Charm City Night Market

"We are all part of one another." - Yuri Kochiyama

We talk a lot about how the struggles of marginalized groups are interconnected. But, we don’t talk enough about how our joy is also. As begin Pride Month and APAHM, we believe you can’t contain Asian joy or the Black experience or Pride in just the span of one month. So come celebrate with us on Sunday and then every day of the year not just when the calendar tells you to.

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There are now 19 of your favorite artists and makers coming on Sunday to Whitehall Mill! We are so excited to see Art by Nicole Padre, Daniel Pham, J DeSantist Art, LivetoInspire, Lucky Pocket Press, Marivella Create, Maryrose Runk, Kirsten Pamfilis, Nguyên Khôi Nguyễn, NIkita Yogaraj, Pepper Pom Totes, Reyshi Designs, Roots in Charm City, Ryan Artes, Spatial Oddity Studio, Toki Tako, Tracey Beale, Rowan Bathurst and Workarina.

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Just your daily friendly reminder to sign up on our Eventbrite (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/barkada-barbecue-and-night-market-redux-tickets-157419743691). Whitehall Market will be open during their regular hours. The Pop Up Market starts goes from 12-6 and Barkada BBQ; featuring The Heritage Kitchen, Atchara Family, Suspended Brewing Company, and Wight Tea Company; goes from 2-6. We cannot wait to sing, dance, eat and celebrate with you on Sunday!

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“We urgently need to bring to our communities the limitless capacity to love, serve, and create for and with each other.” - Grace Lee Boggs

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Happy Friday Fam! We are just two sleeps away from The Barkada Barbecue and Night Market Redux at . We are proud to announce that Wight Tea Company will now be mixing up some cocktails for the event! What cocktails, you say? Peep the video above to see along with the rest of the menu from The Heritage Kitchen, Atchara Family and Suspended Brewing Company. It looks f*cking delicious, FAM. Make sure you comment what your go to’s will be!

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Just a reminder the Night Market starts at noon and the BBQ kicks off at 2 pm. Both events wind down at 6 pm! Don’t forget to sign up on our Eventbrite (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/barkada-barbecue-and-night-market-redux-tickets-157419743691) so we can plan on how many tsinelas we need!

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A recent Leading Asian Americans to Unite for Change poll estimated that 22 MM people in this country identified themselves as of Asian descent and another 1.5 MM identified as Pacific Islander. According to LAAUNCH, “Within these regional groups, a huge variety of ethnicities exist within the Asian American community. People who identify their heritage as Chinese, Indian or Filipino make up the largest share.” In addition to the 4 largest communities, there are an additional 16 additional communities mentioned in the report. This tells you that the AAPI community is not a monolith but also there are millions of AAPI stories to be told. So, please come to get to know us because we’d love to find space to tell our stories.

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SUNDAY, SUNDAY, SUNDAY is fast approaching FAM! If you you haven’t signed up on Eventbrite (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/barkada-barbecue-and-night-market-redux-tickets-157419743691) yet, we’d greatly appreciate it! It’s free to get in but this just let’s us keep track of how many people are coming.

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Sunday’s line up at Whitehall Mill is going to be amazing, Fam. If you enjoyed our previous sessions in May then we’re running it back with many of the same artists: Art By Nicole Padre, Daniel Pham, J DeSantist Art, Live To Inspire, Marivella Create, Maryrose Runk, Mirror MIrror Vintage, Nguyên Khôi Nguyễn, Nikita Yogaraj, Pepper Pom Totes, Reyshi Designs, Roots in Charm City, Ryan Artes, Spatial Oddity, Toki Tako, Tracey Beale, and Workarina will all be there! They will be alongside The Heritage Kitchen, Atchara Family, Suspended Brewing Company and now Wight Tea Company who are throwing a quintessential Filipino celebration aka a Barkada Barbecue. The Pop Up Market goes from 12p-6p and the Barkada Barbecue starts at 2p and goes til 6p. See you there!

Artist Photos: Bounme Phetdavone
Background Photo: Perri B.B.

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If you were a Filipino, you would informally refer to each other as pinoy or pinay. More formally, you would say kababayan. For your family, you would say pamilya. For your chosen tribe, you would call them barkada. Barkada isn’t just a word for your friends. The word means so much more and is better understood with another phrase used by Filipinos when they talk about solidarity, as pointed out by Regina Aquino at the National Day of Solidarity Against AAPI Hate DC Flagship Rally rally, Isang Bagsak! This means “if one of us falls, we all fall”.

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We are only 4 DAYS away from the Barkada Barbecue and the last Night Market Pop Up at Whitehall Mill. Not only are The Heritage Kitchen and Atchara Family going to blow it out with some Filipino BBQ goodness, but now Suspended Brewing Company will be serving up some beverage deliciousness. So, fam, the night market pop up starts at noon (when you still can get your favorite foods from Heritage and the rest of Whitehall Market) and then the Barkada Barbecue kicks off at 2 pm. Don’t forget to sign up on our Eventbrite (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/barkada-barbecue-and-night-market-redux-tickets-157419743691) so we know how many people to expect. Also, bring your own tsinelas.

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It doesn’t feel like we’ve talked about the effects on individuals of over a year of COVID quarantine. What a better way to bridge that conversation than through art. (of ) this past Saturday sketched pandemic portraits of people in masked and then asked them what they think should be underneath. It was whimsical, beautiful and most of all an impactful way of translating our collective joy and trauma at the same time. Nguyen may be bringing this back on Sunday at . Don’t miss out!

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In addition to Nguyen, there will be a host of other artists along with x Barkada Barbecue which will also be fueled by ! The Pop Up Market will be starting at noon and barbecue will start at 2 pm. Please make sure you sign up on our (link in our bio) so we can get a gauge of how many people are coming! Hope to see you all soon!

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THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU Baltimore for your of our Pop Up Market at Whitehall Mill during APAHM. While, APAHM “may” be over, you can still get to know our community all year round! Hopefully we’ll see some of you at the National Day of Solidarity Against AAPI Hate DC Flagship Rally rally in Washington, DC. If not, WE ARE RUNNING IT BACK ONE MORE TIME at Whitehall Market this coming Sunday June 6th from 12p to 6p! Come through!

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This time, The Heritage Kitchen and Atchara Family will be tag teaming a Barkada Barbecue, starting at 2 pm (but you can get all of Heritage’s regular goodness before then). Barkada means a close group of friends or even your tribe, so bring both!

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We’re bringing back many of artists and makers from the past month. Peep this list, fam: Art by Nicole Padre, Daniel Pham, JDeSantis Art, LivetoInspire, Marivella Create, Maryrose Runk, Nguyên Khôi Nguyễn, Nikita Yogaraj, Pepper Pom Totes, Reyshi Designs, Roots in Charm City, Ryan Artes, Spatial Oddity, Toki Tako, Tracey Beale, Workarina and maybe more!

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