Hopework-l Mailing List: Market and festival not to be missed!

[John Wallace (walla003]

June 23, 2004

Dear Folk School folks and May term course folks,

Something exciting and important is happening on Saturdays this summer, 
from 11 to 3, and from now through August 28, at La Placita Park in St. 
Paul^Òs West Side neighborhood.

La Placita is a little ^Ópocket^Ô park tucked among the Hispanic and 
Hmong businesses along Concord, near the corner of Concord and State.

What is happening on Saturdays has the feel of an old-fashioned 
combination of market and festival.

Cooks selling prepared-on-the-spot ethnic foods
Gardeners selling fresh vegetables and flowers
Craftspersons showing and selling their work
Artists performing (dancers dancing, drummers drumming, fiddlers 
fiddling, singers singing, actors acting, mimes miming, and maybe even 
jugglers juggling, clowns clowning, and such like) and displaying their 
work
People of all ages having a wonderful time together

An old fashioned market and festival, but because of the amazing 
diversity of the West Side neighborhood, one such as the world has 
never seen before.

This summer^Òs La Placita Market is a joint project of the Youth Farm
and Market Project, Danza Mexica Cuauhtemoc, Forecast Public Artworks,
Teatro del Pueblo, Hmong American Institute for Learning, and District
del Sol. Funding from the Rockefeller Foundation helped.

For more information about the project and a map to La Placita see
http://www.laplciatamarket.org

Come and check it out!

John Wallace