>> fbo. >> okay. because we got a chance that is raining and look what santa brought to us my name is alleyway will i everyone say hello alleyway will i and here's what i want everyone to see if you're shorter than i want to come over here and stand please fill those places i want all the kids to come in. >> all come in square foot in we have a great show and who is excited by christmas. >> yeah. >> excited? i got the floor

wet but you can stand if you want or bring up the chairs if you guys can bring in the chairs enjoy the show tonight are you guys excited? >> excited. >> yeah. we can't do this show. >> (yelling) i don't think their exciteed. >> are you excited. >> yeah. >> they're excited their exciting i don't know if you guys are excited, i want to hear from the people in the back are you guys excited for foot's show tonight yeah. >> now we can go can everyone sing jingle. >> there we go we have everyone say hi to jingle and jingle and hi. >> hi. >> i'm so excited about

christmas that is my favorite time of the year raise your hand in christmas is your favorite time of the year each year number one, people are really nice during christmas aren't they. >> you have to be extra niece santa will bring you presents there is a little bit of bribe what else do you like about christmas. >> (multiple voices). >> i like gifts gift are good. >> had do i like. >> cocoa you know, we got a lot of hoot cocoa 0 guys i like with marshmallows. >> yeah. >> and whipped cream. >> (multiple voices). >> and on top of that what elbow like? >> come here come here

ordinance. >> this is my family. >> (multiple voices). >> gifts right here great gifts spend time with our family and your family and friends all of you hang out with anyone else that anyone really likes about christmas? what do you like about christmas- >> (multiple voices). >> we're back to presents guys we're back to present. folks so remembered bring presents for those kids. >> are you guys ready to watch the show tonight? >> yeah. >> do you like dancing do you really like crazy weird people. >> yeah. >> it is san francisco we're a little bit weird in san francisco but green pants and red shirts we have i'm going to go back as it - freeing to come

to this side to see things did you mess up your shop. >> we're going to bring to the stage some wonderful threatened performers and sing sons and i want to hear everyone including that the people in the back i want to give a nice warm applause for the high school advanced choir. >> (multiple voices). >> (music).

>> (multiple voices). >> (singing).

>> dingdong dingdong. >> (cheering).

>> (multiple voices). >> (music). >> christmastime is here. >> cheer. >> (singing). >> my favorite time of the year. >> in the air.

>> chair avalos everywhere. >> (singing). >> beauty everywhere. >> christmastime is here. >> music through the years.

>> (singing). >> in the air. >> beauty everywhere. >> everywhere. >> christmastime is here.

>> through the years. >> all that we would always see - through the years. >> bravo. >> (clapping) another big a round of applause for the high school weren't they wonderful? >> oh, this is good. >> all right. - >> (multiple voices). >> go. >> you guys having fun?

>> yeah.? >> we're going to have even more fun because we've got something really, really special for you now. who here loves magic oh, come on you like magic and yeah. >> do you like magic and yeah. yeah. >> oh, who you who is magical. >> santa how in the world does he get out of the chimney he's so big running around this is a magic isn't it very, very magic, too, we have our friends say hi to our el visa a special trait not san it is a clause but a

special magazinetion give and big warm welcome to joshua andrew. >> (music). >> i love the introduction how we all doing tonight we all in the holiday spirit. >> yeah. >> i'm joshua andrew and so excited to be here really excited i brought a few friends i brought with me a few friends. >> now- >> (multiple voices). >> how many of you know rudolf. >> know ru dovey brought not

only him but his entire family he's got a big family count out loud 1, 2, 34, 5. >> 6, 7, (laughter) 8 and 9. >> but essentially rudolf has a big family some are upside down but rudolf and his infringe the family here they are not note to come but they came in santa needs to get ready for the present; right? so let's see how big the family is again let's see - 4, 3, 2 , 1 no, no santa can't be here he's got to

get ready at the north pole. >> some 5, 6, 7,- >> (multiple voices). >> what are you screaming at? >> yeah. >> no santa can't be here 1, 2, 3, 4 marinas santa you saw santa let's oh. >> oh. >> huizar santa oh, my goodness he's not supposed to be here so want to help him disappear let's couldn't out loud we got 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, let's see - let's see - i don't see santa. >> 6, 7, 8, to santa.

