Brine is in the pro o bryan works on oceanside projects. We understand the infrastructure is old and there is new technology to incorporate. Bryans role is to manage the Capital Projects to update infrastructure and to make things more efficient. Bryan is a unique project manager. He brings technical experience but only that but he is a great mentor to young project managers in my group. Mentors is a lot about compatibility too. He showed me his process and how he organized things and managed projects and had conversations on escalating things with contractors. Brine shows leadership. He is independent. We Work Together pretty well with the resources we have to get the best outcome for the city. I think we have an open communication and that trust again of teamwork. Bryan is a straightshooter, he likes to get things done. He doesnt seek praise. I think that is why myself wanted to nominate him for the award to get recognition for the things he does to go above and beyond in his job. He is committed. That is why he deserved the golden pride award. I havent been awarded anything like this in my 20 years. That is exciting to be recognized. It is special. It is excited to get recognition with the ongoing activities with the focus on the southeast. It is good to have a little bright light over here every once in a while. We are next to sorb ocean beach. I am a project manager for the Sewer System Improvement Program at oceanside. It is 5 38 p. M. On october 15. Welcome to the Commission Meeting of the San Francisco entertainment. My name is ben bleiman, im the member president. If you would like to speak, there are speaker forms on the tables and you can hand them to staff or you can just come to the microphone when i call Public Comment. That is fine too. We ask that everyone turns off their cell phones, including staff and commissioners. I want to thank sf gov tv and Media Services for sharing this meeting with the public. We will start with a roll call. Commissioner perez is en route. [roll call] commissioner thomas is an excused absence. Thank you very much. The first order of business is general Public Comment. This is for any item that is not currently on the agenda for this evening. Do we have anybody speaking on that . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Regular agenda. All right. The next agenda item is number 2 the approval of our minutes from october 1, 2019. Do we have a motion to approve the minutes . I move to approve. Second. Is there any Public Comment on the approval of the minutes . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Vice president camino. [roll call]. The minutes have been approved. The next agenda item is a report from executive director weiland. Thank you president bleiman. Good evening commissioners. I have a brief report this evening. I wanted to provide an update for all of you that we have been conducting some Community Outreach efforts as staff and really in gratitude to Deputy Director azevedo for leading the charge. But in educating neighborhoods in merchant corridors around our limited Live Performance permits specifically and around other permit offerings that we have. A few months back, she had attended a merchants town meeting and recently we spoke at the Cultural CenterDepartment Meeting for all the Cultural Centers in San Francisco regarding places of entertainment and other ways to activate their spaces with entertainment. And on tonights agenda there are four permits for Small Businesses on the 24th street corridor in the mission. Latino cultural district awarded four businesses a mini grant to pay for their llp permit. So thats what brings them here tonight. So we are really excited about that. And also we are pleased that all their applications are on the Consent Agenda. Theyve done a lot of outreach in preparation for tonight. And we are very pleased they are joining our community. I wanted to let you know about that. And we are happy to continue to promote night life and entertainment opportunities via outreach and education in these ways. Thats all i have. Questions for director weiland . Thank you very much. Looking forward to the retreat this friday. Is there any Public Comment on the directors report . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. The next agenda item is number 4, which is a report from Deputy Director azevedo. Thank you president bleiman. Good evening commissioners. So the enforcement report, i just have a few things highlighted here for you this evening if you want to go ahead and follow along here. So page 1 youll see ive highlighted this. We received a large amount of complaints about the olympic in a concentrated period of time and upon investigation determined that they are not having Live Entertainment. Its just a loud bar. So we did respond to that. But i wanted to mention what the recourse was there since weve had a lot of complaints. On page 6 youll see 22 is highlighted. I brought this up at a hearing recently as well. Just giving you an update that we are still trying to get in contact with ownership there, management wont give ownership information. But we have a managers email address. They are still having Live Entertainment, fullblown Live Entertainment. So the next step is that ill be sending an email out notifying them they have another week. And if they are still having entertainment within that week we will be issuing a citation. So we are following up there. Page 8 youll see that 3910 lounge is highlighted. And this business had closed. So they were recently, this year granted a poe permit and mad permit. But due to somali core license due tosome Liquor License situation they are closed. I received a call from sfpd permit officer day