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acceptable at this point for sure it had a great influence he was a great influence on the harmonic language on the contemporary up to now. i thought it would be interesting because they have e he was contemporary we use him on this and his life was you kill our wife you get poisons all those things are great stories for on opera. i was leaving behind a little bit which those collaborative dancers i was really trying to focus on opera. a friend of mine said well, what would you really want to do i said opera what is it not opera

parallel. why isn't it are that i have the support now we can do that. i realized that was something that wasn't being done in san francisco no other organization was doing this as opposed to contemporary we are very blessed in san francisco to have organizations well, i thought that was going to be our speciality >> you create a conceptual idea for setting the opera and you spear ahead and work with the other sdierndz to create an overview vision that's the final product felt opera. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> i was very inspired to work with him because the way he looked at the key is the way i

looked at sports looking at the daily. >> so much our mandate is to try to enter disis particular work there's great dancers and theatre actresses and choirs we've worked with and great video artists is a great place to collect and collaborate. i had a model they have a professionally music yes, ma'am assemble and as a student i benefited from being around this professional on and on soccer ball and as a conductor i'd be able to work with them and it's helped my growth i had a dream of having a professional residential on and on soccer

ball to be an imperial >> it operates as a laboratory we germ a national the ideas technically and work with activity artists and designers and video all over the on any given project to further the way we tell stories to improve our ability to tell stories on stage. that's part of the opera lab >> i was to investigate that aspect of renaissance and new work so that's why this piece it is important it was a renaissance composer. >> there were young people that are not interested in seeing traditional opera and like the quality and it's different it

has a story telling quality every little detail is integrated and helps to capture the imagination and that's part of the opera how we can use those colors into the language of today. >> so one of the great things of the stories of opera and story combined with opera music it allows people to let go and be entertained and enjoy the music instead of putting on headphones. >> that's what is great about art sometimes everyone loves it because you have to, you know really great you have to have both some people don't like it and some people do we're concerned about that. >> it's about thirty something

out there that's risky. you know disliked by someone torn apart and that's the whole point of what we're drying to do >> you never take this for granted you make sure it is the best if you can. >> ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ university >> thank you for joining us in the heart orphchina town, our ymca and watched this project built and rehabilitationed for many years. i was a star basketball player in the old days at this

site. and my brother david lee is playing some place. i want to say thank you to cary lee and the staff. a perfect place for making this a wonderful anountsment. as i said with our supervisors and i want to say thank you again to supervisor julie christensen and her leadership and the rest of the board of supervisors, that we work together to make sure the prosperity of the stity touches everyone and todays anountsment will be another perfect of dpmp of how increased revenue affords the opportunity togethero say all the things we believe in for the yooth and families can happen without a waiting list. the additional funds were 1.8 million of additional funding

through our children yooth and family and marie sue is here today and in charge of that, working together with the school district with all our community based ourgzs in every supervisor district. also working with our public housing sites and the incredible work [inaudible] miller is doing with the sf sites that touch all the aspect thofz city. we are adding money so that the great summer programs like the ones right here at ymca but all over the city whether they are the beacon centers or advercher more or the bay view ymca, they are all touched so no family and choild who registers and i encourage them to get on line or call 311 and register themselves and fmlies to these wonderful high quality summer programs that are great for

kids, great for skill setting and additional learning, great to prevent summer loss, but also more as a wonderful tune to engage ort kids throughout the summer in very good programs that reck and park and our school district working together it with the knhunty placed agency that had years of experience in this. i think that they can't wait to join our library and all our other programs to not only have the good programs that we had, but to say there is no waiting list. that is a incredible announcement. it is all most as exciting as telling a department that you won't be cut this year. people smile at that because they know they can get their kids into these wundserful programs whether it is swimming or learning a new skill or additional language classes or skill sets, they

will all happen at the wonderful community based centers. they happen in atifep wment the library and school districts and happen in our hope sf sites. they happen all over the city because we are committed to making sure our kids are healthy and strong and ready and there are no gaps in the way they learn. by the way, this happens also to be a great contribution to our parents as well because when the parents are struggling with their 2 or 3 scheduled working throughout the summer to make ends meet, they can have affordable programs in the city particularly low income kids can [inaudible] all summer to all these prms and have places that are safe, inviting and endorsed by our school district and that is why we have school members here too and they are

directly engaged in qualifying these programs that we have. programs for the parents to make sure that when they are busy going to work they have wonderful programs their kids can be involved in. i'm excited about this because i love seeing kids active whether it is on a recreation field or learning center, a incredible array of different things that this ymca produces. our own boys and girls clubs do the same thing as well as community centers around the city. i know there is excitement about this because this is what sth city does and in a time where we can say not only yes, we have great prms, bullet there is no waiting list makes everything wn happy and know our superintendent feels happier. i know sewer at cyc

is happy to hear this as well. there are so many great thing tooz do in the summer and don't want our kids idle. that causes so many other issues of chlgs for the city. have all the kids from bay view and mission and xhinea town and japan down to sunset, rich-mind, aench neighborhood is touched by this and each supervisor, supervisor christian schb come to me and said can we make sure these programs don't have interruption so today i encourage parents to enroll their kids right away. even though there won't be a waiting list, don't be relaxed about it. go to the website and call 311 and they will help you navigate all the enrollments and programs we want to have. i want to give a good shout