>> no - >> (multiple voices). >> what about this one. >> turn it over? let me turn it over still to santa oh, the other way still no santa. >> oh, so okay. this way. >> (multiple voices). >> it says no santa. >> it's okay you want to see santa. >> all right. >> i got one more. >> and that's santa. >> santa made an expectation to be here just for you, you because santa brings the wonderful christmas spirit to san francisco would you mind i have a story to share i love christmas because of magic and over everything that it

represents and without kids the little snow combloebz reminds me of how special you look at inside of that and shack it up so i want to start to create that snow and bring the magic here because snow here you guys want to start small and get creative. okay. let's see - if we can do this. >> (music). >> you see if you start with something small use you're imagine might be able to make something out of that see. >> every mom that we want to create something a piece we

focused on the friends. maybe that cup of hot chocolate we want to see stick with us. >> maybe it's the family that you get to see. >> every little piece this has i'm cutting represents one magical moment maybe it is the eggnog or the presents if you opened up this morning it doesn't matter every little thing starts to create something a little special. >> (music). >> now, when you look at if we start 19 with something sort of small a snowflake. not bad in san francisco nod bad let's see

if we can make some snow out of that. >> i think we can make some snow. >> see if we can turn that smoke flake into snow in san

francisco. >> thank you very much. everyone. >> enjoy the snow in san francisco. >> (yelling). >> joshua andrew everybody another big recognitions and proclamations. >> this is a good (unintelligible). >> (music). >> let me see you dance. >> (music). >> shake your booties. >> oh. >> have a dance break guys i have to stay warm who is ever seen snow before.

>> you've seen snow. >> as this is your first time seeing snow don't eat that city snow you don't eat this. go out tomorrow omb i love seeing all those smiling faces and the kids back there we have jingle and trees and the evils i like christmas trees who has a christmas tree in our house. >> yeah. >> one christmas tree is pretty cool but how about a stage full of trees yeah. >> some of my very good finks friends are trees say hello. >> (music).

>> (clapping) (music). >> ready for flight up to the sky. >> christmas gets us in the

meadow. >> going to show you where the party is at. >> christmas and i'm really getting in the meadow. >> (music). >> come on now we're going to party. >> getting started. >> (music). >> i'm in the meadow. >> yeah. happy christmas. >> (music. >> ). >> happy holidays. >> happy holidays. >> while the merry bells keep

ringing. happy holidays to you. >> (music). >> to you. >> to you. >> (music). >> on every wall - christmas everywhere you look at give the world a holiday. make it stagger and jingleing. >> (music).

>> (singing). >> christmas is everywhere you look at. >> give the world a holiday. >> make it sparkle.

>> (music). >> ringing and jingling we're having a swinging the party. >> we're going to be singing jingle bells. >> at christmastime a swinging christmastime. >> jingle bells at christmastime. >> (music). >> christmas will be ringing and rocking with the rhythm in christmastime. >> we're to have a christmas party and a chance to get

together. >> bringing in a christmastime. >> bringing in the christmastime. >> (music). >> a swinging little christmastime. >> jingling and ring. >> jingle and ring. >> ho, ho. >> i'm not happyist christmas trees. >> someone came and took me home with them. >> hoe hoe and the he and look how good lucky lucky me.

>> i have a light that jingles. oh, i'm the happyist christmas at the christmas day wait for me, i'm be dancing happily with a ho, ho, ho and the he. >> and hoe and hoe. >> i'm the happyist christmas tree ho, ho, ho and the he, he someone came and found me and took me home. >> ho, ho, ho and the he, he oh, lucky lucky me a and ami i've got shiny bells and i'm the happyist christmas tree.