that he received notification that the hotel has outdoor speakers on the facade of the building. And they are stopping homeless folks from staying too long outside the hotel but its disruptive to People Living in the nearby vicinity. So technically this falls into an s path or fixed place amplified speaker permit. So inspector fiorentino went out this weekend to gather contact information. When he went the speakers were off. I will be following up with the management to see if they are using the speakers and if so we can have our first permit. That is all i have highlighted but im happy to answer any questions. Hello. Let me start with a question first. Do our investigators have the capability of writing an incident report or do we just Issue Citations . We have notice of violation which is a step below citation but we dont have what we would call an instant report. Every time you issue a notice of violation you send it along with a narrative in your email that is very detailed and could constitute an incident report. Im just looking at the kave22 and the refusal to provide the owners information. I actually think its a violation of our local laws but its a violation of the abc act. And making notification to abc would trigger an investigation on them. If they want to be that noncompliant that might be the most effective route. Okay. But im happy to make that notification on the commissions behalf that this occurred. If we dont have but it might be something to think about down the road. Maybe kind of an incident report way of memorializing what we are doing. Doesnt have to be really complicated. Maybe on friday. Okay. Thank you. Thank you for that. Thank you for the report. I have no comments personally. Is there any Public Comment on the Deputy Directors report. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Moving along. Agenda item number 6, which is Police Department questions and comments. I dont see any members from the Police Department here so we are going to move along as well. Im sorry, that was 5. Yep, that was 5. And then moving along to number 6 which is a hearing impossible action regarding applications for permits under the jurisdiction of the Entertainment Commission. And Deputy Director azevedo please introduce the items on Consent Agenda for this evening. Thank you. As director weiland mentioned four permits tonight are mini grant funded, which is very exciting. However all five permits on the Consent Agenda this evening are accessory use permits. There was no opposition submitted. The Respective Police districts had no conditions. And they had a lot of neighborhood support gathered. Happy to answer any questions if you have them. Our representative from calle24 here . I have a few good questions for you. Do you want to call specific businesses or. More curious about the program that theyve put together and how they implemented it. Hello, good evening. Im the liaison for the calle latino cultural district. Got it. So thank you for coming in. We really appreciate it. This is the first ive heard of this. Its pretty exciting to me. Can you explain what motivated you to do this and how you went about doing it because i think it might be a model for others. The cultural district became a cultural district five years ago. It is in an effort to bring a more cohesive community, invested in the neighborhood and businesses, so it was a grant that was allocated by the department of diane . Okay. By the department. So we got a grant for some businesses that were long time businesses within the latino cultural district recently established that met some criteria. The criteria was they had to be in the neighborhood for quite a while. They could host some sort of Live Entertainment. Their lease would be at least three years long as of this time. I think that was it. And so based on this criteria, i went from business to business to see how many of them would qualify for this grant. And if there was any interest in this grant. And so it is more for businesses that whose primary business is not Live Entertainment or music or poetry, things like that, right . So we came up with, we have on the list a bakery, we have on the list a small tiny Family Business restaurant that doesnt seat more than 25 people. We have a bookstore. So it was very exciting for us to come up with this idea, there was a lot of interest. Very many wanted to participate. And so its just a matter of our board actually looking through the paperwork that i have provided them. And then they wrote it. And thats how we arrived to today. Diana . Just to provide a little context. From the office of workforce development. So its one of our grantee partners in terms of through our invested neighborhoods program. Part of the grant is to support Technical Assistance with Small Businesses on the ground, activations, events, and so the Mini Grant Program grew out of that support to support the entire Economic Strategy for the corridor. So obviously its a cultural district with lots of events, cultural things happening. In the past there had been entertainment naturally happening in these restaurants. And it went away. So we also saw this as a way to strengthen what was already there to make it more vibrant and for businesses to be able to participate in a way that was within regulation. So with gabbys support as our Business Liaison on the ground for the cultural district, she was able to help and work directly with the department with the Entertainment Commission to help them through the process. Because a lot of times its not even necessarily the money but its also the bureaucracy the understanding of how to do that. So she served as our liaison to get them through that process and be