Gift from the philinthropic community and beyond. Visitors of all ages, dan, all ages, and backgrounds will come here by the millions to nurture their curiosity. Science teachers in the bay area and around the country will call it their professional home, artists will continue to collaborate with scientists here. And Science Education institutions around the world will benefit from the research and the innovation that will occur here. This has been a true journey, long, and rewarding. A culmination of years and planning and hard work, not just by the exporatorium staff and board, about whom i cant say enough. [ applause ] but also by the city and the state including many of you here today. The exporatorium is really all about collaboration. Collaborativive learning, collaborative decisionmaking and collaborative management. And this process has been a true collaboration, bringing together the staff and the board, government agencies, neighborhood associations, our fellow San Francisco
[ applause ] my name is sam ashley, anchor at abc 7 news and i am delighted to be with you, i had a very difficult trip over i had to pass the embaracaro and so i worked the late news and about the only thing that would get me up this early is a round of golf, i am proud to serve as your mc and we have a wonderful ceremony, in my line of work any time that i can be in front of a large group of people that cant change the channel, i will get up early for that. You know, kind of a unique role here, part news man and part neighbor, we are right across the street. And super fan of the work that everyone involved in this great project has done and the end result. How many of you have had a chance to see the inside of this facility . It is beyond words, really. And as of this morning, the public now has a chance to see what all of you have been up to these past many, many months to see this come to fruition is truly a programmable and satisfying and it is really a new crown jewel for the cit
Was a true labor of love for the board. Two factors made our job actually quite easy. First, everyone in the bay area loves the exporatorium. [ applause ] and second, it is an institution that in its first 43 year has made a big impact in the world. What you see here is the end result of a lot of work by thousands of people. We see this space not just as a new campus, but as a transformative platform from which to multiply our impact, those within the museum and also beyond its walls. It is a great honor for me to represent the entire board along with two chairman ameriti who are both here today, dan casper and bill bos. Both of who played. [ applause ] both of whom played critical roles in making this happen. Over a decade, im thrilled to be placing this first ring on our beautiful new bell, this ring represents visionaries and designers, the dreamers, architects and imaginers, of the exporatorium, thank you very much. George, thank you very much. Please welcome now, dr. Dennis bartel
bonnie banks. bonnie banks. my definition of noise is uncontrolled music. without format. pretty simple affair. pancakes, and you re people get up on sundays around noon, weekends or whatever. should not be too hard to walk into place. have your audio alarm clock go off for two hours waking your up while you are eating breakfast with many interesting visuals once in a while. improvisation. listening or not to the person you re playing up against or people or machines. trying to get as many different people in as possible. different genres, experimental noise, electronics, dissonance some drums.a tiny bit of ambient the first noise pancake shows, 1999, the first waffle noise, 2001. god-waffle noise, noise pancake came out of cubist art, place on mission street, brutallo, where the church opened up his house and saturday morning cartoons. a big space. you can have everybody set up and barely move equipment around; small room for an audience to move around, walkover and
out on facebook. take a peek at the stuff we have cut. to get our check out our blog. i will have happy new year, everybody. i love the fact that we are doing a tournament here at the center. when i was in eighth grade i played on a basketball teechl. team. i have to admit i wasn t very good at it. i always aspired to be an nba player. regardless of playing in college or nba, i expect many of you have be leading us because of the leadership skills you are learning on [ applause ] my name is sam ashley, anchor at abc 7 news and i am delighted to be with you, i had a very difficult trip over i had to pass the embaracaro and so i worked the late news and about the only thing that would get me up this early is a round of golf, i am proud to serve as your mc and we have a wonderful ceremony, in my line of work any time that i can be in front of a large group of people that can t change the channel, i will get up early for that. you know, kind of a unique role here, part news