san francisco. i think that san franciscans didn't just wake up, but we are starting to put pen to paper right now, implementing many of the visions and ideas about renewing and reimagining our city. the chamber of commerce is deeply investing in reimagining our downtown core to be more vibrant, resilient, diverse, and sustainable. through the partnership of mayor london breed and our business association business association peers, we've helped push policy forward to make wins and make key investments in public safety, cleanliness, tax relief for restaurants, retail, hospitality, the arts and changing some of the city code that allows changes in the widest possible range. permitted uses. in the downtown. these milestones will help the foundation to attract innovative businesses to san francisco, and we are positioning all of us san francisco to become a yes city. yes to economic prosperity. yes to renewing our city and yes to our environment. so everybody has a future here in san francisco. last ju

san francisco is. and their ride was shoulder to shoulder if guests and keeping the cable cars looking great is the responsibility of san francisco mpu commission transportation agency sorry i should know by few and it is um, overseen not only muni the transit agency by the bikes and parking and taxis all sorts of other stuff by the next speaker cities director of transportation jeff tumble listen. >> thank you, rick and thank you for all you do to support us at muni and thank you to the fairmont hotel for hosting this wonderful event and to it member of the board for your strong leadership in those challenging times you cable cars 5 three has been 2r0678d with the contribute of tony bennett for all the garage barns it took this moment and transformed this art into a. >> contributed i'd like to personally thank our a entire cable car crew but the staff who hard work has made that a royalty and meriting and and click on watch sfgov 2. members of the public please take this opportunity along with everyon

that good afternoon [off mic.] >> thank you, san francisco thank you so much san francisco i'm thrilled to be here thank you for having us rodney has said in the the wiz for whatever reason diana ross and michael jackson. >> but goes back further it goes back back to 1974 in oakland an unknown show called the the wiz an unknown girl starring stephanie mills and others and showcasing the broadway critically panned. by the oakland's press threatening to shut down the theatre and it went obtain to win tony awards the first time a black choreographer one george the first time is a black dprishg one a tony award and the first time a black designer one for costumes so many first came out of the the wiz and a production opened after 45 years the first rival in 45 years and incredible; right? around that? >> (clapping) and this particular production has a couple of unknown people art is agree the unknown girl straight in schizophrenia virginia 24 years old a voice of an angel and have dominican republic are cox and deborah plays a really pretty sure by lena horn and jazz artist we have deborah

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. t

san francisco perderÁ algo de su historia. le quita parte san francisco. no va a hacer. cerrara. es el centro. lo que pasa es con los pequeÑos que estÁn alrededor. uno de los candidatos criticÓ el cierre de esta sucursal. >> de pregunte si hay posibilidad. >> es un dÍa duro para san francisco. reportando de san francisco marÍa antonieta mejÍa, "noticias univisiÓn 14". en oakland juegan en este coliseo. estudiantes de arquitectura en san francisco ponen su carrera en prÁctica al mismo tiempo que crean camas en el gimnasio de una escuela. estÁ acostada. se puede asentar con estas partes. como parte de una clase deben colocar un programa enfocado a la comunidad. es el Único problema. es un gimnasio. de la maÑana tienen que quitar todo, se convierte gimnasio para los niÑos. al llegar hay espacio. se hicieron varios prototipos y se pudieron fabricar 60 camas. agregamos lo que es mÁs fÁcil. necesitaban es paseos para guardar las condiciones personales. la arquitectura es construir vida. 74 por ciento de las familias que estÁn aquÍ ayudan en seÑal de la crisis que se vive. aquÍ intentab

san francisco is a uniontown. in the spirit of that, really providing a pathway for more workers in order to participate in state sponsored apprenticeship programs. >> thank you. that's a good lead into my next question which is that proposition e requires prevailing wage for construction workers on affordable housing. some training or qualifications for some workers, can you clarify how proposition e will help protect workers and how those requirements will be enforced? >> proposition e would provide an opportunity to grow our union workforce. it would provide a pathway for more workers to participate in state sponsored apprenticeship programs and skilled workers and the prevailing wage previsions will encourage high-quality wages and this prevision is endorsed by the san francisco building trades council as well as the san francisco labor council that are also equally committed to supporting high level worker protections and in san francisco, we have an affordable housing delivery system that has a high leave of

