Support Café in the Park Program in JP's Hyde Jackson District

Boston, MA (July 16, 2019) – Hyde Jackson Square Main Street looks to build upon its successful 2018 event series by welcoming an even more vibrant, social Café in Mozart Park prior to their Teatro en el Parque live theater shows in July.

Bridging Communities at Teatro en el Parque aims to bring together both Spanish and non-Spanish speaking communities for engaging, fun evenings in Mozart Park in Jamaica Plain. The free event is built around inspiring and comedic community theater, and incorporates local economic development through food, engaging attendees, and bringing people together from different cultures.

Hyde Jackson is using the Patronicity crowdfunding platform to raise funds for this community program. If the campaign reaches its crowdfunding goal of $2,500 by 11:59pm on July 28, 2019, the project will win a matching grant with funds from the Boston Main Streets Foundation. Learn more about the Hyde Jackson Square Main Street project at www.patronicity.com/teatro.

“We are extremely excited to collaborate again with Escena Latina Teatro to create a unique experience that showcases great community theater, our community, local commerce, and people coming together,” said Gerald Robbins, Executive Director of Hyde Jackson Square Main Street. “Our wish is for attendees to better know their neighbors and their merchants, taste great ethnic food from neighborhood restaurants and enjoy music all while building a stronger and more sustainable local economy along Centre Street in Hyde & Jackson Squares.”

“Last year’s Café en el Parque proved to be not only a wonderfully creative way to celebrate the district’s diverse culture, but also a significant driver of foot traffic to neighborhood businesses,” said Joel Sklar, Chair of the Boston Main Streets Foundation. “We’re proud to support Hyde Jackson Square Main Street in this community-building effort and encourage everyone who loves Jamaica Plain to do the same.”

Teatro en el Parque makes live theater accessible for residents with few opportunities to experience theater in a language and culture that reflect many within the neighborhood. This year’s performance by Escena Latina Teatro – “It is Forbidden to Commit Suicide in the Spring” (Prohibido Suicidarse en Primavera) – will take place on the evenings of July 18, July 19, and July 20. Although performed in Spanish, English language supertitles are projected on a large video monitor so that non-Spanish speakers may also enjoy the play and learn about Spanish theater.

Learn more about the Hyde Jackson Square Main Street project and donate at www.patronicity.com/teatro.

About Hyde Jackson Square Main Street

The mission of Hyde Jackson Square Main Street is to create a safe, visually vibrant, economically sound business district in Hyde & Jackson Squares. The Hyde and Jackson Square neighborhood is rich with a variety of stores, businesses, and residences. People here hail from many different countries and speak many languages. Known as Boston’s Latin Quarter, here you are able to purchase everything for your daily needs as well as for gifts for friends and family. Centre Street is the cross-road of the neighborhood where people greet each other, share stories, play, exercise, and shop.

About the Boston Main Streets Foundation

The Boston Main Streets Foundation is committed to making Boston's neighborhood commercial districts thriving, vibrant centers of commerce and community through its support of the Boston Main Streets program. The Boston Main Streets Foundation seeks to develop long-term strategies to increase the economic power and resources of neighborhood commercial districts while pursuing initiatives that build knowledge and capacity for Main Streets programs and the businesses they serve. Boston Main Streets Foundation raises corporate, private, public, and foundation support and awareness, develops renewable income streams for local Boston Main Streets organizations and provide funding opportunities to each Boston Main Streets districts.

About Patronicity

Patronicity is a civic crowdfunding and crowdgranting platform that supports people and organizations doing great things in their community, from large initiatives like creating a green alley to small ones, like funding a neighborhood block party. We bring together local citizens and sponsors to support great initiatives in their communities.