>> okay. we are all waiting for you, mayor. >> it is a real press conference >> you called it. >> you called it. we make it happen. >> okay, thank you all for joining today's prefestival briefing for outside landses with mayor bride i'm allen scott. i'm the cofound and coproducer of the outside lands. we are excited to return to our 14th edition of outside lands back to our normal dates after doing a special halloween edition last year we have a festival planned and can't wait to let all of our guests experience t. no 2 festivals are

arc like. and i will share more later on what makes this year's festival unique and exciting. first i want to acknowledge part of what made has made outside lands success over the years. so and that begins with the mayor's office. the rec and park department. police and fire department. mta, public health and other city service. we could trurl not do it without the city's cooperation. >> events like outside lands bring people together in the community. and would noted be possible without the city team. i want to thank your neighbors in the sunset and the richmond districts. we know that we are in your neighborhood. and we enjoy a good and close relationship with you all and many of the things that we have

done to mitigate the impact of outside lands has been done with those neighborhoods and supervisors. >> in a mobile home you will hear from our mayor after she speaks, i will cover what is you in for the festival. after, a number of our team members and partners will be available for individual interviews and we will wrap with a site tour you feel free to take footage of the groundses and get a sense for the space. we have golf carts next door that we can take you after this now my honor to welcome mayor london breed. [applause] thank you allen and thank you everyone for being here today. i don't know about you this looks amazing. this will be exciting for san francisco and i then and there in a major city like san

francisco we have our challenges. it does in the mean we should not take an opportunity to have a good time. and that's what this event does. outside lands is about having a good time. over 100 restaurants. don't come unless you are hungry. you can enjoy the food. there will be drinks and food and other things to enjoy in addition to the music and the experience. i'm looking forward to hearing all the noise, all overnight city. i know the neighbors may not want to but what i appreciate most about outside land system their work with the community. with the neighborhood. to recognize the need to support and make sure the community is not inconvenienced. we are asking people to take public transportation. and to make sure they look on the outside land's website to know the options available. we have a great system to get

you in to golden gate park to outside landses, we have a pretty fortunate system it get you out. people who have come to outside land in the past know that this works like clockwork at this point. and in terms whf we are able to do. the ultimate goal is to keep people safe and everyone is having a good time. we truly appreciate the partnership between san francisco rec and park and our park rangers and the san francisco police department. and the work that they will do not only with outside lands but outside in the neighboring community to keep you safe. i want to warn everyone who is think burglar driving and trying to find a park. don't block anyone's driveway. there will be toe trucks every where and we will responded accordingly. we want to make sure that the surrounding community is not inconvenienced because we want outside lands to continue. let's be good neighbors.

be good pavement and make sure this experience is a good one. what we know about outside lands that i am most appreciate of is what it does for the economy we anticipate 71 million dollars in our local economy in san francisco. that benefits artists, benefits public safety, it benefits our small businesses especially here directly with some of our local restaurants. it does so much and over the existence 15 year existence of outside lands, rec and park department are beautiful park system has been fortunate enough to generate 31 million dollars. that is extraordinary. but it does not stop there. outside lands understands the personals of also giving back to the community. and so over a million dollars begin to organizations and the sunset and richmond. to our transgender district and other thing this is we hold dear in our city.

so, they put on a great show. they have great performers, yes. it is a good time and keeps the smile on your face and this year you don't have to mask up or have to provide proof of vaccine or do the things you did in the past. but be clear. covid is out there. a declaration of emergency that is out there. we want people safe in this environment. be mindsful and if you don't feel good don't come. because we want people to have a great experience here at outside lands. so much activity going on in san francisco. when i think about just over the past couple of months as we come together especially after dealing with 2 years. of a global pandemic, where we could not enjoy live music in this way. i'm more appreciative now than ever before. we had the pride parade that was

