>> nowruz hi, everyone thank you so much for joining the 18 year have come at san francisco city hall. >> my name is sophia, if any, the founder and ceo of persian women and honored to be at city hall chair for the past 8 years. >> this year in light of the

political movement no iran persian men decided for the to have that but celebrating our heritage to display our event we're having right now. march is a month where many things will elevated you including international women's at a and women's history month and nowruz which is celebrated over 3000 years by over 90 million people around the world. it is so important to have representation. for communities to come total together and showcase their heritage and culture. >> san francisco is a city that welcomes opens it's arms to many

underrepresented community and culture we're thankful for working with the mayor of the san francisco and supervisor and supervisor to bring the incredible event together. it is important to recognize that women are behind this program the committee is all women with you so vendors are women and our all over the are iranian america women and persian women stand with - (clapping.) it is important not to only evaluate but come together as a community tonight together we're stronger for that. and able to

do more we're able to uplift our community and showcase this beauty of our culture and heritage. i'm honored today to introduce the mayor of san francisco london breed to the stage. >> (yelling). >> thank you and thank you to persian women it is so wonderful for here nowruz thank you to all the families and the friends and the people that came to celebrate now we know it is an challenging time in our lives and we know that sadly the death of marsha has created a fear and

frustration and this taken place in san francisco where that community stood in solidist to make that clear that the hatred will not be tolerated in any for this this community came together because of the hurt and pain and we'll be sad that happens to the women and women so many places where we are being challenged on a regular basis and not given the opportunity to decide on the economy of our both sides in the decided about our lives it is so fitting it persian women has hosted this event and fitting it is held during women's history month in city hall. by a woman

and mayor to make that clear we send a strong message we talk about the nowruz and renewable and hope and future and starting a new we make that clear that the ability for women to make they're own decisions about their both sides and how they move around the world that we will stand for justice and fairness and so today is about a hope for renewable hope for a new day, hope for a new year that is starkly the possibility what can a happy we truly come together and work hard and push for fairness and justice for all human beings. (clapping.) so i want to really again, thank you sophie and you'll see people who are volunteering and hosting

this over the years and really acknowledge your work and leadership in the tech industry a male dominated destroy for other women to strive thank you, for you work and advocacy and also take the opportunity to acknowledge our chief the protocol the first woman to serve had in the city and county of san francisco her family do incredible things she's a proud persian woman will be a support of this community thank you to my co-host supervisor and i saw earlier shamann and so many leaders of people in city hall. i of course, that our hearts are

heavy but today it truly a celebration to may be make that clear the persian of san francisco has a place here in san francisco at city hall a place that feels save and secure and a place to celebrate the new year and think before hope for the future a place you know, we have your back and here to support moving forward because our diversity in san francisco is our sprelth e strength the fact we stick together what makes our unique place. so great to see all of you here to celebrate nowruz any time i have an opportunity to celebrate a new year a change for a new beginning i'm happy to do that and acknowledge your state the state of california control the treasurer also joining us today

so many wonderful people who care about celebrating the new year and the joy of this occasion city hall will be a place that we continue to do that and i want to ask sophie to come forward as i officially declare monday, march 20th - tuesday, march 21, 2023, in the city and county of san francisco nowruz day. >> (clapping) thank you so much and at this time, i wanted to introduce my co-host supervisor saving thank you, ma'am mayor give it up for london breed. >> could i is the 18 day 18 year i'm sorry 18 year that we

had nowruz celebration at city hall it started think o under governor gavin newsom a group of iranian got together and to recognize a community in many ways to a lot of people they're land use in one group out of that have a way to celebrate our culture at city hall so from that time going forward we have been having celebrations every year more and more fruitful and more and more event full and a beautiful way to show our culture. um, i want to recognize a few people before i say a few more words thank you, sophie the persian woman for organizing this and others and (clapping.) expanding our culture a showing

the music and i want to thank the mayor for hosting this not every community doesn't but had the opportunity to come to city hall. >> (clapping) but i want to i i would be remiss to say we have to recognition what is happening in iran people are putting their lives on the whether or not i think for what we take some people take for granted on a daily basis the ability to speak feel free and walk down the street to hole hands and simple things and speaking their. as a matter of fact simple things we do on a daily basis are not exchanged by brave brave women and people brave brave young people in fact, are putting their lives on the line

(chanting). >> thank you. >> and so i want to say nowruz nowruz and (speaking foreign language) what are the beautiful people in the world can we give it up for persians and thank you for celebrating our culture. >> thank you good for celebrating coming together as one thank you and i'm going to ask lisa and mohammed to come up please we can recognize the wonderful work you do (clapping.) come on up. >> today a mohammed day

(laughter.) >> thank you. (clapping.) and then lastly, i want to call you think persian woman and tech sophie for all you're amazing work you have done (clapping.) . thank you. >> yeah. one second so then also let's give up for the wonderful happening displays thank you for her amazing work and (clapping.) for again, it is absolutely beautiful and hand it back to severing any. >> thank you, supervisor. and mayor for an incredible speech this today would not be possible

without the support of many of our community members and giving the time, and money because it costs something like to lee like this and recognize those who really have been the pillar important for the program and for the most part the culture family foundation (clapping.) has been supporting this initiative for many, many years we appreciate that. mr. mohammed and christen. >> (clapping). >> i think beyond the community we also need to see around us in the city and they need to step up and also support thankful for amazon crews and