of san francisco and it leadership. when you look at the transformation of our waterfront in san francisco, i think sometimes we get used to things and take it for granted but you can look at photos not that long ago and this is just been a rebirth and it is very very exciting so thank you to elaine and the entire port team for your amazing work. so, we know that sea level rise is not some future theoretical problem, it is here, it could have been here today. we lucked out with the tides, but it is here and it is only going to get worse, given the larger failures and reliance on fossil fuels and the continuing heating of our planet. we cannot allow a situation where the embarcadero is flooding and muni and bart tunnels are flooded regularly. parts of downtown are being flooded regularly. this isn't just about having some waves coming up periodically at the embarcadero this is discussion of the city transit and downtown. we cannot let that happen and that is what this is about. we know that the environmental movement was

the san francisco police department, all criminal matters are dealt with by the san francisco district attorney . we handle all civil matters on behalf of the city and county of san francisco. what that means is a number of things. we provide advice and counsel to all actors within city government from our mayor. every member of the board of supervisors to the 100 plus departments, commissions boards that represent the city and county of san francisco. we also defend the city against thousands of lawsuits. so if you slip and fall in front of city hall if there's a bus accident if there is an incident involving the san francisco police department, we defend those matters. we also bring lawsuits on behalf of the city and county of san francisco, where most famous for litigating and obtaining the constitutional right to marry for lgbtq couples have sued gun manufacturers, payday lenders, oil companies, you name it, who are undercutting the rights of san franciscans and the city and county of san francisco. so now moving on to the opioid crisis. i understand you've had some success in cour

this fight started in san francisco. [cheers and applause] >> we have so many people joining us here today including couples that were married at the time and getting married again. we have folks who are maybe marrying for the first time. city hall is the place to be every valentine's day. in 2004, during the time when we opened the doors on february 12th, that year, the person who was a county clerk issuing all of those marriage licenses, almost 5,000 marriage licenses, nancy alfaro. thank you for being here. [cheers and applause] >> where did she go? nancy? she is now in charge of the 311 center. but she's still doing great work for this city. we have a star studed line-up today. we have >> supervisor matt dorsey: and >> supervisor rafael mandelman: and amazing ally on the board of supervisors, >> supervisor myrna melgar: we have our city administrator carmen chu, the person that led us through the pandemic, dr. colfax. and the fire department, janine nicholson. and when everyone around this country attacked drag queen

east san jose now. a woman says it's lucky her family survived when this tree fell onto their townhome this. is from rocky creek court. she says they heard what sounded like an earthquake. that was overnight as a large tree they were thinking was starting to get uprooted by the wind. but that tree didn't fall until about 8:00 this morning. it crashed through their roof into their bedroom when they were asleep. everyone's okay somehow there. five miles away from that, another couple had a tree fall right through their home on el grande avenue in the alum rock neighborhood. they say they were in the back of the house when it came down. san jose fire department had to help get them out of that house because their front door was blocked. >> and i heard this, like, thunder. i thought it was thunder, and i thought i've never heard thunder that way. and then the next thing i knew, i went in the living room, and i thought, there's too much light in here. and i looked out, and i thought, oh, my word. >> yeah. sa

um but i really do believe in san francisco. i believe in the future of this city and i believe in our ability to tackle these, uh, financial challenges. mayor breed described some of our history in doing that. we did that during the great recession, and we did it by partnering with the board of supervisors. our labor partners, our elected officials and department heads across the city, and keeping our north star on providing high quality and efficient public services. and we're going to do that again over the coming months. uh, we've done it through the years. during the late 20 teens, when a, a certain federal administration was attempting to dismantle the funding for our safety net programs, and we did it through the covid pandemic. and i think and i believe that my background prepares me for that challenge. again, i am honored by the opportunity to take on this role . um, so i'll just last lastly say, um, it's been a privilege to work with you, ben, and with the previous comptroller, ed harrington. uh, they did the job in di

