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is going on here, and also where we will beúu=. coming, and thank you for the funding and the leadership that let's go from here to even more partnerships in the future for the city and the college. bdzmj=lthank you very much. >> will have an effect on the students so we wanted to haveó(ml7 students of city college. jeffrey. (rñlx>v morning. let me begin by apologizing to u guests and the mayor because this is how i will address the>[tpño÷ entire room .

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wonderful that will be in a few years. results. 0xg;"iíhowever, i am a student . =;t÷ largest community college in the united states with 110,000 this is not about me. speaker who has a working in the program. have another great story from him later on. i am looking to theq together. [applause] $"+h/j÷>> we had toç: have a ler this grant, and in the mayor's office weq/ council that brings together all

the council's that we arei7fz bringing together. kimberly has been a great forceñ on this council and &mrswíñthe g and partnership bridge to success. she will=#np>/ give us a quick overview of the program and then part of this, there willí some people appear and you can't ask them some questions and then we will tie up the formal remarks. she has an incredible team that she isk we would not have been able to do this work without the1.hnl of so many of the faculty and staff at the school district to have given ac to make certain that this alignment happened. kimberly? lot partnerships today, but what this is about is the students. [the first thing thn

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>> welcome to "culture wire." today we're headed to smpling f. camera works, a premiere venue for artists working in photographer, video, and digital media. the latest exhibition lists clearness as a set of political

alliances and possibilities that it is behind the sphere of dominant gay and lesbian culture. the curator fills us in on the process of creating this thoughtful exhibition. and what she would like you to take away from it. >> i co-cureated with danny, a chicago-based writer and curator. the conceptual framework is what it means to be clear and radical for our generation. clearness as a set of political alliances and possibilities, not necessarily related to institutions of gender and swam formativity. danny and i wanted the show to feel funky and to have a really tangible quality to it. so part of that was

incorporated handmade objects and installations and beautifully printed photographs and videos. there is also a lot of opportunities to participate and to take postcards or to get the photo taken or sit within a tent made out of afghan blankets to watch videos. the exhibition is organized in three distinct galleries. in gallery one, which is the gallery designated to clear activism, there is an installation by the oakland-based collaboration and it's called "unleashed power." it's all focused on one protest that happened in chicago in 1991 with the activist organization act up, which was protesting the inadequate health care for people living in aids, and specifically it focuses on an act of police violence that occurred at that

protest. the thing that is really interesting for me about that piece is that it brings us back 20 years to what clear activism looked like at the height of the aids crisis. gallery two features work that is related to intentionally communities that exist both within cities, also in rural spaces, and transient communities as well. the return features a no madic clear tribe, the people who join this tribe are often in various states of transition themselves, whether it's leaving behind previous gender assignments or corporate jobs or a life within cities. a lot of the work featured in the exhibition and a lot of the installations are handmade objects. there is a lot of do-it-yourself aesthetic and that handmade do-it-yourself

feeling is something that mimics the idea and the reality of the alternative world making that we're trying to represent here as far as the self-sufficient community goes. gallery three features work that relates to the ideas of self-determinenism, alternative world making and utopia. visits can still participate in this -- visitors can still participate in this project. during the opening, we invite visitors to come in and try on these costumes, pose in front of the backdrop. he was really inspired by comic books that he read as growing up and thinks of this space as a post-apocalyptic monster portrait gallery where people can remain genderless once they put on the costumes.

we think it's important that this be happening in san francisco, which is considered an ekpe center of the queer actual cure. the majority of the queer cultural events happen in june which has been designated as the pride month. which to me translates as the period of time in which people can be in clear arts and culture. in september, it's hashingening back to that and proving that this is something that is scon significantly happening all the time. what danny and i hope visitors take away from this exhibition is to observe the diversity within the designation of queer in terms of race, in terms of gender presentation and