country thank you fewer proud of the u.s. supreme court and have a great weekend (clapping.) >> we're going to wrap up i think but we'll see with representative the city college of san francisco city college is right in my neighborhood such an important institution for the city and county of san francisco and with this leadership that will continue to provide the tremendous service please welcome board member alex randolph (clapping.) >> hello, everybody welcome to our pails at city hall as one of the newest opening gay elected officials in san francisco i can't tell you how excited i share the space with

our openly gay raphael who couldn't be here unfortunately fortunately i share the stage with our pioneers that previously served at the college board leslie and others and the first openly gay who lead the cause and, of course i was excited to support and yesterday we voted to appoint susan our person at city college for the first lesbian chancellor at city college despite what you read in the news media i have no doubt city college will be there for the next decades to provide education to our community i want to relocate recognize that city college was one of the

first colleges to provide an lgbt class both educating our community and history and i can't wait until the day that kate and some of you teach about this day and movement and the history we've made thank you so much for supporting continental and being here and happy pride (clapping.) >> so i want to finish up with another acknowledgment and have a poll he was not he's not here but standing side by side with senator leno and helping us what the lawsuit jeff and equality for california is the reason we're here (clapping.) and now a short poll i wanted to know in this auditor who got married in 2004 raise our

awesome in 2008 who is going to get married this weekend (laughter) (clapping). >> so the good news the good news you don't have to because we can (laughter) but - you're telling us lives and future so many better because we can let's celebrate and know we're not done it's going to be an amazing pride weekend thank you for everything (clapping.) to you folks oh, there i go before you leave can i have you cocky promise you're going to

want to see this promise you're going to want to see this promise you're going to want to see this. (clapping.) >> so you would think you would think with an interesting entrance like that he's gay look this guy this guy - this guy took a huge political risk for this community he did that for the right principled reasons he knew justice needed to come and he decided to give it a little push our former mayor lieutenant governor the fabulous one of the men he most admire on the planet gavin newsom (clapping.) >> hey everything i'm sorry i'm late i know you've got a lot to

side and celebrate and is more importantly a lot to be proud of today i heard words wednesday night that obama made me reflect and think about this moment president said he said encourage comes in many different forms encourage comes in a time of war encourage comes from quiet pioneers, encourage comes from mandel and others and the courage of many of you that encourage to be who you are courage to stand up and make that remarkable statement to a friend or loved one i'm gay this

is who i am and who i love the courage that so many of you had when i walked down the hall and said mom i've got something to tell you that's the courage we're celebrating here today and had it not been for all of you and the millions and millions of conversations that were held in the millions and millions of conversation that were won there would be no supreme court digestion like the one day thank you to all of you for you're telling us quiet courage and our pioneers for your belief in each other and you're telling us belief in this month foundational principle that love is what it is all about marriage matters families matter

and that's what we're firmly today a day of administration a celebration of everything that makes i think this country is special place and how appropriate and i'll close how appropriate that right behind us mayor ed lee and others are going to walk in and celebrate the founding of the united nations that happened 70 years ago how appropriate the spirit of the united nations is the spirit of this moment about pluralism and a recognize that we're all better off when we're better than off and celebrate our interesting derivatives but at the end of the day what makes this country not good but great is when we reconcile those differences and celebrate the things that bind us that maturity that dr. king talked about we practice pluralism we

celebrate we don't 0 tolerate your diversity this is the great difference of our state and nation i'm grateful to be back i'm grateful to be invited back to city hall mayor ed lee thank you i'm grateful to kate kendall to joyce 92 stat and my chief of staff never going to leave in the city steve to mayor ed lee to the extraordinary assembly linkage of elected office official is from harvey milk to the attraction of tom mormon and sxhaent and many, many others i've forgotten but no maples

negligent we stand open our shoulder and grateful for your leadership and grateful for the extraordinary work to get us to this moment and let me close with that you know for me, i have 3 kids and it was an interesting thing you know you you'll new to this here's what happened with i think about you're telling us kids i have a 5 and 4 and one-year-old the phone rang this morning and like 703 and the first picture came up is my 5-year-old daughter and all i thought about was her and how proud i am that she's going to grow up in a country that recognizes what you've always known that recognizes the jowls of every single one of us and

recognized this fundamental ideal that we're all human beings that care deeply about making that work making our lives work and getting through the day living out our lives but do it with 12kib9 and with respect and what an extraordinarily world she gets to live in and in closing a reminder of this today is the antidote to skoichl to any kind of despair you may have you're telling us frustration you're telling us sense of powerlessness this show do away with that every single individuals has extraordinarily power we have to stand on principle and step up and in and

if you do it extraordinary things can happen don't ever despair or give up or building a challenge is too big are the hill too tall to climb today is an fifshgs of all of us in our unique capacity to do the best is yet to come in this country thank you all very much for being here