a huge success. national champions and golden state warriors had the biggest parade in san francisco i have seen in my life in the city. we had festivals and events and concerts and so many wonderful things. and it seems like outside landses is just the chero top to bring it all together. so for all of you coming out this weekend, please keep a smile on your face and enjoy, please use public transportation. and ultimately i want you all to have the best time. thank you all so much. [applause]. thank you mayor breed you are integral and could not do it without you and thank you for letting us take over the city

for a weekend. >> um00 eye want to give a few upon things on the festival. that is important to know. one is that we are expecting over 220,000 people to come to the park this weekend. and it is looking to be a very big weekend for outside lands. we sold out of 3 day tickets. we have single day tickets available. they are going quickly. this year's lineup is probably the most diverse and dynamic we had in the history of the festival. a lot of the artists most on the bill never played before beginning with green day, cho are home town heros. we have been trying to get them for many years and finally the stars arc lined and have them this year and they are very excited for their set. >> we have post malone the biggest artists in the world and he never played here before and the third, citizena, last played

in 2015 and on that stage she was the first act of that day. >> and now she is closing the first night of the festival. we are excited for them and the rest of the artists and i have a birdef who told me the mayor excited for jack harm over. that is the truth. >> the mayor mentioned that we have over 100 local know restaurants here. the number of menu items later is -- extraordinary. hundreds of different menu items and diversity amongst the food here is second to none. >> and -- also -- should note our sustain ability here is we have an 86% diversion rate that means that all of the refuse from the festival 86% is

diverted and recycled or compost. now we will open up for questions. just as a reminder following you will have an opportunity to combru myself and our team and partners individually. we may refer the questions to them and i will take a quick moment to introduce them. first we have greg ceo of another planet and lands producer. copruzer of outside landses. sarah director of policy at sf rec and park. tonya kohler, the genius food callerator of a taste of the bay in outside landses and brian du cat with another planet can discuss the vipiral initiatives and coproducer as well. >> let's get to your questions.

>> okay. [inaudible]iel. ychls we have a bag policy tell be on the website. we ask to you bring a clear bag to bring essentials to the festival there are mall clutch bags that are allowed in the festival don't need to be clear if you are coming bring a back pack bring clear bags whey this policy for years and that is important you your bag will be turned away if you don't bring a clear bag. >> yes. we can have -- -- yep.

thank you for the question. i'm the deputy chief assigned field of operations. district stations in san francisco. as mentioned, this morning this is a partnership and the planning process public safety planning process started months ago with captain the commanding officer of richmond station. we will have police officers all 3 days for in events on the interior and exterior of the events. we are working with private partners can our state other local officials the rec and park and federal officials. >> [inaudible] [cannot hear question]. >> the best advice is not to

come with anything valuable outside behalf is necessary and the mayor said, i would strongly encourage everyone to take public transportation or a lyft service and bring the valuables with you if you must bring a vehicle don't leave anything valuable. it is our addage of park smart if you mean leave something in your car remember not to once you parked take the valuables from your car and put them in the trunk. you want to do that ahead of time. okay. >> thank you. >> thank you. and reminder that we encourage torn take alternateively transportation. we have private shuttles from the bill graham civic to and from the festival those on the website it is a successful program. we have 10 upon thousand people a day that take that service. muni is operating.

tnc's to and from the festival and have a good number who walk and ride bikes and skate boarding. every means necessary. we encourage alternative means of transportation. we have lookers on site if you come in that lookers are able to be rentsd and put valuable in there safely. [inaudible] i think this you know what we know in san francisco is that -- we have a tremendous team of public health professional this is provide advice. we consulted with them on

eventses and parades and other activities. advice is that look, it is out there. we are living with it. but it does in the money we can't come together. and when we are seeing even though we are seeing cases of covid we are not seeing as many people hospitalized or losing their lives like we did in the beginning of the pandemic they believe it is appropriate to have the events. as far as monkeypox you know left week we district attorney claired a state of emergency. we have requested from the federal government numerous times resources including vaccines. we anticipate that we will get hopefully, soon, 10,000 more vaccines. the governor declared a state of emergency after we did in san francisco and appear that today the federal government is going to be declaring a state of emergency. my hope is that will open the door to address the issue. but again we want people to

