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the beat. senior dance class is from sf rec and park. a great way to get out and play. >> for more information, >> feel like it really is a community. they are not the same thing, but it really does feel like there's that kind of a five. everybody is there to enjoy a literary reading. >> the best lit in san francisco. friendly, free, and you might get fed. ♪ [applause] >> this san francisco ryther created the radar reading series in 2003.

she was inspired when she first moved to this city in the early 1990's and discover the wild west atmosphere of open mi it's ic in the mission. >> although there were these open mics every night of the week, they were super macho. people writing poems about being jerks. beatty their chest onstage. >> she was energized by the scene and proved up with other girls who wanted their voices to be heard. touring the country and sharing gen-x 7 as a. her mainstream reputation grew with her novel. theses san francisco public library took notice and asked her if she would begin carrying a monthly reading series based on her community.

>> a lot of the raiders that i work with our like underground writers. they're just coming at publishing and at being a writer from this underground way. coming in to the library is awesome. very good for the library to show this writing community that they are welcome. at first, people were like, you want me to read at the library, really? things like that. >> as a documentary, there are interviews -- [inaudible] >> radar readings are focused on clear culture. strayed all others might write about gay authors. gay authors might write about universal experiences. the host creates a welcoming environment for everybody.

there is no cultural barrier to entry. >> the demographic of people who come will match the demographic of the reader. it is very simple. if we want more people of color, you book more people of color. you want more women, your book more women. kind of like that. it gets mixed up a little bit. in general, we kind of have a core group of people who come every month. their ages and very. we definitely have some folks who are straight. >> the loyal audience has allowed michelle to take more chances with the monthly lineup. established authors bring in an older audience. younker authors bring in their friends from the community who

might be bringing in an older author. >> raider has provided a stage for more than 400 writers. it ranges from fiction to academics stories to academic stories this service the underground of queer fell, history, or culture. >> and there are so many different literary circles in san francisco. i have been programming this reading series for nine years. and i still have a huge list on my computer of people i need to carry into this. >> the supportive audience has allowed michele to try new experiment this year, the radar book club. a deep explorationer of a single work. after the talk, she bounces on stage to jump-start the q&a. less charlie rose and more carson daly.

>> san francisco is consistently ranked as one of the most literate cities in the united states. multiple reading events are happening every night of the year, competing against a big names like city arts and lectures. radar was voted the winner of these san francisco contest. after two decades of working for free, michelle is able to make radar her full-time job. >> i am a right to myself, but i feel like my work in this world is eagerly to bring writers together and to produce literary events. if i was only doing my own work, i would not be happy. it is, like throwing a party or a dinner party. i can match that person with that person. it is really fun for me. it is nerve wracking during the actual readings. i hope everyone is good.

i hope the audience likes them. i hope everybody shows up. but everything works out. at the end of the reading, everyone is happy. ♪ >> let's get started and first to any public comment? is jukt president of the rockefeller foundation. >> thank you neil and good morning, everyone we're delighted to have you here and berkley mayor baits is here and mayor ed lee and oakland mayor kwun which were named as part of the rockefeller foundation resistant foundation requirement this is to rebuild the urban resistance in one hundred cities around the world-class they were

the only cities in the satire global network that are piloting a resistance i'll talk about that in a minute but first, let me give you just a brief description of one hundred resistant cities is what we aim to achieve. everyday somewhere in the world a city has their functions disrupted to deliver the services to their receipt and maintain capacity over the long-term. they're not hard to images where the next big earthquake or a health pandemic or a atrocity attack. those shocks are becoming more frequent and intermittence their impacts ripple across the

regions macon city completely don't think another. they deal with chronic distresses as well and chronic sprez are constrains on the water supply or rising sea levels and inequality. those stresses make it hard for cities to respond effectively to shocks and it's difficult to restore functions in the wake of catastrophe. despite the technology we can't also precinct what it will be but cities can take action to mitigate the disruption when crises are unavailable. this this requires an investment of the resources about money and human capital. the thing about investing in

resistance it doesn't just benefit a city when a disaster strikes but when done properly it produces jobs and better social services and other examples of what we call the realigns diversified something that benefits residents everyday per we at the rockefeller foundation have been working over a decade in past katrina new orleans and asia cities across 8 countries black and white super storm sandy and so there the reinvestment go programs we have public-private partnerships that invest in an segregated way on infrastructure. we've been working with the

