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Alcala, Abigail From:Yenny Bernal <upliftingsoulart@gmail.com> Sent:Thursday, May To:eComment Subject:SA Arts Finishing-Public Cpmment Attention: This email originated from outside of City of Santa Ana. Use caution when opening attachments or links. Good evening Council members and Mayor Amezcua, My name is Yenny Bernal and I am a visual artist, small business owner, and art teacher in the city of Santa Ana. I have been involved with dtsa's arts and culture for the last 10 years of my life. In ways that include event coordination and planning for our various city activities such as Art Walks, Farmers market children's activity booths, Community round table conversations for the city of santa ana, Coordination and planning of the last 5 de Mayo festival that happened on the fourth street ,etc. I currently own a small gallery and Makerspace that's dedicated to low-cost diy activities & fine art classes. As well as coordinating most of Main Place Mall's Art Events in collaboration with local artists and orgs. via art shows, educational workshops, & live music. I wanted to tell you about myself and my story so that you can put a face to all of the small businesses of local creatives that have little to no opportunity of funding to continue to bridge the lack of arts education and Equity for artists an educators in our city. I strongly want to express how important this funding is for the upcoming generations of Santa Ana rising artists who like me deserve to be ble to thrive in their creative careers and be their own bosses whilst enlightening our community with their love and passion for the Arts. Thank you for your time and attention to this matter. A special shout-out to those of you in the council who always stand behind us in this fight for Arts Equity for the city of the arts! Best Wishes, Yenny Bernal 1