welcome to san francisco. we also have the consul general of japan as well as other places and can they please stand up. [applause] >> thank you to those who are joining us here today and welcome to the new council generals. we look forward to welcome and you celebrating at the lunar new year parade this saturday as well, and we have some special guests visiting us from the district of west vancouver including the mayor, mayor mark saiger who is joining us today. welcome mayor. as well as your delegation from the meto vancouver transportation agency. can you all please stand. [applause] >> i want to acknowledge some of the elected leaders who are joining us here today starting with supervisor rafael mandelman, matt dorsey and joel engardio. [applause] >> . our assessor recorder jaking torres. our school board members please stand. our treasurer jose cisneros. [applause] >> and jenny lam are you still president or -- okay. lanie is the president of the school board. all right. i am getting all my name exercise

and a few spots especially up in the north bay and san francisco, downtown san francisco, point two two, but only a couple hundred of an inch in san jose, concord .07. so you can see the rainfall from today. in fact, this is the first of several storms that will move into the bay area. so periods of rain today, system two, that will definitely be stronger as we start off the weekend. and then sunday night into monday and possibly. tuesday. that could be talking about a stronger storm with heavy rain and the potential for some stronger winds as well. so here is today's system, at least with the forecast models thinking. now the headline we get a break tomorrow. there's a chance of a shower tomorrow morning. but for the most part into the afternoon hours, we get a chance to dry out. friday. we should be dry, but then into saturday you can see that system coming on board and then another one queuing up offshore. that will be sunday night especially and into early monday morning. in fact, monday is the stormy day and that could continue into tuesday as well. so these numbers will really add

bueno actualmente también estamos viendo la advertencia en los condados de alameda san francisco, sana para santa rosa napa san rafael. pero eso también incluye san josé mínimas. esta noche 35 grados en gilroy. ya mañana para las 07:08, cuando empieza a salir un poquito más el sol, veremos máximas en los 50 y los próximos 7 días. esto es lo que les espera en san francisco. mejoren las condiciones. algunas lloviznas quizás pasen cerca de aquí, pero más a la costa. realmente ya no se espera lluvia a partir de mañana, el sábado y el domingo veremos un día más soleado, con máximas en los 60 y mira el sábado y el domingo hacia el interior 63 grados el domingo y se mantienen las condiciones secas. estamos monitoreando qué está pasando, por supuesto, en el pacífico, mientras por ahora parece que se forma otra tormenta. les cuento, ya que se aproxima más. por ahora gocen de este panorama un poco más seco. regreso con ustedes. gracias vianey. atención residentes de martínez, se ha observado o se ven llamaradas procedentes de la refinería? no se preocupe. la empresa ha informado a las autoridad

san francisco. which is still ricology. per city revving lazes pertaining to commercial and residential trash collection. this agreement was result of come petitive process. the first time this agreement put out to bid and it result in the 2 potential bidders. with this the highest scoring bid and providing savings to the city we detail it on page 23 of the report. noted between 9 and 10 mission over the 7 year term. tell be funded by general fund and enterprise funds and recommend approval of item 12 >> thank you. i appreciate all the work that has been done. and i think that i'm interested to see april in the event we approve it out from here and receive the approval from full board -- that with the contract like to just keep a close track of the april through june transition p.ed and learn more how it is going. and would like to understand that in the event this we may need a long are transition period. what would this look like. do you have those answers today? or >> yes. i think that we certain

you are watching san francisco rising. to show that is focused on restarting, rebuilding, and reimagining our city. our guest today is the director transportation of the sfmta and he's with us to talk about the agency's 23-24 budget with the muni equity strategy and new projects across the city. welcome to the show. >> thank you it is good to be here. >> i see the sfmta's budget for 2023 and 2024 has been approved. how will it help provide a strong recovery during the next few years for our riders, operators and staff? >> it has been a challenging couple of years. covid wiped out the basic finances. our agency is funded primarily from transit fares, parking fees and a fixed set aside for a general fund and covid has meant we have lost more than half of our parking and transit for revenue. we are not expected to recover them until 2027. this budget takes a one-time federal release funding and spreads that out between now and 2025. and our task is to rebuild trust with the voters that sfmta can actually deliver on their goal

