Were back in open session and you have a quorum. President mazzucco please call the next line item. The clerk line item 11. Line item 10, sorry, vote to elect whether to schoas any or all discussion on item 9 held in closed session San Francisco administrative code 67. 12 a action. Second. All in favor. Ayes. Line item 11, adjournment. President mazzucco so moved. All in favor. Ayes. President mazzucco thank you very much. Welcome to culturewire. Today we are at recology. They are celebrate 20 years of one of the most incredibly unique Artist Residency programs. We are here to learn more from one of the resident artists. Welcome to the show, deborah. Tell us how this Program Began 20 years ago. The Program Began 20 years ago. Our founder was an environmentalist and an activist and an artist in the 1970s. She started these street sweeping campaigns in the city. She started with kids. They had an exhibition at city hall. City officials heard about her efforts and they invited her to this
Youre watching quick bite, the show that has San Francisco. Were here at one of the many food centric districts of San Francisco, the 18th street corridor which locals have affectionately dubbed the castro. A cross between castro and gastronomic. The bakery, pizza, and dolores park cafe, there is no end in sight for the mouth watering food options here. Adding to the culinary delights is the family of business he which includes skylight creamery, skylight and the 18 raisin. Skylight market has been here since 1940. Its been in the family since 1964. His father and uncle bought the market and ran it through sam taking it over in 1998. At that point sam revamped the market. He installed a kitchen in the center of the market and really made it a place where chefs look forward to come. He created community through food. So, we designed our community as having three parts we like to draw as a triangle where its comprised of our producers that make the food, our staff, those who sell it, and
Five events a week all around the idea of bringling people closer to where the food comes from and closer to each other in that process. 18 reasons was started almost four years ago as an educational arm of their work. And we would have dinners and a few classes and we understood there what momentum that people wanted this type of engagement and education in a way that allowed for a more indepth conversation. We grew and now we offer i think we had nine, we have a series where adults learned home cooking and we did a teacher Training Workshop where San Francisco unified Public School teachers came and learned to use cooking for the core standards. We range all over the place. We really want everyone to feel like they can be included in the conversation. A lot of organizations i think which say were going to teach cooking or were going to teach gardening, or were going to get in the policy side of the food from conversation. We say all of that is connected and we want to provide a place
150,000 unique visitors a month reading it. So it has gotten quite an audience, but really it is something that i would love, it is just pure passion and it is also a selfeducation of mine on display and my own interest. And i think i will wrap it up. Thanks. [ applause ] so for those of you who came in late, if you could hold your questions, we are not going to do a formal q, and a, but i will ask each of the panelists to stick around and if you want to chat with them one on one, they will be veil for a little while to do that. Our next panelist is melissa. They earned her ba in 2005 and her ma in 2007. She worked in new york at christies auction house and the time warner center, the Museum Experience includes the Research Positions in new york and the victor annual beter museum in london. She has been a member of the curtorial team of San Francisco since 2008. And currently holds the position of assistant curator for european art. It has supported works from the 15th century, such as
You know, the right message that we all wanted to send. To me, it is all about messaging. And i know businesses need help from government as well. Ive been in those discussions where a lot of them said, hey, youre taxing us to death. We did a big payroll tax revision as a result of that. There is just simply i think a relationship where theres no quid pro quo, we do it for good policy reasons that we articulate and are clear about. And thats the way we should be running government. Thats also the way we should have that clean relationship with businesses. Mayor, [speaker not understood]. Yeah, i mean thats why we hired mark tuitu for [speaker not understood]. My competitive spirit with mayor bloomberg in new york, rahm emanuel in chicago, were always exchanging information about you got this, you got that. Our staffs and our Department Heads do the same. , and so, were always saying, they did this. How come we cant do that . And the message gets shared with neighborhood leaders as well