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Full Steam Ahead at the Rail Yards Market!

Published by communitypublishingabq@gmail.com on May 2, 2015 Respond

By Alex Paramo

The Rail Yards Market is back and better than ever. Opening Day 2015 is Sunday May, 3rd (fb event page)! Still free to attend and enjoy the wonderful sights, sounds and aromas emanating from the Blacksmiths Shop in Barelas NM (777 1st Street). This season they are focused on diversifying their offerings and increasing their outreach to the community. They will be welcoming back  some old friends and giving the All Aboard to many new ones!

More Vendors

gauchito catering

Gauchito Catering

This season they have expanded their vendor number and offerings from roughly 65 in 2014 to close to 100 this year. Among the familiar food folks are: Santa Fe Honey Salon, Senor Tortas and Gauchito Catering! New food folks include: Street Food Asia, and Maggies Micro Greens.

Returning artists/artisans include: Sean Wells, the 111 Media Collective and Ozzyana Felix. New artists/artisans include: High Desert Flame Works, Meltdown Studio  and Spindle and Sparrow.

Arts/Education

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Courtesy of Jane Malone

The Children’s Zone promises to rock the socks off of the small feet of your little ones! Leading our Cinco de Mayo celebration is Copper Enamel Artists David Snow, who will be leading the kids in Maraca making. Bring your kiddo-artists to craft an amazing instrument from recycled materials!

In the Art Zone, Jane Malone will be demoing her Dia de los Muertos inspired art to one and all. Jane is native to Albuquerque, New Mexico, and as such she has been steeped in the art and culture of the Southwest. She earned my degree at The Art Center Design College (back when it was still AC/DC), specializing in graphic design and illustration.

“My illustrations are done in inks and resin on canvas. They’re all handmade and one-of-a-kind originals. I will use any media, but I have a special love for inks. I use Sharpie, Bic, Marks-A-Lot, Speed ball and India, as well as mixing a lot of my own pigments. The resin is an aqueous resin with a UV protectant, as I’m always trying to keep the original ‘wet’ ink sheen. To set the resin I use a blow torch, so all of the pieces are tested-by-fire before they’re cured. It’s a beautiful way to bring the bubbles out of resin, and I get to use a blow torch.”

Entertainment

Continuing with their theme, entertainers include singers, dancers and musicians:

Please click here for ABQ Guitar Lessons very own Jacob Reinhardt’s “The Rail Yards Notes” article for more in-depth coverage and a multimedia sample of the Entertainers for this week!

Community

With the goal of increasing diversity and reaching out into the community/neighborhood(s) they have brought on board a Community Outreach Coordinator to communicate more closely with the surrounding neighborhoods residents and the city at-large. If you are interested in volunteering please contact them at RYMvolunteers@gmail.com

holding handsThe RYM will be accepting WIC/SNAP and participating in the Double-Up Food bucks program. If you are interested in participating as a vendor/partner/sponsor at the RYM please click here.

The Rail Yards Market is more than just a market. Their responsibility is to you all, residents of Albuquerque and beyond. The community helped us get started and keep it going. Together a more vibrant place to work and play in. See you Sunday. All Aboard!
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Rail Yards Market 2015

Published by communitypublishingabq@gmail.com on April 9, 2015 Respond

 

By Alex ParamoRYMheader_2015

Authors Note:
My involvement with the Rail Yards Market began early last year when my publishing company, Community Publishing, was called upon to program the Kids Zone at the RYM. Along with co-founder Yvette Sandoval, artist Vanessa Martinez and artist/educator Stephanie Galloway, we were able to provide educational programming for the first months of the 2014 season. 

The RYM is more than just a farmers market, arts/artisan market or a venue for entertainers or educators. The RYM has the potential to serve as a sanctuary where folks from the community can come enjoy and/or participate in a paradigm shift. A shift that includes the belief that we as a community of people are empowered to change our city, our society a just, equitable place that puts the interests of the people ahead of profit. If we bond together in mutual support we can take the power out of the few and give it back to the many for the benefit of all of us.
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The Rail Yards Market (RYM) is excited to announce that we are back and better than ever! The 2015 market opens on May 3rd and will run most Sundays from 9AM-1PM through October. We aim to continue and improve upon this community-powered movement to stimulate local economic growth in Albuquerque and expose the community to local artists and educators.