san jose, you're down by five. so you are likely to feel it during this lunch hour at 60 degrees 56 in san francisco, upper 50s in concord. we're going to see a near repeat for tomorrow, which means a frost advisory expected for our north bay valley locations, as well as our hills and our afternoon highs aren't going to change much from what we're seeing out there today. 63 degrees expected for santa rosa, 60 san francisco, oakland, low 60s in livermore, as well as san jose. a better look at some of the numbers for your afternoon today. the inner east bay 63 for you. antioch into the north bay. we'll go 64 in napa. and for the peninsula, 64 in redwood city. we are going to see changes come our way as we get into thursday. wet weather returns to the bay area and possibly a little bit of snow in our hills. eventually i'll have a better look at this system that is also going to bring a whole lot of snow to the sierra. coming up in just a little bit. >> rosemary, thanks so bring break is just around the corner and many

san francisco has a special place in history, in december of 1992, san francisco watched the city where the historic unveiling of the first-ever lunar new year took place in this entire country. and since 11992, we have many national first days and national ceremonies. but whether we get the first day or not, we always have an unveiling as part of our lunar new year celebration. it's very excited. last week i was very comfort to join seattle to join the postal state for the unveiling of the lunar new stamp. it was attended by 300 people by eduardo who is the president of the retail of the postal service. vod me and the public that lunar new year is the most successful program in the commemorative stamps. we are very happy to keep up with the tra kissing. --tradition. today we're gathered today, although the stamp is already out there, but it's our tradition in our city to unveil the stamp for every one in the san francisco bay area. so without further ado, i would like to introduce our mayor, maryland on --our mayor, london breed who has unveiled a lot of stapp p. >> mayor breed: hello

desde san josé.el corazón de los cuantos 12 tacos de los 12. bueno, sí, en la comida no necesariamente, pero yo sé a quién se le antojó el pan. sí max, max, que nos tienes a los deportes. ah, no? bueno, pero antes de max también vamos a ir con el más adelante. tenemos esto importantísimo. claro que sí. porque, oiga, esto ya, ya le dijimos mañana el día de san valentín. pero ante esta celebración, pg&e está advirtiendo. si sobre el peligro que implica el uso de esos, esos son globos metáli ya los ha visto, verdad? estos conducen electricidad y si flotan hacia líneas eléctricas pueden interrumpir el servicio eléctrico de todo un vecindario. también pueden causar importantes daños a la propiedad y lesiones graves. por ello recomiendan mantener esos globos metálicos en interiores, atarles un peso también para evitar que se alejen flotando. y ahora si llegó no flotando, sino que ahí está paradito max. efectivamente, sandra, por cierto. sí, sí, sí, sí. de acuerdo contigo. totalmente de acuerdo. pero vamos

máximas en los 50 grados en san josé, 55 hayward 57. morgan 55.el interior veremos los 60 bajos el sábado 62 grados en san josé, domingo 63. pero abríguense esta noche, ya a partir del jueves se espera que mejore bastante el panorama en los próximos 7 días, que realmente necesitamos un poquito de ese sol en nuestro fin de semana. esto de mi parte, gracias. con ustedes. >> gracias johnny, ya vamos echando la mirada hacia el fin de semana porque siguen saliendo de la bahía rumbo a las vegas. los aficionados de los niners y esta noche despegaron 2 vuelos más desde el aeropuerto de san josé. >> bueno. y algunos de los pasajeros viajan ya vistiendo esos colores rojo y oro, listos para apoyar a los niners. jocelyn moran habló con algunos de estos fanáticos que dicen se sienten seguros que su equipo ganará el super bowl. quedan 4 días para el super bowl y fans ya se están preparando. >> algunos de ellos ya van en camino para las vegas. a pesar de no tener boletos al partido, crees que van a ganar y que sí van a ganar y van a ganar por un touchdown? rafae