able to package it in a way that would be accessible to these Small Businesses. So with that, part of the funding provided the initiation for the grant and to get that through to benefit overall the overall strategy of the area and the district itself. So this is the first four. And well see how it goes from there. But we are super excited to be here, to be supporting that and for them to be a part and collaborate as there are activations along the corridor not just individually on their own and being able to use it as a tool for revenue and to support themselves but also to be part of the Bigger Picture when there are events and to be able to leverage that for the entire corridor. Do you know if they have plans to replicate this program in other neighborhoods . Yes. I know theres been discussions in the bayview. And we are looking at it from this model well be looking at other cultural districts and how we can support that in the same way. Cool. So do you educate them as well, you know, about the good neighborhood policies and all that . I mean because having a permit is one thing but to understand how to not disturb the neighbors to keep going. I think thats a very key piece of the neighborhood the local calle 24 cultural district wanted to be responsible in terms of a permit of what it means and also to protect themselves in in terms of what responsibilities come with the permit itself. So thats part of actually gabbys job as the liaison. Shes not only liaison to Small Businesses but also with the community. Its very well integrated into it. Great. Well, im really excited about this. I think this might be a model that could be used all over the city to encourage artists and performers and venues for hiring people. So thank you very much for contributing here. This is really cool. Its great to hear. Thank you. Did you have something you wanted to say too . Im one of the founders of the calle 24. We have a board of 19. We have four committees under us. We will be watching them and guiding them and looking for anything that is out of line and trying to make it work for everybody. Thank you very much. Its great work. And great work for the ewe. Is there any Public Comment on this specific agenda item . I mean the consent the entire consent calendar . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Wait. Im sorry. Motion. We have to motion first. I didnt make the motion yet. Ill make the motion to approve. I second. All right. Now we got it. All right. [roll call] congratulations. Its been approved. Please follow up with our Deputy Director as soon as you can for next steps. Thank you. Good luck. Congratulations. All right. And now we have a onetime event permit request. And im going to ask commission aid crystal stewart to introduce this for us. The only item on the regular agenda is for one timeout Door Entertainment event for the seventh annual on saturday october 19 from 11 to 8 30 p. M. From 12 to 3 there will be a chowder competition between local restaurants. And four local bands will play. At 4 00 p. M. They will host a benefit concert featuring four bands including the slide deal with grammy winning artist charlie collins. And frazier of sugar lake and joel and scott owen of the pawnshop kings. The concert stage will be positioned toward the bay with film projected away from the local businesses and hotels along jefferson street. The applicant requested to attend tonights hearing because they anticipate exceeding the Standard Outdoor sound regulations of npc260. 16. Staff recommendations and Entertainment Commission inspectors set a sound prior to the event during a sound check based on the closest receptor. We approve with conditions listed below. I have sullivan here to speak on behalf of his application. Its great to be here. Thank you for having me and hearing me at the end. Im excited. I have a jump drive. I can show pictures and things of the set map. Just tell me if thats appropriate. Its right here, im going to just pop it in. With technology you never quite know whats going to happen. I have a degree in computer science. Then we are lucky. This will be the one we dont need a. I will go ahead and show you. Give you a visual. I dont know if you can really see it if its big enough. You can see our stage over here. Can you see that okay . We are pretty familiar with the spot. There we go. Can you hear me okay . Sorry. Give me a second here. Sorry. Have to rotate i think. I think that works. We can see it. I can enlarge it a little bit. We have individual monitors. So you can see how we configured this years event. The way the footprint looks its in front of the bakery and right between the francisco and pier 39 is off to the right there. So really how we are really thinking of doing this is starting our event at 11 00 a. M. For v. I. P. Guests. We have a v. I. P. Lounge furniture with donated furniture for the day. We are paying for the shipping for it. We have our v. I. P. Area. And youll see the stage. And the greenrooms in the back. And so the idea would be to have we have four bands going on. We are going to be opening with a band called the heather nation, shes a cover band, local lady and real mellow Acoustic Guitar type sound. Shell be starting at noon and going until 1 30 and the other band, the cary bailey band, swing music followed by a group called the walking dead, a cover band more 90s grunge rock sound going into the side deal which is our new super group a new band these guys ive been dealing with them today on the phone. Great group. Its three grammy award winners. Its stan frazier from the pawnshop kings weve got Charlie Colins from train who is a grammy Award Winning song writer. Theyve gotten together and formed