Highlights of the 2014 Season

The Albuquerque community really made our inaugural season a rousing success. Due to your support we:

  • Welcomed over 120,000 folks through our doors in 2014
  • Generated over $500,000 in local business revenues
  • Amassed over 16,236 volunteer hours
  • Provided a platform for 730+ vendors & artists
  • Amassed over 11,000 fans on Facebook

Additionally we featured dancers, poets, fortune tellers, bike valet, a FUSION Theatre production of Princess Marisol & the Moon Thieves, high-wire acts, and information from various community health care organizations.

Diversity

NIF

National Institute of Flamenco

Diversity is of paramount importance to us at the RYM. Therefore this season we will be welcoming more vendors on the day of the market and more vendors in total. Artisans and Artist will be rotating to allow for us to give more opportunities to our talented community members. In addition, our Educational Zones will include more community organizations and will be focused toward a specific theme.

While we will be bringing back some favorites from last season like morning exercises, poets, and flamenco dancers, we will also be diversifying our entertainment options. Musically we plan on mixing up the lineups we have to include traditional New Mexican music, Latino and African American music artists, Native American acts as well as music offerings from all around our local community and our international community.

With an eye toward expanding our culinary offerings, we are reaching out to our Asian American restaurateurs. Continuing with the theme of reaching deeper into our community, the RYM is hiring a Community Outreach Coordinator who will be tasked with forging connections and creating alliances with neighborhood groups around the vicinity of the RYM and beyond. Their duties will also include fundraising and the disbursement of our RYM tokens throughout Albuquerque.

3 Things to Look Forward to in 2015

1. More Vendors: we have increased our vendor numbers to roughly 100 every Sunday.
2. WIC & SNAP: we will start accepting WIC (Women, Infants, and Children Supplemental Food Program) as well as SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) funding. Participants can use their SNAP “double up food bucks” at the RYM to buy double the produce for half the price.
3. Monthly Newsletter: we will publishing a monthly newsletter that will contain information and discounts. Be on the lookout for signups shortly!

Participate

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The Rail Yards Market is focused on building a resilient, sustainable local economy that we all love to work and play in. Through food, art, and music, we hope to bring our community together in an atmosphere of fun, learning, and creativity.

We are a community-run, volunteer-powered organization and we always welcome your participation. We are holding Community Forums open to the public where we welcome your input. To volunteer, partner, sponsor or for more info please visit http://railyardsmarket.org today!

This article originally ran in the City of Albuquerque’s AVCB’s website ABQ365.
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Happy Landings at the Rail Yards Market

Published by communitypublishingabq@gmail.com on October 4, 2014 Respond

By Alex Paramo

Each year the Albuquerque International T-ShirtBalloon Fiesta attracts hundreds of thousands of folks from all over the world! Balloon enthusiasts fill the streets of this beautiful city, while hot-air balloons add more colors to the already magnificent color palette of it’s mesmerizing sky! Year after year the Balloon Fiesta seems more breathtaking than the previous and a visit to Albuquerque is not complete without a visit to the International Balloon Fiesta Museum/Park. Every year Albuquerque seems more vibrant, with an increasing number of attractions and must-experience venues!

The Heart of the City

Dan GardunoLocated in beautiful Barelas, the Rail Yards Market is part of that ever-expanding list of must-experience venues but it is not easily classifiable. It is much more than a market but rather a meeting place, where a vortex of sights, sounds, aromas and tastes congregate, every Sunday from 9am to 3pm! Artists of all mediums converge with educators and a dedicated community of volunteers to create a truly one-of-a-kind experience! It is truly a world-class event where patrons can shop from local growers, listen to amazing music, partake in mindful stretching, learn from dedicated educators, and be exposed to cutting-edge art while being exposed to ideas regarding sustainability and a reintroduction to traditional ways of living.

Education through the Arts

Pop Up ArtAt the Pop Up Arts Zone we have an Interactive installation by  Rosalie M. López “¿No estoy yo aquí, Am I not here? Ms. López is a Chicana conceptual artist whose work revolves around reforming religious and cultural iconography to express ambivalences in contemporary culture. Her work often discusses the duality of dysfunctional social cycles juxtaposed with positive expressions of cultural identity and communal strength. She primarily uses printmaking, installation, and the altar/ofrenda to relay experiences of survival, loss, and hope. She is currently working with students of Working Classroom to create contemporary installation altars dedicated to this lost to preventable deaths. The work will be displayed in an exhibition November 2 at 100 Gold Ave. SW (corner of 1st and Gold).