>> christmas day wait you'll see i'll be laughing happily with a ho, ho, ho and the he. >> a hoe hoe and hey and hoe hoe. >> (yelling). >> (music). >> all right. >> canvas trees tap dancers airport they great. >> okay. folks a little bit of business first order if you're turn around than high i have

people blocking my pin to see and if i guys can step on the green you'll get a nicer view i want to thank people so many people come together that is the 9 year and we done it for 9 years and we have economy was on is another planet and all who set this up every single day applause from the civic center community benefit district and so many people come together and, of course, our wonderful band is all star band. >> that is now feels like it is a little bit dark with the

winter the sun starts going down earlier we might need to brighten it upturn own that? >> we're going to need some help wrrgz my finding we're going to need spot to turn this on. >> give a big a round of applause (music). >> there we go. >> it's a big tree needs a big plunker. >> i don't know if i'm qualified we're going to need friends to help me out one of our friends credit union be eric come out here a big a round of applause i want to hear noise people. >> and we've got philip ginsburg the director of the

recreation & parks department and you don't kin come on joaquin and special equities our senator scott wiener please come on here there we go. >> (music). >> oh, great okay. and a couple of words thank you, a couple of words. >> happy holidays everyone i'm scott wiener honored for representing the folks in the senate and thank you, mother nature from a break from the align rain and amazing to see so many kids and good years for san francisco we're moving in a positive direction and for the future of this city and wish everyone a happy happy holiday

season and thank you for being here. >> (clapping) i think we have got you don't win all right. >> good to see senator and with the tree lighting not only here not heart of the city. >> civic center and i'm iowa win torres glad to celebrate with the start said great weather and we're looking forward to a great holiday season and we support our small businesses they need your support and thinking about their kids from the neighborhoods to neighborhood across san francisco happy holidays everyone. >> yeah. a very good financing mr. phil ginsburg. >> hi, everyone my name is phil have the pleasure of running the

rec and park wow. and civic center is actually a park so great to see everyone here and happy celebrating after the end of a long year i want to first, let's give a big remembered for the hard working staff in rec and park the men and women from the rec and park. >> (clapping) and now we have some very, very special guests here. and we have some young people here he thought what we'll do to get us warmed-up and ride ask these guys a couple of questions you so what is your favorite thing about christmas. >> oh. >> what's your name. >> andy. >> what's your favorite things are christmas. >> presents.

>> yeah. >> okay. >> what something else what is your favorite thing. >> what is your favorite tell him i thing. >> family how about that answer. >> that's a good one. >> (clapping) okay. you want to try again andy. >> i think >> and that's true too if you want to answer the question. >> trees. >> that's for the parks people the best answer well done and what's the favorite thing that san francisco. >> snow. >> decorations. >> yeah yes what's your favorite thing about san francisco. >> the golden gate bridge. >> see she here waiting for looks like we're waiting for santa what's the favorite thing about san francisco. >> um, snow.

>> the only business this is the only place it snows in san francisco. >> by the way, a quick plug if this tree is not enough come to the park tomorrow we have one more question who's your favorite mayor? >> mayor breed. >> say mayor breed. >> yeah. >> and here she comes. >> mayor breed. >> (trumpet blowing). >> i guys want to light the tree. >> yeah. [off mic.] >> all right. so what do you say mayor breed ready to light this tree on the

count of 10. okay. >> thank you for listening. >> all right. >> looking good like the mayor. >> here we go. >> on 10, 9, oh. >> 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 , 1 yeah. >> (trumpet blowing). >> let's go. >> (laughter.) >> (multiple voices.) >> let's take some photos here. >> i think we're going to do a couple of quick photos (music).

>> (multiple voices). >> hi, everyone say rudolf. >> (music). >> all right. hey. >> all right. >> we're going to have our evils take away the plunker and get this show going, huh? what a beautiful tree isn't it a beautiful tree a beautiful city i love your dress. >> i love your dress. >> there we go. >> oh. >> will not come this year. >> ladies and gentlemen, we still more show you guys want to keep watching the show or go to bed now for christmas. >> no? okay. we're going to

have the evils take our plunker away and keep the show going we have very, very special financing her name is donors and such an to a later date singer and will consult and sing a few more christmas songs you guys want to hear a few more christmas songs. >> ladies and gentlemen, please say hello to my very favorite friend ms. donors puppet. >> (trumpet playing).

