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tv   Mayors Press Availability  SFGTV  September 3, 2022 11:30am-12:01pm PDT

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>> good morning or good afternoon nothing like a little rain today. a mission in the rain. >> this is a san francisco moment and i'm honored be here and do this and -- it is just -- it is a dream come true. i'm tom murphy an organizer for jerry day. we started around this area that event 20 years ago and here it is going strong and thanks for everybody for your support. [applause]
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>> i'm excited that we are celebrating and bring it back to the jerry garcia theatre and celebrate the heingacy of jerry garcia who grew up up the street 121 amazon and 87 herrington down the street here t. is amaze to me not surprising but we have jerry days all over and there was a jerry day in australia. somebody correct me i don't think they ever went to australia. you know it shows that this scene is growing and take off tremendously. take kickoff the days between we are staying a week of celebrations through the 14th. we had a lot of upon community collaborations on jerry 80th birthday. i'm excited for the community organizations and partnerships that came about this during this time. red light management mark allen,
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thank you. jerry garcia family, thank you very much. [applause] the office of workforce development chris corey and mayoran thompson, thank you very much. sf rec and park the sf library, the district office supervisor's ej, thank you. >> sf travel, grants for the arts. the sf giants. stern grove festival. haight street merchants thank you for coming out today and thank you valley brown for coming out and grants for the arts and all the community organizations accellsior action group outer mission merchant. manny's cafe. hart monick brewing and key supporters of jerry day jump as the jerry garcia family. sound support. san francisco rec and park. sf beautiful and all of our staff, vol disappears all of our
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don'tors such as tommy wearing the nice shoes today. [applause]. when i if you ever learned about this i mention joe coffee she advocateed have the jerry garcia theatre renamed back in 1995. that was the first time i found out and realized that jerry grew up in the neighborhood and sparked a plug in me. and here i am -- 25-30 years later doing this it is amazing. >> and right here is the plaque this was installed in 2017. as the quote there, what we are trying to do is expand rather than narrow. i feel hacommunity was able to accomplish that this year while we are work to recover from the pandemic we went through the last 2-3 years. >> once again i want to say, thank you and have a huge happy birthday to jerry garcia, his
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80th birthday now the mayor of san francisco a fan of live music, big fan of live music the 45th mayor of san francisco, london breed. >> thank you, tom. i almost wore my tyedye dress from love on hate i have to run to a flat raising right after this i had to dress up. back in 1965 when the grateful dead came in existence, they really not only put san francisco on the map they put the haight ashbury tyedye on the map and created music for everyone. mixing reggae, gospel and seoul, country everything they did represented a way to bring people together. and i think that is why so many people identify with their work. identify with their music.
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and feel so connected to this group. because there was always something for everyone. and some of you may have been arc live at the time. i was not arc live i like to drag brag about that. i saw so many of the photographs of them performing on haight ashbury primary nothing golden gate park. when you look at the crowds and the access of people, it was absolutely extraordinary. and what they were able to do, along with so many other iconic group in this community and this city, was to make magic happen and make us feel good about the time despite the challenges that existed. we remember the vietnam war and other things going of and in fact, jerry garcia privileged he was born and raised in this neighborhood. lived the first 5 years of his life a block and a half away from here. supportd and loved his home town like i know some of the natives here today. and so -- we want to honor,
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recognize his legacy becauseen though he was a star and performed all over the world, he always represented san francisco in such an extraordinary way. and when i think about you know the over time, so many things that have been done. tom and his work around jerry garcia day. jerry garcia theater there will be a great performance you can watch for free tomorrow. wear all the tyedye you want as we beat l.a. we will be playing the dodgerers! there will be activities and events. what is so great about this year more so, i love the fact that we are home. we are to where it started where jerry was born and raised and spent his time as a child. we will have a number. events throughout the community and that's what it is all about.