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boundary to think we're not 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. >> ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ as a society we've basically

failed big portion of our population if you think about the basics of food, shelter safety a lot of people don't have any of those i'm mr. cookie can't speak for all the things but i know say, i have ideas how we can address the food issue. >> open the door and walk through that don't just stand looking out. >> as they grew up in in a how would that had access to good food and our parent cooked this is how you feed yours this is not happening in our country this is a huge pleasure i'm david one of the co-founder so about four year ago we worked with the serviced and got to know the kid one of the things

we figured out was that they didn't know how to cook. >> i heard about the cooking school through the larkin academy a. >> their noting no way to feed themselves so they're eating a lot of fast food and i usually eat whatever safeway is near my home a lot of hot food i was excited that i was eating lunch enough instead of what and eat. >> as i was inviting them over teaching them basic ways to fix good food they were so existed. >> particle learning the skills and the food they were really go it it turned into the is charity foundation i ran into my friend we were talking about this this

do you want to run this charity foundations and she said, yes. >> i'm a co-found and executive director for the cooking project our best classes participation for 10 students are monday they're really fun their chief driven classes we have a different guest around the city they're our stand alone cola's we had a series or series still city of attorney's office style of classes our final are night life diners. >> santa barbara shall comes in and helps us show us things and this is one the owners they help us to socialize and i've been here about a year. >> we want to be sure to serve

as many as we can. >> the san francisco cooking school is an amazing amazing partner. >> it is doing that in that space really elevates the space for the kids special for the chief that make it easy for them to come and it really makes the experience pretty special. >> i'm sutro sue set i'm a chief 2, 3, 4 san francisco. >> that's what those classes afford me the opportunity it breakdown the barriers and is this is not scary this is our choice about you many times this is a feel good what it is that you give them is an opportunity you have to make it seem like it's there for them for the taking show them it is their and they can do that. >> hi, i'm antonio the chief

in san francisco. >> the majority of kids at that age in order to get them into food they need to see something simple and the evidence will show and easy to produce i want to make sure that people can do it with a bowl and spoon and burner and one pan. >> i like is the receipts that are simple and not feel like it's a burden to make foods the cohesives show something eased. >> i go for vera toilet so someone can't do it or its way out of their range we only use 6 ingredients i can afford 6 ingredient what good is showing you them something they can't use but the

sovereignties what are you going to do more me you're not successful. >> we made a vegetable stir-fry indicators he'd ginger and onion that is really affordable how to balance it was easy to make the food we present i loved it if i having had access to a kitchen i'd cook more. >> some of us have never had a kitchen not taught how to cookie wasn't taught how to cook. >> i have a great appreciation for programs that teach kids food and cooking it is one of the healthiest positive things you can communicate to people that are very young. >> the more programs like the cooking project in general that

can have a positive impact how our kids eat is really, really important i believe that everybody should venting to utilize the kitchen and meet other kids their age to identify they're not alone and their ways in which to pick yours up and move forward that. >> it is really important to me the opportunity exists and so i do everything in my power to keep it that. >> we'll have our new headquarters in the heart of the tenderloin at taylor and kushlg at the end of this summer 2014 we're really excited. >> a lot of the of the conditions in san francisco they have in the rest of the country so our goal to 257bd or expand out of the san francisco in los

angeles and then after that who know. >> we'd never want to tell people want to do or eat only provide the skills and the tools in case that's something people are 2rrd in doing. >> you can't buy a box of psyche you have to put them in the right vein and direction with the right kids with a right place address time those kids don't have this you have to instill they can do it they're good enough now to finding out figure out and find the future for good morning and welcome to

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