homesy who is the originator of this. thank you, daniel. (applause) also i want to acknowledge his right hand christina palone, the new director, mon, mayor s office neighborhood services over there in that corner. (applause) and for those of you that don t know, i represent district 10, that s the southeast neighborhoods. that s bayview, that s potrero hill, visitacion valley, it s a little hollywood, it s dogpatch. it used to be the portola, half of it. my heart is still with you, but i m glad like the speaker said, it is whole. and that is what s important, is that that neighborhood remains whole so that our city will be whole. you agree? [cheering and applauding] cheers so, a few years back there was this little idea to take back the bayview and really began to rewrite the history and the narrative that we often hear about in bayview. and it actually started, ironically, with a small little abandoned swath of land that has grown up to become the cuseda garden. and i
go on and on and on about this but i m not. we ll have a little q and a session after this. can you hear me? i m an actor, i don t need this. we ll answer questions about how it got going and what it s about. the way we start this out at the schools is i come out and introduce myself, introduce the guys a little bit, these are my students at sacramento city college then kick it off, hello, local celebrity, a guy from sacramento who does performances in poetry, he s an actor, he does rap music, all kinds of stuff, he doesn t juggle but he has a lot of talent and i m sure he could. now we ll go to the spoken word with lsg wow, once you learn something, you own it. you can share it, no one can take it from you. i want you to leave here with something today. i want you to leave here with some of our knowledge. we are a group of actors, rappers, dancers and poets and if they will allow them to, all of them will sing you a chorus. this is based on true, real life stories, stories
are not painters we abate graffiti. we are abaters not painters. get that out of the way and keep moving. how many of these do you do a day? how many poles we do a day? yeah. depends on the location. may be 20. do you like working with the team? yes because i m a people person. i like being outside and interacting with the public and i like the response we get especially from the good job we do in the community. goodbye. . the project all started from the brain child over here, noelexsavio of the city of san francisco code enforcement department. (applause). early 2007 gave me a call, he said, hey, i got this funding for a really cool project, can you help me out, i don t do theater. so we got together, we put together a script and we ve been touring every since. we hope it s doing some good. we hope it s changing some lives. i could go on and on and on about this but i m not. we ll have a little q and a session after this. can you hear me? i m an actor, i don
doing some good. we hope it s changing some lives. i could go on and on and on about this but i m not. we ll have a little q and a session after this. can you hear me? i m an actor, i don t need this. we ll answer questions about how it got going and what it s about. the way we start this out at the schools is i come out and introduce myself, introduce the guys a little bit, these are my students at sacramento city college then kick it off, hello, local celebrity, a guy from sacramento who does performances in poetry, he s an actor, he does rap music, all kinds of stuff, he doesn t juggle but he has a lot of talent and i m sure he could. now we ll go to the spoken word with lsg wow, once you learn something, you own it. you can share it, no one can take it from you. i want you to leave here with something today. i want you to leave here with some of our knowledge. we are a group of actors, rappers, dancers and poets and if they will allow them to, all of them will sing you
talent and i m sure he could. now we ll go to the spoken word with lsg wow, once you learn something, you own it. you can share it, no one can take it from you. i want you to leave here with something today. i want you to leave here with some of our knowledge. we are a group of actors, rappers, dancers and poets and if they will allow them to, all of them will sing you a chorus. this is based on true, real life stories, stories about kids just like you. kids have to make decisions every day like who are you going to be friends with, paying attention in class or even showing up are all choices you have to make every day. so i want you to pay attention to the choices that are made in this play so that later, when we come talk to you, you can tell us how you would handle these situations. so it s time for you to use your mind and listen so you can learn how to make the wise choice, the right choice, to be leaders instead of followers. did i forget to mention? the name of this