[applause] stacie became the executive director to save the theatre. she worked countless hours for months on end with no pay for that very purpose to save the theatre and organization. she rebuilt the bod and increased programming and the space and she was able to refinance the loan and she was successful in luring exciting productions like a fabulous musical that just ended at brava at brava theatre and in short stacie saved brava and all san francisco we're eternal ly indebted to you for your personal sacrifice that you have made to make that happen and you have truly is shown anything is possible and saving brava know if you know stacie that's only a fraction of everything she has accomplished in her distinguished career. stacie's career in the nonprofit arts world has taken her on tour throughout the the united states to countries like nicar canada and her work gave her a wide range of experiences in all aspects of this sector and she has been a stage manager tour manager booking agent and community liaison and stacie broadened her skills with a m

the historical improvements not to be wiped away i came here and started to speak about the harding theatre i heard from shelly her last name i can't say who is talking about the historic resources of san francisco she's determined that the new proposal for the harding theatre to put 9 condos adjacent to the stage and destroy the mechanic room is not w5e6r79d an environmental review you have to know the history of what's been going on at the harding theatre that is a collection of photographs of all the actions that have hadn't in 2011 in support of increasing and enriching the 127b8 development if any neighborhood it was in 2003 the property owners purchased that for $1.3 million they wanted to destroy it was pushed back and the neighborhood actism and wanted to destroy the stage that got pushed back and they let it sit there this is person i didn't want to be saying no, not in my backyard to the condo i want to come up with a enrichment for the neighborhood in a sixth way so i started a nonprofit neighbors for divisadero and i worked with the property owner to come up with solutions and i

that's been used for the theatre and chinese theatre they'll like to continue those uses and add other entertainment, however, we've run into a planning issue we didn't have time to continue it on the agenda so mark is here to discuss it. >> commissioner tan and commissioners mark for rosenberg and bloom could we get the overall this is the chinese opera house in 4925 had the original seats and the ageism per sin wall it's a deep thing going up is is 50 foot fly tougher you can see the proposals up and down it's a historical landmark buffalo place original necessary on from 1925 in chinese so the problem we're going having the planning department and i you know, i want to take issue with the planning department because this is a historical landmark from chinatown been there since 1925 they said well, we don't have complete reported so it's not allowed entertainment and theatre use is no longer or movie theatre is no longer allowed in the district it's going to be i'm assume we will get the permit, however it's taking my clooiz client a lot of money and time i've been beating around the

that was blighted since 2003 when a group of developers bought the history theatre for $1.3 million to demolish it for retail and condos the neighbors prevented it with the help of the board of supervisors during that time the president pushed back against the project i first noted the theatre was boarded in 1927 the property owners took it off the market when was purchased and last year they refused a $4 million oh, i helped to facilitate it would have transferred it into a library a $4 million offer that's where the community wanted the property owners have a new plan to develop 9 condo that will come up green again adjacent to the shackle without facilitating the theatre they want to build 9 units with our public utilities in the future if we can't allow to project to magnified of move forward from that bright so opening night. >> was your name and amy the neighbors for the embarcadero. >> is there any public comment? >> okay public comment is closed. >> next item place. >> commissioners that places you under our regular calendar item 14 c its 12344 sutter street a conditional us

this is that peterson's house directly across the street from fords theatre. he calls for something called a probe, and we have noted that on the back here in display. the idea is that it would be threaded into the wound and depending on how far the probe would go, it might identify where the fragment of the bullet was. they were able to do so. the bullet, they found later was large behind lincoln's eye. the probe was retained and eventually made its way to the museum holdings, and is part of the display. the surgeon general, and army medical staff john woodward, and another surgeon named edward curtis were at the present bedside in the hours before he died, which was about 7:22 a.m. on april 15, 1855. it was decided then that a postmortem would be performed very quickly. the present body -- president's body was removed from the white house, and the odds that the was performed in a broom -- the autopsy was performed in a room that is now one of the president's dining rooms. this goal would have been removed. the top of this goal would have been removed from li

