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sheri coming back to brava, here you have this establish, amazing writer who has won a clue -- slew ofow she gets to director and work. even though she is this amazing, established writer, the truth is, she is being nurtured as a director and is being given some space to direct. >> the play is described as ceremony and -- where ceremony and theater me. in the indigenous tradition, when you turn 52, it is like the completion of an important era. the importance of the ceremony is to say, you are 52. whenever you have been caring for the first 52 years, it is time to let it go. really, here, they have given me carte blanche to do this. i think it is nice for me, in the sense of coming back 25 years later and seeing personally my own evolution as an artist and thinker. the whole effort to put the chicano or indigenous woman's experience on center stage is, in itself, for euro-american theaters, a radical position. because of the state of theater, it is a hard roll to hold up in institution. it is a hard road. i am looking at where we are 25 years later in the bay area, looking at how hard

those are the types of things that i feel build one brava is all >> i tried to think about this roomm room, where we dream and bring some of those dreams to life. i feel very blessed that i have been able to spend the last 31 years of my life doing it my way, thinking about things better interesting to me, and then pursuing them. there are a lot of different artists that come here to work, mostly doing aerial work. kindred spirits, so to speak. there is a circus company that i have been fortunate enough to work with the last couple of years. i use elements of dance and choreography and combine that with theater techniques. a lot of the work is content- based, has a strong narrative. the dancers have more of a theatrical feel. i think we are best known for our specific work. in the last 15 years, spending a lot of time focusing on issues that affect us and are related to the african-american experience, here in the united states. i had heard of marcus shelby and had been in join his work but never had the opportunity to meet him. we were brought together by the equal justice society s

has not shifted for me in those 25 years, and it is good to see that brava remains committed to that kind of work. ♪ >> when people talk about the reflection of the community, we can only go from what we have on our staff. we have a south asian managing director, south african artistic director, latino community out rich person. aside from the staff, the other people, artists that we work with being a reflection of us, yes, the community is changing, but brava has always tried to be ahead of that trend. when i came in, i tried to make it about the work that shows the eclectic mission district, as well as serving the mission. those are the types of things that i feel build one brava is all >> it is my pleasure to introduce our moderate or this evening jennifer white ner, she came to san francisco m in 2001 and volunteered in many levels at the local, state and regional legalers. >> she volunteers as the leader of the voters of california and a small business owner san francisco. and olds a degree in government and a diploma in public policy from the university of edenburo >> thank you

those are the types of things that i feel build one brava is >> just a few steps away from union square is a quiet corner stone of san francisco's our community to the meridian gallery has a 20-year history of supporting visual arts. experimental music concert, and also readings. >> give us this day our daily bread at least three times a day. and lead us not into temptation to often on weekdays. [laughter] >> meridians' stands apart from the commercial galleries around union square, and it is because of their core mission, to increase social, philosophical, and spiritual change my isolated individuals and communities. >> it gives a statement, the idea that a significant art of any kind, in any discipline, creates change. >> it is philosophy that attracted david linger to mount a show at meridian. >> you want to feel like your work this summer that it can do some good. i felt like at meridian, it could do some good. we did not even talk about price until the day before the show. of course, meridian needs to support itself and support the community. but that was not the first consideratio

>>y hay muchas cosas también pasando aquí, como juan manuel santos, la cosa está color hormiga bravaa somos una familia, hoy lo volvemos a comprobar, nuestra querida maggie gimenez está pasando por un amargo divorcio, bueno ella nos contará su testimonio. >>que triste, queremos saber su opinion, quienes sufren más en un divorcio, mujeres o hombres. >>esto es obvio, los hombres. >>no, no, yo creo que ambos. >>y alguien que no se ha divorciado, porque no se ha casado, vamos con satcha pretto >>no ,no, ojalá que después de casada tampoco me divorcie, lo que sí les cuento es que después de meses de atacarse mutuamente hoy mitt romney y barak obama se debaten en denver, ambos mediran sus gestos palalbras para no tropezar a menos de 90 dias de su eleccion >>mitt romney buscará desterrar la percepcion de millonario de propuestas vagas alejado del ciudadano común. >>este sera el escenario en u.de denver, se enfrentan esta noche, ambos se vienen preparando desde hace meses. >>barak obama ha pasado los últimos dias recluido preparando el debate >>en el debate los puedes ver tal cual, no hay ba

. >>> ana, ven, ven, no te pongas brava, es que no hay tiempo, cristina blackwell, adelante.lo que usted debe de ver. >>> en minutos la entrevista que miss meche realizó, usted no se la puede perder, más adelante. >>>aademás, disfraces atrevidos en pareja para la noche de halloween, sea la sexy envidia. >>>aademás llega el gigante don francisco, la cuatro y el chacal de la trompeta en despierta américa, pero creo que el chacal de la trompeta se quedó dormido, mira, karla, no cantamos, pero bailamos. >>> el chacal de la trompeta se deja llevar por una curva ♪. >>> este segmento de despierta américa es presentado por orgullosa, reconociendo a las mujeres con la falda bien puesta. >>> música, muchachos. >>> eh, y la musi. >>> bueno, no hay música. >>> nosotros bailamos sin música. >>> muchachos, hay algo muy importante para el día de hoy porque nosotros sabemos que los hispanos, disfrutamos lo mejor de los dos mundos en que vivimos, precisamente con nosotros está lourdes stefen periodista de sal y pimienta, bienvenida y también bienvenida paola gutiérrez. >>> tiene un mensaje mu

. >> hello and welcome to brava theater. >> we are trying to figure out a way to make a space where theater and presentation of live work is something that you think of the same way that you think of going to the movies. of course, it has been complex in terms of economics, as it is for everyone now. artistically, we have done over 35 projects in four seasons, from producing dance, theater, presenting music, having a full- scale education program, and having more than 50,000 visitors in the building almost every year. a lot of our emerging artists to generate their first projects here, which is great. then we continue to try to support figuring out where those works can go. we have been blessed to have that work produced in new york, going on to the edinburgh festival, the warsaw theater festival. to me, those are great things when you can watch artists who think there is nowhere else that might be interested in you being a woman of color and telling your story and then getting excited about it. that is our biggest accomplishment. having artists have become better artists. what is. sheri co