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"Ambulante Power!" is a FREE comprehensive vendor guide explaining why mobile vending is important for economic justice, and how local vendors can enter this economy. The guide includes information on Texas vending laws, contact information for entering local community markets, and an overview of vendors organizing in other communities at the national level. Ambulante Power was developed as a Spanish resource to meet the needs of the often excluded immigrant/Spanish-speaking population in Brownsville.
“What we receive from the government is often not enough to survive,” pointed out one of our vendors. They explained that being able to work as a vendor is how they make ends meet, but that it does not provide enough income to make up for losing government assistance.
The Taller de Permiso grupo de trabajadores ambulantes joined the Dia de los Muertos festival hosted by Revival of Cultural Arts at Market Square on Saturday, November 2nd. Then, on December 5th, we participated in the City of Brownsville’s holiday lighting event at Lincoln Park.
Our Festival de Manualidades brought community members together for a day-long knowledge share featuring workshops in printmaking, embroidery, paper crafts, and indigenous textile traditions.
On Saturday, September 14th, Las Imaginistas participated in the Joy Parade, featuring inflatables by textile artist, Nick Cave. The parade was part of “Augment,” a multifaceted project by Cave that “asks us to reflect on the power of the individual versus the collective, and on the difference between happiness and joy as a means to confront a time fraught with division.” We marched three miles through the historic streets of Boston, dancing, playing music, and expressing collective joy with more than 500 community members. The parade ended at Upham’s Corner, where we settled for another day of fun and festivities.
Throughout the summer, Las Imaginistas, have worked in collaboration with local artists to develop a vendor guide to help local vendors learn about vending ordinances and local markets. The project began in May with the Reportistas Printmaking Workshop taught by Celeste de Luna. The group will publish guide for street vendors at upcoming townhall.
Third cohort of emprendedores begin Taller de Permiso small business incubation workshop.
Las Imaginistas take a road trip to network, learn, and collaborate across state lines.
Las Imaginistas host their second annual Dream Parade, and unveil model of downtown Brownsville along with Plan de Arte Cívico.
Las Imaginistas host their first collaborative exhibit, This Bridge Called My Dream.
Meet Idelfonso Ortiz and Judith Antonio, two of our Taller de Permiso emprendedores.
Las Imaginistas invite community partners to reflect on “Hacemos la Ciudad” and a “Plan de Arte Cívico del Pueblo Entero.”
Las Imaginistas partner with City of Brownsville and Brownsville Wellness Coalition for community commercial kitchen project.
Movimiento del Futuro imagines what it would be like to live, move and breath in a more just version of our city.
Last weekend we hosted Festival de Construcción, bringing together community members and city officials to plan for a more equitable Brownsville.
Las Imaginistas buscan tres artistas que pueden ofrecer sus servicios de forma voluntaria para diseñar logo-tipos para nuestras emprendedores de Taller de Permiso.
Las Imaginistas are looking for three artists to volunteer their services to help our Taller de Permiso Emprendedores design logos for their developing businesses.
Estamos tomando aplicaciones para Taller de Permiso, una seria de clases de capacitación de pequeñas empresas para vendedores de alimentos o personas que deseen iniciar un negocio de venta de alimentos.
We are taking applications for Taller de Permiso, our ten-week small business training for food vendors or people who would like to start a food vending business
Las Imaginistas are looking for three artists to volunteer their services to help our Taller de Permiso Emprendedores design logos for their developing businesses.
On July 14th, 2018 at 10am in the Brownsville Public Library Las Imaginists will launch their year long initiative to engage the community to imagine the future of the region. Our collective exploration commences with three panel discussions and short workshops scheduled for Saturday the 14th, 21st and 28th.
Read more about Hacemos La Ciudad and the project launch here.
Las Imaginistas are 2018 Blade of Grass Fellows!
“A Blade of Grass, an organization that provides support for social-practice artworks, has named its 2018 ABOG Fellows for Socially Engaged Art. Six artists and two collectives will each receive $20,000 in unrestricted funding for projects that will be realized across the United States ”
Read more about the 2018 Blade of Grass fellows here!
“By acknowledging and supporting the central role that women play in manifesting a more equitable future of the region we aim to not only give them the credit and opportunities they deserve but to also create a more accurate account of history, in order that future generations may better understand what was and is possible.“
Read the full article about the Women of Artplace here!
“Three Brownsville artists and educators will receive $350,000 in funding from ArtPlace America’s 2017 National Creative Placemaking Fund. Las Imaginistas/Taller de Permiso is one of only 23 projects that will receive more than $8.7 million to execute their creative project….”
Read the full article on Neta here!
"The Buena Vida neighborhood of Brownsville, Texas is one of the oldest and most culturally vibrant of the southernmost edge of the US/ Mexico border. There is an incredible strength of cultural resources in the community and many people are ready to start turning their creativity into small businesses."
Read the full post on the Artplace America site here!
The "world's richest man," billionaire Elon Musk, wants to expand his private SpaceX facility at Boca Chica Beach in Brownsville, TX. Nearby residents have been speaking out against the destructive operations of the SpaceX facility for years. On the same night Musk was host of NBC’s Saturday Night Live, RGV residents streamed their own Saturday night special, Sabado Night Live, to address Space X, Elon Musk, and the problematic issues surfacing from Space X on a local, regional and universal level.