one of the late theatres in the city the same thing is going to happen with night life it is truly a common sense legislation and thank you for your time. >> excuse me. commissioners for those of you again in front of the did your for fire safety were going to have to find a seat or line up on the other side of the room no really you need to do that. >> (calling names.) >> go ahead. >> hi, i'm ramon downey i'm a talent buyer and one of the owners of the bottom hill night club we're on potrero we been fortunate the real estate across from us was rezoned light industrial and therefore not occupied at night and didn't interfere with the coming and going of our patrons now we're faced with a big development across the street in the 25 years we've been in business we've been respectful of our neighbors but we've been excuse me. i think there are customers coming and going not trevor with the people my partner and i are asking you to do more sound testing before pitting folks nearby the place of entertainment it is interesting we're here south by southwest in texas we're here to try to kee

at the roxie theatre. i want to congratulate them on this long process, i think for five years, to be able to finally get their on sale beer license to the independent theatre that's show casing many of our films in san francisco to find other ways to support independent film makers. so i want to congratulate them. i know this is something they've been working on for quite a while. i'm looking forward to be able to go to the theatre and have my beer while i watch my screening. thank you. >> thank you. supervisor kim, can we do this item? same house, same call without objection? this resolution is adopted unanimously. madam clerk, can you please call the next item? >> item 11 is to determine the resolution of a type on sale public license for the 24th street bar will serve the public convenience of the city. >> same house, same call. without objection, this resolution is adopted unanimously. call item number 12. >> item 12 is an ordinance to expanded the administrative code by a language of the ordinance to

, we want to welcome you to fords theatre and this wonderful abraham lincoln institute symposium. i have a few housekeeping things to do, and then i will turn over the program to the people you really came to see. first of all, i would like to thank tremendously the abraham lincoln institute, the illinois state society of washington dc, all the presenters, all the speakers, the board of the ali, and everyone at the fords theatre. i would like you to give them a round of applause. [applause] i would also like to mention, and you will senior program, the fords theatre, a commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the assassination of abraham lincoln, which is quickly upon us, has planned a great deal of programming associated with that. i'm not going to go into it all because it is luminous. you can see some of it in your program here. also, go to our website fords .org. i hope you will all participate. there is a vigil on april 14-15. please join us for some of that. also, i will mention because it is such extraordinary exhibit, we are opening on monday across the street and exhibit

is to become the center of community life and enhancing the enjoyment of its people and the theatre served the community for over 7 decades as well as a gathering space for social justice movements and worship but it's been boarded up and blighted. neighbors prevented the harding theatre from being demolished with the help of the planning commission in 2005. i first noticed it back in in in in 2007 and in 2012 it was taken off the market and then last year refused a 4 a $4 million offer that would have transformed it into a bookstore and multimedia performance venue . if you truly care about preserving arts and cultural venues in san francisco board of board of supervisors thank you very much next speaker please. 3 . >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> good evening. i was sitting in the audience just now. it was almost comical to me how our supervisor and my supervisor was worried about the sugar consumption of black people. well, let's look at this. black people of bay view's point get 1 percent of the amount being spent if you don't know it. 55 percent of black people

the theatre together, we're part of the atlantic theatre company here on 20th street. when you're doing a play particularly before you have kids it's all encompassing all you think about, bill would direct me or we would act on a play together. we had to go there has to be a place we're not talking about acting. we decided once we get into bed we couldn't talk about aging. which meant i would be lying in bed and say i have an idea and we'd get up and talk b but now we're so old we talk about it day gay you celebrated 30 years. >> yes, it's fantastic. >> king: what does it mean to you both the atlantic theatre company. >> it's our artisticxin our bones. we have the same core of people that started it and it's broughtened and we have a huge group of actors and playwrights and designers and stage managers. and it's a place where it's like a club house with really cool people that does great great work and supports this nation support of bravest most dedicated artists day gay do youj4 prefer the theatre to tv or film or movies? do you have a preference. >> i used to think