>> awesome. >> okay. >> hi. >> 34er christmas everyone. >> so excited to be here. >> we are so looking forward to this season and all that that brings that song says led it snow, let it snow, let it snow. >> 1, 2, 3. >> (put their lives on the line playing and the weather outside it fright full and the fire is so delightful full since we have no place to go let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. >> no signs of stopping too, so

brought me some that cornerstone for popping the lights are way down low and when with owe finally kiss good night i hate going out not storm. and the fire is slowly dying. and we're saying good big deal as long as you love me so, let it senator boquist let it snow, let it snow. >> come on band. >> (trumpet playing). >> i like it.

>> when he finally kiss good night, how i hate going out in the storm. >> but if you really hold me tight, i'll be warm all the way home. >> and the fire is slowly dying. >> and we're still saying good big deal as long as you love me so, let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. >> all right. all right. >> so beautiful how many of us are dreaming of a white christmas? in san francisco we

already have it beautiful. >> white christmas yes right here in san francisco. >> (multiple voices). >> all right. >> (pathogen. >> 1, 2, 3, 4. >> (pathogen playing. >> (music). >> i'm dreaming of a white christmas. >> just like the ones i used to know. >> where the tree topics

glisten, and children link listen to hear sleigh bells in the snow. >> i'm dreaming of a white christmas. >> with every christmas card i write. >> may your days be merry and bright. >> and may all your christmases be white. >> (trumpet playing).

>> (music). >> off let's give them a hand africa i'm dreaming of a white christmas. >> with every christmas card i write. >> may your days be merry and bright. >> and may all your christmases be white.

>> all right. >> let's give the band a hand beautiful everyone is beautiful it is so wonderful out here. >> nice and white. and in san francisco the next song is the winter wonder band. >> i want to see you all dancing out there. >> (trumpet). >> yes. >> come on can you say it. >> are you listening in the lane the snow is glistening a

beautiful sight we're happy together walking in a winter wonderland. >> gone away are the blue birds here to stay are the birds and to sing a song walking in a winter wonderland in the meadow we can build a snowman and prevented it is parson brown will i mayor me later on we'll conspire as we dream about the fire we're happy walking in a winter wonderland come on. >> (trumpet playing).

>> sleigh bills ring are you listening in the lane the snow is comblilg a beautiful sight we're happy along walking in a winter wonderland gone away are the blue birds we're happy along walking in a winter wonderland. >> and to build a san jose man prevented he 0 is parson brown

will you mayor me i'll say no man. >> later on we'll con pier inspire as we dream by the fire we're happy walking in a winter wonderland. >> that's it one more time. >> waking in a winter wonder laundry. >> yeah. >> the chores all right. >> here we go. >> donors ladies and gentlemen. >> oh. >> i like all the rednecks look at all the snow you and you know what i got to say i like everything about this show i like the sirens and the band and

the tree i like having the mayor here and i feel i'm missing something what are we missing and santa clause, huh? shall we bring up santa clause. >> hold on, hold on what's the best way to get santa here any idea. >> cookies yeah. >> milk milk is good you know what i like to sing a little song shall we sing a song together and yeah. >> oh, so many good songs about santa clauses like here comes santa clause my favorite one is don't say but what's the one i'm thinking of. >> santa clause is coming to turning to you guys know that?

