our social dances. normally we would invite everyone to come out and dance with our dancers, but we have a small area here, but good to see oliver dancers out here. at this time we're calling veterans to come up once again. -- all of our dancers out here. can you come up and take care of eagle staff? [applause] [laughter]

if you notice the eagle staff was up here on stage, my friend had shared with many of you, they stood side by side, the american flag, one time at war, and the only time you will see to flags of these nations side- by-side at peace, so we go over to our seniors for a flag song. please stand if you are able.

long before the star spangled banner, many of these nations saying these songs -- sang these songs honoring the first flag of this nation. the eagles that recognizing the many battles. as the eagles would lead the warriors into battle, we would sing the song says. -- we would sing these songs. when the flood would return again, paying homage -=- when

the flag would return again, playinpaying homage to the battle.

>> going over to the friendship house frodrum. a retreat song. take them out. our eagle staff, carried by randy surely, united states army. airborne.

how about a big round of applause for our intertribal the answers. -- dancers. [applause] go dancing. good singing. thanks for coming out and representing. the antar, the of hard. -- dance hard, dance hard.

all right, thank you. you may be seated. randy surelyh, thank you. getting ready for our fire song. [unintelligible] >> [unintelligible] my name is red star. i am happy to be here. i wanted to share this song, not

only for one of my fellow tribal members, but also for the local heroes and to honor ancestors of this land. they do. -- thank you. ♪

[applause] >> thank you. going over to our napster singers.

the appropriate honoree for our recipients. liz, eddie, corrina, come on up. and earl. i hate telling myself what to do. that is why i have a wife.

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>> walkjauqien torez, come on u. >> thank you. >> good evening, everyone. i am the director of neighborhood services here in the county of san francisco. i wanted to thank each and everyone of you. and it is a very grand space that only becomes more human when you decide to bring your spirit and soul.

we're so happy to have our drivers here tonight, the answers tonight. our leaders here tonight, and i just want to make sure in addition to everyone else that we brought up earlier today, we also take a moment to recognize markkas from rocus bonoza. i also wanted to make sure -- [applause] i also wanted to make sure on behalf of the mayor we recognize kqed to making sure we push this idea of community. i also want to thank especially susie to make sure we push the agenda of community and our

government and great city. i just want to make sure we noted the assembly member presented with each and everyone of you a proclamation in order of your achievements. will also find a seat of honor recognizing your deep in diverse achievements. thank you for coming tonight. please keep on coming back. we look forward to having you with us again and again. thank you. [applause] >> who's hungry? [laughter] i heard there was free food, too. once again, thank you for attending. we look forward to next year. four, maybe five new recipients.

it is indeed an honor to be part of that club. thank you. if everyone could proceed towards the north like court. it in line. -- get in line. everyone travel safe.

>> i came out to san francisco about seven years ago. i was trained as a carpenter. i got sick of the cold weather and the hot weather. i wanted to pursue art. i thought i really be here for about three years. here i am, 7 years later. ♪ i have problems sleepwalking at night. i wanted to create a show about sleep. a mostly due painting kind of story telling. these are isolated subject matters, smaller studies for the

larger paintings. i fell in love with it and wanted to create more of them. it is all charcoal on mylar. it is plastic. i was experimenting and discovered the charcoal moves smoothly. it is like painting, building up layers of charcoal. it is very unforgiving. you have to be very precise with the mark-making. a mark dents the paper and leaves the material embedded. you have to go slowly. the drawings are really fragile. one wipe and they are gone completely. it is kind of like they're locked inside.

all of the animals i am showing are dead. i wanted them to be taking -- taken as though they are sleeping, eternal sleep. i like to exaggerate the features of the animals. it gives it more of a surreal element. it is a release subtle element. -- it is a really is subtle elements. the range of reactions people get is that normally they get what i am trying to achieve, the sense of calmness, it's really gentle state of mind -- a really gentle state of mind, i guess. ♪ >> hello, everyone, and thank

you for joining us this evening. my name is sandra. i'm part of the arab heritage month committee. we would like to welcome you to our annual arab heritage month celebration. on behalf of the mayor's office and the city of san francisco. >> hi, everyone. thank you for joining. we were technically supposed to start at 5:30, but we are a few minutes early. that's pretty good. we're usually late. thank you for coming. this is the third year we have initiated the cemenevent. this is a very interesting year to be an arab, i would say. many things are happening throughout the arab world. as you may have noticed, there's been a slight change in the

flag. we have a new libyan flag. [laughter] [applause] we have four arab countries in the entire arab world where people are finally speaking up. for many of us in the san francisco bay community, we've known far too long what's been going on in the arab world. the reason there is a thriving arab-american community in the area is because many of us had to leave our homeland due to political persecution or the fact there's no respect for our dignity. in the san francisco bay area, we came together from all over the arab world to live. thank you, again, for coming. i hope you have enjoyed the program to a lot of people have worked very hard. i want to make a few

announcements. we could not have done any of this without our sponsors. before we start, a big thank you to the presenting sponsor, the law firm. a round of applause for them. thank you. [applause] also, burgermeister franchise. [applause] and we have ike's place and [inaudible] [applause] we could not have done it without their support. they were very generous. i urge all of you to please support these businesses. without them, we would not have put on this event. >> and now i have the pleasure >> and now i have the pleasure of introducing the musical