JOY JAM
A Celebration of Solidarity for the Future of Food
Joy Jam: UNA CELEBRACIÓN SOLIDARIA POR EL FUTURO DE LA ALIMENTACIÓN
Saturday, September 23rd / Sábado el 23 de septiembre
3pm-8pm / 15:00 - 20:00
Online ticket sales for Joy Jam have ended. There are a limited number of walk-in tickets available on the day of the event.
Pie Ranch and Food Culture Collective are joining together to bring you
Joy Jam: A Celebration of Solidarity for the Future of Food
Joy Jam is an effervescent and soulful opportunity to cultivate community and strengthen connections while sharing food, story, and love of place. The festival encompasses an abundance of cultural expressions, including: live storytelling; local artist activations; pop-up food and culinary experiences; immersive installations for collective visioning, poetry, and other creative projects; live music; walking the land while hearing stories of soils, seeds, crops and animals; dancing; and, of course, some pie.
Joy Jam es una oportunidad efervescente y conmovedora para cultivar y fortalecer las conexiones de la comunidad mientras compartimos alimentos, historia y amor por un lugar tan especial. El festival abarca una gran cantidad de expresiones culturales, que incluyen: narración de cuentos, expresiones de artistas locales; experiencias culinarias; instalaciones inmersivas para visiones colectivas, poesía y otros proyectos creativos; música en vivo; caminar por la tierra escuchando historias de la tierra, semillas, cultivos y animales; baile; y, por supuesto, un poco de pastel.
Music Schedule
Meadow Stage
3:30 La Familia de la Calle
4:30 Stories from our Community
5:15 LoCura
6:15 Stories from our Community
7:00 Samba Dá
Farmstand Stage
3:00 Teacher Barb
4:00 Annie Rye and the WildFlour String Band
5:00 Aviva le Fey
6:00 Karamo Susso
Around the Farm
3:00-6:45 Silent Auction in the meadow (winners announced at 7pm!)
3:00-6:00 Flower Crown Crafting at the Farmstand
3:00-8:00 Farmstand open for shopping
3:00-8:00 Joy Jam Outdoor Art Show at the lower slice farm area (over 60 art pieces for sale)
3:00-7:00 Face Painting at the Kids Area
3:00-7:00 Chicken Bomb Bingo open in the meadow
3:00-8:00 Community Art “Potluck” with Christine Wong Yap in the meadow
3:00-8:00 Arte Motu presents “Corazones” art painting activity in the garden space
3:00-8:00 Pendant making demonstration with the Amah Mutsun Land Trust in the garden space
3:30, 4:30, 5:30, 6:30 StoryDish: a game of story, food, and gathering under the walnut tree, every hour on the hour
3:30-5:30 Pie Ranch Community Earth Altar in the Upper Meadow
3:30, 5:30 Pie Ranch Farm Tour with Zoë
4:00, 6:00: Walking tour of the land with the Amah Mutsun Land Trust that begins at the Native Garden
4:00, 5:00, 6:00, 7:00 Food Futures Imagination Lab at the animal barn, every hour on the hour
4:00-8:00 Little Lightning Photo Booth Trailer open in the meadow
SambaDá
For over twenty years, SambaDá has been mixing contemporary sounds with the roots of Brazilian culture. Papiba is a master of Capoeira, an Afro-Brazilian martial art form created by enslaved Brazilians, which draws on music and acrobatic movements. Dandha was born into the rich Afro Brazilian traditions of Salvador, Bahia and the Carnival Group Ilê Aiyê, and started her dancing career at age 6. Ilê Aiyê has been on the forefront of Civil Rights in Brazil, promoting equality and justice, and is widely recognized as the first Afro Brazilian BLOCO or group to perform in Brazil’s legendary Carnival celebrations.
LoCura
For the past 18 years, Oakland-based LoCura has crafted their own unique musical identity: "Califas Mestizo Music," a blend of Latin American and Iberian rhythms such as rumba, cumbia, salsa and flamenco influenced by punk rock, ska, rap, dub, reggae, and dancehall with local and global lyrical themes. With three powerhouse women at the helm, their live shows are a soul-stirring punk-edged party, mixing cajón-driven rhythms with mutilingual lyrics that reflect the unique intersection of cultures in the Bay Area. Ana Tijoux meets Manu Chao with a touch of Lhasa.
La Familia de la Calle
Hailing from Santa Cruz, La Familia de la Calle is a powerhouse tour through Latin music, blending rhythms of salsa, cumbia, bachata, reggae, reggaeton, and ska for a dance party sure to bring the crowds out on the floor!
