community because the library is your home away from home your tax dollars paid us so we will love your involvement we would love and any of your concerns are needs to be able to address it so the library is not only a place where you go read there's computer you can us eenie question that you need we have homework how we have story time we have e s l classes we have computer classes we have one on one technology how the library is here for you and so i'm here today to invited to the library my work at the central library any time you have questions i'll give you my number shortly and my e mail feel free to ask me i'm the representative of the library and so we have some really really cool upcoming programs that i would love to invite you to the first one we have is at the douglas truth ranch it's october twelfth two pm to three thirty pm we're going to have a wonderful author named dr joseph scott who'll be reading from a great book that he created which is literally feel b of the pacific northwest and a co author is solomon could do and so will be reading from the book and he also will be engaging with the audience there's a big question and answers and will have a light  refreshments and so we are partnering luckily we have urban form northwest who is our co sponsor m m r t i would to really have be about and the race and social justice initiative and so this is going to be a fabulous event and please come visit us at the douglas truth library i will be there also we have another wonderful program which features wonderful artist of color locally and regionally that were performing at the central library auditorium octo nineteen two two four pm there's going to be a violinist is going to be spoken word from local artists of color here in seattle there's going to be also caribbean drums it's going to be a big big event and so the library my role is to try to engage to kim you need to if you have a program that you would like to have at the library card check me we can make that happen if you have a concern or idea let me know and we'll make that happen i'm really here today to introduce myself to let you know that the library is your place and so my e mail address is a the at seattle s p l dot org and my telephone number is two zero six six eight four zero eight for nothing so some of my work is not only just hosting programs that reflect the diversity in seattle but it's also to go out to community events and to do outreach to tell our story to all the library story but also hear your story and so please please contact me come annual fundraising gala on saturday october eleventh at emerald downs in auburn washington this from felt it events not only has silent and live auctions there will also be programs filled with live entertainment renowned speakers desire dash cultural dance food and much much more to look forward to based on rainier avenue in seattle the european community offers array of services not only for ethiopians but also to those who live in the area this event will give our community center that needed funds to provide additional services in the areas of youth seniors immigration employment afterschool programs and others to purchase your the thing that they're going to get  museum and on saturday we had european summer festival at garfield community center yes or terrorists there were nineteen students to created six documentary films that pertain to the redevelopment that was going on there so i yes sir a community center we learned skills as learning how to interview people and that helped to screen the documentary and we were able to see how yes there was now and how it's going to change and redevelop and how it's going to affect the community around it my name is a graduate student at seattle university and a taining my mastery in fine arts in arts leader master of fine arts and arts leadership and i am an intern at the terrorists youth media i learned a lot about gentrification i had a different point of view about it and i used to have a more optimistic point of view of how it benefits the neighborhood the community and everyone involved in it but i didn't realize that there were there was this other adverse effect of gentrification  to the community as well specially the ones that are living in it and that are being dissipated the issues i have about the redevelopment  just basically you know how it impacts the residents you know the things that i'm learning from the their point of view from the documentaries that the youth participants have been shooting i've learned so much about the negative aspects of it so my biggest concern is how they their needs will be matt you know when they leave us are terrorists and and all and then and for the few that do choose to come back if their needs will continue to be met i think it's a great i think the program the curriculum of the program is i think it's really awesome like i even learned a lot about how to shoot photographs so i think it's a great learning experience and there's also and you know it also  teaches collaboration and communication and leadership as well so i think it's a great benefit to students on in terms of education and  learning a new skill set and having tools to you know that they can use further on in their life and and in my recommendation would be to just maybe be more selective with the student participants and so choose those that really are really want to do this really are passionate about their community passion about passionate about social issues  as maybe they don't really understand it necessarily and that is what this program is for is to help them understand it but i think to be more selective in the process of who they choose to participate in a program and choose those who are you know passionate if not even about social issues just really want to learn photography and documentary and filmmaking and etc volunteered before i've mentored before but i've never worked in this capacity with eighteen  when i think of our yes or terrorists i think of the values that are stated by the people during the redevelopment and those are the people who have lived here and so issues of social equity how can our play a role in that issues of health and well being what's the role of art in that and how