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the activityings, the things that bring people together and nothing brings people together more than live music. we will be at a number of upon venn use. at a lot of places and on august 14th, phil will be with his friends and others the other founders of grateful dead will be with a group of folks at the big picnic at stern grove here in san francisco, which is open and free and available to everyonech i am really excited be here today. and grateful for all, grateful for all of you. [laughter]. and your love and your support of this extraordinary iconic person. we know that he was a large are than life figure. and today would have been his 80th birthday. as we celebrate and honest or and remember his legacy condition to remember what he stood for. music, entertainment, keep smiles on people's face and to just really bring joy to our
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hearts and seouls with the everything that he and the grateful dead agreed. today on behalf of the city and county of san francisco, i want to present his daughter, tricksy who is here today, with a proclamation recognizing your father and his numerous talents and your family and the community. and today, we will officially proclaim it jerry garcia day in san francisco! [applause] wonderful. what an honor. >> thank you. >> thank you. you want to say a few words. >> i have words to say. >> thank you. >> thank you, mayor breed you are an inspiration and people like that you hopefully inspiring young people to get
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involved and remember they can change the world. my father was raised here he learned about fair labor laws from his grand mother was a union organizer. it was here he learned be a musician from his father who played saks in his jazz band. it was here he learned see the beaut in people's story growing up with the family bar. [inaudible] here he learned live like an artist in san francisco art institute they all contributed to the legacy of jerry garcia. not just the world class musician but someone who's lasting influence makes the wormed a better place and as his daughter, it it is an honor to be here and represent the family. be in san francisco and proud californian this is the best place on the planet. thank you san francisco for valuing the i deals always assistanting for someone and a safe space for open minded
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people. we honor our father jerry garcia who played thousands of shoes in the city on his 80th birthday. [applause] >> thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you, mayor london breed. now i will say a few words joy from art span are doing an art mission here in the district working with many organizations grants for the arts here is >> ann >> thank you, topp the unfish mayor of -- i run arts span and this is the testament to why art and matter. we are all here because an artist jerry garcia touched so many people and still december what are we doing? bringing art out to everyone. we have 4 years we have paid
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artists 29 artists we give them a total of 50 thousand dollars because we are putting monnet hands of artists to put art in the store fronts on mission street. and on the closing kinds of, roughly the closing of jerry garcia day in the park zeal a pub crawl through the park oust park and on mission and ending at the dog course inn. >> [laughter] we got this! and along the way, there upon be bands 5 bands in bars and they will be 11 cites with art. so it is a music and art crawl from mc claire and i know seat excelsior temperature means so much to know that art does matter and what brings us together the first art work we are like we will walk and take the artists. may be 30 people will come tell be amazing.
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100 came and walked the entire path with us. i was like, we are touching people. sends postcards in cantonese and spanish and english everything we do and -- we do pretty things like here is the map of the day. we will put them all over if you are a business owner put it in your win o the partnerships with action groups with city departments, mayor's office of economic workforce development, it matters. city funds are coming to us to give it to artists and you all benefit. so, thank you all for being here, art matters. tell help us come become from this crazy time of the covid. follow the art. we will be here. thank you, guys. [applause]. >> thank you. i want to list the events today today we had the special proclamation. tomorrow night jerry garcia night at the giants.
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also today starting is a library art exhibit it will go on the month of august. check it out. and the haight street from august 7 to august 14th. thank you sunny for doing that. and art span starting -- august 11th. and an event at manny's cafe on august 11 and ocean beach clean up with the jerry garcia family on august 13 and jerry day august 13th at the jerry garcia theater. >> and then after the show, will be jerry night with the art installations and art pan and all along mission and geneva. and then the day after stern grove festival closing out 2 weeks of jerry garcia
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celebration. thank you for coming out. thank you mayor breed and tricks and he jerry garcia family. happy birthday to jerry! [applause] [singing happy birthday]. [singing] [applause] thank you, everybody happy jerry day!
