sometimes because they are very personal. i have to share with you the level of excitement coming into this store tonight. in preparing, i am feeling the same way as win in college -- when in college and performed in my first drama class. i performed in "butterflies are free." i was 3,000 miles away from my original home, from seattle to maine. i felt like i could do anything i wanted and my friends would not laugh at me. i took drama class. i was really excited. i got to perform. this is kind of how i feel tonight with this opening. it is wonderful. congratulations. act coming to mid market is huge. we have wanted the active arts

to be such a great part of this. they have been paired wit.-- the been a big part of this. to have act joining us in a deliberate move to revitalize the area and make arts the leading factor, to join the great art foundation, burning man, all of the business locating here, it is wonderful. i feel very excited about this. this is another smart thing on behalf of our arts community to join the mayor's office, the office of workforce development. i know amy and jim are excited, the whole crew. [applause] thank you. i share in her staff's excitement when they can make an agreement and get the right funds together.

a lot of it is still about financials. if we can leverage what we have with the excitement that you bring in, we are on our way to a good foundation for revitalization. this community needs it. it has the connection to the soma and tenderloin. i think we're on our way to a very positive, a successful story of how we work together to make this community, alive. you already know what we have done. we have done anchors with twitter. on fifth and market, we have the first of many financial institutions. it is the fifth largest bank in china that has now opened their office on the market street. that is to complement what we're doing your business-wise. that is along the lines of what

some of the smaller agencies are doing. you will hear more about this. dottie's blues cafe will be around the corner. we're committed to the six st. sub-station. you are already seeing the community ambassadors walking the streets. they are greeting people. they're getting to know everybody. please know them by first name. they will be your partners to make everybody feel safe along the street. i have to thank act for taking this opportunity, activating the space, making it available. i know you are an educational institution as well as a performance institution. your masters of the arts program will be delighted to

embrace your best grant students as they perform here, really get their education started. it is the performances and people you bring your that well and live in the area. -- that will enliven the area. i cannot remember what i did with "butterflies are free," but i do remember the excitement of that performance. thank you. congratulations. thank you, everybody, for coming here tonight. [applause] >> we are going to give you a little taste and performance. our board president will introduce it. we have two other great allies here from the unified school district. this is going to be a space for education programs and young people to come in and perform.

we're honored am thrilled they are here. >> thank you so much for joining us today, mayor lee. we're deeply appreciative. you are so encouraging. it is a great launch. i am nancy livingston, i cha ir the board of act. we want to welcome all of you here today, particularly our sister organizations in the arts. we are so thrilled to be putting down serious routes -- roots here. the kind of work that will be done here is very different from what we're doing elsewhere. we have amazing opportunities to do cutting edge work, kind of grassroots and community-based work we do not have the opportunity to do in a 1000 seat

theater. we are thrilled to welcome all of you today. as the mayor indicated and everything you have read in the newspapers, act is dedicated to putting down community roots in a significant and serious way in this area. the costume shop has been here for a while. we are dedicating and inaugurating this brand new space. we have dreams of putting in a second stage in this neighborhood. we want to be good neighbors and good friends. come often. bring your friends. thank you so much for your support today. rusty? [applause] >> we have to think another institution, the irvine foundation. it is making the performances

that happen here available to us. that is really great. it takes a village. it takes fund-raising to make these things happen. the irvine foundation has been awesome to us. thank you to them even though they are not here this evening. we have a special performance tonight. we have our class of 2013, we call them our second year's. they will be doing a musical revue, two songs. if you get a chance to come see it, we would love to have you come back into the space and see it. you can see the full performance tomorrow night at 7:30, friday at 1:00 in the afternoon, saturday at 2:00 and 7:30. we would love to have you come back and see it. it is directed by travis

greisler who did "tales of the city" last year. it is a family affair tonight. we are all here together. we're going to let them come up and do their thing. the exit stage right. -- we exit stage right. [applause] >> please spell chimera? >> can i have a definition?

>> highly unrealistic, imaginative. ♪ [vocalizing] ♪ ♪ if i go to washington, will i be on my own? because if i go to washington, who will be my chaperone? ♪ ♪ we always knew you were a winner. we smiled when you smiled.

from the beginning when you are a beginner, you were the perfect child. we always knew you were a champion. if you should feel my [inaudible] blame it on your memories. i love you. i love you and. i love and remember you.

i love you. ♪ >> i love you. >> my dad said -- >> i love you. ♪ i love everything about you, dear. maybe it is true. i love you. ♪ ♪ i wrote you a letter. mama, but you didn't react. you never asked me if i joined you in the bombay sun. mama, when are you returning?

i know we agreed. tell me what you are learning. i think dad takes out on me what he wants to take out on you. mama, i think that is angry. i do not know what to do. mama, mama, mama, how i wish you were home. how i wish you were home. i wish you were here.