understand that covid and monkeypox are still issues that are out there. and the d. public health at this time does not believe this events like this should not continue as a result. thank you. >> thank you. thank you for your questions that's all the time we have. we want to be respectful of the mir a time. madam mayor, thank you, again for joining us. you will have the chance to introduce our team down on the polo field for the next 20 minutes. immediately following the individual interviews youer wang to tour the site. now our team will take to you the main stage. we got different stations sets up with our team and we have greg ceo of another planet. we have rick with super notice. sarah with sf rec and park. tonya our food curateo. brian with another plan and he myself with another planet.

thanks, again. [applause]. >> thank you very much for being here everyone. good evening san francisco mayor london breed joined here today by department of public health, dr. grant colfax as well as dr. susan phillips, and members of the board of surprisers including the president of the board walton, members mandalten, dorsey and

our state sin scott wiener. we are here because we as a city and county of san francisco officially are declaring a state of emergency for a public health crisis in san francisco involving monkeypox and more clearly, we want to make it known that san francisco has one of the highest case rates already of monkeypox of any other major city in the country. and just to put that into perspective recollect we saw over the past couple weeks the numbers begin to increase. at one point there was 60 and 80 and 140 and when there was 140 on july 20 i sent a letter to the secretary of the department of health and human service expressing

significant concern and urgency for the need of vaccine in san francisco and we are at a very scary place and we dont want to be ignored by the federal government in our need. so many leaders of the lgbt community weeks ago asked for additional help and support and assistance and this was july 20 and now here we are. july july 28 and double the number at 281 cases of monkeypox and desperate need of vaccines and to put that into perspectives we received about 12 thousand vaccines to date. we really need 70 thousand we sent a

letter asking for 35 thousand because we want to prevent the numbers increasing. we have a solution in the vaccines and we want to make sure that everyone who is requesting a vaccine gets one. we had 5 sites identified in san francisco and have to close many of those sites because we run out of vaccines. so we are all here today because we know the importance of this. we know the challenges of what happens in san francisco with we put public health on the back-burner and seen this happen in history. during the aids crisis when san francisco was virtually left on its own to fend for itself. to address what became a real

pandemic in the country and we use the example what we did when we came together to fight against it discrimination, against the hate, to focus on public health because this is about public health of the residents of our city. and so by sounding the alarm what we are saying is this is not going to be ignored, this is a public health crisis, that we are in desperate need of vaccines to support the people of san francisco. here to talk specifically about what it is that is happening in the department of public health and what we are going to continue to push for and fight for and what the declaration of emergency will do and represent and help with in san francisco is the director of the department of public health dr. grant colfax. >> good evening

everybody and thank you mayor breed for your leadership: i really want to thank senator wiener, president walter and supervisors mandelman and dorsey joining us today. today announcement is a critical piece of our city response to the monkeypox outbreak. by declaring this is a local helths emergency we are making sure everyone that everyone understands that this is a threat to our entire community. and as the mayor has mentioned, our city has a rich history of elevating celebrating and advocating for the lives of the lgbtq plus community. we have always as a city as a community been at the forefront of advocacy, treatment, research, for medical conditions disproportionately

impact the lgbtq plus commune ity. this is personal to me. as a gay man who came out and did medical training during the peak of the aids pandemic i experienced the difference, the home phobia and stigma by the medical and public health institutions with regard to prioritizing hiv prevention and care. but san francisco community driven and responsive care system were a notable exception and today we seek to immolate that history by elevating our response to this disease. this declaration will allow us to serve the city and the residents better. our covid-19 response taught us that it is imperative that we mobilize city resources rapidly and this declaration