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she has acted in many theatre projects and film projects and in 2009 was part of a film project that won the film festival audience award in in 2009 and the title of that project was lucia which means struggle and lucia took place in el salvador about 2 women in love who chose 2 different paths of resistance during the civil war in el salvador and has a very strong and loving community around her in san francisco and venezuela and lives in the excel cior neighborhood with her dog. >> thank you all of the members of the board of supervisors for this amazing event. thank you. i was trying to make a speech and i couldn't make it. what am i going to say? there's so many amazing women and people who are doing amazing work in this city there is a lot of violence that continues to occur to the most vulnerable communities transgender continues to be the most impacted group in the group in the united states to suffer the most deadly deadly est violence and really asking for all of us to step up and in knowing there's so many important leaders in our communities i just wanted to share that wha

live the warner theatre, roz plater, abc 7 news. kimberly: the national park service is sticking to its predicted deke bloom and says the weather will not affect the flowers at this point and the blossoms should be at their fullest between april 11 and april 14. after the snow to round out the winter, we could not ask for a nicer first full day of spring. eileen whelan joins us for the forecast that you need to hear. as nice as it was today, we are looking at changes? eileen: we are, the ups and downs of spring, but what a fabulous first day of spring, 61 degrees the official high at reagan national. 60 degrees at this hour, absolutely beautiful. a little breeze from the south at 12, 63 manassas 68 luray, 59 baltimore, a little cooler in annapolis, 50 degrees. the breeze today out of the south is really warming temperatures, but the week weather front will slide through tonight. tomorrow will be noticeably cooler, highs only in the upper 40's, lower 50's. as the front approaches, clouds roll in, temperatures will be chilly. keep tha

. >> i spoke to the ballet theatre soloist about her life story recently, in new york. tell me about the moment you discovered ballet. >> i say it discovered me, or it found me. it happened - well, dance was always just a part of my natural state as a child. it's something that i - whenever music played, i was dancing. it became an escape to me, that i don't think i realized was that for many years. it was a way to escape the chaos of being one of six children, so many different things. >> and moving a lot. >> and moving a lot. so many things that weren't ideal as a child, and movement became that escape for me. when i was 13, i tried out for the dance team in my public school and was told i should take a ballet class at the boys and girls club where i was a member. i think it was when i stepped into the ballet studio, the actual studio, because my first class was on a basketball court, and i don't think i grasped what ballet was, and i was extremely intimidated by it. it was when i stepped into the ballet studio that i started to realize "this is beautiful, and this is

community music and theatre events again welcoming our diverse community from all around the city. the now, is i hangar and the incredible celebration that is going to take place and the now that we are so proud to be focusing on right here. the now is the joyous and really really remarkable park that this has become thanks to our partnership with the may back foundation. the mayor noted $22 million exacting renovation of the grounds and lagoon and rotunda. the tomorrow, in addition to this year long celebration is a big question mark for us. what will this space be for the next 50-100 years is? we don't know. what we do know is whatever this space becomes is going to honor the incredible history and culture of this site and invest it and steward it to make sure we celebrate the bicentennial. i want to acknowledge the california historical society who has been a fantastic partner and we are so grateful for them for taking this on and taking the time

the historical improvements not to be wiped away i came here and started to speak about the harding theatre i heard from shelly her last name i can't say who is talking about the historic resources of san francisco she's determined that the new proposal for the harding theatre to put 9 condos adjacent to the stage and destroy

the beacon theatre holds about 2500 people. about 75 of them are really rich and crazy and willing to auction, willing to bid, god bless them, they want to support this cause. >> jon: louis c.k. can i tell them what john oliver did. >> yes, sure. >> jon: there was an action to bid to commit a crime against john oliver. it went out that night with a camera and took it in the -- judicial it's the longest charity event. and yet it's so lovely but there are moments in it. the moment with owen. this is the cranky thing on the one hand literally this happened within ten minutes of each other. paul rud received regurgitated food. ten minutes later literally gilbert god forty three was maybe -- god forty three was making people cry. >> not the kind of crying people generates. >> jon: it's a movement where he's the conduit through which this young man owen communicates his feelings to his family and to others around him. it's amazing. >> the whole show is about raising money not to cure autism. a lot of people are working on bio medical

we had the highlight of honoring the mutual investor in bravo theatre which was a lot of fun. last october, she did the honor of serving as a celebrity judge with our great pumpkin carving with the kids and in the end, she declared all the kids were winners in her normal gracious way. i will say bebe, the lg b t community is an accomplished community is can be very tense sometimes. i will say the one thing among others that really sticks out in my mind about you, all of the things i know about you and i've seen you interact with people, i've never seen you be anything but absolutely nice and gracious and professional. even when you're fighting like crazy for something that is so important, you always do it in the absolute, most gracious way and you are a treasure in our community and we love you. so congratulations. thank you. [applause] >> okay. thank you sfrfrz wiener and to madam president and members of the board, thank you very much for this honor. i'm going to keep this very short cause i'm sure there's matters in the castro that i need to attend to. but this is somethin