>> let's all sing it together. >> (music). >> better santa clause is coming to town. he's making a list and checking it with twice going to find out out who is naughty and nice santa clause is coming to town. >> oh, no, no, no. >> woe. >> wait a second. >> hold on. >> that's not santa. >> that's - >> that's (yelling). >> that's the grinch. >> i are heal you're as a

charming as el mr. grinch. >> you're. >> with banana what a greasy black pale. >> oh, christmas boe. >> mr. grinch. >> your- >> (multiple voices). >> yourself got garlic in our beard mr. grinch. >> off with your head. >> i wouldn't touch you with a three 9 and a half foot pole. >> in. >> get out of here. >> you have all- >> (multiple voices). >> put a sock in that lets

hear it for the grinch. >> yeah. >> oh, yeah. >> well in case you didn't get the memo santa wanted me to tell you something santa said the party is over everybody go home. >> yeah. yeah christmas is cancelled. >> no. >> (yelling). >> down the drain and hanukkah is gone you. >> (yelling). >> oh, you guys actually like christmas say with me christmas boe. >> i guess you want a little bit a little christmas present

just in time for christmas and for everyone. >> (yelling). >> oh, you're not old enough for jury duty. okay. parking citations for everyone. >> no. >> all right. well, if you're too young for jury duty and parking violations maybe you'll like my favorite thing. >> do i want to hear about any favorite thing. >> no. >> hit it mr. dj. >> (music). >> filling the bathtub with green rings those are a few of my favorite things. >> doorbells and death bells

and (music). >> these are a few of my favorite things. >> picking my pimples and (unintelligible). >> bathtub with scrubby things those are a few of my favorite things. >> with a bee sting. i simply remember my favorite thing and then i don't feel so bad. >> everyone >> when the dog bits when the bee stinks when i feeling bad i simply remember my favorite things and then i don't feel so bad.

>> woe. >> ho, ho, ho. >> i don't need to clap. >> ho, ho, ho. >> ho, ho, ho. >> (multiple voices). >> you making that noise. >> who who merry christmas everybody ho, ho, ho merry christmas hoe hoe oh, hello, hello pretty girl. hello. >> oh. >>. thank you. >> oh. >> here come my treats. >> merry christmas ho, ho, ho and everyone- >> (multiple voices). >> oh, merry christmas. >> look at me look at me. >> (music n. >> hello, hello. >> hello beautiful.

>> oh, dollars a pretty entrepreneurial merry christmas oh, hello. >> merry christmas. >> oh, i like your trash you look at the an elf merry christmas oh, my, oh, my (laughter). >> a (music). >> excuse merry christmas. merry christmas everybody merry christmas ho, ho, ho. >> oh. >> you you've been very good oh, i like this color looks very good open you merry christmas. merry christmas. >> (music). >> ho, ho, ho merry christmas. >> you, you know i have a

present for someone. oh, is it for me is it for me and i have a present for you yourself will be waiting for i christmas morning and it is for my friend. >> the grinch. >> oh. >> what? >> oh, come over so everybody can see do you know i love the grillage who who my friend the grinch has been very good i think his bad but having very, very good and i have a present just for you. >> for me? >> what was it i do. >> well. >> is that the present. >> yeah. the on it.

>> no. you don't eat it who how have to yes - and is it a disease. >> it is not it's christmas cheer which is is the best disease you have ever have who who here it is i think that is what you wanted. oh. >> (- >> (multiple voices). >> it's just what the wanted i know i read your letter so long ago who who who is it it is. >> oh, do you know that everyone know who this is. >> it's frosty the snowman. >> it's frosty the snowman. >> no, this is not from frosty the snowman and who knows who's

from. >> rudolf. >> is it weaken with the red nose. >> that's my favorite reindeer it is rudolf autopsy ho, ho, ho. >> know the rudolf song combrifrn maybe my friend can help me. >> no rudolf. >> everyone help us teach grinch the song. ready here we go. >> rudolf the red noticed reindeer had a very shiny nose and if you ever saw him, you said even say it glows and like the lgbtq+ all the other reindeer used to laugh and call him names. >> like pin could would never complete poor rudolf join in any

recommendations rain door games one foggy christmas eve sandag to came to say rudolf with your nose so bright won't you guide any sleigh tonight then how the reindeer lofldz him rudolf the red noticed reindeer i'll go down in history. >> ho, ho, ho and yeah. >> grinch it is for you and have a merry, merry christmas. >> can everyone help me and wish the grinch a merry christmas. >> 1, 2, 3 everyone say. >> merry christmas. >> every councilmember bosse san francisco that's our show we have one important special

preservation please welcome the mary visit high school choir. >> they're wonderful. >> they're wonderful. >> ho, ho, ho. >> i'm going to hang out with my reindeer merry christmas. >> (trumpet). >> (multiple voices.) >> merry, merry christmas.