this group. So they are using this as their launch event for their new album. So while all this music is playing during the day, we are going to start our chowder competition at 12 p. M so we are going to do three hours of chowder tasting with vintners beer. I believe mayor breed is going to award the chowder trophy. We have five chowder judges that will be voting on who gets the best chowder. From there the event turned from a foody, wine thing into a music kind of a rock n roll event. It goes from the really the focus on the music will be from 4 00 p. M. Until about 8 p. M. And it will end up wrapping up at 8 p. M. So its a complex event. But its nonetheless it will be kind of fun. All the benefits and proceeds go to wharf cares which is our benefit program. I have a question. Sure. Who is running your sound system . We have a guy we are working with called glen, called audio north. And he is going to be handling all the sound for the tonight. Have they done Outdoor Events before . Yeah. We got him from the wine festival. He did the food event. He has partnered with our sound inspectors in the city for smaller events. I have photos of the stage i can show them if you would like to take a look . I just want to know the experience. Yeah. Although you are pointing away from the hotels, but sometimes we get across the bay the sound travels. So they are used to handling things like that. But its such a small, these are small groups, right . Local. Yeah, like garage bands. Huge systems. The grammy award winner, i was chatting with the owen brothers today on the phone. And really they do fourpart harmony. They actually sing the National Anthem at big events. And they are big on vocals and not big on a lot of thumping base. Its not like an edm metal concert. Its look at our musicality not how loud we can be. Ironically we took a look at who is going to be complaining and the only potential nuisance would be the north apartments which are on the other side. So we are projecting the music towards alcatraz essentially. And on the other side we have the apartment building. Weve let them know about whats happening. Ironically all the hotels, they are all on the Port Commission board, and they want this, you know, this event and really the businesses do to promote foot traffic and get everybody down there. So we dont have a lot of people not wanting it. Theres been a lot of festivals encouraged, because its been a bad kind of tourist summer so a lot of the neighborhoods are asking people like yourself to produce activation to bring in more foot traffic. One of the beautiful things about this too, so the wharf cares program is near to dear to my heart. The ambassadors are creating a situation of warmth for the homeless where they can provide blankets and refer referrals into Mental Health and other services. People that dont want to spend the admission for the chowder competition, they can watch the event, bring a basket of food and eat and enjoy the day. So im trying to make this as much of a fun event for everybody and accessible for everyone, you know. Great. So yeah, so as far as projection, i talked to tony today for sound, and we are excited about having him come by 11 amon11 00 a. M. A. M. On saturday. I think there will be two orthree sound checks throughout the day. The band will be landing at 11 a. M and there will be another one at 3 30 for the band when they get set up. I will be mindful of where we are putting that extra sound. Okay. Thank you. Yeah. Im wondering if theres any other sort of descriptors i can provide or other visuals. I brought other photos. I dont know if thats needed or whatever you think. Im okay on descriptors. I have a question. I understand we are asking, and this may be partially for the staff as well but you are asking for a onetimex pangs onetime expansion. Raymond wasnt requesting this, he applied for the onetimeout Door Entertainment permit and i flagged it because it looks like a larger event and he was having several bands and the footprint looked bigger so i had crystal reach out to see could he comply with the condition which is in Municipal Police code to the inaudible at 250 feet from the property playing at the event or the last attending audience member. And he said he really couldnt comply with that. And he wanted a little more leeway. And so our condition is its not super specific in terms of what their sound limit is because we need to go out when they have the event set up and be there for sound checks. Were asking you allow us to administratively set that limit based on the closest sensitive receptor which is likely far beyond 250 feet. Got it. Thank you. One of my concerns really is i work at the building for the Fishermans Wharf benefit district. And we have a lot of these street performers that come in and i can sometimes hear from my office which is a few blocks away i can hear the performers that are right there at the triangle lot. So i guess as it exists, the community is used todayly amplified sound just because of where the location is. But to be sensitive to you within that 250foot range if i have somebody on a mic the mc for the event and i have the cover band performing and they go beyond one city block just to be mindful and be within guideline. We want to let you know and be up front about stuff. I think i mean when they did the americas cup they had this big debate whether they have their big concert stage. Usually its great for you to come out because you never know on the hill who is going to complain but i think in this case its a more local festival. I dont think youre going to have that problem. Thats why i was asking who is running your sound. And thats your key. If you have somebody experienced