again not only to supervisors but marine sue you have done a wonderful job and working with superintendent cunaunz a and school board members working with the community based agency reflected right here have done a incredible job to make us proud so that i can make these announcements and say shared prosperity is a reflection of our commitment that when we have those additional revenues we plow them into helping the quality of life for everyone in the city. you can't dismiss it that quality of life when we say that we will involve our parents and families. that is the i think really the essence that our city can do to enrich the lives of the kids and families and this is universal in many ways and when i use that word i also use it with the commitment that we will do

more universal policemans for the city. this is just the beginning. when the budget is as strong as it is, we can then negotiate with our supervisors because they have lists of needs that they have penetrated with the constituents of the city and we'll work together to make sure universal pree school is done, universal after school programs, summer camps and skill setting and a recreation are corbed while we work on better transporpation, safer streets and parks, open recreation centers. they are all toucheded by this prosperity our city is enjoying. we cannot do these type of things unless we are all together committed to having a strong economy and that means everyone has to work. we have to find had links and glad the people

standing behind me are part of that incredible link whether it is the libraries, school district, public housing that is here, centers like this, school district is incredible. they are all here to provide you information about how we have been able to link this all together and the collaboration going on with all our city departments whether they hear there is no cutss, they are collaborating more because they enjoy this feeling. i told them that they'll be able to sustain more when they collaborate all the different programs together. this is about our parents and our families today. 1.8 million doesn't sound like a lot, when you get rid of waitest list that is a huge huge difference and we experienced those waitest lings lists in the past with a high degree of anxiety where the kids say i

want to get there and don't woe knoe if i will get in and they have to wait and wait and wait. no waiting on this and then again we get to say enroll into these programs quickly. all the people here behind me are to be thanked because they are massing that collaboration we need and they can advise me where to put the resource squz this will refleblth in a better summer. this also doesn't take away there are other age groups focused on as well. we just launched the jobs plus program. i wasn't there because i was celebrating my moms 90 thd birth day so missed the tie tying contest. i'm usually there with the youngest kid. we had 1 thousand kids aurlds applying for jobs. we are going to do a huge job effort all summer. i get to work with

the corporations and the city departments to do that in the next few weeks to make that announcement as the kids get ready. the resumeerize already out there. a wonderful time in the city and reflection our strong economy affords the opportunity to do this. with the library, i can't wait to have the team media center open at civic center and have that join and all the array of services we are providing. inschool district is on fire. let me tell you, the performance is already showing a dramatic improvement. the investments ropist make whether foundation or new companies they are making those imprunge. s and it is year round learning t. never ends with classroom or technology t is all about how to link it up. with the recreation and park, bob is

here and he is smiling because you 3 thrie nigh parks and people can use those as classrooms as well as recreation and park as well as the extended hours we have for thousands of kids because of the additional tougher we put in. theo you got to be smiling as well because we never left the public housing site. sun a dael. alish [inaudible] if london breed was here, left side court, they are all going to be enhanced as well and have summer programs coming out of the hope sf sites. our children youth and family coordination can be din because we with the voters passed this wonderful proposition c last year to enhance for the next 28 years a dedicated budget for family youth and children. that is our commitment and we are glad oo do it. the

advisory committee is already being set up, but we are not waiting for their advice, we are going full force ahead because we know they don't want waiting list. they want more program jz have to enhance all the areas of the city. school boards got to be happy because not only do we have good colleagues to work with, but my personal commitment that the school dist rth will not be isolated from the city and we'll enjoy these years. as long as i'm there i'll talk to everyone about talent talent talent. that is what we get to talk about from small age kids to when they are ready to work full time, we are creating the talent louckally so no company here successful will have to go off shore to find that tal nlt and they can home grow it here with exciting programs we have for our kids. my first summer

job when i was a young kid was pounding bricks and getting the mortar off bricks and i wished that we had a program in our city-i had to study hard and over come the mortars on the bricks or washing dishes in the back of a restaurant. i think our kids are lucky today to be in san francisco and if we can model more of these programs and have it reflected as parbt of a successful city, we will do well when the 450 mayors from across the country come and ask how doo you do it. how do you create a kindergarten to college account with a bank with nothing there and then create this account where families and kids start talking about college when they enroll their kids in n to kindergarten and public school

in san francisco. this is amazing. when we look at back at the years we will smile and say we contribute thood the dream city of there country because no where else are these programs being done with the level of support and enthusiasm so i'm excited for our kids. i'll be joining some of the programs. i got to get intheseiastic about this because i have spend a half day in sackumenty qu is you know what a downer that is. thank you every wherein for being clab tchb and thank you again for all being here and if i might invite supervisor christensen up because i know you will be very busa this summer with all these wonderful frams. supervisor christensen >> thank you mr. mayor. i'm supervisor christensen and represent china town, north beach and others in district 3. i'm excited bis this. i was

at a panel discussion laest week and people talked about what we can do for chaung straunker neighborhoods andmunities. there were suggestions and committees and fund raising and someone got up and said the best you can do to have a strong chunty is soze vo et. it is free and easy and makes a difference. today we see as some of thereprop jigz see funds available for the community what a difference those votes made last november in providing services for the community so i'm grateful to the mares office and department and association and aejss represented today for banning together to make that money that we voter uzs aprove lost fall count. as a advocet for the last 20 years i worked to get better facilities and programs and as a supervisor that is my job t. is great to see the