>> let your hearts glow. >> from now on our troubles will be out of sight. >> (singing). >> have yourselves a very merry little christmas. >> make is yellow tied cooler gay. >> from now on our troubles will be far away. >> here we are at the golden age happy gotten days of yours. >> faith full influence who are

dear to us, are near to us once more. >> through the years we all will be together, and if fate allows. >> hang a shin you didn't go star upon the highest bought. and have yourselves a merry little christmas now. >> have yourselves. yourselves. >> a very little merry christmas now.

>> yeah >> vista high school everyone. >> thank you such a great job aren't they wonderful. >> guys thank you, so, so much for coming up we love you guys coming out have a very merry christmas and happy holidays and happy new year good night, everyone. >> (trumpet

[music] >> san francisco is known as yerba buena, good herb after a mint that used to grow here. at this time there were 3 settlements one was mission delores. one the presidio and one was yerba buena which was urban center. there were 800 people in 1848 it was small. a lot of historic buildings were

here including pony express headquarters. wells fargo. hudson bay trading company and famous early settlers one of whom william leaderdorph who lived blocks from here a successful business person. african-american decent and the first million airin california. >> wilwoman was the founders of san francisco. here during the gold rush came in the early 1840s. he spent time stake himself as a merchant seaman and a business person. his father and brother in new orleans. we know him for san francisco's history. establishing himself here arnold 18 twoochl he did one of many things the first to do in yerba buena. was not california yet and was

not fully san francisco yet. >> because he was an american citizen but spoke spanish he was able to during the time when america was taking over california from mexico, there was annexations that happened and conflict emerging and war, of course. he was part of the peek deliberations and am bas doorship to create the state of california a vice council to mexico. mexico granted him citizenship. he loaned the government of san francisco money. to funds some of the war efforts to establish the city itself and the state, of course. he established the first hotel here the person people turned to often to receive dignitaries or hold large gatherings established the first public school here and helped start the public school system. he piloted the first steam ship

on the bay. a big event for san francisco and depict instead state seal the ship was the sitk a. there is a small 4 block long length of street, owned much of that runs essentially where the transamerica building is to it ends at california. i walk today before am a cute side street. at this point t is the center what was all his property. he was the person entrusted to be the city's first treasurer. that is i big deal of itself to have that legacy part of an african-american the city's first banker. he was not only a forefather of the establishment of san francisco and california as a state but a leader in industry. he had a direct hahn in so many things that we look at in san

francisco. part of our dna. you know you don't hear his anymore in the context of those. representation matters. you need to uplift this so people know him but people like him like me. like you. like anyone who looks like him to be, i can do this, too. to have the city's first banker and a street in the middle of financial district. that alone is powerful. [music]

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>> san francisco! ♪♪ >> this is an exhibition across departments highlighting different artworks from our collection. gender is an important part of the dialogue. in many ways, this exhibition is contemporary. all of this artwork is from the 9th century and spans all the 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. 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 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. 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. >> # daily lives. >> >> >> >> you are watching san francisco rising.

>> hi, you are watching san francisco rising. reimagining our city. he's with us to talk about how our library's economic recover. mr. lambert, welcome to the show. >> thank you. i'm glad to be here. >> i know it's been difficult to have books going virtual. have we recovered? >> yes, we are on our way. our staff stepped up big time during the pandemic to respond to the health emergency. since last may, we have been able to steadily increase in person access to library facilities. currently we are at 95% of our precovid hours of operation. in the coming weeks we are going to fully restore all of our

hours. we have four branches that we are going to bring back to seven day service. they are currently operating at 5 days a week and we are going to go to every tag line and i know all the foot traffic has not returned to san francisco, but our library is seeing a resurgence coming back. >> can we talk about programs after covid? >> absolutely, that is part and parcel of our mission. we were doing that work precovid and certainly the library stepped up during the pandemic. we doubled our level of programming for personal finance, small business help, jobs and careers. we have a dedicated small business center here at the library. there is a wide suite of programs that our librarian led.

