Along with your usual favorites, this week at the 61st Street Farmers Market will feature:

• If you thought that NATO would be the big event of the weekend, you are so wrong! Mick Klug Orchards will be bringing the precocious season's first STRAWBERRIES to the Market! They will also be selling green and purple asparagus (2 bunches for $5!), fabulous rhubarb, radishes, green onions and honey crisp apples. (Recipe for Cream of Asparagus soup)
• Envision, one of our new non-profit producers, will be selling radishes, kale, loose lettuce, mint, butter head lettuce, and spinach. We encourage you to ask Trevor about Envision's program to assist people with developmental challenges and disabilities.

Join us for an evening of poetry, music and discussion of the legendary poet/musician/activist Gil Scott Heron. Presented by the Guild’s “Applied Words” series, with support from the Center for the Study of Race, Politics & Culture – University of Chicago, and the Friends of Blackstone Library. You can read more about the speakers and performers on the Guild's website.

And, it's free!

Formosa, a work in progress, explores issues of beauty, global capital, and body modification as inspired by the twenty year history of Barbie doll manufacturing in Taishan, Taiwan. On Thursday, May 10th, at 7pm, join us for this special work-in-progress preview of poetry, multimedia, movement and spectacle: a tragicomedy written and performed by Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai.

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We invite you to join us at the Experimental Station this Saturday, May 5, at 3pm for a Family Concert by Grammy-nominated singer/composer Red Grammer. If your family does not yet know Red's music, you have something to discover! Hands down, his is the best music for children that you will find—rich, positive, sophisticated, and fun. Although Red writes songs for children—ages 4-12 or so—adults will find themselves listening to Red's music with equal enjoyment.

We are counting down to the start of the 61st Street Farmers Market's 5th season! Only a few days to go before we can reconnect with our farmers, our food and our neighbors every Saturday from 9am-2pm on 61st Street between Dorchester and Blackstone Avenues! We are very excited to see what the precocious spring has readied for us to put on our plates. You will be happy to find most of the farmers and producers whose products you have come to know and love, as well as some new ones!

Using atmospheric haze and film projectors, artist Anthony McCall creates beautiful, visually captivating light sculptures that explore ideas of architecture, duration and embodiment. Invoking comparisons to natural formations like waterfalls and moonlight, McCall’s slowly moving luminous projections invite visitors to step into the light, using their bodies to alter the shimmering forms.