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 facility. We thought it would coincide with our efforts to get folks to recycle, it is a great educational tool. Since then, we have had 95 professional artists come through. How has the Program Changed over the years . How has the program what can the public has an artist engage with . For the most part, we worked with metal and wood, what you would expect from a program like ours. Over the years, we tried to include arti
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In San Francisco, jfk drive, shelley and mclaren park, great highway and twin peaks, have been very popular among san franciscans. Have you considered extending those closures beyond the shelterinplace order and making them permanent . Mayor london breed i think it does depend on what happens in the future. Because we are in a situation where i mean, covid19 is going to be with us for a while. And so as businesses start to reopen, as people start to get back to work, things are going to be a lot different than they were before. So it wont be that we reopen the city and then all of a sudden things go back to what they used to be. And i think that we will evaluate every street closure and every decision that was made and make a determination as to whether or not we should continue or whether or not that street is needed for any other purpose. So its hard to make a definitive its hard to make a decision at this time about whether or not that will continue, but we will evaluate those locat
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Pleasure to be up with everyone this morning. In corona queens. It was a pleasure to get out of the state capital and talk to the people who are actually doing the work. I am a queens boy, so it is coming back home for me. Corona queens. It was called corona queens before the coronavirus. There is no connection between corona queens and the coronavirus paid let me introduce my colleagues. Pat foy is chairman of the mta. Sarah fienberg runs the new York City Transit bureau. Is deputyodes superintendent of the department of financial services, but has been with me for many years and is now helping on this up in albany. Saturday. I know it because it is on the slide. Therwise, i may not have known i follow the dazed by what is on the powerpoint. Everybody talks about this as Uncharted Waters, that we have never been here before. And that is true, but even when you are in Uncharted Waters, that does not mean you just seed blindly. You get whatever information that you can, because you want