san francisco giants in supporting and elevating our community (clapping.) i hope you enjoyed today's tea and the pastries and i want to thank - bakery and the tea we're serving you. >> providing the - presenting incredible work please support them and couldn't have done it without you the committee that is behind us and unfortunately, we are not having everyone but. >> (calling names.) >> have been part of this and supporting to make sure that our culture is represented our is elevated thank you so much and

i'm going to pass it back to supervisor. >> (clapping) want to recognize a few people before we bring up the next person you thank you for the board of education for being here (clapping.) and the record thank you and any bring up our state treasurer to say a few words please come on up and been a wonderful friends and every step of the way thank you, state treasurer. >> thank you very much. and great to be here in the people's hall slubt the culture and the tradition of the persian community i've been good forensics with sammy others for so many years and used to see

call me all the time and now they are elected they no longer call me all the time but i've been here since i served on the board of supervisors in 200220 years so it is so great to be here with all of our beautiful persians and the community members we thank the mayor for continuing to welcome us and feel included in this great diversity of the state of california we are the fourth largest economy because of all of us so let's celebrate and stand up and rise up to support the people to be the best we can happy nowruz (clapping.) and then lastly last but not least want to bring our our city administrator carmen chu please

come up. >> hello, good afternoon afternoon i'm the city conservative and welcome, everyone to city hall a beautiful event it is great represents the spring and new beginnings and also want to say this year we're looking forward to a wonderful year in the celebration with all of you and especially thank supervisor for bringing this year after year and the mayor to continuing to host and sponsor for those of you who don't know a handful of celebrations in city hall this is one of them and thanks to the leadership and the supervisor and the mayor thank you for your great work and, of course, we have the year ahead (clapping.) . okay. everyone thank you and enjoy the treats and thank you

for coming out today

>> you're watching quick bites, the show that is san francisco. and today you're in for a real treat. oh, my! food inspired by the mediterranean and middle east with a twist so unique you can only find it in one place in san francisco. we're at the 55th annual armenian festival and bizarre. this is extra special not only because i happen to be armenian, but there is so much delicious food here. and i can't wait to share it with all of you. let's go. armenia, culture and cusine has had much cultural exchanges with its neighbors. today armenian food infuses he flavor from the mediterranean, middle east, and eastern europe. >> this is our 55th year and in san francisco we're the largest armenian food festival and

widely recognized as one of the best food festivals in the area. we have vendors that come up from fresno, from los angeles showing off their craft. we really feel like we have something for everyone in the neighborhood and that's really what it is, is drawing people to see a little bit of our culture and experience what we experience weekend in and weekend out. >> we are behind the scenes now watching the chef at work preparing some delicious armenian kabob. this is a staple in armenian cooking, is that right? >> absolutely, since the beginning of time. our soldiers used to skewer it on the swords. we have a combination of beef and lam and parsley. and every september over 2000 pounds of meat being cooked in three days. >> after all that savory protein, i was ready to check out the fresh veggie options. >> this is armenian cheat sheet. it's tomatos and mint and olive

oil. that makes summer food. and what i'm doing is i'm putting some nutmeg. it is kind of like cream cheese. in armenia when they offer you food, you have to eat it. they would welcome you and food is very important for them. >> in every armenian community we feel like we're a "smallville"age and they come together to put on something like this. what i find really interesting about san francisco is the blends of armenia that come together. once they are here, the way people work together at any age, including our grandmothers, our grandfathers, skewering the meat, it's fun to see. fun to see everybody get together. >> we call it subarek. it's a cheese turn over if you want. we make the dough from scratch. we boil it like you do for la san i can't. >> the amount of love and karin fused in these foods is tremendous. they come in every day to

prepare, cook and bake bread, all in preparation for this big festival. >> nobody says no. when you come them, they have to come tomorrow for the feast. >> what a treat it is to taste a delicious recipe, all made from scratch and passed down through generations. it really makes you appreciate the little things. >> it's one of the best festivals. it's outstanding, a marvelous occasion. >> we're outside checking some of the food to go options. i grabbed myself a ka bob sandwich, all kinds of herbs and spices. i'm going to taste this. looking fantastic. one of the best i've had in a long time. you know it's delicious b i have just enough room for dessert, my favorite part. we're behind the scenes right now watching how all the pastries get made. and we've got a whole array of pastries here. honey and nuts and cinnamon,

all kinds of great ingredients. this is amazing. here's another yummy pastry made with filo dough. oh, my god. really sweet and similar, it's lighter. this is what i like. we have a lovely row here. looks like a very delicious and exciting surprise. i'm going to bite into it. here we go. um. this is great with armenian coffee. now we're making some incredible armenian coffee. >> we buy our coffee, they have the best coffee. they come from armenia, specially made. and would you like to try it? >> i would like to try.

>> would you like sugar or no sugar? >> no sugar today. i'm so excited. really earthy. you can really taste the grain. i think that's what makes it so special. really comes out. i hope you try it. we're having a great time at the armenian festival. we ate, we saw, and we definitely conquered. i don't know about you, but i have to go down to the food. check out our blog for so much more at sf bites at tums abler.com. until next time, may the force be with you. ♪♪ ♪♪ >> first of all, everybody is welcome and we ask two things when they get here. one, that they try something they've never tried before. be it food or be it dancing or doing something. and if they feel like it was

worth their while to tell one person and bring that person, that family member, that friend down the street to come with them. >> we're going to have to do a lot of eating so get ready. >> get ready. and you diet tomorrow.

>> welcome everyone. to the our city our home oversight committee. it is march 23, 2023 and we are go ing to call the meeting to order. [roll call] >> we do have not have quorum but i know the members are on their way. this is 4 our first in person meeting every so we are excited to be back in person and see