>> i am tony kelly. artists and arts organizations have been meeting for year to discuss how they can participate and add value. it is clear there are numerous opportunities we're in the process of missing. it will be hearing from many artists who describe what the city can and should be doing to ensure that the 30 foot america's cup is a vibrant, world class entertainment event. i have given you a list to show you an idea of what can be done with more support. you'll be hearing more about these today. it does not matter whether you consider this to be a port project or the mayor's office or whether it is exempt from the public arts ordinance. the facts are still the same. you have a sporting event redesigned for a large viewing public. there is a series of short races in the daytime with a lot of crowding in one part. the city is contributing a

valuable land and resources to make that happen. the economic benefits to us depends on keeping people here logger coming into the evening, and bringing visitors into the neighborhoods. that is how we will survive and how we get the economic benefit. we need to create, not just promote to make that happen. we need something new. we have not heard anything new. it is no accident that the olympics and the world cup, they have arts festival's connected to them. they add value and deliver economic benefits. we do not have that strategy our commitment to the arts. we do not have a strategy. we're hoping for an accident. the arts are a proven mechanism that can handle the crowd and attract those crowds to specific neighborhoods and businesses. you will not get that event by

relying -- we can get it by working with the city. thank you. supervisor cohen: i wanted to check in with you to find out, has anyone reach out to you to ask for your input. >> from the city side? supervisor cohen: not so much from the city, but from the event organizing side. >> david perry did come to the association to talk about opportunities with the america's cup and the question came up there for artists to work in the neighborhood. what about the arts? and we really did not get much of an answer at that point. i think there are two different consortiums of the arts groups. on top of that there has been independent efforts from arts organizations leaving on their

own and there was some progress in getting an appointment or two with the event authority or the organizing community. but then not much traffic -- traction in the last four or five months. supervisor cohen: has the organizing committee reached out? what has your interaction been with the city? >> in terms of when the the arts -- organizations have met with the port, they have met with michael martin. they have a very good composition with him. it is single province that happened about four or six months ago and not much has happened. >> nothing tangible. >> you will miller from other people. we need to get going for the arts groups to produce their shares. supervisor mar: if i have called a name you can come forward. it does not have to be in this

order. >> thank you. and i think the problem here is that the fundamental problem is the arts ranks so far down the political totem pole in city hall. the mayor's office did nothing to include the arts in the america's cup and we in the arts department who it is their job to remind the city edition have been an arts component. the olympic thus's -- this is all the reasons the city is facing and had, by to make economic impact. it was a lower credit and dirt on the northeastern waterfront. how are we ready yet those people out of there? what should we be happening --

which should be happening? for all the america's cup to see that, even it is free, it should be buying into their website. all the effort birds organizations should be doing that as well pretty can track you will to that but that is all this is how uc a lawsuit. you have events happening strategically coordinative to get people out from the northeast or reference a the kindle of parts of the city. of these things did to me integrated. it cannot be the city will make on our share and keep the like that. all these things have to me to get there. i was it of maria -- february 1. newland everything has to be ready on the website. we're not really thinking about that or about the international

impact this has. they -- supervisor mar: thank you. quex good afternoon. i am the director freed syllabuses -- director of field services. it is to match started in the er is vital there is a plan for the traffic flow for the thousands who will arrive and one key step toward effective management is the development and effective implementation of a single portal to get system during their non-couple hours. we're bringing in an experienced voice to the discussion for patrons. the ticketing portal could be

established to track not only paid to getting events but to monitor rcp's. maturing traffic flow for the attendees. there are three main clear opportunity for a ticketing portal. it allows for planning, not only for the patrons and producers but the event organizers to estimate traffic patterns where they will be strongest during the times of these events. it measures the flow into particular neighborhoods. and allows for communication between organizers and patrons. organizers could send messengers -- messages. [bell] and allows us to capture this information for communication and stay in touch with visitors as we continue to push san francisco as a vital arts and

tourist destination. and a portal could serve as a marketing effort for the events. none of these things can happen overnight. it is vital planning begins in earnest for these immediately so we can maximize the opportunity we have. supervisor mar: thank you. please come forward. >> thank you. and the executive director of the u.s.-japan cultural trade network. we started to organize around the america's cup in january. we decided to be inclusive. one of our primary goals has been to work with smaller arts organizations and artists to represent the city's multiple and diverse constituencies. whatever the plan will be for the arts during the america's cup, we wanted to make sure the grass roots arts community's interest would not be excluded.

