and it's my pleasure to announce the recipients in inner leadership brenda wong.f the awards and also to invite the lady from southwest airlines and they're continuing to give 2 round tickets to each receipt. thank you so much. (clapping). >> wow. this is a huge honor. my families been in san francisco since the 19 hundreds. many of you know that i'm chinese japanese and i didn't know i was asian because i'm mixed but the family has been here and is one of the founder of the town and my grandmother was a leader in the garment district. we went to the restaurantsful through the backdoor and i'll plays with the chickens and fish and grandpa would bargain for the sea weeds. but the thing we also went in the kitchen door and in honor of my grandparents i get to go through the front door. you, you know, we stand on the shoulder of giants and i want to thank all the people here. thank you all the committee and all the judges and everybody else who's here i also want to thank my friends and i want to say if it wasn't for tom at the foundation and stan and giuliani with t

we have brenda wong aoki. >> we have malu peeples. [ applause ] >> and our nominee could not be here today so representing her is her daughter. >> hopefully i hope that your mother was doing well. her mother is in korea right now. >> so the next category is in the area of community impact and these finalists organizations and we have this diverse amazing community that we live in with so many organizations that do so much to try and bridge the gap and support our young apa and not so young apa performing artist who can't seem to sometimes break through into the main stream. but also not break through our own cultural groups. in our own, we are such a diverse community as claudine had said, i can't think to name how many ethnicity and cultures and countries are in the apa community. so these particular organizations have done a fantastic job of trying to bridge these cultural gaps and support the artist. so those organizations are asian american theater company, are they here? >> is someone from asian? hi. >> that is pearl, and i end up in her junk mail a lot and so we have to fix our

i would like to ask mark and partner of creativity in 34 years brenda wong to come forward. there is a really good documentary on mark izu called don't lose your soul. mark izu has dedicated his life to nurturing the chinese jazz performance to others like frances wong also honored by the asian festival earlier but mark has been there from the very beginning to the present and always supported other artist and he's the driving force behind the asian american jazz festival. it serves as the genesis for other artist movement in many ways. george sam's was the trumpeter and anthony brown and other pioneers. united front was unique because it was the record label and were you supporting other locals to have their own label as well and pioneering as well. this marked the professional debut for many professions. as i mentioned frances wong and of course anthony brown and you led at another time support of younger african american musicians like 12-year-old who performed many many years ago with you as well. i was attracted to asian -- improvisational music because with different j

we have brenda wong for lifetime achievement, our activist and we have for the people's and information organization we honor asian, an organization and nurturing opportunities for asian american jazz artist. who are able to join us in the center on may 6, we want to thank you so much as the acting -- board of supervisors chiu and as you have seen some of our posters we have the committee that has our local a on it. it's a tradition that i did last year. i would like to pass out the pen. there is one for each one of you. i hope that you will wear it with pride. thank you so much. >> thank you, with that, why don't we pro -- proceed to our individual commendation. we rotate. i would like to start on the right hand side of the chamber and starting with supervisor breed walking back to supervisor campos and finally finishing up with supervisor tang. i would like to acknowledge supervisor breed. >> thank you, today i'm honoring mr. eugene hwang. he's a science teacher but i realize that we are supposed to be honoring someone in the arts community. the reason why mr. waeng is here is because

we have brenda wong aoki. >> we have malu peeples. [ applause ] >> and our nominee could not be here today so representing her is her daughter.