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Chris Cardi

@chris_cardi

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Purveyor of Good(s).
Community. Culture. Commerce. In that order.
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Social Media Hours:
Tues., Weds., Thurs.: 11:00am - 2pm

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7 days ago

🇵🇭Previewing our Corduroy P.I. flag caps @samasamaart SAMASAMA Market a part of @dcmoapia’s 2nd Annual Mid-Autumn Festival at Chinatown Park.

Check us out along side a fantastic line up of local artists, makers, and creative small businesses, and stop by the all-ages art activity table. The evening also includes cultural performances, mooncake tastings, and more!

~ SAMASAMA MARKET ~
@chris_cardi
@hometownnewsstand
@internationalhouseofmisfits
@juliegiuli
@kaila_i_garcia
@kais_kuties
@mamomartart
@margaretjacobsonart
@pinwheelclay
Street Photography by Celina
@yoojiflows

Chinatown Park
Friday, September 25 6:00-10:00PM
FREE • All Ages

See you T🌖NITE!
Flyer: @yoojiflows taken in Chinatown Park by @chris_cardi

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21 days ago

For H Street Eve this year we’re taking it back to the block where it all began.

The essence of H Street Eve is and has always been about the gathering of friends, family, and neighbors the night before the festival to connect, catch up, reminisce, and celebrate another year of life in our hood. We’ll have a curation of our H Street capsule collection available, including a new drop, for those looking to get a fit together for the festival.

Shouts out to @districtdaiquiri for hosting us. This gathering is powered by @4rlapp

H STREET EVE
Friday, September 18th | 9PM - 11PM (Maybe later)
DISTRICT DAIQUIRI 1251 H STREET NE, D of C

🥤 by @chris_cardi

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a month ago

🎨🍻🪴Join us in celebrating Art All Night Shaw hosted by @urbangardenbrewing this Saturday, September 12th!

We’ll be poppin’ up for the market alongside an amazing lineup of local brands.

The night will feature Live Go-Go by N2L Band & Show, Open Mic hosted by Mariah Barber, sounds by DJ Aye Moe, craft beers, and the amazing mural art that adorns the walls of D.C.’s newest brewery and the first Black-woman owned one in the District brought to us by founder and owner Eamoni Collier.

ART ALL NIGHT SHAW
Urban Garden Brewhouse 624 T Street NW, D.C.
Saturday, September 12th | 7 PM - Midnight by @chris_cardi

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a month ago

Pull up on us for day 3 of our H Street Mart pop-up. H Street Festival is next weekend and we’re giving everyone around the way easy access to score looks from our H Street NE capsule collection with new drops daily.

H STREET MART pop-up by @chris_cardi
Maketto • 1351 H ST. NE, District of Columbia
Upstairs 2nd Level

Hours:
Tues. - Thurs. 5 - 9 PM
Sat. 9 AM - 12 NOON (Bake Sale day. Early arrival encouraged)

#HstNe #Hstreet #HStreetNE #HstreetDC #Maketto taken in Maketto by @chris_cardi

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a month ago

THIS FRIDAY! 🎨 @dcartallnight returns to Mt. Pleasant!

We’ll be celebrating Filipino & Latina artists with works from @mondragonfruit, @chris_cardi, @sayasayashop & @digital_celina_, plus Friday night beats from @marsfromva!

Come spend Art All Night with us from 6PM–midnight! #DCArtAllNight taken in Purple Patch DC by @chris_cardi

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a month ago

Come early for the doughnuts. Stay for the drip.

@maketto1351 is having a special Doughnut Day edition of their super sought-after Bake Sale, and we’ll be joining them for day 1 of our H Street NE pop-up mart to get you outfitted ahead of H Street Festival in just a couple of weeks!

After putting in your bake sale order, come visit us on the 2nd level to check out what we got.

See you Saturday at MAKETT🍩! taken in Maketto by @chris_cardi

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a month ago

Some BTS of me making my Art All Night T-Shirt Remix Challenge.

A childhood photo of me and my brother provided the nostalgic inspiration and the tools of my trade: pattern making, cut and sew, and screen printing, were utilized in bringing it to life.

Art is powerful when it’s used as a medium to convey a message. D.C. Statehood is mine.

I’ll be wearing this T-shirt, so If you see me out and about for Art All Night don’t hesitate to say hello and let’s take a photo together.

