and around circalo this weekend. as of right now we only have one injury which was good. it was a minor injury of someone getting hit in the ankle. so we're very lucky with the amounts of shots fired that there was no fatalities. the good news is that only one person got hit and it wasn't serious. that's the irony on that. moving on -- see we've been talking to representatives from the city of seattle which has been very exciting. they're looking at how this commission on the operational level does cite inspection and the sound cast. and some of things that we do on a day-to-day level with enforcement and venues. they're wanting to don't some of those policys that we use up there. so that's the conversation and relationship that will continue.

the sound task force meeting, we've had after a lot of work, after for a long time hopefully by this summer, we'll have a new draft of a rewritten san francisco municipal sound code for the -- to go before the board of supervisors which is very exciting. we have a lot of work for different agencies, city agencies have gone into it. and we will have a lot more clear definitions compared to our current sound code. as director cain already commented on el rincron was effected -- rins can con was evicted. one of the things that was positive about that, this commission knows of the many, many incidences that we've had there. most of violence. the weekend before, they were

evicted. we actually had an incident if they were related of an event letting out and patrons of that event going two blocks away and having the good idea that it would be fun to unload a shotgun into the neighborhood. again, no injuries but fortunately with that venue particularly now evicted and no longer an issue with that having talked to a lot of the neighbors in the area, very happy to finally see that particular problem resolved. , moving on, you'll see the current clubs -- or the current venues that we're looking into. ly read off the list. those who received notices and violations, those will received a administrative sigh, quality of life incidences, quality of life relating to sound, trash,

litter, that kind of thing and incidences of violence. unfortunately, it should be noted that just as director cain commented we had the shots fired inside of b barnaville and fortunately no one was sin jury -- injured. we had the circalo. i recommend that circalo needs to come in the next meeting. this is a major incident. we're meeting with the management and owners of circalo within the next day or two. but i believe that it's important that they -- they address the public. they owe the public an explanation. and they owe this commission an explanation. and there's a few -- i mean, there's a few other assault and batteries, comparatively to the last report which it actually

has been kind of a light month. violence is down, which is good. if there's any questions -- oh, sorry. one more incident to mention. we had on the weekend of the 3/26/1 we did have a homicide on one of the clubs on 6th street. it looks club related. i won't mention what club we're looking at this time. but it was a very serious incident. and that because it has been moved over to homicide, we've helped get the -- kind of. we had a few witnesses contact us directly and then to homicide. >> is there any public comment on the director's report? yes, sir. >> yes, i think it's inherently

unfair to hold clubs responseable for things that happen outside of them. it provides basically an incentive. anybody who has a grudge against nightclub owner or a club. all they have to do in the state of affairs is go outside the club, fire up a couple of shots, create some kind of noise disturbance. be noisy only the clubs' window. what kind of incentive is that creating? they weren't let in because they were under age or whatever. people get ticked off about stuff. and this is basically creating a mechanism to make it very easy for people to be in malicious behaviors. this is what we pay taxes for. government is responsible for what happens in the street. nightclub owners are responsible for what happens inside the club, i think,

period. thank you. >> thank you. any other comment? >> next item police departments comments and questions. >> good evening. i'm from central station. i'm going to hold it to three different incidents that happened. the first one i'm going to talk about happened on april 9th, when five patrons tried to enter the club. the crew became angry. and they had to be asked to leave and then escorted out. as they were leaving, they threw a punch at one of the security officers. a fight ensued on the street. and one of the combatants pulled a gun out and -- he fired the gun one time. it didn't hit anybody in the area. some people ran from the area.

police responded and four people were taken into custody or they were detained. they were checked as far as having gun residue. it looked like the person that fired the weapon was able to run off. the other incident happened on april 3. there was a large fight in club ozul. a party bus containing drunk patrons arrived and were not permitted inside. they started to argue out in the front. the couple got inside to where there was more arguing. maybe a fight we heard that there was a fight. there wasn't a fight. they were still trying to look into it. they -- the club management closed it down, had everyone leave. once inside there were about 20, 30 people fighting. one of the incidents here was one female hit the other female in the face with a high-heeled shoe. and it left a severe gash in

the head. the last one was on 4/8 -- april 8, the fight occurred at the ambassador club. the combatants were kicked out at the same time. we have a fight inside the club and now everyone's rushed out. the previous speaker was taking about how the club shouldn't be responsible. looking at the first two, it's kind of hard to say where the club -- it doesn't seem like they did anything wrong. they had somebody who they wanted out. they asked them to leave and then somebody introduced a gun. i'm not going to be looking at the -- at them for beings responsible for that. they have a fight inside. they go to break it up. it doesn't look like the police are called. and then to shove people out into the street. you can't just kick people out and say we're done here. they actually have a responsibility. the police department looks at

each case if we see that a club acted properly, i want to be out here saying they acted properly. but if they did something wrong, then we're going to bring council member tatiana kostanian: your attention. >> any commissioners have a question with that. >> promoters will have somebody else under the ruse of a birthday party. so they're really trying really hard to stop that. it's pretty hard to stop that. you can't get them all. >> just to piggyback on that comment, it's something we're seeing citywide currently as opposed we booked a private birthday party and all of a sudden they're selling tickets at the door.