♪ we always knew you were a winner ♪ ♪ i wish you were home ♪ we could not be prouder ♪ ♪ i love you ♪ i love everything about you, dear. baby, it is true. i love you. i love you. i love everything about you.

baby, it is true. i love -- >> chimerical. highly unrealistic, highly danceable. -- highly fanciful. >> that is correct. ♪ i love you ♪ [applause] >> ♪ i wish i could go back to college. life was so simple back then. >> ♪ what would i give to go

back and live in the dorm with a meal plan again? >> ♪ i wish i could go back to college. in college, you know who you are. you sit in the sun and think i am going to go far. ♪ ♪ how do i go back to college? i do not know i am any more. >> ♪ i wish i could just drop a class. >> ♪ we could be sitting in the computer lab before the final paper is due, cursing the world,

seeing the rest of the class. ♪ i wish i could go back to collegeby wish i had taken more pictures. >> but if i were to go back to college, then what a loser i would be. oh my god. >> these kids are so much younger than me.

♪ [applause] >> i am the director of the mayor's office of workforce development. thank you for joining us on the waterfront. we're here to talk about two incredibly important san francisco institutions. when the city was successful and won the bid for the america's cup, it allowed us to

accelerate the development of our cruise ship terminal. we have had to face some changes that involve relocating long- term tenants have been such an important part of the port vitality. two of those tenants had some real challenges in terms of their space and operational needs. we're here to talk about their successful transition to another port properties and the gratitude that we're keeping both of these institutions in san francisco. they employ hundreds. they work with thousands on a monthly basis. they greatly enhance the quality of life for san francisco residents and visitors. i like to introduce the mayor. then we will hear from the president and ceo of bower. first, mayor ed lee.

[applause] >> thank you, jennifer. welcome to our port. we're all getting ready for america's cup. i want to remind everybody that this is a great opportunity for our city to host one of the world's greatest events. in doing so, we needed to make sure we will leave a good legacy for the city. part of that legacy and responsibility is to work with our report. i want to start by thanking the port of san francisco, the staff, consultants, lawyers on both sides for all the work you have done together to help us begin a complex process. we're changing some of the tenancies and making sure we make room for the new footprint. we want to announce today two very important tenants of our

report -- port, bowers transportation and the other. they are here to speak specifically about it. i know from the beginning they were very worried. i would have been if i was a successful employer. gary has had over 100 people employed consistently and growing. norm has had 200 people artists and musicians that want to be the continued success of our ports and our food and entertainment industry. . supports that as well. there have been some really great tenants at the port. we wanted to make sure we announced the initial moves as a signal that while we have other

tenants to work with, these two were complex. they needed assurances. i remember as a city administrator with jennifer and monique walking the parameters trying to figure out which offices would be the best. today we're standing on the option we chose would be the best for lozani's for their hopefully permanent home. it will make a great investment. bower will be moving to. pier 50 along with other tenants and other things kept in storage. these are two significant moves.

they demonstrate the level of cooperation we have always wanted to have with our tenants at the port. we need to move them in a sensitive way. they are moving to new places. i think when you talk to them and into the details of this site and. pier 50, they're going into better sites that will allow them to grow and serve our city and visitors in great foer ways. i want to thank you for your wonderful stewardship of your companies and employees, working together with the port, our office, our event authority, and organizing committee to make this even successful and do so in a sensitive and smart way.

these are great, solid businesses for the city. they employ a good number of people. we want to keep the entertainment and transportation going. thank you for your cooperation. thank you to the port for their leadership on this. [applause] >> we would like to invite gary bauer to say a few words. >> i appreciate the kind words. we could not make this happen without the mayor and the rest of the port. we have been a tenant here for over 14 years. we have over 200 employees. if we were to move, we would be putting those people out of work. we just finished a few weeks ago in san diego. this is a great thing for the

city. it is a great opportunity. we think it is a great opportunity with the cruise ships coming in. we're looking forward to our new location at pier 50. thank you so much. [applause] >> now i would like to invite norm to say a few words. >> i would like to thank mayor lee, the former mayor, and others for all the hard work they have done in the city. it cannot happen, these kinds of activities, unless we have help from downtown.

we really appreciate that a lot. we're really excited about the new location. [applause] it is terrific for us. this was the city gate to san francisco. you are standing on what was called the clark. point pier, it was the beginning of the barbary coast. teatro zinzanni is proud to carry on the prague tradition of music in this city for many years to come. -- the proud tradition of music in the city for many years to come. there's a special order we have. it is the order of zinzanni. >> i am going to pin that on.

do not bend down too quickly. [laughter] [applause] >> thank you. congratulations to everybody. >> i guess that is it. [laughter] it is the beginning of a new day. we look forward to being here. we look forward to the mayor joining us. >> use gary bauer's transit and come to teatro. [applause] thank you. >> 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. ♪