Africana StudiesThe Children’s Zone features Africana Leadership Opportunity Team (ALOT), LLC which provides innovative educational solutions for the community, in higher education, and for New Mexico’s children through Africana Cultural Arts. Children will have the opportunity to create art while exploring Africana history and culture, and using interesting new tools. ALOT will also provide art made by Third World Outliers, an artist collective within ALOT, to support the no cost educational programming. ALOT creates well-developed and content rich project-based curriculum that meets the New Mexico State Standards, as well as exceeds the benchmarks set by the New Common Core Initiative and recommendations by the Arts Education Partnership and the National Collation for Core Arts Standards. Through innovative programming, ALOT has served over 200 youth and over 150 UNM Students just this year through the ALOT Summer School for Educational Transformation (ASSET), the ALOT Cultural Arts Program at APS, and art seminars across the city. ALOT is comprised of certified teachers, UNM Faculty, students, and community members who believe that art, learning, and teaching are the most radical of acts.

Labor DayThe Sustainability Zone will be promoting the concept of sustainability through the SUVA school hunger program. Donnine Canamar will be talking about student hunger and why as a system, we need to correct this imbalance. She will be handing out literature about the program as well as info about where people can donate.

On our Stages

We have many entertainers schedule for this Sunday including (complete schedule):

  • Morning Movement with Melanie on the Community Stage
  • Poetry
  • The Whiskey Priest

Specials for Balloon Fiesta Patrons

We welcome you at the Rail Yards Market after your balloon experience with great specials courtesy of our amazing vendors, and growers! We are open from 9am to 3pm every Sunday through November 2. Visit the Rail Yards Market and you will be able to tell your friends that you had a unique Albuquerque experience! See You Sunday!

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Alex Paramo is an Author and Co-Founder of Community Publishing. Community Publishing brings local artists of all mediums together in creative collaborations for distribution as multimedia eBooks while promoting literacy in our communities.

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Appreciating our Community at the Rail Yards Market

Published by communitypublishingabq@gmail.com on July 25, 2014 Respond

Appreciating Albuquerque at the Rail Yards Market by Alex Paramo

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As we approach the half-way point at the Rail Yards Market (RYM), I would personally like to thank the residents of Albuquerque for embracing the Rail Yards Market and making it a hub for community interaction, a piston for local commerce, a showcase for local entertainers, educators and artists, and the place be on Sunday’s from 9am to 3pm in the beautiful Barelas neighborhood. I am certain that all of my fellow volunteers feel the same way I do: eternally grateful to you all, our neighbors and new-found friends!

Gearing up for the 2nd Half

Warehouse 508We are using the experiences we had in the 1st half of the season at the RYM and making some tweaks to better serve, entertain and educate our community. Some exciting modifications in-store for you for the 2nd half of the season at the RYM include closer collaboration for educational programming with our community sponsors, partners and stakeholders such as SUVA, Warehouse 508, OffCenter Community Arts Project. Working Classroom, and Harwood Art Center to mention just a few.

Additionally, we will be adding and rotating food options, vendors, artisans and entertainers to lend additional exposure to our fabulous and diverse community of local entrepreneurs and creative folks! The wide variety of food-truck options, like Irrational Pies, will continue. Farm to table options are schedule to increase as well. Your input and recommendations are certainly welcome. Please click here to comment.

This Sunday at the RYM

SUVASustainability by design with the South West University of Visual Arts (SUVA) on Sunday! RYM presents junior interior design student Alyssa Metoyer in our Educational Sustainability Zone. Alyssa specializes in environmentally sound designs that are sure to spark a desire to create better ways of living. Innovation meets inspiration and opens doors to a creative future combined with a friendly footprint. Join us and let your mind step forward in a life positive way!

The Children’s Zone will feature artist-educators, Rachel Harris-Huffman, Charlie Gravina, Trinity Treat from OffCenter Community Arts Project. Children will make bookmarks, paper pendants on ball chains, and some small 2D art pieces. There will be lots of paper, magazines, markers, stamps with pads, regular and pattern-cutting scissors, and soooo many glue sticks for everyone to get real messy!