#aanremixchallenge #ArtAllNight by @chris_cardi

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2 months ago

@dcartallnight @smallbizdc #AANRemixChallenge

Project Runway type night! by @chris_cardi

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2 months ago

WE OUTSIDE! Pull up on us this weekend. Here’s where you can find us:

@swapdc
SUSTAINABLE MARKETPLACE
Friday, August 7 | 5pm - 7pm
at Sycamore & Oak
(link 🔗 for more details in bio)

@thepack.world
THE PACK PARTY 7
Saturday, August 8 | 10pm - 2:30am
at 1726 17th St NE D.C.
(link to 🎟️ tickets in bio) by @chris_cardi

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2 months ago

“I am a black man dedicated to expression; expression of the joy and pride of blackness. I consider myself neither poet, composer, or musician. These are merely tools used by sensitive men to carve out a piece of beauty or truth that they hope may lead to peace and salvation.”
- Gil Scott-Heron

These tools were on full display for all to embrace and enjoy @soul_versations Juneteenth Block Party. The event was hosted by Rita Lewis @ritadlewis202 and featured a lineup of musicians curated by Russell Taylor @rsoulstar. From Gospel, R&B, Hip-Hop, Rock, and, of course Go-Go and everything in between, this 2nd annual gathering of community commemorated the holiday through the powerful and joyful sounds rooted in our culture.

Celebrating both Juneteenth and Black Music Month, Soulversations accompanied this event with a month-long photo exhibition @manifest.us that shared the story and ongoing cultural advocacy of @dyanawilliams, since Black Music Month’s birth in the summer of 1979 with a star-studded celebration on the White House lawn. The Block Party is the continuation of this advocacy to forever engrave the historical and present day contributions of Black music and the joy it brings.

We found our joy, as one of the many Black-owned entrepreneurs, creatives, and makers participating in the block party market. We created a special capsule collection for the market that celebrated both Black liberation and Black music; thank you to everyone that shopped with us! The market itself exemplified the collective strength of Ujamaa (cooperative-economics), a principle that has been the foundation of thriving Black communities in America, whose roots trace back to African traditions of shared labor and mutual survival, manifesting formally in voluntary associations right around the American Revolution.

As you may have noticed on the 4th of July, no matter how much Black history and influence they attempt to erase, the cultural expressions born out of the Black experience has fundamentally shaped American identity. It’s this experience that is the litmus of America’s promise, the embodiment of its ideals and its joy are brilliantly, boundlessly, and boldly BLACK. taken in Washington D. C. by @chris_cardi

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3 months ago

It’s nostalgic to measure life in summers. My father was just shy of seven decades worth. It’s been six summers since he went celestial. So much of what I have come to enjoy about life I owe to him, his appreciation of history, music, friendships, and living in the moment.

June encapsulates so much of my connection to him. Father’s Day and Juneteenth, the celebration of Black Music Month, and it also being the month—16 summers ago—that I made D.C. home to be closer to him. This makes the summer solstice for me, soul stirring to say the least.

Sharing music is how we kept our bond strong despite distance and time; a tradition me, my brother, and cousin continue. From riding round Philly with him and my uncle, while we all as kids in the back seats emulated them jamming out to The Gap Band, Kool & The Gang, Teddy Pendergrass, Freddie Jackson and so much more on our way to the Plateau. My pops stayed hip too! He was a big DMX fan; my brother and I would get a kick out of him rapping the adlibs at the top of his lungs, ha! And he was equally impressed when he discovered I was getting into Gil Scott-Heron.

My memories of him come as frequently as the morning, and my mourning is as frequent as the sunsets that follow. Maybe the grief will subside someday if I am blessed to become a father, a dad, a teacher, a protector, a provider, an elder.

The last slide is a photo I was able to share with my dad just before he passed. This was a win I never fully shared or took the time to celebrate as the loss I endured was far greater than anything I could ever imagine. Somehow, I believe that once my dad saw this and listened to me talk about it, he knew I would be just fine without him. He stopped fighting, he let go, confident that I had truly made D.C. my home like he did so many years ago.

As the sun has set on yet another Father’s Day, I know my dad is happy to see I am doing just fine without him. I just want him to know that life would be so much sweeter with him.

💌 taken in Washington D. C. by @chris_cardi

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4 months ago