helps insure that we have the tools available to augment our outreach, testing, vaccines and treatment, particularly and especially in the lgbtq plus community. thank you. and my pleasure to introduce dr. susan phillips our public health officer. >> thank you so much mayor breed and dr. colfax for your words. good afternoon, my name is dr. susan phillips. the health officer for the city and county of san francisco. as health officer issuing the declaration to affirm our commitment to the wellbeing of the communities that dr. colfax mentioned, the lgbtq xhungties. to alloy us to move more quickly, to obtain and distribute the resources needed to help those who are

disproportionly impacted and within the lgbtq community we know latino men who are gay many bisexual men, other men who have sex with men and trans individuals are impacted so happy to work with community based organizations such as dr. tyler (inaudible) here today with the san francisco aids foundation and amazing team and partners who have particular expertise and work in from within and for latino communities in san francisco. san francisco will not leave anyone behind in this crittle moment. we understand the difficulties and trying to get vaccinated. and let's make no mistake, even though one died of monkeypox in san francisco it is causing severe suffering and pain for many individuals. there are people who are unable to eat due to pain, there are people unable to urinate or

have a bowel movement. these are strong words but this is the reason why we must act now to preserve the health reduce suffering of our fellow san franciscans. this declaration will help us ease the process of vaccine distribution. it will also send a message to the federal government that san francisco is in dire need of more vaccines. we had to prioritize first doses of vack cine to get vaccine is to as many people who benefit from it and we will differ, not cancel but differ the second deployment. we will notify the communities when our supply is sufficient to schedule the second doses. this is the best strategy at the moment to keep san franciscans as protected as possible while supplies are limited. and i want to no introduce senator scott wiener who is a strong champion for the health of gay men

and all our lgbtq communities in san francisco during the outbreak of monkeypox. - >> public health is about. just like the city did and mayor and department of public health did so quickly at the beginning of covid pandemic and adjust like the city did 40 plus years ago when the federal government completely and utterly abandoned our

community when gay and bi men were dying in droves a mass die-off and the federal government completely abandoned us and san francisco stood strong and reprioritized and focused and built public health infrastructure to try to save lives and so i'm so proud to be a san franciscans. what is frustrating is that what is happening now was completely preventable and we need to always remember that because this won't be the last virus that impact us. it was preventable. unlike covid, unlike hiv, monkeypox is not a new mysterious are disease that just appeared. we have known about this virus for more then half century. we knee what it is, we know about the spread and there is a vaccine

and a treatment already. and yet, as monkeypox started accelerating in west africa over the last number of years spreading more and more, the world didn't do anything. instead of flooding africa with vaccines to try to stomp out this outbreak, 3, 4, 5 years ago, the world did nothing because it was africa. unfortunately that is long-history of that. experts were telling us for years that monkeypox was a matter of time before monkeypox spread outside of africa to europe and north america and elsewhere and unfortunately the u.s. did not do enough to prepare. purchased very few dogess doses of vaccine so

here we are. the good news is that despite a sluggish start at the federal level, our local health officials and at the state level sprung into action quickly and now at all levels we are rowing in the same direction. we just need to row a lot faster and we need more vaccines yesterday. we need more manufacturers of the vaccine. one manufacture is not enough. it needs to be licensed that ask manufacture not 5 or 6 million doses for u.s. other wise this will spread out of control. we have a small window of time to control the outbreak and if we dont it might be endemic and have to deal with 2 for ever.

