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everyone in the community for participating in the great shakeout. i don't have everyone's attention, i would love to have it here. thank you so much. so our great shakeout instructs our students and staff on what to do in a real earthquake. it is key to practice and prepare for an actual earthquake. we are honored to have our special
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guest here today participating in our great shakeout as well. i would like to introduce our san francisco mayor london breed to talk more about the great shakeout. [ applause ] mayor london breed: first i would like to thank you for letting us join you all. thank you for welcoming me to the classroom. it's great to be back at everett. in fact i was here a couple years ago and it's great to be here with you at the great shakeout. i have a question, how many were alive during the 1989 earthquake? you guys were really alive? in fact i was alive and i was in high school at the time. so i'm not completely sure that you were
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alive, but the fact is during that earthquake, it was a very challenging time for our city, but the good news is that we were prepared because the entire time that i grew up in san francisco and went to school like everett. i went to benjamin franklin listen and my brother went to everett and galileo high school and every year we did drills like this. as soon as it happened, we were prepared and we knew what to do. i remember learning about being prepared and going home and telling my grandmother all the things that we needed to do to keep in place so that we can take care of one another just in case an earthquake hit. i want you all to take the information that we had in class and to make sure that you go home and work with your parents to ensure that when an earthquake hits because it's not about if but when. san francisco is earthquake territory. it's
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inevitable. i want to be sure that every student at every middle school is prepared for that. can we agree with that? [ cheers and applause ] all right. i'm really excited to be here to really pay attention to preparedness and earthquakes and really bring a number of disaster preparedness people in san francisco. if a disaster hits, the people behind me, most of them, including myself, we are going to be responsible for keeping you all safe. so, thank you so much for allowing us here to talk to you about what we need to do to make sure that everyone is prepared when the big one comes to san francisco. and with that, i would like to introduce the president of the san francisco school board jenny lam. all right. [ cheers and applause ] >> good morning, hello everett community. it's so wonderful to be here with you all this
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morning. i'm excited to be here to participate in the shakeout. i want to thank the principal and all the educators and staff at everett for hosting us this morning and all the work you do everyday for our students. every year on the initiatives of the big one in 1989, i also was in high school, mayor breed. i still remember that day, that afternoon. i left tennis practice early, and i was in the hallway and the lockers started shaking so loud that i just thought it was a bunch of students running around making a lot of noise. then i quickly knew what had happened and i was alone in that hallway. i was very fortunate to have a school counselor that came out of his office and immediately offered me a ride home because i knew i had someone waiting for me at home and that was my eight year old little sister.
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just now i was thinking about the moment i opened the front door and saw her underneath our dining room table and the look on her face. i know many of you are also taking care of your younger siblings. i want to share that story and to know that everyone was safe with my family. what happened this morning? this morning at 10:20, students and staff participated in the drop cover and hold drill. every was in position for 30 seconds. i know it seemed longer when we were squeezed under our desk. after our drill we evacuated into the evacuation area. it's really a reality as mayor breed said. it's not just how but really when the big next earthquake will hit our city.
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all of our schools have detailed evacuation plans in case of an emergency, and we encourage all of our students and our families to develop your plans. today you received this postcard to making sure you have a plan. it's so critical to know what to do not only during an earthquake but very much important what we are going to do after an earthquake in terms of keeping safe and taking care of one another. i'm very privileged to having these special people here this morning as they work everyday to keep us safe. i'm going to introduce the emergency manager mary ellen. [ cheers and applause ] >> good morning, i'm mary ellen, this fancy title but i am the
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master of disaster in san francisco. when something goes wrong, we try to fix things and make them better. you did an incredible job. i would like to say thanks to robert and javier. in this case of earthquakes, you probably know more than most adults. so you all are experts. just like the mayor said, when you go home, we want you to talk to your families and share what you learned so your family and friends are also safe. the other part of my job is i run the 911 center. so you all know the number to call, right? i wanted to say it if something happens, what is the three numbers that you call? >> 911. >> it's 911. good job. anyway, we practice this every
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year because we haven't had earthquakes in a really long time, but it could happen at any moment. i want to thank you for doing what you are doing to help our city which is to make sure that you are safe if an earthquake happens. so good job. it was great to meet all of you and remember what you learned today. thanks. [ applause ]
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way to the 21st century. the exhibition is organized into seven different groupings or themes such as activities, symbolism, transformation and others. it's not by culture or time period, but different affinities between the artwork. activities, for example, looks at the role of gender and how certain activities are placed as feminine or masculine. we have a print by uharo that looks at different activities that derisionly performed by men. it's looking at the theme of music. we have three women playing traditional japanese instruments that would otherwise be played by men at that time. we have pairings so that is looking within the context of gender in relationships.
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also with how people are questioning the whole idea of pairing in the first place. we have three from three different cultures, tibet, china and japan. this is sell vanity stot relevar has been fluid in different time periods in cultures. sometimes being female in china but often male and evoking features associated with gender binaries and sometimes in between. it's a lovely way of tying all the themes together in this collection. gender and sexuality, speaking from my culture specifically, is something at that hasn't been recently widely discussed. this exhibition shows that it's gender and sexuality are
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actually have been considered and complicated by dialogue through the work of artists and thinking specifically, a sculpture we have of the hindu deities because it's half pee male and half male. it turns into a different theme in a way and is a beautiful representation of how gender hasn't been seen as one thing or a binary. we see that it isn't a modest concept. in a way, i feel we have a lot of historical references and touch points throughout all the ages and in asian cultures. i believe san francisco has close to 40% asian. it's a huge representation here in the bay area. it's important that we awk abouk about this and open up the discussion around gender.
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what we've learned from organizing this exhibition at the museum is that gender has been something that has come up in all of these cultures through all the time periods as something that is important and relevant. especially here in the san francisco bay area we feel that it's relevant to the conversations that people are having today. we hope that people can carry that outside of the museum into their daily lives.
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>> hi.daily lives. i'm alita fisher running for san francisco board of education buzz i'm a former foster paraphernalia now adoptive parent and in the past 17 years 4 children attended 8 sudden fran schools. i have been an active partner at each one. mom and grand mother were teachers i loved school. i was that kid who came home and played school with my toys
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