then you shouldnt have complaints. But this is nothing compared to what was down there for americas cup. Yeah. And also they did a big presentation for i think it was the nba a few years ago on pier 39 and that was another amplified sound event. So this is not the first time its been done. Its now its a little more structured. Our goal would be to try to make this more robust of an event on a annual basis and bring more money into wharf cares. The street artists come under the street performer. Doesnt really come under our purview. Thats the thing. One time they tried to figure that out, you know, but. Our goal is we have the receiver the zefer. We are motivated to end this by 8 00 p. M. And get people into the bars and restaurants as part of the business promotion. Our goal was to bring in proceeds for wharf cares but promote the local businesses. So we are not going to go far beyond 8 to anow a annoy people. I think its good. I would encourage you to aim the speakers towards oakland because they are outside of our jurisdiction. Berkeley. Aim it towards berkeley. I think weve heard enough unless anybody has more questions. Ready for a motion . Thank you. You can have a seat. Thank you guys. Im really excited. And please come by on saturday. We would love to have you. I would like to open this up for Public Comment. We do have a commentator. This should be one of the chowder judges. Good evening commissioners. I just want to also give kudos to randal and rachel from the Community Benefit district at Fishermans Wharf. The business there is like a roller coaster ride. Today was completely dead. So events like this help merchants it keeps the vie vibrance. The fact that we are having this discussion, i mean, is great. Theres a Michael Jackson performer. Theres a sinatra performer. They are not permitted performers. They just come up randomly whenever they want so to speak. But having this discussion today, we are ready and we know what we are getting. I commend this gentleman here. Wharf fest is going to be very successful. I think it will be sold out. This is not a first time event. They have a history behind this event. So i just think that this one in particular, the music is going to be really cool this year. So im all for it. Thank you. Anymore Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Do we have a motion . Ill raise the motion to approve it with the staff and the sfpd recommendation, the two conditions for approval. I second the motion. [roll call] it has been approved. Thank you very much. Congratulations. Please follow up with our staff at your earliest convenience for next steps. Thank you. Good luck. All right. And the final agenda item is agenda item number 7 which is commissioner comments and questions. You know how we have maybe this for commissioner falzon, since we havent had Police Comments in a while the permit officers from each district with come and air their frustrations or any suggestions of improvement or promotions maybe that we can do to beef up entertainment in their districts. Im happy to make that offer yes. Its been both kaitlyn and crystal have been really great at educating them on any changes within staff and showing them the map of our permitted places and we are working with each permit officer directly on any enforcement action. So theyve been super engaged administratively. But i agree it would be great to see them in here. You know, weve all been doing a lot of thinking around our mandate beyond just the regulation of night life but also the promotion of night life. And there are a lot of moments where when we are listening to different groups, tonight was really beautiful. We had someone from calle24 and we had the wharf fest. These are legacy businesses. Theres a lot of history there. And im starting to become more curious what their outreach strategy includes. As we think about how we create a platform for promoting night life as a city agency, i think we need to incorporate more learning in our permitting process around what our permit holders and what people are doing to just engage at this point. I want to have an understanding of its like street team activities, is it facebook. I mean, im very curious what strategies people are employing as we look at all the articles that are coming out in the newspapers these days, we are seeing the businesses close and we do a count of how many businesses have closed since the beginning of this year im curious as to how many are starting to open. One two, how many are becoming a permit holder and are becoming part of the commission and how Many Services they are utilizing, whether its through the outdoor event producer series what kind of ta programs they are utilizing within oewd and mohcd. I think we are kind of in crisis for Small Businesses at this point. And i think its sad. I think every sunday paper we are learning about all these different businesses closing. Thats a great idea, especially because i think we are so close to the problem and these permit holders. And i think oftentimes when we hear that a business closes theres another one that opens in its place. So its good to know what our story is and what these Business Owners are doing to still activate their spaces. I think staffwise we can definitely do a lot more data analysis, which i think would be really interesting to do, especially to look at all the businesses that closed and see which held permits from us and then what happened with that space, so i think Deputy Director azevedo can work with van houghton on that and then just on the intake side, we could always ask more questions in our permit application meaning thats totally relevant. And we should just talk offline and see if theres