Come out today to the Congo Square Market, located at Southside Community Center 305 South Plain Street 4:00pm - 8:00pm for your last opportunity in 2009 to enjoy live music and delicious food while hanging out with friends and supporting local vendors.
This year the Congo Square Market, founded and managed by Jhakeem Haltom, set out to:
1. build a stronger self-reliant local community,
2. develop Southside’s economic base
3. encourage community & personal health.
Named for the famous Congo Square in New Orleans, this market honors African-American history. In the early days of US slavery, recently enslaved African peoples and others could gather in Congo Square on Sundays for music, dance, and stories.
Today, Congo Square Market is for the empowerment of our local community and is collaboration between Southside Community Center, Ithaca Youth Bureau’s Paul Scheurs Memorial Program, and Cornell Cooperative Extension-Tompkin's County’s Whole Community Project. Jhakeem Haltom, a staff member of the Paul Scheurs Program, is the market founder and manager. This event is funded in part by a Robert S. Smith Award.
Come shop, eat, visit with neighbors, meet the vendors and have a great time mingling and dancing to live local musicians. Proceeds from the fruit and vegetable stand and all vendor fees will go to Southside Community Center programming as well as to help Congo Square Market continue.
If you are interested in vending or performing for the Summer of 2010, contact us today. People new to vending are especially welcome and start-up support will be provided.
For info or to get more involved, contact:
Jhakeem Haltom, Congo Square Market Founder & Manager
Phone: 607-351- 7602
Jemila Sequeira, Whole Community Project Coordinator
Phone: 607-272-2292 ext. 157
1. build a stronger self-reliant local community,
2. develop Southside’s economic base
3. encourage community & personal health.
Named for the famous Congo Square in New Orleans, this market honors African-American history. In the early days of US slavery, recently enslaved African peoples and others could gather in Congo Square on Sundays for music, dance, and stories.
Today, Congo Square Market is for the empowerment of our local community and is collaboration between Southside Community Center, Ithaca Youth Bureau’s Paul Scheurs Memorial Program, and Cornell Cooperative Extension-Tompkin's County’s Whole Community Project. Jhakeem Haltom, a staff member of the Paul Scheurs Program, is the market founder and manager. This event is funded in part by a Robert S. Smith Award.
Come shop, eat, visit with neighbors, meet the vendors and have a great time mingling and dancing to live local musicians. Proceeds from the fruit and vegetable stand and all vendor fees will go to Southside Community Center programming as well as to help Congo Square Market continue.
If you are interested in vending or performing for the Summer of 2010, contact us today. People new to vending are especially welcome and start-up support will be provided.
For info or to get more involved, contact:
Jhakeem Haltom, Congo Square Market Founder & Manager
Phone: 607-351- 7602
Jemila Sequeira, Whole Community Project Coordinator
Phone: 607-272-2292 ext. 157
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