‘The Cries of San Francisco’ Market Day #1 | Mission

Submitted by the Event Organizer

The Cries of San Francisco is a project by Allison Smith that invokes the historic tradition of street peddlers hawking their wares with melodic songs and calls.

This event is used as a means of offering up social revelations on the temporal employments, habits, and callings of nearly 70 Bay Area artists, craftspeople, and other urban workers.

Saturday Market #1 | June 11 2011
Select Criers will enact their projects, engage with visitors, sing their cries and hawk their wares.

• Aimee Bladwin as The Paper Petal Peddler
• Kayte Stasny Kelly as The Ice Cream Girl
• Art for a Democratic Society as The Class War Store
• Larisa Minerva as The School of Practicing Care
• Jennifer Kaufman as The Mourner’s Midwife
• Ana Fernandez as Miranda Texidor: Love Poems and Letters of Recommendation
• Nathaniel Parsons as Ha Ha La

For example, Amy Keefer’s cry:
“Alchem-Amy! Alchem-Amy!
Super sweet smelling gold soap…
For health, wealth
Longevity and hope.
Mined in California,
Seven dollars a brick
No snake oil, no tricks!!”

… and others.

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