Recovery

Pictures included in this one. Something new going on over on the west side.

West Modesto Certified Farmers Market opened this summer, runs on Thursdays 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. at King Kennedy Center and Mellis Park through Sept 25.  Sept 4th there will be a free Blues concert with the Farmers Market with Shad Harris and the Groovenators, celebrating Recovery Month. 

WEST MODESTO farmer's Market, happens each Thursday through Sept 25, 3 pm to 7 pm. at King Kenedy Center and Mellis Park. Sept 4, special blues concert with the market, including art, vegetables, crafts, fruits, and more. Kids welcome. This concert a free event, kicks off Recovery Month.

Keena Wells and I had to help front some materials, painting time, for organizations helping with the Blues Festival, and a group that was going to help us get our festival in with Strawberry, Earth Day, actually do cans and recycling spot and sort, didn't happen, but we've been part of the Dumpster Divers Union, or professional recycler sole proprietors, and will have some bags for plastic, as we know the number of bottled water we have as staff, and cans, not supposed to have glass in the park, but last year our festival, with some guests with the black bags, as it is free event, and crew did leave the premises in pretty good shape, and recycling some plastic, gets Keena some more paints, helps us recoup some costs to a nice donor who help out cause we were working for, be able to extend that $20 again, if we get that much in plastic bottles, and keep our art venue pretty clean, challenge rest of crew to help us.

The FIFTH MODESTO BLUES FESTIVAL, 2008
FREE EVENT, GRACEADA PARK.
A Part of the Graffiti Summer Events schedule

United Community Walk, host nonprofit, NAMI Stanislaus

http://www.myspace.com/modesto_blues_fest

Thanks Efren for the Art is a good Father's Day Gift, and also for taping our NAMI Stanislaus and Modesto Blues Festival and United Community Walk segment on Sacramento and Company on Channel 10 yesterday morning. If you'd like to view it before I upload our file from Efren on the http://www.myspace.com/modesto_blues_fest web profile, check it out on Efren's You Tube.

After this paragraph, copy from modestoartx blog. its a note to artists in our area, and some friends. We've been lampooning an item here on editorial difference, behind the scene email, regarding competetive nature of business, when economy down. I understand both sides of equation, as frankly, to do what I've been doing, on really limited resources, use the free sites to blog, post my paintings and drawings, poetry which has yielded interest, critical review I needed, as for a bit, didn't get out much, health issues, bipolar and type of depression, other interests, where a need appeared, as did opportunity and what I was doing for some needed cash, promotion, back to posters, do some newsletters, support my support group, support some causes I live, not just believe in.

Email from my friend Joyce with NAMI Stanislaus on their portion of the Modesto Blues FEstival United Community Walk, which will have other art, Recovery groups, friends, walkers of all sorts, remember Relay for Life is the following weekend (ask efren) and come out and join us. Have acoustic music lunch in the Bowl with Joe Barretta, then at 1 p.m, the Main Event, as the Modesto Blues Festival 2008 opens on stage, June 14, for FREE, FREE, FREE event.

Come on out for 10 am start of the United Community Walk and NAMI Stanislaus fundraiser portion of the blues festival, have a music treat for lunch, with Joe Barretta at Modesto Blues Festival in the Mancini Bowl area. Main Stage starts at 1 pm.

Advocates art and music festival display at 800 Scenic, what it is.

Here's the flyer on the BHRS Advocates, Art Walk and Music Festival at 800 Scenic. Johnny and Kelly will be playing last set at 1 pm, two or three other talented musicians play prior to that from 11 am to 2 pm, in midst of an art show at 800 Scenic Drive, Modesto.

John Black, or JB of JB Presents wrote in this letter to the editor, regarding the United Community Walk, coming up June 14, with the Modesto Blues Festival. A lot of groups invited, this is community walk, nonprofits, service groups, you got a cause, or want to celebrate recovery, or help in our fundraising effort for NAMI Stanislaus, or want to raise awareness, or just the fun of walking or riding a bike on the new Virginia Corridor Trail, prior to enjoying some great Blues music in Graceada Park, come out and join us. If interested in being a part of this, email john at johnb@jbpresents.com or call 209-985-0467.