i'm very really happy to report that at the state level we is a group of legislators working together with the administration and making budget request to provide support to our county public health departments. the county are going to have to stand up testing, vaccination sites and do a lot of education and grass roots outreach anded should not let the county do this on their own. they are under funded so the state needs to step up. we have budget surplus and provide resources. finally i want to say that i came of age as gay man in 1987 when i was 17 years old and one of the worse points of the hiv crises and feel this is de javu once again gay men are getting attacked and demonized

and blamed as we get sick. that we can never tolerate that. we need to call out these attacks and homeo phobia and treat this as a health problem and need to act with compassion and strength, make sure everyone has access to what they need to remain healthy. madam mayor, thank you so much. it is now my honor to bring up supervisor mandelman who is also incredibly vocal and tenacious around this outbreak. >> thank you senator wiener. i am very grateful for this declaration of emergency and want to thank our public health officers susan fillip and mayor and director of public hemth. it communicates to different folks a message that

needs to be communicated in the face of a slow sluggish federal response, it communicates the federal government there is a emergency and it is real and it demands immediate response with urgency. we need vaccines, we needed them a month ago. we needed them weeks ago when director colfax asked for 35 thousand as a first installment. pointed out we have gotten 12 thousand at this point. we need 70 thousand. we need more from the federal government and we need it yesterday. it communicates to folks who may be at risk. this is a emergency. monkeypox we hope will not kill you but i have talked to too many doctors and folks who have gotten monkeypox and describe the symptoms. the potentially life long disfigurement that can come from monkeypox. people need to take this seriously. if you can get yourself a vaccination and you

are at risk do it. if you are not able yet to access a vaccination, do some serious thinking with yourself about risk mitigation. this is something that gay, bi have been doing a long time but important to do it now and communicate a important message to everyone in city government who will have something to do with getting vaccinations out and the tools they need to respond. i am again grateful san francisco is taking the step and look forward to other levels of government treating this crisis with the seriousness it deserves and the urgency. thank you. and i think i am introducing my colleague supervisor matt dorsey. >> thank you so much. i want to say thank you to the department of public health, dr. colfax and dr. phillips and

mayor breed. this was mentioned san francisco has a long history called the san francisco model for how we respond to public health crisis. that is how we responded a generation ago to the aids crisis. i think we saw that again how our city responded to covid-192 and a half years ago and seeing it again today so i want to say how grateful i am to the leadership of our city and public health officialess and senator wiener and president walton and (inaudible) i like to hand it off to tyler, the ceo of the san francisco aids foundation. >> public health crisis. a community filled with fear, unanswered questions and valid outrage. resilient people that had to rise up in support of one another to educate

each ort and fight for access for resources they need and deserve. a moment in history where a federal public health response fails a community causing them unnecessary emotional mental and physical harm. no, i'm not talking about chronically hiv policy from the earliest day when the federal government resisted addressing the onset of aids in our country. i reference this very moment in the nation history when all is a lack of urgency during a public health crisis impacting transgender men and non binary folks within the country. how did woe get to this moment? this history of the u.s. government and our action on hiv aids from the past offers important lessens

concerning the limits and possibilities of u.s. public health policy and health care delivery. the last few years should have taught us valuable lessens on how to intentionally and equitably scale up testing, community awareness, vaccination, and how coordinated harm reduction messaging can help prevent the spread of disease. but here we are months after ringing the first alarm to the federal government. weeks after my warning we had a imminent window to prevent the spread of monkeypox in our community and now we arrive at a public health state of emergency. san francisco aids foundation applauds this decision of the city to declare monkeypox a public health emergency. we hope that this decision will bring greater resources and attention to monkeypox response

here in san francisco and we are continuing to push the federal government to also declare a similar public health emergency. we heard one reason the federal government has decided not to declare a public health emergency around monkeypox is because monkeypox is not a fatal disease as we heard. this is true, but what cannot be over-stated is monkeypox is causing extreme distress, fear anxiety and pain to our community. there will be unfortunate lasting consequence to our communities because of the federal government slow inadequate response to this outbreak. even with the public health emergency declared in san francisco today, we cannot let up on demands for a number of things here in our city. we need more vaccines and we need them quickly. we must insure

