Keep street life POSITIVE! In the wake of last week’s violence, let’s keep our streets active, safe and fun. This week at the MCM: the Mission Beacon and Mission Girls host t-shirt making, jump rope and activities. Painted Wonderland will face paint. The Community Music Center will be out there with instruments you can try out at the musical petting zoo!
Keep on Positive
Mission in the Street: Jason Wong
This marks the first installment of Mission in the Street: little snapshots of our community members and neighbors coming in, through or to Bartlett Street and the Mission Community Market. This week, Jason Wong from just around the corner on his first market visit! Thank you to Adriana Camarena for writing and interviewing, to Twin Girls’ pluots, and to all the great Mission neighbors for sharing and getting out in the street:
Jason, con pluot |
Jason Wong is joyful. He was walking back home, when he came across the Mission Community Market. He lives just a few blocks away. “I was going home, and I saw all of this. I ran home and got some money.” Jason is 15 years old and just concluded his summer job. With his earnings, he is purchasing a few groceries for his mom. Said to myself, ‘Gonna go get us some fruits!’” He opens his bag of purchases, and with a twinkle in his eye shows me some beautiful peaches, pluots and plums. He had never heard of pluots before, but he is taking them home now. “I guess not a lot of kids like me. I’ve never seen that before, that a kid like me, dressed like me, goes out and gets some fruits because he loves fruit so much.” He laughs, “But who knows, maybe if I tell my friends there was some good fruit here, they would come.” Jason has lived in the Mission all his life, and prides himself of his Asian-Salvadoran heritage. I ask if he is going to come back to the market next week. He responds, “Just as long as ya’ll keep it strong!” He moves on to buy mountain blueberries. (I’ve already sampled those little berries of bliss, and I know he is in for a treat). It was inspiring to see Jason spontaneously understand and embrace the bounty of a farmer’s market. Jason represented for Mission youth!
by Adriana Camarena
Amazing Shows This Week!
This week, what an amazing array of musical talent we are blessed with! Did we mention it’s free? Come out for our first market of…summer?
4pm Albino!
6pm Vic Wong w/ Panique
7:15pm Abada Capoeira
School’s In (the Street)!
We’re kicking off the school year on August 19th with activities from the Dolores Community Youth Alliance and 826 Valencia.
826 Valencia will be joining the Mission Community Market (MCM) on Bartlett Street for the first time! Come create your own stories with storyboards and art materials provided by 826! Next Thursday, 8/26, from Noon til 8:26, 826 Valencia will be hosting an all-day write-a-thon at their store! Come out to the MCM, grab some tasty fruit, then go energized into the write-a-thon!
That is exactly what the Mission Community Market is doing. With school back in session, every Thursday the MCM will host a variety of youth and after-school programs on Bartlett Street – including arts, performance, nutrition, and play activities. Check it out! If your organization would like to bring its youth activities to a public space, drop us a line at mcm@missioncommunitymarket.org.
Local Line Up
This week we have the pleasure of being joined by awesome local musicians and the crazy feats of Abada Capoeira.
6pm Dave Mihaly
7:15pm Abada Capoeira
Support your MCM
The MCM is a non-profit marketplace that has a mission extending far beyond a market. To create a true public space for the Mission Community, the MCM needs your support and participation. Demonstrate your support by making farmers happy! Or eat dinner next to some live music! You can also donate to the non-profit online or at the market for amazingly designed pins, magnets or letters. All designs are by Rigel Stuhmiller and letters hand pressed at the San Francisco Center for the Book on 16th Street. $2 for pack of 4.
More on the MCM
Funds raised will contribute to public space improvements, murals and community organizations participating in the market. The Mission Community Market originated from the Mission Streetscape Plan, a community-based planning process led by the San Francisco Planning Department. The Mission Community Market Collaborative is a partnership of non-profit, private and public organizations with fiscal sponsorship from the Neighborhood Parks Council. Supporters of the Mission Community Market include: The Office of Supervisor Campos, the San Francisco Police Department – Mission Station, Lower 24th Street Association, the San Francisco City Planning Department. Thanks to our sponsors and partners for making this happen:
Stay updated on the Market, activities at the Market, and seasonal foods.
http://www.missioncommunitymarket.org/
http://twitter.com/MissionMercado
http://www.facebook.com/mission.community.market
The MCM: It’s Magnetic!
Come support your new community market this Thursday, August 12th and get MCM fridge magnets and pins! Available in limited supply. Walk home with your choice after a donation to the market or a giant bag of groceries!
Also available are packs of 4 brilliant postcards: beautiful block print designs by Rigel Stuhmiller and hand letterpressed at the San Francisco Center for the Book on 16th Street. $2 for pack of 4. Proceeds offset printing and production costs for the MCM.
Keep the doctor away with the first of this season’s apples from Hidden Star Orchards! And this just in: CIDER! Along with blueberries and grapes. Not to mention raw dairy products from Organic Pastures, the most unbelievable pluots from this planet via Twin Girls Farm, and great greens from Blue House Farm.
This week we have the pleasure of being joined by the ever-amazing Foxtails Brigade and Seth Augustus! Plus capoeira from Abada Capoeira.
5pm Foxtails Brigade
6pm Seth Augustus
7:15pm Abada Capoeira
Foxtails Brigade, Source: flickr user m. berru
We’d like to welcome our neighbor, the Community Music Center (CMC) to the market! Talk to a friendly student or teacher about the classes and events happening at their house on Capp St. or make some noise at their Instrument Petting Zoo!
Community Music Center – sfcmc.org
As we gear up for school next week, we are happy to have the Mission Beacon back and in action with art activities and fun! All youth welcome! As soon as the school year starts, we’ll have regular after-school programs AT THE MARKET with health, nutrition and physical activities for all youth. Come on down!
Funds raised will contribute to public space improvements, murals and community organizations participating in the market. The Mission Community Market originated from the Mission Streetscape Plan, a community-based planning process led by the San Francisco Planning Department. The Mission Community Market Collaborative is a partnership of non-profit, private and public organizations with fiscal sponsorship from the Neighborhood Parks Council. Supporters of the Mission Community Market include: The Office of Supervisor Campos, the San Francisco Police Department – Mission Station, Lower 24th Street Association, the San Francisco City Planning Department. Thanks to our sponsors and partners for making this happen:
Donate now!
It costs thousands of dollars in permits and operational fees to get the market up, running and operating continuously. The Market is still in start-up phase, help it get to self-sustainability that much quicker! Every dollar counts! Donate online. Read more about the Market.
Volunteer! This is a community-powered market. The Market runs on community energy and support. Want to help? Send an email to mcm@missioncommunitymarket.org with “MCM VOLUNTEER” in the subject line. Let us know what you’d like to do. We need help with:
- youth and art programming
- blog and online updates
- spanish translation
- graphic design
- volunteering during the market
- community outreach
Connect!
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