Swan's Market features casual, fresh, and affordable dining options, gaming, and salon retail storefronts. We're a tiny neighborhood all on one block!
Activism. Community. Food and culture. Belonging is the affinity of love. I'm Elena Botkin-Levy and it's been an honor and a thrill to be the lead teac We started back in January of 2022 and gathered together with t Swans Market was created to be one of those places where people can gather and connect and feel a part of Oakland I t What happened in the past is why we're here now in the future. So it's very important to understand that and understand your And right now what my story is mainly talking about, who Swans is serving, who is Swans for. There'so many stories out there. Talking to so many people and realizing how big their stories were really made me realize that there's people walking here People might age to definitely know stories. Whatever story that is we could somehow grow from that and become greater than what we believe we can be. So we did my one interview with Marilyn C And Everyt I chose to do the It has such a legacy being the oldest business at Swans and it was the only one that stayed even though it's had a lot of changes. It was inspiring to have something very classic and A lot of things can be lost in the gentrification and in the changing businesses and especially when it'so hard for certain people to thrive in places If their stories aren'told and only certain stories are told then people just forget about them and they're just kind of put on the sidelines and don't get a voice to share their stories. The young folks in this program got to learn how to use all of the field recording equipment so that we can tell these audio stories and talk to people on the street, talk to some of the business owners, talk to some of the vendors at the farmers market and start to collect stories and learn about audio as a tool for collecting and doc I think I've definitely improved on my interview skills as far as just The young people'stories are not just stories, right? They're informing t What does it mean to have h An intersection of Was Ready for a world one person can start, but we sit at t