we have a financial planning day coming up in october and we have financial coaches that members of the community can come to the main library and take advantage of their expertise. >> i understand the mission is in the middle of a renovation. how is that going and are there other construction projects in the horizon? >> yes, we have major projects in the pipeline. the historic mission branch library, carnegie library over 100 years old and we are investing $25 million to restore that facility. we are going to restore the original entrance on 24th street, the staircase from the lower level up to the grand reading room. we are going to push out on the orange alley side of the library and expand space for teens and children, we are going to create a robust community room, a multipurpose space. we are also investing $30

million in the chinatown branch, we are going to upgrade the mechanical systems to the highest level of filtration as we increasingly respond as cooling centers and air respite centers and open access to the roof. it has some unique views of chinatown to create the inspiring space it is. >> i believe you have programs for families that have free and low cost entries for museum and zoos, is that correct? >> yes. it's a fabulous resource. go to our website. with your library cart, patrons, our residents can go to the public library and get passes to the museums, all of the incredible cultural institutions that we have in san francisco

all for free with your library card. >> how are these great free services paid for? how is the library system funded? >> we are so fortunate in san francisco. we are funded for by the library fund and those that taxed themselves just for library services. we also get a dedicated portion of the general fund. that together allows us to be one of the most well supported libraries in the nation. we have the third most library outlets per square mile of any municipality. all of our branch libraries have professionally trained librarians on-site. service that we are able to provide, the collection, we are a leading library in our country.

>> that lead know ask about your biggest annual event in the city. how does the event work and what's happening this year? >> we are excited for this year's one city one book. this is our signature annual literature event. we have everybody in the community reading the same book. this year's title is "this is your hustle" named after the pulitzer prize nominated and pod taste. this is about the population. one nice thing about this selection is that they are both local. we are going to have several weeks of programming, kicking off next month. it will culminate here in the auditorium november 3rd. so our library patrons will get

to meet the authors, hear from them directly, and one other important aspect about this year's selection, we have our own jail and reentry services department. recently the foundation awarded the san francisco public library $2 million to work with the american library association to shine a light on our best practices here in san francisco, and really help our peers in the industry learn how they can replicate the service model that we are doing here in san francisco. >> that's great. well, thank you so much. i really appreciate you coming on the show, mr. lambert. thank you very much for your time. >> thank you, chris. that's it for this episode, we will be back shortly. you are watching san francisco rising. thanks for watching.

>> for us, we wish we had our queue and we created spaces that are active. >> food and drinks. there is a lot for a lot of folks and community. for us, it started back in 1966 and it was a diner and where our ancestors gathered to connect. i think coffee and food is the very fabric of our community as well as we take care of each other. to have a pop-up in the

tenderloin gives it so much meaning. >> we are always creating impactful meaning of the lives of the people, and once we create a space and focus on the most marginalized, you really include a space for everyone. coffee is so cultural for many communities and we have coffee of maria inspired by my grandmother from mexico. i have many many memories of sharing coffee with her late at night. so we carry that into everything we do. currently we are on a journey that is going to open up the first brick and mortar in san

francisco specifically in the tenderloin. we want to stay true to our ancestors in the tenderloin. so we are getting ready for that and getting ready for celebrating our anniversary. >> it has been well supported and well talked about in our community. that's why we are pushing it so much because that's how we started. very active community members. they give back to the community. support trends and give back and give a safe space for all. >> we also want to let folks know that if they want to be in a safe space, we have a pay it forward program that allows 20% to get some funds for someone in need can come and get a cup of coffee, pastry and feel welcomed in our community. to be among

our community, you are always welcome here. you don't have to buy anything or get anything, just be here and express yourself and be your authentic self and we will always take care of you.

>> call the san francisco disability and aging service committee of wednesday october 4, 2023 to order. i'm the president janet spears. as noted on the agenda, members of the public