state of california and the 3 other west coast states oregon and washington and british columbia columbia to develop the interest infrastructure challenge that works to strengthen finance important public-private partnerships across the jurisdictions. we bring the steps of expertise to help cities globally understand their vujtd and chateau additional resources from the private sector as well as the municipal financing. so similar on our citizen technology we launched one hundred cities challenge by 2015 all one hundred cities will be chosen and each will receive 4 support first to have an officer

that will be the central contract to cooperate and oversee and perspire intents and work across our losses in municipal government. we're pleased to announce that san francisco has selected their chief realigns officer in the front row here you know from the earthquake and we're working with other cities. the second we think that the cities get is the support for the chief realigns officer to lead the strategies of the city. third cities in this network and that is really quite an innovation will have access to an integrated platform of services ledger millions of dollars of resources far beyond

our initial one hundred million to support the reliance strategy those clus include the spurring for investments and infrastructure and new uses of the data and stools ease realigns land use and building design and new forms of municipal catastrophe insurance >> other innovative insurance that exist on this platform it includes swiss and the world bank and architecture for the world economy my the institute for the architects they're here. and forget the cities will become the members of the realigns network and will provide support to member cities and sharing the knowledge and realigns best practices and foster new connections and panicking is in contact already

with a xashld counterparts in new zealand and other cities that have had their share of seismic episodes. the bay area cities will get it is 4 supports including the chief officers individually but work closely together to make sure they're planning it cooperated to alien with the threats and opportunity. today's the kicked off and i expect and have seen a lot of great thinking to see the delivery to information sharing and collaboration and alignment on little regulatory removal this will help to emanate the resources and finally thank the mayor's they're for their

partnership it's not easy in politics to take the wrong view and to plan for the unknown but it's the right thing to do. we applaud those mayors fairly leadership and vision. so i'm going to turn it over to berkley's mayor mayor bates >> thank you very much and it's really a pleasure for myself and the city of berkley to be named as part of the rockefeller foundation we look forward to participating and working with our claekz colleagues and our member sister cities in the bay area. we've worked on other projects in the past and i'm confident we can build an exciting platform for others to gain from. our city has been very much involved in the issue of realigns.

we've been engaged and we believe it's not only important to be ready but to take tiff steps we look forward to the platform and it's wonderful to get the investment anytime it's ready we're happy to receive it but 3 things on this particular application. first of all, we're going to deal whatever we can we're making significant progress around earthquake preparedness there's more to be done, and, secondly, we're interested in making sure we're energy efficient and ready when we have energy resources to be called upon in the form of an energy without power our citizenry is at risk and it's important to provide the necessary services

and lastly work on climate change i've been engaged in this after will vice president allegory at the sun dance we've got a climate plan and we're making great progress and there's more we can do particularly the see level rise and concerned with the weather and patterns theirs more to do. we looked forward to participating we have a wonderful berkley staff they've been engaged and we're looking forward to work with people to not only learn bow to make our community stronger in the future. thank you for the opportunity to participate >> and now san francisco mayor ed lee.

>> that's great to hear that. mayor bates >> thank you for joining us mayor quan as well thank you julth for introducing us and your leadership in the rockefeller foundation when you have the rockefeller foundation helping us to think about the investment it makes a change. about a decade ago mayor newsom at that early time dispatched me to new orleans we wanted to create a relationship and i created a relationship with the city but i stood on the shores of the ethnic award and looked at the devastation and asked a series even if questions about why that city didn't have things prepared when obviously they knew from the reports that

disaster was coming pr i made a personal comment commitment if i was a city administer to do something about preparing our cities better and creating relationships that weren't there they thsurprised and, of course our city san francisco is no stranger to earthquakes it's a matter of when interest fast forward eave within active and our commitment is strong and on that shore listening to the stories from the vietnam ins what we can do better as a city. we started a path the community action plan for seismic safety that panicking has been heading up and helping me to have that

citywide confidence we needed to do on our soft story buildings we're confident that will help save lives and properties. that's not all we did we want to make sure our city is safer and in addition, we started a lifelines council one of the first in the country we'll dial and have meetings with our utility providers that lifeline has been critical because of their silos they have their approach to disaster that was never contemplated with our fire and police and public utils