our strength lies in diversity and in the thousands of individual artists and organization to energize every neighborhood and community in the city. we're proud of our institutions but they could not be as great as they are if they were not and her world parts of a strong arctic a system that has healthy and vital grass-roots. in san francisco there has been a pattern of funneling finances to the various organizations at the expense of the others. the cultured -- cultural equity seems to be under attack. it started as a direct response to these patterns of behavior which is why it is important to keep that program alive and make it inclusive. we did not want this exclusion to happen. our goal is to create a festival that includes the uniqueness, diversity and brilliance at a

san francisco and that represents and includes multiple and diverse communities. we have reached out to the san francisco arts alliance. a group of the largest arts institute in the spirit of unity. we knew that it is important to introduce the festival component to the america's cup in a coordinated and unified fashion as a community. if we can work together, this will create a program beyond anything we have experienced. supervisor mar: she did acknowledge the arts commission is meeting now on issues of cultural equity grants and other issues. thanks for being here. next speaker. i appreciate referring to the arts as an ecosystem with in the city as well with all kinds of different pieces to it. >> hello. the following is a letter from jillian cox, a founding curator of photography and chief curator of the deyoung museum.

he has asked us to share the statement. dear members, i represent the fine arts museums of san francisco comprised of the deyoung museum. the venues play host to to million visitors a year. in addition to the museum's permanent collections that will be on display during the america's cup in the 2013 s that we were planning exhibits with the american -- america's cup in mind. the first is entitled the berkeley years, exploring a body of work created in the middle years of the career of a painter who spent most of his life in the bay area.

this represents work from one of america's finest artists free of the exhibit will consist of over 100 paintings and 25 to 30 works in other media from this formative time of his career. for the same time period we are developing an extensive exhibition that will focus on representations' of boating and yachting from the impressionist europe. the exhibition will consist of more than 100 paintings, pastels, drawings, watercolors such as cassatt and seurat, among others. thsese exhibitions represent a major investment of financial and human resources. we're committed to making this a great success. thank you.

tavithis is the first time i hae come to the board of supervisors. i am encouraged by supervisor mar. your ability to describe the impact of the arts is good for the project. thousands can benefit from that and we only employ local artists. there is an opportunity to bring together international artists and local artists, visual and performing arts but you have got to get together soon. it is 18 months away. i want to encourage you to do that. out -- i will come for the arts

and a few giants came but it will not come for the america's cup. if you have an arts festival affiliated with it i will comment spent a few hundred $1 a to make that promise. supervisor mar: before mr. mckinley speaks, our next speakers. those are all the cards i have. >> i am an independent curator in san francisco with mckinley art solutions. i am out of district 9. it needs to be emphatically stated that in order for the america's cup event to have a significant and positive cultural impact on the city of san francisco, it needs to be relevant to as many constituents as possible. the of that need a cultural ambassador and that ambassador

is the arts. speaking to the role that the visual arts can play as a connector to the community, the opportunity exists for engagement with most if not all of the city's districts through the development of exhibits that hold traditional allies such as galleries, art centers, community centers and artists' studios as well as non- traditional venues. already discussions have begun between performance venues and visual arts to produce complementary exhibit. if you understand the added, a picture is worth 1000 words, and encourage artists to investigate the elements paramount to the america's cup, visual arts can create the bridge to a deeper understanding of the personal relevance of the event regardless of the language or culture of the community.

all peoples in their communities all people have experienced a water and a the latest travel modalities. this is an example of the latest cultural investigation that the arts commission and cultural equity initiative takes part. we have established a database for gathering artists that we are willing to make available to any and all interested parties and are looking for visual arts inspiring from the event. we hope that as the related structures are built, there will be out reached to all artists for permanent and temporary installations. our data base should be a significant time and labour saving tool and finding work. >> thank you for organizing a number of the art exhibits in the supervisors' offices as well.

>> i am the director of the cultural center. i am not standing here for my institution, i stand here for my colleagues, my international colleagues from europe, from france, switzerland, and other countries. we just came together and will brainstorm tomorrow in order to organize ourselves to jews and laughing cultural, the art programs for america's ocup. it is an exciting possibility to be part of this event that brings the whole world to san francisco. in san francisco is not only a place for support as we all know. it is a great city with a wonderful possibilities to show her art and culture. we would like to contribute in our way and develop ideas, the

unconventional ideas. and to elect to be part of what ever is possible to show culture and art from the european side. supervisor mar: thank you very much. next speaker. >> i am the artistic director of deborah slater dance theater in studio 210, a rehearsal and performance space in the mission. lived in them since 1980. in 1984, i was allowed to perform at the olympic arts festival in los angeles and it was traded to accompany the summer olympics.