en pleno centro de san josÉ, donde tambiÉn se vive la fiebre de los 49ers. donde comenzÓ todo?mÁs el era un 49ers fan, llora niÑo y joven me encantaba joe montana. >> como concejal no sÓlo le han dado alegrÍa personales tame como parte de la ciudad ha visto como el entusiasmo de la aficiÓn ha movido la economÍa. >> en el Área de la bahÍa se que estÁ en la Área de san josÉ, yo digo que estÁ en el Área de san josÉ vamos a tener eventos y celebraciones sobre superbowl. >> parecerÍa un falta mucho, ante la concentraciÓn de los fanÁticos de equipo estÁ en lo que pase el domingo, los san francisco 49ers tiene la posibilidad de ser feliz a toda el Área de la bahÍa. >> san josÉ son de los 49ers el triunfo de los 49ers va a ser para todos y para san josÉ. >> queremos que usted sea parte de esto y nos comparta su emociÓn por el equipo, lo queremos invitar a que nos envÍe sus fotos apoyando a los 49ers, queremos ver dÓnde estÁn los mayores aficionados del Área de la bahÍa, dÉjanos mostrar topacio mandado tus fotos a travÉs de repÓrtalo, estaremos mostrando las imÁgenes que nos envÍes a tr

room 244, san francisco, 94102. to make a reasonable accommodation requests under the americans with disabilities act the ada or to request language assistance please contact the clerk's office at least two business days in advance by calling the number on the screen. thank you mr. president. >> thank you madam clerk. is there a motion to approve the january 9, 2024 minutes? motion made by cat cat. second by supervisor mandelman. on that motion made and seconded. a roll call please. >> supervisor safai. >> aye. >> supervisor stefani. >> aye. >> supervisor walton. >> aye. >> supervisor chan. >> aye. >> supervisor dorsey. >> aye. >> supervisor engardio. >> aye. >> supervisor mandelman. >> aye. >> supervisor melgar. >> aye. >> supervisor peskin. >> aye. >> supervisor preston. >> aye >> and supervisor ronen. >> aye. there are 11 ayes. >> that motion is approved. [gavel] >> madam clerk would you please call the consent agenda. >> items one and two are consent. they're routine and if a member objects maybe considered sepa

there access to patients in san francisco and beyond san francisco. as well as. a huge component what we're trying to accomplishment. next slide, please. and talk about staff the workforce are with the two hospitals the uc sf is committed we'll see growth and need to recruit for staff to support for both the hospitals and staff will be pled by the community hospitals itself them which i think that important component we have condominium air transparency with the staff and members in the town hall 98 percent staff we talk to are extremely excited and we have - staff and positions have excited about the transportation and is transaction for the patients moving forward and our our clinicians will practice and care for patients but more resources to help them moving forward. >> so. next slide, please. i'm extremely excited about the transaction a small picture of those hospitals will been around a long time and there to access and allows us to be right part so thank you for your time i appreciate you letting me share my thoughts on the transmissions. thank you. commi

with sand the way that san francisco was and when you look at a map of san francisco have a unique street grid and one of the thing is those streets started off in extremely long piers. but by 1875 they know they needed more so the ferry building was built and it was a long affair and the first cars turned around at the ferry building and picking up people and goods and then last night the street light cars the trams came to that area also. but by the late 1880s we needed something better than the ferry building. a bond issue was passed for $600,000. to build a new ferry building i would say 800 thousand for a studio apartment in san francisco they thought that was a grand ferry building had a competition to hire an architecture and choose a young aspiring architect and in the long paris and san francisco had grand plans for this transit station. so he proposed the beautiful new building i wanted it wider, there is none tonight. than that actually is but the price of concrete quitclaim two how and was not completed and killed. but it opened a greater claim and became fully operational bef

you can see, we are in downtown san jose. in downtown san jose.s is hole one of the urban putt between first and second street. its creator steve fox. hole number one. got the bank of italy. go through it or go around to the side of the airport. when way you going? >> i suggest go through it. >> reporter: i'm going to the side. you go through it. >> didn't go through, and i hit -- the side of that. and -- oh -- oh -- oh! oh. you and i should be on the tour. >> all right. i think so. >> reporter: 18 holes. walk around here. hole number two, which is the shoreline amphitheater and using my deductive skills, there's a theme here. >> that theme is san jose. yes. an ode to everything wonderful in san jose. >> ode to history of video gaming as we -- what hole is this? six, seven? >> this is the duck hunt for any of you that remember the old duck hunt. >> nintendo. >> yeah. put in your -- this, the ball and -- you want to hit the duck. >> reporter: try to hit the duck. still comes out and -- we will get one of these. over here, this is still under constr