. >> traffic light theatre. thank you very much. [ cheers and applause ] >> >> larry: traffic light theatre. it all went badly with that one baby. >> another negative impact of legalized weed is that mexican drug cartels are now trying to push cheaper heroin. but on the positive side, cheaper heroin. all right, i guess i am a syringe half full kind of guy. that's just me. >> i can't speak for everybody. also, utah is in the midst of deciding whether or not they want to get in the marijuana game, but they are having some unique problems. >> special agent matt fairbanks fold the state's senate panel that doing so could result in unwanted effects on wildlife, particularly rabbits. he said that the small fury mammals are at risk of becoming addicted and losing their natural instents. >> ozoner rabbits are losing their natural instents? i hope they don't lose their natural instint to poop out delicious cream-filled eggs at easter time. stay on that, special agent matt fairbanks. you're our only hope. you know, anothe

we will be back with more live coverage of ford's theatre in washington, d.c. when the symposium resumes. until then, a look at the history of columbus, georgia, the city we are featuring all this weekend as part of our c-span cities to her. -- tour. >> we are here the columbus museum in columbus, georgia. we are standing in the chattahoochee legacy gallery. this is the permanent gallery that focuses on the history of columbus and its many highlights. from the prehistoric periods 10,000 years ago up to the 1970's, even moving forward into the columbus that we know today. we are currently standing in the portion of the legacy gallery that deals with the civil war. columbus was a significant city during the war for many reasons not least of which was that it was the second-largest manufacturing center for the confederacy. second only to the confederate capital richmond. however, many residents of columbus also left to fight the war. this jacket we are standing by was worn by one of those residents. this is an iconic red jacket that was worn by the columbus guard.

this is the power of theatre. this is the potential of film. this is the potential of all of it-- a truthful, faithful portrayal of a human being. it begins with the writing, it's carried through by the director who holds a vision, and as an actor, you become incorporated in that. >> hinojosa: how hard is it these days in, you know, commercial media? >> ooh, child! ( laughing ) >> hinojosa: so it's hard. >> i don't know. i don't pay much attention to them. i just do the work that i do. >> hinojosa: but you're lucky, right? >> i'm very fortunate. >> hinojosa: because you... you get the calls. you... you continue to be able to work. >> i'm very fortunate, i'm very fortunate, yes, i am very fortunate. but i... i think a certain way. you know, the way you think is very important. if a writer is thinking in limited terms, it's reflected in the writing. august wilson's sister told me once that earlier on in his life at some point, august wilson went on a vision quest, and they were out in the natural surroundings and the person leading the quest aske

it takes about an hour for it to make its transformation from taller to theatre and it will travel to all of thailand's 77 provinces this year. most rural ty communities like this don't have a proper theatre, the organizers of the cinema mobile want an experience of seeing the art form as it's intended, on a big screen and in the dark. but also it opens their eyes to experience different cultures by seeing films that do more than simply entertain. its manager is looking to challenge the audience, move them beyond the comfort of lighting themes and popular films. ♪ . >> translator: movies help students shape ideas and thoughts and could be a good medium for learning and we don't only show the films we encourage discussion afterwards this helps them understand the movie's message. >> reporter: even though the government is partially funding the program, it recently used movies to get across its message. a month after the military took over the government last year it gave away free tickets to a national film which some said was attempt to stoke pride in tys during uncertain times but

characteristic of the neighborhood the block other 1049 and 1067 is the center of the historic market street theatre and loft district on the register it has lots of buildings we've designated as such this block is the epic center the reason we care about lofts we care about them this is about protecting the people in the neighborhood thank you. >> thank you very much i have two more speaker cards pat and ryan any more members of the public please come up. >> good afternoon, supervisors gun i'm patty was a structure engineer that worked on the building for 3 years for the previous owner there was 3 issues that were a challenged to legalized elias one is the ventilation a san francisco code change i spent 2 years working with the dbi staff that were supportive to s supportive of the code which would have made it easier to legalize this continuity i uvent the commission at the time decided not to delete the amendment i hope you do the other requirement was egress the state building code requires egress from and are bedroom window that is the challenge to be able to provide that that requires dramatic

