TOWN CARNIVAL: HOMIES and community at Arrojo Viejo Park in East Oakland #TOWNNIGHTS June 24th

We had so much fun being at the TOWN NIGHT's TOWN CARNAVAL with our beautiful community in Oakland yesterday. Our next Town Carnaval is on July 8th. See you then. 

With over 300 folks in attendance, we ran out of our 250 cups and burritos in less than 2 hours, Town Nights hosted by Homies Empowerment Program/Adelante was a great success. It took a barrio.

All the staff at Homies worked so hard to make it successful. Diego A. Rodriguez Zamora took about 10 trips to bring everything there. So thankful to Noel Gallo , Janet Stickmon , Isai Hurtado , Juma Crawford, Aaron Ortiz, Newin Orante , Gary Yee and Mike Hutchinson who all graciously went into the dunk tank.

All in all it was wonderful! How did it go for you? See you at the next one Friday July 8th at Arroyo Park.

Please join our Homies Empowerment Solidarity movement.

Thank you to the Warriors Community Foundation who donated championship shirts. Thank you to Swag by Asayo who donated over 80 boxes of delicious culinary goods by Black and Brown chefs. Thank you to Black Cultural Zone and the @CityofOakland Department of Violence Prevention for providing resources to make it happen.

Thank you La Familia Counseling Service for coming to table. Thank you to CORE, Native American Health and other partners for bringing COVID testing and the vaccine. Thank you to the Oakland firefighters for coming out. On July 8th we get to do it again at Arroyo Park from 6-9pm with folks like Lilibeth Gangas , Candice Elder , Loren Taylor , Treva Reid , Hodari B. Davis , Nhi Truong , David Kakishiba , Karely Ordaz , Adrian C. Henderson , G.T. Reyes and more. It was so inspiring to see so many African-American, Indigenous and Latino families enjoying themselves together. It was an all ages affair.

Thank you DJ Beasty Aguilar for coming to spin some good tunes. Folks was out there dancing too. Just amazing. Thank you JP Hailer for coordinating the folks on the booths. Thank you Eroida Lila Duran for taking care of the registration table. Thank you Selena Quiroz for taking care of the prizes section. We gave out over 400 prizes. Thank you Lola Garcia for taking care of the raspados. Thank you Ann Park and Ivette Salinas for coming to take care of a booth. Thank you Maria Castillo for making that delicious agua fresca (Lila too) and watching the kids in the Warriors jumpers. Thank you Rogelio Låst Nəme X , Greg Stone, Lizette Perez , Jazzy, Santa Teresa, Noemi Salmeron , Mauricio Salmeron , Florentina Mendoza Jiménez , Emma Estrada , Jeffrey, Vanessa Muniz, Cynthia, Cristobal, Olin, Amaru, Quetzali, Chestin, Rev Harry Louis Williams , Lizeth Gallo , Rubi Pelayo and so many others that helped out one way or another. Thank you Jay Jasper Pugao and Diego for being great MCs. Thank you Taqueria La Mejor and Juan Toscano-Anderson for taking some of the food. Thank you to the Arroyo Rec center folks for opening up the space for us. Thank you to the Oakland Brown Berets for protecting us.
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