can artists help support of issues of education and literacy what role can artists play in that the issues of environmental stewardship and understanding i think the typical approach which i'm very critical of is agencies usually government agencies put out a call for artists and what often happens is there are many barriers that many  artists encounter in order to win those commissions from the from the agencies many of those barriers are they're looking for an artist that is trained with higher education most most often an m f a they're also looking for an artist that has a command of the english language and can navigate a really really lengthy online application process i would just really children at the  and i think he's a really great example of how art can benefit the community he selected an artist to really get inspired by community members and draws inspiration from them so we had over a dozen community meetings with us or terrorists and little sank on her out the consciousness of the african american struggle here in america in particular the struggle here in christine o'donnell and you know me from the parks department and and we reviewed those proposals and selected for artists and the four artists were interviewed and  then one was selected as the four professional artists made the final decision and everybody else we were all advisors you get used to being on review review teams advisory panels and so on where you get to talk but they don't have to listen well one was already chosen her name is christine board that we interviewed for though and it was a really hard decision because they are all excellent artists the identity is that community it's not an artist coming in that's not from the community giving their concepts and ideas and  it's really an artist working alongside it in an equal way with the community but the community is the driver they are the ones that identify how they want to be represented still think it was like not important but then i learned that it was story development i think that the residents are kind of upset but kind of happy too because these buildings are really old but the community and people that live here are really nice and it's di down the building that we're in right now so and whatever building they replaced will have a higher rank i think i think safe housing is important and i know that a lot of the housing here has passed its prime  children's lives have been positively impacted by the many service providers in your tears children are relying on harbor view for their medical care in addition to the pediatric specialty clinics offered  tears residents of all ages depend on this publicly supported hospital will the new we develop community featured the same degree of assisted billet be to harbor views and services as is true at present for the i lived here almost my whole life i made a lot of new friends now all the friends that i met here some of them have already moved away because of the redevelopment so yeah i've been losing some friendships and i made a lot of family here also because even if some of the other families here consider them  uncles and like my like my second i think this program is like getting the message out but i don't think it's really going to stop the redevelopment he has planned to sell main parts of us or thirty three acres of land to private investors and use the money to rebuild in expand the low income housing here yes libertarius is the country's first racially integrated public city's median income which is twenty six thousand dollars per year for a family of four the seattle housing authority approved a fifteen year redevelopment plan to create affordable housing for all income levels and new parks create pedestrian friendly streets would direct access to mass transit stations and increased commerce which will temporarily displace many residents so who does this redevelopment really benefit neighborhood of people who are struggling want to may have a neighborhood that's mixed so people don't feel like they're just being put into one area of the city we hope will be of benefit to the entire  city because there will be new housing and especially different levels of holocene not just market rate housing but different levels of affordable housing and more housing that's created as a result of this redevelopment of meetings stakeholders meeting that includes residents feedback the surrounding communities are being considered so residents definitely have a strong voice do they really i don't think so because they've been new rule now they say they want to again and again and again over about a four year period they called it a review committee and you know if they call something a review committee or an advisory committee essentially means that they're planning on letting you talk and doesn't mean that they're planning on listening to you we're still left with the question who really benefit we'll see too and what happens is generally the older person will hold the coffee or the pot but the bread or the popcorn do a prayer and every different kind of religion it will be a prayer and that becomes like a more  dialysis clinic we worked with the contractors there and really became very fast friends and i really feel like they are my brothers and sisters there and we're going to make sure that this dialysis clinic does open and we're working hard to create the machinery here and put it together in a container three containers that will house the dialysis the i'm sorry the reverse osmosis equipment the filtration equipment and the mixing stations for the mixing of the dialysis solutions themselves and then the third container will be for the materials the consumables and the repair shop for the fixing and maintaining and of the dialysis equipment itself we're hoping that with the mixing stations that the cost of the dialysis will go down from anywheres from one hundred fifty dollars to ten dollars because most people in addison bob don't have the ability to get dialysis in the first place because it's way too expensive it destroys the family as a whole and makes the whole family in debt so we're hoping that if they can mix their own solutions that the cost will come down considerably and i just love to thank the