what's unfortunate is you get a venue and you entered into a contract what they think is a private event and the last minute they're basically being given a bait and switch. and in those situations, you know, often we try to working with the venue because the venue is actually the sflim that situation. sometimes they're under-staffed or what have you. unfortunately that's an incident -- officer mathias and i have talked about, not in my shon. >> it happened a previous time. and they tried to cancel it. and the people that booked it didn't know they were coming. so azul called central station and we made arrangements to make sure that there weren't going to be any problems. >> ok. thank you. >> is that all of the commissioner's question? public comment?

>> libertarian party. i appreciate the officer saying that the police are trying to make an effort to distinguish between a club's acting responsibly and not when there's an incident and not just automatically blaming the club. but in the past and maybe this is not happening currently. perhaps the police could be asked about this. in the past clubs have been blamed for the number of police calls that they had about things that are happening at or near the club. this was used against them to try to get them shut down, etc. >> where did this happen? >> when? >> where? >> i don't have specific names -- >> well, you said you know that it happened. >> i was dealing with the issue 10 years ago. >> i'm sorry, this happened 10 years ago? >> it's probably been happening -- >> but it hasn't happened recently?

>> i don't know. >> i'm just responding to your statement that you know that clubs are being punished for making calls to the police. i'm asking for some evidence. >> it's been an defacto punishment -- they were shrouded as being problem clubs. you know, you don't believe that this has happened? >> i'm not aware of it. >> ok. i would urge you to consult the records. maybe not recently. i hope it's not happening now. i can well understand given the history why club owners might be reluctant to call the police if they've already expelled fighters on to the street. they don't know that anything's going to happen. they've removed the problem. if they call the police, it could be creating a problem where there was none before. we need to look at who's been incentivized to do what. if clubs are not punished for

calling the police when there was a responseable, then it's more likely to be responsive in that regard. that's all i'm saying. thank you. >> thank you. >> i just want to ask one question. maybe abc has an opinion how private parties held in public premises are conducted so that there might be something to that too. >> public comment. and we'll go to item number seven. commissioners, questions or comments? >> any comments or questions? ok. any public comment -- all right. number eight new business requests for future agenda items? no? ok. and number nine discussion of issues relating to the relative health and safety of youth attendant dees at permitted and

unpermitted events? no. should be the health and safety of the commissioners. all right. well, seeing nothing further, this concludes that tuesday, april 12th, the meeting of the entertainment commission for the city and county of san francisco. thank you for coming in.

>> welcome to "culture wire." on this episode, we explore what it means to the aged, in today's society -- what it means to be chicana in today's society. chica chic features an array of artwork by five leading chicana artists that addresses a range of issues such as integration, sustainability, and integration. using a distinct visual approach, each of the artist's response to the shifting needs of their communities in ways that offer unique perspectives and multiple points of entry. >> the exhibition is to bring together the voices of a new generation chicana artists, all

of whom reference the works of the civil-rights movement in their works, but they are also responding to a new cultural concerns and new cultural circumstances. >> the works in the show include a large canvas depicting a woman washing the beach with her hair at the u.s./mexican border. the painting encourages the viewer to engage with the current debates over immigration and the politics of women and labor. influenced by the campaigns of the chicano civil rights movement, this oakland artist is a print maker whose work has helped and sustainability with the immigrant community as well as other current sociopolitical issues. this print-based work draws on appropriated agricultural worker manuals and high fashion labels to satirically address class

issues, cultural identities, and consumerism. >> angelica -- her father was an agricultural worker, so she has drawn a lot from the materials the agricultural department sends to agricultural workers, referencing the depiction of farm workers and some of the information about pesticide application. >> mitzi combines a variety of media, including embroidery, to create artifacts of mexican, chicano, pop culture. she greets immensely detailed drawings of celebrities on the same platform of her friends and families. her work combines elements of chicano portraiture and low writer art, rendered in upon new art style, or intricate drawings on handkerchiefs, also -- often associated with prison art. her portrait of three girls is among several of original posters by the exhibition