that testing and vaccines are made available to all people at increased risk for monkeypox. the clinicians need easier access to monkeypox treatment so people diagnosed with monkeypox can receive care quickly and efficiently. we also need to be lifting up vaccine equity in this moment and insuring communities disproportionately impacted by monkeypox have access to the information and resources they need. this evening at 6 p.m. san francisco aids foundation will host a spanish language town hall to provide information to the latin excommunity currently feeling the disproportionate impact of monkeypox in san francisco. it will be virtually streamed from the website. and finally, we must continue to fight stigma by balancing the need for population specific messaging with non stigmatizing sex positive health

communication and public health response strategy. for ongeing information visit our website at san franciscoaids foundation and reach out to the monkeypox hotline if you have questions fear or concerns. thank you so much. >> thank you and i appreciate everyone joining us here today and just to be clear, the message is that if there were any other community that was disproportionate ly impacted by monkeypox the way the gay community is impacted the whole country would be up in arms so lets not treat this community different then we would anyone else and do what we need in order to get the vaccine and get the treatment and get the resources to the cities that need them the most . san francisco clearly is base on the data, the city that needs it the most so our declaration of emergency is sound the alarm and make it very clear we are in desperate need of

more vaccines and desperate need of more treatment to support the people of our city who deserve health care just like anyone else. and i also want to take this opportunity to recognize and thank speaker nancy pelosi (inaudible) but also president of the health commission here in san francisco. all our wonderful speakers and again thanks to president of the board walton being here and members of the board of supervisors expressing just how critical this is to our city and the need to do everything we can. we have the infrastructure, we have the ability to move vaccines to the community quickly. we have the community partners. we can do this, but we definitely need support from the federal partners and we will not let ubuntil we get the resources we need to have a significant impact and to see

these numbers decline and get to a point of being non existence and with that we'll open up to any questions you have for mostly dr. phillips and dr. colfax. >> (inaudible) do you anticipate the state (inaudible) >> i think it is more so we are talking about a issue around public health and think dr. films or colfax should talk about the coordinated effort and some of the misinformation how this disease is transmitted because it isn't attributed being a sexually transmitted disease so i want dr.

phillips and dr. colfax to address that specifically. >> thank you very much for the question. so, as always the county and regions and us as health officers are very coordinated and talk regularly so they are are informed about the actions san francisco is taking and we have talked ways we can mutually support the work happening in san francisco. it is really important, we need more vaccines in san francisco. there are neighboring counties getting less then a hundred vaccines per allocation so it is a regional importance and we are closely communicateic with them but we are taking the first step because it is so incredibly important to san francisco as the mayor and other speakers have said. >> dr. colfax can you speak what challenges might exist given this is running concurrent with it

covid pandemic and (inaudible) are there any challenges that exist now with (inaudible) allocating vaccines as soon as you get them sh? >> i want to follow up on the-there was a question about the everybody is at risk and we have seen 95, 97 percent of the monkeypox cases in san francisco are among men (inaudible) that is the focus prioritizing vaccines. within the people who are infected we have seen the latin ex population has been disproportionately effected. the point is anyone can get monkeypox. now there are disparities ing risk for monkeypox which is why need more vaccine. the egz qu about covid and monkeypox, it is a balance. we have a pandemic

and now have the spread of monkeypox to manage. what is helpful about the declaration it allows us to integrate the efforts. we develop vaccination sites, testing, education and prevention and work wg community partners expangd as covid increased and with this declaration able to be more flexible bought it allows to shorten the burecrotic process so this is a step in the right direction. dr. phillips and her team along with community partners are doing a incredible job. it is a (inaudible) and confident with this declaration it will give more ability to move faster and be more responsive. what we need is more vaccine, we are ready for the