anything we can include in the applications. And during our retreat i think we should powwow around the different kinds of questions we should be asking so anecdotally when people are coming in front of our commission well be able to learn what tools people are utilizing to promote their establishments and how we can better promote night life. The other option is this is a previous mandate from a previous president of the commission, but if you want to know more about these limited Live Performance permits i know it definitely speeds up our agenda to have them all on consent. If you want to know more about their stories, we can change that up and have them on the regular agenda. Its really up to the president. Well, thank you for those comments. I had a couple things. Does anybody else have comments . First of all, seeing that calle 24 bundling of llps and grant program, i think its something we need to take a much smarter look at. I think theres probably tens and tens of different neighborhood corridors that might be able to use that. And i think our goal, at least my goal and i think our goal should be more llps at the minimum across entire city so theres more opportunities for artists and performers to play and our culture is more vibrant. So that was really cool. And im shocked that i was unaware of it before, and thats on me. I also think that we got to the point of Small Businesses reaching out. Last monday there was a pretty heated discussion at the Small Business commission on the proposed fees around go boxes. And i think some of the legislatures legislators are starting to see how frustrated Small Business people are especially in the service industry. And i know that a lot of businesses feel like they cant raise their prices anymore and continue to do business. And thats a serious issue. And i commend anyone with an environmental mind who wants to change Human Behavior and wants to produce less waste in San Francisco. Its a crushing issue of our time. Im just hoping that we find ways to do that that dont also force Small Businesses to continually raise their prices. For the record, beer and a burger at my bar in the mission is currently 27 with a tip. And our burger is not that good. Ill put that on camera here. Its okay. But its not that good. [laughter] thats a lot of money for a burger and a beer and everybody sits around talking about how millennials are ordering online and changing their buying habits and austria try having student debt and spending 27 on a burger and beer and you would come up with other buying habits yourself. Finally it takes a lot for a government body to surprise me in this day and age. But i encourage you to read up on the responsible Beverage Service act that has been proposed and now is being implemented by the california abc. It is very rare that i see a steaming pile of turd this large that affects Small Businesses in our state. What they are proposing which they did in a very quick timeline, essentially over the summer break when nobody was paying attention, they are trying to create a new bureaucracy in the state which will actually force every Single Person who serves alcohol to sign up in the dmvlike state setting in order to just serve alcohol. It will rival the dmv in size and scope. I know personally many servers in the city who would be uncomfortable putting their name into a database for various Different Reasons not the least of which are things happening on the federal level around Immigration Enforcement et cetera. It also requires a brand new extremely onerous basically collegelevel course for everybody to complete and get at least a 70 percent on before they can serve alcohol. And they are offering it in just two languages, english and spanish taking out the literally hundreds of other languages that people serving alcohol in california have to or speak as their first language. It also makes the id process incredibly difficult for checking ids. To the point where it will slow down business and really, really hurt business what they are proposing. Its a solution in search of a problem. The Public Comment time is over now. But anybody watching and anybody else watching this, i would encourage you to reach out to your state representatives your local representatives, scream it from the rooftops that this is exactly what we do not need right now. Its a solution in search of a problem. So i just wanted to point that out. Is there any Public Comment on our comments and questions . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. And i will adjourn this meeting at 6 19 p. M. Thank you. I just feel like this is what i was born to do when i was a little kid i would make up performances and daydream it was always performing and doing something i feel if i cant do that than i cant be me me. I just get excited and my nickname is x usher my mom calls me i stuck out like a sore thumb for sure hey everybody im susan kitten on the keys from there, i working in vintage clothing and chris in the 30s and fosz and aesthetic. I think part of the what i did i could have put on my poa he focus on a lot of different musical eras. Shirley temple is created as ahsha safai the nation with happens and light heartenness Shirley Temple my biggest influence i love david boo and el john and may i west coast their flamboyant and show people singing cant be unhappy as a dr. Murase and it is so fun it is a joyful instrument i learned more about music by playing the piano it was interesting the way i was brought up the youth taught me about music he picked up the a correspond that was so hard my first performing experience happened as 3yearold an age i did executive services and also thanks to the lord and sank in youth groups