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The origin story of Third Friday Hayti.

In 2016, Be Connected Durham hosted a conversation with City of Durham transportation and planning professionals at Beyu Caffe. That conversation led to an intervention: the design of the original Equitable Engagement Blueprint, adopted by Mayor Steve Schewel in 2018.

Shortly after, Be Connected Durham formed the FSC Fellows Project as a container to revitalize the historic Hayti neighborhood. The Project was activated in 2020 through community-member-led research, built on canvassing and capacity-building.

The result was the inaugural Third Friday Hayti: a Five Site public art activation that engaged residents, artists, vendors, culture bearers, and everyday citizens. Here, people organized around civic duty for the sake of restoring and boosting economic mobility, and art and culture were the medium.

Each event featured food trucks, vendors or a map of neighboring businesses to support, and outdoor live music by local musicians, in the courtyard or on the front plaza at Site One, Hayti Heritage Center in Durham, NC.

Swipe to read how it began.

Source: The Fayetteville Street Corridor Project Five Years Report. Be Connected Durham. 2026. All rights reserved.
Photo Credit: OMNI by Jamila Davenport
Live Music Curation: Quentin Talley and Dwayne Jordan

Alt text also provided in the comments. Deep red-toned photo of people walking through an outdoor market. Cream serif text: "How Third Friday Hayti Began. An origin story from the Fayetteville Street Corridor." taken in Hayti Heritage Center/St. Joseph's Historic Foundation, Inc. by @omni76

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