35 thousand doses. we have far more demand then supply. >> one, (inaudible) how long is that? >> it is a good question and i think we can't-i won't speculate on that. i think what we know is that as has been said we have a vaccine for this disease. we know how to reduce the risk of transmitting the disease and we have treatment for the disease, so as i think the senator said and mayor said, there is no excuse for where we are now. but where the tipping point is, it is just speculative. i think what we are seeing now cases continued to climb faster then the vaccine so we have to get

that into a better state. >> (inaudible) >> if it means endemic it means the disease established in the population and propaligates. there are outbreaks of monkeypox in the past terminated in the united states but this is a endemic disease in other countries and because of the lack of global health response and adequate systems the investment and resources were not made so the disease were terminated in those countries. >> (inaudible) are you afraid people forget about covid and put all the focus on monkeypox? is that a concern of yours? >> we haven't heard that concern. i think it is managing two priorities at once and people are tired of covid and still encouraging people to take the precautions and get vaccinated. but we

haven't-we are trying to insure people have all the information they need about both of these serious diseases. i want to emphasize this monkeypox is a serious disease. it is painful. causing distress among people and cause life time scarring in situations, so this is not as wide spread as covid or transmissible as covid but we need to insure people are taking this seriously as well. >> (inaudible) >> would you like to answer that? >> sure. we are speaking to our local situation and what we need and what we are requesting in order to actually respond

and protect health here and so that's why are in communication with the state partners and federal partners and sometimes directly with the federal partners . so much advocacy from elected officials. we know there are supply constraints but as senator wiener said, there are ways to get around that and to try to work and have cooperation to create more vaccine so we are hopeful. we know there are very dedicated-people dedicated to the federal government as much as we are at the local government to the health of americans and asking them to move with all speed and it is hard to do that in big systems but we are doing thalocally and asking all our partners in government and public health to do the same. >> (inaudible) >> our case rates are

here because-higher here for multiple reasons. we are a destination where people come. there are a lot of events that are occurring over the summer as they should be after several years of not able to have those events. we also have increased access to testing here relative to other areas, so there are reasons. we have extremely savvy residents and clinicians looking for monkeypox. understand what the symptoms might be and seek testing. there are multiple reasonings why we see the cases we are. i think it is important even though scary to see the case numbers we don't want undiagnosed cases and want to the scope of the problem so we can raise the alarm and protect san franciscans. >> (inaudible) what is san

francisco doing specifically to get the lion share of those (inaudible) >> we were certainly advocating with the mayor's letter and other advocacy to get a starting place of 35 thousand vaccines. it is very heart ening to hear about the large supply of vaccines the federal government announced and our vaccine supply in san francisco comes through the state of california, so we do have to wait for california allocation and then there is a distribution that happens that includes san francisco as well as other counties with the exsemgz of los angeles. >> (inaudible).

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residencey other than an island and he came to our show and started writing a script based on our troop of 6 american burr elect performs in france we were woman of all this angels and shapes and sizes and it was very exciting to be part of the a few lettering elect scene at the time he here he was bay area born and breed braces and with glossaries all of a sudden walking 9 red carpet in i walgreens pedestrian care. >> land for best director that was backpack in 2010 the french love this music i come back here and because of film was not

released in the united states nobody gave a rats ass let's say the music and berry elect and performing doesn't pay very much i definitely feel into a huge depression especially, when it ended i didn't feel kemgd to france anymore he definitely didn't feel connected to the scene i almost feel like i have to beg for tips i hey i'm from the bay area and an artist you don't make a living it changed my represent tar to appeal and the folks that are coming into the wars these days people are not listening they love the idea of having a live musician but don't really nurture it like having a potted

plant if you don't warrant it it dizzy sort of feel like a potted plant (laughter) i'm going to give san francisco one more year i've been here since 1981 born and raised in the bay area i know that is not for me i'll keep on trying and if the struggle becomes too hard i'll have to move on i don't know where that will be but i love here so so much i used to dab he will in substances i don't do that i'm sober and part of the being is an and sober and happy to be able to play music and perform and express myself if i make. >> few people happy of all ages i've gone my job so i have so stay is an i feel like the piano and music in general with my voice together i

feel really powerful and strong

welcome to the meeting of july 14, 2022 >> i would like to remind all individuals that the virtual meeting protocols will be adhered to at all times.