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>> shop and dine in the 49 promotes local businesses, and challenges residents to do their shopping within the 49 square miles of san francisco. by supporting local services in our neighborhood, we help san francisco remain unique, successful, and vibrant. so where will you shop and dine in the 49? >> i am the owner of this restaurant. we have been here in north beach over 100 years. [speaking foreign language] [♪♪♪] [speaking foreign language]
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>> it's great to see everyone kind of get together and prove, that you know, building our culture is something that can be reckoned with. >> i am desi, chair of economic development for soma filipinos. so that -- [ inaudible ] know that soma filipino exists, and it's also our economic platform, so we can start to build filipino businesses so we
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can start to build the cultural district. >> i studied the bok chase choy heritage, and i discovered this awesome bok choy. working at i-market is amazing. you've got all these amazing people coming out here to share one culture. >> when i heard that there was a market with, like, a lot of filipino food, it was like oh, wow, that's the closest thing i've got to home, so, like, i'm going to try everything. >> fried rice, and wings, and three different cliefz sliders. i haven't tried the adobe yet,
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but just smelling it yet brings back home and a ton of memories. >> the binca is made out of different ingredients, including cheese. but here, we put a twist on it. why not have nutella, rocky road, we have blue berry. we're not just limiting it to just the classic with salted egg and cheese. >> we try to cook food that you don't normally find from filipino food vendors, like the lichon, for example. it's something that it took years to come up with, to perfect, to get the skin just
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right, the flavor, and it's one of our most popular dishes, and people love it. this, it's kind of me trying to chase a dream that i had for a long time. when i got tired of the corporate world, i decided that i wanted to give it a try and see if people would actually like our food. i think it's a wonderful opportunity for the filipino culture to shine. everybody keeps saying filipino food is the next big thing. i think it's already big, and to have all of us here together, it's just -- it just blows my mind sometimes that there's so many of us bringing -- bringing filipino food to the city finally. >> i'm alex, the owner of the lumpia company. the food that i create is
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basically the filipino-american experience. i wasn't a chef to start with, but i literally love lumpia, but my food is my favorite foods i like to eat, put into my favorite filipino foods, put together. it's not based off of recipes i learned from my mom. maybe i learned the rolling technique from my mom, but the different things that i put in are just the different things that i like, and i like to think that i have good taste. well, the very first lumpia that i came out with that really build the lumpia -- it wasn't the poerk and shrimp shanghai, but my favorite thing after partying is that bakon cheese burger lumpia.
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there was a time in our generation where we didn't have our own place, our own feed to eat. before, i used to promote filipino gatherings to share the love. now, i'm taking the most exciting filipino appetizer and sharing it with other filipinos. >> it can happen in the san francisco mint, it can happen in a park, it can happen in a street park, it can happen in a tech campus. it's basically where we bring the hardware, the culture, the operating system. >> so right now, i'm eating something that brings me back to every filipino party from my
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childhood. it's really cool to be part of the community and reconnect with the neighborhood. >> one of our largest challenges in creating this cultural district when we compare ourselves to chinatown, japantown or little saigon, there's little communities there that act as place makers. when you enter into little philippines, you're like where are the businesses, and that's one of the challenges we're trying to solve.
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>> undercover love wouldn't be possible without the help of the mayor and all of our community partnerships out there. it costs approximately $60,000 for every event. undiscovered is a great tool for the cultural district to bring awareness by bringing the best parts of our culture which is food, music, the arts and being ativism all under one roof, and by seeing it all in this way, what it allows san franciscans to see is the dynamics of the filipino-american culture.
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i think in san francisco, we've kind of lost track of one of our values that makes san francisco unique with just empathy, love, of being acceptable of different people, the out liers, the crazy ones. we've become so focused onic maing money that we forgot about those that make our city and community unique. when people come to discover, i want them to rediscover the magic of what diversity and empathy can create. when you're positive and committed to using that energy,
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>> good afternoon. we are here today for virtual town hall regarding a officer involved shooting that occurred saturday august 6, 2022 at 18 and shotwell street. before proceeding, i like to announce to our viewing and listening audience that this town hall is being translated into spanish, and american sign language. today's presentation include details from officer involved shooting that occurred between uniformed san francisco police officers and 51 year old jose cavera. the san francisco police department we recognize that our sworn duty as law enforcement officers imposes no more solemn obligation on us then to