artists, which are on view at various bart stations as part of a public campaign funded by the national endowment of the arts. from the outset, the curator felt it was important for the exhibition to have a public art components of the work could reach the widest possible audience. more than just a promotion, the posters connect the work of these powerful artists with new audiences, including the vital chicano and latino community. images can be found in bart stations located in san for cisco and oakland. >> it is enormously exciting for me personally and for the institution. the poster with up right after new year's, and i remember very vividly -- i am a regular rider, and i went into the station and saw the first poster i had seen, it was incredibly exciting. it is satisfying to know that through the campaign, we are

reaching a broader audience. >> for more information about >> welcome to "culturewire." on this episode, the director of cultural affairs takes us on a field trip to the mission district to check out odc's new 36,000 square foot campus, the

largest in the region. >> for san franciscans, odc has a very significant significance. stands for a venerable performing arts organization celebrating its 40th anniversary of bringing fans and theaters to the bay area. standing with me today on "culturewire" is the theater director of odc. thank you for joining us. i mention that this is the 40th anniversary. >> it is indeed. >> i'm standing with you in a fabulous theater that was completed six months ago in time for this anniversary. tell me about how it has been going for the last six months. >> absolutely. in terms of the anniversary, the

dance company, which is our founding body, is celebrating its 40th anniversary, and it is the 30th anniversary, so it is historic for both sides, and the completion of the theater represents in some ways the completion of our entire campus that began in 2005. it has come to its fruition with the completion of the theater. the theater opening was remarkable. one of the things we wanted to do was to make sure that our community really truly -- our san francisco bay area community understood that this theater was for them. we invited 31 bay area companies to do a day-long performance marathon, so we really launched with a feeling of this is for everyone in this community. it was a tremendous thing to bring everyone together around the opening of this building. >> you are part of our creative troika, including the founder,

brenda wey and k.t. nelson. talk about what it is like to keep this campus going. >> it is a wonderful thing to be working with someone who is certainly your co-worker and also largely your mentor. i inherited the theater at a funny time in its life. it needed to make some decisions as an institution about what it wanted to be. whether it wanted to be exclusively a rental facility, it is needed to be a rehearsal space with a really high ceilings -- whatever it was, having that level of leadership that my founding director is also my boss really made that possible. i really felt like i had great stewardship and we were able to make really innovative decisions for how the theater could grow over the decade. >> living with -- living with someone who is both your immediate boss and also a

working artist is also a huge asset. that is one of the things that keeps the creativity flowing through odc. it is a campus about the creative process at all times. >> the theater was part of a second phase of capital fund raising and community support. the previous one had renovated the space where the rehearsal studios are and the school is, sell what does that sort of say about the importance of the odc in the community? >> i think it's spoke to the two very different tracks of our organization. part of what we do is education and outreach. part of what we do is performance on the part of our company, odc dance, and a third part of what we do is this presenting an incubation stage. when we came to people to talk about the theater as a second investment after having built the dance commons, the distinct purpose of the theater really came through.

what we were going to do with our venue was invest deeply in creativity, deeply in our regional artists, and we were going to do something that most mid-size san francisco venues have struggled to do. >> talk to me a little about the group other than odc that have used this space. >> one of the great pleasures in our opening season was to go back and invite two of our former resident artists to launch this space. arab laung was to invite two of the best known -- our launch was to invite two of the best known companies in the city to share in the event, and it was really exceptional. these are companies that i have worked with and the organization has worked with releases they were either newborn or just a few years old, and to go back to that roster and invite two of

our really major home town honeys to open a theater and be able to treat them as the professionals they have become with this opportunity, with this menu, and with the resources that were available was really a full circle experience for both of us. >> now that the theater has been fully renovated, where is it going? >> i believe that san francisco is in some ways to the nation what odc is to san francisco, which is to say that i believe the west coast is the hotbed for innovation. i think it is where major cultural innovations happen, where huge ideas are born and often raised up. it may not often be the marketplace that other major metropolitan areas are, but i do think is the center of where creativity sits. i think that what odc can do by becoming this level of institution is raise the platform of san francisco.

i name -- in many ways, it is sort of a death process, but putting an artist in contact with recording artists, with other major areas, with exchange companies around the country and the world will become a central part of what we do. >> it is clear that now there is a campus that has been built out and filled in, that odc is playing this fabulous supportive and incubated role, both for san francisco, the bay area, and the country. thank you so much for being part of "culturewire." >> my pleasure. >> and for contributing so much to the performing arts of our city. >> for more information, visit odc