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2016 Fall Food Cart Fest

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This year  for the first time, the 3rd Annual Fall Food Cart Fest is moving to the East Side Club in Madison, WI, on the shores of Lake Monona overlooking the Madison skyline. Organized by Project Kinect, Barten & Associates, and Let’s Eat Out! food cart coalition, the event will feature local food carts offering tasting menus at $4 or less, local craft beer and a line-up of local music and entertainers performing throughout the day. MadCity Bazaar, an urban popup flea market, will also have a unique selection of local vendors on-site. Beer, food and vendor sales will begin at 11am and run until 7pm.The Fall Food Cart Festival is an annual event that donates to Carts for Community’s community initiatives.

WHEN

October 2, 2016 • 11am to 7pm

WHERE

East Side Club

3735 Monona Drive

Madison, WI 53714

Free parking is available onsite.

LIVE MUSIC!!!

2:30 – 4pm: Kyle Megna and the Monsoons

5:30 – 7pm: Daniel Ellsworth and the Great Lakes 

Tickets:

$5 – Eventbrite until Friday September 30th.

$10 – At door day of event

$25 – Fall Food Cart Package (Admission, 2 $4 featured menu items, 2 cocktails/beers, official FFCF t-shirt)

If you have any questions or are interested in sponsorships, please email info@projectkinect.com. We are currently looking for sponsors and volunteers. Sponsorship levels will be announced August 1st. 

The annual Fall Food Cart Fest is brought to you by… 

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New Event: Fall Food Cart Festival

Project Kinect is working with Let’s Eat Out! for it’s final event of 2015.  This season­ finale event will feature 20 local food carts (offering food options at $4 or less), Capital Brewery beer & great local music including the Tony Castaneda Latin Jazz Sextet on Sunday, September 27th at Burr Jones Field.

The Fall Food Cart Festival kicks off at 12pm.The event is in partnership with the Mad City Bazaar, an urban pop­up flea market, which takes place at the Fiore Shopping center, next to the park. The MadCity Bazaar opens at 10am with food and beer sales beginning at noon.

The series is a fundraiser for Let’s Eat Out! with all proceeds benefiting the group’s charitable work including its neighborhood dinner program and food cart internship program. Over the past summer, LEO was able to bring communities together and provide over 4000 meal subsidies in local food desert neighborhoods.. The 2015 internship program, which matched at­ risk youth with food cart owners for an intensive 8 week learning experience just concluded, with plans for expansion in 2016.

 

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Projects We Love: Sofar Sounds

In our early years, we had a Monday Spotlight series where great new organizations and projects were highlighted because of the incredible work they were doing. One of those projects was Sofar Sounds in the A Little LA Monday Spotlight.  At that time, music in a room was only a unique idea of music being brought into intimate living spaces around Los Angeles. Now this music project is much larger.

Sofar brings people together and allows them to communicate in a common way; music. Communication does not have to be A to B. Communication can be A, B, C, and D, communing together to enjoy a common love. This type of communication for common cause is a way to Social Change.

It is pretty easy to get involved with Sofar.  Go to the website. Sign up. Get notified about upcoming shows. Their, ‘How It Works‘ page will be more helpful though.

Here is an informational video about them:

And here are a couple of our favorite videos:

 

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Project Kinect at Work: Let’s Eat Out!

Let’s Eat Out! has some amazing things coming up! 

  • Summer Concert Series

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Let’s Eat Out! has asked Project Kinect to assist in a four part pilot summer concert series at Burr Jones Field in Madison, WI. The series will be three concerts in June 21st, 28th,  & July 5th and a final concert, the “Fall Food Cart Festival”, on September 27th. The concert series would include the presence of local bands (3 bands for each date), six food carts representing LEO!, A beer trailer representing a local brewery, a sponsored children’s area, and a specific nonprofit benefactor for each event. Project Kinect’s role with the concert series will be to assist logistics for the events while outlining the process for giving donations to local nonprofits. If you are interested in becoming a sponsor, please check out the Let’s Eat Out! sponsorship page.

  • Internship Program

The Let’s Eat Out! Internship Initiative, in partnership with Briarpatch Youth Services, will target youth between the ages of 16 and 18 from economically challenged communities around the city of Madison who are seeking unique skills related to food service and entrepreneurship. The internship will not only provide a steady summer job (at $9 per hour), it will also provide external correlated training and the potential for long term job and entrepreneurial development.

In addition to providing valuable work experience and other training, the Let’s Eat Out! Internship initiative will also provide mentors for youth.  Food cart owners will serve as mentors for their interns and offer an up close and personal look at what it takes to manage and operate a small business.

Unlike other internship opportunities where interns often work at the bottom-rungs of the company, Let’s Eat Out! interns will be trained through day-to-day interactions with the owners of the businesses they’re working for.  The business owners will provide valuable guidance and insight on all aspects of small business management. Additionally, interns will be involved in labs each week that will assist to strengthen and add to their skill sets.

If this is something you would like to support financially, then here is where to donate.

If you want to volunteer,  here are great volunteer opportunities provided by Let’s Eat Out!s weekly dinners.

 

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