people will be powering grave over their turk ill be playing better and better back la i worked as places where men make more money than me i was in bands i was treated as other the next thing i know im in grants performing for a huge protection with a few of my friends berry elect and new berry elect and can be ray was then and we kept getting invited back you are shows got better we made it to paris in 2005 a famous arc we ended up getting a months residencey other than an island and he came to our show and started writing a script based on our troop of 6 american burr elect performs in france we were woman of all this angels and shapes and sizes and it was very exciting to be part of the a few lettering elect scene at the time he here he was bay area born and breed braces and with glossaries all of a sudden walking 9 red carpet in i walgreens pedestrian care. Land for best director that was backpack in 2010 the french love this music i come back here and because of film was not released in the United States nobody gave a rats ass lets say the music and berry elect and performing doesnt pay very much i definitely feel into a huge depression especially, when it ended i didnt feel kemgd to france anymore he definitely didnt feel connected to the scene i almost feel like i have to beg for tips i hey im from the bay area and an artist you dont make a living it changed my represent tar to appeal and the folks that are coming into the wars these days people are not listening they love the idea of having a live musician but dont really nurture it like having a potted plant if you dont warrant it it dizzy sort of feel like a potted plant laughter im going to give San Francisco one more year ive been here since 1981 born and raised in the bay area i know that is not for me ill keep on trying and if the struggle becomes too hard ill have to move on i dont know where that will be but i love here so so much i used to dab he will in substances i dont do that im sober and part of the being is an and sober and happy to be able to play music and perform and express myself if i make. Few people happy of all ages ive gone my job so i have so stay is an i feel like the piano and music in general with my voice together i feel really powerful and strong [ ] i really believe that art should be available to people for free and it should be part of our world, you shouldnt just be something in museums, and i love that the people can just go there and it is there for everyone. [ ] i would say i am a multidimensional artist. I came out of painting but have also really enjoyed tactile properties of artwork and tile work. I always have an interest in public art. I really believe that art should be available to people for free, and it should be part of our world. You shouldnt just be something in museums. I love that people can just go there, and it is there for everyone. Public art is art with a job to do. It is a place where the architecture meets the public. Where the artist takes the meaning of the site, and gives a voice to its. We Commission Culture murals, mosaics, black pieces, cut to mental, different types of material. It is not just downtown, or the big sculptures you see we are in the neighborhood. Those are some of the most beloved kinds of projects that really give our libraries and Recreation Centers a sense of uniqueness and being specific to that neighborhood. Colette test on a number of those projects for its. One of my favorites is the oceanview library, as well as several parks and the steps. Mosaics are created with tile that is either broken or cut in some way, and rearranged to make a pattern. You need to use a tool nippers as they are called, to actually shape the tiles of it so you can get them to fit incorrectly. I glued them to mash, and then they are taken, now usually installed by someone who is not to me, and they put cement on the wall, and they pick up the mash with the tiles attached to it and they stick it to the wall and then they groped it afterwards. [ ] we had never really seen artwork done on a stairway of the kinds that we were thinking of because our idea was very just barely pictorial and to have a picture broken up like that, we were not sure if it would visually work. So we just took paper that size and drew what our idea was and cut it into strips, and took it down there and taped it to the steps, and stepped back and looked around, and walked up and down and figured out how it would really work visually. [ ] my theme was chinese heights because i find them very beautiful. And also because mosaic is such a heavy, dens, static medium and i always like to try and incorporate movement into its and i work with the theme of water a lot with wind, with clouds just because i like movements and lightness, so i liked the contrast of making kites out of very heavy, hard material. So one side is a dragon kite and then there are several different kites in the sky with the clouds, and a little girl below flying it. [ ] there are pieces that are particularly meaningful to me. During the time that we were working on it, my son was a disaffected, unhappy high school student. There was a day where i was on the way to take them to school and he was looking glum, as usual, and so halfway to school, i turned around and said, how about if i tell the school you are sick and you come make tiles with us, so there is a tile that he made to. It is a little bird. The relationship with a work of art is something that develops over time, and if you have memories connected with a place from when you are a child, and you come back and you see it again with the eyes of an adult, it is a different thing and is just part of what makes the city an exciting place. [ ]