. >> we're back live at ford's theatre in washington dc. we are covering an all-day symposium on president abraham lincoln's life and legacy. live coverage on american history tv on c-span 3. >> thank you very i am dr. john r sellers. aging historian, retired from the library congress. i think one of the tasks of anyone injured as speaker is trying to establish a spirit of rapport with the audience. i'm introducing stephen a goldman, my psychiatrist. [laughter] friend. steve comes from an entirely different background. he has all the credentials of anyone who has gone through the training for medical and psychiatric work. both in academia, and in public and private service. rather than go through his credentials, i want to take a more personal approach and give you some insight into steve as a research, writer, historian. in 41 years that i worked with the manuscript division of the library congress, as the civil more specialist and lincoln curator, i entertained many pros perspective writers and season authors in search of new material. th

abed is the founder of the children's theatre center. >> so we are at the north entrance of bethlehem, heading to the refugee camp. >> so this has been here since 1950. >> yes. it started with tents. people were under the tents for about seven years. and later on, the u.n. saw that it was not temporary as it was supposed to be. so they started building what they called shelters. >> first impressions of the camp, there's a remarkable number of kids. >> now it's about 6,000 people. and 2/3 are under 18 years old. so it's a very young population. unfortunately, with the continuing degradation of the political and economic situation, we are in the situation where we have no playgrounds or green spaces any more. >> children play in the streets beneath walls covered in images of martyrs, plane hijackers, political prisoners. 6,000 people, of that number, 66% are under the age of 18. i don't care where that is in the world, that's pretty much a recipe for unruly behavior, i think would be the best. >> well, yes. especially when you don't have any possibilities to evacuate the anger and the s

although i have been to ford's theatre, i haven't been part of an audience before. there's a sense of this happened in this place. right here, even though the theater has been reconstructed it's very realistic area there is a sense of making something that seems so impossible to imagine, a way in which it makes it true, in which it makes it go from unbelievable too believable. thank you. >> i directed national present reform organization, and i have been surprised at the lack of research that has gone into the exception clause in the 13th amendment, where we still have slavery within our prison system. we now have 2.3 million people in prison, we have 25% of the worlds prisoners and only 5% of the worlds population. i thought there would be some connection in regards -- we still have slavery within our constitution. we just have in regard to prisoners. i was looking maybe even today to find it some connection, the amendment actually became effective in 1965, december 18. we are looking at 150 years of its anniversary, maybe there should be a move to remove all slave

his acting career has spanned several decades in television, film, and theatre. he is currently on broadway alongside kerry mulligan in david hare's play "skylight." he also stars in "the second best exotic marigold hotel." here is the trailer for that film. >> the marigold hotel has been going properly for 8 months now. people come and go but there has been a corps of regulars from the beginning. sonny takes the roll call every morning. >> a most valuable precaution. to ensure nobody has died in the night. mrs. evelyn greenslate? >> here. >> douglas insley? >> yeah. i'm here. >> mrs. madge hardcastle? >> here. >> norman cousins and miss carol park? >> both here. >> mrs. murel donnely? >> what's left. ♪ >> ladies, and gentlmen, this is the great guy chambers. >> lord have mercy on my ovaries. >> first time in india? >> it was pretty much a dream until now. >> any other dreams i could help you with? >> you should marry that girl. >> i want to. >> sometimes it seems to me that the difference between what we want and what we fear is the width of an eyelash. >> i'm

i went to the theatre and i started to telling you this story. musical hamilton is getting a lot of attention, wonderful and actually i learned a lot of things about alexander hamilton and it all began because of a biography that the guy who created the musical took with him on a vacation and he took the book with him and it was ron churos book and he said i can do this. >> this is a musical. >> rose:. >> he is the only one who took that book on vacation. >> rose: that's why sea genius exactly why sea genius. >> sea genius to have the nerve to do it after he thought about it. >> and it is brilliant. i mean i just love that, the inspiration about character and because his life when you think about it, he lost his life in a dual and the question as to whether he fired up in the air, did he want to do die because he told his son to do that. this is just magic. so. >> so buying ferre also have responsibility to include a lot of boring stuff, you know. that is a burden. >> rose: editors have the responsibility to take it out. yes? >> i am sorry. i jus