scene. >> we have 70 san jose, opera, san jose stage, san jose jazz and museum of art. we are meeting tomorrow at the theaters. >> the connection will be seen in a couple of upcoming local events. the biggest fundraiser for the sister city program, a 5k and 10k shamrock run will take place downtown on march 16th the day before everyone's favorite irish holiday st. patrick's day. in san jose, robert handa, nbc bay area news. >>> taking a live look at our camera. it looks nice there. super sunny behind robert. that is about to change. >> i know. it's been so nice to get in on the sunshine and all that blue sky. that rainfall will get here starting on thursday and linger into saturday's forecast and we are looking at quite a bit of sierra snow. let's show more details in the microclimate forecast. we will take a look at what is happening on the weather maps and the system is off to the north right now. it's just several hundred miles away. we have this area of high pressure through tomorrow that will keep it dry for us with sunshine. one more day of weather like we had tod

a san francisco towing company is accused of illegally taking them in san francisco. growing up, my parents wanted me to become a doctor or an engineer. those are good careers! but i chose a different path. first, as mayor and then in the legislature. i enshrined abortion rights in our california constitution. in the face of trump, i strengthened hate crime laws and lowered the costs for the middle class. now i'm running to bring the fight to congress. you were always stubborn. and on that note, i'm evan low, and i approve this message. who says you can't go for bold without going broke... get the brands you want, the prices you want, whenever you want. tj maxx where you can always afford to be you to the maxx. >> 7.25 the time we're back in the south bay gilroy's police now investigating vandalism at a high school where hate graffiti was written on the walls throughout the school. this was it. christopher high school. happened monday night. police say 3 suspects also ransacked multiple classrooms. they're still looking for them. so if you have any information about t

para san josé, 41 para fremont.ados y como les mencionaba, una buena sombrilla y un abrigo en la noche, sobre todo lo que nos parece no nos parece, no? a mí tampoco. pero bueno, gracias marcelo. max. vamos a ver qué tenemos en los deportes los gigantes siguen carburando en el sprint training y al volver les contamos cómo les fue ante los hechos. noticiero telemundo 48 7 días a la semana. primeros contigo es el mes de las camionetas ford en all star ford en pittsburg. tu parada de camionetas ford con 0% ap. financiamiento más 750 $ en efectivo. bono en un nuevecito 2023 explorer 8 0.9% a pr y hasta 1.500 $ en efectivo. bono en una nuevecita 2023 f 150 para tu compra o servicio de vehículo inteligente, visítanos ya o en línea en ford punto net. toma la carretera 4 salida a maneja poquito y ahorra mucho. oye ford, catherine ganó salarios más altos para asistentes de enfermería y conserje. pago de horas extras para los trabajadores agrícolas. katherine está ganando igualdad salarial para más mujeres ahora. katherine est

, check out san francisco.o northbound 101 is backed up now. we're backed up into brisbane and this is just never recovered. after we had that crash on the lower deck of the bay bridge. 280 is slow as well. so if today is your san francisco day, it looks like a bad afternoon commute. just plan accordingly or think about using transit. it's 831. let's go back to the desk. >> new this morning we continue to follow that developing news of a deadly crash on the bay bridge. two people died, two others seriously hurt. our allie rasmus live at the bay bridge toll plaza to explain what you've learned about what happened here, allie garcia, traffic is slow in that westbound direction behind us here at the toll plaza. >> what you would expect for a typical thursday morning commute. not related to what happened at 4:00 this morning on the eastern span of the bridge. let's get to that video and tell you about the crash that happened there early this morning. it was on the lower deck coming from san francisco towards treasu

thank you. ♪♪ >> 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 fi