i am carrie shulman. for almost 40 years, i have been the director of the grants for the arts program which is a municipal arts funding program for san francisco. beginning in 1981, sidney goldstein was on our committee and when she rotated off the committee, we actually added a literary arts component to the discipline that was funded with city money. city arts and lectures was one of the first recipients of the literary arts funding by the city. and continues to occupy such an important place in our arts community. sidney loved theaters and she particularly loved the north. she had been thinking about the norse on and off for decades, speculating about what it could be, what could be done with the theater, who might use it and what it might take to restore it she was thinking about this long before she approached the school district, and more specifically, david golden with the idea of returning the space to public use. she was interested in the norse as a community arts venue which she knew was needed