l.a. and that up with the games because the sister city hall that was supposed to do it and had to withdraw. he spent a fair amount of time figuring out how how to explain why they should have a festival. and what they did, this was from the festival director. they decided they would make a decision to drop on what was angeles had to offer as opposed to bemoan what it lacked. the organizing committee and the support of the museums and galleries, theaters, dance companies, and they became co- producers of the festival and were instrumental in planning and implementation. as a young artist, it was an amazing experience from start to finish. we met artists and from all over the world, and marked a chance to be a grand city at the nexus of sports and culture, which it

had not been previously. for me, it was the beginning of my experience being outside of the sentences goal art world. i think it is important that we try to address all the things that will come up as problems in a more aggressive way by talking about all the things that the arts can do in this process, and if we start talking about these things out and we are bringing in as opposed to disaster is being created, we would be in a much better position. thank you. >> i am from the mission, and in 1994, the world cup took place in the bay area. they came to us to paniers, not only the mission, but the whole city and organically, we came together to create an arts program and a soccer program.

the end result was that there is tons of children and people involved in during the whole time they were here. and we got a soccer field in the mission as well as other soccer fields throughout the city. i come to you today because of sacred water. water that begins today we are born in the womb of our mothers. as indigenous people, will want to make sure that water is incorporated in terms of educating the people, especially in terms of children. we need to educate our children, and this is an excellent opportunity to organically teach our children and youth about being free from obesity and look at father sky that gives us this gift of agua for free. some people have made money off

of it. just like the beautiful plan that was laid out on how this whole thing will be organized, there is no plan for the arts. recently, the america's cup blow us off and sent a letter and said, nothing cute. and so we are asking you as our elected officials to ensure that all communities of color, whole communities are involved and we be able to use it as a method is to educate our people. can you just imagine a grand parade on market street that involves all of the group's? thank you. in-house >> in my background, i have been a big event organizer. i worked on the olympics in

atlanta and other major events around the world. looking at this organizationally, in major events, whoever has the event as a license, corporate league, when they asked for a bid from a host city, they require the host city to take charge of eight cultural component, to create an arts festival. what i found odd in this the event sphere is that the america's cup of that authority has maintained for itself, and the right, seemingly, to organize the arts. he hadn't insisted that the city do it. while the city is the better organization to do it because they have the finger on the pulse of the city, that of the history, the city and county of

sentences goal is in a better position to take charge of this. this puts the city in an uncomfortable position of asking for that power. taking it from the event authority to take charge of this and make a cultural festival happen here. so what i am asking, as i have worked with the nonprofit arts community, for the city to take a more -- a stronger stand that they insisted that a cultural festival occur and the organizing happens now. >> and the director of urban music presents. became and met with you, supervisor. we have met with the event

organizing committee, we met with the port authority, which have met with numerous people. so far, nothing has been advanced. the point that i want to make right now is that we represent san francisco and the diversity and the population. if there is a need for corporate sponsorship, there is no better way to bring the people of san francisco and let those corporate sponsors know that this is to weaken out reached 2. all of these nonprofit movies work through grants, and we need to have an established skeet and established a budget from the city or from the of that authority so we know which way to protect our activity.

are we going to present our work around us festival? we need to know now so we can meet the city into a media event authority. by receiving the letter and telling us that we were to cease and desist, that is not practical. it is not going to help the district, it will not help the arts, and it will not help raise the money that we need to, that america's cup needs. supervisor mar: i will call two more cards. if anybody else wants to speak, come forward and fill out a card if you can. >> i am very pleased to add my voice to the support for an arts festival. i am especially excited about

this event from a neighborhood standpoint and a generational standpoint. america's cup as the opportunity of a generation to reach out not only with visitors around the world of the apostle to the local population, to share in the idea of one world, one of ocean, one people. i think this is a concept that the arts can share very effectively with people, and most especially from my viewpoint as an entertainer working with children, i can imagines sharing this concept in parks along the third street corridor, extending that out reach from the northern waterfront all throughout the city. especially in to the underserved neighborhoods. supervisor mar: maybe you can reach ocean beach in my district

as well. thank you. >> i am one of the directors of 24 days a central market arts. the mayor's office has assigned james sullivan as the league -- as the liaison. we're appreciative of that assignment. during arts programming, it would be a great opportunity to there will leave the -- probably be jump trons -- jumbo trons. those would be optional origin of the mall locations for arts programming. there are ways to support the city's efforts to revitalize the central market. had my last point is that they have identified a particular organizations in the neighborhoods through the

neighborhood collaborative arts grant, and i think there are ways to build upon that. i encourage you to find ways to do that. >> good afternoon, everyone. thank you for convening this initiative to have our culture be part of america's cup. i am the managing director of the art gallery located in bayview, hunters point along the third street commercial corridor. this southeast sector. this area has been a very underserved and overlooked area. we opened up the art gallery four years ago so that we can bring community