Rail Yards MarketPainter and muralist Nani Chacon will be displaying her incredible work in our Pop Up Fine Art Gallery, including several works that won’t be shown again after this weekend. Nani is also a programmer/partner at the RYM and we are proud to have her contributing her many talents to our community-powered Sundays!

Entertainers include Creative Movements for all ages at the Community Stage. On the Main Stage we will showcase New Mexico’s finest Poets, the RYM’s Rob Hobert and Dead Gunz, all the way from Phoenix, AZ – The Missing Parts. Additionally the amazing Audio Buddha, and one of Albuquerque’s top bands will be joining us: Cali Shaw Band! Please click here for a complete schedule

 Looking Back while Moving Forward

Thank YouFrom it’s inception, the RYM has been an all volunteer, community-powered event. Many folks, from walks of life came together with a similar mission, “The Rail Yards Market is focused on building a resilient, sustainable local economy that we all love to work and play in. Through food, art, and music, we hope to bring our community together in an atmosphere of fun, learning, and creativity” (from the RYM website). Due to all of the positive feedback we have received, we feel like we are succeeding! This success is due in large part to all of our partners, sponsors, volunteers, founding members and especially to you: our Albuquerque/New Mexico community! We could not have and cannot continue to succeed without you. Ahéhee’, Gracias and Thank You! See You Sunday!

Alex Paramo is an Author and Co-Founder of Community Publishing. Community Publishing brings local artists of all mediums together in creative collaborations for distribution as multimedia eBooks while promoting literacy in our communities.

We are proud to be a community partner and digital marketer at the Rail Yards Market.#JoinOurCommunity at http://communitypublishing.org

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The Rising Sun at the Rail Yards Market by Alex Paramo

Published by communitypublishingabq@gmail.com on June 21, 2014 Respond

Summer SolsticeThe Summer Solstice is when the summer begins in the Northern Hemisphere and for us living in Mountain Time Zone that moment is “officially” occurs at 4:51 AM on Saturday, June 21. Known as Litha in many pagan traditions, there are many celebrations that take place around the globe and and in many creative ways.

Summer Solstice and the Midsummer Night

Summer SolsticeIn Northern European countries, Midsummer is a very important celebration that revolves around the Summer Solstice. Sometime known as St. John’s Day, this celebration is as important as Christmas and New Years Day. The celebration is often celebrated with bonfires and there is usually a clear inter-mingling with Christian rituals.

Rail Yards Market Fun

Along with our usual fantastic food and local growers we have a plethora of activities planned for you and your family at the Rail Yards Market this Sunday!Summer Solstice Mandala

The Live Arts Zone is deeply honored to welcome our very own Ramona Snow Teo Graphic Designer, Co-Founder and Manager of Albuquerque’s Guerrilla GraphiX  Ramona will be joined by gifted local Artist Hammon Buck for an all day Mandala set that will knock your socks off and inspire the Sacred Mind.

Summer Solstice MasksIn the Children’s Zone, super artist and educator Stephanie Galloway will be making animal masks to welcome the Summer! These wonderful fun masks will be decorated by children in whatever stylings their creative minds inspire them to. Come join Stephanie in the Children’s Zone!

Seed Jewelry Summer SolsticeThe Traditional Zone will be featuring Seed Blossoms Art Seed Jewelry. “Seeds. The entire life of a plant contained in a little tiny package, a miracle waiting to unfold. These pieces celebrate the miniature miracles that link the cycles of life together.” These awesome artists want to bring attention to the plight of seeds, invaluable life crucial to our existence, that are decreasing in genetic diversity due to corporate exploitation.

Music and Entertainment

As always we will have an exciting lineup of musicians, poets and entertainers:

The Rail Yards Market is truly a #CommunityPowered event. So come on over help us out around the RYM or just watch the sun come up with us. Sure we will be a day late  but rising for the morning sun is always worth the wait. See You Sunday!!

Alex Paramo is an Author and Co-Founder of Community Publishing. Community Publishing brings Alex Paramo Summer Solsticelocal artists of all mediums together in creative collaborations for distribution as multimedia eBooks while promoting literacy in our communities.

We are proud to be a community partner and digital programmer at Rail Yards Market.
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