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SAT, 8/27
Everyone’s a dreamer at the non-profit Microbusiness Development Corporation in Five Points. People come with hopes of opening their own business, whether the service is bike repair or steel-drum lessons. They cook Laotian dishes and concoct and bottle kick-butt barbecue sauces. They are artists, candle makers, writers, seamstresses, gelato makers and Celtic historians. Some import handbags made by women in the Malagasy rainforest. They are all of us, in some tiny way, folks just trying to get ahead in a world that wants to keep everyone in little boxes, straight from the cookie cutter.
Somehow, these remarkable people have edged out of the mold. To celebrate their small successes, MDC is hosting the second annual Global Market from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. in Mestizo-Curtis Park, near 31st Avenue and Curtis Street, in the heart of a neighborhood as diverse as the non-profit organization’s marvelously disparate clientele. “The mission’s there, but don’t come because of that,” market organizer Jason Page says of the event. “Come to enjoy yourself.”
And that won’t be hard: Along with more than seventy booths staffed by local micro-businesses, the event will also include live entertainment — from mariachi bands to gospel singers to hip-hop dancers — plus a Denver Nuggets basketball clinic for kids and a battalion of resource information tables.
For more information, call 303-308-8121 or visit www.microbusiness.org. — Susan Froyd
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