I invite you to join me on Saturday morning at Heroes Hall for a Veterans Day Celebration at 11 AM! We will also honor my 2022 Orange County Veterans of the Year awards.  

The event is open to the public, and in partnership with Heroes Hall will include the Serenity Garden Groundbreaking Ceremony, an All-American Boys Chorus performance, kids' activities, and opportunities to meet with Veteran Service Organizations. For more information, please see the flyer below.  

You can track the status of your vote here: https://ocvote.gov/vlt/

You can follow the process and results for Orange County here.  https://ocvote.gov/results/current-election-results 

Click here for Statewide results: https://electionresults.sos.ca.gov  

On a sad note, we send our love to the personal and museum family of long time Bowers Museum CEO Peter Keller. Peter died suddenly at his home on Tuesday night after a long day at the museum followed by dinner with his wife. I got to know Peter better this year as the new representative for Santa Ana. He was a joy to work with and passionate about sharing art with everyone. He believed in a vision for the museum where everyone can access the arts regardless of economic status. His legacy will continue but he will be greatly missed. 

You can read below for more updates about our votes this week at the board meeting and other activities by Team Foley. I hope to see you tomorrow at the Veterans Day Celebration!  

Cases across the state are slowing down. San Francisco announced that it is ending its Monkeypox State of Emergency on October 31st, and we hope that we will see that happen at the state level as cases and the spread decline.    

Testing and vaccines are available across the County. To learn more about monkeypox and vaccinations, visit www.ochealthinfo.com/monkeypox.   

COVID-19 

It is increasingly important to remain safe and healthy and it is a top priority of mine to keep community members updated with the most recent guidelines. To find more information on the latest guidelines issued by the HCA, visit occovid19.ochealthinfo.com.  

As you celebrate summer activities and plan vacations, protect yourself and loved ones from COVID-19 by following safe travel guidelines issued by the CDPH.

See the latest guidance: Here

To read my official response to frequently asked questions, please click here.

If you missed my Adoption program back in September, don’t worry! Supervisor Lisa Bartlett is waiving fees for the month of November and hosting an Adoption Day as well. Please see below for more details!

Meet Rosebud, Pet of the Week! Rosebud is a 10-month-old Mastiff Mix who is full of energy! Since being brought to the shelter as a stray, Rosebud has won over the hearts of everyone she has met! As she's just a puppy, Rosebud is an active girl and would love to be your walking, running, or hiking buddy! Rosebud has met a couple of pups while in our care and has displayed nothing but proper manners. Come meet this adorable girl and let her cheerful and happy personality put a smile on your face! 

Interested in adopting Rosebud? Call (714) 935-6848 to schedule an adoption appointment today! Walk-ins are welcome! * 

Animal ID#: A1788788 

*Walk-ins are on a first-come, first-served basis as staffing allows. 

Student Debt Relief

MARIANGELES SOTO-DIAZ 

GENTLE PROWESS DELIBERATIONS 

through January 12, 2023 

Part of Mariangeles Soto-Diaz’s ongoing artist residency, Gentle Prowess Deliberations is the third project in a series in which the artist incorporate judo principles and elements into art objects, installations, performances and social practice with her judo community. This project focuses on ju, or gentle, one of the core concepts of judo.  The work also grapples with the ongoing reality of violence, including the violence that has led to over six million people leaving the artists native country of Venezuela in recent years. How does one practice ju in a world shaped by oppressive violence? 

While growing up in Venezuela, Soto-Diaz’s judo teachers were intent on transmitting judo’s international sensibility as intertwined with its pacifist ethos, a key principle articulated by judo founder Jigoro Kano. Through these early experiences, Mariangeles was able to begin the philosophical and rhetorical quest into what this might mean as one confronts a powerful opponent, institution, or system. 

For this project the artist approaches ju in several ways. She asked judo colleagues and teachers from two different dojos, Bunasawakai and Sawtelle, to characterize ju in their own words, and then incorporated their answers into aspects of the performance and installation. She weaves into the performance movements from a choreographed judo form that centers around ju, called ju-no-kata, performed here by US National champions Lee Pasteris and Frederick Dagdagan. Soto-Diaz incorporates judo movements performed by two of her sensei, grand master Sensei Nori Bunasawa and Sensei Goya. In addition to these four highly ranked master judokas, the artist is collaborating in the performance with dancer, choreographer and UCI professor Charlotte Griffin and art performer Christina Segovia. The evening will include field recordings from judo competitions at the Kodokan Judo Institute in Tokyo as well as the US, with live and processed sound in collaboration with musician Michael Dessen. 

Learn more. 

Bowers Museum will once again welcome international couture powerhouse Guo Pei as she transforms the galleries into a world of fantasy this fall.  

The exhibition Guo Pei: Art of Couture premiers with a fresh take on the artist’s finest and most personal pieces, including gowns hand selected by Guo Pei herself. Hot on the heels of her success at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco, Bowers’ entirely new exhibition opens to the public on November 12, 2022. 

Guo Pei: Art of Couture will feature over 40 works of couture art curated for exhibit by the world-renowned designer. Among the bespoke selection is Guo Pei’s Chinese Bride collection, which makes its North American debut at the Bowers.