Karamo Susso
International kora star Karamo Susso celebrates Malian music. One of the best-known African performers to grace our stage, he has appeared in the past few years in numerous settings, contributing his unique spirit, from solo to such world fusions as the World Blues Band, Symphony of Koras, Soul Union, and the Manding Band. Susso was born in Gambia, raised in Mali, and is a singer and kora master. He grew up in a compound of griots, next door to Toumani Diabate. His uncle was Ballake Cissoko. Susso played kora and performed before he was big enough to hold the instrument. He has since gone on to perform with many of Africa’s top stars and American musicians including Taj Mahal.
Teacher Barb
“Get up and get down” with San Francisco's guitar slingin’ musician Teacher Barb!
She’ll keep your toes tapping and your fingers snapping with original family music and timeless rock n’ roll, country, folk, blues and jazz classics. Teacher Barb creates a fun, supportive musical environment to inspire the human spirit and the whole family.
Get ready to sing-a-long and get your groove on!
Aviva le Fey
Aviva sings heart songs – some for love lost, and others for humanity forgotten – with a tone and cadence that somehow conjures both the vintage pop of the Fifties and the dark, dreamy sounds you might hear coming from that haunted backwoods bar in 1990s Twin Peaks, Washington. She offers a frequency of hopefulness, a frequency to cry to, a frequency that begs you to dig a bit deeper. Her songs are honest and endearing, bold and restless, easy to listen to and sometimes hard to hear. Aviva’s music invites you to look into the dark cracks of everything – it can be intimidating, but as we know that’s how the light gets in.
Food Vendors
Auntie Manna’s — Vietnamese Comfort Food from Santa Cruz
Peaches Patties — Jamaican catering company based in San Francisco that prides itself on baking a variation of fresh homemade Jamaican patties and other popular Jamaican dishes
Clandestina Cocina — Cuban Food for the Soul from a born and raised Cuban chef based in Berkeley
La Guerrera’s Kitchen — family owned and operated restaurant located in Old Oakland’s Swan’s Market specializing in traditional tamales, pozole, barbacoa, and more
Plus beer, wine, coffee, ice cream and (of course) pie!
Visual Arts
Pie Ranch Community Earth Altar by Terry Hwang
Celebrate the beauty and bounty of the land at the Pie Ranch Community Earth Altar, an interactive activity where we will co-create a mandala installation with flowers, grains, and other botanicals found on Pie Ranch and the surrounding Pescadero area. This collective earth altar making will be a celebratory ritual that connects us to community, gratitude, nature, and the abundance of the land.
Community Art “Potluck” by Christine Wong Yap
How do joy and care show up in your food community? Draw, collage, and/or write your responses, and contribute them to a communal art “potluck.” We will collectively set a communal table to express ourselves and honor the foods, dishes, people, and relationships that inspire joy and care in our diverse food communities.
Corazones by Arte Motu
Participants will be invited to discuss/discover what is food justice and who are the people cultivating a healthy and just food system. Participants will then be invited to think about a message and/or a picture to paint on a wooden heart shape that might reflect the result of the discussion/discovery. After the paint dries, participants will be invited to hang the painted heart somewhere around the farm.
Art Display
The following local and visiting artists are contributing work to be viewed and sold at the event! Be prepared to peruse some incredible work by artists from our community, including:
Carol Elsworthy
Dan Geraci
Dana Pitchon
Heather Anne Mosby
Helen Berry
Jed Roth
Kathleen Dickey
Kathryn Hannay
Kim Hussey
Lynnette Joy Vega
Randall Vail
Reesha Katcher
Rosa Lawson
Steph Dodarp
Suzana Gulmert
Tamar Ingber
Joy Jam Sponsors
Joy & Healing
Anonymous
Culture Creator
Anonymous
Food Sovereignty Sower
Silicon Valley Community Foundation
Coastal Steward
Henri Loh
John Sanchez
Alison Elliot and Steve Blank
Google Food
Anonymous
corn, beans & squash
Claudia Newbold
Front Porch Farm
Charles & Paola Casey
Karie & David Thomson
Karie Crisp & Raul Vazquez
Margaret Schink
Anonymous
Bunchgrass Supporter
Jamis & Margaret MacNiven
Cheryl & Joe Pruss
Rue Mapp
Yun Family Foundation
Jack & Betsy Rix
The Moore Family
Nancy Heinen and Dennis DeBroeck
Sandy Wolkoff
Colin Eycamp
Anonymous
Acorn Sprout
John & Lolita Casazza, JLC Consulting
Gallagher Insurance
Harrington Group, CPAs LLP
The Schreiber/Hudson Family
Jan Schreiber
Peg and Paul Danielson
Laurie and David Hughes
Anonymous
In-Kind Donations
The Berry Family
Lynne Bowman
Jeanie & Kevin Graham Rorden-Graham Whinery
Delma Soult
Lou and Mark Heine at Uphill Ranch and Vineyard
Maia Farrell
Paula Weiss Media
K/D Photography